I’m not downvoting, but the fact that kernel malware games don’t work is a feature to me. It would be a full time job to keep from installing anything that demands obscene access for no legitimate reason on Windows. “It doesn’t work” is way easier.

Pretty much everything else on Steam works without effort.

They never pretended it was going to run literally everything. It’s a handheld.

The fact that there are still very few games it can’t run (excluding the publishers actively blocking Linux) is impressive, but it was always expected that some games would leave it behind.

Hell, the whole reason for “deck verified” is because their default assumption is that a game won’t work.

The “fastest selling” is literally the title of the article, then they make no effort at all to point out that all of that volume is from accessing China, which most games don’t.

There’s no legitimate way to use the title “how game became the fastest selling game” and ignore the only factor that played any meaningful role in that outcome at all.

Because the whole premise of the article is the “global” impact and bringing Chinese culture to a “global audience” when only a small fraction of its sales are outside China.

The actual impact it’s going to have is much less on the development of AAA games by Chinese studios and much more as a demonstration of the Chinese market’s interest in single player games.

Yeah, I was pretty sure they fixed that, but couldn’t double check.

Basically Nazi stuff. Which still isn’t awesome, but isn’t comparable at all to China. It’s a small side effect of them trying to prevent actual Nazis from regaining power and not properly recognizing games as art.

It also isn’t comparable because anyone who can’t be bothered with multiple versions is going to ignore Germany, not ruin their game.

Because the article completely ignores the source of the sales volume it keeps mentioning and is pretending the sale is some runaway success in the west instead of acknowledging the reality that it’s doing moderate sales here.

Moderate sales is a good first effort, but ignoring the actual market altering affect it will have to pretend it’s actually a giant outside of China completely undermines the article.

This is a joke right?

There’s a huge difference between a publisher or two censoring their games and the industry as a whole systematically sucking up to their insane restrictions.

That’s what I’m scared of.

Catering to China’s censorship has not been beneficial to other media.

By selling to China.

That doesn’t take away from it or mean it isn’t good, but that market is the difference between it and every other game.

This is absurd.

Typing “Logitech unifying software download” in the address bar is massively less effort than navigating their shitshow of a site. It’s not a sign of inexperience in any way.

Allowing an ad with any third party download is an insane policy, and it is not a legitimate practice at all to use an unreliable third party with a well deserved bad reputation to download software in place of the manufacturer.

That’s disgusting.

You pretty clearly don’t know what a call to action is, or an ad is, because “please give money” is very obviously a call to action, and many ads make no effort whatsoever to sell any product.

Yes. It is literally impossible for an organization asking for money not to be an ad.

And yes, showing me a single ad once means I never give them money again. I am not OK with ads.

Yes, it is an ad. Any call to action is an ad.

And its mere presence will ensure I don’t give them any more money. The core concept of inserting any ad in an OS is not behavior I am willing to reward.

It’s not complicated.

It’s an ad.

There’s no version of advertising I will ever be OK with.

It’s implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module, which allows users and distributors to permanently disable it if they like.

Eh. I guess good enough.

But I’m still opposed on principle.

Wall of text?

I answered a suggestion with very clear preferences that something not use a trainwreck of a directory structure and you pointed me to a post on how to make a trainwreck of a directory structure, so I wrote a short paragraph again clarifying that I’m not OK with that.

I don’t want anything automated. I just want to be able to do it manually with a database that handles all of the metadata and organization and literally no folders but the top level one containing every file. Calibre’s insistence on me either having incorrect author information or splitting everything with multiple authors into unique folders for every combination is most of the reason I can’t stand it. The actual bulk editing tools are good. The end result of a mess of folders isn’t.

I’m not OK with folders, especially nested folders.