I agree, it’s just nice that they chose a platform that others can use what they’ve implemented whilst they’re still around and if they somehow go tits up on Sunday.

Their decision to do it open source is the nice guy side but you are right they have ulterior motives that just make perfect business sense rather than it just them being “nice”.

That’s why i said a virtual monopoly not an actual one. Their prevalence in the industry among pc gamers makes them seem like a monopoly even though there are choices. The rest of my comment also explains why people choose them over other options so I don’t know what your trying to get at…

Fostering developers to go ham on windows to Linux comparability and now the same for X86/64 to ARM is much more than nothing. Valve have actually been the ones doing the most to pave the way for theirs and anyone who follows’ future.

I’m not too jazzed about their virtual monopoly but that’s sadly because they’ve just been working for consumers in more ways than the others. They’re not the best at everything like GOG trumps then when it comes to actual ownership but it’s sum of all of their parts that puts them head and shoulders above the rest.

They’ve done so much that they’ve paved the way for non gamers to be able to switch over to Linux much easier (I wouldn’t say it’s all on them but they’ve helped foster cross compatible development on Linux in general). I don’t think you could say the others have done as much to affect the space outside of gaming as valve either. Except Microsoft, but their decisions have been much more controversial.

I hate to see myself glazing valve as much as I have here but it is what it is. I’ll criticise them when the context allows and praise them like this in other times.

Wouldnt 2x4 actually equate to 2 * 4 * x not 24 * x? So it would be 8x?

NEEEERRRRDDD!!!

There seems to be a weird aversion to anything that can be seen as politics in America. So I think most of the general public there are not aware of the political ongoings so if and when they vote they see a male and female running they just vote in the male irregardless of who they are.

Steam deck has popped up on mine even though i don’t have a steam deck because Bazzite in Gaming mode is detected as steam deck.

Sadly he wasn’t the worst part of the film. He actually fit his role pretty well. The main female lead was pretty damn wooden. I was totally expecting my feelings towards the leading roles to be reversed but I actually think you’d have a better film if she was replaced rather than Jared. And I hate him in most things. I do think however if you replaced him in blade runner 2049 it’d be a better film. Even though he fits that role really well, probably better than the one in Tron, he’s still the weakest part of that film specifically.

Chill my dude, that kind of unwarranted aggression isn’t going to be good for your health

This may be a harsh thing to say but to me (outside of a very small few situations) suicide is one of the most selfish thing to do.

You bring all of your own internal pain (that has a chance to get better if the right help is found) and to instead impart it on everyone else in a form that is unhealable because what was done can never be taken back.

And this will affect parents probably more than anyone else but it will also affect everyone who was even remotely involved with you. Your memory will always be pain because of how it ended.

I have grieved for “normal” deaths for decades. Grief never goes away, it just goes in the background. I hope I never have to feel the grief of someone close to me committing because I’d be a constant wreck.

Talk to someone close to you, please. And if you feel there’s no one close to you, the distance is relative and skewed inside of you. There will be someone who would do anything to help you, sadly sometimes it might end up being someone you’ve yet to meet.

I like that version of the phrase

Dressed in orange from the ping pong film im guessing

I’ve played loads of it on my anbernic GBA

Ah I see. I think it’d be a good reference point on what’s on the lower end still though even if you don’t use portmaster itself

Check out portmaster

Like a thimble of water?

And on Fridays all of the money goes to the artist or label (depending on who is actually running the page) and nothing goes to bandcamp themselves. Which is strange but okay.

It’s been changing a bit with British English in a few places. I remember when the Netherlands was more commonly referred to as Holland, which is no longer that common at all anymore.

Netherlands isn’t exact with the native name being Nederlands and is instead more of a “sound-a-like” translation as if we had it spelled in it’s native way you know the lamen would instead just call it the Nedderlands.

Oh interesting

Yeet has meaning though as to yeet is to throw