Nefyedardu

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[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So now its not xenophobia, it's because people don't like the popularity of Fortnite? How about lets not handwave all of Tencent's crimes against humanity with "you're just xenophobic" or "you just don't like Fortnite". Nobody of any good conscious should support that company or any of its owned companies (partially or otherwise).

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

referencing xenophobic shit like “because china”

Disliking a company that aids in genocide makes you "xenophobic"?

Content that Beijing deems “subversive” has also been forced to be removed from both platforms. Human rights experts are well aware of the ways that these apps have been utilized to spy on Uyghurs and other dissenting voices and are used to persecute these individuals and their family members. Information collected from WeChat can be enough to land one in a concentration camp or prison, as is the case for many Uyghurs who have contact with foreigners or family members who are abroad. Tencent, WeChat’s parent company, is thus clearly complicit in the genocide of Uyghurs, amongst other affronts on human rights. The United States administration has not been alone in acknowledging this, India has also banned far more Chinese apps than were addressed by the U.S. executive order on August sixth.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it surprising to you that Valve is a for-profit company, not a charity? Of course they profit from the 30%. Just like with any other product, you charge based on what people are willing to pay. If you charge too much, people won't pay for the product and you have to readjust the price. Obviously since companies are willing to pay the 30%, it must not be too high. Somehow I doubt if the people complaining about this woke up as the CEO of Valve, they would be willing to massively cut their companies profits because... why? Just to be nice to a bunch of other corporations?

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Smaller game studios on Epic are DOA anyway because Epic refuses to implement game discovery features.

When it introduced Steam Direct, Valve prioritized the development of Steam features that helped users discover games they might be interested in, such as the Discovery Queue. The Epic Games Store will continue to get interface updates, but as a matter of principle, Allison says that Epic will not track user behavior and use it to algorithmically recommend games. Epic has said in the past that it's more interested in supporting the game discovery that already happens outside of stores, such as on Twitch and YouTube.

So Epic will put your game trailer on their YouTube for 300 views and call it a day.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Obviously that's a stigma Capcom is trying to break through. Most phones/tablets these days are even more powerful than a Switch, yet people pay $60 for games on the Switch but not on phones?

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...why would it cost less? It's $60 everywhere else.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

...wow, that's it? For a CEO that's nothing comparably. Capcom is a huge company.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I don't think there is any confusion about that

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Not with windows you can’t, which is the OS the overwhelmingly large majority of people want to use.

Most people don't replace SteamOS on their device so I don't think that's true. Plasma is a perfectly suitable replacement for Windows unless you really need access to Adobe products or something.

There’s more that work and work better on Windows than Linux than there are the other way around though.

True but It's a number that is shrinking every day. We are down to about ~100 games at this point that explicitly cannot work? I play a lot of games and I can't remember the last time I tried to play a game and it didn't work because I was on Linux.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Windows plays every PC game in existence

There's a surprising amount of older PC games that don't work on Windows anymore, but work fine on Linux. I remember trying to play New Vegas a few years ago on Windows 10 and needing four separate mods just to get it to play properly, and even after all that it would still crash every 15-20 minutes. I've since played it all the way through on Fedora and SteamOS with zero tinkering and no crashes.

It also allows you to use the device as a pc replacement via displaying the screen on a tv/monitor

you can do this on steamos

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've tried upscaling with ESRGAN as well and it has similar problems. It messes with the original textures too much. For example, it made carpet look like a solid surface. Skin looks too smooth and shiny. That kind of thing.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I hate how AI upscaling looks and I really don't get why everyone seems to be gaga over it. In addition to the artifacts and other weirdness it can introduce, it just looks generally like someone smeared vaseline over the picture to me.

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