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If it’s websites that are breaking, maybe you are using some really aggressive blocklist. Also, you can use multiple blocklists and assign clients to them however you please.

There’s plenty of “it doesnt need to be new” in the industry, I think it’s refreshing Valve take a different approach. If none of them felt like they could continue the series without sacrificing quality or they just lost interest then there is nothing wrong with them stopping it. Yeah it sucks for fans who wanted more, but a good franchise being halted is better than one being milked.

I dont think they care about money at all, there’s probably loads of projects started and stopped internally at Valve, it’s how the company runs. They could print money by releasing a new Half Life game, they know that, it’s just not something they want to work on right now.

They literally didnt finish episode 3 because they felt they had nothing new to show, they said all this in the documentary. They didn’t want to just make more of the same. If they are making Half Life 3 (highly doubt it, as Tyler McVicker just chats shit to try and stay relevant), it’s because they finally have some new tech or ideas they want to play around with, like as you said with Alyx.

I understand you want to make money from this, but for privately sending files, the much more mature and free open source projects will be greatly preferred. So I dont see this app going anywhere. Closed source doesn’t lend itself to privacy all that well. Gl.

So it’s like croc, but closed source?

Discord users won’t move to Matrix. It would be Revolt or maybe Teamspeak, but even that might be too technical.

That’s hypocrisy, not irony.

I think that is stat tracking your session aha. Either way it was an April Fools prank.

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What else has such a catalog? Going to be hard to persuade creators to host their own content with ads and subscriptions.

Never said it was the fault of the creators, I love the idea of Linux and wish it was the mainstream desktop OS, then none of these issues would really exist. I only have issue with people pretending it’s so simple to change to it from Windows, which is just almost never true.

I have an Nvidia card because it was the best option for me at the time I bought it, Valve’s Proton hadn’t matured enough for Linux to even be considered for gaming at that time (other Linux quirks aside). As much as I support FOSS, I love playing a variety of games with friends and that just wasn’t going to be feasible with Linux 5-6 years ago. I wasn’t going to dual-boot when I would end up spending most of my time in Windows anyway and the rest of my time troubleshooting Linux.

Now AMD has released a good card, Proton is really good and Linux has progressed further to where I can seriously consider it. With Windows 10 support ending, I am very likely to jump ship.

I have Nvidia yeah and quickly learnt that I wasn’t going to get it working smoothly and went back to Windows. If I manage to get a RRP 9070XT, then I will try Linux again.

I hate the “stop using windows” comments, when it’s quite impossible to have the same experience without specific hardware and setups.

Can I run multi-monitor high refresh rates without the desktop slugging? Last time I seriously tried switching to Linux, this seemingly simple setup in 2024 was too much for it to handle.

Yup or just don’t use the algorithm, I only ever visit my subscriptions tab and get recommendations for new content from other actual people.

Yeah, same with OSRS, you buy a bond which you can turn into 1 week membership, or trade it other players. Which is honestly fine, it lets people get membership without spending real money, but I’d rather none of the better/fairer systems exist if it means removing the egregious ones. Really we just want to target systems that make you buy a virtual currency to just sell you microtransactions, but how do you write legislation for that? It’s very tricky, which is why it’s probably never going to happen.

We are talking about anything that has real monetary value, if you cannot obtain it through real money, then it’s not in the discussion. Of course it opens a whole new problem, where they could sell “boosts” to earning virtual currency etc. So that would have to be taken into account with the legislation.

Store credit lets them manipulate you. They can say the minimum top up is $5. Then put the cheapest items at $3. Want two $3 items? You have to deposit at least $10! It goes on and on.

No. Just make it so you add items to a cart and purchase their exact value with real money, no in between, no scummy tactics.

(But if it was up to me, I would ban MTX altogether)

They can give items for free instead. Without currency they cant give you 90% of what you need and force you to overpay for extra.

A variable for a value is trivial. It already works perfectly fine in the store!

Sure sales on mobile… (sounds like Apple and Google would get some needed pressure to improve this area) but thats another problem, none of these purchases should be expensive enough to even warrant needing a sale in the first place.

The real reason they want in game currency is not any of these, it’s for the deception factor, avoiding refunds, upselling etc