Yeah.

I have enjoyed many happy years with steam and for now things are still okay, with Gabe keeping the enshittification at bay. They’ve done great things for the industry, and have my respect for that.

Yet we can’t simply trust the platform will remain as benevolent as it always has been.

If history tells us anything, it’s that nothing remains the same forever.

Heroic Launcher works for GOG, Epic and Prime games.

I guess the beefier your system is the less you will notice the impact of a greedy OS (because thats a fixed/absolute overhead) while the performance hit of having to translate directx through Proton will always be there (because that’s a percent-based overhead for each rendered frame)

So for the most top-end rigs, probably still Windows will squeeze a few more FPS. But it’s close.

At the end of the day Linux and Windows are both pretty comparable for gaming performance, so we shouldn’t worry about that as a deciding factor in which OS to choose, and can decide based on other merits.

On the other hand, some testing has found that running games on Linux with Proton is actually faster than with Windows on the same hardware, because Windows is such a resource hog.

The hardware in in this test being the Legion Go steamdeck rival.

Sure. But that’s intended to detect shorts caused by water, and water is a much worse electrical conductor than a piece of metal, and so less damaging in the time it takes to detect a short.

Even if phones have some level of protection, why risk damage when you could use something wooden or plastic and just not risk it at all?

Apparently it really is a spiritual successor to Tell Tale in the way that despite being presented as a “choices matter” game, it is not a game in which choices actually matter at all.

Because there’s no consensus in maps about whether the darker or lighter area should be land or sea, my brain gets momentarily confused every time and I just see a bunch of nonsense shapes until I can work out what is what.

It also plays on that other classic scam tactic - creating urgency.

The victim may not even see the calendar entry until they get a notification “x starts in 1 hour”.

Maybe they’re already in the middle of a busy workday, juggling a bunch of stuff. That calendar popup is just more stress, but it could be important, and they need to find out soon because it’s basically starting!

And so they click.

It’s not in their interest for people to switch to something actually good that they will want to stay on, though.

This was never about security. That’s just the excuse.

This is about removing user freedom, and consolidating corporate control. This is about ensuring that every app and service you use is approved by the big G, and consumed in the way they want - with ads, with tracking, and with nothing you can do about it.

For anyone looking for a cheap but decent air filter which DOES do this, IKEA’s UPPÅTVIND remembers its last setting when turned off and back on at the plug.

It’s fortunate your basket is empty, then.

I’m glad that Strange New Worlds exists, but it’s totally fair to criticise.

I feel a lot kinder towards the writers and showrunners when I consider that we simply don’t live in the 90s anymore, and that the realities of media consumption have changed in a way that forces different priorities.

Back in the era of TNG, Friends, and the X-Files, it was totally reasonable for a show to air 26 episodes over 26 weeks. Seasons would run so long that writers were putting out bottle episodes just to stretch the budget. Yet it was profitable because people would keep watching - after all, there were only a few channels competing for the same limited airtime.

Nowadays we’re utterly drowning in media. The amount of content is almost infinite, and viewers are seemingly fickle, and quickly bored.

Being successful now isn’t about having a great long-running show, it’s about making a massive impact as fast as possible, and hanging on to that top-banner spot on Netflix or whatever platform for just a scant few weeks before people get distracted by the next thing. Only those first weeks matter.

And so, seasons get compressed and the budget gets concentrated, until shows are six episodes all coming at you full force like an airhorn blast of non-stop action and effects. They don’t want longevity, they want hype.

We can blame the industry, or we can blame society, or we can blame people’s viewing habits. Probably it’s a bit of all three. But it certainly explains a few things.

It’s almost a similar story to how the “Triple-A” gaming industry ruined games by optimising for the wrong metric, all while costing a fortune to do it.

Fortunately for gaming we have a thriving indie dev scene now, which is where the true joy, art and creativity can be found.

Perhaps TV is simply waiting for its own indie revolution.

I appreciate him in panel 4 not wearing shoes indoors.

SNW does have some great moments. I loved the “documentary” episode most specifically, because it was a neat spin on things that let them experiment a lot with the cinematography and documentary-style shots.

As the documentary was the real ‘focus’ of the episode, the plot of transporting the enslaved alien creature/ship was allowed to be a self-contained story like old-school trek used to be, and I really appreciated the reflection on the morality of what they do as a crew, and as Starfleet.

There was a lot of TNG’s DNA in there, and I liked that.

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As a resident, I can attest with 99% confidence this image was not taken in the UK.

Kakushigoto is really good.

It is the story of a single-parent manga artist who is ashamed of his work and goes to great lengths to keep it from his young daughter.

The story begins when the girl, now older, discovers her Father’s job, and is told through flashbacks to her growing up and life with her father who was always trying his best for her.

I can’t find the official trailer with subtitles but it gives you the idea. Trailer.

Really heartwarming, and bittersweet at times, and other things I won’t spoil.

Great thoughts Adam, let’s circle around on that for next time.

To be fair, probably his back would pop off, and his battery would shoot out like a missile, but then he’d go back together like nothing ever happened.