Half the reason I like sci-fi so much is that it's the genre which most often avoids pointless interpersonal drama.
I like to watch shows that are about things happening and how the characters deal with those things, not just jealous relationship fighting and people who can't even decide whose side they're on.
Don't get me wrong - character conflict is necessary for any good show, regardless of the genre, but I don't want the entire show to be that.
I agree with you, it's insidious.
Given you've got a Pixel phone, you can save at least yourself from this problem by running Graphene or Calyx on it.
For me it's the privacy angle that matters.
All these restaurant apps being pushed like "it's cheaper on the app!" and "you can get a free side on the app!"
And I'm almost tempted to install it, but then I remember by doing so I'm giving the company a wealth of data to slurp on me, letting them bombard me with notifications, and giving their logo a shining advertisement spot in my app drawer so every time I'm hungry I see it, and want it.
When I think about the higher non-app price in those terms, as a "privacy tax" to keep my data and my dignity, then I'm happy to pay it.
Just channeling their inner goat
When the textures are high-res but the model is low-res
I would dare say you are right
Disco Elysium. Brilliant game.
The exact same trends go round and round in web design too (and now apps).
At first things were square (because that was all the technology could do) then in the 2000s CSS exploded and everything went colour gradients and rounded corners, just because people could, then that became old-hat and everything went flat and square again, and then rounded came back (but without so many gradients)
Everything is cyclical.
Ah. I suppose it's just down to how my client chooses to handle it, then :)
I agree. After all, they are still selling it, and people are still happily buying it. A friend got one about 3 months ago and he's been very pleased.
The Steam Deck is still under four years old, let's remember. The Nintendo Switch is over eight! Of course that's not an apples-to-oranges comparison as the Steam Deck aims to run any game, not just specifically optomised titles. But it's an indicator.
On the subject of being old, we get way more life out of PC hardware right now than we did back in the early 2000s. Nowadays if you buy a high end GPU you might get a decade of gaming out of it. Back then you'd get 2-3 years and it would be obsolete, because graphics tech was just evolving so fast. (Of course, cards now cost ten times what they did back then, but that's another story....)
Point is, there's plenty of life left in the steam deck yet :)
The thumbnail animates!
I guess the 'trick' to doing that is to upload an image sufficiently small in resolution and filesize where the instance doesn't bother trying to scale it down, and uses the original image as the thumb directly.
These people shit on accessibility because they see it as something that other people need, not them. The attitude is that if you aren't good at a game you simply shouldn't play. It's fundamentally a lack of empathy.
My go-to argument when people take that stance is to ask "Do you think you'll still be playing games when you're 50? When you're 60? When you're 70?"
Their answer of course is invariably yes, they will, and so my follow on question is "Will you still have the same lighning reflexes then, that you do now?"
That usually gets the point across.
Right now they can look down smugly from their pedestal, but some day there will come a time when their own body fails them and they can't make it through Dark Souls 12 anymore, no matter how much they enjoy it and want to finish. And when they complain on Steam all the kids will say "just git gud lol"
Who's the one crying then?
Accessibility options are important for all of us, no matter the reason. We should all get to choose.