Yeah i was talking about pc haha. I don’t keep very up to date with phones and don’t know much about their performance.

But valve is not powerless. They provide the API to easily trade outside of the steam marketplace. And saying Valve is morally earning money while the competition does not, its not a fair thing to say. Valve started the whole slotmachine lootbox bullshit in the first place. They know very well what they’re doing. Valve could give gamblers 2 weeks to take their skins off the sites and then block API access to these casinos or just shut down the API completely. Saying victims will be hurt so lets have casinos continue to create victims, is a strange argument to make.

Yes, Epic launcher is shit. But steams features aren’t all it is praised to be either. I like some of it like the recording feature and steam link. But ANYTHING on steam involving community is absolute garbage. Guides are just meme bullshit. Discussion forums for games are filled with hate speech, points farming and incels. Screenshots is a ton of sexual stuff. Their customer service is horrific. Moderation is almost non existent. CS2 is a gambling similator filled with underaged addicts and Valve profits a ton from them.

I own a steam deck and use it everyday. But only for games because any Steam aspect involving the platform is absolute shit.

So besides games being discounted a ton, Steam is pretty shit and Valve doesn’t give a shit because they rake in money while sitting on their asses.

Exactly.

I honestly feel like this with Genshin Impact. It looks absolutely breathtaking and in 20 years it will still be beautiful. It runs on a damn potato. I personally like the lighting in a lot of scenes way better than the lighting in some titles that have path tracing.

I have always liked art styles in games better than realism.

I don’t understand this way of thinking tbh. Its free. Who cares. I never buy anything on epic. I just claim and play free games they give away. I don’t fanboy any corporation.

Yeah i am! 😁

I have been playing Stardew Valley because the real world sucks and everybody can piss off 😠

Huh, suddenly the crying straight gamers care about representation… 🤔

The amount of nazis that donated… may they all fall down the mountain too.

I’ve been using AV1 using Sunshine Streaming and it is such a big improvement. Also using HDR to SDR to remove color banding on top of it makes it look native.

I wish Steam Remote Play had the color improvement to remove the color banding. Its horrific in darker games.

Absolutely love this game. Its a real gem for people that like puzzles and detective stuff. BUT i have had multiple times where a case was unsolvable because of a bug. Which is incredibly frustrating because you never know if its bugged or you’re just overlooking something.

Oh thankyou! Yeah that does make sense. That is pretty messed up.

I’m not saying there isn’t, but do you have some examples of pro china propaganda in games and movies? I heard something about the live-action mulan movie being filmed in xinyang, but besides that i haven’t personally noticed anything.

There is a steam group called “Wholesome Games” that lists cozy games. They also do nintendo direct style twitch streams. There is a ton of amazing cozy games. Of course there are some not so great ones. But the video seemed to focus only on stardew valley clones. Even though there are so many unique ones out there.

For example i played a VR demo a few weeks ago called Sushi Ben. It was very unique and cozy. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2419240/Sushi_Ben/

This one is very cozy too.

Mika and the Witch’s Mountain

There is a ton of unique and amazing cozy games in the Wholesome Games group that i suggest people check out: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35411526/

I think the link is to their curator steam page but I’m on my phone so its a bit hard to navigate.

I really like what i saw in the trailer! I’ll try the demo later today if i don’t forget haha. Keep it up! 😁

Oh phew haha i thought you spoiled it 🤭 i will check it out! I’ve heard of it before but never got to playing it ^^

You suggested Kubuntu which is KDE. which will be way to slow for them. I never suggested Gnome… 🧐

Xfce or lxde would be way better, like others have suggested.

Did you just recommend it… and then spoil the ending? 😐

They want a desktop, not a slideshow.