Many of those Youtubers get paid to play those games, and the ones catering to younger audiences are particularly bad at providing those disclaimers

Or UE5, since it’s an unoptimized mess

Inb4 asset stores become >90% AI generated

If you’re making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.

And before you ask, I’m in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot

This. Unless you’re modding, PC gaming isn’t complicated. Every game nowadays automatically picks out options based on your hardware specs. While tuning options are there, they’re not required

That didn’t work out for GTA back in the day

Can we please wait until wayland can actually replace x11

Unfortunately there’s always devs that refuse to change so long as their setup still works, even if there’s significantly better alternatives. The only option for dealing with them is to rip off the bandaid. Either they’ll put in the work to keep up or they’ll fall into obscurity

Under the new rules, online service providers must assess the risk that their services could be misused to spread depictions of child sexual abuse or to contact children. Based on this assessment, they must take measures to mitigate this risk.

(Emphasis mine)

That is not actually voluntary. The drafters of this bill are playing wordgames to trick committee members into passing mandatory chat scanning.

There’s still at-home streaming. I just upgraded to an RX 9070XT so I can stream 4k60 to my TV through my Steam Deck using Sunshine and Moonlight.

Granted, a big reason why I did that was because they were selling for $600 a week ago on Newegg. Plus I didn’t want to have to fight Nvidia drivers on Linux while trying to mod Skyrim to hell

One strike exploded a tree in the back yard overnight, so I was about 30 feet away. I’m a fairly heavy sleeper when it comes to noise but it woke me up anyway.

I don’t want to have to code anything.

You don’t have to code anything. You just look through the game system browser, pick what you want, and after a few seconds it’s installed.

We don’t need automation. I want simplicity.

Then screenshare over Discord while drawing things in MS Paint. It’s simple and it’s not automated, just like you asked

It sounds like a Steam Deck is a perfect fit for you then. May your frames be high and your lag minimal

Before you go in on a Steam Deck I want to give a head’s up:

While I like my Steam Deck, it does have limits. If you primarily want to play 2D indie games, it’s absolutely perfect. You get great framerate, and the battery lasts 3-4 hours or sometimes even more.

But if you want to play 3D games from the last 10-15 years, you’re going to need to compromise. Much of the time you won’t be able to get 60fps, and the battery life drops off quick. And if you want to dock it and run it on your TV you’re still going to have some performance tradeoffs due to the Steam Deck being built for 800p gaming

If you still have a powerful tower PC but want to play newer 3D games from your living room on a TV, you could run an application called Sunshine on it, allowing you to stream to a Steam Deck via Moonlight at high bitrate (4k 60fps with relatively low latency) and the Steam Deck is good for that because it has more power to encode/decode the stream than most alternatives.

Or you could wait for the Steam Machine to release. It won’t be as powerful as a PS5, but I’m expecting it to be a good value compared to most PC’s

Ubisoft being shit isn’t anything new though. They’ve had plenty of time to jump ship to something better

Steam OS doesn’t support Nvidia or Intel hardware. You’d be better off installing Bazzite

I have never heard of someone putting pumpkin and sweet potatoes into chili

I’m going to go a different route with advice.

Once this all gets worked out, it might be worth considering a new rule with gifts: don’t gift things, gift experiences. Or alternatively, don’t gift permanent things, gift consumables.

If you gift someone a tool, appliance, dress, etc. then they will need to find space to store it, even if they don’t like it. But if you get them a bottle of wine, or a dinner, or a trip to the Bahamas, then if they don’t like it it won’t be there forever and they’ll likely have a nice story.

But that might not work with your relationship and I have no way of knowing. Just pitching the idea in case it’s a good fit for you

On the other hand, maybe it’s a misplaced attempt at maintaining their privacy?

Can’t any of these tiny-brained rich fools work on anti aging and life extension already?

Best we can do is Peter Thiel drinking people’s blood like a vampire.

Yeah, just let people enjoy what they like.

Doubly so if it’s pissing in the eye of Sony