what are the odds MS sent Gabe a bunch of emails offering free Windows licenses for every Deck and he marked them as Spam?
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In the case of multiplatform releases on the Switch I just think: I’m not going to hang on to this thing forever. A solid chunk of the library is easily available on x86 in a license format I can share with my family. It’s just a worse form of ownership. I sold my 3DS to a forum member and listing out all of the software that’s just stuck on the thing was deeply weird.
In the case of the audacity to charge for re-releasing ROMs running in emulators they can fuck right off.
the switch is, like most things, much better when you stop paying for software licenses being polite and start downloading unauthorized code from third-party repositories getting real
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the only modern license-driven consoles I’ve owned have been a PS3, a PS4, and a switch, and I haven’t felt especially burned by any of them tbh
the former I came to late and got software relatively cheap, and by the time I was ready to unplug it, I could emulate most of the stuff I’d paid for at one time, which… was fine with me (paying for individual emulated releases has always been omerta obviously), and the latter two still often get releases that you can tell developers would rather support than their PC ports and for not much more money, they both seem like they’ll be semi-permanently forward compatible now that everyone’s architecture ducks are in a row, and their support for generic hardware that makes me feel less like I’m throwing money into one particular ecosystem is generally OK (for example, I don’t own a switch dock, I just use my $20 aliexpress macbook USB-C dongle when I want to connect the $10 store brand gamecube controller adapter and/or the HDMI).
so idk as someone who’s more of an emulation-and-video-encoding diehard than a PC diehard per se, I haven’t been too unhappy with the value proposition of consoles lately. as I think I’ve said before the only blu-ray discs I have ever even put into my PS4 are a) until dawn from redbox and b) all 36 discs of the japan-only columbo box set.
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anticipating the deluge of youtube vidz with zoomed-in shocked-face thumbnails screaming at the top of their lungs about how BOTW2 runs better on the Deck
“is this the real switch pro!!!” etc
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Every Nintendo nerd has the same Game Gear and/or Lynx joke, they oughta pace themselves
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Can’t believe Nintendo used a proprietary port for the Super Nintendo, DB9 is the standard and it’s here to stay
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Syberia 1 and 2 are being given away for free on GOG right now
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Learned a disappointing non-obvious caveat to Proton/Steam OS: basically anything with non-Steam anti-cheat doesn’t work, including Apex, Siege, Destiny 2, and PUBG
yeah, that’s the thing, a lot of that stuff is driver-level and WINE runs very far behind the state of the art there
its performance is generally very good, especially if you have a spare CPU thread to throw at it! latency is minimal, rendering is accurate, it’s just that it tends to run a few years behind stuff that Just Works on Windows and there are fewer and fewer reasons nowadays not to give up and run baremetal Windows even if you need a Linux environment for something else. Valve are literally the only ones trying to solve a platform licensing problem like this at scale
Good news is Google already paid Bungie to port Destiny 2 to Linux 
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under proton smt3 hd crashes if you ever enter the same shop or save terminal more than once
would be nice having an alternative incase ms start running dick pill ads on the desktop or something
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Might be interesting for those who use GameMaker Studio 2. Subs are in Japanese, but you should be able to follow along for the most part with what they’re doing just watching what’s happening on screen.
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Oh cool, their game Missile Dancer is one of my GOTY.
trick question, nobody at valve has a job title of any sort
I mean, I’m a computer guy but my job title varies from web developer to business analyst to no job title depending on the year (all for the same tasks, mind you), so I’d say they can have people with no job title who are still ergonomics people.
(Apart from the deck being possible evidence they don’t, I mean)