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Cake day: March 25th, 2024
  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyztoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approachingEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Huh. Yeah, proton is from Valve… it’s not difficult to get proton-ge from Glorious Eggroll in the mix for some finicky games. I don’t try to put non-Steam games in Steam because Lutris is good at getting everything the game might need. It’s not Valve’s or a Linux OS’s fault if Windows games can’t package everything the game actually needs to run with the damn game. Yeah, yeah, people just want the software to work… For Windows software, that means automatically downloading shit from all over the place and Wine/proton needs to have all that software set up in a workable fashion. It’s like having a bubble of chaos properly contained within the order of Linux but letting in what the bubble needs.

    I saw antialiased text in Wine for the first time the other day, that was exciting. 😂

  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyztoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•005 is the most influential game you’ve never played.English
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    11 days ago

    it didn’t have a dedicated cabinet.

    This is true of many, many games. Eventually JAMMA made swapping games the norm. When a game stopped making money or was too expensive to fix (glares in Namco’s direction), you bought a relatively inexpensive kit, swap the board, stick on new side art and marquee, and maybe add some buttons to the control panel, send it out the door as a new game.

    I work in the arcade industry. Fighting games were the big deal, then stagnated. I’m in the US midwest, so hunting games got huge, then only the fancy online ones were left standing (Big Buck Hunter Pro). So, here we have: Mortal Kombat 3 converted to Deer Hunting USA, Killer Instinct converted to Sammy Extreme Hunting, Virtua Fighter 2 converted to Trophy Hunting Bear & Moose…

    It’s sad/maddening looking through warehouses, but now that classics are popular again, I can sometimes find the old boards and kit the cabinets back to what they used to be. Glad to work somewhere that allows this provided I’m not spending too much; it can be labor-intensive if a cabinet is “mutilated” after having five different games over its lifetime and people trying to cobble in whatever working CRT monitor they had. I swear, every manufacturer and model had different dimensions and mounting (see Standards). Different monitor has a frame hits the back cabinet wall? Sawzall holes and build a wooden box to cover it, we need this game out the door and making money again.

    Edit: We also still make money from old stuff by putting them in hotels’ and campgrounds’ game rooms… water damage and pool chlorine basically makes those places “arcade game hospice”, they go there to die.

  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile gamesEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I almost wish I hadn’t looked; knew my area had paper mills and wood processing, they’ve been dredging the waterways for PCBs (chlorinated organics) for decades.

    I work with electronics and have heard from multiple older gentleman that when they were young, they saw old high-voltage transformers from power poles being replaced which would be leaking off the backs of the trucks until empty or even purposely tipped into the storm drains. Why is healthcare so expensive? 🤔

    No apologies for being politics-adjacent in the Gaming community, billionaires aren’t keeping their hands out of anything either. Keep rewarding Valve and the good companies and shitting on the bad ones!