Despite all the controversies it is involved with (some are dumb to be honest), I really enjoy the show. I also like its a longer show and not over in 34 minutes. Besides the main attraction for most, the ads and trailers and announcements, the show respects the developers and give them a place to shine in person. The show is a celebration of videogames, with music orchestra and awards, personal speeches.

I wonder how many are here for the actual show, and how many are here for announcements only.

Tim Swiney said on the game product page there should be no disclosure of Ai usage in the games, in response to Steam “forcing” the disclosure of what is being used Ai for. Just shows how I will avoid Epic Games Store even more than before. There are plenty other reasons. Epic will not buy me as a “user” by giving me free games (however I do not blame anyone else doing so, free is a great deal to be honest).

I am surprised that Civilization 7 made it to top 9 of revenue on PC. I mean yes, an old beloved in depth strategy in its habitat shouldn’t surprise doing well. But I did not expect it do this well in today’s day and age. At least in the western region, tracked by a statistics tracker “Newzoo’s Game Performance Monitor”. For a comparison on Steam statistics for 2025 how these stats hold up, we have to wait a little longer.

I actually meant how it paid off to pay for 10 years. Denuvo is quite expensive as far as I know.

Its a bit weird. The game came out 10 years ago, which mean Square paid Denuvo 10 years long. The game was countless times on sale for 3 Euros on Steam: https://steamdb.info/app/225540/

SteamDB lowest recorded price is 2,99€ at -85%

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I have no clue how this paid off.

If you can imagine it, then its not worth it. :p Half-Life 3 will be unimaginable… I mean off course it will, yes?

There were so many suggestions and prediction about Half-Life 3, that I cannot take anyone doing it seriously anymore. There were suggestions Half-Life 3 could be announced at the Summer Games Fest in example. I don’t expect the game to launch with the system, despite it would be the “perfect” opportunity. But someone said it could, so people start believing it will. And off course they will write articles about rumors, because that generates hot link of clicks.

I was a bit reluctant at first (pun intended)

I think this is the Reluctant Anarchist guy from YouTube? His writing style would match the way he talks in the videos.

It depends on the distribution. In example Manjaro was unstable for me, while EndeavourOS is stable for the most part. In fact, Manjaro was holding back packages and is less rolling release than EndeavourOS, and yet less stable (for me). :D

Exactly. The term “stable” in connection with software has the same problems of “free”; without understanding the context, it can be interpreted wrongly. “stable” type of distributions are meant to be “unchanging” in the sense of feature freeze. That off course depends on the distro or software in general how far this goes. Archlinux is “unstable” in the sense it is ever changing and adapting new technologies by breaking compatibility; something Debian does not.

Hopefully Ubisoft can stay on their own feets. With some marketing support from Amazon, it will be helpful for sure. I don’t want Ubisoft to be purchased by a bigger company, despite not buying their games. I want these companies be “independent” if that makes sense, as Ubisoft is also a publisher themselves…

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But it was promised that each electron from my body will be removed, until I’m smoke only. I assume this will take an eternity, but I’m here for science.

Just use Electron.

On a slightly different example, the suckless project has a huge emphasizes on lightweight code, which they call “suckless”. I don’t think in this case faster is the goal, but having less code and be simple as possible (not even configuration files allowed, you just recompile program) and almost no documentation in the code either. But the idea is the same, of having “lightweight” code.

• The fastest code is the code you don’t run.

Not really. The code can be slow, even if I do not run it. Also, sometimes additional code can do optimization (like caching), which is more code = faster. Or additional libraries, complexity and code paths can in example add multicore execution, which could speed up. So, I do not buy the less code is faster logic.

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I think the guys starting the project were new. They might have hired experts along the way.