You put value in a like-dislike ratio and you think you can educate me?
You haven't proven me wrong, you're just another brainlet preaching to a choir of people who seem to be adamant at painting Valve as having a monopoly.
I mean, everyone has their preferred little dillusions, I guess, but an argument of popularity fallacy doesn't make you right.
Very smart. You learned how to repeat words written in books. You're probably very proud of yourself.
You still don't know what a monopoly is, however, considering this is a discussion about Valve and Steam.
But keep trying.
You do not understand what a monopoly is.
It's a free market, right? Customers choosing what they prefer and all that? And then eventually the one that provides the best price-for-service ratio comes out on top? Something like that, right?
If you want to stop Steam from being so ubiquitous with PC gaming, then create some proper competition. The only one that comes close in my eyes is GOG.
There is no open world that is too big. They can only be too small.
However, the quality of an open world is not predicated on the size of the open world, but rather what is actually in it.
And this doesn't mean that open worlds must be drowning in content, as the quality of the content itself also matters, and certain worlds that are large and empty can still be interesting due to its traversal being good, or the sandbox nature of a large empty world.
Some of the worst examples of open worlds are the kind that are just filled with isolated little fetch quests; busywork that's all marked on the map with no element of organic exploration. Or the kinds of open worlds where nothing actually happens "organically" without the player starting it.
The best kinds of open worlds are the ones that emphasise exploration and/or have background systems governing the world in some way (i.e. factions that interact with each other without the explicit involvement of the player).
Ah! The Somebody Else's Problem field! Someone actually knows it!
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in the world who read the books.
Telekinesis.
Incredibly underrated power. It's probably the most OP and versatile power someone can have.
Just blaming god again for all the unexplainable stuff. Only instead if god it's a simulation.
Oh I love it when artists do this. Similar vibe to that one Gumball episode where they ran out of budget.
"Gross misconduct" is union busting corporate speak for "workers trying to make a stand for their rights".
Yar matey! 'Tis be a good life indeed!
First, my specs:
Let's get one thing out of the way real quick; no, the GPU isn't dying. Oblivion Remastered is the only game this glitches happen in.
I've taken these screenshots in the Imperial City as that's where the artefacting happens most drastically, however it still happened in the starter dungeon/sewers and outside. I know that AMD GPUs had some weird visual bugs, but the ones I'm experiencing are not the same, and I can't seem to find anyone else experiencing these problems (after days of searching. It sometimes seems like I'm the only one with an Intel card in the world).
I've tried running with Proton 9.0-4, ProtonGE 9.27, and the newest Proton 10, but I don't think it's an issue that can be fixed with merely running a different Proton version.
Game compiles shaders upon first launch (I reinstalled a few times) so... it could be an error with how shaders are compiles...? Maybe...?
Either way, I'm at a loss now and need help figuring this out...
But Steam isn't a walled garden, or a monopoly.
Valve has done nothing that monopolistic corporations have done (i.e. Disney or Nintendo). They have kept themselves relatively small, private, and focused on providing one service really well.
Every other competition has only ever tried approaching what Valve does with Steam with shortcuts and quick money grabs.
It's all fine and dandy to cry and complain about monopolies, but nobody even really tried. Epic's store was, and still is, a laughing stock. That is what Valve is up against.