On a personal level, I also don’t like Epic and Tim Sweeney, but recognize how important this is of a change. Tim said in the past they don’t care bout the Steam Deck, because it is not selling well. They will care if it is selling in the tens of millions. (I can’t link to the original Twitter/X post, so I rely on correct quoting from other places.)

“If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.”

- Tim Sweeney

If only all companies would support their “free” backend like this.

That’s not true… me failing in finding examples well … I gotta go now, bye.

The 6 hour GTA 6 deal was expensive. They have to make cuts somewhere else. 1 trailer in exchange for 2 studio closures… Man these closures in general, if they at least could go independent or sold rather than closing. This industry is so eff-upped.

So that means they start taking Linux seriously. Hopefully it does mean their games like Fortnite will support Linux too. For me the bridge is already burned and I don’t want to build it again. But I’m not the only person in the world and therefore this is only a good step in the right direction.

Also nice to see they get user reviews soon, lol. The images and post content from the linked Reddit post, in case you avoid Reddit:

I had the exact same comment (your second paragraph), which I deleted because my comment got too long. I think the original Super Mario Bros on NES is the way to play it and I disklike the All-Stars graphics. But I really like AllStars-SMB3, because the glitchy graphics on the side is resolved and most importantly the battery save. The upgraded graphics fit the game well too. I stand by this opinion since the early 1993!

There are remakes, remasters, and rereleases.

And Ports, Reimagining and Reboots. I count Ports extra, because Re-releases can be emulation being the exact same game (through a Rom in example), while Ports are native games and not 100% exact same game anymore.

One of my favorite Remakes is Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete on the Playstation and Saturn from 1996. The original game is on Sega/Mega CD from 1992. I never played the original game on real hardware, only looked into it through emulation. In 2025 they remastered those games for multiple modern systems. Also I played the hell out of original Dune 2 on Genesis/Mega Drive in 1992. And later the Remake Dune 2000 on Playstation in 1998.

Also what constitutes to being a Remake was even harder to tell back then, because in some cases a port is a new implementation of the game that could be classified as such. BTW visit the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_remakes_and_remasters and click following to have the list sorted by Remake/Remaster versions:

No need to read the following paragraph. I just yap about Remake and Remaster terminologies and why Castlevania 4 isn’t a Remake.

I never accepted Super Castlevania 4 as a Remake. To me “Remake” implies making the same game. Otherwise we have lot of candidates: https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Remakes/Reimaginings . This is more inline with a Reimagining like Final Fantasy 7 Remake or the recent Resident Evil Remakes. But not a Reboot that has nothing to do with prior games, like DOOM or Tomb Raider. I would rather count the Castlevania for Sharp X68000 as a proper Remake, which I only played the Remster of the Remake with Castlevania Chronicles on Playstation! And yes, I have some strong feelings about these categorizations. Just wanted share my opinion, no opinion is wrong or right.

I just described why they could get the term Vice City as a trademark. Off course companies will try to sue. And they might even win in court, due to some stupid bureaucracy or better lawyers, or they handle this out of court. There is an entire industry around the idea of trademark-trolling. Meaning some bad companies trademark or buy trademarks just to sue everyone in any shape or form. So yes, if Tiffanys doing that, then they are trolls, but it does not mean everyone else is doing it.

#MildlyInteresting

The community called it Overwatch 1.5. Now they renamed the game back to Overwatch (1). You can’t make this up.

No, it’s not. Fallout 76 is a spin off in the franchise, but not a direct sequel to the main series. Just like Super Mario 64 plays in the same universe like Mario Kart 64, but it’s a different series in the same franchise and world.

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I don’t think Fallout76 can be counted as a sequel. It’s a standalone game in a franchise, like Super Mario 64 is a different game then Mario Kart 64.

Would be nice if you were more specific.

I don’t get what exactly made you think this would be something like a “shitpost”? Do you mean the post title or about the article from the projects website? Its just a normal update blog post information about the changes and rational. I usually like this kind of update posts once a month or so for projects I care and want to stay informed.

What makes this Chatbot client different from just using it in the browser? My first thought was, it might get special permission to better interact with the system, like the agentic tools do. I assume it can better integrate into system with the taskbar maybe. Or maybe this is more efficient than just running the webbrowser. Or it might have special commandline arguments with special options?

Oh… wait its just an entire browser running a single tab. Alright then. Why does this need to be an app on its own? To me this is as useless as a native browser based Discord app… Just bookmark it in your browser and open it there. You can even customize it even more with browser addons.

When you make changes to the comments or pseudo code to maintain the program, then you also need to do the same changes to the actual source code the compiler will use. As the human language comments need to be compiled to C by human, right? And this would end up thinking and maintaining the source code of two languages and hope they always align in their logic.

I never did this approach and only get this from reading the blog post.