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2025-06-23 13:39 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Re: Steam fanboys
That's pretty cool. Next step is for things to get to the point where
the really hardcore gamers *prefer* Linux, either as a badge of honor
or for some real or perceived superiority.
I think that is getting there for a small segment of gamers.
One of my best non-horse-or-dog friends is as anti-linux as it gets but he openly believes Linux is a better gaming platform, as long as the games you want are supported.
There is also people complaining that some Steam Deck clones are running Windows instead of SteamOS :)
I think that is getting there for a small segment of gamers.
JayzTwoCents switched this week. He hasn't touched Linux in years. It's well known by now that PewDiePie switched. A few more high profile ones like that and things are going to get good fast.
I think that is getting there for a small segment of gamers.
JayzTwoCents switched this week. He hasn't touched Linux in years. It's well known by now that PewDiePie switched. A few more high profile ones like that and things are going to get good fast.
I'm running Batocera like a madman. It isn't MiSTer FPGA - but - as an external drive attached to a NUC i5 that runs all the shit I want to run - it is a win for Linux. It is easy - as Windows is getting harder and harder to deal with. Ig must be happy.
Ig must be happy.
I am cautiously optimistic!
The gamer scene is embracing Linux in a big way; the retro gamer scene even more.
I am cautiously optimistic!
The gamer scene is embracing Linux in a big way; the retro gamer
scene even more.
Yeah, Steam got scared they would end up depending on Microsoft so they have worked very hard to give themselves an alternative.
Something else worth considering is that many old games have fan ports these days, and those fan ports are open source. You can play Diablo, Doom, lots of Build Engine games... native... because fans grabbed old source code or reverse-engineered the games and made FOSS versions that are very faithful to the originals.
That's about the sum of it. Microsoft would eventually throw their weight behind a "Steam killer" ecosystem. There are signs that they already have started down that path (for example, "XBox Game Bar" in Windows that cannot be uninstalled).
"<xxx> killer" assaults from Microsoft don't always work anymore, but sometimes they do. Steam is doing a great job recognizing this threat and taking decisive actions to stay ahead. Helping out with Windows emulation on Linux instead of just telling developers "you should build on Linux too" was a good move. Building actual console hardware running on Linux+Proton was a stroke of genius.
And the timing makes sense. When 90% of Steam titles now run on Linux, at the very time when Microsoft is alienating users more than usual, it's a good time to be doing this.
Batocera - look into it. I run it on my old Citadel NUCs - from an external HD. Linux based. Pretty awesome.
Apollo V4/SA Amiga has native ports that run in the 68080 FPGA native core of Doom, Diablo - others.
I'm sitting in my room right now on a Friday night, cooking Chicken Pot pies in the oven, listening to Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles on a turntable, posting messages on a Citadel BBS, with a Vampire V4 Amiga powered on next to me....
I'm your guy for Retro discussions.
You never enabled posting images inline on Uncensored like I had set up on WallofHate, right?
Well that is bogus, they are not streaming it via YT this year. Appears its ONLY in-world.
Fri Nov 28 2025 14:31:22 UTC from Nurb432OpenSim conference next weekend. Be there or be lame.
It is a survival horror game in which you guide a little chicken as he tries to escape an industrial slaughterhouse. The concept might come across as a joke but they nailed the atmosphere. Think about it: when you are a chicken, a place in which gigantic two legged apes are placing all of your friends on conveyor belts and killing them is scary as fuck.
And so, when the slaughterhouse employees start looking around for you and the only thing you can do is try to hide under a table and hope they won't find you, it really sets the mood.
Bonus points because the in-game artwork for the company features pictures of happy hens and the like in the same scenario in which some dude with a butcher knife is chasing you.
Needless to say the game is a vehicle for PETA-types to promote their views, and they did it nearly right. If they had placed absolutely no political message whatsoever in the game, they would have managed to make players think about the whole food industry. But no, they had to mention "seeking out animal rights organizations if you find the content of this game concerning" in an early loading screen, tipping everybody off about this game's political charge.
It is not like I am recommending this game - it has many practical issues - but I think the core aspect of conveying how horrorific it is to be a chicken in a hostile environment is like.
I think about this a lot, as a conservative, omnivore, straight white male.
We spend so much time as a culture, and species thinking about monsters -
But for the rest of life on this planet - ALL of it... we're THE apex predator - and we do it at an industrial scale.
It ties into the wild conspiracy theories going around right now - that maybe we're not as TOP apex predator as we think - maybe we're cattle in the pen waiting for slaughter. I guess that is possible.
But of the DUMB predators that aren't trying to convince the livestock that THEY'RE the top dog - we're pretty damn scary. We're the tale MOST other animals on the planet would tell their children about the monsters that lurk under the bed. We will literally raise you in ideal conditions just to make you taste best when we decide to eat you - and we do it on an unimaginable scale.
Most recently - I thought of our appetite for eggs. Think of all the breakfast places in your town. Think of all the eggs at your local supermarket - now multiple this across the entire US. Now think about all the incidental things that we use eggs for - cookies, whatever... and all the places making and selling those.
It is like... billions of eggs, just in the US, every year. I looked it up. It is staggering how many eggs we harvest just to EAT the unborn of CHICKENS alone. We eat a lot of OTHER eggs, too... but let's just leave it at Chickens.
If you were a chicken and could write and decided to write a horror story - humans would be the most vile monster you could imagine. We are f'kin terrifying as a species.
I'm OK with that... but if I found out I was actually a chicken - that would be a terrible reality.
I ran into a cute propaganda game which is so close to what actual propaganda should be like.