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@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org
The Guardian had an article recently about bigotry on Steam and LGBT devs feeling negatively impacted by bad faith reviews.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/16/bigotry-steam-pc-moderation-developers-speak-out

I actually believed some of gamergate's critiques back in the day, but they destroyed their crediblity with their disgusting behavior.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Nintendo is even offering refunds

https://mynintendonews.com/2026/02/22/nintendo-offering-refunds-for-poor-xenoblade-chronicles-x-switch-2-upgrade/

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I was honestly quite surprised because Animal Crossing actually got a free resolution and framerate update independent of the paid Switch 2 edition features, so it sounded like they were listening to feedback, then they pull this.

The 60 fps mode was already in the game's code too. You're paying $5 to unlock something that was hidden in the game at launch and the worst up-scaling ever. No option to only have the 60 fps mode or native 4K30.

Makes me think of the PS5 Pro where they advertised not having to choose between resolution and performance modes anymore, but the PSR up-scaling made some games look worse than base PS5.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org It also has bad FSR smoothing artifacts. The Switch version looks beter.

@miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl @Daojoan@mastodon.social @earthshine@masto.hackers.town Canva had the idea of archiving the Affinity suite forums and moving the community into Discord.

Which is why I'm sticking with v2 and not trusting v3.

@lil5@social.linux.pizza @Daojoan@mastodon.social Thanks for these links.

In my experience, mojeek can sometimes be good at showing personal sites but it can also show a lot of SEO spam that appears AI generated and there's a lot missing from its index. It's like rolling the dice whether it will have any useful results to a query and I ended up quitting it because it was so unreliable.

Kagi often has low quality results but what you're paying for is the the filtering tools which can help dial things in.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I don't think Bungie is bringing it back, I think Sony is stuffing something inside its husk.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Star Wars Outlaws being a buggy Ubisoft game backfired. It was full of savefile breaking glitches at launch. I received a free copy after those bugs were fixed and still didnt want it just because I don't want anything ftom Ubisoft ever again.

It's hard to say but I think Concord might have been more successful if it wasn't on PC. Looked like a good console shooter to me and I nearly bought a PS5 for it even cos I'm starved of good FPS games. But the discourse was dominated by grumpy PC gamers who want hyper fast paced shooters, which I'm sure cut into potential PS5 version sales.

Haven't paid much attention to Highguard since I sold my xbox and it won't run in Proton, but I heard people who like it were asking for some more gamemodes and maps and they're starting to address that. IDK what all the outrage is about but I've heard some people point fingers at the PC gaming community for prefering to make outrage to ignoring a game they don't want, and it being mismarketed towards people who it wouldn't appeal to.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org The Ubislop account requirement ruibed Fenix Rising for me. I was really looking forward to that game but I noped out and took the disc to EB Games for $3 as I did not want to sign up to play a single player game.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org They put games on PC too back in the 90s, I had Mario's Time Machine. Pokémon TCG Online released exclusively on PC in the DS era.
There were even some Nintendo games on 00s era Japanese phones.

Nintendo putting side games on mainstream hardware is nothing new.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I don't think Nintendo was close to exiting the hardware market. A lot of tabloids were saying they might, but every Nintendo fan knew that would never happen.

Contrast to Xbox fans today expecting Xbox to pull out of the hardware market.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I remember a lot of people were excited for it, but I think people were anxious about proton compatibility, which has improved since.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Gamecube, Wii U and even Switch missed out on a lot of third party games too. But they still had a lot of fun games. One of my most memorable gaming experiences was Playing Nintendo Land's multiplayer games with friends. Nothing has ever beaten that.

@jamie@zomglol.wtf Anthropic claims Claude coded the current version of Claude.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I don't think og xbox had forza, but it had project gotham racing. I think it's associated with Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive aswell.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Lunar Lake is from 2024, do you mean Panther Lake?

Or did they release new Lunar Lake SKUs?

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Is the machine the game is running on connected via ethernet?

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org By not being fuss pots and just enjoying the games.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I use GoG, but it's missing features game devs want so it doesn't get many games.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Personally I'm happy using OBS for recording and Mango Game HUD. What Steam offers isn't particularly revolutionary.