Feeling a teeny bit undersized here, apparently size does matter sometimes.

Then I got hit again and woke up back in my original world.

Never gotten around to visiting that part of Europe myself.

What is the right kind of sad for that?

Maybe you get a copy to gift to me :D

I have no idea what the takeaway is from that video, except that he didn’t even get his facts right about the steam deck subsidies. Is it that hardware prices are going up? We don’t need a source for that.

What does ANY of this have to do with your claim that the steam frame (or alyx, because I can’t figure out what your actual claim is) is a flop?

No, Alyx, sorry. Should have been more clear.

Then why were you talking about material costs, steam deck comparisons, etc? How are you comparing a game to a hardware console?

Alyx to date has earned roughly $40.7m YTD

Alyx sold $40M in the 1st month alone and has broken the $100M mark by now, so you’re incorrect.

Alyx didn’t profit, so why would they even bother continuing to try and release Steam Frames?

Maybe because they’re two different things that can stand apart from each other. Also all your arguments so far have been moot.

Can you cite anything showing that Valve made any profits what so ever off of the Steam Frame?

I’m supposed to prove they profited off a product that hasn’t even been released yet?

Because in May they announcdd it was shifting away from selling them

What May announcement? Link please?

Nothing in the hardware they’ve released to date suggests a flop.

Do you think anybody, especially Linus, is unaware that LLMs produce bugs if left to themselves? He’s made it clear that PRs will continue to be judged on their code quality as they have all this while. Your comment is especially ironic considering how the post is about an elusive bug that took 1 line to fix, but hours upon hours and 24 other patches to debug. Anybody with any knowledge of Linus would find the idea hilarious that he’d allow, let alone commit, crappy code into the kernel. The only real issue up for debate is the ethics of it, considering the provenance of most training data, and potentially copyright issues.

Ah true, might be a client problem

(No, this is not a personal opinion).

I agree with you, but the point I’m trying to make that most people here are missing, is that we are a minority. The average player is fine with and already has discord, and there’s an argument to be made it provides less friction than making users sign up on a website or send an email.

You know, it’s possible to analyse and discuss a situation and the factors contributing to it without ‘defending shitty practices’. I don’t have a bone in this fight.

Yes, because your original comment was so thought out and well reasoned to begin with 🙄

There’s a difference between govt agencies and public organizations as compared to a private game company though. I wouldn’t want the former using discord either, but it’s honestly not a big deal and pretty understandable for the latter.

Your link is broken, and that’s the source anyway so I thought I’d just link directly

Fixed link

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