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Thanks for sharing, appreciate it.

Aside: has anyone read “100 Go Mistakes and How To Avoid Them” [1] and would care to share their takeaways? After getting back to it after quite some years I’m still conflicted about the language and …

Thanks for answering. > My current experience on alder lake + Nvidia 30 series isn't quite a smooth enough experience to move my non-technical fiancee over, but it's close enough that I&#…

I pondered the SteamDeck before and it's definitely cool (big Proton push!) but I personally prefer the OLED Switch or my Apple silicon Mac for lighter mobile use cases (indie games, text heavy R…

Thanks for the thorough answer, especially insightful with regards to CPU, chipsets and on the peripheral fronts. To be honest I'm still aching for that realtime RT + DLSS fix without being depen…

Interesting point about VR. I guess the sets and controllers are married even more so to the Windows APIs and will incur stark penalty on immersion for even slightest lag (due to API translation)? A b…

Due to Proton I feel like coming back to PC gaming after almost 20 years, great stewardship by Valve there. The last "rig" I built was for Doom 3 after which I'd never bothered with kee…

A great article but some dynamics got even worse since 2008. The idea that customers do have clout for example. Apart from major scandals / faux-pas most big companies these days don’t even have …

I personally enjoy all kinds of ambitious / flawed arcade ports on consoles so to me Berzerk, Defender and Joust still are worth playing on the VCS at least from that perspective.

Wow, we do live in a strange reality at this point. Masters of Doom clearly a distant past.

The soundtrack for Eternal was the only thing that felt special about this sequel IMO. Doom 2016 was and is amazing though, instant classic including the congenial soundtrack. I’m even less excited ab…

Agreed, I always forget about the Damocles sword that is lack of basic health in the US. I’m now wondering if this is by design… The other points do still strike me as more qualitative though (for the…

Or it makes them quit themselves.. I have done that before as the company changed character / culture got hit by layoffs. People and general positive vibe is what makes me want to put in the good…

It always does, I agree. Then again most people in that cohort probably have the corresponding level of financial means / literacy [to have a cushion]. Either way just read above that in this cas…

Looking forward to the released creativity though. Remember: especially when getting laid off in tech - eventually this will commonly be very good for personal growth. Lots of opportunities in the com…

They did somewhat similar “feature releases” and “more” to the iWork suite many years ago. It probably still is a shadow of what it once was but TBH I stopped checking and moved on. Ironically preview…

Cue Cal Newport’s Deep Thinking movement. The interesting part is that most companies don’t want to keep learning even through this pandemic. I see most of them as dinosaurs by now. Unexpected to be…

To me dd's noerror flag as well as seek are very comforting to know of whenever I'm on a quest to preserve some precious data from any medium currently in failure mode ... any extra read mig…

Or a man page :P

I’m not sure why so many things have gotten both fantastically more advanced and much worse at the same time. Reminds me of the “premium mediocre” conundrum a bit. In this case we can see it’s not th…

I actually do, love UHD blu-ray, can’t compare to anything downloaded actually. Level of compression and haptics, physicality, etc. That said, it’s not great for the environment, probably still worse …

It would be great if they’d just offer (marked up or not) DRM free, high quality 4K video files to download / own. I’m really not interested in 99% of the content on any of these platforms.