Intel nukes the ARC A770 LE, Steam Next Fest picks, SDL2 reaches EOL, new games added to Proton Experimental, and Discord opens a meme store. All this, plus your hate mail!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Button reminder
01:17 WHAR NVIDIA Video Effects SDK?
02:53 Red Hat pulls the plug
03:29 Microwave update
05:17 Pedro played a game
STEAM NEWS
07:45 New games for Proton Experimental
11:17 Steam Next Fest
NEXT FEST PICKS
17:52 Olliefrog Toad Skater
19:42 Demonic Supremacy
22:12 Motordoom
24:12 Stunt Derby
GAME UPDATES
26:12 TMNT Dimension Shellshock
NEWS
34:03 Intel nukes the ARC A770 LE
40:15 NVIDIA 4060 benchmarks
45:16 SDL 2 enters maintenance mode
47:15 ALVR 20.1.0
51:25 Discord opens a meme store
HATE MAIL
01:03:51 LGC Vibes
01:06:31 ESDF is better
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Proton Experimental 2023/06/24
- Enabled nvapi for a chunk of new games.
- For the most part they have done a good job avoiding regression hell but it’s an ever looming problemo.
- 18 new games added.
- *21st Century Basketball, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD.
- Why yes, I do agree they could use a slightly better system for tracking updates with experimental.
- Nothing terribly exciting, though at this point it’s hard to find games that don’t already work that aren’t encumbered by anti-tamper systems and bass-ackwards-minded developers.
- Next Fest is here and this has become something I look forward to.
- Not only does it bring back the idea of demos, it gives us a look at what’s coming down the steamy pipes.
- 123 Linux native games, 40 more than MAC.
- Ever think you would see that?
- Here’s a couple to keep your eye-organs on.
Steam: New Games / Next Fest Picks
- This is roughly eleventy times more fun than Sk8Birb.
- Makes Goku noises when he falls.
- I look forward to more games coming out inspired from the moderate success of SkateBirb
- Oh yeah, this is the Tony hawk frog skating I was looking for.
- Boomer-shooter with the chuggies.
- Reminds me of trying to run Quake with a software render.
- I know it says it has “few gamer-friendly features” but did you need to be actively hostile with that god awful motion and radial blur?
- PS1 DOOM on a bike.
- Controls are bad.
- Oh they work, just bad.
- Dave Mirra’s Freestyle Ziggurat
- ‘Member BMX?
- Motocross Madness meets Painkiller?
- That’s… a prototype.
- THat’s a swarm of cars
- Drive into boxes. With friends! Cuz it at least has the thing
- If they can deliver that experience with a bunch of Online peeps, I’m down.
- Maybe give us an option with a looser camera.
- I do like the jank a little.
Steam: Game Updates
- Miyamoto Usagi is now playable.
- New game mode.
- Would adding a price be too much to ask?
- Adding different turtle paletes will really help with the insane character blindness that 6 person co-op can offer. By how much? Shrug emoji
- More turtles is good!
News:
- Guess it really was limited, ha.
- This doesn’t exactly inspire confidence for AIB partners, both of them.
- That said, Intel will continue to provide silicone to AIBs for the 770.
- RIP a surprisingly stalwart dark horse. Get them while you can.
- In true Intel fashion the radio remains silent.
- They did call it limited edition but still, fucking really?
- Right when people were starting to not just warm up to but seeing the point of it?
- That’s about as terrabad as I was expecting.
- 17 to 18% faster than RTX 3060.
- PCI Express 4.0 limited to 8 lanes.
- Getting beat by the 3060Ti from last gen.
- Remember when the 60 series would at least match the 70 series from the previous gen?
- $300 for some last gen performance.
- The 3050 performs about on par with a 1080, that was what sort of justified the MSRP.
- Releasing a 3060 SUPER for $30 off the MSRP of the 3060 is not the worst, but at that point people are better off getting last gen’s for even cheaper now.
- SDL2 Is going into maintenance mode
- SDL2-compat is also being worked on concurrently so that old SDL1.2 stuff can use 3 on the backend
- Heeeey! Backwards compatibility!
- Boy am I glad to see at least one of the major open source projects give a shit.
- I’m worried about the code bloat in SDL 3.
- That could have been accomplished with 3 a’s.
- Use your Standalone headset for PC based VR games
- Currently works with the Quest and Vives, other hardware is still in progress
- Done in rust. There’s also an appimage
- The firewall script has been fixed under linux, as has the audio menu dropdown
- Works with the Quest 2, the bitrate is still shit but it’s a lot less absolutely awful than the previous version.
- I’m sitting right next to the router and the headset is literally the only thing on the 5GHz band, it’s still not what I’d call a pleasant experience streaming any kind of SteamVR game.
- Progress is very welcome and I genuinely hope these fine folks keep at it.
- Linux support is still in beta. Expect to build bits from source.
- I look forward to the Inception levels of Discord piracy on Discord
- This is also when we’ll see how many of the moderators in Discord servers are just complete power junkies.
- What the fuck are “exclusive memes”
- Enshittification continues
- As long as they’re not breaking regular chat things will be fine for the interim, but tech companies are being especially extra stupid these days.
- A new thing is coming to Discord, media channels.
- They are designed to host subscriber-only content like memes and wallpapers.
- Tier Templates: Formalized subscription tiers with prices set by Discord ($3.99, $4.99, $7.99, and $9.99)
- Downloadables: One-time purchasable digital products or subscriptions sold by server owners, which will be accessed via…
- Server Shops: “A single home for server owners to sell Server Subscriptions, Downloadables and Premium Roles”
- Can we break the exponential growth cycle?
- Be more like Craigslist.
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