Steam Decks receive a horizon button! AMD cracks down on FreeSync certification, Linux reaches 4% desktop market share, WebRTC integration in OBS becomes intriguing, Area 51 source code is discovered, and Nintendo shuts down the Yuzu emulator.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:50 JUICY
03:00 Pedro MMO update
04:52 Scojo Gen 4
STEAM NEWS
06:43 Steam beta resets to horizon
09:21 Steam Deck hackathon
11:49 Regular Linux for Deck?
NEW NATIVE GAMES
14:36 Thyria
15:18 Weeaboo grammar
16:54 Zoria
NEWS
19:26 AMD cracks down on freesync
26:58 Nintendo shuts down Yuzu
33:56 Alternate Switch emulators
37:22 Linux desktop hits 4%
42:43 Desktops are dead 2024 edition
45:17 Winux challenge
46:13 Area 51 source code
50:38 OBS WebRTC sources
HATE MAIL
57:48 Emulation = piracy
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Steam: News
Now with 100% more “Reset to Horizon” action!
Where the absolute hell was that on the Steam controller!?
Being able to snap to the horizon will come in handy for a gang of titles.
Still counts as a macro, cheater.
People playing Helldivers on the Deck are a special breed.
That plasma desktop really reminds me of that windows bar.
I keep having to do a double take.
I mean, it’s basically the same OS.
Turns out that even on a steam deck linux is a decent development platform
Steam Decks are universally known for their ability to craft job interview apps.
“Really disadvantages were just getting it set up. I’m used to Ubuntu and SteamOS uses a custom Arch distro.”
Yeah, if you’re lugging a monitor and keyboard around.
I think the Deck falls into the “could be used in a pinch” category.
Would you ever bring a Deck to a laptop fight?
Does anyone have a regular ordinary Linux distro for the Deck?
Does Nobara count?
I think with a portable monitor and keyboard it could very well win against several laptops, at least the ones without dedicated GPUs.
Battery-wise, for as poor as the original model is, it still could play Dead Cells for 8 hours.
That’s significant when most productivity laptops have to have very low power CPUs to be able to go that long with even just a text processor and web browser.
That’s Macbook territory for $400… Ok, $500-$600 with the external monitor, keyboard, and dock.
Steam: New Games
Weeaboest Dungeon?
This is like FF / Pokemon where you run around the overworlds and bonk into an enemy.
Then go full-metal DD.
I’m glad to see some more DD style crawlers come out. I think they’re neat
The one negative complaint seems to be the limited content
Recommeded GPU is a GTX 1080, which seems a wee overkill for pixel art
I got my hopes up with the little blurb thinking it might be a medieval fantasy XCom
Combat seems more in line with other turn based RPGs though.
It’s Baldurs Gate at home with a 2010 retro graphics mod and no online multiplayer.
But it’s only $24.
They have dispatch missions, which is a feature from final fantasy tactics i’d like to see imported more in squad based games
News:
I sh*t you not the freesync range on my chungus Acer is something like 50/73.
My UHD monitor has variable refresh between 42 and 60Hz, it just barely meets the new laptop requirements.
I mean, I guess that’s nice for people who care about freesync and bad for people who don’t wanna upgrade their monitors?
Yuzu and Citra are gone.
Basic summary is that the Yuzu developers agreed to shut down development, give their domain to Nintendo, and delete all copies of Yuzu and any other Switch hacking tools.
About that 2.4 million.
Good chance there was a “disappear all the things and keep them disappeared for X amount of years and we’ll call it even’ type deal.
They agreed to pay the Nintendprice less than 24 hours after lawyering up.
They folded really quick, seems like they didn’t really want to fight it
Rampant speculation seems to indicate they either had some compromising shit in their private comms that would have gotten revealed in discovery or they realized that it’s a long and grueling fight they’d need to execute perfectly to even have a chance at winning
This is likely already having a chilling effect on any emulator project operating a patreon
That statement reads like it was dictated at gunpoint
Linux Desktop market share < 4%
According to the Steam hardware survey 35% of Steam Linux users have “AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405”.
~1 year ago it was 21%.
That gives an upper bound of 35% from those 4% being Steamdeck.
Them Steam Decks are pretty good laptops when you get down to it.
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Good to see some pushback on the whole “Linux is hard to install” fud
I’m curious what the geographical breakdown
How much of that are raspis and their ilk?
No, it’s not that Area 51.
I need to go to better yard sales.
David Duchovny and Marilyn Manson voiced the game, apparently
Found at a yard sale, damn
Right now the goal is to get it into a buildable state on modern systems.
The current release is the as is package, which contains engine code and ports for PS2 and Xbox
Today, if you want to build a dual PC streaming setup you need one of two things.
NDI or a couple of capture cards.
Both solutions work but NDI is proprietary and fussy and good capture cards cost two dragons.
This is going to take advantage of webrtc to sling data across OBS instances. LAN or WAN.
Need to send game capture over to the streaming rig?
Stream it to the PC, set up a source on the other and Bam!
Things get hella interesting when you think about using it for video conferencing.
It has the potential to offer WAY higher quality.
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