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david [blobcat] (david@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:13:16 JST david [blobcat]

switch 2
- can play Nintendo games

steam deck
- can play pc games
- can emulate switch games
- will be able to play switch 2 games
- cheaper

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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:13:09 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @raccoon @david in another thread i was yesterday, someone pointed out that the devs that did the actual emulator work all either were banned by nintendo to work on that (yuzu) or were paid off by nintendo to not work on that (ryujinx)
  
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  Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:13:11 JST Trash Panda
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  No, but it's not a matter of power, we gotta see if people will even try to make an emulator.
  
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  david [blobcat] (david@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:13:12 JST david [blobcat]
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  @raccoon it's not like the Nintendo switch is as powerful as an Xbox or a PlayStation.
  
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  david [blobcat] (david@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:13:13 JST david [blobcat]
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  @raccoon yea true. It's highly likely tho
  
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  Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:13:15 JST Trash Panda
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  As much as I would love it to, we don't know if it will be able to emulate switch2
  
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  Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:15:20 JST Dushman
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  Probably but it will take a while most likely
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:18:13 JST Phantasm
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  @mischievoustomato @david @raccoon Once the Switch 1 stops being sold and games stop being released for it, Nintendo will likely stop caring that much about it. There will be the typical harassment like with Dolphin, but devs will probably come back eventually. You can't judge the state of console emulator development when the console is still sold.
  
  It also depends how many good games were released. Which is something I have no idea about.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:18:22 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @david @raccoon depends if they wanna risk nintendo's wrath again
  
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  david [blobcat] (david@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:18:24 JST david [blobcat]
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  @mischievoustomato @raccoon the switch 2 seems so similar to the switch 1 that i imagine it wouldn't be so difficult for someone who worked on yuzu or ryujinx to make a switch 2 emulator
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:19:15 JST Phantasm
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  @mischievoustomato @david @raccoon PS5 emulators are still nonexistent and PS4 emulation is in some cases still very half-baked from the last time I looked at it.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:20:54 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @phnt @david @raccoon > PS5 emulators are still nonexistent
  you don't need an emulator for a thing with no games
  > ps4 emu half baked
  yeah
  
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  チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:25:55 JST チャノさん
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  @mischievoustomato @david @phnt @raccoon Somebody release a PS5 emulator, but it's just a dummy program that spits out "Error: Games Not Found" if you try to do anything with it.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:32:04 JST Pawslut420
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  @japananon @mischievoustomato @david @phnt @raccoon it's funny until you bring up the Fortnite question to Linux users and it ends in buying an Xbox
  "If you want to play Fortnite on Linux buy a Xbox"
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:32:22 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon fortnite, cod, etc. I don't see the issue with that honestly
  
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  Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:39:46 JST Trash Panda
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  @phnt@fluffytail.org @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @david@blob.cat
  The only PS4 game worth emulating, Bloodborne, is starting to run well
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:41:14 JST Phantasm
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  @sendpaws @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato That's good, gatekeeping is important. Loonix has too many normie users.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:12:47 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon uh yeah? i know people that have macs instead but an xbox for gaming
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:12:48 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @phnt @david @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws at the same time, linux is not ready for normies
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:12:48 JST Pawslut420
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  @mischievoustomato @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon Want games? Buy an Xbox, LOL
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:18:43 JST Phantasm
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  1. I barely play games
  2. The newest game I own is from 2020
  3. When I decide to play with someone, it's a coop game that runs fine and sometimes even better than on Windows
  4. Tru multiplayer games are mostly boring because the online gaming community is cancerous
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:18:44 JST Pawslut420
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  @phnt @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato This is quickly always followed by "where the video games" and your normie friend really pressuring you to install Windows 11. Why are you using this Linux shit, you want to game, right? You bought your expensive Eurocom gaming laptop/expensive GPU to run games, right?
  Sure; you can play Eroge on Linux. But it'll go as well with your normie friends as showing up reeking of weed or telling them about FurAffinity.
  
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  Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:19:14 JST Dushman
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  @phnt@fluffytail.org @sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party @david@blob.cat @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love No Fortnite Nothing of value lost
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:23:14 JST Phantasm
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  @mischievoustomato @david @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws It's slowly trying to be normie-friendly and as a result is becoming more shitty every passing month.
  
  On the left you have normie-first operating systems (garbage like Windows and macOS).
  In the middle you have Loonix with its somewhat balanced view of normie-friendliness and still being developer-friendly.
  And on the right you have developer-first operating systems. That's how you get Plan 9.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:27:11 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @phnt @david @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws good.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:28:45 JST Pawslut420
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  @phnt @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato nobody at any of my old wagie jobs will play ut99 with me
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:28:45 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon play with people from here i guess
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:35:16 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon that's the price of free and open source software
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:35:17 JST Pawslut420
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  @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Cloud gaming:
  
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  david [blobcat] (david@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:35:19 JST david [blobcat]
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  @sendpaws @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato cloud gaming
  
  also i think fortnite doesnt work on vm anymore but i forgor
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:38:12 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon ok? i dont have an interest in getting people to use linux
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:38:13 JST Pawslut420
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  @mischievoustomato @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon it's as easy to get people onto linux as it is to get your normie friends to play a game that doesn't have intrusive anticheat and is like old bro
  "why are we playing this let's go back to this other game can we play this other game"?
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:39:43 JST Phantasm
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  @sendpaws @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato The human eyes can't perceive latency that small. That's your 60 FPS elitism mindset talking.
  
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  Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:41:15 JST Vokainen
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato How many of those broken/denied titles have their servers closed down already?
  
  Y'all act like it's a Linux problem, when if you're unable to self-host your multiplayer-first game is effectively a time-limited license unless it's Fortnite.
  
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  ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:45:17 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
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  @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws @mischievoustomato It does, kvm for gaming is the correct solution in most cases ( if you play games you can't play on linux)
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:49:26 JST Phantasm
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  @sendpaws @dcc @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Steam Remote exists for that reason. Fire up a VM on your main desktop and stream the game over LAN.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:49:27 JST Pawslut420
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  @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato The problem is that's why the Steam Deck can't run many AAA games/newer ones because of Linux.
  Of course, the second you install Windows you can do shit you can't do on Linux like run BF2042.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJ3cuGmCew
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:49:45 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon it'd be funny if something changed with MS leadership and valve dropped linux immediately (not gonna happen ever but it'd be funny)
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:51:09 JST Pawslut420
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  @phnt @dcc @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Ah yes, I'm going to do that when I'm in my lunch break at WagieCorp and my PC is miles away.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:51:12 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon you should be working bro
  
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  ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:55:51 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato >because of Linux. You did not read what i wrote :pepe_cofe:
  
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  Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:56:43 JST Vokainen
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato It became more and more difficult to play with frens when the dynamic duo of 360/PS3 came out, and they were already matchmaking/global servers first platforms.
  
  Sure, there was still LAN (As a second thought, with plenty problems on average), sure there were profiles/accounts/gamercards where you could build clubs of "friends", but the writing was on the wall already when you *had* to play in a big server with strangers to fill up the quota of 16/32 players, even if you actually managed to bring your whole squad along, nevermind going duo/trio.
  
  I remember clear as day game site reviewers lamenting the death of LAN parties and users saying they were thrown into servers with weird Latinos/Eastern Europeans and having miserable experiences.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:56:44 JST Pawslut420
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  It's not about that (nice sidestep though); it's about wanting to play MP games with your friends.
  Servers will never come back for many modern AAA poz reasons, but like I said; the problem is that your so called friends don't want to play the games you do.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:59:37 JST Pawslut420
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  @vokainen099 @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Yes, but they did it because "muh piracy".
  https://web.archive.org/web/20080118150645/http://fourzerotwo.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-in-review-servers-servers-servers.html
  "On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online)."
  It's only going to come back on Indie games that have exploits like webfishing does.
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:05:34 JST Phantasm
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  @sendpaws @dcc @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Maybe I don't have the modern brainrot, but I wouldn't want to play some random AAA(A) game on my lunch break, because I would want to relax. Instead I would play something like Graveyard Keeper or Stardew Valley.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:08:17 JST Pawslut420
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  @phnt @dcc @david @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato I don't disagree either. I don't want to play games from the past 5 years because most are shit with few exceptions.
  I just am aware of how much of an issue it is when Linux gaming comes up and I had no idea about how crazy it was until I got a Steam Deck. In part I wish I got a different handheld.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:24:44 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sendpaws @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon yeah, i run linux because im a computer nerd but I've had to deal with a myriad of troubleshooting issues, workarounds, hacks and whatnot. This is not for anyone that just wants to play. I've even considered returning to windows because of stuff like this but I'm not demented to do that. Hell, I've had to use a vm to build a file to then play a game on linux thru wine. Thankfully that is no longer necessary, but unlike linux, that game just got a native mac port.
  
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  Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:24:55 JST Vokainen
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Back when developers considered themselves "l33t", they had been trying to kill off the PC market for decades, since closed platforms were easier to optimize for, while Microsoft was attempting to move over its gamer userbase with Games For Windows Live.
  
  Of course, Steam was about to throw a wrench into their plans and demolish the entire industry in the process, but it didn't start because of Linux (Which noone took seriously as a game platform in the late 2000s), it's just that developers didn't want to optimize for PCs, and Microsoft wanted to get Microsoft gamers into the 360 to milk them from a dual Windows + 360 point of view.
  
  Piracy was largely an excuse, since people that couldn't afford 60$ games + DLCs were unlikely to afford game consoles + paid online + 60$ games + DLCs
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:34:58 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @adiz @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws that's cool but meaningless to me
  
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  👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:34:59 JST 👺防空識別區👹
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  @mischievoustomato I literally have just ever installed Debian, or openSUSE, or Fedora, and these things have always by-and-large just worked. Unless I did something wonky and weird with it or was trying to do something very out of the box and specialized. The only major difficulty I've faced getting Linux to install and work has been Void Linux. Otherwise, never been an issue. @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:46:05 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @adiz @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws some of it is luck, some of it is a lot of foss work not being good. There's been times when I've been fine but seen others get impacted, and there was a time many of us got impacted.
  
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  👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:46:07 JST 👺防空識別區👹
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  @mischievoustomato All I am saying is that from all the posts I see from you, you seem to have nothing but wretched luck with any/all technologies: software, hardware, operating systems. I have no idea what you're doing to cause yourself so much constant and consistent difficulties. @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @sendpaws
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:47:23 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @adiz @david @dcc @japananon @phnt @raccoon @sendpaws also, because of my experience, chances are that others' will be similar or worse, and no way i'm putting my name on that.
  
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  @sendpaws @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @adiz for me, i can't use debian or anything really given package-not-found issues.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:15:32 JST Pawslut420
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  @adiz @mischievoustomato @dcc @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon I've never had Debian issues but Ubuntu kinda sucks with the flatpak/snap shit.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:44:09 JST Pawslut420
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  @vokainen099 @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato The other thing is; that's how cracked servers work from someone who hosted them on Halo PC (you had to or nobody could join your server, literally everyone was pirating).
  At least on the GameSpy era and older Steam games (1.6 comes to mind); you host the server and then you have a serverside patch that removes the key check.
  This is why publishers clamped down; because back in the day you could pirate a game and play online easily. But with the magic of SteamWorks, Demonware, and more you need to verify the player owns the game.
  Do you ever see people playing pirated games online nowadays? Not with new ones, you don't. That was the goal, and it worked. It's an incentive to get you to pay up.
  That's also why F2P games boomed so fucking hard, you can't pirate CoD anymore but you can play Warzone for free, Halo Infnite for free, etc. Halo Infinite is less dead than many paid $60 flops.
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  Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:44:10 JST Vokainen
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  @sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato But cracked servers wouldn't be a problem if things were host-able by users because "it's their problem", and it was never about piracy or cracked servers, it was about forcing users, gradually, into closed source and wallgardened ecosystems where they can be milked for much more easily.
  
  PC, not being a closed enough platform, was to be removed from the equation. Of course, Valve threw a wrench into that, but that's what they were going for at Microsoft.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:44:10 JST Pawslut420
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  @vokainen099 @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato >and it was never about piracy or cracked servers
  Oh it was. That's why Battlefield private servers for later games are unhostable at home, or why Black Ops 1 was the same way. Even worse; you can no longer rent a BO1 PC server because the provider pulled the plug so you have to use some weird third party client to play online and the player count is low because they require steam verification because of Activision shutting another one down (XLabs).
  It's still about control and walled gardens; because you're paying them directly or GameServers or someone to host it.
  
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  Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:44:11 JST Pawslut420
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  @vokainen099 @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Well back in the day you could easily join cracked servers. Now?
  https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
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    Blizzard v. BNETD
    
    At issue in this case was whether three software programmers who created the BnetD game server -- which interoperates with Blizzard video games online -- were in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Blizzard Games' end user license agreement (EULA). BnetD was an open source...

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