IMHO, two hours is not nearly enough to get a feel for a game. At least, not for the sorts of games I tend to play. I spend longer than that just working through initial technical issues, configuration, and (in games that have one) the character generator.
I have to conclude that Steam’s return window is either intended to be just enough to see if you can get it running, or as much as Valve could talk publishers into tolerating.
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Note that Apple has been participating for more than 12 years.
IIRC, the creator’s medical bills were the motivator for bringing it to Steam with graphics upgrades. I’m glad to see he’s finding success here.
I was excluding media that are impractical for most people to use.
Strictly speaking, I think paper beats magnetic tape on longevity.
Unfortunately, it loses on data density.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I expect it will be nice to be able to compare our own hardware performance to the benchmarks we see in reviews, and do apples-to-apples comparisons with the results reported by Windows users when performance tuning.
Which ants? What important work do they do?
Where I come from, Argentine ants are dominant, and considered pests. Apparently, there is also some evidence of them being problematic for pollinators.
I know I didn’t put adaptive in there, but that is what I meant when I said the triggers don’t work.
Yes, I understood, but I wanted to clarify for the sake of other readers who wouldn’t. Most people who don’t have a DualSense don’t know about its adaptive triggers, since they’re not a common feature on game controllers and not used by most games.
And how do you get the touchpad to work? I can get the buttons on it to work, but I haven’t gotten the mouse-like touch input to actually work, despite being able to map it.
On the desktop, I didn’t have to do a thing. It was automatically recognized when I connected the device, and I could move the mouse pointer and click right away. (I ended up disabling it in Xfce, because it sometimes got in my way.)
In Steam, I usually remap areas of it to produce keyboard events (useful in Elite Dangerous), but I think it can also be mapped as a mouse. I haven’t fiddled with Steam Input’s many options in a while.
Indeed, but I didn’t comment on audio, and you didn’t specify the other bits in your original comment. Triggers (without Sony’s proprietary variable resistance), gyro, and touchpad all work fine over bluetooth.
Most games require the DualSense to be physically plugged in to use the triggers, gyro, touchpad,
Most games? Not in my experience. Perhaps that’s because I mostly play on Steam (which has Steam Input to map those things as I like) and console emulators.
the development experience for native software has sucked for a long time.
For as long as Windows has existed, I have found its APIs to be noisy, awkward, and generally unpleasant to use. It was a major part of why I switched my development focus to Unix a long time ago. I guess this is a matter of personal taste; I wonder how you’ll feel about the APIs more commonly used on Linux after five or ten years of using them full-time.
Despite a few niggles (I don’t care for Bourne-style shell syntax or Windows shell syntax) I have found my productivity to be better and more enjoyable since the switch. Nowadays, benefits include everything that comes with an open-source ecosystem, like the software install/update model of Linux distros, and the ability to solve or work around library/OS problems myself if I can’t wait for someone else to fix something.
And, of course, having a privacy-respecting platform for myself and my users is important to me.
In short, I’m happier here. Welcome.
By the way, if you do cross-platform desktop app development, give Qt a try. It does an excellent job overall.
I played it last year. It was fun for a few days, but once I got the hang of the water physics and had a well-functioning city, it became mostly repetitive.
I wonder if newer updates bring more to the mid/late game. I’ll have to check it out again at some point.
These are the three that the article refers to:
I disagree.
Despite disagreeing, I appreciate that you used your words. Thanks.
I suggest browsing the apps available here:
Edit: I have no idea who would downvote this or why, but doing so is not helpful to anyone, in any way. If you have a question or concern, please just write it in a comment.
I was referring to the image-only link and the embed that you suggested. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Neither of those is a good approach, because part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.
The environment looks real enough. The “cats” look like weird demon creatures created by some entity that only knows dogs.
I did call out data density in my first comment. Did you somehow miss that? Not all things that need storing are megabytes in size, though.
Why would you assume that paper means punch cards? Printers can store far more than a machine word on a page, are relatively cheap, and are widely available. For some things, this can be superior to both magnetic and flash storage.