ascagnel

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[–] ascagnel@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Three thoughts:

  • Valve doesn’t use physical media, so there isn’t a need to enforce DRM at the hardware level
  • the Deck itself is sold at a small profit regardless of the configuration, so there’s no benefit to pushing users to higher-price configurations
  • Valve enforces its DRM in software via the OS

The biggest reasons to lock down hardware aren’t really there on the Deck. On top of that, it benefits Valve to have other devices running their storefront, so using off-the-shelf parts when possible makes it easier for others to use the Deck as a template.

[–] ascagnel@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rainbow Six Siege is up there — there’s six dimensions of assholery in the game by my count.

  • Tom Clancy games tend to attract right-wing assholes because they’re Tom Clancy
  • competitive FPS
  • one-shot one-kill gameplay
  • friendly fire on by default
  • character picks
  • you need to play to a specific meta
[–] ascagnel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Universal Paperclips! It’s an idle game that relies on you making smart planning decisions to optimize things, so there’s a degree of strategy that most of them lack.