You’re still not understanding: people buy stuff for convenience. Buying a console which you can play all the latest games on with a controller is convenient.
The target audience for Steam Machine (or whatever they’ll call it) is not you or some linux dude who like setting things up themselves, it’s people who just want things to work ™.
What you’re saying is “Why would I buy bread when I can make it at home? Nobody’s going to buy bread!”.
The power of the console is that it comes preinstalled with everything you need to game. Tell roidrage Steve or TikTok Sally to build their own gaming rig. It’s not happening. That’s why there are consoles.
The Steam Machine can be used for work, but that’s not its primary function, neither is that the Steam Deck’s function.
Debatable what “civilized” is, but I imagine most westerns consider themselves “civilized” and developing countries to be “uncivilized”. It has colonialist vibes and is not necessarily racist, but can be quite ignorant and prejudiced.
Christians invaded many countries and pretend to make them “civilized” but instead enslaved their people and treated them like animals. Pretty far from civil if you ask me. The US considers itself civilized yet it has a death penalty, just like Myanmar, Saudi Arabia and a bunch of other countries. Greece introduced a 6-day work-week which hasn’t been a thing in Europe since the industrial revolution, a time we would now consider quite uncivilized. Israel is currently committing genocide under the guise of self-protection and will not listen to reason, yet they probably consider themselves quite civilized.
It seems to me like “civilized” is a form elitism that can be quite close to racism, depending on who you talk to.
They like the warmth. It sends them to sleep.
I’ve seen it in Europe a few times. Sometimes children just want to be a menace and a leash is the only thing to keep them safe. Or so the parents say.
Soon it’ll be a steam console sitting the corner of every room
One can only hope that Western Europe sees Russia for the threat it is.
Maybe making a sports related instance could help with making it more attractive to the fans. Or ask your favorite sports team to create an instance forum.sparta.cz or something and it’s a lemmy instance.
Probably the Liverpool FC community is full of people who don’t even know the word privacy. They probably heard about it in a Malus ad and think it means buying an iPhone and installing Telegram.
The small scale of Lemmy’s active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the communities
very important to me.
I have communities that I care about that aren’t on here too. It’s their loss if they don’t join the fediverse. If it takes them another few years of eating billionaires dicks to get tired of dickbreath, that’s on them.
That this was civil? We didn’t cuss each other out. If you want me to be less civil, just say so.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter. If this initiative makes it or not doesn’t matter that much to me. I’m not buying the games impacted by this, nor do I support the game companies that employ the practices.
Have a good one.
“Everybody”. It’s just you mate 🤷♂ And for a fight, I find this quite civil.
I don’t think you’re reading my comment in its entirety.
So yes, the implication of irrelevance bothers me because it’s deeper than just this issue.
This is the important bit.
They are dismissing the value of getting more of those small countries on board. Getting them past the threshold could also have an effect on the gamers in those countries. Who knows what kinds of people may have been untapped. Discarding them as irrelevant is counter-productive.
“Shut up, let the big boys do the lifting”. It’s the same attitudes that are pervasive throughout the union. The voices of those small countries are important. The line of thinking that small countries don’t matter fits very well with the “I’m just one person, so if I don’t vote, nobody will care”. We should be encouraging our brethren from smaller countries to be part of the democratic process instead of just excluding them. The Union wouldn’t listen to the Eastern States after Crimea’s invasion in 2014 and shrugged them off during the renewed invasion.
Imagine if we said the same thing about queers. “Nah, we don’t need their votes, they’re irrelevant, let’s focus on the hets”.
So yes, the implication of irrelevance bothers me because it’s deeper than just this issue.
OK.
All my gamer friends know about this, because I told them. I’ve told them and I know at least 3 of them that signed.
I guess we’ll see 🤷♂