Message from @Gespa
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one of those times 'everyone doing their own thing' just hurts the platform
I found it frustrating as the last thing I wanted to do after a day at work is come home and have to fuck around trying to build drivers and edit config files
THat's very much a thing for teenagers and bright eyed young idealists like Coolitic
not really, my girlfriend is computer illiterate, i built her a desktop machine, she just uses firefox and some awful flash games
it just works
everyone doing their own thing hurting the platform, you say?
yes, that can be a thing
kinda like everyone making their own gaming launcher to make their titles exclusive and unnecessarily difficult to obtain and manage, all the while running continuously in the background to mine data?
golly gee if only there was some platform that took a relatively hands-off approach as a game vendor and aggregate
thats the worst analogy ive seen this week
But it applies all the same.
you're likening applications to frameworks that support applications
You say that as if it can't be applicable.
it isn't even in the same ballpark.
But it is
no it isnt, you dont need game 'launchers' at all, you just require a way to download the installer. now if someone decided to write their own html version and you needed a special vendor specific browser to download it, then you'd have an analogy to work with. that isnt what i suggested or anyone would do though in the case of steam
and its a million miles away from basic shit like "oh, my entire windowing toolkit doesn't work"
Sure you don't *need* them, but in this current age of PC gaming, they are necessary to actually play said games.
Often times you can't play games without some form of DRM, which is bundled in that launcher.
I'm not talking about the ideal.
Steam is like a water or electric company. Having 5 or 6 different water companies in a moderately sized town will only serve to confuse and agitate the average consumer. They sell a product, a commodity, in this case water. The only thing they do different is the methods and the chemicals used to treat the water. Online vendors sell games to play. They might have different methods of achieve that goal but at the end of the day, a copy of For Honor sold on steam, is just as playable as a copy sold from Ubisoft or EA or whoever the fuck sells it.
only ones you bought via that proprietry delivery system. you can still buy games on dvd. you can still buy software from the makers on shop sites, etc. is steam your entire gaming life or something? its the only way you could come up with such a myopic analogy
definitely strayed into 'lol whatever', ill get back to my game
It's not my entire life, no.
But it certainly is the most dominant presence in my gaming career.
And frankly as much as I hate a single company having a monopoly on the market like they do, it's kind of necessary to be feasible. Lest you have to go through the hassle of swimming through bookmarks to get updated versions of games or some other method to get updated, especially if those games don't include a launcher in the install (a game launcher, not the storefront). All I'm saying is that steam brings convenience to the table, and just like Eccles doesnt want to fuck with Linux all night long, I don't want to have to spend all night manually installing updates for the games I want to play every time Christmas comes around.
Only beef I had with Steam was their EOL methodology. As a time-poor boomer and sperg, it should be obvious to understand why. It's a shame you and Coolitic were so antagonistic
But I still use Steam, and am reasonably content with it
Yeah forgive me for that.
I sometimes fly off the rails. It isn't healthy for me
I'm sorry for shoving a EULA up your anus
Unless you enjoy that kind of thing
I give, friend. Never receive.
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Ok wow lol
I don't give a single fuck about the JQ but this is hilarious
@Miniature Menace ~~they made it so Clinton's also mentioned as going on the jet~~
If the allegations of him using his plane so Bill Clinton could diddle some kids, Christ Tucker is more than likely FUCKED (due to also going on Epstein's plane)
okay nvm, it seems the "26 trips" stuff has been up for >20 hours