They are only cosmetic, but absolutely still gambling. That said, the design and use of the market and operations did mean it was far easier to avoid and far cheaper. For example, you could get basically a full loadout of skins, without ever opening a lootbox, for far less. Doesn’t change the fact that the lootboxes in CS (and everything else) need to be regulated though.
I want to know the whole process of what its like streaming games as a hobby.
Basically, you get a microphone, download OBS, set up an account on one or more steaming platforms and just play games. If you’re doing it as a hobby, just do what you want to do. If you just want to chill, play games, and talk, do that. If you want to try scripting streams or making it more high production, you can experiment with camera/microphone hardware and live production tools. If you want to try and be an “”“influencer”“” type, you can practice acting, improv, and being more energetic. Its very open ended.
Im not the best at games but i still like them and i think it would be neat to build a community possible, but im still unsure? Im not even sure where to start to stream to a community?
If you want to be successful and/or build up a larger community, you’ll need to go to Twitch and/or YouTube. Odds are, it will start very slow and theres no garentee you’ll ever build up much of a community. It is a competitve space because its so easy to get into, but if you’re doing it as a hobby (rather than to compete or make money), then you can just focus on what makes it fun for you.
If you’re looking for specific techniques or tips, to get viewers, I would recommend a couple:
They have to tweak it more than a little bit for it to count. It has to be actually transformative, meaning it has to be changed enough that it no longer serves the same function, something not easily achieved with a texture, sound or 3d model without effectively doing the whole thing by hand. For comparison, in your Shakespeare example, changing a few words here or there isn’t enough. You would have to nearly completely rewrite anything that you would want to copyright.
Well, on the bright side, we’ll have a huge cache of free assets we can directly lift from triple-A games, given that AI work is public domain.
Our users have reported up to 10 times higher FPS in some situations.
This release contains many other rendering clean-ups and improvements that should make Luanti run better and put it in a nicer state for future work.
This sounds really exciting. When I was testing Luanti before, I was finding the performance bad enough to give me motion sickness. I might give it another shot now, since its been a while.
It is not. Its a separate game, with its own engine and unique content. It’s just inspired in part, by Minecraft.
I’ve got a large enough backlog for the time being, but still wanted to say, “thanks for the giveaway!”
By the sound of it, it was minimal profit at base price, and while things should get cheaper to manufacture and sell over time, hardware prices are rapidly increasing. I wouldn’t be suprised if they need to increase their prices to break even, going forward - esspecially given that if its too cheap, buisness or industry customers might start buying it.
Its harder on the back-neck than something like a GBA, but compared to the switch, it isn’t night-and-day. With basically anything larger than a phone, you’re probably going to be resting it on your knees or a table anyway.
From a low pressure sales perspective the community should be phrasing it as questions that make the Windows user think about.
Even aside from this, I think the bigger issue is that Linux evangelists need to be open to new/ignorant users, and casual users. So much of the Linux community is made up of die-hards who expect other users to be just as invested in it as they are. For example, I’ve tried Linux twice, and both times ran into issues with support for hardware (audio issues the first time, lack of support for my mouse the second). In both cases, I have a significant number of people making absurd suggestions, and expecting me to devote significant amounts of work or money to make my PC functional when I already had a functional OS. Comments to the point of, “just buy new hardware,” “just program the drivers yourself,” or “just hire someone to write the software for you.” were a significant part of the response. Unless Linux is my job or my hobby, these are not realisitc suggestions, and they make Linux look like a nerdy hobby rather than a Windows competitor.
Jokes on everyone else. My collection of hundreds of Field Tested P250 Sand Dunes skyrocketed in value.
Edit: After fees and taxes, I more than doubled my initial investment.
Gmod is also particularly popular in Eastern Europe and Russia, which seems to be a particularly toxic region. I’ve seen more than a few distasteful posts in Russian, such as when “burnt Ukranian corpses” spent multiple days as the most popular workshop item, with comments in Russian celebrating and making various racist and nationalist remarks.
Also not suprised War Thunder is up there too. Again, popular in Russia, and like HoI, its the type of game to attract Nazis and Wehraboos.
From my understanding, it also locks your inventory, which in a game like CS, is a very big deal.
Part of the problem is that historically, AMD was just flat out bad. Its no so much as thinking of Nvidia as a luxury brand as not even realizing AMD or Intel are valid options. Even if things get better, it will take time for public sentiment to shift, given that people aren’t replacing their computers often.
For example, I got a Vega 56 for cheap near the end of the generation. I had constant issues with it’s drivers, and my whole friend group was obviously exposed to them when we played games together. Seeing that, reasonably, they decided they wanted to stay away. Given that my friend group is relatively technical, they’re opening up to AMD again as people say the issues have improved, but if I had a less cheap and less technical friend group, that experience would have completely burnt that bridge.
I went down this rabbit hole about a year ago, and didn’t have much luck. In the end, the best results I was able to get were from Steam’s Big Picture Mode on a Windows device, mostly launching Firefox (might have been Chrome?) with different launch arguments to immitate a smart TV.
Most available software either doesn’t support Linux well, doesn’t support streaming services and outside software, or doesn’t support non-kb&m input methods. You can get two, but never all three. You could try SteamOS, now that its out, but unfortunately my hopes wouldn’t be high for it to have all the apps you needs functioning.
Not requesting anything since my backlog is already long enough, but still wantted to say thanks for the giveaway!
Its artificial intelligence for an artificial person. They don’t have to think or be sentient or even be smart to be AI. It just needs to be an artificial intelligence.
This seems like too much complexity, given how small (relatively) Valve is. Then again, Valve is always hard to predict. Basically all their projects are wild moon-shots in one way or another, half their stuff doesn’t make it to market, and they have a long history of fake leaks.
I think you’re misunderstanding this. AI has always been a term for algorithms controlling NPCs, including simple ones like the enemies in a mario game. Nowhere does it say anything about ML, so it seems like (if the rumors are true) its just a much improved version of their existing AI tech, A.K.A. very fancy state machines and navigation algorithms.
Worth reemphasizing that while Valve’s relatively generous trading support makes it easier to sell items, this also isn’t remotely unique to Valve. For a less malicious example, look at every RPG ever, where people have 3rd party sites to buy/sell gold and items. I don’t play enough RPGs to have a specific example, but I have no doubt that something similar exists for MMORPGs that include lootboxes. This also extends to other games too. For example, from my understanding, my War Thunder account is worth about $2000 if I decide to sell it, because I have so many rare items that are now only accessible via loot boxes.
The problem isn’t unique to Valve. They’re just one player in a very, very large market. If this is something people actually care about, we need to crack down on all of it. As it stands, even the current, very clearly illegal practices are ignored.