I was extremely surprised that Apple let Christian publish this originally, they have blocked alternative YouTube clients for years. At the time I thought that Apple is doing this to spite Google who didn’t release native app for VisionOS. Christian had a good relationship with Apple and could deliver something high quality so there’s that too. Curious that they changed their mind but it’s safe to assume Apple and Google had to work it out.

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This was super interesting, I didn’t ever think about expanding upon classic board games in this way. Thank you for making an effort to put up this post.

Did you buy Nintendo console for performance or were you just surprised because it was your first one and you didn’t check what you were buying?

Keep buying Nintendo products so that we have systems with good games. They’re stuck in the last century but that’s for better AND worse.

Valve was always waiting for the moment when Microsoft would be at their weakest, possibly during some kind of transition. They were too early with Steam Machines as a response to Windows 8 but this might be the time. Xbox is faltering and ARM threatens to end Wintel ecosystem. I wouldn’t be quick to applaud those developments though.

We have Google Linux for phones and it looks like we’ll have Valve Linux for gaming PCs. Valve is not your friend so this platform will be gradually locked down, for convenience at first. Then you’ll either use Valve Linux or you’ll be locked out of your games library - obviously not directly but alternatives will be too fiddly for mainstream. This will allow masses to be herded into Valve operated marketplace which was always the point.

The biggest corpo mistake of last century, computing Wild West for mainstream will die bit by bit unless this process is stopped with regulations. It’s ironic that it’s happening with money made from Windows.

Please consider creating a public news source blacklist for this community. Alternatively we could use some kind of guidance on what are criteria for sources to be accepted. As it is I’m not sure what kind of rule I am breaking.

Also: you are not personally responsible for Holocaust, no need to please Israel, just don’t vote for AfD. Lots of love from Poland.

I want this to be a thing now.

Can the French pick up the slack on this kind of game development please?

Hopefully they start supporting ARM64 on platforms that made the switch already too.

Unfortunately I get a feeling that Valve is going to make a proprietary platform out of Linux like Google did with Android and people will be clapping all along the way.

That makes it much more cruel. They are going to single out those two dozens of Xbox users.

That would be par for the course of my life decisions.