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WelfareBuysMyWeed

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  1. ADs daughter is fucking adorable
  2. Nothing said about justice, but at least the civil lawyers effectively made OJ's "if I did it" book so worthless because they were gonna take every dime made off of it, that they dropped the book anyways. Regardless of whether or not he should have been found guilty in the criminal trial, that book was tacky as hell and on a human level, fuck OJ Simpson for that shit. I'm glad he wasn't allowed to profit off that.
  3. The Steam Deck currently accounts for only 44% of the 2.5 million linux users on steam currently according to Steam survey, or roughly 1.1 million. The majority of Linux growth since the release of proton actually comes from desktops, 1.4 million. If you follow the Linux adoption curve through valve's steam surveys, it's almost exactly down the middle between what is propping up linux. The first 3 years of proton, before the deck launched, had linux adoption at 1.1% in 2021. Basically half of the extra 2 million linux users came from the first 3 years of proton, and the other half has come from the launch of the Steam Deck. But make no mistake, even before the steam deck launched, Proton had drastically improved linux adoption of steam. But yes, the Steam Deck is by far the best gaming product I've ever had. Hands down. It can do things that you'd never expect a games machine could do. I filed my Taxes on my steam deck.
  4. Valve officially announced Steam Proton in late August 2018. For those who don't know, Steam Proton is valve's Steam Play translation layer, which lets you play Windows PC games directly on Linux without virtualization. It does this by using a translation driver called DXVK, which replaces DirectX 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 API calls with equivalent Vulkan replacements. This means games run just as well, if not better in Linux than they do in Windows, especially since any game that uses Vulkan in Steam can download pre-compiled shaders to eliminate shader stutter. In windows, only a few games use vulkan, so the vast majority of games can't use this feature, but by nature, everything in linux uses vulkan, so shader stutter is basically a solved thin in linux land. Anyways, when proton launched, it officially had a whitelist of 27 verified games, and steam's survey claimed that of the 80 million monthly active users on steam, only 0.49% were using linux at launch. Put into actual user numbers, that's 392,000 players. So, to recap, Linux gaming on steam in 2018 through proton was serving less games than Feburary has days to less than half a million players. Historically, this has been the problem with Linux, the chicken and the egg problem. There are no users to sell games to, because there are no games to attract users with. To get games made, you need users, and to get users, you need games made. For large, AAA titles, the linux market flat out did not make sense when even if every linux player on Steam bought your game, it still might not be enough to recoup dev costs. For indie titles, the difference of just a few thousand sales can decide between staying open for your next project, or shutting down, so every sale counts so much more compared to a large company with financial backing. As such, it made no sense to put your eggs in the linux basket, the market just wasn't there for the effort involved. And here we are, 6 years later, and Steam Proton completely fixed all this. As of march 8, 2024, there are now 17,000 verified Steam Proton games that work flawlessly in linux. In addition to that, in early 2019, Valve opened up the option to let you play *ANY* game on steam through proton without them verifying support. That doesn't mean every game works, and some require tinkering, but it's no stretch to say that steam compatibility with linux is now in the upper 90% range. The few games that don't work now, don't work due to logistic issues with DRM or other anti-tampering technologies, not technical issues. And importantly, that increased catelog directly translated into millions of new players. As of March 2024, Linux now constitutes 1.94% of total OS usage on Steam, nearly quadrupling it's previous percentage. But more importantly than the percentage, is the actual number of users: steam didn't stay stagnent in 6 years, the monthly active users count increased by 50,000 people. Now there are 132,000 monthly active users, so Linux's larger percentage is pulling from a bigger pie in the first place. This translates into 2.56 million steam users running Linux now, each month. There are multiple reasons why proton has been a success. Obviously, lots of games attracts users, but it's also changed things for developers. The most significant thing Proton does, is that it makes porting to linux effortless. There is no commitment or risk anymore. When you develop for Windows, you get a linux port automatically now, at no additional work. This makes this new user base of 2.56 million users essentially a free secondary market. Their windows market did not shrink, linux did not pull users away from windows. Rather, these are new users to sell to, that didn't exist in 2018. Now, the numbers actually work favorably. There is a market through linux now where those AAA studios could envision an extra million or so sales on top of their original sales in windows, or indies could nab those thousands they need to stay afloat directly from the audience in linux. Just a fun update on how the state of this very long term project from Valve has been going. By all metrics, it's been a complete success.
  5. IIRC Johnny Hatecrime wasn't a fan of black people in general, so I very much doubt he follows LeBron at all.
  6. I've done the opposite before. Here's my Game Gear to Sega Master System conversion:
  7. logic classes don't teach fallacies, that'd be a debate course or something like that. Logic courses teach stuff like boolean algebra, tautologies, axioms, gate arrays, etc. this is logic:
  8. Ignoring people only makes it so you don't see the droppings directly, the board makes it clear when someone you ignored replies to you. I could see my post sandwiched between his message board diarrhea. Obviously the chump was replying to my post, and quite literally everything that dude posts is wrong, so I had to click "see this post" to get a laugh out of it. And he didn't disappoint.
  9. no you fucking wouldn't, because I've had you on ignore since I signed up and you routinely reply to me like the dumbass you are
  10. The solution is shadow bans. Don't let the person know they are banned and just let them post aimlessly into the void. Don't tip them off that it's time to run out and grab a new public VPN. Hell, let other shadow banned users interact with each other, so they don't get realize they're quarantined from the rest of the site. It's worked like a charm on multiple boards I've moderated.
  11. the documentary is fantastic when paired with The People Vs OJ SImpson, the Cuba Gooding Jr Movie. Perfectly spells out and explains everything about the case, both before and after. I fully understand why he was found innocent after watching both of these. He deffo 100% did it, but the entire case was lost the moment Mark Furman could not say he didn't plant evidence to frame OJ Simpson because he had to plead the fifth otherwise he would have been asked if he'd ever planted evidence to frame anybody in his career, of which he likely had. If it's a question of reasonable doubt, they had done a good enough job of showing how systematically corrupt the LAPD was from top to bottom that not hearing outright "We didn't frame him" could constitute reasonable doubt. I love the part in The People vs OJ Simpson where they go to his house and they've changed all the pictures on the walls, haha.
  12. It'd be accurate for you if you replaced "beer' with "cum" as well.
  13. Tired of being NFL Aggy, the Texans instead try to become NFL Rice.
  14. rings super hallow about caring about these kids "for life" after he came in and ran off basically all their old scholarship players.
  15. I sincerely question his claim that he can read.
  16. The dipshits who were shocked the bonfire fell are the same dipshits who brag about how their shitty stadium sways when they sing their fight song without even a hint of self reflection.
  17. most likely just ran out of time
  18. I don't give a shit about any other school besides Texas, my Alma Mater.
  19. Sorry, wasn't trying to dissuade you against the Odin, those kinds of android handhelds are neat as well. I think Ayn actually makes a hybrid android/x86 machine as well, although it doesn't perform as well as a steam deck or rog ally or comparable. Really it's not the steam deck itself that is so awesome (although the instant suspend-resume is a killer feature), it's steamOS that is the killer feature. And while you can't straight up install steamOS on other machines, you can install HoloOS which is a community equivalent, or just throw ubuntu or similar on there and then install steam and it'll work the same way. It's the big picture mode stuff, and the steam proton stuff, that makes the "Steam deck" so killer, and that can be used on any x86 portable. That's the single coolest thing about all these PC handhelds -- it really doesn't matter which manufacturer you go with, they're all interoperable and play the same games. In the future, there could be a different x86 handheld not made by valve that would be just as recommended as the steam deck, because the software is what is special.
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