Absolutely. Nintendo has huge fanbase with most of them not caring about Nintendo ripping them off and Nintendo has some of the most highly regarded and iconic gaming IPs in the world and Nintendo has insane marketing budget behind the Switch 2 and the switch doubles as a home console.
I love the Deck but it's not going to outsell the Switch and I think Valve isn't interested in pulling people away from the Switch. Valve made the Deck primarily for Steam users and that's who they're targeting.
If it teaches gambling
By having literally no gambling?
and has slot machine makeup,
In what way? Slot machines have a very distinct look and at best I could the small blind, big blind and boss blind columns indicating the 3 columns in a slot machine, but if that's the thing then any game with 3 column separate 3 choices has a slot machine makeup? If you meant the game somehow uses slot machine iconography I don't, I really don't know what to say then. It would be completely delusional.
Anonymous Dev created a casino experience
Clearly not completely anonymous as he has no trouble presenting himself through his public name. And a casino experience according to you.
with poker at the core
Actually the core was Big Two, which makes far more sense than Poker as you're not limited to 2 cards and can play multiple hands.
This same Dev is promoting several other games such as “slot machine deck builder” and “blackjack deck builder”.
That's just bullshit. In fact it's so bullshit the dev has publicly opposed gambling.
Please look at this from higher up. Something slimy is afoot.
Higher up view says you're just peddling stupid conspiracy that has little to no basis in reality.
GTA 6 is coming out this year and it started development after RDR2. That's 6-7 years. Cyberpunk 2077 started main production after Blood and Wine, which means development time was 4-5 years. Baldur's Gate 3 development most likely started after DoS2, which means it was in development for 6-7 years. In fact most AAA games finish development in less than 7 years and anything going beyond 7 usually has some kind of a development hell (and usually ends up being bad).
Star Citizen has been in development for 12 years. If it released today it will be the third or fourth longest game development time, except it's not releasing today and considering the state of the game it can easily get the top spot of the longest time in development game. It is nowhere near the standard development time of a modern AAA title. You could say SQ42 is in the modern AAA development time (if you're being generous with the start date of the development), but even there you're not getting the full game as the release will be episodic. Who knows how long it will take for all the episodes of SQ42 to release.
Anyone who knew Chris Roberts previous projects knew it was going to go this way. That man doesn't know the meaning of scope.
I want to nitpick on this, because I’m told a lot of people use these apps, match, and then never actually ask the other person out. They then are sometimes puzzled why they’re not going on dates.
I'm not sure if you're implying they're the same person, as in they won't ask anyone out and then wonder why nobody goes out with them? Because that I can't really explain. I guess maybe they're shy or they think the other person should be asking them out, but if you're going to leave it solely to chance then you have to accept that there's a chance you never get asked out. But if someone is thinks they're trying but it just doesn't happen, then that needs a more deeper dive into why it wouldn't happen. From my experience most of the time the people I didn't go out with were people who were closed off, so my most general advice in that case would be to try to be more open. Nobody wants to pry answers out of you. Talk about yourself, or if you don't like talking about yourself be more proactive in getting to know the other person. Be interested in them and let them be interested in you.
It also helps filter out “oh, she doesn’t date men”, “wow, he’s anti-vax”, “he doesn’t want kids, ever, and i do” kind of stuff. At least, when the app is working and not fully enshittified. That stuff is valuable.
That as well. Some people put in their bios clear no-nos and I think that's great.
You being unnecessarily aggressive does not intimidate me. I simply didn't appreciate the tone because when you act that way all you're showing is that you can't have a civil discussion.
And I agree that there are no shortcuts to socializing. But this "go out there and date" advice isn't going to help anyone. It's like telling someone living their car "just build a house". It does nothing in regards to helping them figure out how to do that.
And I'm not sure what you're even complaining about regarding dating apps. The date isn't happening in the app. In the end they still have to go out there and date, the dating app simply helps them get to that step. The dating app replaces only the "asking someone out" step, not the actual date itself. It takes a small step out of the whole dating process and you're acting like that's the entire problem. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter if you physically asked someone out or if you matched on Tinder and asked them out, because when it comes to the actual date you still have to put yourself out there. Unless the online dating has warped into something completely different within the last 10 years they still need to learn how to have a conversation, how to pick up cues and find the confidence to make a move. The only thing online dating changes is that people don't need to take a rejection straight to their face and get embarrassed into never trying again.
I'm sorry. I forgot I'm talking to a big alpha male who can only express themselves in an aggressive tone. My bad. And I'm sure your advice of "Just get over yourself and get out there you fucking pussy" is unbelievably useful to all those people who struggle to date. They definitely couldn't have come up with that on their own. And of course fuck online dating because big stonk alpha no likey thing they no understand.
Buy a Delorean, find doc Brown and flux capacitor yourself back to the 80s where you belong.
I didn't say dating doesn't work. I also dated a bunch from my regular circle but eventually decided to switch to Tinder because I didn't want intimate relations ruining my friends groups. Or at the very least I didn't want to be the whose intimate relations would ruin friendships. That was my reason to go to Tinder.
And with my experience on Tinder what I did say was that Tinder is not some creepy or stupid way to go about dating. You don't need to turn it into some kind a hobby or a profession. You don't need to start a relationship (in it's most general meaning) with some kind of expectations of intimacy or whatever. You don't need a perfectly made profile. Those are the assumptions people have when they don't understand Tinder. It's a tool to meet people outside of your regular circle. You're building this tool and the followup date to be bigger than it needs to be and of course it's going to look creepy and stupid, you're making it creepy and stupid. Here's how I used Tinder.
I put minimum effort into swiping. I didn't spend any time analyzing some images or bios or anything like that, if there was anything that remotely piqued my interest I would swipe right. If there was a match then texting was pretty much a vibe check, because at that point there was still nothing tangible and thus also no reason to put in a lot of effort. If they're cool I would offer to go out, have a coffee or a walk in the park or anything neutral that still gives us the space to have a chat and figure out who we're really meeting. A meeting is still not a commitment so I didn't treat is as such. If they ghosted they ghosted and I'd just do something else. When we actually met I didn't treat them like some kind of a checklist of my expectations for them. In fact I had no expectations for them. I had am idea of who I'm looking for but I'd also have to match who they're looking for to actually have a match between us, so no reason to expect anything at that point. And the date would be just chatting and learning who they are and I made a lot of friends that way because there wasn't anything romantic there but they were cool people.
I don't think there's anything particularly creepy or stupid about that. The first part seems creepy but that's just how the tool works. If someone gave you a list of random 100 people and told you to figure out how who you'd want to meet you'd probably do the exact same thing because going in-depth with 100 people before you've even met them is creepy as nobody would (nor should) put in that much effort.
Well, yeah? When Russia rolled in Ukraine had already been at war for 6 years. Ukraine was as prepared as you can be against a surprise invasion. Most of the EU probably doesn't even entertain the possibility of an invasion. If Russia were to invade the EU not only would the EU not be prepared for it but Russia would also have the advantage in experience.
I'm not saying Russia would conquer the whole of EU but, if they also take Ukraine, I could see them taking the whole eastern Europe.
When exactly was that "real civilization"? When people were being arranged into marriages? Or when people would put ads into newspapers to find love? Or when dating shows started on TV? The next step after TV was pretty much Tinder. We have never been above using "creepy and stupid" options.
I don't get the hate dating apps get. It's a tool like every other, it helps you meet people outside of your regular circle. It's not ideal because it's next to impossible to everything you are into a short profile but it's better than the solutions we came up before. The issue is that people don't know how to use Tinder. Most people have no idea what their profile should look like, they put too much importance on any kind of a match and then they try too hard to get anywhere. Tinder match is the real world equivalent of locking your eyes someone on the street or a bar or a cafe or whatever. Just because that happened doesn't mean anything more will happen. You don't run after everyone who looks at you begging them to date you. So why do that on Tinder?
I've never had my criticism of the American democratic party removed nor my leftist views. All I've seen get removed are posts and comments showing support of Luigi Mangione (in the context of killing the wealthy). And the instances in question that world has defederated are lemmygrad (which if the name isn't a big enough hint is a Leninist instance where they praise the USSR and China, hate anything western and ban anyone disagreeing with them) and Hexbear (who are politically adjacent to Lemmygrad but were banned by most instance because they were always brigading other instances and being generally annoying).
The only reason the other person is bringing up the defederation as a negative is because he ideologically agrees with those two instances. You can decide for yourself whether to value his opinion or not.
On the Steam Deck? Possible. On Steam? I guess technically possible if you add a third party game. But actually on Steam? Nintendo can't even give a tech demo out for free, I can't imagine what would have to happen for Nintendo to put their games on Steam.
You can also play Minecraft on the Steam Deck and technically you can also play Apex Legends on the Deck (if you install Windows and play through that), but all of it depends on the user being a tinkerer. But the casual gamer is not a tinkerer which means those possibilities have next to no impact on the wider market.