Also #Valve obviously chose wisely what #hardware and #specs the #SteamMachine has - just like the #SteamDeck!

• The Steam Deck was established as long-term bottom-line for #developers to target as #Linux #Gaming #PC and at release it was already faster than 50% of the #Steam #HardwareSurvey results.

Because what the "#PCMasterRace" (the term is shit, please rename yourselves!) refuses to admit is that the vast majority of Steam Users ain't like #LinusTechTips or anyone else who always has the latest #tech and shiniest #hardware to game on, but more often than not it's #casuals playing #IndieGames on old, #refurbushed business hardware who - if anything - could afford some #LowEnd #GPU!

• The Steam Machine is now basically providing a "#HardcoreGaming" target for developers to aim at. For games just not possible on the Steam Deck!

Cuz let's face it: #Nintendo's #Switch2 is an overpriced Piece Of Junk, #PS5 & #PS5Pro sell like shit and #XboxSeries sell so bad #retailers stop offering #SeriesX & #SeriesS consoles because there are no good games worth paying the premium price asked for those.

• #Xbox dying is evidenced by #Halo being released on #PlayStation and Playstation also imploding is by itself not having actual #Exclusives on their platform.

So stop bitchin' that the #GabeCube isn't gonna be a $299 machine, because this thing won't be a locked-down "razor handle" that can only play #Steam games but actual hardware people will own!

#PCMR #LinuxGaming

Brock Purdy’s demonstrated performance ceiling: #1 QBR

Brock Purdy’s demonstrated performance floor: #7 QBR

“Don’t pay him” was never a serious discussion happening anywhere #casuals

"The subculture lifecycle is a problem only from a geek perspective. As far as mops [members of the public] are concerned, it provides reliable, low-cost waves of novelty entertainment and casual social relationships. As far as sociopaths are concerned, it generates easily-exploited pools of prestige, sex, power, and money."

David Chapman: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths via @eric

#status #Losers #Clueless #tourists #casuals #geeks #sociopaths #subcultures #cool #money #power #reputation #prestige #avantGarde #trending #fashion #novelty #sociality #meaning #lifecycles #JoyDivision #goingOut #nightlife

The #NTEU Has a Plan to
Improve Working Conditions
More Secure Work
Manageable Workloads
Better Parental / Carer's Leave
Restrict Restructures
Fair Pay
Better Flexible & Work from Home Arrangements

#Strike Week (2nd-8th October)

https://www.unimelbebanow.com/

#casuals #UniMelb #union
#solidarity #picket

Joint statement CasualAcademy and 0.7 on the draft Collective Labour Agreement , working on "Resolving the structural dependence on bogus temporary contracts at Dutch universities",
July 6, 2023. About collective labour agreement ("CAO") and trade unions in academia in the Netherlands. See

https://casualacademy.nl/news/joint-statement-casualacademy-and-0-7-on-the-draft-collective-labour-agreement/

#woinactie #fnv #casuals #academia

#Sports teams #segregated by #sex and #gender are vestiges of a dying binary.

Give us #game modes and #competitive ranked #tiers based on performance like we have in #eSports.

Where are the #bronze_stuck weekend volleyball #casuals and sweaty triple-diamond #tryhard Olympic gymnasts?

As we enter the era of #trans #liberation, high-#tech #prosthetics, and modifications to the human #genome, when will we abandon our old lines and get on with the human story?

#transhumanism #genetics #athletics

Casual University Workers in Australia Are Escalating the Campaign Against #WageTheft

https://jacobin.com/2022/11/casuals-monash-university-australia-wage-theft-underpaid-workers/

#adjuncts #casuals #highered #unoins #labor