NaibofTabr

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the softest of softballs

Got lost so many times that way.

The Techno Union?

That’s what you got from my comment? Do you struggle with reading comprehension?

Read this again:

You are always working for yourself, even if you’re getting a paycheck from someone else.

Hmm, I always give my best effort, because that’s how I learn the most and sharpen my own skills. Job skills are like any other, they atrophy if you don’t stretch them, and they don’t grow if you don’t push their limits.

Give your effort for your own benefit, not because you expect a reward from your current employer. When you outgrow that relationship, and your employer doesn’t value your contributions, then move on.

You are always working for yourself, even if you’re getting a paycheck from someone else.

Nope, you have to make an appearance in court and provide documentation of your death.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”

Ah yes, the power to… defend against attacks from other nations. Such evil.

For anyone who isn’t aware, there are no provisions in the NATO charter for cooperative offensive actions. None. NATO is not a military alliance, it is a defensive pact only.

[citations needed]

Get some sources, and stop drawing conclusions from no evidence.

They leveraged open source to compete on the console front without actually investing dev time.

This is just false.

Valve has funded a lot of extra work though to get things like DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for the translation from Direct3D to Vulkan into a state where performance can be really great! Valve also funds work on Linux graphics drivers, Linux kernel work and the list goes on.

reference

The included improvements to Wine have been designed and funded by Valve, in a joint development effort with CodeWeavers. Here are some examples of what we’ve been working on together since 2016:

• vkd3d, the Direct3D 12 implementation based on Vulkan
• The OpenVR and Steamworks native API bridges
• Many wined3d performance and functionality fixes for Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 11
• Overhauled fullscreen and gamepad support
• The “esync” patchset, for multi-threaded performance improvements

Modifications to Wine are submitted upstream if they’re compatible with the goals and requirements of the larger Wine project; as a result, Wine users have been benefiting from parts of this work for over a year now. The rest is available as part of our source code repository for Proton and its modules.

In addition to that, we’ve been supporting the development of DXVK, the Direct3D 11 implementation based on Vulkan; the nature of this support includes:

• Employing the DXVK developer in our open-source graphics group since February 2018
• Providing direct support from our open-source graphics group to fix Mesa driver issues affecting DXVK, and provide prototype implementations of brand new Vulkan features to improve DXVK functionality
• Working with our partners over at Khronos, NVIDIA, Intel and AMD to coordinate Vulkan feature and driver support

from Valve’s original Proton announcement

You should try doing some research before making such claims. Valve has been directly cooperating with, contributing to, and financially supporting several open source projects related to gaming since at least 2016.

I’m guessing you don’t remember what the market was like for indie games before Steam. Valve’s platform has done a lot of work to expose small game developers, and made it economically viable to work on and publish games independently. Before this it was very difficult for small titles without the advertising budget of a AAA publisher to get any attention at all, let alone actual sales. There’s nothing else like Steam for small studios trying to find buyers for their games, and Valve does deserve credit for that because it’s improved the video game market overall to have more people making more games and able to earn a living doing it.

The other major effort that Valve has made is Linux compatibility. Even before their work on Proton, Valve released native Linux versions of their games (they were one of very few publishers to do so at the time). I’ve been gaming on Linux since 2006, and Wine was great but rarely easy or complete. Proton has made things so straightforward that people have forgotten just how difficult it was before.

Credit where it’s due. No other major publisher has contributed to the gaming community the way Valve has, except maybe id Software when they just handed the entire Quake 3 Arena source code to the open source community in 2005 which spawned countless new open source game projects.

Downvote me you bootlickers.

No, you’ll enjoy the attention too much.

but what about boo-berry?

The Imperial March on a MakerBot

Right, OK, yes, so what? the red box is where reasonable people arrive mentally.

yes… relatively speaking

Hot potato.

This has a lot of “stop enjoying that!” energy.

There’s no set of rules that a clever person can’t exploit or circumvent in some way, and min/maxers have been a plague on the RPG community since long before 5e. Frankly, if this sort of thing is a regular issue for you then the problem is the people you’re playing with. A good DM can roll with players like this and balance them.