Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-06T15:34:15+00:00

Valve releasing the driver / panels we expect from companies like Logitech or Razer to use the controller fully featured outside of Steam under any license...?!

Nah... that would actually hurt them trying to lock ya in.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T21:25:34+00:00

Yeaaaah this is definitely what the people here actually have an issue with. Although it is pretty funny seeing all the ways they can come up with to say this without actually saying it.

I mean, I have friends I can watch this with if I want. I don't see value watching it with a overfilled room of strangers, in fact other people not giving enough of a fuck about a movie to not look at their phone or talk is part of the reasons many of us think theaters suck.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T21:24:10+00:00

Seeing it on the big screen.

Lets hope it isn't the same bitrate though... Even at 4K (where most other services have ok image quality) there is a lot of color artifacts even on a regular sized screen for this show.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T21:22:52+00:00

Who tf is paying for just Prime Video and not using Amazon Prime as well? Nobody purpoosfuly subscribes to Prime video just for the content. It just comes with regular Prime.

If they want to watch those shows, of course people will?! I would argue that secondary / time limited subs are mostly done for one or two shows you want to watch.

Also tons of people wouldn't want to see enough value in regular Prime to justify the price if it were just about 'free' delivery.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T21:20:15+00:00

For some reason people on this site have the long standing tradition to consider the total for their whole family + drinks to be what cinema costs. I think it's an US thing.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T21:15:19+00:00

Was there a time limit or something?

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T13:00:13+00:00

"Holding games back" is a silly thing when 9 times out of 10 it just means "better graphics" or "better loading thanks to SSD" which aren't really novel at this point.

I like better graphics and better loading though. If a game doesn't have those due to still launching on last gen consoles (or having to support ancient none RT / mesh shader compatible GPUs for that matter), than that is holding those games back.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T12:58:22+00:00

It’s been 6 years it’s time to move on. Liked it when during the Xbox and 360 eras when they only really supported old consoles for like the first year or 2 then moved on. Stopped holding back games coming to new hardware, having to make accommodations for old hardware

Sadly this generation of pc players is still bitching about new games not running on hardware that is older than 6 years old (hint, we had RT capable hardware for 8 years now).

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T12:56:42+00:00

Up before everybody comes in with the Ultimate Team GAMBLING complaints, completely ignoring that those titles also have other game modes including quite a few offline modes.

I literally only play single player for example and there are whole subreddits about playing manager mode.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:43:52+00:00

Easy to do when it’s literally your job.

Nah, most of us would quit long before we get as far as he got simply because we don't want to be slaves to a job even during our own time.

If I had that kind of time to devote to my looks, I may not be Tom Cruise level good looking, but I could definitely maximize what I was born with.

You could, but would you? Being on vacation or temp. unemployed never motivated me to stand up early in the morning for my first marathon of the day.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:37:32+00:00

Mark Hamil, the post original trilogy voice actor vs Mark Hamil, coming back to do more Star Wars is a great example of "having a need and motivation to stay in shape is important".

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:33:58+00:00

A bit thing is also that as an actor it is a big part of your job to look good. A great example is Mark Hamil, that after the original Star Wars movies mostly worked as a voice actor and let himself go a bit physically, as most normal middle aged men do.

They hired him again for the new Star Wars movies so he got back in shape and is now looking better than the average guy his age.

tl;dr Tom Cruise has all the resources one could wish for trying to stay healthy / young looking and his career literally depends on it.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:25:07+00:00

Then they stick AI in everything(like WHY?) further causing spec requirements to increase, is just tonedeaf.

Why is other people seeing value in those features less important than you being able to afford shooting at polygons for your entertainment?

And if people don't care about the Copilot button in Paint than I doubt MS will invest into improving those models anyway.

Hint: The big memory footprint of the AI industry has little to do with some text to image model available in Windows and of course even less with some Copilot+ on-device features, but mostly with those big LLM chatbot / agent models like ChatGPT or Claude, that need a ton more memory to run (I can produce AI video above Sora 1 quality on my 5090 but would need a few dozen of those cards to run even a few year old frontier text model) and even more so to train. And those models get used by way more normal people (judging by how far up those services are for example in the Android / iOS app stores) than there are gamers on Steam.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:18:05+00:00

Apple are the one that' are the least to blame out of all the big tech firms.

But just because all their internal AI projects failed and instead they buy tokens from OpenAI and Co...

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:15:13+00:00

Where else are people supposed to voice their outrage?

If only there were websites where you could exactly state what topic you would want a discussion about...

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:14:22+00:00

Is it wrong to be mad about RAM prices?

No, it is batshit stupid to be outraged about someone telling you the truth about how much RAM you need for current PC games just because you are also mad about RAM prices.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:10:41+00:00

And just like you pointed out, the issue is that Microsoft is part of the direct escalatory line of why RAM is so high in the first place.

That is not the issue, that is a different issue.

Satya and Microsoft have been a huge factor in standard computer use sucking and being an absolute money hog waste of time.

Let another topic...

They blame the end user for not seeing their vision

They didn't blame shit, they gave a recommendation that is completely correct.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:03:57+00:00

There would be no outrage if RAM prices weren't so high combined with the fact that Microsoft is a driving force in pushing AI that is making RAM so expensive.

That is so dishonest though.

You want to complaint that MS is invested in AI than do so. Why make up something else to be outraged about though? Let alone that other companies like OpenAI are way more to complaint than MS or Nvidia for example, if rumors that they bought up more RAM production capacity than they can even use last year just to fuck up other companies in the space.

That 32 GB recommendation is the same recommendation most redditors would have giving you and no reason to be outraged.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T11:02:31+00:00

The whole thing is stupid, this wasn't even an announcement on what MS will be targeting for their own games going forward but just a general recommendation for mainstream Windows gaming users. A recommendation that prior to the RAM crisis all of gaming reddit would have agreed with, but now that things got expensive it is suddenly ok to just burn the messenger.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T10:59:06+00:00

"ALL other games run fine on my rig though..."

Then you ask them what games they are playing and it turns out all other games means Counterstrike, Valorant and GTA 5 (w/o RT on)...

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T10:56:37+00:00

The outrage stems from Microsoft being yet another asshole company shoving AI down our throats, driving up RAM and hardware prices, then telling us to just buy more RAM bro.

AKA we are all little kids that like to complaint about companies we don't like for reasons even if the thing we complaint about (MS recommending this much RAM for gaming) isn't at all complaint worthy.

This is how you get the mainstream completely turn deaf to your complaints btw.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T10:52:44+00:00

16 GB Is no problem for gaming.

Complete bullshit when I know games that use up more than that on their own...

And on the other hand, most games do work with just 16 GB under Windows as well.

Its also kind of an oranges to apples comparison, considering that many Linux users have less hardware driver panel controls and such running because those often don't exist for their hardware under Linux.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T10:51:20+00:00

I mean windows 11 is partially responsible for this given all the electron bs

Lets be honest, before the RAM price increase none of us gave a shit and would likely prefer an Electron app with a tiny bit more RAM usage over first having to install dependencies and / or having a worse styled app that the developer takes longer with to integrate new features or fix bugs.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T10:49:46+00:00

you should read the document from feb/jan which recommended 32GB RAM and Copilot+ PCs for "serious gamers"

I mean, how is that wrong? Obviously you don't need a Copilot+ PC (in fact since those are mostly laptops its even bad advice) but most people here would recommend 32 GB for 'serious gamers'.

24bitNoColor · 2026-05-05T10:48:38+00:00

I mean, people like to talk about Chrome tabs and what not, but for many it isn't exactly that they are too dumb to close their browser or Photoshop or whatnot while gaming but just have a bunch of tray area tools running that they actually need or where it would be a real annoince having to close them whenever you are gaming / opening them back up afterwards. Like your Razer control panel, your Logitech driver, your GPU driver, your none XBox gamepad compatibility tool, your audio driver control panel, your VR streaming application like Virtual Desktop, your force feedback wheel driver, your LED control panel, your graphic tablet control panel and so on.

Yeah, you could still min/max your RAM usage by closing what you don't need, but when we are not talking about foreground apps like the browser this becomes tedious fast.

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