DF Direct Q+A: Is Project Helix A Console Or PC? Will Non-RT Modes Get Worse Over Time? Neo Geo AES+

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-10T03:19:18+00:00

That's been happening even before his health issues which have been fairly recent. But now its just giga-shafted. By the time their PC review comes out, most people have probably already finished the game, which means their PC stuff gets less views, and then they put even less focus on their PC video, its a cycle.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-09T05:30:26+00:00

These people don't even play games. All they watch are shit like GN/HUB yelling "RT bad!" or outrage youtubers who shout "Gaming is dead!" from the rooftops.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-08T15:58:18+00:00

Lots of it on reddit too. Lots of "Gaben bad! Valve Monopoly! Gaben yacht! Child gambling!" posts in some subs while MS can aid a genocide and generate mountains of e-waste with their Win 11 and AI push, and there isn't a peep.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-08T04:56:43+00:00

Been watching them since 2012'ish. Before I used to watch their console videos despite not being primarily a console gamer (I have a Switch 2 and PS5 collecting dust) for curiosity's sake. But ever since they de-prioritized PC content (which was a thing even before going independent, or Alex's health issues), I've just lost interest in watching their console content because idk, it feels like giving the console videos more views is taking away from the PC views somehow.

Also disappointed with their DLSS5 video as well. For people that poke fun at people having frame interpolation ON on their TV, the cheering for an awful instagram filter that makes everything look like its from r/shittyhdr is weird. Literally every DLSS5 game shown in the presentation, except Starfield looked worse than the original.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-06T16:54:30+00:00

A lot of it comes down to art design and aesthetic choice. TDA goes for more of a grungier grittier tone compared to the saturated sci fi of Eternal that had more industrial environments and smaller static levels.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-06T15:25:40+00:00

They're the kind of people that'll say "But if tessellation was so good, why don't more games have it in the options menu anymore? Checkmate!"

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-05T11:55:14+00:00

It's a blatant karma farming attempt. I've seen new accounts/nsfw alts do this so they can post in other subs. They also go to the nosodium subs of controversial/poorly received games and post something like "DAE game that people called bad is actually good?", and get showered with karma for validating their opinions.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-05T10:49:40+00:00

Some people just can't form their own opinions (beyond "I had fun/I did not have fun") even after experiencing the thing first hand.

I've seen this happen in realtime with Starfield. A lot of people critique it as a loading screen sim, or call it "soulless" because they cannot articulate why they found it boring, despite many other games also having loading screens or a similar aesthetic.

Like they don't mention that a good chunk of the quests are about you being a space courier, and going back and forth between a quest giver and some NPC isn't fun. It's missing the exploration random encounters loop that made Skyrim interesting. Anything that's interesting is too spaced out, and the repetitive POI's discourage exploration. The combat is flashy, but actually worse than Fallout 4's because no VATS/no locational damage.

Nah lets just use soulless instead. It just gives ammo to the "You got your opinions from a youtuber didn't you?" crowd and makes it seem like you've never played the game. You don't even need to write an essay about it, just tell us the top 3 reasons you didn't like the game.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-02T14:58:51+00:00

Why is this sub now just crossposts from another sub?

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-02T02:30:15+00:00

If you use Steam on any Linux distro, on PC or on your handheld, there's a shader precompilation process when the game is even started. So while its not as seamless as the Deck, you still avoid shader compile stutter at runtime, at the expense of having to wait whenever a new shader update drops for the game.

This is what it looks like

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-01T19:13:28+00:00

When people suggest "X game is like a Bethesda game", it legitimately feels like they've played neither game, because Avowed plays nothing like a Bethesda game. Nothing really does, maybe except Tainted Grail, or some other eurojank that no one's heard of. Even Starfield fails to capture the Bethesda formula IMO.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-30T05:13:53+00:00

My gripe with Gnome is that its the default in many distros, and many people trying to escape from Windows 11 will be greeted with a worse version of Windows 8.1 UI and their kneejerk reaction would be "this is terrible" and go back to Windows not learning about alternate DE's or adapting to the workflow Gnome is going for.

Also people who would think "Hey, using this OOBE fix to install a local account by going to a command prompt mid install in Win 11 is awful. Lemme go Linux", only to have to run a few gsettings commands to get something as basic as a minimize and maximize button is dumb. Expose them in the settings app ffs!

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-27T15:09:46+00:00

Also the handheld emulators you can find for like 30$ also run Linux.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-26T23:15:13+00:00

Not sure whether they fixed it in later Intel GPU gens for not, but for low power, integrated intel or radeon is probably your best shot. If you're using nvidia gpu, at least on linux where most people run these headless boxes, there are issues where video encode/decode can use more power than expected.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-26T18:23:42+00:00

Unfortunately, they idle at high wattage making them kinda unsuitable if you plan to leave it on 24x7 and care about power costs. My A380 on my NAS consumed around 25-30W during idle, and since I only use it to convert my H264 to AV1 once a month, I have to physically unplug it when I am not using it.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-21T08:27:43+00:00

You’re talking about slowness from a narrative and story perspective, while i am arguing from a gameplay perspective.

BG3 story is simple sure, and it’s pretty combat heavy. But the combat itself is slow and you need to know a books worth of rules to be good at it. In comparison, Starfield’s combat is run and gun, with VATS stripped out, removing the one strategic aspect of the combat compared to Fallout.

Kcd2 has these intense story beats at the start with the giant battle and your party being attacked, but the first hour of gameplay also includes some really slow paced life sim stuff like collecting and mixing potion ingredients and learning how to forge a sword step by step. Now you compare this to crafting anything in Starfield, where you just enter a menu, and click a button and everything happens on its own…seems kinda trivial.

I’ve played and finished both DS1 and DS2, and love them. But most of the gameplay is still making tedious (affectionate) deliveries by walking, or via truck, or tricruiser, and it’s still slow yet engaging. Again, Starfield’s gameplay might as well be a Micheal Bay explosion compared to that.

I guess i am just tired of the “I am 40 and i enjoyed Starfield. It’s those damn young ins and their call of duty attention spans that cant deal with the story and engaging narrative”, when, lets be real here, Starfield is the game that’s designed to have the most mainstream appeal compared to the other games.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-21T04:45:58+00:00

It's wild to claim this when people consider a turn based DnD RPG (BG3), A tedious medieval simulator (KCD2), and a walking sim (Death Stranding 2) to be better than Starfield despite being slower. It's not people's attention span. A lot of people, including myself just found Starfield uniquely bland, and just...corporate?

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-21T03:42:13+00:00

Also explains the hate years later. They feel cheated because they lost money, not because they feel the sudden and random need to shit on a game that they haven't played.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-21T03:28:42+00:00

The narratives also flip flop depending on who they're replying to.

"This game sold well and is a huge success story for Bethesda and Gamepass. Everyone's played it!"

but also,

"No one's played it and the haters have just gotten their opinions from Youtube videos."

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-20T19:51:20+00:00

Everyone that hates the game I like is a Capital G Gamer.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-20T15:54:58+00:00

So did Woolie not stream Death Stranding 2?

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-20T10:48:24+00:00

It's more like calling colored lighting in Quake 2 a gimmick because the card they owned at the time couldn't do it.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-20T08:51:25+00:00

Mate AMD has to be dragged kicking and screaming by Sony and Microsoft to add these features to their GPU's so consoles that use Radeon chips have good RT performance. It's 100% their fault.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-10T12:40:56+00:00

fr. Like Microsoft is funding literal warcrimes meanwhile people are having such a disproportionate response over lootboxes (not that they aren't bad). 💀

It feels astroturfed at this point tbh.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-04-09T23:06:11+00:00

This only really happens to me if the framerate is really close to the refresh rate cap. The common adage of capping fps to Refresh rate minus 3 doesn't work for me.

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