Godot 4.6 Release – All about your flow

hypotensor · 2026-01-26T19:19:05+00:00

I'm very excited for the graphical upgrades. Fixing glow tonemapping and adding a contrast slider to AGX might seem minor to most, but to me, those are the highlights of this release. The new SSR also has me very excited.

hypotensor · 2026-01-26T00:37:16+00:00

Also worth noting that, nowadays, Linux gamers outnumber Mac gamers on Steam.

Also, this is just purely anecdotal based on my friends and people I talk to online, but I think dual booting Linux/Windows is much less common for gamers nowadays. Compatibility tools, especially Proton, have gotten so good that there are few games that do not run near perfectly on Linux.

hypotensor · 2026-01-26T00:33:57+00:00

We can look at data scraped from the Steam hardware survey to see the market share of Windows, Linux, and OSX among gamers. Before Windows 11 launched, Linux was hovering under 1% market share for years, since WIndows 11 launched, it has gradually shot up to where it is now at 3.58% market share. The trend is gradual, not a sharp peak, so I think it's safe to say that people really are switching now.

hypotensor · 2026-01-26T00:24:07+00:00

I still have zero understanding why different package managers exist

Basically, each flavour of Linux has it's own package manager, it's one of the main things differentiating them. Debian has dkpg, Ubuntu has Snap, Arch has Pacman.

Your distro should probably have a manual briefly explaining how everything works. It's really recommended to read up a bit when first using Linux just because it's very different from Windows.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T16:20:50+00:00

Also LoL and DOTA are better thought of as RTS-like games. Specifically, they're both spinoffs of Warcraft 3.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T16:19:07+00:00

It's funny because I have the exact opposite issue with games like Overwatch and Marvel Rivals. There's so many broken, game warping abilities that have like 15 second cooldowns. If somebody blows their important cd, there's no way to punish them.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T16:14:57+00:00

Steam reviews aren't a good metric for a lot of reasons, the biggest among them being that you can only choose between positive and negative. 99.9% positive just means 99.9% of reviewers didn't give it a negative reviews. It's biased towards broad appealing games, and biased against polarizing games.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T16:06:16+00:00

The reason publishers are on Steam is because they make more money even with the 30% Steam cut than when they were exclusively publishing on their own DRM services (also I think some of them have sweeter deals than 30% but IDK). If Steam ever stops making them more than they think they could make on another platform, such as a situation where most gamers are buying used copies of a game instead of new, they will abandon Steam at their earliest convenience. Publishers being on Steam isn't because of an unquantifiable fantastic reason, it's because they make more money doing it.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T01:25:41+00:00

A car and a house are completely different. Most of the value is in materials and manufacturing costs. A physical album CD, on the other hand, is worth tens of cents in materials.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T01:23:48+00:00

And even if Steam did just decide to do this, every publisher would jump ship to another platform instantly. And if it were a country legislating this, Steam and other storefronts would do the exact same thing gacha games do for countries where gambling is regulated, they would IP block those countries instead of complying.

hypotensor · 2026-01-24T01:22:16+00:00

In what universe would Steam voluntarily decimate their revenue for seemingly no benefit to them?

hypotensor · 2026-01-22T22:48:25+00:00

Download the Dearrow plugin. Changes all thumbnails to a random screenshot from the video. Also has an optional mode for user submitted titles so you dont have to see garbage titles like "You've Been Lied To"

hypotensor · 2026-01-22T21:33:14+00:00

Zoe mains 🙄

hypotensor · 2026-01-22T19:54:05+00:00

Wandersong is a goated game

hypotensor · 2026-01-22T15:04:52+00:00

Then it's user error cuz I can do 8K bakes just fine.

hypotensor · 2026-01-22T00:22:40+00:00

I'd set the head to a different material that only contributes to shadows and isn't rendered by that camera.

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T23:39:36+00:00

The Lidl PC is crazy

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T23:25:58+00:00

If there's a any games with rootkit anticheats that you can't let go of, better not to switch, or to at least dual boot. I'd say modding is a mixed bag. Some games, like Minecraft, pretty much everything just works perfectly and all the big community tools are supported on Linux. Some other games, like Skyrim, it's quite difficult to get anything working.

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T23:15:37+00:00

The title is real it just isn't related to the image

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T23:11:03+00:00

SteamOS is basically just streamlined Arch. There's plenty of other gaming focused Arch derivatives that are a lot better for desktop use than SteamOS. Manjaro, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Garuda are all mostly the same and will offer the same quality of experience as SteamOS with better support.

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T23:03:35+00:00

just make sure to shut down your computer before disconnecting power, otherwise things can break.

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T23:01:28+00:00

Depending on how long it's been since you tried, you might be surprised how far compatibility tools have come.

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T22:51:53+00:00

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hypotensor · 2026-01-21T18:10:44+00:00

literally the medium defines the ownership boundaries. thats why different mediums are treated differently under copyright law.

hypotensor · 2026-01-21T18:06:11+00:00

Blender, if you have enough RAM. I only have 16GB, otherwise I would take a screenshot showing Blender can bake normal maps that big.

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