It's incredibly silly to think that we have been at this - whatever this is - for twenty-seven years. That is a crazy thing to do for as long as we've been doing it. Any rational actor would have boarded the white ships aeons ago, as men reckon time. From this throne in the ATL, Ludacris calls upon all of us to - in his words - "Act A Fool." But he could never have imagined this kind of foolishness extended over such a substantial period of time.
It's utterly nonsensical. As suggested in the (meryl) streep, so many assumptions of the previous era have just boiled away. It was at the point where we'd go to GameStop and they wouldn't carry PC software unless you preordered it, and now the cumulative effect of Steam's power is that the maker of Half-Life, which was, y'know… a cool game, is now synonymous with gaming on computers.
Indeed, it's so much the same thing that they made a machine that will send your games to their other machine so you can play them on your face. The PC has now been identified as a growth opportunity for Sony and Square Enix at the moment Valve is ready to offer a curated end-run around Windows.
Playing hot new shit on Linux used to mean buying games from a developer who shared your sicko, freak-a-leak tastes or waiting for somebody to crunch the numbers on a port - a real Mac Gaming moment. Can you even imagine their joy, at this stage? Their pleasure? Their vindication? I'd say "I certainly can't," but I have a Steam Deck - this particular call is coming from inside the house. It just gets weirder and weirder from there. Imagine somebody who has primarily been hitched to a PlayStation parsing their first Steam Sale. Presumably, they just catch on fire.
It has never once stopped being interesting for almost thirty years, and with Sony, Valve, and Microsoft all essentially standardizing on AMD and nVidia way up its own ass it's hard not to wonder if there's something tectonic under all that. It's been incredibly fun to think about all this stuff all these years, and I'm glad you're here with us.
(CW)TB out.
