belshamharoth

Like I already said earlier, it would be better if no company was allowed to pay games publishers to block out publishing on their competitor consoles but Sony have already been using this dirty tactic for years.

MS said they are buying Activision Blizzard so Sony cannot block games from being released on their platform once again.

So to directly answer your question it is "ok" because it is a defence strategy to prevent Sony blocking them out of games. It is no worse than what Sony already do and at this point if they don't use strategies like this then their platform risks fading into obscurity leaving Sony with a monopoly which is bad for consumers.

In the console market they are the underdog because their console has significantly less sales both in terms of units and game sales

Can't wait for this to be released. IIRC a lot of it was built in the rust programming language which is a bit of interesting trivia

Not exactly the same as what you suggested but I just tried using Steam Link with a Bluetooth controller and it worked surprisingly well. I'm wondering if I could get this working when outside my house using a private VPN server, sort of like my own home version of GeForce now

News about the merger being approved was being discussed on Beehaw and everyone was dogpiling on Microsoft saying they're the devil for buying Activision Blizzard.

When I pointed out that Sony are also not innocent, as they regularly pay publishers to block release of games on Xbox, my comment was deleted.

At this stage Xbox is the underdog when compared to PlayStation and need a deal like this to not fall out of the market which would be a bad thing for everyone because it would mean less competition.

Of course it would be much better if no company was allowed to make exclusivity deals with publishers.

To understand why you might want to use tmux try the following:

1. Open your terminal
2. Start editing a file with vim or nano but don't save the file
3. Close then re-open your terminal

You will have lost your progress, next we can repeat but this time using tmux so you don't lose your session:

1. Open your terminal
2. Start a tmux session using tmux
3. Start editing a file again using vim or nano
4. Close and re-open the terminal
5. Type tmux a to re-attach to the existing session

Note that this time none of your progress is lost.

Aside from enabling you to have a persistent session, tmux also allows you to have multiple terminal panes open so you can do more than one thing at a time in the window, to see what I mean try this:

1. Open your terminal
2. Start a new tmux session using tmux
3. Type top to begin listing processes
4. Press ctrl b then % to make a new split pane
5. Enter ls or other terminal commands

You will see that you can use more than one panel to do things. This can be useful for example if you want to watch run tests and also run other commands.

Against the Storm

I thought I was sick of top down building games like this until I tried AtS and it has been a blast