People don't hesitate to criticism things just because they're popular, usually people are quicker to hate on something because it's popular.
I think it was just a good game, that legitimately appealed to a lot of people, and so any criticisms about woke content died out as people realized they liked it or respected it.
Great game, although these days I mostly play it on my phone.
From what I've seen, a lot of the pushback against "woke" games revolves around whether they're good or not. Almost no one cares about a good game being woke, stuff like BG3 was widely enjoyed by a lot of people despite having gay characters/etc.
However when a game is bad or mediocre, people are quick to blame any "woke" content in the game. There's a mentality of "they were putting effort in pushing a political/social agenda I don't agree with, while not putting in enough effort on the stuff that actually matters".
Of course, now you have a lot of people assuming whether a game will be good or not based on how the perceive it. But if it comes out, and is actually a good game, that's enough to quiet most all of the complaints it seems.
Valve actually initiated FEX and has been funding it since the very beginning, there was an interview with the Verge where they talk about it.
Basically the whole thing is Valve's baby, they have a lot of different open source projects that they are quietly funding.
Valve is paving the way to make this possible with FEX, which they've developed to let traditional x86 games run on the ARM-based Steam Frame. Since it's open source, we're already seeing it show up for other devices, such as GameNative using it to let PC games run on android devices.
Apple is also grabbing additional marketshare right now with their new cheap MacBook Neo that is ARM based, and I think that will pressure windows to make the change as well, at least for laptops.
I don't know what the timeline is, but I suspect we'll see a transition to ARM devices once FEX is reliable enough for most software. My understanding is that you miss out on a lot of the power advantages of ARM hardware when running x86 programs through FEX, but it will still be a compatibility crutch while programs transition to being ARM native.
It being free on Linux is pretty interesting.
I was reading about all the conflicting windows ui frameworks over the years, and supposedly windows frequently has different internal teams pushing different standards and fighting with each other over it. End result is that WinUI 3 is one of 17 GUI techs that's still shipping today (8 of those are made by Microsoft itself, the other 9 are things like Electron, etc).
So this sounds like a much needed clean up, but like most things we'll have to wait and see if Microsoft actually follows through on what they're saying.
Something I've realized is that a lot of management for big publicly traded companies doesn't care about any long term success of the company. They just want to turn a quick profit for a year or two, and then move on to a different company with a severance package and a raise. They will gladly steer a company towards ruin if it makes for a better financial quarter.
You can also set up word filters in a lot of the Lemmy apps. Filtering words like Trump for example will remove a lot of negative content from your feed, especially since people are bad to post about him in specifically non-political communities.
The people I know who got lasik had to carry around reading glasses. I don't know the specific details of their treatment beyond that, but the idea of carrying glasses everywhere honestly seems less convenient than just wearing them all day
Thanks! I'll give it a shot one of these days.
I think so, but it's spread among different menus and flags. Plus if even if you disable it, it's still there, one of the origin options sounds like it has it fully removed from the code.