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  • Valve is going for a console experience, and that means the games just work. Every time, no matter what, with no tinkering.

    Obviously, with PC gaming (on Linux no less), that is a nearly insurmountable challenge.

    I think the check mark is their attempt at that, and that’s why it doesn’t match 1:1 with ProtonDB.

    Even the most minimal amount of “tinkering,” or “incompatibility,” like having to change the resolution the first time you open the game, or the game doesn’t have an option for the Deck’s resolution (meaning small black bars at the top and bottom. Big deal), will stop it from getting approved as “fully compatible”

    Valve’s approval is just not the same thing as ProtonDB, they have two different purposes










  • If I recall, he decided to run for reelection because the alternative was Trump.

    Giving up the incumbent advantage would have been extremely detrimental to the effort to prevent a second Trump Administration. I believe there are articles from that time about him making this decision.

    Hindsight is 20/20 so I’m not interested in hearing about how it was a bad calculation or whatever. The rate of Biden’s mental decay after that only increased.

    No sane political operator would have held a Democratic primary given the circumstances at the time.