Just sayin'

No NAT doesn't mean no firewall. It just means that you both don't have to deal with NAT fuckery or the various hacks meant to punch a hole through it.

Behind NAT, hosting multiple instances of some service that uses fixed port numbers requires a load-balancer or proxy that supports virtual hosts. Behind CGNAT, good luck hosting anything.

For "just works" peer to peer services like playing an online co-op game with a friend, users can't be expected to understand what port forwarding is, let alone how it works. So, we have UPnP for that... except, it doesn't work behind double NAT, and it's a gaping security hole because you can expose arbitrary ports of other devices if the router isn't set up to ignore those requests. Or, if that's not enough of a bad idea, we have clever abuse of IP packets to trick two routers into thinking they each initiated an outbound connection with the other.

The Steam Deck is an exception to the rule, unfortunately. Game mode runs using Gamescope as the compositor, which allows it to directly manage rendering surfaces and support HDR output.

Support for HDR under a regular DE is still either nonexistent or a work-in-progress last I checked.

While holding hands, some of you may experience a slight case of instantaneous subatomic annihilation. If this happens to you, back away slowly and do not show panic. When you are once again safely away from yourself, head directly to the Aperture Science Paradox Resolution lab and ask for James. He'll patch up that hole in your universe in a jiffy, and you won't even feel a thing.

Your elitism is showing.

If that's not photoshopped, props to him. Wild pigeons don't like being picked up, and that would be a pretty difficult photo to pull off.

Whaaaa. The same company that pays for publishing exclusivity contracts while claiming a competing game storefront is being anticompetitive by abusing their position to... *checks notes* charge the same 30% fee as Microsoft and Sony, who also provide a digital download CDN, social platform, and game services? I'm shocked! /s

Not to say that the 30% fee is fair to small devs, but really... hypocrisy isn't a good look.

Not with FPTP, there isn't.

Wow. I didn't even know they had an association along with a bunch of other anti-consumer game publishers.

Surprisingly, yet also unsurprisingly, Epic Games is included in that list, too.

Bad, JD! Bad! Get off of the couch, dammit.

Vance is the footrest. His opportunity comes after everyone else leaves.

It's probably Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony working together for that one. In the name of ~~DRM~~ security ~~through obscurity~~, of course.