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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:30AM (#30801306)
Computers are ludicrously fast nowadays. Games are capable of doing a whole lot of shit in <16ms consistently while responding to user input, so I don't buy this "it's doing a lot!" argument, it is coded badly.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by drdec on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:49AM (#30801510)
I imagine the hold up is that it is connecting to an external service.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by account42 on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:37AM (#30801997)
Some games also connect to an external service.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by wtetzner on Saturday March 26, 2022 @01:12AM (#30809410)
Why couldn’t that be done in a separate thread?
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