The next 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Steam Client Beta update is overhauling the in-game overlay to add more functions and a new interface. Aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚpart from a new toolbar that you can use to open different apps, you can also pin windows so they appear in-game as you play. Technically, you could open up a streaming service, put on something you want to watch, and overlay it in your game while you play. Valve even says as much in the notes.
When I first read this, my reaction was horror. Multitasking while consuming any type of visual media is generally unthinkable to me, because I know first-hand how easy it is to tune one out and end up in a cycle of rewinding, getting distracted, and rewinding again until it’s taken you twice as long to watch an episode of somet💎hing as it normally would. I like to pay attention to what I watch, because I like to notice the little details.
It doesn’t make sense to me to half pay attention to a game and a show or movie at the same time, because you’re really only paying attentio🍒n to one thing at a time – usually the game, which takes more engagement from you. You’re often half-listening to whatever you’re watching, and barely looking at it, at which point, why bother? I don’t think every game is the kind of game you have to focus on, for example, I like playing , , and while listening to podcasts (there is no greater joy than listening to an episode of Normal Gossip while I jet clean a house), but I simply cannot imagine ‘watching’ something while my eyes are on a game.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not the TV police. I have been known to idly take my phone out ♎and start playing Sudoku while a show is on, and miss a whole scene. If that’s how you like to watch things, that’s your business, but I don’t know if you can really call it ‘watching’ something. At that point, it really does turn more into a podcast. It also does a disservice to both mediums to not give them attention – the game, because you’re likely muting its music, and whatever you’re watching, because you’re not looking at it most of the time and that’s like, half the point of a movie. It’s an audio-visual medium. It’s a bit silly to just ignore the whole visual part.
It’s the next cultural step for those bizarre TikTok videos where half of the screen is taken up by the video you’re actually supposed to be watching, and the other half is, inexplicably, a Subway Surfers clip. They’re designed as a visual fidget spinner for those unable to focus on a single thing. Other times the video has limite🔜d audio, so rather than allow the dead air of background♎ muzak, a clip of Brian arguing with Quagmire from Family Guy is dropped in. But how does this make sense when the thing you’re half-watching is a video game you need to be in complete control of?
Sure, so🍒me people put on shows they’ve watched a hundred times in the background while they game. I’m not talking about those people, because at that point they’ve already pretty much memorised whatever they have on. But it’s painful for me to imagine someone hearing Succession is good, deciding to watch it while playing something, shrinking it to a single corner of their screen, and not looking at it once while they grind in or whatever. Media deserves your attention, so don’t do it a disservice. At the very least, you should actually watch it.