andrew_bidlaw
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Big cool weirdo Yoko Taro may or may not be working on something that may or may not be Nier 1 day ago:
Something in the making… Non-informative but intriguing.
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
Underspecced, but having Mario&Co. I wonder if they’d happen to go the Sega’s way, intentionally or not, becoming games and not hardware producer, letting their main franchizes flourish or fall on other’s platforms.
- Comment on Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck? 2 weeks ago:
Their R&D in designing a console and these nice controllers is probably more expensive for Valve than what they’ve got from selling actual products, but cheap smartphone is $40 in the more sanctioned Russia, so I guess something like $100 isn’t an unreasonable price goal, and these folks are historically more into IT than we are, that makes me believe they can do or already did cheap controlling devices. I’m open to be wrong.
And yeah, military things are always extra durable and extra overpriced, but they are in a process to cut corruption to join NATO\EU, so probably the end price won’t be that exhausting.
- Comment on Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a little excessive for just drone operation and communications, but the formfactor of a handheld console is where the sweet spot is. I feel like if they’d make them for $100 with something akin to a 10-years old hardware in a rugged everything-proof body, it can become a standard in the future. Cheap drones have shown they can drop bombs alright, so there’s probably a market for a cheap controller made just for that.
- Comment on DJI might get banned next in the US 3 weeks ago:
Such a blunder, imho. Since drones are the future at least for warfare, encouraging their use with certified and safe models may be a no-brainer to support the growth of that technology and educating civil operators en masse.
- Comment on DJI might get banned next in the US 3 weeks ago:
For starters you cannot fly a drone over a person except the operator (yourself).
Is that because most drones are passively recording a videosteeam for it’s operator to navigate it? Would it affect cameraless drones?
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 3 weeks ago:
I would like to see this time limit extended back to maybe 30m/1hr (it may be different in ways you don’t like), but I don’t see a problem with reducing it if you’ve already experienced parts of the game.
The problem is some games don’t even start at 30m point. Interactive introes and tutorials are here to misrepresent the future gameplay. Especially with a trick like making you have all power ups before having them all taken from you to grind them back. Take Skyrim where real game starts somewhen at Helgen after a starting dungeon.
Add there games that have it’s own launchers them being a problem to log into while the timer is already ticking.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
I really disliked it for many reasons even though I had no bugs but can’t pretend it wasn’t ambitious, Guys did jump over their head with it and tried to do something entirely new for them. And they had a hard crunch to complete it. Can’t hate the product, these devs, but honestly fuck their management.
- Comment on FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage updated on Steam. It's now Steam Deck verified, removed DRM, added achievements, added localizations, and more 2 months ago:
For some reason it didn’t support my new controller so I added the game via Steam. This should do it. Sometimes even for installers since it’s wine.
- Comment on Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter 2 months ago:
Maybe, but I’d suspect it’s the growing market of OS-less solutions assuming you can pirate your Windows for personal use anyway makes some consider trying Linux, Also Steam Deck being a big hit.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I wonder how Warframe is on it. Not really an oldschool shooter, but still got me to use M+KB over a controller.
- Comment on Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! 5 months ago:
Got a spell costing 300 points when your mana pool is still 280.
- Comment on Some goat is driving 5 months ago:
E B A G O
- Comment on That's Racist! 5 months ago:
and show them your belt of explosives to assist your persuasion skills.
- Comment on A combination of languages to briefly cover the most of other languages. 5 months ago:
Do many people know it? I briefly googled this subject long ago snd it seems there are a lot of sign languages with their differences.
- Comment on A combination of languages to briefly cover the most of other languages. 5 months ago:
Two of them he talks about certain letter replacements that let’s you somewhat read German or French by just replacing certain letters that turns them into English words.
That seems very, very useful. Just encountered french instance’s posts. Would love to test it if they appear again. Thank you.
- Comment on A combination of languages to briefly cover the most of other languages. 5 months ago:
I feel a lot of asian languages have some roots here, since they are that old of a civilization. It’s a good suggestion. I only struggle to think about how their different writing methods can affect it.
- Comment on A combination of languages to briefly cover the most of other languages. 5 months ago:
I’m a russian and I can understand written or spoken Ukrainian and Belarussian (although the last one is sadly dying), a side of Bulgarian and a little bit from other ex-USSR languages since they got their 20th century’s neologism from Moscow. Trying to get news headlines on Slovakian, Serbian, Czech and Polish were hit-and-miss tho. Tons of different words, and I recognized mostly names, not verbs, the way I have it with almost any other language written with latin script’s forks.
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- Comment on What's the best answer? 5 months ago:
Yes, I have a dick.
- Comment on How was your day? 5 months ago:
Like a mouse in the wheel.
- Comment on US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas 5 months ago:
That’s what a lack of street drugs does to the youth, the OG subcription services.
- Comment on Brand X 5 months ago:
The designer’s one is Kanye because he can’t escape it. The boring meme one is Elon because Elon.
- Comment on Brand X 5 months ago:
One of these would be over-designed to communicate that he doesn’t care, the other would be an unfunny demotivator.
- Comment on This one's for you 5 months ago:
Stalin is unimpressed.
- Comment on ♫♪♫♪ The Day My Waymo Said Goodbye ♫♪♫♪ 5 months ago:
I fueled her up, he brought it down,
Then they together leaved the town.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 5 months ago:
It’s a stupid question.