Donjuanme
@Donjuanme@lemmy.world
- Comment on [HELP] Recommendations for portable setup with keyboard and mouse? 1 week ago:
I have a full size and multiple 60%'s, they’re all very reliable, not the heartiest, but I had the first one for over 5 years, all of the screws stripped out of the back (from being repeatedly walked on by the dogs, rolled upon by myself), and it still worked. But using it became a chore so I caved and bought another to replace it.
- Comment on [HELP] Recommendations for portable setup with keyboard and mouse? 1 week ago:
Love my arteck gear, it’s cheap AF, but I can buy 5 or 6 for the price of 1 nice setup, and I don’t worry at all about it being trashed in transit.
The small keyboard fits just about any pocket my deck will fit into (yeah I travel in loose baggy clothes), and I have a really small collapsible kick stand for the deck as well.
- Comment on We Now Have 16,000 Steam Deck Verified/Playable Games To Play Through 2 months ago:
Yet still people will find reason to complain.
80% of my catalog is platinum and gold, 20% I probably wasn’t going to play anyways.
- Comment on How good is the Steam Deck really? (Not a gamer) 2 months ago:
Please feel free to ask my any specific questions, I will answer them as unbiasedly as possible.
I jumped on ordering mine working 30 minutes of its announcement, I waited 7 months to get it, and I’ve used it probably 60% of the days since I’ve had it. I still use the laptop some times (especially when my wife has it for some games, and I bought my mom one of her own so she wouldn’t be using mine constantly when she came to visit)
- Comment on How good is the Steam Deck really? (Not a gamer) 2 months ago:
There has been 1 game I’ve tried to play that hasn’t worked, people say it does, but there are 2 versions of the game (square enix, final fantasy 8) and I have the older version, for some reason no control input is sent to it no matter what I do. I’m sure if I bought the new version it would work fine, but I’m done with that company after they bricked my phone copy of ff6 (even though the phone didn’t change at all) and told me “if I want to continue playing you need to buy the new version”. I’m sad they seem to be doing the same thing with all their old games.
That rant out of the way.
I have 1400 games in my steam library, the above is the only one I’ve wanted to play but haven’t been able to get working.
I highly suggest a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for first person style games (I’m too old to get used to the “gyro control fine aiming”, but the younger people say it works great.) and 4x games.
I play a lot more 2d platformers and rogue-lite games on the deck than I ever did on a PC/laptop. The controls are fantastic and there’s no input lag like I used to have with a wireless control to my PC.
I’m about to buy a 3rd because my household, and the company we bring over, sometimes use mine when I want to be using it.
Some of the games I’ve played on it: red dead redemption 2, Witcher 3, elder scrolls Skyrim, rim world, dead cells, path of exile, Warhammer total war 2, sid Meier’s civ 5 and 6, subnautica, factorio, satisfactory, monster Hunter frostborn wrath, baldurs gate 3.
It’s actually amazingly good at running the ported PS2/4 and xbox360 games, I was amazed to see 5-6 hours predicted battery life while playing dynasty warriors 8 and Disgaea 4.
I was thinking about getting a new gaming laptop to replace my 5 year old 15" dell, but the deck filled that need perfectly, and at a fraction of the price a new computer would’ve cost.
When I originally bought it (pre ordered the 512 gig) I bought a “leather skin” and screen protector, I’m glad that I did, but I think the skin was going overboard.
If you aren’t a gamer I’m not very sure how much desktop function there is, I’ve only done it once or twice, but I was able to YouTube and Amazon through the browser.
If you get one (and I highly recommend it) I suggest getting a kick stand, a Bluetooth mouse and a Bluetooth keyboard.
My next investment is going to be a “dock” and a pair of a.r. glasses so I can charge it and use the glasses as a monitor and lay in bed and game until mold grows over me.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age and the 2.0 free update set for release in October 4 months ago:
Satisfactory and factorio 2.0release dates on the same day??
Dare I hope for anything from valve?
- Comment on 64GB and 512GB Steam Deck LCD models are 15% off until July 11th, 10 AM PDT 4 months ago:
I can see supplies extending longer than they thought with their refurbishing program being as popular as it is (they don’t stay in stock very long)
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
Where are you getting 1600p screens that are 9 inches diagonal?
And what hardware are you using that puts 1600p into a 9 inch screen? Sounds a lot like overkill, or bigger numbers for the sake of having bigger numbers.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
I’ve never had resolution complaints on my handheld screen. There’s been scaling troubles and other graphics shortcomings, but resolution has never been a problem, how close are you holding the deck to your face?
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
That’s a shame, my favorite way of gaming on the deck (outside of some console port games) is Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, I play 4x and grand strategy games, along with many games that are “have not been tested for the deck”. This new thing looks like it would be a huge pain because you’re either going to have to play it while looking down at it on a hard surface, or you’re going to be imparting motion on the device every time you try to use the keys (or the keys will be so soft that they’re prone to sticking/errant inputs).
My only trouble with Bluetooth m+kb on the deck is some games refuse to acknowledge you’re not using the controls, and will pop up the keyboard interface every time a text entry box is opened, that’s annoying but most games don’t force that.
- Comment on Slay the Spire on Steam Deck is such a joy 7 months ago:
Hades and disco Elysium are both incredible experiences. Hades when you’re feeling reflexive on point and rogue lite with a hell of a story and development, disco Elysium when you want a long story driven narrative branching and repeatable.
If you want another game, with equally great story, on the entirely opposite end of replayability and gameplay (and equally highly regarded by most critics) add return of the obra dinn to your list, it also works great on the deck!
- Comment on Slay the Spire on Steam Deck is such a joy 7 months ago:
Tossing out other deck favorites here, (sorted by length of name as it appears on my phone screen, because duck it why not)
Hades
Griftlands
Dead cells
No man’s sky
Monster train
Hollow Knight
Disco Elysium
Dave the diver
Wizard of legend
Backpack battles
Hero of the arena
Vampire survivors
Skul the hero Slayer
All of these I’ve sunk dozens of hours into on the deck
- Comment on Slay the Spire on Steam Deck is such a joy 7 months ago:
I like the term “single stick shooter”
- Comment on Slay the Spire on Steam Deck is such a joy 7 months ago:
Ours went from the po(bro)tatoe machine to the backpack (battles) machine. I’m thinking about getting a 2nd (3rd, already got my mom one of her own) so I can use it some times.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 7 months ago:
I’m 20 minutes away from multiple population centers, in Bay area California, and on a good night I get 4 mB/s download. We need public energy and data ASAP, private oligarchs are fucking us over so hard.
- Comment on Making the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer 8 months ago:
I never saw the trailer, but I hope they called that ball Wheatley, or something equally appropriate.
- Comment on Punkt rocks its minimalist roots with 'privacy-first' MC02 smartphone 8 months ago:
750$
6.7-inch HD screen, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage (expandable), a 64MP rear camera, a 24MP selfie camera, dual SIM trays, a 5,500 mAh battery and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Has all the things I like to see in a cell phone.
Also wireless and “fast” charging
- Comment on How one unexpected game (Nier Automata) changed the Steam Deck forever 8 months ago:
How about shadows of Mordor?
- Comment on Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes 11 months ago:
You’re not the boss of me steam. Just keep the supply moving, I need my good good
- Comment on 'You know who I am?': Congressional candidate Martin Hyde threatens cop's career during traffic stop 11 months ago:
Aren’t you one of them who worship the thin blue line?
Something something but MY abortion
- Comment on Small battle bot arena is not prepared for the flame bot Dutch Oven. 11 months ago:
Back in my day liquid, combustion, electricity, or any combination of those things, weren’t allowed in our roboticide competitions.
- Comment on Paramount+ unskipabble ads 11 months ago:
I definitely feel the hatred towards all things ads, I would probably cancel as well if I was in your position. Fortunately 1 ad per session is the rare exception to my ad free viewing (and I did curse quite a bit at that ad, whatever it was for)
- Comment on Trash Goblin - Official Kickstarter Trailer | Wholesome Snack December 2023 11 months ago:
I don’t get it?
How do the boxes become the items?
- Comment on Paramount+ unskipabble ads 11 months ago:
We got a skippable 30 second ad, then the Paramount logo, then watched 2 seasons of Star Trek strange New worlds without a single ad.
You sure you didn’t just hair trigger yourself there?
- Comment on How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
That was a fun watch. Hard to believe naughty dog started with 5 people and a million dollars worth of hardware
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn sale is live! What are you buying to llay on your deck? 11 months ago:
Sure, but I don’t appreciate childish antics by devs, apparently for the sole purpose of catching a hype wave.
I’ve written them off and will not be purchasing their game, as every time there’s a slight inconvenience it seems they’ll throw their hands up and threaten to stop developing their game. It’s not the industry they should be in imo. (See also fez)
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn sale is live! What are you buying to llay on your deck? 11 months ago:
Age of empires 2, clandun returns (both on my wishlist forever, I use m+kb for 4x games), sorted by “great on deck” top rated and added “stacklands” out for 15$, on top of songs of conquest for another 15, and my humble bundle subscription for 10… And my GeForce now founders subscription for 5$, and Xbox game pass for 15… Damn I spend too much on games
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn sale is live! What are you buying to llay on your deck? 11 months ago:
I’m not thrilled by that developer, “unity is terrible, I’m de-listing my game on new years day” is now “that was a joke tweet”. I never had a problem with unity trying to monotize their problem, but the knee jerk reaction from the gaming community was reactionary and showed immaturity, that some developers (cult of the Lamb included) jumped onboard, and now are trying to play the “it was a joke” card, is pathetic and has made me decide to remove their product from my wish list, when I should be buying it. (Discovered this today when checking out the discussion board, apparently they’re planning dlc which has been delayed to next year, which is aftwr they were supposed to be de-listing)
- Comment on [News] Steam Deck OLED review: much more than a screen improvement - Polygon 1 year ago:
I’ve read it’s a different connector from mobo (?) To screen, so the OLED will not be backwards compatible.
I hope they continue making oem replacement parts for when I need to replace something on my original.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you currently playing on your deck? - October 2023 1 year ago:
Dead cells whenever I have a chance to fire it up. I wish there was a fix for the audio delay when bringing it out of standby