moody
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- Comment on How do you download your GOG games? 5 hours ago:
How slow are we talking? All my GOG downloads through Heroic have always been as fast as my connection allows. It sounds like there may be another issue at play.
Is there a VPN involved?
- Comment on The Saudi Arabia fund behind the wildly leveraged EA buyout is dealing with "financial distress", claims report 6 days ago:
A leveraged buyout and a hostile takeover are two completely different things.
A hostile takeover is when the buyers appeal to the shareholders over the wishes of the board. It’s when the company doesn’t want to merge, but gets bought out anyway.
The term leveraged buyout only indicates that the money is mostly borrowed.
The case could be that a hostile takeover is also a leveraged buyout, but the EA buyout is not hostile.
- Comment on External storage on Steam OS is a problem 1 week ago:
Part of the issue is that Linux does not auto-mount connected drives unless specifically configured to. So every time you boot your Steam Deck, the drive is detected but not mounted.
Normally, you do this via the fstab file. I’ll admit I’m not sure how well that works with an external drive.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty atrong word to describe the situation.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
Only the display name can be changed. It will still be /c/steamdeck, but now shows up as “Steam Hardware”
- Comment on Sorry our servers fell over, say Arc Raiders devs, here's some free virtual cash and a rucksack 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure 500 tokens buys anything in-game.
- Comment on Recommend Battery Packs? 4 weeks ago:
Keep in mind that flight regulations limit the capacity of the batteries you can take on a plane. I believe you can’t bring batteries above 20,000 mAh.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 5 weeks ago:
While Heroic is nice, it would be even better if GOG themselves put some effort into supporting Linux, as they do sell Linux native games.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 5 weeks ago:
GOG only supports cloud saves for Windows games. It’s not a Heroic issue.
- Comment on Palworld dev Pocketpair, famous for making wholly original games, won't publish your game if it uses generative AI 5 weeks ago:
The title is tongue-in-cheek about Pocketpair, since they’ve been accused of using AI to basically rip off Pokemon designs.
There’s no proof one way or the other, but their stance, if it’s legitimate, is respectable.
- Comment on Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now 5 weeks ago:
TBF, so did Wolfensteid 3D
- Comment on SD card died, now game that was installed on it can't be reinstalled 1 month ago:
Have you tried removing the external drive from your libraries in Steam?
- Comment on Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space 2 months ago:
It’s not. The size of the game isn’t the limiting factor.
Anecdotally, I played Horizon Forbidden West on PS4 and occasionally got loading screens while out and about in the open world. I assume the HDD was the cause of this.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Steam Deck? Oh, you mean the Balatro machine!
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 4 months ago:
e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location
Airlines have lower mourning rates specifically for that. There are many other bad reasons for them to charge you more, but this one is a poor example.
- Comment on This Cyberpunk 2077 mod literally called "Weeee" lets you leave your flat via a big slide like a trash Batman 5 months ago:
Walking around the building and taking the slow elevator down is long and tedious. This juat makes sense.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 5 months ago:
The Steam Deck runs games at PS4-level graphics fairly well. It will definitely struggle with newer AAA games if they don’t have graphics options low enough for the Deck.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 5 months ago:
It’s not necessarily UE5 that has issues with the Steam Deck, but what they do with it. For example, Clair Obscur plays well on Steam Deck, but I wouldn’t even try to play Ark Survival Ascended.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 launching early has "literally 0%" to do with GTA 6's release date, Marathon or anything save "confidence", says Gearbox boss 6 months ago:
But on sale for $10 on a monthly basis.
- Comment on EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck 6 months ago:
But don’t you want that sense of pride and accomplishment?
- Comment on EA hand Command & Conquer modders the source code for Tiberian Dawn, Renegade, Red Alert and Generals 8 months ago:
Wow, truly a rare W for EA. I’m curious if this was expected, or otherwise in the works for a while before release.
- Comment on Rumor: GTA Roleplay Server FiveM Victim Of Hostile Takeover - And One Of Rockstar's Own Is Involved 9 months ago:
This is only speculation on my part, but it makes no sense to buy FiveM this late into the game’s lifecycle and not use the existing system for the next game. At the very least, if significant changes need to be made, there’s already a framework there to build on. If they shut down FiveM with the release of GTA6, that’s just opening the door for someone else to build a new system to replace it.
But I don’t run a corporation and am not exclusively motivated by short-term profits.
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 9 months ago:
Segmented runs make sense in some games, but probably not something like Diablo.
Super Metroid, for example, has a lot of segmented runs between save stations. It’s a lot harder to put together a record-setting non-segmented run than it is to perfect all the segments individually. You lose precious seconds going to save stations, but you save some RNG and mistakes don’t spoil an entire run.
- Comment on Best Steam Deck games under $5 in the Couch Co-Op Fest sale 9 months ago:
It’s definitely got similar vibes with a lot of weird interactions added to it that they don’t tell you about until you’ve already done the action.
For example, a fire type attacking an air type causes an air wall, which then blocks the next two attacks. But you don’t know that until you’ve already attacked.
A glitter type attacking any other type turns the target into a glitter type, and any element attacking a glitter type turns it into that element. That means that a battle with glitter types causes weaknesses and strengths to vary wildly throughout a battle. And battles in the game are 2V2, so it can get pretty chaotic and confusing.
Some of these buffs or debuffs don’t really make any sense and if you don’t look up interactions ahead of time, you wouldn’t expect them to happen.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 10 months ago:
It would be nice if we could see that kind of information
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 10 months ago:
Its ranking has dropped by 44 spots on Steam’s top sellers list. Unless the sales numbers of everything else have shot up significantly, that implies that sales of the Steam Deck have gone down. I don’t know how significant it is because I don’t know how the rankings are done, but it’s a pretty big drop for a 2-week period.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals team issue a statement on recent bans for Steam Deck and macOS players 10 months ago:
And made it clear that it’s not a bannable offense to play the game on Linux or MacOS.
- Comment on First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility 1 year ago:
A paid plug in just seems pretty shitty to begin with.
I know Heroic can add your GOG and Epic games to Steam which would make it moot, but unfortunately most people probably don’t use the desktop mode anyway.
- Comment on Despite some surprisingly chill Flight Simulator 2024 system requirements, the 'Ideal Spec' demands more RAM than storage 1 year ago:
Gotcha, that makes sense. The article makes it seem like 10 is all you get.
- Comment on Despite some surprisingly chill Flight Simulator 2024 system requirements, the 'Ideal Spec' demands more RAM than storage 1 year ago:
So the most expensive version of the game only includes 10 airports?