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- Comment on Arc Raider's Headwinds update asks whether extra XP is enough to go solo in a group lobby 4 days ago:
Does anyone really care that much about XP? It already doesn’t take that long to hit the level cap. It might be a thing immediately after the expedition, but I don’t see it being a very popular option.
- Comment on An ARC Raiders auction house would be "risky", but Embark are looking at a playable Speranza hub and an actual trading animation 1 week ago:
I feel like what the game really needs is an economy. Not necessarily like a player economy, but more in terms of what to do with your money.
Right now, you can buy tools and weapons, but you can also craft them, so why spend the money when you can spend materials and free up stash space instead?
I have a full stash and millions of coins that I never spend because I have no incentive to. I’m just accumulating money that I have no use for.
- Comment on Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me 2 weeks ago:
The text scaling has to be implemented in-game though, or the game has to have appropriately-sized text.
Some games have options to change the text size, which is great. Others have small text regardless of screen size.
- Comment on Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me 2 weeks ago:
The issue is that the Steam Machine has good odds of being plugged into a TV 10 feet away rather than a monitor 2 feet away.
Small text on a 4k TV could be very hard to read.
- Comment on Researchers turn spoiled milk into 3D printing materials — extracted proteins from dairy waste combined with polymers to create plastic alternative 3 weeks ago:
No, you misunderstood. Milk combined with plastic makes an alternative to plastic. Easy mistake to make.
- Comment on Steam Replay is out, share your deck stats 1 month ago:
Its becoming like the 2k games where you are buying 2k26 in the middle of 2025.
Buddy, NHL '94 on SNES came out in 1993, and NHLPA '93 came out a year earlier in 1992. Every year, cars come out with the next year’s model.
I think 2 weeks before the end of the year is pretty reasonable for a year’s review. That’s how everybody’s been doing reviews for a long time.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 month ago:
4 tbsp of butter and 2 cups of broth for an entire 100+ lbs roast? I think it’s gonna be dry and taste like crap.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 1 month ago:
The Steam Deck performs on par with a PS4. It can run lots of recent AAA games if you turn the graphics down.
- Comment on How do you download your GOG games? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months ago:
I’m not sure 500 tokens buys anything in-game.
- Comment on Recommend Battery Packs? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
TBF, so did Wolfensteid 3D
- Comment on SD card died, now game that was installed on it can't be reinstalled 3 months 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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? 7 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? 7 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 8 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 8 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 11 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 11 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.