Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 days ago:
I played Blue Prince, Split Fiction and Death Stranding 2. And one of those was just because it was on PSPlus. Everything else was several years old.
I have Expedition 33 but haven’t got around to playing it yet, because I’m playing the Silent Hill 2 Remake.
- Comment on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you 1 week ago:
Nice, sounds like a day one purchase for me.
The man may have disappeared up his own arse for a decade, but he hasn’t made a bad game yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When you go shopping, and you notice the item you pick up for Sunday’s dinner goes out of date on Wednesday, do you buy it anyway, or reach to the back for the newer ones that go out of date next week?
- Comment on Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
This was a thing for a bit in the Xbox 360 era, but disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Wasn’t there some Nvidia thing that also tried to do this on PC?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve not got one for testing right now. But some googling does seem to indicate this is a sticking point for gaming, and why GPU makers put the latest HDMI ports on their cards and ponied up the licensing fees.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
With VRR?
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to guess at comfortably 3 times the price of the Quest 3S.
They might surprise us, but in this economy, I doubt it.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 weeks ago:
Except it’s not on any TVs.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 weeks ago:
Or at least all the browsers agree to implement something nicer as a standard.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 weeks ago:
They are killing it, but sadly they’re about the only ones keeping it alive, at least at an affordable price.
I wish VR was a commodity product, like TVs. Everything compatible with everything.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 weeks ago:
Pretty life-like tbh
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB model on sale until December 1st! 3 weeks ago:
I saw the Legion Go S for £399 at Costco as well, with 4 times the space. Is there any downside to that one over the Steam Deck? I think it’s marginally better performance and a slightly bigger screen, but is the compatibility as good?
- Comment on Steam Controller 5 weeks ago:
Stop trying to make touchpads happen. It’s not going to happen.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 month ago:
In fairness we’re taking that comment as face value without knowing what level of violence “restraining a stalker” entailed.
- Comment on STEAM FRAME - Valve Corporation Trademark Registration 3 months ago:
Streaming hardware? Presumably like Geforce Now, only the publishers can’t say no.
- Comment on Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck 3 months ago:
The price of everything is out of control, because it turns out the people who set wages have a different idea of inflation than the people that set prices.
This is the only gen I can think of where console prices have gone up from what they were at the start. And that’s before you get tariffs from everyone’s favourite orange dickhead.
And PC component prices are even worse.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Tesla build them into fucking cars.
- Comment on Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows 4 months ago:
So server side cheat prevention is out.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 5 months ago:
Oh look, new money was old money all along.
Guess even they are cashing out.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next 5 months ago:
Did you never play Fall Guys on PC?
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 5 months ago:
The game would have gone offline eventually anyway. Most people get nothing when that inevitably happens. Some games flip to an offline only version, but that’s very rare.
Hell, I bought single player offline games from the Play store for my phone, and they no longer seem to exist. RIP Rayman Jungle Run.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 6 months ago:
It sounds a lot like what the GPU driver providers used to do (and probably still do, despite all DX12 and Vulkan’s promises of making that unnecessary) on top of making the drivers.
And that is basically “fixing badly written games so they perform well on the hardware”.
As far as I can tell, Intel has been using Proton’s fixes (DXVK) a bit to get their drivers working on older games on Windows.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 6 months ago:
If Xbox Series S would have run all my Steam games, I’d have bought one in a heartbeat.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 6 months ago:
I’d wager they could cut a lot of cruft from a handheld gaming device specific version of Windows.
I bet Antimalware Service Executable is still randomly springing it’s way to the top of task manager in this build. All sorts of crap that just doesn’t need to be running. On my PC right now I can see Service Host: DNS Client at 1-4% all the fucking time. Random driver update checks that run in fucking Electron for some godforsaken reason. That kind of shit.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 6 months ago:
Probably this. Especially on low end hardware that doesn’t really have a lot of background resources to give.
Just open task manager and see all the shit windows thinks is essential to run all the time. Scanning the drive for viruses, downloading updates for shit you’ve never even looked at…
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 7 months ago:
Realistically, the best distro for a Windows user is one that runs all their existing Windows software (both applications and games) right out of the box.
Does any distro even come close to doing that?
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 7 months ago:
I recommend Gentoo for a beginner.
What better way to understand your new OS than by compiling it from scratch?
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 7 months ago:
You know what would have made this a non-issue?
Easily user replaceable batteries.
On top of that we should have standard sizes and mandate that manufacturers use them.
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta 7 months ago:
Well unless you bought one of those electric bike conversion kits from Temu. Those might.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 7 months ago:
I don’t know what Perplexity is but I know I don’t want it.
Let me guess, two guys in a garage, both Linked In "CEO"s, strapping more spyware to Chromium?
I even went to the website. It doesn’t what they are, but it’s something to do with AI, which figures…