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- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
Which is all that would happen if third parties decide they don’t like the terms that valve and them agreed to.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
Valve just doesn’t allow cheaper prices from other storefronts if it’s a steam key being sold, where valve is the one footing the bill for the server costs. There are games for sale on epic all the time that are better deals than what’s on steam. But when you buy a game on epic, you’re using epics servers/bandwidth.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
Except that’s not really true. Or at least a half truth.
Steam prevents publishers from selling steam keys through other sites and means for less money. Publishers and other distributors are able to sell their games as cheap as they want anywhere they want. They just can’t sell it dirt cheap somewhere and then use valves steam program and bandwidth to download and play the game.
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 2 months ago:
This fine won’t even be paid. Literally nothing will happen.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 3 months ago:
It’s actually not even that. The apk doesn’t do much except suggest cooking times/temps, for the most part. The cooker 100% works just fine if you never installed the apk at all. All the on and off and times and temps can all be set right on the cooker itself. You don’t need the apk for anything.
- Comment on Dozens injured, pets killed in fires causing Samsung to recall 1.1M stoves 3 months ago:
100% agree. Their appliances suck.
However, this has little to do with anything Samsung specific. The front side “push and turn” types of knows are par for the course across many brands and have existed for a good many decades. Samsungs voluntary recall is a know replacement that you have to squeeze, push, and turn instead of the standard push and turn. Essentially, samsung just made a much safer front knob for a stove than anyone else offers.
It’s still a samsung appliance, though. So it will probably break every other year until you give up and throw it away.
- Comment on If you have DeckHD (Steam Deck Display Mod) will now be officially supported 3 months ago:
I just meant more like the resolution.
Supposedly, the SD didn’t get an oled screen because it was a bit less power efficient. Oled saves power when there’s blacks on the screen, and most games don’t have much black.
- Comment on If you have DeckHD (Steam Deck Display Mod) will now be officially supported 3 months ago:
To me, that is sure evidence that it will be the normal screen in the next deck. I’m guessing a summer 2025 release. Resolution Will make it just perfect enough to make tiny text readable, which is the only thing the current stock screens need. Reading texts in games like witcher 3 are a bit of a pain. Have to set up magnification stuff on the right touch pad.
- Comment on Most played games on Steam Deck for May 2024 - Hades II tops the list 5 months ago:
It’s my main gaming device. I love the thing, and if you take the time to really understand and use the massive amount of control and gyro options it’s crazy how good the controls can be for so many different games. Way better than any console, and often nicer than keyboard/mouse. The borderlands games with gyro aiming is the best way to play, hands down. I’ve also heard high praise on some rts strategy builder games with gyro mouse functions. A genre I didn’t think would work well at all without a keyboard and mouse.
- Comment on Most played games on Steam Deck for May 2024 - Hades II tops the list 5 months ago:
Shit yeah it is. I’m nearing the end of my latest playthrough. I probably only have another 40 hours to go!
- Comment on Do you still use your Steam Deck much? 5 months ago:
My time and ability to game has led me to almost exclusively play on my steam deck, and I now game a lot more than I’ve gotten to in a decade.
For the past couple of years (I upgraded to the OLED) I’ve pretty much only purchased/played games that will play well on the SD.
I like many games that are really only suited to a bigger screen or mouse/keyboard, but not enough to get any of them, because I know I won’t be able to play them consistently enough to even remember what was going on since I’d played last.
- Comment on Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch 5 months ago:
What if you include the switch games it can play? Hehehe
- Comment on FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed 5 months ago:
Disclosed? It shouldn’t be allowed at all.
- Comment on Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. 6 months ago:
T-mobile has been profitable every single year since 2013. Well before the merger.
- Comment on Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. 6 months ago:
I was on t mo’s “top tier” magenta max plan.
Now, you can’t even get very good deals on a trade in phone with that plan because they created something else to phase out magenta max. I think the only benefit over magenta max is like 10GB more hotspot data. 50 instead of 40.
But you need that plan (which of course, is more expensive) if you want the same types of trade in deals you used to get on Max.
Neither which really affects me too much, because I haven’t gotten a phone through a carrier plan in like a decade. My 4 year old current phone isn’t going away any time soon, either. The last descent phone with a micro sd card slot. Note 20 Ultra.
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 7 months ago:
I saw that shit a single time before I shut it down. You have far more patience than I.
- Comment on Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO 7 months ago:
It was $34 I’m waiting for options to pop up so I can buy puts and make money on it dropping to $25 over the next 6 weeks.
- Comment on Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified 8 months ago:
I own a nice gaming PC. I just never really use it now that I have my SD. Veing able to game anywhere and immediately stop and start my game back up by just tapping the power button is exactly what I needed for gaming. As a “responsible” adult I don’t have a lot of undisturbed straight lengths of time to game at the pc, and if I only have 30 minutes, it’s like it isn’t even worth trying.
- Comment on Linda Hamilton says she wouldn't star in a 'Terminator' reboot: 'It's been done to death' 8 months ago:
There’s been a bunch of “original” robot rampage movies. Just the rest weren’t named Terminator because they were different movies, so what are you asking?
The first movie would still be great looking and awesome if they would fix the stop motion of the robot, which at this point is actually pretty cheap and easy to do, but there’s no money to be made that route. If you want a “Terminator” movie, the only option is a remake of the original. The sequels and spin offs and shows past T2 all kinda sucked, and it’s been 40 years. It wouldn’t be the worst thing to remake. Just sucks that Arnold couldn’t be the t-1000 now unless they go all ai/cgi on it, which I really hope Arnold would be absolutely against.
- Comment on ‘Dune: Part Two’ First Reactions: Rave Reviews Topped By Critic Who Claims, “It’s The Definitive Sci-Fi Epic Of A Generation” 9 months ago:
Don’t wish too far down the line. After the Original author passed away and his son continued on in the series…well let’s just say the apple rolled a bit after it fell from the tree.
- Comment on Blue Eye Samurai is the best thing Netflix has done in years 9 months ago:
Well heck…now that we’re at like 50/50 I’ll probably wait, then.
- Comment on Blue Eye Samurai is the best thing Netflix has done in years 9 months ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Blue Eye Samurai is the best thing Netflix has done in years 9 months ago:
Does it have a conclusion of sorts for season 1? I’m not interested in getting involved with an ever cliffhanging show that Netflix will cancel before conclusion.
- Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
It looks like the cracked version takes more steps to get it to work, though. Downloading extra files and adding the exe to firewall and such to keep it from phoning home.
- Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
I can do these all day in windows, but im not familiar enough with proton to make it work on steam deck. There any useful guides that could show how to do it on SD? I half just want to out of spite, rather than for wanting to play the game.
- Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
It doesn’t really matter, my guy.
- Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
Review bomb tiiiiime!
- Comment on MSI Launches Claw A1M Handheld Gaming Device With Core Ultra 7 CPU, Starts At $699 10 months ago:
I just really like the track pads on the SD. They’re too useful to not have.
- Comment on As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck 10 months ago:
Installing windows is lame and ruins the console like experience that helps make deck popular. Also, the anti cheat won’t be solved until Linux anti cheat is used by the games and no sooner. That won’t happen until a lot more people are on Linux.
- Comment on As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck 10 months ago:
Almost all the non working games are due to anti cheat or are online only games. Two aren’t anti cheat, but also aren’t games. In other words there’s only like 3 games that are single player that don’t work.