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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I said six as a joke but I thought I’d put together a list anyway.

  • The knife is Global. I was a sous chef in New Orleans and everyone on the line had their preference. I like Japanese steel Santoku knives even if it cost more to resharpen. If I’m chopping a hundred onions, it matters. (I can sharpen a knife but when it’s your job, you get a professional to do it. Cheap knives, I just sharpen myself.)
  • My jacket doesn’t seem to have a brand (or it’s faded away). I bought it off the shelf because I was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans while traveling with a stylish woman and she was like, “That looks amazing on you!” In retrospect, she was lying and just wanted me to look credible instead of a shiftless transient wearing a stupid t-shirt.
  • Lodge or (better but overpriced) Le Creuset enameled cast iron pots will last you forever.
  • Osprey bags, in my experience are solid. They’re probably overpriced now but not having your bag or zippers be a problem when traveling for work or pleasure is worth $50 every time.
  • I worked construction for awhile and I stick with DeWalt tools. They did a battery volt switch thing that maybe wasn’t necessary — it was an advancement in battery tech — but the adapter was cheap. I don’t need my drill or sawzall often but when I do, it better fucking work.
  • To give a modern example, I’ve had good experiences with Cotopaxi bags and pants. My boss bought a bag from them after seeing my bag last. And you can wash the pants in a sink if you’re into hiking.
  • Thule has also served me well. But that’s a specialist thing so I didn’t include it in the top 6.

  To be clear, every single one of these companies might have been bought by a private equity firm that intends to ruin it and milk the brand equity while making everything worse. I’m not endorsing any corporation. I just have found those companies to be worth paying a bit more for compared to generic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know they make money off the store but making a quality, repairable product and selling it at a reasonable price is a really good business model. Other companies should try it. When Steam Deck 2 comes out, I’ll be buying it. And probably repurposing my original Steam Deck as a media server or something.

  There’s like six companies left on Earth that do that and they’ll probably be around forever. I know it costs 30% more for quality and Valve has the store to supplement it. But I have a 20 year-old leather jacket and an even older kitchen knife. I saved up for both because I was broke and in my early 20’s. They’re probably both better today after going through their paces. I know a guy who works at a shipyard who gets his boots re-soled because he likes his boots. Same boots for decades. Occasional maintenance required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Steam Deck and a Switch and I definitely plan to buy the Switch 2 when it’s available (and I mean actually available, not available on eBay or if I camp in front of a GameStop for three weeks).

  There’s a surprising lot of ways that the Switch and the Deck play different roles for me. I prefer handheld gaming now — thanks to the Switch — so it’s nice that I can use the Steam Deck for my PC game backlog but also things like connecting to a gaming PC or console (or emulation or whatever). And since it’s also a Linux PC in disguise — it uses Arch, by the way — you can bounce over to Desktop mode and install basically anything. I’ve even used it for quick work stuff in a pinch.

  But even if I sometimes enjoy customizing my Deck, sometimes, I’m don’t feel like fiddling with settings or care about FPS. As the article notes, Switch is a walled garden and a standard platform so it can’t do as much but every game is going to just open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would have to be game changing! Get it?!? “Game” changing?!? Ah, whatever.

  Awful puns aside, it really would have to be a major step up in hardware. The Steam Deck is a platform developers (plus accessory makers and independent devs) care about. Even modern AAA game devs will often try to make their games playable on it even if they have to compromise. (It may not be technically possible or economically feasible but devs seem to all want to support the Deck even if their bosses have other plans.)

  At some point, it’ll be impossible for the Deck’s hardware to handle recent games and then we’ll all upgrade to something that sets a new baseline and strikes a better balance — whether Steam Deck 2 or a competitor. But my guess is that it’s going to be more about hardware generations than something Microsoft does. (Proton might be nearly perfect by the time Microsoft makes a decent controller interface and they seem to be focused on shoehorning AI into Notepad and Paint instead of doing useful things.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer the PS5/SteamDeck joystick layout to the Xbox/Switch layout but I’m addicted to back paddles now — I even got 3rd party joycons for Switch that have two (and also are as thick as the Steam Deck so it feels familiar when I jump over to play Zelda or whatever).

  They’re BINBOK controllers and have been great for my needs in handheld mode. The back paddles aren’t fully programmable and I think there’s some features missing but nothing I really notice. And they’ve probably lasted longer than the official Joycons.

  What I’d really like is a controller that’s basically just the deck without a screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use the back buttons for?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My default move is to map the L3 and R3 clicks to two of them. (I even unmap the actual stick clicks sometimes because I click them by accident a lot.)

  I also find it useful in games where the situation changes and A B X & Y completely change what they do. Like if a game is mostly exploring but sometimes in a car/plane/spaceship/whatever, I’ll map the back buttons and use them when I’m in the secondary situation. (There’s lots of other examples of games that temporarily switch genres on you here and there and using the back buttons helps me remember the controls.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still use your Steam Deck much?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use mine a ton. I actually prefer it (or Switch) for 90% of games. I have a PS5 and gaming PC and I actually bought the PlayStation Portal because as it turned out, I just like the format more than playing on TV. (I know about Chiaki — the Portal is seamless so I can hand it to a kid without getting them set up first and it never really disconnects.)

  I think in part, it’s just a function of age. I don’t necessarily have uninterrupted time for big, cinematic games that work best on TV. Half of them have a 2h intro before you can even play the game. So, I end up playing games like Hades where I can get a few runs in and stop if I’m interrupted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I aced that test but in fairness, I happened to be watching a basketball game when I saw your post and clicked the link. So, I was coming in primed for seeing ball movement and the occasional gorilla popping in frame.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why but those Liberty Mutual commercials go in one ear and right out the other for me. I have YouTube Red so don’t know those but they sponsor live sports like crazy and one game this year, I was like, “What’s that emu about?” And my friend said, “Dude, they’ve been showing the emu commercials non-stop for like 5 years.”

  I just googled it and they debuted the “LiMu Emu and Doug” campaign in 2019. So, it was 4 years before I noticed the emu. It’s good I can ignore ads but I would have definitely died in The Emu Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’ll have to add this to my upcoming Steam Deck Owner Simulator game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selling my deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t feel guilty about believing in supply/demand while disliking capitalism. Commerce isn’t capitalism and trade existed before stock markets, corporations, and shareholders.

  Not to turn a steam deck comment thread into something political. I’m not saying capitalism is good or bad. I’m just saying that stores existed before Adam Smith or the Dutch East India Company (or whenever you want to say capitalism emerged). Ancient Egyptian cities had markets. Prehistory probably had commerce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[News] Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Amiibo support coming soon! I can’t wait to give Dave the Diver Toad’s hat and diaper outfit.