BananaTrifleViolin
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- Comment on Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified 3 months ago:
The Verified tag is imperfect, and only means the game runs without any issues by steams criteria.
I’ve played plenty of games that get the next level down, “!” compatability warnings and it can be something as minor as the Steam Deck keyboard overlay appearing in game or even just the controller icons in the game not matching the icons on the deck or custom controllers. Having a 3rd party launcher can make the game not verified, even if the game runs flawlessly.
So not surprising that 30% of games are not verified.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 3 months ago:
If you’re using YouTube then install the FreeTube client - it’s a better experience I find although you need to manually import your watch lists. But avoids advertising and is much more private.
You can also install software like Jellyfin to stream from your own video library. You can also install Kodi to access your own library or streaming services with a nice big screen interface (Kodi is perfectly fine for accessing services you pay for - it’s not a piracy tool unless you make it one. I’m in the UK and use it to login and watch BBC Iplayer).
Honestly, it’s a full PC so with a bit of tinkering you can get it to do what you want in desktop mode and slickly.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 3 months ago:
I have a desktop and a laptop but I don’t use my laptop at all anymore. I plugged my deck into my TV and use it as a home theatre PC, using wireless game controller and keyboard and mouse.
It’s honestly great - the big screen is so much more comfortable compared to a laptop, desktop mode let’s you do anything you want and you an sink into the couch and relax.
You could obviously plug youe laptop in the exact same way, although the decks gamescope mode gives it that but more versatility I think.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 3 months ago:
I’ve dual run Linux and Windows for ages on my main PC but the Steam Deck is what moved me over to Linux as my daily driver and started me using KDE. Since switching from Mint to OpenSuSE on my PC I now very rarely use windows - I basically use it for occasional games that don’t run on Proton well yet.
And agree on the HTPC use - I use my deck mostly plugged into my TV.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 3 months ago:
Weird, it works flawlessly for me. But I’ve only tried it in desktop mode. I find gamescope mode isn’t great for non games, even Firefox scales wierdly in gamescope mode.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 3 months ago:
I have mine plugged into my TV, with a wireless controller and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I spend most of my time in the desktop mode
I use it to:
- play steam games on the deck directly
- stream games at high settings form my PC to my TV via Steam link and Moonlight (I find Moonlight works better for me)
- browse the Web via Firefox
- stream video from my PC via jellyfin
- watch YouTube via Freetube
- watch streaming services via Web browser
- unhook it to occasionally play games in bed on a lazy Sunday morning
It works great as an all in one device. I don’t really use the smart features on my TV or my Fire stick anymore - I don’t need to see all the shitty advertising or use their compromised UIs that try to sell me shit.
Honestly, the Steam Deck is one of the best devices I’ve bought in years.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 7 months ago:
You literally ended your post with “phone the boss lol”.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 7 months ago:
I stand corrected, you are obviously very relaxed about the whole topic to the point you will “phone the boss lol”. To me you’re sneering at people who are doing poorly paid gig economy jobs. Maybe when you get some experience of the real world you will learn things are seldom so straight forward and black and white.
Next time you ask someone to give you some slack in your job (maybe extending a deadline? Maybe moving something around to accommodate you?) you might understand how even something as simple as “moving from a to b” is not always as easy as you think.
- Comment on What happens when you try to buy a $1M domain? 7 months ago:
The seller has decided the domain costs $1m. It’s unlikely any “cart” they’ve set that up with would allow such a transaction. It’ll be some kind of bank to bank transfer that is needed with various fraud checks.
Also as with most expensive purchases, the list price is total bullshit. When you see expensive price tags, the final price will be less unless demand is high.
When you see expensive apartments or properties up for $1m the selling price is likely to be less unless there is a lot of competition. In property hotspots it is getting normal to pay the full price but in all areas the prices are inflated deliberately to see what the seller can get away with. The actual price is what someone is willing to pay. People aren’t fools - they negotiate.
If you’ll haggle over a $10k car then of course you’d haggle over a $1m domain. (And if you’re not haggling the price down on a $10k car then you’re an idiot and wasting money)
A $1m domain - it might sell for $900k or $100k or never sell as it’s actually worthless.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 7 months ago:
These are the words of someone who is destined for a life of disappointment from his deliveries. If you expect perfection then expect to be disappointed.
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 7 months ago:
Are you in the US? If so it makes a bit of sense olif you want to “fit in” socially, but it’s also fine if you just likely the accent. If you don’t live in the US then it might seem bizarre to people if you switch up your english accent (whatever it currently is).
But it’s your life, you do what you want. Plenty of people have elocution lessons for various reasons. If you feel embarrassed for whatever reason then tell people you’re taking elocution lessons. You could tell them you’ve chosen an American accent as you like the sounds, or it helps you project confidence or even because you feel it will open doors for you when communicating with other English speakers as it will remove bias or prejudice against your current accent.
There are lots of ways of justifying it if you feel the need. But hopefully your friends and family will just understand if you say you just like the way it sounds.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 7 months ago:
Yeah it’s quite an accomplishment to make the vastness of space feel claustrophobic and small.
Some of the response to the reviews is bizarre - one seems to try to claim that the planets are not boring because they’re realistic and the real world is boring, and that the player is probably just overwhelmed by the awesomeness of it all.
It almost feels like the game Devs have convinced themselves that they’ve been working on the greatest game ever made and when told “no you haven’t” they’re responding by saying “you just don’t get our vision”.
It’s an ok game. I’m actually less bothered by the loading screens and more by the old fashioned story telling. This game would have been amazing if released closer after Skyrim. But it’s been 12 years and we’ve had Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and Baldurs Gate 3 that have changed expectations. All of them are better at evoking a sense of emotional engagement with the game, and actions having meaningful consequences in the plot. Subplots like the bloody baron in Witcher 3, or Judy in cyberpunk have stuck with me in a way characters and events in Skyrim and now Starfield just never have.
Problem is I suspect Bethesda will focus on all the loading screen / sense of scale complaints and not register the more important (imo) issues with the stories, characters and gameplay. Less but better is the real lesson I think.