BlueFairyPainter
@BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de
- Comment on Steam Deck had a strong end to 2023 and a great start for 2024 8 months ago:
These days I’m mostly playing rhythm games and for those I much prefer the trackpads. Less finger strain, I can tap faster, less wear and tear for the buttons, less noise for my surroundings. And in other games with toolbars, even if they have console support, you usually have to sift through shoulder buttons to switch between your items. With the trackpads you can have a tiny macro pad right underneath your thumbs.
As someone with tiny hands who usually uses an extra small xbox controller, I still find myself loving the deck controls more, simply because there is more stuff to configure to my liking. Yes, I have some trouble reaching the shoulder buttons when my thumbs are on the pads, but so far that’s been less of a problem in the games I play.
- Comment on Multitouch on touch pads? 9 months ago:
The game doesn’t support the touch screen :( but will look for plugins in that direction, thanks
- Submitted 9 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
A good quality skin should be cleanly removable, so unless the phone skin is much cheaper, there’s not much benefit to practicing on the phone first. I wouldn’t worry so much.
Also sorry for randomly info-dumping that wall of text, oh god. I tend to do that when I’m obsessed with something haha ^^"
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
The screen protector you see on mine is the second one because I fumbled the first and it still has bubbles. So as someone who also struggles with screen protectors: it’s not the same.
Yes, it has a lot more pieces, some of which are quite thin and fragile and you need more patience to follow the instructions properly and the whole process takes a lot longer, which may seem daunting.
But the material is so, so much more forgiving than the average screen protector.First of all, it’s not transparent, so trapping some stuff that doesn’t have much height like fine dust and fingerprints is not an issue, since you can’t see it.
This means that you don’t have to drop everything into place perfectly on the first try. Because a small amount of fingerprints is not an issue, you can fumble around with it a lot more. Because fine dust is not an issue, you can also take your time doing it.
Secondly, even if you do trap larger pieces of dust, unlike rigid screen protectors that create a huge penny-sized bubble dome around it, skins are meant to wrap tightly around complex shapes, so in my case I just have a teenie tiny bump exactly the size of the dust + skin thickness, which is barely noticeable.
The glue on my skin also seems different and more forgiving to ripping and reapplying. In particular, you can reposition things a lot of times before pressing down to fixate it for good. So you can e.g. fixate one side, then lightly drape the skin across to match the cutouts on the other side, then fixate that side, and then smooth out the middle parts.
Which takes us to bubbles. Whenever the flat skin doesn’t fit the 3D shape 100%, you’ll get a lot of wrinkles and bubbles and that is totally fine. With the hairdryer, you can melt the material into place and most of my bubbles disappeared completely. The few that didn’t turned into tiny creases at the ends. I think this is the only imperfection to expect. It’s really hard not to get any creases and you don’t get more tries here because you need to press down to smooth out the bubbles, so you can’t reapply.
But that’s it. Everything else can be repositioned until it’s perfect, so the only thing it really takes is patience. - Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
Hey, I asked for them, so they are solicited!
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
Dang, I need to give it a try. I’ve been wary of RSI with the super fast games, didn’t know it was possible to have hard levels without destroying my hands.
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
Woah it’s all white :O
Was it a set or did you have to get custom case, buttons and pads separately? Wanted to do something similar as well in the beginning but I’ve never taken electronics apart before so when I read that it’s not that easy and there are risky steps, I bailed and got a skin instead haha - Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
Looks sick, man. How’s Rhythm Heaven? Recently got back into rhythm games myself.
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
EasySkinz. They had some pretty good discounts during black friday when I got it
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
I’m also from Europe and got this one from EasySkinz. They’re UK-based. The material feels good and was easy to apply, can def recommend them. Customer support was helpful, too (asked them if the non-OLED skins were any different from the OLED ones and the answer was no, idk why they sell them in different categories).
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
Neat motif! Did you use heat? My skin came with instructions to use a hairdryer and the skin kind of just melted into place with some careful strokes. If you haven’t done so, maybe you can try that on an inconspicuous area?
- Comment on I'm in love with this skin. Show off your Decks :D 10 months ago:
It’s metallic blue when you look directly at it and turns more purple as you look more from the side
- Submitted 10 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 41 comments
- Comment on I've never had a Steam account or done PC gaming. I have a OLED SteamDeck coming. what do I need to know? 10 months ago:
You may want to check out isthereanydeal.com to build your wishlist. It allows you to set the price thresholds at which you want to be notified and also supports other fully-legitimate (as in devs actively collaborate with them and get paid) stores than just Steam. Many of which sell Steam keys which are codes you can redeem in Steam to activate the game there.
You have all the benefits of Steam games such as no to little extra fiddling to play games on Linux, library and cloud save sync, Steam community and workshop content, playtime tracking etc.
The only real downside is that you’re not covered by Steam’s super lenient refund policy, which is actually quite good to have, since not all games run perfectly on Deck yet. If you buy from other stores, it’s usually hard to refund games that you’ve already redeemed. But if you’re fairly confident that it will run and you won’t refund it, you can sometimes find really good sales “off-season” this way.
Hope that helps :) - Comment on (TRUTH) New year and reflection time for past 6 months 10 months ago:
Before getting the Deck, I pretty much gave up on gaming because I started working fulltime remotely and I didn’t want to just continue sitting on the same desk after work and continue gaming there. It’s bad for my physical and mental health.
Since getting my OLED end of November, I’ve been playing an average of 3h per day despite fulltime work and spending holidays with family and friends… oops :D I think it will definitely go down once the honeymoon phase is over, but its impact is already made. Through it I’ve found a new way to fit an old hobby back into my life.
I’m also using it to watch stuff on TV in docked mode. The portable format is just perfect for it.
