MasterBuilder
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- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
Understood. My issue is more abstract. It would be nice if some who don’t need it also put their support behind the concept for altruistic reasons and because they realize it could affect them when their hardware is no longer cutting edge.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
As I said in my comment, I was not implying you personally had any such attitude. I was commenting on my feelings about how that statement could be interpreted and the general attitude behind it is part of what I have in the past actually experienced when I advocated for the value of building for a less l33t configuration. The attitude by at least some and perhaps many is a weaponization of the attitude I saw in your comment (again, not seeking to imply you actually had that attitude).
When enough people just don’t care because the problem does not directly affect them, the problem is not addressed because not enough people care. That is what I was attempting to say. Thus, I apologize for the appearance of saying you personally had a “bad” attitude on this. It’s a common attitude and is a contributing factor to many real-world serious social problems, and I just don’t like it because of consequences on a larger scale.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
I don’t like the implied sociopaths in that assessment. It smacks of "i got mine, fucck you ". I’m not implying that is your attitude, just pointing out that people who don’t care because it does not affect them overlap the population that is all for fascism because they are in the “in” group and aren’t harmed.
Building to work well on low-end systems does not take from high-end systems unless the devs don’t take advantage of it when it is available.even then, they are not worse off.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
You know, I was rather surprised how well my 2016 Lenovo gaming laptop handled BG3. That has I think a GT640? Don’t exactly remember the device names, but they stopped updating drivers for it in 2020.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
- Future proofing
- GenAI. Models take space, and what doesn’t fit in your 16Gb VRAM works in your much slower regular RAM.
- Multitasking media generation, software builds, movie rips, serious number crunching, or anything else you can imagine, etc.
- One or more virtual machines running for various needs.
- Comment on What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? 1 week ago:
I um… Just got my son hooked on the demo…it was supposed to be me.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - December 2025 1 week ago:
This is what I did for a while. As your addiction takes root and you add more and more mods to get cooler and cooler effects, you will eventually start playing on your gaming PC, and uninformed spectators will think you are playing a game that just came out with sick animations. I suggest you include Serana dialog add-on and Touched by Dibella.
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 1 year ago:
It’s configured to run at the native resolution of the device, and looks good, but I’m not sure it is really at 4k.
Skyrim performs flawlessly, but Baldur’s Gate gets sbout 15 fps at this rez, so I have to lower the graphics setting. I’m nesr endgame, so there is a lot of city animation.
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 1 year ago:
I can’t speak on multiplayer experiences, but i have several emulators set up on my OLED deck. GameCube, N64, switch, ps2. They work well, and i have a 3DO pro2 i use while it’s docked to my 4k tv, sound through a surround sound bar with woofer - amazing sound. I mostly run skyrim and Balder’s Gate 3 at the moment, but i enjoyed BotW and my son likes sonic.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.6: How the Steam Deck atomic updates are improving 1 year ago:
I’m late to the comment board, but I had to say something. I was amazed when one day my broken Balders’ Gate III P22 install suddenly not only worked, but worked with Vulkan. Until now, I figured it was an improvement to the Proton-GE or Experimental that came down around that time. Anyway, when I loaded my game (in the underdark) on my OLED, I was shocked at the improvement.
Not only was the framerate closer to 40+ vs 28-30, but it was vibrant. The resolution appeared to be better, too. It was gratifying to see it looked better than on my ancient Lenovo gaming laptop (circa 2016), which, to my surprise, handled it quite well considering the age of the NVidia card.