supersquirrel
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- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 1 day ago:
If Google had spent all this time building up an open source operating system and Google wasn’t clearly trying to lock down and hamstring said operating system for ever more profit growth, then absolutely.
In this timeline? lol nope
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 2 days ago:
I meant as a new complimentary community not a replacement!
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 2 days ago:
Yeah, though I think a seperate Linux Handhelds would be cool to provide an encompassing place for devices like the Steam Deck/other types of linux handhelds.
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic set for new biomes, missions and enemies in Season 6 4 days ago:
rock and stone!
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic unearths its season 6 update as Rogue Core spinoff gets delayed 5 days ago:
Best multiplayer PvE shooter of all time, no question.
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
Yeah with a toggle to turn it off briefly when I need to.
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
left joystick - movement
right joystick - broad aim adjustment
gyro - fine aim adjustment
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
No I only use the gyro for aim, movement is just the left joystick!
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
Probably not, but it might be suprisingly economical given you are making a product that simultaneously targets two niche ends of two market at once (people who have larger hands and use touchpads and people who have smaller hands and use joysticks) and it would compliment the new steam controller perfectly.
I am sure it would be more costly, but you wouldn’t presumably have to change thatttt much about the controller and it wouldn’t really change keybinding stuff just you would have to change the steam ui to reflect the changed position of the joysticks and touchpads.
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
I think the easy solution here is release an identical controller except switch the location of the touchpad and joysticks. I think this would also be good for people with all different kinds of hand shapes as someone who likes joysticks but has small hands might prefer the same controller as someone who has large hands and prefers touchpads and equal and opposite for a second version with the touchpads on top.
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
It is very effective for me, I can play multiplayer fps games against mouse and keyboard players fine and honestly I enjoy it more than mouse and keyboard, probably because I grew up playing xbox/consoles (not that I find it difficult to use a mouse and keyboard, just not as fun) but also because it just feels like I am aiming so snap shots and things are wayyyy more satisfying to me than if I just moved a mouse to click on them.
In practice it isn’t necessarily easy to tell I am using gyro except for when I do brief quick reaction shots just relying on gyro for aim, the rest of the time I don’t ever think about using the gyro consciously, I just used the joysticks for rough aim and let my brain figure it out with the gyro to lock my joystick aim in. Recoil in FPS games is also way more fun to control with gyro, it is a more direct control relationship rather than dragging a mouse down a mousepad for me.
I don’t move the Steam Deck much though, it isn’t like I am getting a work out whipping the Steam Deck around, the gyro is really just there to lock in broad joystick movements to be accurate and on target consistently without the small aim adjustment problem that joystick deadzones create.
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
I play shooters and rts games with a gyro toggle, and I only toggle gyro off when I am putting my steam deck down or some other random thing. To each their own!
- Comment on Steam Controller 6 days ago:
As a big fan of the Steam Deck, something I want to emphasize here is that even if you don’t want the joysticks or the touchpads on the Steam Controller and wish they had picked one or the other, this kind of setup means the controller has essentially the same layout as the Steam Deck which is HUGE for ease of finding custom control schemes already uploaded by the community for complex games.
I prefer joysticks+gyro over touchpads and so for me the touchpads might seem superfluous, but I heavily use them for virtual menus in all of my control schemes I make for complex games with lots of controls and inputs. The nice thing is that even though I am in the minority of people in that I prefer joysticks + gyro to touchpad for aiming, because the Steam Deck and Steam Controller both have two touchpads and two joysticks, somebody who is touchpad centric can use a control scheme I make pretty much right out of the box just by flip flopping the touchpad and joystick bindings so the virtual menus live on the joysticks instead.
I think this will be one of the subtle things people look back on and credit the Steam Deck and now new Steam Controller for having, it might seem silly and extraneous to have both touchpads and joysticks but it opens up a very wide range of capability and also makes it easier for touchpad and joystck focused players to share custom keybinding schemes with each other.
- Comment on Warhammer Survivors announced as a licensed Vampire Survivors game 2 weeks ago:
DRG!!
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 2 weeks ago:
“True our business plan is trash, but if we had infinite energy it would scale.”
…ok? That isn’t a flex?
- Comment on The Steam Controller 2 Got A New Icon And It Further Confirms The Layout 2 weeks ago:
hell yeah!
- Comment on The graphics look amazing on this game, I think it is a Ukrainian game, does anyone know it? 3 weeks ago:
War is good for keeping a country from invading yours :)
- Comment on The graphics look amazing on this game, I think it is a Ukrainian game, does anyone know it? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to roleplay fighting in the Ukraine war as realistically as possible, I am just making a joke, I have seen Steam Decks pop up in several videos from Ukraine’s military, it seems like one of the handheld computers they commonly use which is cool.
- Comment on Hybrid Air Vehicles lands first military deal for Airlander 10 - AGN 3 weeks ago:
These are actually not very suceptible to small arms fire, they don’t need a perfect seal to stay aloft, there are cases of observation blimps being used in the US war in Afghanistan that would be taken down and they would find them full of holes from gunfire (I mean, I get it, especially in that region your roof is your private space…).
The other thing is that they can fly quite high, they would occupy spaces that traditional aircraft wouldn’t be ideal for, definitely but that is why you shouldn’t compare this ridiculous monstrosity directly to other aircraft, it is a different thing.
It really is unlike any other aircraft ever built, it is continually strange to me that this wasn’t just a vaporwave idea that never made it past planning.
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- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 4 weeks ago:
Wrong question.
The right question is “What is the societal and economic value of a community space where the human element has been rendered functionally invisible?” to which the answer is of course “There is none”.
The problem isn’t with social media, the problem is with letting billionaires and corporations completely ruin social media and push rightwing beliefs while we pretend this isn’t an existential issue.
- Comment on Hyper Light Breaker's development is ending, and devs Heart Machine are laying off staff 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Ubisoft Canceled Civil War-Based Assassin's Creed Over Controversy Concerns - Report 5 weeks ago:
Ok but part of me is morbidly curious what a super corporate “both sides” perspective Civil War Assassin’s Creed would be like.
Although Assassin’s Creed : The General would be kickass.
archive.org/details/TheGeneral_201312
Wait Buster Keaton wasn’t a Templar… right?!
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 month ago:
This isn’t about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.
No, actually it is inseperable from those things.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 month ago:
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and systems around them to violent ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers as if they were simply expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren’t as smart as them that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 month ago:
They aren’t? The whole point of AI is to use technology to rationalize severing the social contract at a basic level in order to normalize hurting people for being out of the loop. Techies in their naive smugness refused a leftist analysis of their industry, failed to unionize and now the rest of us are paying the price.
Whether it is using AI to aid in the Palestinian genocide with Microsoft, using AI to mass deny life saving healthcare and murder people with United Healthcare, preying upon tech illiterate people with the ads industry or any number of things, trust us, we aren’t thankful for techies.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Mission Accomplished
- Comment on Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop 1 month ago:
This isn’t an irony, this was always the plan. The intended effect was to break the back of labor in the tech industry and it worked beautifully for them.
