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- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 12 hours ago:
A woodchipper can approximate a tree almost perfectly up to a certain token limit so long as you have a real tree to feed into it.
- Comment on Here's the most played Steam Deck games for April 2025, Balatro still top but Oblivion Remastered sneaks in second 1 day ago:
I am such a weirdo, my top played steam deck games are multiplayer shooters, a multiplayer RTS and and a realistic driving game and I pretty much only play with onboard controls usually.
It makes sense why people would love the Deck for singleplayer rpgs, I just don’t make any sense.
- Comment on A few questions before getting a used Steam Deck after my wedding 1 day ago:
If I end up using a Dual Schock 4 or a Dual Sense when my Steam Deck is docked, will I have to pair them again with my consoles every time after using them with the Deck?
Just get another used gamepad used if it becomes an issue! That is the beauty of using a computer instead of a console, most gamepads are going to work and with Steam’s controller interface it is easy to select a control scheme that will work well for that controller.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 3 days ago:
Valheim somehow still feels underrated to me even though it is a massively successful game, it is just so damn good at it’s fundamentals.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 3 days ago:
Lately I have been mainly playing my usual, Operation Harsh Doorstop. OHD is a free and moddable, big map vehicle and infantry (including helis) multiplayer game like Project Reality but the big difference is that OHD is moddable and so the whole game is a really exciting platform for all kinds of games with functioning client side downloading of mods so you can just connect to a multiplayer server and go!
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
I sing the praises of the game a lot, it has a lot of rough edges but it runs decent on the Steam Deck (keep view distance as high as possible, turn down everything else, lock the max framerate of the deck at like 40fps). Gunplay is fairly realistic, the bipod mechanics are awesome, APCs and AFVs feel weighty and powerful but this is definitely a game where unprotected armor gets eaten for lunch by infantry since… pretty much everybody on the other team who doesn’t have a better plan or wants an smg is strapping a RPG or other form of AT. You have to turn the graphics way down on the Steam Deck… but I just don’t really care? I think the realism of OHD helps in that if you get the drop on someone you will probably win if you are smart, and pretty much any gun in the game can be used in any situation this isn’t some crazy confusing game like COD, Apex or another game with constantly changing gun metas and hyper specific strategies. Just pick a gun and go, it will work great lol.
The real reason OHD is one of my favorite Steam Deck games is flying helicopters on the Steam Deck it is an absolute joy, I mean driving any kind of vehicles is a blast (holy shit I have spent so many hours in Motortown powersliding around corners and I regret none of it lol) too but specifically helicopters become a form of psychedelic drug as your mind locks into flying them organically and it is a thrill to master using helicopters (transport and attack) effectively in a semi-realistic game like this. The skill ceiling is intimidatingly high, both for the crazy variable way you can apply attack helicopters in this game and also for the way you can realistically shift the momentum of entire matches by making effective troop drops with the transport helicopter.
Also if you aren’t looking for a realistic shooter… again this is a moddable platform and there are already mods like casualfield that make the game play more like call of duty or battlefield.
I have shared this game as a recommendation so many times but the reason I am sharing it this time is I ran into another player playing on the steam deck the other day and that was the first time that had happened!
Subscribe to the workshop mod “OHD Vehicle Overhaul” and you can mess around with flying helicopters in singleplayer if you are curious (pick singleplayer then ohd vehicle overhaul for mode and then jaziira for map).
- Comment on Dark mode comes to Rock Paper Shotgun 1 week ago:
RPS has let go of too many of the people that made it what it was, now it is just a business webpage with dark mode and the name of something I used to love… yeah!..
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 week ago:
Sorry, all I do is win, so the floor of my car is covered in medals…
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 week ago:
Fuck Discord, I hope they go pedal to the medal and destroy the company in record time.
- Comment on This Concentrating Solar Power Plant Makes Fuel From Sunlight 1 week ago:
…all jet fuel is made from the sun?
What do people think all the fossils were doing back then? Harnessing energy from magic?
- Comment on Bluesky is adding blue checks for ‘authentic and notable’ accounts 1 week ago:
yawn
- Comment on Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant 2 weeks ago:
“One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again.
Pleasse try this in a panic without testing it first Mark and also btw the reason people hate facebook has nothing to do with you and your rich friends I promise.
- Comment on Was ChatGPT the Worst Thing to Happen to OpenAI? 2 weeks ago:
Post-based social networks feel like such an aged-out technology. I’d almost respect it more if they said, We’re building a TikTok competitor and we have engineered the savviest content algorithm of all time.
This kind of thinking is why I still think U.S. tech companies and Silicon Valley in general has still not found the bottom. How pathetic do you have to be to look at Social Media and decide that after For Profit Businesses tried to monetize the idea of digital community spaces and it failed spectarlularly to the point that kids don’t even think it is cool anymore… that there must be no other way and “post-based social networks” are on there way out?
Literally the only thing we have tried is structuring social networks so that they must make a massive profit for investors and are all universally owned by insane billionaires.
You know how you know someone is full of shit? They point to things other people are doing and say “why are they doing that, that isn’t the trend?” when the question at its heart wasn’t about following a trend or not it was about a vision for the future.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 3 weeks ago:
All Elon Musk has ever done to earn a living is charge people rent and own valuable things and you and are telling me I should believe Elon is against the idea of charging people rent for digital things?
lol
- Comment on The platforms cash in their chips with Trump: From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working. 3 weeks ago:
Imagine being one of the richest people in the world and still being a coward.
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 3 weeks ago:
yeah, I am glad egg game exists, but Xonotic is just too fucking cool I am sorry. I don’t want to go back to not having the xonotic rocket launcher, it is just too fun
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 4 weeks ago:
Fuck that shit, play Xonotic
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
That and Vintage Story!
Ok Veloren too
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
Valheim is one of the best survival games ever, not splitscreen tho
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
Honestly the remake of the first three is gorgeous too
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
wobbly life! i fuckiing love wobbly life it is like GTA but more physics based and family friendly
store.steampowered.com/app/1211020/Wobbly_Life/
lego games are great too!
For more chill gameplay I REALLY like Farm Together, I haven’t tried the second one yet.
I can recommend a lot of local-splitscreen games too.
- Comment on 12 Nintendo Switch 2 Games You Can Play On Steam Deck Today 4 weeks ago:
Even if the hardware doesn’t match up, why the hell would I want to spend $450+ on a handheld computer that I can’t use as a handheld computer?
No, I will buy the handheld computer I can use to play games, or choose to use as a handheld computer that I can install whatever software on it I want.
Fuck consoles and corporate control over how you can use your gaming devices, fuck that this ever got normalized.
Buy a steam deck and forget giving Nintendo money.
- Comment on To Curb Online Sexual Abuse of Children, Experts Look to AI: Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work? 5 weeks ago:
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AI researchers often don’t understand basic aspects of how biases work in a cultural sense, like they get lost in the technical power and specifications of the machines they make and completely ignore the fact that they are working with a problem where you cannot eliminate bias or subjectivity in your filters, you can only be lucid and clear about what they are and try to minimize them in every way you can.
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This kind of narrative, and reasoning is VERY VERY VERY hard to stop once it gets momentum and can lead to a quick degradation of civil rights in a society, especially for younger people.
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AI is crap and it is always always always always always going to be worse than putting actual human beings who are professionals into positions where they can stop cyber grooming, bullying or harassment.
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Honestly, the fact that people are looking to AI to solve a problem like this inherently shows how little people actually give a fuck about solving this kind of problem shrugs . If kids are experiencing rampant toxic shit online, they need more adults to spend time with them and talk to them who they can trust, they don’t need more computer automated crap surveilling everything they fucking do and randomly dragnetting people with algorithms that are constantly wrong. The problem is that society has deemed children not worth the time for adults to spend quality time with enough that kids would be able to discuss and share these things easier, or that kids only have like a handful of adults in their life they can actually trust and they just don’t feel comfortable talking to any of that handful.
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- Comment on To Curb Online Sexual Abuse of Children, Experts Look to AI: Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work? 5 weeks ago:
No, no it won’t
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 weeks ago:
I would be lying if I said I didn’t find the fact that Reddit’s stock is crashing physically arousing.
- Comment on WW2 shooter Squad 44 from Offworld updates Easy Anti-Cheat enabling Linux support 5 weeks ago:
meh, Easy Red 2 never had any of that nonsense
- Comment on I love Easy Red 2 on my deck! 5 weeks ago:
It is good, idk, it isn’t flashy but if you give the gameplay a try it is just good. It isn’t really arcadey like bf2 though, everything is very lethal.
Also the big “swingset frame” looking structure repairs and rearms vehicles.
- Comment on Using the Steam Deck docked has been a dreadful experience for me. Is it just me going wrong? 5 weeks ago:
Nah it isn’t ideal, I wanted to make a post about it eventually but I wanted to try some third party docks and/or see if updates fixed it.
What I have figured out is that the best way to use the dock is to boot the steam deck up not connected to the dock, get it to the home screen and then connect it to the dock. I find this has the best chance of inititating everything right.
Make sure to check the controller order under the control settings for a particular game, use change who is the number 1 control input easily once you learn where it is, and that can help some of the problems that arise.
I don’t have any performance issues, but not that if you try to run a really high resolution tv at anywhere near a native resolution the steam deck just is going to quickly be outclassed by the performance demands. So idk, 720p sounds suspiciously low though, try checking the settings (under the lefthand bar) and examining how the display settings are set. Change it to native or some other setting and see if that helps, it might be that the settings are keeping your steam deck from jumping up to a higher resolution. Same thing with framerate lock, which you can check under the righthand bar, I recommend setting framelock settings (maximum framerate) on a pergame basis.
- Comment on HP hasn't made an OMEN gaming handheld because of Windows, but they are open to making a SteamOS-powered handheld 5 weeks ago:
Look, same, but just for the fun of it I like to imagine there is some magic point here where HP decides to make a steam deck os handheld, but doesn’t give a shit enough to focus on loading it up with shovelware, they just sort of say ok lets make a handheld that can run steamos and just focus on the hardware, leave em to the wolves I mean steam support.
They can make decent hardware, at least on their business laptops, it can be wildly inconsistent, kind of reminds me of like an audi car (at least in the US) some of them are actually pretty decent and reliable but some of them are fucking horror stories that never end for the owner lol…
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