supersquirrel
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- Comment on 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' 1 day ago:
This is a legendary head shot, it conveys immense “Sure pay me three figures to waste time explaining to you AI that was easier than actually getting work done.”
- Comment on 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility 1 day ago:
That is a Ukrainian soldier using a steam deck to control actual weapon systems real humans…
OK, this is a stupid point. This is a much different scenario than someone sitting at home. The Deck is portable, light, and has control and display built in. It’s perfect for this, where a desktop wouldn’t really work. Even if the control scheme isn’t ideal (which it’s great for controlling a drone, but that’s beside the point), setting up a keyboard and mouse with a monitor and power would be horrible for them.
No it isn’t, they could use a mouse if they wanted to, and they aren’t. Sure it helps that the Steam Deck is portable, but if you think they are all sitting there wishing they could have a mouse and keyboard you are being silly.
This is irrelevant to the conversation, but there are different types of mechanical skill
Yeah your tangent here is, I know there are different types of mechanical skill but don’t come at me like competitive Counter Strike requires more reaction speed, hand eye coordination and target prediction than quake, you are deceiving yourself because you can’t admit that high level quake play just shits on any kind of counterstrike style game along the real but ultimately arbitrary axis of pure mechanical skill, aim, reaction time and ability to prediction the motion of chaotic intelligent enemies. It isn’t up for debate, the movement in Xonotic is 1 million times more complex and fast than it is in Counter Strike… by design.
This does help segway into a nice summary of why you are so wrong here, my point was that if you can play Xonotic somewhat competitively using joysticks and gyroscope aim than that is proof you can play any mechanically less taxing game competitively with this set up. That doesn’t mean Counter Strikes is any easier than Xonotic or Quake 3 Live, what it means is that the there is less raw skill required in the actual moment to moment gameplay vs. having skill, knowledge and experience in every other aspect of competition that is vital other than just literally being good at doing the thing.
I will not have a discussion about this lead into a digression into bickering about how skill is more than just raw reaction time or aim skill… yes I know, I never claimed otherwise read my words closer before you react with this argument.
I would like to also respond to your argument that if using joysticks and gyroscope were competitive you would see at least some PC players using them in competition. This is a massively flawed assumption though it is reasonable on the surface.
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The hardware for gyroscope capable joystick gamepads, whether they are integrated into a handheld gaming console or they are contained within the controller like on a Ps5 controller, has not been around for very long in any accessible fashion.
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You are ignorant in the way most pc gaming people are in that you are ignoring the MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH larger playerbase of mobile shooter gamers using purely a smartphone with touchscreen controls and gyroscope… that are playing at a competitive level that you would flat out deny if I showed you videos of. You don’t know what you are talking about, you haven’t seen high level players on ipads playing Farlight 84 or Call of Duty Mobile and thus you have no grounds to make the claim there isn’t evidence that joysticks and gyroscope aim can’t be competitive because you see no evidence of it. Call Of Duty Mobile is one of the most played games on the planet, get with the program buddy.
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As I have pointed out repeatedly in my arguments, just because there is a superior way to do it DOES NOT mean computer people/gamers will elect to use it. Computer people/gamers are no different than any other demographic of humans in that they will irrationally refuse to try certain things for no good reason, the thing that makes them unique is the degree of confidence they have that they do not do this because they are good at computers and/or programming. Thus at a fundamental level even if you are right and there aren’t any competitive joysticks and gyroscope players out there than it still isn’t actually very good evidence that it isn’t possible to play competitively with joysticks and gyroscope because there is no reason to assume pc gamers would actually evolve and try it. PC first person shooter competitive gamers just recently decided to stop using CRT monitors I mean… come on don’t look to them to be harbingers of innovation!
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Mouse and Keyboard will always be a massive part of competitive gaming, I will also refuse to be lead along a digression into arguing about this, I am not denying the immense competitive capacity for mouse and keyboard at certain genres of video games, but we are no longer in an evnironment that pc gamers assumed would continue indefinitely forever… there are other competitive control schemes now that can beat mouse and keyboard, decisively in some cases depending on the competitive esport. These include joysticks and gyroscope aim control for gamepads/gaming handhelds and touchscreen and gyroscope controls for smartphones. There will be more discovered, this makes mouse and keyboard players uncomfortable shrugs but as pc gamers love to say condescendingly, it is the way it is.
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- Comment on 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility 2 days ago:
Than you are like most mouse and keyboard players where you confidently assume mouse and keyboard is the best controd method end of story. You don’t know what you are talking about and neither do any reply guys who will try to obliterate this point with a salvo of “um actually” killer rhetorical points.
That is a Ukrainian soldier using a steam deck to control actual weapon systems real humans (likely mouse and keyboard players who have no ability to use a gamepad) are counting on to survive an actual war.
Honestly if I sound snarky it is because I have grown to love how unshakably mouse and keyboard players believe they are using the only method to play competitively. Especially in a battlefield type FPS game with aircraft, mouse and keyboard players will hilariously refuse to fly with anything other than mouse and keyboard or a crazy complex flight simulator setup with a flight joystick they talk about but will never get.
Meanwhile there is an xbox one controller sitting in the other room that in 5 minutes they could learn to pull of flight maneuvers smoothly and confidently that are next to impossible to do with mouse and keyboard…
I point this out to mouse and keyboard players directly and they don’t listen even why I fly literal circles around them.
me flying circles around people
- Comment on 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility 2 days ago:
Back buttons are essential in any competitive action game.
- Comment on How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck 3 days ago:
Don’t bother, play the free moddable team based vehicle shooter Operation Harsh Doorstop or the WW2 team based vehicle shooter Easy Red 2.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Both are indie games and are fantastic!
Here is some gameplay of OHD recorded on my Steam Deck, focused on flying helicopter support.
lostpod.space/w/qUyc9YLX69RK4xokm98qCW
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- Comment on Riot will let gambling companies sponsor League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams 1 week ago:
Pathetic, this is a betrayal of the ba
- Comment on Steam is hosting a Canadian Game Sale (presented by Breaking Walls) July 1-8. If you're a PC gamer, make sure to check it out and support Canadian game development - sh.itjust.works 1 week ago:
I guess, but honestly, you are giving artists money.
The only two relevant questions are
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Was spending that money actually a serious error in that you needed the money for something else?
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Did you give your money to an indie artist or a massive AAA companies that actively is attempting to hurt artists.
Buy indie games, revel in your wealth of games, this is a good thing not a bad thing. You display your disgusting wealth and power by simply buying an indie game that was made with passion by artists and game developers and you are never even going to play it. Witness your power!!!
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- Steam is hosting a Canadian Game Sale (presented by Breaking Walls) July 1-8. If you're a PC gamer, make sure to check it out and support Canadian game development - sh.itjust.workssh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on We Made a One-Handed Keyboard 2 weeks ago:
I really appreciate how human and cute it is, accessibility and hardware should feel like this. I mean the edgey gamer RGB shit sure that can be fun too but I like how this device says “sure, I could be for you!” in its aesthetics.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 rumoured to get a battle royale mode as leaker finds footage of an exploding dam 2 weeks ago:
I recommend it so much I have to basically same I am an upaid shill for this game, but I think it is awesome that it is genuinely free (not lootbox, microtransaction free, genuinely free).
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Operation Harsh Doorstop is meant to be a spiritual successor to mods like Project Reality and Forgotten Hope 2 for Battlefield 2, the last game that EA allowed to have modding in it.
I don’t care what EA does now with trying to innovate the battlefield genre, they killed it so I am uninterested in EA-Frankenstein’s Monster here.
No, I will shill for Operation Harsh Doorstop because even if you don’t like the vanilla big map, semi-realistic vehicle team based FPS mechanics the game is moddable and already has different modes, including a star wars mod, a halo mod and others.
If you don’t pick OHD, maybe try out Easy Red 2 which is only WW2 but very cool and has tons and tons of vehicles and period accurate battles that are really well done.
store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Seriously, forget EA, forget AAA big map FPS team based games, AAA studios don’t give a shit about them and will always try to give you almost what you want but then funnel you back into a COD style lootbox grindfest that has nothing to do with the fascinating depth of combined arms gameplay.
- Comment on Multiplayer stealing sim Thick As Thieves lets you leave snide calling cards when you beat people to the loot 2 weeks ago:
Bill Gates’s snide calling card from beating people to stealing the loot.
- Comment on Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks 2 weeks ago:
You know both sides are heavily using AI in the actual negotiations and it has got to be an absolutely hilarious shitshow for anybody privileged enough to get a front row seat.
- Comment on Brain implant breakthrough helps ALS man talk – and sing – again 2 weeks ago:
The tech developed by researchers at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) was trialed with a study participant who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It essentially captured raw neural signals through four microelectrode arrays surgically implanted into the region of the brain responsible for physically producing speech. In combination with low-latency processing and an AI-driven decoding model, the participant’s speech was synthesized in real time through a speaker.
wait, a use of AI that isn’t creepy or disgusting!
A unicorn has been found!
- Comment on [Discussion] What have you been playing in Steam Next Fest? 2 weeks ago:
wordplay sounds very cool!
- Comment on Nostalgic helicopter shooter Cleared Hot has funny physics and a demo worthy of your time 3 weeks ago:
Honestly these games are fun, but lately I have been playing Operation Harsh Doorstop (a free steam game, works on linux/steam deck) and flying the attack helis (ohd vehicle overhaul mod) in singleplayer bot matches and the rush is too good to go back to arcade helicopters if they aren’t equally as destructive.
It is a blast covering your AI troops while they capture points and fight back the enemy, it feels 70% of what Armor Alley always wished it could be lol.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 3 weeks ago:
It is hilarious to see Microsoft put so much effort into proving that what Valve did was necessary for the industry.
- Comment on [Discussion] What Games are you playing on your Deck? - June 2025 3 weeks ago:
I have been playing a ton of Operation Harsh Doorstop, flying the helicopters is just such a rush.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 3 weeks ago:
DAS
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/sm/2023/12/…/what-is-das/
The Ukranian battlefield is a massive high resolution DAS survey waiting? to happen, the drones laying down the fiber optic cable in my opinion are the nice two birds with one stone benefit.
Those fields crisscrossed with fiber optic cables, well they are from a signal analysis standpoint a spiders web in that any disturbance in the microtremor wavefield is highly resolvable in terms of location and nature. Footsteps, a drone clandestinely dropping an an antitank mine, large weapon fire etc…
If you could access fiber optic cables in the vicinity of an artillery target you could determine fairly easily where exactly it fell algorithmically to a high degree of confidence.
I am sure I am not the first idiot to realize this shrugs the idea does aggressively jumps out at you if you understand the science.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the strategic goal of the operation better be to create a realtime DAS acoustic/seismic sensor network and that data better be given to geologists after the fact because otherwise that is a massive waste.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 3 weeks ago:
The cyberpunk thing is, if we were actually fighting in a resistance and you needed to practice flying TIE Fighters to know how to steal one or fight against them, you would probably be playing an emulator of an empire TIE fighter simulator on a third party device :)
Rebel af
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 3 weeks ago:
Mainly I use them for more keybindings but they are essential for that.
- Comment on Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI 3 weeks ago:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary corroborated evidence.
- Comment on Confirmed - China bans NVIDIA chips and accelerates its total independence from US technology 3 weeks ago:
That showed China, ha!
- Comment on Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google 5 weeks ago:
ughhh
- Comment on This AI App Is Using an AI-Generated Ad to Show How Easy It Is to Generate AI App Slop 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on This AI App Is Using an AI-Generated Ad to Show How Easy It Is to Generate AI App Slop 1 month ago:
this way
- Comment on The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here 1 month ago:
The pathetic thing about this is that the only thing of material use that was made from all this wasted money and horrifying ecological devastation that will stand the test of time is a monument to how normalized radical anti-humanist beliefs were right before collapse.
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 1 month ago:
Eww
- Comment on After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it 1 month ago:
Has anyone considered that Star Citizen is actually a Real Ancient Aliens Invasion Plot and all that development has been to building a warp gate deep under Akron, Ohio?
