supersquirrel
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks generative AI will help game preservation 1 day ago:
Since when did M$ give a shit about that.
They must be pretty desperately grasping for straws.
The bubble is going to pop soon and it is going to be ugly/beautiful.
- Comment on Tier 2 of Deckbuilder Humble Bundle is legit 3 days ago:
Honestly I figured ITAD is more useful as you can quickly see historical prices for the games and their general rating scores.
If I just link directly to the bundle you don’t get any of that context included.
- Submitted 3 days ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on Good Splitscreen Games On The Steam Sale For $5 or Less 1 week ago:
Yes, very underrated (popularity wise not critically, it is reviewed very positively, as it should be).
The moment to moment gamefeel is superb!
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds 1 week ago:
*no shit AI is just an attempt to inject computers with the essence of rightwing post truth might-makes-right lazy mob violence and rule. Lol did people NOT see that coming??..?
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your deck? - February 2025 1 week ago:
It feels like halo 3 MP+, don’t listen to people who still bash the multiplayer, their opinion is out of date, whoever is currently calling the shots at Halo infinite’s multiplayer dev team clearly genuinely loves halo multiplayer, it is unmistakable in the whole vibe of big team battle.
There is also a forge mode like halo 3!
- Comment on PSA: Nested Desktop Mode 1 week ago:
I meant nested desktop mode.
Download a file from a webrowser in nested desktop mode and then check in normal desktop mode where the file is. Can you access/see it?
I think it is just the thorough and thoughtful way Linux explicitly deals with folder permission structures, opening a nested desktop creates an enclose workspace within the current context, you aren’t supposed to use it to go everywhere and do anything on the OS I think.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your deck? - February 2025 1 week ago:
Sd card beasts
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your deck? - February 2025 1 week ago:
If you like Halo, I know this is scandalous to say, try Halo Infinite on the Big Team Battle playlist.
Halo multiplayer has never been this good and I don’t necessarily say that because I am a massive fan of Halo Infinite, it is just undeniably damn good halo.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your deck? - February 2025 1 week ago:
I am flying the shit out of attack and transport helis in Operation Harsh Doorstop on my steam deck which is truly a joy to fly with. The helis are fairly realistic which means flying them like a maniac is a blast.
I have also been playing a lot more pvp Beyond All Reason as I continue to get more comfortable with playing using onboard joysticks and gyro controls. The biggest problem I have is RTS players can’t wrap their head around me not using a mouse (they aren’t very imaginative I guess, I don’t understand). This means that in situations my control scheme is less efficient than a mouse, players have ZERO patience with me but in the situations where joysticks + gyro beats mouse (certain types of micro, also placing buildings accurately but quickly) people either think I am a much higher level player trolling or that I am drunk or something because my cursor movements just don’t look like a mouse is doing them.
sigh just gotta wait longer until stuffy pc gamers who think a mouse is the only way actually shut up and listen, not holding my breath…
- Comment on PSA: Nested Desktop Mode 1 week ago:
You don’t have access to your full home folder in desktop mode though right?
- Comment on Any good racing games you have been doing on the deck? 3 weeks ago:
I accidentally put myself on the top 10 board for highest level taxi driver for a bit (I am like top 20) just because the driving feels THAT dialed and I can treat it like a chill open world point to point racer on my steam deck that I can pause or put into autopilot whenever I want.
Like I don’t really care enough to pursue getting back on the leaderboard, the driving just feels so good my ADHD brain was actually able to focus on something repetitive and incremental enough to be competitive and it briefly made me feel like a wizard.
Have you tried powersliding the box van yet? Put the biggest engine you can into it, load it up with fragile vases and other delicate delivery items, put it into drift mode and then start ripping the most massive, nearly industrial sized powerslides you have ever seen.
… or get a garbage truck and get into the zen of being chill and collecting trash, you do you, that is another reason I love Motortown, it is about giving you complete agency in the driving vibes you want while being challenging and rewarding.
- Comment on Any good racing games you have been doing on the deck? 3 weeks ago:
Anyone played Trail Out and compared the two on the deck?
- Comment on Any good racing games you have been doing on the deck? 3 weeks ago:
Motortown has by far the most realistic and fun driving mechanics of any game that will run on the deck besides beamng, and the fun thing about Motortown is all the different jobs like taxi, trucking, pizza delivery and many others. It has racetracks and a custom racemaker but it isn’t strictly a racing game though I almost exclusively play it as such (timed taxi rides)
…steampowered.com/…/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
Offroad Mania is a rockcrawling semi-racer. It has superb handling.
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Offroad_Mania/
Don’t sleep on the open source (with splitscreen) Stunt Rally 3, it is on the Discover app store in desktop mode.
- Comment on Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware 4 weeks ago:
I used to love Rock Paper Shotgun but I feel like they kept letting go of the talent that defined the place.
- Comment on Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta 5 weeks ago:
il give it a try!
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 5 weeks ago:
The form factor of laptops as portable computers sucks
- Comment on Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta 5 weeks ago:
In other news, yesterday I was messing around and realized luanti, voxel game platform runs great on android with touchscreen controls and everything!
f-droid.org/packages/net.minetest.minetest/
Check out the minecraft-like built on it called voxelibre
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 5 weeks ago:
You can just use the Steam Deck like a Linux computer and ignore the steam part?
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - January 2025 5 weeks ago:
is he using gyro? That is the kingpin skill that will make it work
- Comment on Pure Rock Crawling looks like a knockabout MudRunner without the mud 5 weeks ago:
I want mud though!
I have my eye on Offroad Dead Planet once improvement on performance happens, it is rock crawling with some really nice looking suspension mechanics but with broader goals and challenges.
store.steampowered.com/…/Offroad_Dead_Planet/
Out Of Ore looks like it might have some pretty cool offroad driving feel even though/because? it is a mining simulator but I haven’t tried it yet
- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 2 months ago:
yeah it really is a non-issue, with something like the Heroic Launcher it really isn’t any less convenient than buying from steam.
- Free & Moddable Tactical Shooter, Operation Harshdoorstop, Nears Major 2nd Anniversary Updateyoutu.be ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 2 months ago:
Oh they are but they are squished inside mechanical turks in countries you have never heard of doing the most inane or shocking things over and over again for horrendous wages to keep the dream of whatever “smart” “ai” nonsense they are currently selling alive but yes… I don’t disagree with the thrust of your point here, you are right.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 2 months ago:
Ok clearly you know more about this than me, but I grew up using an xbox controller, I prefer it over touchpads by 1000% percent (with gyro on) but the touchpads are still integral to all of the complex steam deck bindings I have used and those I have made myself. Whether the touchpads are used for configurable virtual menus or as mouse and movement inputs, people are heavily using the touchpads. I hope they dont mess it up for touchpad users though.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 2 months ago:
“Additionally, having this layout means it will match the Steam Deck, which should make all control profiles interchangable.”
Additionally an order of magnitude more indie devs who don’t have the cash for a steam deck could pick up used/new steam controllers for not too much cash and that is going to lead to an order of magnitude more devs actually trying out their game using steam deck control schemes and I think that will be hard to overstate in impact longterm on gaming.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 2 months ago:
It would be cool if they made the next steam controller have two versions which are exactly the same both with two touchpads and with two with joysticks except one has the touchpads in the prime ergonomic spot on top the other with the two joysticks in the prime ergonomic spot.
I imagine a decent amount of people would like the “subpar” placement of their preferred inputs too because there is such a variety of hand shapes and sizes.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 2 months ago:
“…it clearly has both 2 thumb sticks and 2 track pads.”
Hell yes, I am very bullish on the two thumb sticks and two touchpads being the controller format that will establish the steam deck/handheld gaming pc as the future of gamepads.
It won’t necessarily be a quick, all at once change, but that is because it is a strategic longterm play to reframe what a gamepad is, what its limitations are, and what kind of games can be played with a gamepad.
It will be the kind of thing people look back and point to as the beginning of the whole industry shifting into a new paradigm where playing cool indie games with a gamepad is something people associate with pc gaming first, console gaming second.
They just better have a gyro sensor in there too!
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 2 months ago:
The steam deck already does in my experience!
