supersquirrel
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 2 days ago:
My dream is to build a secret laser big enough that I can deathstar linkedin out of existence in one zap, my hope is however much the same as yours.
- Comment on LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 2 days ago:
I would rather clean up dog vomit than use linkedin.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 days ago:
I dont mean to be annoying if this has been suggested to you but try adding gyro.
Also thumbstick grips that raise the stick height can help massively depending on your hand shape.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 days ago:
The thing about zomboid is…it just makes me want to play cataclysm dark days ahead with the sky island mod and I get itchy without that brilliant anarchism and freedom cataclysm brings to the entire experience.
Zomboid will get there, and it isnt bad by any means.
7 days to die also runs great on the deck (tho it is 3d fps/tps) and has quite a few good modpacks that use it as a base, easy to underappreciate the game because development has been all over the place.
Another game to think about, dayz (modded and vanilla) actually runs decent on the deck.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 days ago:
Why not play Fight The Landlord tho
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 days ago:
hell yeah blender is awesome
- Comment on What do you prefer for audio? Earphones, headphones, speakers? 3 days ago:
honestly I prefer games have really good hearing accessibility options and UI so I can mute the game and play while I listen to an audiobook with my partner… and then my shure aonic 50 headphones, third favorite being sony xm3/xm4 and newer.
- Comment on GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters 4 days ago:
how about we try remastering more games with with well paid human game devs who are given job security and are allowed to actually have a healthy worklife balance?
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 4 days ago:
the dark wizards have no shame in twisting their magic into hideous forbidden forms!
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 4 days ago:
breathlessly storms out the door with pitchfork in hand
chaaaaaarge!
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 6 days ago:
Fragmentation is a concern but it isn’t the real issue, the issue is corporate capture of the commons as far as I am concerned.
- Comment on Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches 1 week ago:
Side note definitely the coolest game on the unreal engine is the free and moddable tactical shooter (with vehicles) Operation Harsh Doorstop.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
There really hasnt been a good modding plaform for games like this since Battlefield 2.
- Comment on Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low 1 week ago:
There are plenty of Ubisoft games I would buy if they werent by Ubisoft.
Even if I want the game though, it just isnt worth the bullshit not to mention, will my game even work after Ubisoft inveitably cancels support for it.
Ubisoft in every aspect from blatant slaps to the face of customers in their behavior to boring overly simplified map janitor mechanics treats its customers like they are gullible sheep who will sit there and tolerate whatever bullshit Ubisoft shoves down their throat so long as the graphics are pretty.
I swear I can feel the condercension oooozing out from their corporate boardroom from thousands of miles away.
Every single Ubisoft game would do better with sales if it didnt have Ubisofts name on it, I am quite confident in that.
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 1 week ago:
I will never not be pissed off that the overwhelming majority of communities that made the internet vibrant especially when nerding out about a fairly niche stuff just happily moved to discord and foreclosed their futures.
- Comment on Gyro input broken on HZD? My last playthrough it was working fine, now it seems impossible to make it work. Am I an idiot or did some configuration get broken in the last year? 1 week ago:
Fundamentally you dont have to let the game you are playing perceive the gyro input directly at all, the game sees it as mouse or gyro input. That being said make sure you arent sending joystick input and mouse input at the same time, that can break things in many weird ways.
The simplest solution is just to make everything appear like mouse and keyboard which again bypasses the game having anything to do with gyro input before it is safely converted to normal mouse input.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 2 weeks ago:
careful just like how violent video games will make you a stone cold killer addicted to violence eventually the addiction to speed will consume you until you become a lawless street racer straight out of midnight club. I have seen it happen over and over again to friends, eventually consequences always catch up with them… and they always end up losing their car in pink slip races… it is a damn shame .
- Comment on Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices 2 weeks ago:
Hey, can I join in!
Fuck you Microsoft
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 3 weeks ago:
If at first you crash and burn… well I mean it is Beam Ng so doesnt that mean you are actually playing the game right?
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 3 weeks ago:
That might be a reason to maybe consider some competitors of the Steam Deck that are a bit more powerful (but have their own tradeoffs, primarily that the wholistic experience just isnt going to be as good as the steam deck is right now), I don’t know the Steam Deck might run 4k fine but I’d be hesitant to recommend it, that is so many fucking pixels lol
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 3 weeks ago:
Can you actually use steamdeck as a desktop PC though?
Depends on how many pixels you “need”. Running high resolution monitors, even for basic stuff can get costly performance wise pretty damn quick, but in my opinion that isn’t really asking the same question as whether the Steam Deck can be a good desktop.
You can absolutely use the Steam Deck as a desktop, I frequently use my Steam Deck in desktop mode… using the onboard controls. The only real limitation of the Steam Deck is that most people who buy it are never truly going to be able to give anything else other than a mouse and keyboard an honest go, they are too impatient and won’t believe it can work but the sky is the limit for joystick+gyro input (our touchpad + gyro).
- Comment on Thanks to the Deck I have discovered the joys of gaming 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I have really fallen in love with using normal programs fullscreened through steams gaming mode. It feels like a natural evolution of a window manager like i3, so much new stuff to learn and the exciting thing is this is all new for everybody!
Also in the realm of space games, Overload is a BLAST on the deck, especially in short bursts.
- Comment on Thanks to the Deck I have discovered the joys of gaming 5 weeks ago:
Discovering that the SD can be used as a computer too, with all the bells and whistles has been very fun.
A useful note on that, the desktop app “store” is Flathub
I recommend Konqueror as a good file manager/web browser hybrid that you can run fullscreen in gaming mode on your Steam Deck if you add it to steam as a non-steam game.
I recommend CoreKeyboard as an alternate touchscreen keyboard to Steam’s for when you are in desktop mode or can’t use Steam’s keyboard for some reason.
flathub.org/apps/org.cubocore.CoreKeyboard
If you want file sync, try out Syncthing/Syncthingy, it is like DIY cloud file storage but it is actually really easy to set up.
flathub.org/…/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy
Inkscape is a great vector image editor that runs really nice in fullscreen/gaming mode on the Steam Deck
flathub.org/apps/org.inkscape.Inkscape
Kdenlive is a fully featured video editor that runs really nice in fullscreen/gaming mode
flathub.org/apps/org.kde.kdenlive
One final recommendation, CoreHunt, this app doesn’t run well in fullscreen/gaming mode on the Deck but it is such a useful and quick file search utility (with good fuzzy search too) that I have to recommend it. If you are still getting used to the file structure of the Steam Deck and get lost/can’t find a particular file or folder location CoreHunt can save you a big headache.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 5 weeks ago:
i havent tried it but you arent alone in feeling like it has staying power as a roguelike, people talk about it really highly even after long amounts of play time in my experience.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 5 weeks ago:
I have been playing a lot of games recently, but I think the one I want to highlight most is a game I have recommended often here.
Beyond All Reason is a free and open source RTS game inspired by Total Annihilation. It is based on the Spring RTS Engine and collectively BAR represents probably almost two decades of community development over the years and the game is at a really polished fun state.
The AI is good, it constantly probes your defenses, multiplayer is a blast with active lobbies, you can play PvP or PvE and there are a massive amount of maps. I know I am a weirdo but with gyro on I don’t find playing Beyond All Reason difficult at all. Am I going to out APM a mouse and keyboard player? Nope, but that isn’t really why I play RTS games anyways, and I can hold my own fine especially with the awesome action que system that BAR expanded on from Total Annihilation.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 5 weeks ago:
Playing Rounded right now, definitely have my eye on Peglin
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea of making file paths case sensitive (i.e. usr/Folder/ is a different directory than usr/folder and same for files), but it is definitely a big mind fuck coming from an operating system where things aren’t really case sensitive in that way.
- Comment on Battlefield 1 will have EA's kernel level anti cheat and game will no more be playable on Linux 5 weeks ago:
For big map vehicle and infantry shooters with vehicles that run decent on the Steam Deck I recommend
Easy Red 2 store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Operation Harsh Doorstop …steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Halo Infinite also plays well on the Steam Deck, though I wish performance was better and it sometimes just crashes.
- Comment on [Game] Sober is a new way to play Roblox on Linux from the Vinegar team 1 month ago:
I know people are pretty dismissive of roblox (myself included), but it’s hugely popular and it’s always good to have the option.
Yeah I mean, to be honest I scrolled past this post/headline and was like “meh, I’d rather just play Wobbly Life”…
…but then I saw this post again and thought… damn actually this is a pretty huge win for the Steam Deck.
Even if the person buying the Steam Deck doesn’t give a shit about being able to play Roblox… if they have a kid who likes to play video games… then there is actually a really high chance this adds a huge amount of value to the Steam Deck, and for a non-zero amount of kids playing Roblox on their parent’s Steam Deck might be their first introduction to Linux… which is exactly the kind of longterm community building linux gaming needs if we ever hope to make linux gaming a mainstream thing.
- Comment on What have you been playing lately? 2 months ago:
Hell yeah, this is really helpful!
- Comment on [Discussion] Double discussion this month, what games did you buy for your Deck during the Steam Sale, and what are you playing on Deck right now? - July 2024 2 months ago:
Make sure to bind jump, grapple and other important movement buttons to rear buttons so you dont have to take your thumbs off the joysticks to use them (think bumper jumper control scheme from halo).
I am perfectly comfortable playing multiplayer competitive shooters with joysticks and gyro, fine aim control is a breeze with gyro for me and really the disadvantage playing on the deck is a framerate and screen size issue, I can be competitive even in a game like Xonotic (possibly the most fast paced, aim heavy shooter period) with joysticks+gyro.
I say all of this not to say you are wrong, maybe joysticks+gyro isn’t your thing and that is fine, but it is a comfort and preference barrier limiting you here, not an inherent limitation to joysticks+gyro.
