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- Comment on Stop Killing Games-backed bill that'd bar publishers from switching off game servers without thinking of players passes California State Assembly vote 3 days ago:
I’m going to keep repeating that Ross Scott needs a statuette/bust of an upright arm gripping a crowbar, labelled ‘For Meritorious Service In The Defense and Preservation of Video Gaming’.
- Comment on Valve make adjustments to Steam tags, and they settled the Vampire Survivor-like argument with Bullet Heaven 1 week ago:
Ahaha, and Kenshi still avoids meaningful classification.
Oh yeah sure, sure, its an open world sandbox survival rpg.
Sure, yep, just like all the others.
Hahahah!
You could apply Wuxia and Samurai and Cult and Animals to it, arguably also Xianxia.
Oh and they’ve apparently reworked some older tags, so we would also have Consversation and Difficult.
I believe they coined their own aesthetic as ‘Swordpunk’, but it’s currently just got ‘Steampunk’ and ‘Post-Apocalyptic’… sure, that’s kinda close, why not.
- Comment on A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it 2 weeks ago:
Fucking called it.
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/57648015/22620272
Its gonna be really funny in a few years when we learn that TPM2 / Windows’ Specific Implementation of SecureBoot has a backdoor for the NSA, just like how the Kinect did.
They never had any legitimate reason to fuck with bootloader as hard as they have been.
- Comment on Canned Lord of the Rings MMO now formally cast aside, Amazon claim they've still got a game "that does justice to Tolkien's world" in the works 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, Amazon Games Studios and Embracer Group bring you ‘a game that does justice to Tolkien’s world’?
That might be the haughtiest, most of out of touch, delusional idea I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on The Cemu Security PSA and Why RetroDECK’s Approach Suddenly Makes a Lot of Sense 2 weeks ago:
Hilariously I switch from EmuDeck to RetroDeck a while ago, solely because I really like its uh, ESDE theme or whatever that is.
Now I can tug on my suspenders and pretend this actually an extremely prescient security/architecure based opinion/decision, lol.
- Comment on Got my Steam Controller today 3 weeks ago:
The Steam Deck and Steam Controller (2.0, but w/e) use Voice Coil Actuators spread throughout the device for both haptics snd rumble.
They’re both measured/set in decibels.
electricity-magnetism.org/voice-coil-actuator/
You might try fiddling with the in game rumble settings, if there are any.
If not… well presumably the ‘Game Rumble’ tick box switch thing is set to the right, ‘on’, in the page with the db levels you were on?
It could be that you’ve found something actually worth posting a bug report about on… well I’m not sure where lol.
It could be a Steam Input issue, it could be a Proton issue, it could be both.
It might be the case that the style of command the game sends is basically ‘formatted’ in such a way that its not being properly interpreted/translated the way it would be by the kinds of controllers the game was/is specifically designed to work with.
As far as I can tell, while the Steam Controller and PS5 Controllers use VCAs… the Xbox One Controller uses a more old school, ‘eccentric rotors’, unbalanced things that spin on an axis.
So… for a system like that, a straight pulse of linear input command would feel to get more instense, and then gradually taper off.
If you give that ssme input to a VCA, it … ‘interperets it literally’, if that makes any sense.
Its kinda like VCAs are digital, and ERs are analog… sorta.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
I was an executive level data analyst for an international logistics middle man company, based in Seattle.
Yes, correct, you cannot infact outsource that just as easily, it is, as I said, an entirely different animal, with many different kinds of problems and costs, and potential problems and potential costs.
An enormous amount of logistics ultimately comes down to who knows, who, who introduces who to who, and who has what kind of reputation, with who.
You either pay a firm like the one I worked for a considerable premium in order to have them manage every single step of the process, every single link in the chain… or you try to do all that on your own, maybe hire a few new expert people to figure out how to do that.
I am arguing as if Valve is not a logistics company.
You are arguing as if you do not know anything about logistics at all.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
It would seem we shall have to wait a bit then, to continue our attempts at science.
… it is a good thing, that science is fun.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Yep, you got it.
And yep, high property value areas?
Yep, gets worse fast.
You end using something along the lines of an overflow lot, and that overflow lot probably doesn’t have the same level of access, security, reliable climate control, etc.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Oh its telling of me, huh?
Tell me you’ve never worked in an industry that made or moved actual things without telling me you’ve never worked in an industry that made or moved actual things.
Active number of users on servers you are paying someone else to physically operate and maintain has nothing to do with orchestrating an international manufacturing and shipping program.
Its an entirely different animal.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
… Maybe somebody who just actually got one could weigh it for us, lol.
… Did any of us actually manage to get one?
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, people in general seem to not understand that stock sitting in a warehouse = you burning money to pay for renting that warehouse, or space in that warehouse.
You have to be… mega-giant huge, your own logistiscs system, for that to basically not be the case, you have to be Amazon, Walmart, something like that.
Even then, that factor still exists, its just mitigated by the overwhelming scale.
And actually, with… oil/gas basically now permanently notched up to another tier, even in the best case scenario… this pressure just gets worse.
Also, even before the Deck, the Index was basically the same way.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Part of it is just a genuine gamble.
You can try to model demand for a kind of thing that has never specifically existed before.
You will probably fuck that up at first.
Early signs point to -> they significantly underestimated demand.
By how much exactly… shrug?
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Valve doesn’t have the scale.
They’re nowhere near as big of companies as Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony.
They retooled the place that was making Steam Decks… into being the place that makes Steam Controllers.
Because that would be more affordable than renting out and kitting out an entirely new production somewhere near Shenzen or whatever.
They’re not big enough to get first dibs, preferential contract bulk pricing, from component manufacturers.
In the ocean they’re swimming in?
They’re bass or salmon, compared to dolphins, sharks, orcas.
I made a joke about this being an ‘artisinal, small batch’ controller in another thread, but it basicslly isn’t a joke, if you understand the scales involved.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Hah, I actually yesterday ran the same math as you just did, for total # of controllers, and yeah, we got the same result.
~42,000 if you don’t take excess packaging weight into account, yeah, probably between 35k and 40k if you do.
Now, you’re the only person (or outlet, for that matter) I’ve seen even try to do the actual math on scalp counts so uh… yeah, seems reasonable to me.
Yeah, I was telling people, like… half a year ago, that Steam sells direct to consumer, not via a retail store, so, that inherently cuts down on scalping, because they can indeed impose their own hard limits on buys per customer… barring the existence of basically a bunch of scalper fake steam accounts, which… doesn’t appear to be the case, otherwise yeah, you’d expect a larger proportion of scalper listings on secondary marketfronts.
Now I haven’t followed things close enough to see the stuff about ‘2 per txn’ vs ‘2 per Steam Account’, but I mean, what you say there also seems plausible.
tl:dr Good work, passes my smell test!
- Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week 3 weeks ago:
… It does also at least attempt to provide you with choice, curated content as well.
- Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week 3 weeks ago:
I think they’re literally just shoving shit out the door as fast as they can, and their initial production runs were … kind of done in the middle of rampocalypse/tariff nonsense, round #(i forget).
Because you’d have to be an idiot to not realize the world economy is headed for a Great Depression, therefore they need to make money ASAP on hardware, before people’s budgets contract dramatically.
I also think they seem have to have just genuienly underestimated demand.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing newly made Steam Decks soon, iirc, they retooled the actual Steam Deck facility … to make the Steam Controllers.
Probably more likely to see the Steam Machine and Frame, and then a Steam Deck 2 at some point in the future, presuming we do not at that point live in the Fallout timeline.
- Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week 3 weeks ago:
Oh my god, we need to make ‘Canadian units of measurement’ a thing.
- Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week 3 weeks ago:
Or you can use your brain, and use context clues to deduce the correct interpretation.
- Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week 3 weeks ago:
So I guess at this point the Steam Controller and Steam Machine… arguably count as a ‘small batch, bespoke’ game console/device?
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 1 month ago:
I think they actually use a setup of basically … something like minature subwoofers, but I’m not 100% sure of that.
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 1 month ago:
Ah, you’re correct!
It quite litetally fooled me, but you are right.
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 1 month ago:
I guess worth noting for Steam newbies:
The trackpads can be configured to act as basically any possible kind of input.
You can break them down into 4 way buttons, 8 way buttons, 2 buttons, one button… make them work as a joystick, or as a mouse… they click in a bit at multiple points…
So, if you prefer a different kind of thumbstick orientation, you can basically emulate it.
Literally all of the buttons on one of these things can be reconfigured to do a whole bunch of crazy shit, you can make macros, you can make it so that a little hud popup with scrollable selectable options pop up, you can make combos of key presses do different specific inputs, you can make a turbo function… etc.
Anything you run through Steam can be made to work this way with the Steam Input system they invented for with the Steam Deck, the Steam Controller 2.0 is basically a shrunk down Steam Deck without the PC and screen.
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 1 month ago:
I mean, arguably… it isn’t a D Pad if its actually seperate buttons.
But anyway, with the Steam Deck, which the Steam Controller 2.0 is basically a scaled down version of, that doesn’t have the whole computer and screen… you can at least get after market uh… contact boards?
I’m not sure of the term, but like the internal platter board thing, that the dpad/abxy buttons actually physically connect to, with the trigger/switch mechanisms.
For my deck, I got a kit that replaces the original ones with ones that are much ‘clickier’, like a mechanical keyboard as compared to a membrane keyboard.
It has more tactile and also audio feedback, beyond just being more responsive… that was like $30 bucks or something?
For a while, it was the case that to do this kind of mod, you’d have to do your own solder, but I waited and eventually somebody in China somewhere started making ones that are pre-soldered, and just require an appropriate screw driver and some dexterity to install.
So… if the Steam Controller takes off, I’d say give it 6 months, and by then something similar will probably exist for it.
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
A neat trick you can do with heavier games on … at least an OLED Deck (not sure if this is doable on the LCD version)…
You target 45 fps, min, lock the max frame rate at something like 45-50, then, use VRR set at a 1:2 ratio, so you get 45 fps at 90hz.
In many games, this generally, at least imo, ends you up with a smoother and potentially graphically higher quality than just targeting 60 fps / 60 hz.
- Comment on Amazon hits sellers with 'fuel surcharge' as Iran war roils global energy markets 1 month ago:
So… its dynamic pricing, applied to their vendors.
That’s sure to be a stable paradigm.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.8.1 Preview: Second Clutch 2 months ago:
I am equally annoyed that it took them this long to finally get around to it, but happy that they did.
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- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 2 months ago:
You’d have to be an idiot to trust this.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 months ago:
Lol.
I am now trying to imagine like…
A torrent client, that is JIT Lua, and you just ‘stream’ the game, as you download more of it.