cRazi_man
@cRazi_man@europe.pub
- Comment on What are great games to play on controller, that my PC would stream to my Steam Deck? 3 days ago:
I was in your position. I have to say the ideal solution has been: I just put Bazzite on my PC and moved it to the lounge as a console PC. No streaming required.
If you’re a first person shooter pro then you might want the PC at the desk for KB+M control. Otherwise for other games (like strategy games) it is better to stream from lounge to PC for those few games and have the native PC experience with the TV.
I mostly use my desk PC for work, and any cheap old PC can do this. I got a basic mini PC workstation pretty cheap, and this OS actually good enough to play most indie and emulated games natively at 144 FPS anyway. Something even older and cheaper would be perfectly fine for my workstation needs.
- Comment on Old laptop with non-funtional display... What do I turn it into 1 week ago:
If you can’t repair or use that, it will still sell for quite a lot these days on eBay.
- Comment on What do you use for alerting? 1 week ago:
I don’t have many alerts setup, but I use Mattermost anyway and I send alerts into a Mattermost channel. Sonarr and Radarr report when a download is complete. Jellyfdash reports when someone outside my home starts streaming something over Jellyfin.
- Comment on too real 1 week ago:
I feel bad for anyone building now. I built my gaming setup + NAS and server PC and upgraded my Steam Deck in the past 2 to 3 years. Going to get as much milage out of these as I can till things settle down.
Then in 5 years when things have only gotten worse and this is the new norm then I’ll cry alongside everyone else. Or maybe China will get their fabs up and running and swoop in to undercut these bastards to save us all.
- Comment on Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots 2 weeks ago:
Ending RSS support really sucks. But I guess it’s a bit of a blessing to remove that last bit of reddit from my feed.
- Comment on PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets a new showcase of big improvements 3 weeks ago:
Again? Things seem to be coming along nicely there.
- Comment on What solution, if any, do you use for gaming in bed? 3 months ago:
I can’t get past the daily routine of having 2 uninterrupted hours of gaming and TV watching with the Mrs every night. What luxury. By the time we get the kids on bed, cleaning done and prep for the next day; theres little time left and it is often spent trying to catch up with work emails or home admin.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Charging that user for the amount they consume doesn’t pay for the infrastructure upgrades and installations that are now required. This is normally distributed across users as the use is distributed across users. But with data centres it is easy to point towards a single user now and charge them for all of this…and that’s what they should do.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 4 months ago:
Better buy the Steam controller quickly before AI companies decide TMR sticks are essential to feed the AI machine.
- Comment on Nvidia’s New Partnership Wants to Put Mini AI Data Centers on Your House 5 months ago:
The electricity use gets distributed across the grid and the heat becomes useful rather than a waste problem. Also they pay you for it. Could work out of done properly. But inevitably these are the people who specialise in enshitification and exploitation.
- Comment on The worst timeline 7 months ago:
Board games are more difficult. There’s a minimum requirement of at least one friend.
- Comment on The Godot powered Slay the Spire 2 has already hit over 3 million sales 7 months ago:
Wish list upcoming or early access games and they let you know when it releases.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Overwatch Beats Marvel Rivals' 24-Hour Steam Concurrent Player Peak 7 months ago:
Any current players got an opinion on how they compare? I used to play Overwatch but quit a year ago. Picked up Marvel Rivals for a bit, but every game is so unbalanced that either we’re completely stomping the other team at their spawn point; or we’re getting stomped. Been looking for a decent shooter since Apex got pulled from Linux.
- Comment on Decky Plugin "DeckyParty" may be the easiest way yet to transfer files between your Deck and other devices 8 months ago:
This may be a more niche solution, but my NAS has been amazing for this. Works great as the middle man to move files to any device.
- Comment on Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout 9 months ago:
Looking back at this… It was actually Fallout 3 I played. Really loved it. I remember thinking this was the first game I played that really made me feel completely immersed in its world and really made me feel how their world had gone to shit and it’s everyone looking out for themselves. It was so good.
- Comment on Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout 9 months ago:
Fallout 4 was the only game I played, but I love the TV show. Might check out some other games myself sometime.
- Comment on Hades II won Best Game on Steam Deck Award - The 2025 Steam Awards 9 months ago:
My opinion on that for myself is that it is better to watch a video guide on a boss to be able to enjoy an amazing game rather than abandon it completely.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 9 months ago:
Lack of gaming compatability would be an absolute deal breaker for a hell of a lot of people, so this has been very recent major progress to set the stage for Linux success.
- Comment on What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? 9 months ago:
Roguelites have all been great in the Deck. Brotato, Enter the Gungeon, Hades 2, etc etc.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 11 months ago:
Someone needs to tell Ubisoft to git gud.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 11 months ago:
Fragmented communities is such an annoying problem in the fediverse.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 year ago:
There are going to be a lot of good machines that should hit eBay for cheap as companies dump their old stock. Grab home servers, media machines, secondary devices, emulation rigs, etc as the opportunity presents itself.
- Comment on I Review PC Handhelds for a Living and I’m Worried Where Things Are Headed 1 year ago:
These handhelds will die down when they don’t sell well. The low end retro gaming handhelds are in an amazing place right now. The high end PC handhelds will be great to buy on the secondhand market in a few years as they come onto eBay. They’re great for patient gamers. PC gamers are obsessed with running AAA games bat top settings and they’re going to have a rude awakening after wasting their money on these devices. The patient gamers are going to capitalise on this.
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 1 year ago:
Don’t know what Steam is going to do, but most sites don’t do age verification themselves. They have a 3rd party company that takes your card details and verifies your age.
- Comment on New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought 1 year ago:
It will never be “end of life”. There are retro consoles that people are buying just for running SNES or GameBoy Advance games. Even those are perfectly functional for their purpose. Even if the Steam Deck got hard locked to only run games released up till 2025, it will still have enduring value. EoL can mean the battery is too degraded, but the battery is replaceable.
A “soft EoL” will realistically come when much much faster hardware is cheaper, the Steam Deck is out of production and it starts struggling to play even indie games. At this point, buying a secondhand Deck for £100 is still going to be a bargain and get recommended for emulators, retro gamers and patient gamers.
- Comment on Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console 1 year ago:
The answer to making something mainstream accessible and acceptable is the experience for normies. This is where the Steam Deck really shines. Valve gets it. You say you don’t get it. I don’t fully understand peoples’ tech anxieties either. But people won’t install Bauxite or Steam OS themselves. Normies consider that to be akin to black magic. The Steam Deck doesnt even need the tiniest bit of tinkering. You literally start it up and go. And this is what has made it mainstream acceptable (even though the majorities of normies in my social group still need explanation…“PC games on a handheld? Is it like a laptop?”).
- Comment on 1 year ago:
Depends on what your usecase is.
My brother wants to play demanding AAA games on a big screen. He doesn’t see the point of a Steam Deck and is about to sell his.
I play indie games and emulated retro games. The Steam Deck is perfect for me to play. I can sit with my kids when they play in the back yard.
- Comment on If you love Brotato you should check out Noobs Are Coming 1 year ago:
“If you love Brotato”
I’m convinced
- Comment on What are you all using for game/library tracking, on Steamdeck? 1 year ago:
I do this with movies in IMDB. Bookmark movies I’m meaning to watch. Rate the movies I have watched. You need to find a website or ap that let’s you track games in this way. I can see there’s IGDB.com, but have never tried it.
Game suggestions are more difficult. Sites tend to suggest sponsored content and AAA expensive suggestions. The better way to find new content is from user forums or trusted reviewers/publications.
- Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape' 1 year ago:
Any idea of this guy made any significant impact when he installed Linux recently?