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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt the numbers on this scale, but my personal numbers are absolutely not correct, so it does make me wonder how accurate things are.

  There’s some long term bug with Steam in the way they compute playtime. About 4 years ago, I purchased a game, played it once for probably less than an hour and never picked it up again. Steam shows I have played that game for almost 3,000 hours.

  This year, similar thing happened, but not to the same extreme. There was a game demo I downloaded, played through the first level (which IIRC was all that was available at the time in that demo), and now it’s showing I played that game for over 100 hours. I probably spent 30 minutes with it at most.

  Curious what’s going on there or if anybody else has experienced that? Maybe it’s not a widespread thing, but certainly curious that it’s happened to me twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know. I never realized this was a downside to the Xbox controllers. Granted, I haven’t run into the issue so maybe they auto-update if you connect them to a Windows machine?

  The Xbox controller isn’t my favorite, but it takes AA batteries so it’s nice to have an option that will work if I forget to charge and which has easily replaceable batteries since that seems to be the main point of failure for so many electronic devices these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades 2 version 1.0 finally has a release date, praise Zeus and the rest of them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t completed a run in Hades 2 and at this point I’m not sure I will any time soon.

  I’m not really a gamer, but the first Hades just clicked with me. It’s a game I can pick up and just have some fun.

  Hades 2 just isn’t clicking like that. I enjoyed what I’ve played of it, but things are a lot more complicated, just a lot more going on and a lot more to keep track of, and the main character just seems so much weaker or maybe the game is a lot harder in general, I don’t know. Either way, it hasn’t drawn me in. Hoping it will one day, and perhaps coming out of beta will help on that front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People hoping that are likely ignorant of what AI actually is. It’s incredibly unlikely that AI “ends”, at least not if/until things get really bad on a societal level to the point where our species loses its ability to produce and use technology altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck? - July 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a handful of cheap / deep discount games during the Summer Sale this year.

  One I wasn’t sure about was BIOTA. Turns out it’s been more fun than I expected for such a simplistic game.

  I’ve also been playing Blasphemous. I really like Metroidvanias but these “souls like” style games are irritating to me. Still, it was cheap and I can appreciate the aesthetic.

  I’m looking forward to having more time to play these games, as of yet, it’s been like 20 minutes here, 30 minutes a few days later, so it’s hard to make much progress and enjoy them with such limited time to dive in.