Auster

@Auster@thebrainbin.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent more time looking for a game than actually playing one? Help me test Gamescovery, a recommendation engine built for your actual taste.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When you add such login options, I mean.

  Although, in this idea of leveraging public APIs, maybe database sites have them too? In all such cases, you could probably also already import useful stuff like tags, ignoring what's redundant and thus lessening the load on both your server and the API's server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent more time looking for a game than actually playing one? Help me test Gamescovery, a recommendation engine built for your actual taste.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can't test now, but an idea: as afaik EGS, GOG and Steam all have public APIs, maybe pull games to your internal database based on what is in the accounts of people joining in? As people likely have kilometric backlogs, it should already be useful for them, and it should help lessening the initial load as you wouldn't need to pull what probably is past 100k+ unique titles all at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they don't absorb Blender, who pays chooses the restaurant, adapting a local saying. The more a company or coordinated group injects moneys into a project, the more of a saying they have in the developments of that project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you must get something from Steam, I'd get something with great time by price ratio, like Terraria, Starbound and Stardew Valley. Or also JRPGs like Final Fantasy XII.

  But from your picks, Elden Ring is the one I'd go for, mostly because it's the one that picks my attention the most.

  Otherwise, maybe you'd want to follow giveaway communities and alert profiles, e.g. here on the fediverse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a replacement for this community or the proposed expansion, I am against. Either the Steam hardware side would be eclipsed, or the other devices would. Also, I interpret such a Linux handhelds community could included Linux phones, which would stray even further from the original Steam Deck proposal from here.

  Now, as a new community, I wouldn't be against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem can also be a positive, so that communities for more specific niches can be created, or to have alternatives with different management philosophies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I like the idea of becoming more of a "Steam Hardwares" community, as them being all kinda niche but close in scope, they shouldn't conflict with each other nor turn the community into a too generalist one.