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- Comment on Microsoft and Asus’ Xbox handheld appears in leaked photos 20 hours ago:
why is it so filthy? looks like it was run through some stress testing.
- Comment on Fishing games? 1 week ago:
I always find myself coming back to Sega Bass Fishing. The old arcade/Dreamcast game.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 weeks ago:
all my homies hate Nintendo.
- Comment on Anbernic no longer shipping to the US 2 weeks ago:
I guess this made my choice on handheld for me. been weighing a few options but I might just keep using my phone and 2DS XL for now.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 3 weeks ago:
this seems to be the case. i tried to redeem it a few times with no success (in a couple of browsers and in heroic). an hour or so later i got an email saying it was added to my library.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 weeks ago:
while i don’t have one of these handhelds, i do have a 2ds xl and i had a steam deck that i eventually sold. for me it’s mostly size. i took it to three countries and several states and it was mostly just a burden to carry the deck around, meanwhile the smaller device was easier to toss in a bag.
part of my choice was also that i don’t play a lot of modern games so i didn’t need the horsepower that the steam deck provided. it’s all nuance and preference, i think.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
sounds like you’ve made up your mind. wnjoy windows 11!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
maybe try bazzite? i’ve found it to be a better experience than nobara and steam games run fine for me, aside from the obvious big titles that have anticheat issues.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 weeks ago:
battlefield 2042… unless i have a squad or some friends, i rarely play the objective. i mess around with gadgets, try to fly the wingsuit to weird places, try to launch vehicles where they don’t belong, try to find clever ways to kill people, whatever. my score is always trash and my team hates me but i’m usually having a great time.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 month ago:
things like dsda improve the game so much. It’s hard to go back to the original game files.
- Comment on (Fan Game) CS:Legacy - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
as soon as I saw the promod logo I was stoked. I played 1.6 and made the transition to source. played competitively in leagues for a long time. never got into cs:go or 2. I would love to try this out.
- Comment on Bloomberg analyst anticipate Nintendo Switch 2 to be priced at 400$ or more 1 month ago:
gonna need to be higher priced so they can keep funding lawsuits.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 3 months ago:
k.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 3 months ago:
I’m a daily driver of Bazzite and Bluefin. I felt this way initially but it’s been generally painless. I typically check flatpak -> app image -> homebrew -> distrobox when I need something. If that fails, I use rpm-ostree and reboot.
I work in development/devops/infosec by trade and to date there hasn’t been a single package or program that I needed that I couldn’t get running with minimal fuss. I’ve even run a couple of MDM packages that my work requires.
- Comment on What are your most recent games played? 5 months ago:
danmaku unlimited 3 (pc), ketsui deathtiny (ps4), ketsui death label (3ds), battlefield 2042 (xbox series s)
- Comment on Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless. 5 months ago:
Rose colored glasses. I played the hell out of WoW for years from first release and onward. Chat was chaos and if you got invited to someone’s vent server there were usually some jerks. Pseudoanonymity made people brazen.
I played a lot of competitive counter strike and it was the same. Constant trash talking or just nonsense spouting people. Any modern game I play with voice chat built in gets immediately disabled as soon as I start the game for the first time.
Socializing can happen later after a few (positive) interactions but I dont have the mental energy to deal with random folks when I just want to unwind with a game.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 5 months ago:
Over time: probably Contra on the NES, Tetris and Bionic Commando on the GameBoy, Operation Wolf and Sinistar in the arcade. DOOM, Duke3d, and XEvil on the PC. CS 1.6 and CS:S in college. The Gears series on the 360.
Then I had a decade or so gaming drought. More recently: Batsugun, Ketsui (Deathtiny and Death Label), Danmaku Unlimited 3, and Battlefield 2042.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 5 months ago:
It’s surreal reading comments pining for win7/8. i am getting old.
- Comment on Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo" 6 months ago:
All my homies hate Nintendo.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 6 months ago:
What about Extraneum? It’s cute as a button and very chill with plenty of things to shoot. It feels a bit like a modern wolfenstein since there aren’t any stairs. Gunplay feels nice and the secrets are rewarding. Plus between levels there are funny data discs to read.
- Comment on TitanFall 2 at 3$ 8 months ago:
This was my experience on the Xbox. Absolutely loved the campaign. Could not get a feel for how to survive mp after a few hours. There was a prolonged respawn and die nearly immediately loop. I uninstalled it after I got what I could from the campaign.
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled 9 months ago:
How long before Nintendo slaps a DMCA on this one?
- Comment on I asked what your fave controllers are, now. What is the worst controller you have used? 10 months ago:
I think the elite offers a lot for that price. Swappable sticks and back paddles, trigger stops, multiple profiles, adjustable tension, etc. It’s basically an OEM “custom” controller.
That being said, I like other controllers better than my elite.
- Comment on What are your favourite controllers? 10 months ago:
I’ve been enjoying the GameSir G7 for a while. It’s wired but I kind of prefer that. My first G7 had a faulty left stick in the first two months. I think it was faulty from the beginning but I just didn’t notice it. I sent them a video of the issue and they replaced it outright.
It’s a bit smaller than my Xbox elite controller and it feels pretty great. I like the clicky dpad and the two back buttons. Stick tension is nice as well.
I’d like to see trigger stops but they haven’t done that yet. I’d also like to have clicky face buttons so I’m considering one of their khaleid controllers. Those are minor nitpicks, though. This controller has been terrific.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 10 months ago:
On android, lemuroid is pretty good for this sort of thing and you can change the arrangement of your nds/3ds screens.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 year ago:
The distinction is irrelevant and “AI” is what businesses and normal folks call this stuff. Just like the age old arguments that the media should say something like “cyber criminals” instead of “hackers” or “cloud” is just other people’s computers. LLM, GNU/spicy-auto-correct, whatever. To the populous it’s all “AI”.