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- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 5 days ago:
Honestly I wish they had kept the upturned grips. Those felt really comfy.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 5 days ago:
The original controller was like a concept car, lots of new ideas but not every one was guaranteed to stick. Plenty of them did stick though, like grip buttons and gyro control. The new controller is a more conservative iteration that takes what worked and drops what didn’t while acknowledging why the industry converged on the standard button layout all the way back in the late 90s. That’s exactly the sort of innovation I want to see.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 6 days ago:
I managed to get one by just spam-clicking the continue button for about two minutes. I know, I’m part of the problem.
I tried that too but stopped because I thought it might think I was a bot.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 6 days ago:
I actually didn’t like it very much. Had to dig it out of a drawer for this photo. The face buttons are in an awkward position and the left trackpad is a terrible D-pad substitute. But I loved the gyro, and if it didn’t invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them at least, and both MS and Nintendo liked them, too, since the Xbox elite controller and switch 2 pro controller have them. I saw the potential and looked forward to Valve improving it, and by all accounts this new iteration is an improvement.
I’m also a sucker for mold-breaking attempts at better ergonomics. I own a Twiddler. Still can’t get the hang of it, but nothing ventured nothing gained.
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- Comment on Don't blink 2 weeks ago:
Eye scream scoop
- Comment on Is there a split ergonomic keyboard that has dedicated arrow keys and a full row of function keys? 2 weeks ago:
I owned one of those back in 2009. I liked it, though I can’t go back to rubber dome keys.
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- Comment on In a new game of Super Mario Bros Deluxe, Luigi has the number 1 high score. I find that oddly wholesome. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my sister bought an SP and my assessment was more or less the same. But the original GBA screen was terrible. That pic is under a really bright work lamp, and it was difficult to find the narrow angle where the screen reflected enough light to be visible but also wasn’t reflecting the lamp LEDs. Back in the day I played it wearing a pair of microscope glasses, which were a regular glasses frame with a sort of jeweler’s loupe mounted in the left eye, and I had to hold it with my nose almost touching the screen. As you can probably guess that wasn’t great for getting a good light angle.
- In a new game of Super Mario Bros Deluxe, Luigi has the number 1 high score. I find that oddly wholesome.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Why do non fans try so hard to engage with fandom? 3 weeks ago:
Is shunning people for not using Linux also gatekeeping? I feel like I get that a lot.
- Comment on Why do non fans try so hard to engage with fandom? 3 weeks ago:
The concept of “real fan” is flawed I think. I’ve never assembled a WH40K model or read any of the spinoff novels, to say nothing of playing the actual tabletop game, but I’d say I’m a fan of the franchise. I’ve played some of the video games (Space Marine, Mechanicus, Boltgun) and enjoyed them. I enjoy reading lore and worldbuilding stuff from wikis even if I’ve never touched the franchise itself, and my knowledge of 40k is almost exclusively from such wikis.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 3 weeks ago:
I drove my friend’s RC car into a storm drain when I was a kid.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 3 weeks ago:
🌈⭐️ the more you know.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 3 weeks ago:
I always called it the number sign.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: games were more expensive in the past, sometimes even before adjusting for inflation. Goldeneye was $70 new.
The problem is that back then you bought a complete game to play forever. Now you buy an unfinished mess that despite costing as much, makes it abundantly clear that the game isn’t yours through DRM and in your face micro transactions.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
Whenever investors get involved things go downhill. If the only two parties are a buyer and a seller, the only way the seller can make money is by making a product the buyer wants to buy. But investors don’t care about the product. They may not even understand the product. They only care that the product makes money.
AAA studios are failing because they want to please investors, not buyers.
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 3 weeks ago:
murder bearsintensive Care Bears
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 3 weeks ago:
Seems a bit over-engineered to me. Why would a soldering iron need a CPU?
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 3 weeks ago:
Other guy: “Grab the supplies”
Me: “Where are they?”
Other guy: “Over there”
Me: “Where is ‘there’?”
I know next to nothing about Arc Raiders, so I may be assuming wrong. It’s not just about PvP, it’s about how fast-paced the game play is. I can bumble through a game of Deep Rock Galactic with friends because it’s (I imagine) slower paced and everyone is working on the same goal. My friends are also patient enough to deal with my issues.
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 3 weeks ago:
I wish I could experience multiplayer games like this. Bad performance due to my vision would likely frustrate others playing with me.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 3 weeks ago:
update 2: I’ve now done the same to my copy of Gold. It requires a different battery compared to either yellow or sapphire.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 3 weeks ago:
The only thing I can tell you is my save survived the battery replacement, which tells me it’s flash and not SRAM.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 3 weeks ago:
Update: Now I’ve replaced the battery in Pokemon sapphire. Luckily since it uses flash memory my 25 year old save file is intact.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 3 weeks ago:
So if anything, it’s not that “Linux doesn’t support Logitech” it’s that Logitech doesn’t Support Linux.
While you are correct, you’re also missing the point. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. The end user doesn’t care whose “fault” it is. They only care that they have a tool in front of them that does not meet their needs. If the end user needs a mouse with a billion macro buttons, then an OS that does not support a mouse with a billion macro buttons will not work for them. If you want that user to be a happy Linux user, then you’d better make that mouse work.
Half the people in this thread can’t see that most people, no I don’t mean most people on Lemmy, just most people period, want their computer to be a tool, a means to an end. They want it to get out of the way and enable them to crunch spreadsheet numbers or play video games or paint digital art or process words. If you’re an able-bodied software developer, desktop Linux is an excellent tool. If you’re an able-bodied anything else and have found that Linux works for you, good on you, but you’re a minority. If you’re a disabled anything else and have found that Linux works for you, please tell me how because I would love nothing more than to leave Windows and go somewhere that lets my personal computer be my personal computer.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 3 weeks ago:
What makes you qualified to make that statement? I have to rely on assistive software to use a computer. I am the only judge of what meets my needs, and years of trying to use it have informed me that desktop Linux does not meet my needs. period. end of discussion. I have made the reasons why clear elsewhere in this thread.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 4 weeks ago:
Sublevel zero is a 6DOF roguelike that I enjoyed.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, once when loose to confirm that the bent leg was the positive one, then again after taping it down to the board (measure twice, cut once). Then again after soldering it to confirm. I also verified that I can save now.
