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- Comment on Valve's CS2 Update adds Paid Skin-Offer-Gambling - YouTube 3kliksphilip 1 week ago:
I’m torn. Valve has been so good for Linux gaming. They made a handheld console that emphasizes real ownership and the right to repair. They generally make good decisions when it comes to things and while they do take a big cut of game sales, their platform has so many features it’s crazy.
This gambling thing though really sucks. I get that they need to monetize, but I feel like they could get away with just selling skins, or having the loot boxes being a free daily play reward that drops things that could be sellable on the marketplace. No way to buy a box like this. Just earned for free through play.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
I’ve got a 6800xt and it runs really well on medium settings. Looks pretty good as well. Never had the game crash on me either. It’s 60fps but I’m cool with that. Gameplay feels smooth at that and it’s steady. No upscaling no frame Gen. 3440x1440.
I have heard a lot of people are having issues with Nvidia hardware though.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash 1 week ago:
My mid range 4 year old PC must be hella premium. Because I’ve had no issues playing it.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August September 7th 3 weeks ago:
Quite a bit of northgard with my wife. But I have really been wanting to goof off in Abiotic Factor with my friends. It’s been hard to get together. Curse getting older and having other priorities!
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC 3 weeks ago:
I thought borderlands 2 was great, but I spent more time playing 3. I’m excited to play 4 but there isn’t a chance in hell I’m buying it day one. I want to see what the general reaction to it is before I spend my coin on it.
- Comment on Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming? 4 weeks ago:
If you wanted to you could host your own server with Owncast.
I set one up on an old laptop and it worked well enough the few times a mucked around with it.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
Having a 6 and 8 year old is very time consuming! The good news is I have 2 nights a week of D&D which gets me a bit of social time. Though not face to face.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
Depends. I find making new friends very difficult because I don’t have many of the same interests and the rest of the people that I naturally get exposed to via my kids, wife or life. I work from home and don’t have much time for social hobbies. I go to concerts sometimes but I really struggle to make conversation with strangers. I can see how someone like me would end up being lonely for a long time.
- Comment on New expansion "Visions of Eternity" announced! 2 months ago:
I sure enjoyed the last few. A new elite spec will be nice as well. Might get me into playing a different class!
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 3 months ago:
I love my Kobo Clara. I’ve read more in the past few years of ownership than I did the 10 years before. Plus I have a calibre-web server that it syncs with so I don’t have to manually move things over.
- Comment on This new game Jump Ship looks interesting 3 months ago:
It was ok. It felt like it needed something. The basic ship was clunky feeling to fly and the weapons felt mediocre. The enemies didn’t feel fun to fight either. But it was fun with my friends. But I think that was spending time with them more than the game was. I walked away from the game not disliking it, but not having any particular interest in playing any more of it.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 3 months ago:
Even just the RTS games that never came out. Northgard is great on the deck!
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 4 months ago:
Pretty much. If it works for the steam deck it should work for the desktop. There are some exceptions for some brand new games. But if you want to wait a week or two for new releases usually it’s fine.
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! 4 months ago:
They do. Just not 3rd party.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 4 months ago:
I’m loving it. But most of the people I talk to were put off by eternal. It’s more of that Soni can get people not picking it up for it’s very expensive cost currently.
- Comment on FBC: Firebreak Is Inspired By Helldivers, Monster Hunter, and Mass Effect 3's Multiplayer Mode 4 months ago:
I’m really looking forward to this. I loved the world of control and really want to experience more on wacky stuff in it.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 4 months ago:
I’ve been buying $80 for years thanks to being Canadian!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games 4 months ago:
I really look forward to this. I’ve enjoyed all the borderlands games for at least a few hundred hours. Borderlands 3 was fun but the humor was rough…
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 5 months ago:
Honestly, for the most part I really enjoyed the voice acting in Guild Wars 2. But femme V is probably my favourite as of late.
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 10 months ago:
Nope. They had anti cheat that supported it, but they experienced higher issues with cheating via linux than elsewhere. Which sucks. People who cheat suck.
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 10 months ago:
It is still a loss for linux gamers.
- Comment on Day 86 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 11 months ago:
I’ve always loved the idea of this game but always struggled with it. But in feel like playing with friends would make a difference.
- Comment on How to get good at FPS with a controller, coming from a PC gamer? 1 year ago:
Try experimenting with gyro aiming. It feels weird at first but becomes natural soon after.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 2 years ago:
I have the feeling this is another Bethesda puddle game. So big, but so shallow.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 2 years ago:
Yea I’m a linux gamer so waiting to see if it works for me is basically mandatory. Good way to stop pre-ordering lol.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 2 years ago:
This game is on my to buy list, but probably in a few years when they have ironed out all the issues and dropped the DLC in a GOTY or whatever edition they make later.
- Comment on Dota 2 - The Summer Client Update 2 years ago:
Lots of great changes. I don’t play much Dota anymore but I’m glad it still gets big updates like this
- Comment on Northgard - Clan of the Stoat 2 years ago:
My wife and I play northgard together and it’s nice they keep supporting it. We haven’t really found much else she enjoys like northgard so we keep buying the content to keep them going!
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- Comment on What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven? 2 years ago:
Roasting is heat from the top and baking is heat from the bottom I think.