Nibodhika

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My quest to get a steam controller has failed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I barely managed to get one, had to spend well over 20 minutes spamming the continue button, because the first couple of times I passed that screen something else failed (they even charged me one of those times but the purchase didn’t finish, so I imagine it will get reverted in a while).

  I liked my old steam controller more in theory than in practice, I still have it and use it occasionally but it’s more of a rarity when I think the features make up for the lack of d-pad and right stick. But the Steam Deck is just ideal for me, from the moment I grabbed it I have been wanting a standalone controller with that same format and inputs.

  In any case, sorry you didn’t get one now, I’m sure they’ll be back in stock very quickly, it’s likely they did a small batch first to test the waters on how much people wanted this. But production is probably ramping up just like what happened with the Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My quest to get a steam controller has failed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first of all an Xbox controller costs around 50 which is not a third of the price. Secondly the Xbox controller has literally less than half the inputs of the steam controller: Xbox controller has a d-pad, 2 joysticks, 2 triggers, 4 face buttons, 2 top buttons, play/pause buttons and the special power button; whereas the Steam controller also has 4 back buttons, 4 capacitive sensors, gyro, 2 trackpads (each of which on its own has a ridiculous amount of possibilities for usage) and 2 special buttons which are kinda irrelevant here. And that’s without mentioning the fact that TMR sticks are ridiculously better than traditional ones of the Xbox controller, or that the dongle works on a dedicated bandwidth instead of Bluetooth for the Xbox controller (because the dongle is sold separately I’m not considering it here, otherwise you need to add 20 to the total and then it’s DEFINITELY not a third of the price) so latency is much better.

  Also, I’m not near a keyboard and mouse most of the time when playing, as I usually play on my TV. If I were near a mouse and keyboard I wouldn’t need a controller to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alexander is a common name, but it depends on context, if you say “at the time Alexander conquered X” most people would understand, but if you say “Alexander was here” you might be talking about a work college.

  There’s not only one Caesar, while you probably beat Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius and others were also “Caesar”, and you might referring to any of them. For example, “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” does not refer to the same Caesar you probably meant.

  Slim shady is a made up name and it’s way more specific than <common name> the <common adjective>.

  Charlemagne is short for Charles Magnus, or in English Charles the great, so that’s exactly the same.

  Attila is a very unique name, I’ve never met nor heard about any other Attila so the name is disambiguation enough, but it’s likely that if that is a common name in some country they have an extra qualifier to it, I’ve heard Attila the Hun, but there might be others.

  There’s nothing special, if a name is common you need disambiguation, if a name is overly specific you don’t, same reason why we have last names, “I met with John the other day”, “which John?”, “The Smith”, “Ah yeah, John Smith, not John the son of Richard”, “No, I haven’t seen John Richardson in a few weeks”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s going to be 50-60, it has a lot more features and hardware than other controllers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love my steam controller, but to me it wasn’t a good replacement for controller games. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great and the ONLY alternative to play non-controller games (and I put FPS games in this category), but trying to play most games that waere actually designed for a controller always felt off. The lack of a proper d-pad made it worse for pixel perfect games like Dead Cells, and while the track pad is great for aiming by emulating a mouse and adding gyro, most games also use the thumb stick for mini-games or something that feels weird with the track pad. And yes, I know I could setup layers to solve that, but it’s just easier to grab another controller.

  On the other hand, since I held my Steam Deck I’ve been wanting a controller that was the exact same thing. It works 100% like a normal controller, plus has 2 trackpads and 4 back buttons. They fixed every single issue I had with the OG controller, kept everything I loved about it, and even added some things I didn’t knew I needed (extra back buttons, capacitive gyro, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2.5 years life spam for a controller is a rip-off, that being said I have PlayStation 4 controllers that are waaaay older than that and still work (battery is not great, anymore, but I’m sure I could find a replacement). I don’t know what people do with their controllers, mine last for years and years, the only controller I have that actually developed an issue is one that I lent to a friend for a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally love that, I find the Xbox one more strenuous because of the asymmetry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People speaking English in tourist areas is normal, but I’ve seen Muricas complain about people speaking Spanish first or even among themselves here in Spain.

  Also, no, the machine asking you USD or EUR is because your card is in USD and you can choose whether to have the bank in Spain do the conversion or let your bank do it. If you tried to give a dollar bill in that same establishment you would be informed that they don’t take dollars, or be charged an absurd conversion rate to justify his bother of having to exchange that money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a split ergonomic keyboard that has dedicated arrow keys and a full row of function keys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I ask what’s wrong with having the arrow keys in a different layer on esdf and/or ijkl?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The game requires windows, just because you’re able to make Linux run it doesn’t mean the game supports it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows doesn’t usually need them as most games are native, and Mac doesn’t do Vulkan (in their immense wisdom Apple decided to invent Metal instead) so it can’t use dxvx. Valve could still have wine there which would work most of the time, but it might be a lot of support for a janky experience at beat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a red flag for them. Just like how before proton lots of us said “No tux, no bucks”, just because it’s not a red flag to you does not negate their opinion of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Steam only uses proton on Linux AFAIK, and the guy said he’s running Mac, so it it’s not native it’s not available to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not literal like it would be for Dwarf Fortress, the game just has A LOT of content. Even FO3 or Oblivion have a ridiculous amount of content, where you need hundreds of hours to do all side quests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing you got to understand is that the energy of the crash has to go somewhere. The same energy will apply to both cars, the modern car will absorb a lot of it by deforming, the old car won’t absorb any in that way because it’s a hard piece of metal. And you have to wonder, what is more important to you, the car chassis or the people inside? You might as well ask “why do we put packing peanuts if nails are a lot tougher” or “why do we ship eggs in weird cardboard boxes if a metal square would be more resilient”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my favorites are the chains between Spanish and Portuguese:

  • Garbage in Spanish is Basura
  • But Vassoura in Portuguese means broom
  • But in Spanish broom is said Escova
  • Which in Portuguese means brush

  Or

  • Tea cup in Spanish is Taza
  • A Taça in Portuguese is a wine cup
  • But in Spanish wine cup is a Copa
  • And in Portuguese a Copo is a regular glass
  • But in Spanish regular glasses are called Vaso
  • Which in Portuguese means vase.

  Or

  • Cutlery in Portuguese is Talher
  • But Taller in Spanish is a workshop
  • Which in Portuguese is Oficina
  • Which in Spanish means office
  • But in Portuguese you say Escritorio
  • Which in Spanish means desk

  Or a short one:

  • Your last name in Portuguese is your Sobrenome
  • But in Spanish Sobrenombre is your nickname
  • While in Portuguese nickname is Apelido
  • But in Spanish Apellido means last name

  Another one I like is Vamos a chatear 1 rato which in Spanish means “let’s chat for a little while” but in Portuguese means “let’s bother a mouse”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but “camera” doesn’t really mean room, it means chamber, which is a small enclosed space, and if you grab a box it is a camera by definition (just a very small one). And if you close every place where light can get into a small chamber you get a “camera obscura” which just means a dark chamber. And if you poke a hole on a camera obscura you will see an image of the outside being projected on the opposite wall. This was a very common trick in pre-industrialization, and became known as Camera Obscura, from then someone had the idea to put photosensitive material, also known as photographic, on the opposite wall and created the first photographic chamber, or “photographic camera”, which eventually was abbreviated to camera.

  So yeah, they mean different things, but not really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but making a port of a game to a console involves using the console’s APIs for things. Things like input, network, graphics and others can’t use generic libraries in consoles like you can on PC. If you’re making a game on a modern game engine a lot of that is abstracted away for you, but if you’re working on a game engine or a game written from scratch you need to take these things into consideration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying it’s just flipping a switch, but it’s also not the monster that people make it out to be. Porting a game to a console is usually a lot harder, but the vast majority of things should work on a PC already as they were probably developed and tested on a PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way in hell those games don’t run on PC, you think every dev/artist/designer/etc has their own Playstation devkit for testing things? There was work needed, probably related to PSN and some other optional things that can be turned off for dev builds, but I guarantee you the games were running on PC before anyone even considered porting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t remember the specific books but there is a specific thing that I thought was brilliant. One book follows an Astartes that starts to suspect heresy in their ship and he escapes it, he approaches another ship and recognizes the Astartes on the other end of the radio and confides in him about his suspicion and he lets him onboard. Then in another book you follow the story of that other Astartes, who starts to suspect heresy in the fleet and when the radio call comes it confirms his suspicions.

  Not the greatest thing ever, but it was a cool thing that I don’t think I’ve seen any other book series do something similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman: I could see a street level Batman without as many gadgets in a more rudimentary batcave still be Batman. I think this is because if you take away all of the wealth Batman is still Batman, an excellent detective with extensive martial arts training who enjoys terrorizing criminals.

  Iron Fist: that’s a title, like Ghost Rider or Spawn there are other Iron Fists that are not rich. So while not exactly the same there are some Iron Fists that are not rich.

  Iron Man: I don’t think Iron man without money would work. Either you would have to change a core detail of him or it wouldn’t make sense that he’s not rich. The main defining characteristic of Iron man is his suit, which requires an extraordinary power source. So either he doesn’t understand the power source (e.g. it’s an alien artifact) or you would have to explain why he doesn’t sell products with a similar power source and becomes rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it wasn’t, it used the same (albeit highly modified) engine, if that makes HL a mod then almost every game you play is a mod since they all use some preexisting engine. Otherwise you have to consider Marvel vs Capcom infinity a mod of Daylight since they’re both UE4 games, or even Call of Duty as a Quake mod.

  You don’t need Quake to run Half-life, therefore it’s not a mod, it just uses the same engine, or some parts of. That is very different from Counter-Strike which you needed to have Half-life and mod it to be able to play it originally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t you forgetting a GPU there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cryptocurrency is a decentralized digital currency, it can be used for the same thing as any other digital currency, the difference being that you can use it without relying on a centralized authority like a bank or similar financial institutions.

  Yes you can buy pizzas with it, although that’s less common nowadays because there are more practical ways to pay for that and you probably don’t mind the bank and government to know you buy pizzas.

  I thought what made money money was everyone agreed it was valuable and was willing to exchange it for goods and services directly. I don’t see that with crypto.

  You don’t? If I were to offer you 1BTC for your mouse, would you accept it? If you say no you’re stupid, if you say yes you confirmed you see it as valuable and are willing to exchange it for goods directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true, Steam stopped accepting Bitcoin because of the large transaction fee and value volatility. Here’s the news from when they did that steamcommunity.com/games/…/1464096684955433613 in case you don’t believe someone who was buying games with BTC on Steam back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitcoin in specific doesn’t scale, but other things like Bitcoin Cash scale without increasing the energy usage, because the energy cost of PoW Blockchains comes from their security, not from the scale, so doing 1 or thousands of transactions costs the same.

  Plus, things like Ethereum have migrated to PoS which uses very small amount of energy comparable and also scales without increasing energy costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell, Boots used to sell PCs? Or is that a fricky coincidence that there’s a PC store somewhere with the same name and logo as a popular pharmacy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the moment where Valve should publicly announce they’re not laying people off, because they have enough cash to pay all of their employees by charging a fair 30% of every sale, which makes their business sustainable. Then point to all other platforms that charge 30% and say “they’re not firing anyone either” then get to the only one that charges 12% and say “they’re the only ones losing money on this business by trying to undercut the real cost of doing this business, if they had charged the same 30% as everyone else does they would have enough to keep those employees”. Probably a bullshit argument because Epic surely has enough money to keep them now and it’s just someone looking at a graph and making bullshit decisions, still a very strong point for Valves lawyers to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stock Pixel, I do have Nextcloud and other stuff, but I usually don’t want to risk bricking my phone and I’m okay with some of the tradeoffs of using Google things, not okay with being shackled to it though so I do have some alternatives setup ready to switch but for the most part I’m okay with the tradeoffs.