Don’t forget the year glasses! Although those peaked in the 2000s (with a resurgence in 2020)

These are all smaller games that I’ve enjoyed playing on my steam deck, none of them are online multiplayer focused though:

Inscryption

Celeste

Crypt of the Necrodancer

Spelunky

Bad North

Carrion

Death’s Door

Anything emulated

This sucks. Why are you making fun of a random child who is obviously nervous and uncomfortable?

Well it will be fine even if you only leave it charging a tiny fraction of the times you use it. And with AAs you have to remember to change them anyway or it will die while you’re playing.

And if you think the process of:

opening the back cover, taking out the AAs (especially on the original steam controller), putting them in a charger, and putting new ones back in the controller

is even close to as easy as just setting the controller down on a magnetic charger, I don’t know what to tell you.

They’re The controller is always charged because I put them it on the charger when I rotate them. am not using it.

So the controller never dies unless you’re playing for more than a day straight, and there’s no fiddly swapping out of batteries. The only downside is that you might need to replace the battery in like 5 years time with heavy use, and it’s only marginally more difficult than swapping out AAs.

Well the rechargeable AAs will wear out just like an internal battery, but there’s more of them and they’re individually packaged. It’s a bit more waste and a bit more money, even if it’s not a big difference.

Personally I think the big difference is in usability - I’d rather just leave the controller on a charger when not in use and never have to worry about swapping cells in and out. (I think battery degradation is overblown - it should last way more than 2 years, especially if you aren’t gaming for 20 hours straight)

You’re so close to getting it…

What is that ‘open secret’?

I love this game. It’s simple in an elegant way, but the gameplay has quite a bit of depth. (A lot of emergent strategy)

Linux could still make a significant improvement in responsiveness or performance. Especially with something like Cachyos.

It sounds like you handled that maturely, and about as well as you could. It’s not like you can just choose to be less sensitive.

Not necessarily. It’s way more complicated, and there’s no clear line. If you use that definition, then coyotes and wolves become the same species, for example.

I made this post in response to seeing a low quality AI video that was literally an ad for a company.

I’m fine with actually high quality AI stuff (labeled, preferably), but there seems to be almost none.

It’s been everywhere for a while, but the fediverse seemed like a last bastion up until very recently where I’ve noticed a change.

Is this the end of human-based online articles and interactions?

I sure hope not. At least it’s just a few posts here that are generated for now. If it ever gets to the level of Reddit, I might just leave.

As someone who is both, would definitely say I’m interested in generative ML. (I was an early adopter of locally run diffusion models and LLMs. I kinda ended up deeply disappointed by the tech in a lot of ways, but that’s a different discussion.)

But personally for me the issue is that I really don’t care to see posts that someone didn’t care enough to make themself, or read something that someone didn’t care to write. And it’s always super bland and uninteresting.

Yeah I agree. The issue is that image generation tends to result in maximally bland outputs, and the people who post it tend to put minimal effort in.

I’m not categorically anti-ai, but I feel like I am in practice.

I’m referring to stuff that I consider low quality. I don’t mind if something is generated, as long as it is labeled as such and is interesting or valuable in some way.

I love coconut so we may have different taste, but I think oat milk is the best plant based milk.

As someone who hates milk and loves coconut, I agree that they don’t taste similar.

I’m pretty pleasantly surprised at how well Arch and its derivatives are doing.