Messages

101

DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: January 10, 2023, 12:16 AM »

Yeah. I haven't done as many different things with the Deck (so far) as I expected to. But I've done a ton more gaming because of it than I've done in recent years.

102

DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: January 09, 2023, 06:27 PM »

I've been eagerly awaiting the "next" stable update to Steam OS which was supposed to include the feature of automatically mounting any external drives that were formatted to the ext4 filesystem. I have an external drive connected to the dock by my TV with some games installed to it that I figured I'd pretty much only want to play when I was at the TV, such as local multiplayer games.

Well, I learned that the update I was waiting for actually happened some time in mid-December and yet... I'm not seeing my external drive automatically get mounted when I connect or boot up the Deck in the dock.

103

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: January 05, 2023, 02:05 PM »

Hilarious submission of lyrics for O Fortuna.

-wraith808 (January 05, 2023, 10:04 AM)

Very funny!


... but the cake is a lie!

104

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: January 05, 2023, 01:58 PM »

Kerbal Space Program is free on Epic this week. Also a Shadow Tactics standalone expansion.

105

Living Room / Re: Happy birthday Deozaan

« on: January 02, 2023, 12:07 AM »

Heh heh. Thank you!

I take it that my response in this thread gave the impression that I was saying today is my birthday. But just to clarify: I didn't say today was my birthday and I didn't intend to give that impression.

Nonetheless, I'm very delighted by the response. It certainly brightened my day. I've been grinning like an idiot for the past ten minutes while figuring out what prompted this thread. So thank you, once again!

106

Living Room / Re: Everyone is 2022 this year!

« on: January 01, 2023, 06:18 PM »

Unless you've already had your birthday this year.

107

Living Room / Re: Happy New Years Eve

« on: December 31, 2022, 04:13 AM »

Happy new year!

108

Living Room / Re: Game with ecosytem

« on: December 31, 2022, 04:13 AM »

Some reviews that focus on some negatives:
https://www.polygon....ws-ps4-playstation-4
https://www.rockpape...om/rain-world-review

-mouser (December 30, 2022, 07:27 PM)

Ah. You were talking about reviews by games journalists. I'm not surprised they didn't like it.

109

Living Room / Re: Game with ecosytem

« on: December 30, 2022, 06:50 PM »

After watching it I would have to say it is not a game with the most complex ecosystem. Interesting but that's about it.

-nickodemos (December 30, 2022, 05:29 PM)

Agreed. I felt like the guy was saying a whole bunch of stuff in the game was unintended/emergent interactions, but it looks to me like it was all designed to behave the way it does. Very interesting to see and learn about, but far from "the most complex ecosystem" in any game.

Thanks for sharing the video, mouser. I enjoyed watching it and learning more about the game, even if I disagree with the basic premise of the video.

110

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 30, 2022, 11:11 AM »

Daymare: 1998 is free on GOG for the next ~3 days.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/daymare_1998

111

Living Room / Re: Game with ecosytem

« on: December 30, 2022, 04:16 AM »

Reviews don't seem so good.

-mouser (December 30, 2022, 03:28 AM)

No?

94% of the 396 user reviews in the past 30 days are positive.
92% of all the 7,044 user reviews are positive.

Unless it's one of those games where it's widely just a meme to leave a positive review, I'm not sure I'd agree with your assessment.

112

DC Gamer Club / Steam Replay

« on: December 29, 2022, 03:19 PM »

Steam have released a new feature that allows you to look back on your play history over the past year.

You can find yours here and share it if you'd like:

https://store.steampowered.com/replay/

The past couple of years I've actually been keeping a text file log of the games I played each year for at least one hour. Last year there was only one game on Steam that I spent 1+ hours playing, and it was a mod for a game I bought a decade ago (Terraria Calamity Mod). In other words, my activity on Steam was at an all-time low last year. This year, thanks to the Steam Deck and my discovery of frequent sales/deals on Fanatical, there were 40+ games on Steam I spent at least one hour with.

Here's my Steam Replay for 2022:


https://s.team/y22/djtgwkd

113

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 27, 2022, 12:24 PM »

Worms Revolution Gold is free on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/...ame/worms_revolution

114

Living Room / Re: Merry christmas and happy holidays to all

« on: December 25, 2022, 03:55 PM »

Merry Christmas!

115

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 25, 2022, 01:29 PM »

Merry Christmas!

Death Stranding is free today on Epic Games Store.

116

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 23, 2022, 11:09 AM »

Greak: Memories of Azur is free on GOG for the next 3 days:

https://www.gog.com/...eak_memories_of_azur

117

DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: December 22, 2022, 02:25 AM »

Well, I figured my new Wireless Xbox Controller would be useful in that I could use it with a cable at my PC and use it wirelessly with the Deck. But even though I've had it for about a month, I only recently actually tried wireless (Bluetooth) play on the Deck and I'm not impressed. I experienced pretty severe and inconsistent input lag. Sometimes it was totally unresponsive for several seconds. Other times it was like it was "fast forwarding" through a bunch of buffered inputs, trying to catch up all at once. Other times it was about a half second of pushing or letting go of a button before seeing the appropriate response on screen. Other times it was pretty close to how I'd expect if it was wired.

Oh, and it wasn't just the Xbox Controller. I also had two Nintendo Joy-Cons connected via Bluetooth and the person who was using them also complained of unresponsiveness. And in fact, at one point one of the Joycons disconnected and refused to reconnect until I opened up the Deck's settings and told it to forget about the Joycon and paired it again.

And this was only 5-10 feet away with direct line of sight between controllers and the Deck.

This is my first experience with a wireless controller on anything except an actual console that the wireless controller was designed for. Is this... normal? Is this how all Bluetooth controllers work on all computers? Is it just the Deck's hardware? Is it just my Deck?



Come to think of it, I have connected a Nintendo Switch Online SNES controller via Bluetooth to my Deck before, for a relatively short time, and I don't remember any issues like this with that. But that might have been the 64 GB Deck, before my 512 GB Deck arrived.

118

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 16, 2022, 12:58 PM »

King of Seas is free on GOG for the next couple of days:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/king_of_seas

119

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 15, 2022, 05:13 PM »

Fanatical is giving away Steam keys for Behold the Kickmen if you sign up to their newsletter:

https://www.fanatica...e/behold-the-kickmen

120

DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 15, 2022, 12:24 PM »

Epic Game Store is doing a daily game giveaway. I probably won't announce here every day what the giveaway is, so interested parties should check for themselves. But today's giveaway is Bloons TD 6.

https://store.epicga...com/en-US/free-games

121

N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 - MouseSpy by KodeZwerg

« on: December 14, 2022, 08:32 PM »

FYI, the link in the template still points to the NANY 2021 board. The correct link for NANY 2023 at the top of your post should be https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=336.0

122

Living Room / Re: ChatGPT Adventures

« on: December 14, 2022, 08:28 PM »

Isn't OpenAI open? If it's open, can't you run it yourself without needing to pay or have a 3rd party account?

123

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: December 13, 2022, 01:29 PM »

When your program is a complete mess, but it does its job

-x16wda (December 11, 2022, 09:58 AM)

Far too relatable.

124

DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: December 11, 2022, 12:44 AM »

I had the Deck docked to the TV today and it randomly acted like it was installing an update when it restarted so I could change accounts a couple hours ago. And now the user accounts screen is working on the TV again. I haven't seen or heard any news of an update for the stable channel of the Deck in some time. Nor have I heard of a firmware update for the Docking Station itself since shortly after it launched. So I'm not sure why things are suddenly working again for me, but I'm certainly not complaining.

125

General Software Discussion / Re: See recent programs closed or opened

« on: December 10, 2022, 06:58 PM »

Here's a partial solution:
Gone in 60s:
https://www.donation...14.msg44331#msg44331
https://www.dcmember.../download/gonein60s/