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FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?
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Least favorite - Joycons. They make my hands ache, and I hate that to enjoy my switch I have to have a 3rd-party grip.

Favorite - my Lenovo legion laptop, which has given me for excellent years of service. I’m going to upgrade to a newer model later this year and keep this one, install Linux on it, and make it a Linux-only machine for better privacy in using the Web.

sleepybisexual,

Yea, joycons are the worst bit of the switch.

Also if you want I can give you some advice with linux

FlashMobOfOne,
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I appreciate the offer.

I ran a dual boot Mint install on my main PC for two months and it was just too buggy. I had to switch back to full Windows, but I know it’s an issue with Nvidia and some distros have been Nvidia compatibility, so when I make the switch again I’m just going to use a different one.

sleepybisexual,

Oh oki :3

UnderpantsWeevil, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
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First they came for Pluto’s planethood.

Next they’re coming for Australia’s continenthood.

lugal,

When they came for Pluto, I said nothing because I wasn’t a planet
When they came for Australia, I said nothing because I wasn’t a continent
When they came for Bielefeld, I said nothing because I wasn’t a city
When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything

– Martin Niemöller

HER0, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?
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I really enjoy all of Valve’s hardware. Others are mentioning the Steam Deck, which is great, but I also love (and frequently use) the Steam Controller and Valve Index.

I don’t know if I have a clear least favorite, as I never owned the things which interest me the least.

BruceTwarzen,

People really seem to hate the steam controller. I love that thing.

HER0,
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A big part of it, I think: the Steam Controller is different in ways that are unpleasant if you approach it like a standard controller. For example, it is not designed to be gripped around the handles like an Xbox controller, but to rest in your fingers. If you attempt to grip it like a traditional controller, it is uncomfortable and the trackpads are hard to use.

I have a friend who grew to like his Steam Controller after using the trackpads on his Steam Deck. For him, it was realizing the potential of the hardware combined with Steam Input.

jecxjo, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?
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All of my gaming is super retro or low tech. I do have an XBoxOne but i rarely use it. Computer is old so games on there are mostly old old stuff from the 90s and early 2000s.

Hardware wise i have an Anbernic 353V that I do a lot of retro gaming. Not a huge fan of the Gameboy style setup but its a good cheap machine.

My kids have Switches and thats what kicked me from supporting Nintendo after they go obsolete. The Joycons on one suck and I’ve replaced the connector hardware twice now. The best version is the Lite but you cant connect it to a TV which is dumb. Their family sharing is broken (wife has digital game, i havs DLC, we are SOL).

sleepybisexual,

Yea, the switch is a bad console, was the start of Nintendo becoming as shitty as the competition

apotheotic, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?

Favourite: Steam Deck, hands down. It has totally revolutionised the way I play games. I very often choose to play games on my deck instead of on my far more powerful pc.

Least favourite: Smartphone. The closest I’ve come to having an enjoyable traditional gaming experience on a smartphone was Sky: Children of the Light but even then I was constantly getting frustrated with the touchscreen controls and dealing with my phone getting as hot as the surface of the sun. Its also just not a comfortable shape to hold while you game.

sleepybisexual,

Yea, phone games have awful controls. But at leasts its not a shitty proper stick

apotheotic,

Fortunately no stick drift

sleepybisexual,

I have a drifting pair. Even without drist the ergonomics are bad. But I’ve seen worse

BruceTwarzen, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?

Favourite: PC Least favourite: Nintendo switch

SkyezOpen, do gaming w Gamers Above 30, What Older Games Would You Still Recommend to Younger Gamers?

Morrowind is hands down the best elder scrolls. If you want a TRUE sandbox where you can do whatever the hell you want, that’s your game. Some issues include graphics, no quest markers (you have to read the quests and follow directions), the leveling system is not intuitive at all, and combat is heavily stats based.

Upsides are you can craft any spell or enchanted item using any spell effects you know. Ring of permanent invisibility. Spell of lock every door within 50 feet. Summon 3 different daedra at once. Conjure a whole set of bound armor. Explode yourself in fire. Literally anything.

The elder scrolls renewal project is working on recreating morrowind with skyrims engine and I really hope it comes out soon.

Daxtron2,

OpenMW replaces the engine with an open source one. Runs better on modern hardware, easily moddable, has multiplayer.

iMastari, (edited ) do gaming w Gamers Above 30, What Older Games Would You Still Recommend to Younger Gamers?

I’ll recommend games to younger gamers but the graphics look like shit compared to today’s games.

Unreal

Unreal Tournament (if you can find others to play with you)

Duke Nukem 3D

Sid Meyer’s Civilization (the original one put out by Microprose. No addons. Just one complete game.)

Doom

Quake

Might & Magic (yes there is no “Heroes” in the title)

Baldur’s Gate (The very first one)

King’s Quest

Simon the Sorcerer

MDK (Murder Death Kill)

Orcs vs Humans (when Blizzard were not a corrupt asshole of a company)

Poop,

MDK was hilarious and a great game too. I have played it recently and thought it still held up pretty well!

troyunrau, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
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CM400, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

Wow, Pluto has approximately the same surface area as Russia

HootinNHollerin,

And now putin starts pumping out propaganda that pluto used to be russian

Kiru17, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha
Kiru17, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

Aw man I wanna play

MeatStiq, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

Yo doods can I get an invite?

themusicman, (edited )

DM me your friend code

MeatStiq,

Sent

mindbleach, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

The Alice Springs Pluto Observatory has opened considerably under-budget.

bionicjoey, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress

So like SMITE?

TheCreeperFace,
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from the 1 video I saw more like Paladins with Smite item shop

simple,

Not really, SMITE is a moba that happens to be 3rd person, Deadlock actually plays like a 3rd person shooter that needs proper aiming and headshots and a much faster pace.

bionicjoey,

I see. This is probably a pretty niche reference nowadays, but is it more similar to Monday Night Combat? That was an actual shooter IIRC and had mobs mechanics like lanes and creeps.

drphungky,

Good, cause I played the Smite 2 alpha and it was kinda garbage. I literally said out loud “this is like Dota for babies”. It didn’t even have good FPS mechanics to make up for no depth.

Virkkunen,
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It's actually closer to Battleborn. Like the other commenter said, it's more of a third person shooter with MOBA elements. There's focus on movement (you can dash, double jump, crouch slide, some characters fly), headshots and distance change the damage and melee/parry are just a button, while every character has guns as their man attack means. For the moba elements, it changes a bit since there's 4 lanes and it's a 6x6.

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