sugar_in_your_tea @ sugar_in_your_tea @sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

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Thanks for the recommendation!

And yeah, I'm enjoying it, and it feels somewhat similar to Manifold Garden, which I also highly recommend.

Sort of, but the functions changed a bit. For example, in Halo, the black button changed the type of grenade and the white button triggered the flashlight, both of which weren't really needed frequently. On the XBox 360, it changed to:

• throw grenades - B - used to be melee attack (which switched to a bumper button)
• flashlight - D-pad - replaced the "lower weapon" action, which was no longer available (was moved to a bumper button in one other game, and removed from others)

Both control schemes are fine, but I honestly thought the black/white buttons were decent. Having some buttons you rarely push but can is nice.

Some people really like it, especially combined w/ the gyro. I think it's fine, I just prefer the feel of joysticks.

Nice!

Mine probably can't run Skyrim, but I'm surprised what my 8yo laptop w/ a Ryzen APU can still run.

I just started Tunic and Antichamber. So far I'm enjoying them. I have a family trip coming up, so I might not get a ton of time to play, but we'll see.

I've also been playing FF7 (kids are into Magic: the Gathering and wanted to know more about the FF set) and Tears of the Kingdom for the first time with my kids watching. They often play games after watching me play through, so one is playing Breath of the Wild and the other Link's Awakening, so I'm kind of helping them with those too.

Gotta get that recurring revenue!

At least in the US, most (all?) stores are still franchises, but the property is owned by McDonalds. Basically, a franchise owner rents the building in much the same way that they rent the ice cream machine. Franchise ownership just means you get the right to run a particular building and make whatever the agreed-upon cut is.

I imagine it's a lot easier to expand to civilians later than to get a bill through without the military/government benefitting first.

This has nothing to do with privatization, at least not in the sense you seem to mean. It has everything to do with ownership, and the military wants to actually own the products it buys.

This isn't going against the private sector as a supplier of goods, it merely says if you sell to the military, the military actually owns that product instead of rents it.

It's not though. The current administration can suck and also do good things. Both can be true simultaneously.

I'm on board regardless.

I don't like them either, but that's because I prefer the feel of joysticks, not because of any functional reason. For the Steam Controller trackpads, you don't need to readjust anything, you just hold in the direction you want the camera to be changing, just like a joystick, and they're massive so you have a lot of range of motion for controlling speed.

It's a different feel than on the Steam Deck, so I can totally see someone liking the SC trackpads and not the SD ones.

Is it going to be online only like the other one?

1&2 got offline mode for Steam Deck, but not for regular PCs, which is really weird. Are they going to pull the same nonsense on this one too?

I haven't picked up 1&2 specifically because of that restriction, though I'd really like to play it.

Yup. I'm not a fan of pewdiepie and most popular streamers, but I do appreciate his advocacy for Linux.

It has two trackpads, which can be used as an alternative to joysticks. It's actually kinda cool since it kind of works like a mouse with quick flicks and whatnot.

Right, but my point is that it's change for the sake of change, not to improve things. It's the same old Windows, but with some downgrades like telemetry and stupid defaults.

I don't understand how you can't.

In a business setting, it's called "professionalism", and in a personal setting it's called being a nice person. Most of my family is against gay marriage and don't believe in gender fluidity, yet when my sister in law said her child is non-binary and would like to be referred to with they/then, they complied. Why? Believing those things doesn't mean you hate LGBT people, it just means you disagree about policy. They love my sister in law and her kids, so they'll do what they can to help them feel comfortable around them and want to participate in family gatherings.

I personally believe strongly that marriage should be available to all consenting adults, but I also believe gay marriage goes against God's plan. Why? I believe everyone has the right to make their own choices and whether that's acceptable to God isn't my business. Maybe I'm misreading things, IDK, but my personal religious beliefs only guide my personal decisions and I believe I am supposed to love everyone regardless of their lifestyle. Whether someone else is sinning isn't really my business, nor should it impact my love for them. And maybe they're not sinning, again, IDK, it's not my business.

I support same sex marriage (my church doesn't) because I believe in freedom of choice, and that policy merely increases options for others and doesn't decrease mine. Likewise for most LGBT policies, like bathroom use or gender change on IDs, you do you. We had an LGBT candidate at work (pretty obviously trans), and I was happily surprised that wasn't an issue for my very conservative coworker during the interview (they're an observant Muslim with conservative social views), and I went out of my way to make sure we both corrected for any subconscious bias we might have.

I don't know Brendan Eich, maybe he's actually a terrible person, idk. What I do know is he had a long career at Mozilla (nearly 20 years), and there were no public complaints about him until he was chosen as CEO. From all accounts, people were only mad about his $1k donation to prop 8, not about his conduct at work or anything of that nature. The board even asked him to stay in another capacity, but he left because he loved Mozilla and obviously he wasn't able to be an effective leader if his presence encouraged people to recommend against using Firefox and other Mozilla products.

To me, it's a crazy overreaction, he donated a pretty modest amount one time, six years prior, and had no complaints during his position as CTO. He absolutely got brigaded because someone decided to dig up donation records. If they didn't, he probably would've been a successful CEO and refocused on the tech, instead of whatever nonsense the follow-up CEOs have been doing.

I disagree with Eich's political views, but also think he was the best person for the CEO role. He seemed like a competent professional, and he was certainly technically competent given his long technical career at Mozilla.

I also prefer controllers (grew up playing Halo on controller), and gyro aim is sweet, but touchpads never felt good to me. I like physical buttons for d-pad style input (even a joystick is fine), and the right touchpad felt too much like a mouse to the point where I'd rather just use a mouse.

The Steam Deck strikes the right balance for me. The touchpads work when the mouse really is preferable, and they stay out of the way when I use the joysticks.

Sure.

It's important to note that the PS1 also borrowed from previous designs, namely the Super Nintendo with 4 face buttons and N64 (the controller with joysticks came out a year after).

Xbox's main innovation was the offset joysticks, which may have been due to patents more than anything, but I preferred it. I also didn't mind the two extra buttons, and was a little sad when they went away, because they were largely replaced by the joystick buttons, which I think are hard to use properly.

But yeah, design stagnated a bit after the PS1 controller.

I use them for point and click games and other games where a mouse is better.