I have a PSVR2 and I don’t consider the capability of VR to be its failure. I have to assume it’s just that much harder and more expensive to develop for VR. Like the FPS genre is hugely successful, and that’s such a natural fit for VR.

Right, that’s what I’m saying. Make a v2 Deck with upgraded CPU/memory, and put the GPU in the dock so it can do 4k on a big screen. I’m sure “Deck v2 is 4x more powerful than v1 and you can dock it for 4k @ 60fps on the big screen” would be just as good a marketing line as “Machine is 6x more powerful than a Deck”.

At this point, you would think that if they wanted to go with an Occulink/Thunderbolt thing… they’d make it in the Steam Machine, the thing that doesn’t move around as much.

I hadn’t heard of OCuLink before, apparently it’s an external PCIe connector! Eh, that would seem like a waste of engineering team to build that into a stationary desktop PC. They can just build the PC case to whatever size is needed to house the GPU and related cooling, which they did. This is the second desktop PC they’ve released, no? They had one like 10 years ago that was a commercial failure? My impression as a console gamer is that the Deck is very successful and popular, but it’s under-powered for playing on a big screen.

They… the Valve video says the Steam Machine is 6 times as powerful as a Steam Deck.

Right, my point was just bumping the chipset/CPU/memory would give a nice marketing tagline like that without designing a whole new desktop PC. Obviously, you can’t put a giant modern CPU and heat sinks and fans in a handheld. So spend that engineering R&D money on giving the dock a GPU so now the Deck performs as well as the Machine would have, and you have it using a successful branding rather than reviving a brand that already failed once.

It seems like more news about the Deck 2 or whatever is coming,

Hope so.

I mean like a v2 Steam Deck and Dock. Give the Deck a bump in CPU/RAM/storage specs and new external ports to facilitate having the GPU in the dock. It could technically even be an externalized PCIe connector instead of Thunderbolt/USB. In handheld mode you get the iCPU limited to 1080, but dock it on the big screen and now you get full 4k @ 60 FPS. Add an HDMI port so you do 1080 on a big screen without a dock.

Hm, guess I missed that part, my bad.

The Frame isn’t playing the games on its ARM chip. It’s just streaming audio/visual data from the PC and relaying the controller inputs back to the PC.

Agree it has be price competitive with consoles. Though I wonder if making a docked Deck be on equal footing with the Machine would have been a better use of R&D. Maybe simply improving having the dock house an eGPU and bumping the Deck specs.

Intriguing. Eager to see the price of the Steam Machine.

Shame. He has a great reaction one of your options with a spider in the Guantlet of Shar.

Are they going after every 18+ game now?

No. They’re going after all porn.

Uh … Steam actually did this same thing before Itch did.

I could do refurb direct from manufacturer, but I don’t think I’d ever go for used. Problem is there just doesn’t seem to beany options. Lenovo US only seems to have one model with a cell antenna and it’s only LTE. Other than that it’s Samsung or an import, which I’d be wary of compatible bands.

I’m on Google Fi which lets you just add extra SIM cards to share a single data plan between devices. So just a one-time cost for the card.

True. Though I’d probably go for a new unit without the 5g and just keep tethering my phone hotspot. But like, I can get a $200 Moto phone from Lenovo with wifi and 5G (and 8G RAM), so why can’t I get a $300 tablet from them (even with only 4G memory)?

https://www.motorola.com/us/en/smartphones/index.html?visibleDatas=14015%3A8GB&sortBy=priceUp

I don’t mind that they have 2FA features in their app. I mind that using SMS for this has been known to be bad practice for years and they’ve tried to leverage that insecurity to push users to the Steam app. It’s reckless and this current data breach is only possible because of it.

Steam is warning users to enable Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator and keep an eye on account activity.

Fuck off and let me use my own TOTP app already.

Either Witcher 3 or Baldurs Gate 3.

The first two were crackin. The 3rd one with Jean Reno and time travel was a bit odd. I don’t think I finished what came next and the series dropped off my radar until the recent Netflix series. I’m excited about the new ‘Way of The Sword’ game. Might go back and check out the 2019 Warlords remaster.

The first two for sure. The 3rd was fun but got a bit weird with Jean Reno featuring in it (it had some back and forth time jumps). If I tried Dawn of Dreams, I don’t much remember it.

Aw yisss! I believe the first Onimusha was my first PS2 game.

The rest of the Legacy of Kain games

I saw that there is a PS5 native version in Beta now. Hoping they get around to making a PSVR2 after that has hit GA.

People have been telling me that consoles are dying and everyone will play on PC instead for over 30 years. The convenience factor of the all-in-one hardware, and the supported lifetime of the platform, can’t be understated. I can see docked phones being a replacement at some point. But I’d be surprised if PCs ever squash out consoles.

but it won’t end the blue/green bubble nonsense.

Fuck yeah.

I have an Tab4 10" which I think is now the M10. The 3rd Gen M10 is around $140.

Oh man that’s disappointing.

Dockable handhelds.

Little Big Planet. Every level’s music track brilliantly fit both the aesthetic and tempo. The sequels never cam close to capturing that same magic as the first one.

Hope it comes to PSVR2.

Historically, and I believe per the announcement, any content you’d already bought you will be able to download even after it’s been delisted.

Shouldn’t the same RealTone cable work?

Luke Skywalker, Biff Tannen, Caligula, Sark, Gimli, and Ginger Lynn were in Wing Commander 3.

… apparently. I had no idea.

When is the official start of Wintereenmas?

I see plenty of people on BlueSky without .bluesky.social in their @. Doesn’t mean they’re on another instance?

I like and use Tusky on my phone, and it also works as a Pixelfed client. But it’s not very good on tablets (in landscape). It not only doesn’t maximize the width of the screen, but you can’t scroll the feed from those unused sides of the screen. And one UI feature that Tusky is missing is the indented thread-depth lines that help you keep track of all the different reply sub-threads.

• https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/1469
• https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/2541
• https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/975

Best thing for discovery in Mastodon is to follow hashtags. This is algorithm-like in that you will see posts from people you don’t follow, on the topics you have an interest in.

Apparently my desired feature is already present. From the Home tab the Subscribed/Local/All button expands to let you pick which logged in account to show.

Yeah just found it today and I quite like it so far. Had been using Jerboa but the after v0.0.37 that was pushed out made it’s just crashing on startup since I was logged into lemmy.world. However I would like to see an option to not merge the feeds of all logged in accounts. I prefer a UX to switch what account I’m viewing with and see only the subscriptions of the selected account.