Don’t Think, Just Jam

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Cake day: November 25th, 2023

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  • It’s a decent piece of hardware designed for ease of use similar to consoles while also allowing people as much control as a normal PC. How well it works depends completely on what kind of games one wants to play.

    I tend to play mostly indie and older titles, both PC and console ones, and Deck works great for that. The few AAA games I tried worked without issues but your experience might vary based on when they were released, whether they use third party launchers, DRM etc.

    Deck was a bit of an impulse buy for me but I can’t say I regret it. It’s a neat device and a great way to get into PC gaming, well worth the asking price in my opinion.






  • Finally came back to Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery - a sci-fi tactical RPG. Really fun, with interesting story so far. Can be pretty challenging at times (especially on higher difficulties when trying to complete all optional goals on your first try) but that’s kind of what you’d want from a title like this, isn’t it?

    It plays great on both desktop, with mouse and keyboard, as well as on the Deck so I tend to jump between the two depending on the situation. Thankfully game has no problem with that.





  • People are willing to deal with a lot of thing before it gets to a breaking point - whether it’s a social media platform or anything else in life. Change is scary and many users keep their accounts to follow specific artists/series/topics who may or may not have easily findable alternatives to switch to.

    Add the fact that majority of casual users doesn’t know about other similar platforms or (in case of fediverse) finds them confusing and suddenly they have more incentive to just put up with the problems as long as they can. More so since such change requires rebuilding of communities and relationships.

    Finally, there’s laziness - most people just can’t be bothered to change things in their life unless they have no other choice/choice was made for them (ex. service they used died).

    Why do you think so many refused to leave reddit after the whole boycott drama? It sucks but that’s how humans are. There’s only so much we can care about and social media aren’t exactly high on the totem pole.







  • I’ve got some points about this one.

    • they pitch a “deck that could actually play Fortnite” - game from a company who’s CEO actively hates linux for whatever reason (maybe it kicked his dog, I dunno)
    • they talk how games bought on stores other than Steam will be “first-class citizens” which… you can already do on Steam Deck
    • they promote being free of hackers/cheaters because of immutable file system… something Steam Deck also has (though they do mention some additional digital signatures)
    • they want to be not only on handhelds but everywhere (laptops, tablets, phones, TV, cars…) - pretty ambitious for a company that didn’t deliver anything yet
    • it’ll be running on an ARM processor - we’ll see how this works out (has anyone tried making a handheld like this?)
    • already mentioned no desktop mode - why is this mentioned as a positive exactly?
    • they want help from linux power users (feature requests, contribute code) but they don’t know how open-source they want to be
    • they stole Witcher 3 video from some dude on YouTube

    I’d like to think these are just screw ups/growing pains but nothing I’ve seen so far gives me any good vibes about it. We definitely need more choice and competition - this however does not look like an honest attempt at that. Let’s hope I’m wrong.

    Edit: Ah, how could I forget! Kirt McMaster, CEO of Playtron and the man responsible for killing CyanogenMod. Sounds great…