Sometimes it’s both!

The best thing about being an OG Steam controller enjoyer is if the new one sucks I still got my baby.

I’ve definitely thought about it. What do you use?

Software exists to de-couple the original Steam controller from Steam itself, and under the hood it was just another xinput device with trackpads and gyro slapped on so if you plugged it in it was a mouse and a (bad) Xbox controller. It will likely be the same case for this one. It is true that you won’t be able to remap anything or adjust sensitivities without a software layer. It does not have to be Steam.

Genuinely pretty cool stuff, and I don’t like to compliment Valve very often. I knew another Steam controller would look like this, it was a no-brainer with the Steam Deck. I really enjoyed the first one, as someone with very bad nerve issues with my hands it was (still is?) the most ergonomic non-split controller, so I hope they’ve kept that sensibility with this one since the Deck itself is kind of a nightmare on my hands for long-term use. I guess we’ll see. I hope you can use the split VR controllers with non-VR games. Their promotional video made it sound like you could, but I’ve never used the Valve Index so maybe that’s always been supported. I think it’s really funny they’ve brought back ‘Steam Machines’, that thing they tried back in 2012 or whatever and it totally flopped, but it’s not going to flop now because computer software sucks so much and Linux is eating everyone’s lunch.

This is correct, and I would add Dwarf Fortress to this category too.

I’ve been told gaming “has never been better.” Well, suit yourself, I’ve got a thousand-game PS2 library to go through.

About 15 years ago I was with a group of lolita cosplayers after meeting a trans DJ at a convention who walked me to where her next venue was, several blocks away in the middle of winter. Trudging lost in the snow in huge platforms and coping with ice cold gusts of wind in a short poofy dress is a lot more palatable when you’ve chugged through a big gulp of half and half vodka coke mixer and are holding hands, is what I learned.

For the record, I’m aware that this is not your quote. I am adressing a rhetorical “you” in my message. However, I’ll use the more direct you now. You asked for discussion about the quotes you posted, and I gave it to you. I am not sure what’s weaponized about my sincerity but it is, indeed, quite sincere.

Incredibly bad take. How one can look at the global negligence of COVID prevention, which I remind is a novel, highly-transmissible neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure, and conclude that it is actually bizarre and antisocial to care about it, that it is playing into conservative ideology to have trust issues from the immense trauma of navigating said global negligence as one cares about it, is beyond me. I treat people who are not doing anything to prevent the spread of COVID as a threat because they are. As it turns out, that’s a majority of the world population right now. We are all living the “if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?” scenario in real-time. Don’t blame me for not jumping with you.

My heart dropped reading this. She died as her husband held her, and for absolutely nothing. What an utterly evil, sick place this pit of a country is.

It is correct, not cowardly. I made an edit to hopefully clear any further confusion. I very much dislike the “coward” polemic from anyone calling themselves radical or revolutionary (hah!) when I know they all pulled the mask off along with everyone else years ago. That is cowardice.

The revolution is on its tenth COVID reinfection, struggling to climb a flight of stairs.

Are you still wearing a mask in public spaces? Is anyone in your org? Talk to me about cowardice.

e. to make myself absolutely clear, how seriously do you take COVID, and if prevention via mandatory respirators at any demonstration or meeting is not the expected bare minimum conduct, why not? What world do you think you are building? If this is not up there with climate action on your itinerary, any world you imagine is not equitable. It is not sustainable. It is certainly not revolutionary.

95% of Americans won’t wear masks during an active pandemic of an airborne pathogen for which the only legitimate cure at present is prevention. Commiting to a level of hygiene annoyance which is less than a maxi pad was too much for us as a society. Forgive me for rolling my eyes.

I don’t see how the two are related at all. One hallucinates more-or-less-fingered things and is used cynically for profit motive regardless and the other is a gag about a common and intentional stylistic choice in many cartoons.

Even that started as “abolish the police.” That was too radical, so they went with “defund the police.” That, too, was too radical, and turned into “fund them more, but include sensitivity training.” The sensitivity training was not included; too radical.

It is truly impossible to make any kind of prediction for what will happen in the US because of this. I think a lot of people not from here don’t realize how bad it actually is. It’s really, really bad.

Is it not? I thought there were other proprietary bits & telemetry removed, like what LibreWolf does. Maybe I’m lost in the semantics of “fork” and “custom version”…

I believe Salvatori also did one of my absolute favorite songs in Halo 2, “Heavy Price Paid”, which was another one of the songs that played on the menu. It’s a shame it’s all mostly accredited to O’Donnell; game music enthusiasts with their heads on straight knew he was a POS back in the mid-00s, too. As far as I can remember he’s never been shy about it.