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I think it's amazing that Valve hasn't done anything to royally fuck over Steam users -- surely they have enough money by now that they could afford several unity-tier PR fuckups. But instead they seem to be trying to fuck over Microsoft.

The hardware is a neat gimmick. But it's easy to imitate, anyone can take a tablet and put joysticks on it now. The real magic is Proton, the magnificent hack that makes "windows games" playable without Windows.

Ironically enough, it's led to me playing more games on the living room television! The steam deck helped me adapt to playing with a gamepad, as opposed to mouse and keyboard.

Until they come out with a Steam Controller 2, I will say the best gamepad for steam is the Dualsense (a Dualshock 4 also works). It's got one touchpad instead of two, but Steam lets you map the left and right half separately, which covers my primary use cases. I also installed the RISE4 remap kit, a hardware mod that adds paddles on the back of the controller which can mimic any face button. Not as good as having actual new buttons, but it does mean I can run and jump without taking my thumb off the right stick.

I'm excited! But why not Minetest? :p

Like many open source games, it has that distinctly 'alpha' feel to it right now, but I do enjoy NodeCore on occasion. It's a zen minimalist block game with a unique diagetic crafting system. Instead of a traditional "recipe book" or "crafting grid", you produce new materials through in-world transformations. For instance, to make glass, you have to surround sand with fire, and to control fire, you basically want to build a deliberately-shaped dirt or stone pit... the whole thing feels a little like minecraft and a little like a sand physics sim or cellular automata.

I think part of the problem is just that there are a lot more good games that people know about! Unfortunately one of the tradeoffs for all the riches of heaven is that it's a lot harder to cover them all.

same here! I'm a huge fan of MessagEase, a keyboard specifically made for the cell phone touch screen form factor. I think Valve used to dabble in something like this for the controller form factor, the 'daisy' or whatever? I think that should absolutely make a comeback, typing with touchpads is a short-term solution but with all the buttons and analogs on a modern controller, we should really have more keyboard options! Maybe something like each stick has 8 positions, and holding any combo of left-stick + right-stick gives one of 64 virtual 'keys', which you can click with the triggers, and the bumpers let you swap between different alphabets.

I hope it gets a PC port. I'm done with Switch exclusives.

I don't mind waiting a bit. If the system works, the users will come eventually.

I mean, there's Stackoverflow, and Steamcommunity. It can be done. I'd just like to see federation tackle it.

Right, which defeats the purpose of the "fediverse" imo.

I didn't know that! I'd prever to use server-only mods though, for Geyser compatibility, but thanks for the suggestion!

this is my current solution; I use Obsidian to manage my notes and I sync the folder with Syncthing. I still use Google Keep though for its whiteboard tool; is there a better app for that?