Jtskywalker

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[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

The track pads are phenomenal for any game that doesn't have great built in controller support. I use them for mouse input on games like FTL, and they are much more accurate for aiming in FPS games than emulating a mouse on a stick. I also use them as radial menus for expanded controls on games like Elite Dangerous that really need more buttons than a controller has.

I agree with your point in general, and SteamOS was the main thing that pushed me towards steam deck over other handhelds with better specs. Now that I've used it though, it would be hard to give up the trackpads if the other options dont have the same quality. My hope is that 3rd party devices will basically mirror the steam controller setup, since the SteamOS controller mapping and provided layouts are a huge part of why so many games work on the platform even without official controller support. It's not just the hardware or the software but how well they work together.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Morrowind is the best. Oblivion remaster is better than skyrim (in my Morrowboomer opinion) and that was just refreshing a 20 year old game. I feel like there is a lot of hype for TES6 that it may not live up to, but surpassing skyrim is definitely doable.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I have a Lenovo 2 in 1 tablet laptop and it works OK. I am running Debian with KDE Plasma and it has been a little flaky with the automatic screen rotation and sometimes i have to toggle it on and off to get it to kick in but that's it. Not sure if that's something that would be fixed on different distros or DEs.

I didn't have to do any extra 3rd party driver setup or anything like that.

The touch screen itself works great. I have used tablet mode mostly for reading RPG source books that I only have PDFs of. Works great for that.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

My first thought was FTL as well. Great game

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

This looks awesome!

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

I had Debian running on a min-spec Air from the same era (2012 or 2013) and it is absolutely usable. Probably not for gaming though 😅

It has xubuntu on it now. It is going to be used for my kids to access the Lego spike robotics stuff, and it works great for that!

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I recently got Moonrakers, and it is 10/10 in my opinion. It can be competitive, and the rules certainly support backstabbing and sabotage, but it can be played very cooperatively. There is a winner, but you could even modify the rules to "try to get everyone to 10 prestige in x number of rounds" instead of first to 10 wins.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

That's awesome. I have a few rolls of TPU sitting around. I'll try to keep this in mind if I ever need something similar

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

The combat tutorial is not great in my opinion, but once you unlock more abilities and companion synergy it is pretty fun. Being able to respec at will is really nice so you can try out a lot of different abilities.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Lots of options here already, but I love the red rooster coffee decaf blend. I order most of my coffee from there and get decaf sometimes. Anything from a quality roaster will probably be good. I think the processing method makes a difference - the ones I like are mad with the Swiss water process

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I usually played the non-nonsense serious type of good guy that you don't get in veilguard but yeah. I haven't finished it so I'm looking forward to that. I'm only like 15 hours in but I'm split between that, BG3, and Skald Against the black priory, which is a fantastic old school style rpg. I picked up all of those in December on the steam sale

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