KoboldCoterie

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 69 points 2 months ago (17 children)

This seems to be mostly driven by Chinese gamers wanting to play it for the Chinese mythology theme; I wonder if we'll see a huge influx of other Chinese mythology related games in the coming months, trying to capitalize on this.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So naturally they're going to collect a shitload of money from them and the landlords using this scheme and use it to reimburse all of the people who were negatively affected by this illegal practice, right?

...right?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

This might just be a feature specific to the app you're using; it isn't displayed publicly on web, at least on any instance I have an account with.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 82 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The only things I've found that just straight up don't work on the deck are things with draconian anti-cheat (which don't work on Linux in general, not just the deck), and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou. Some games require some tweaking (mostly around controls, occasionally changing the Proton version, which is very easy to do within Steam), but generally that's been minor. The things that don't work well are typically things you wouldn't expect to work anyway.

It's worth noting that it makes it very easy to remap controls, even for games that don't natively support controllers or don't let you remap the controls at all normally. You can also invoke an onscreen keyboard as needed (for e.g. typing names). The controller mapping is very strong; it's not limited only to single buttons; you can create custom contextual radial menus, for instance, so even games that need many more unique controls than the Deck has buttons work fine with some tweaking. You can also view / download / rate other users' control mappings for any game that has them, so you don't even need to do the work yourself.

It's a fantastic piece of hardware for gaming. Looks great, feels great. It's a bit large (won't fit in a pocket, obviously), but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone who would reasonably want a handheld gaming PC. It's not a phone or a Gameboy.

I was without a desktop PC for a week or so due to a hardware failure, and was able to do everything I needed to do on the Steam Deck (with a USB mouse/keyboard, plugged into a monitor via a dock). So it's a great piece of hardware even for that.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd go so far as to say no op eds at all. If I'm paying for news, I want factual, high quality, ideally unbiased news, not some chucklefuck's opinion. I can get some chucklefuck's opinion all over the internet for free. (Case in point: You're getting it right now, for free, by reading this comment.)

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Darktide is, too, if you prefer WH40k to WHFantasy.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Also all books you lend from the library should be public knowledge.

Terrible analogy. You can consume the post without anyone knowing. Voting is more akin to signing the guestbook.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Looks like MacOS and various Linux distros had a deformed, illegitimate child.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago

It's been awesome watching the complete paradigm shift in political discourse since Biden stepped down... Tons of actually positive news, rather than it just being awful things about both candidates.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this line, talking about the Green New Deal:

It called for converting the electric grid to 100 percent clean energy this decade, declared clean air, clean water and healthy food to be basic human rights. But it also endorsed free health care and affordable housing for all Americans.

The use of "but" suggests that either the first part of that statement, or the last part, is a big negative, e.g. "She wants to fund animal shelters, but she also wants to kill dolphins", or "She wants to kill puppies, but she also wants to clean up the oceans."

So... which half is supposed to be the bad one? They both seem great to me. I'm so confused by these discussions.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago

Stable Diffusion (AI image generation) runs fully locally. The models (the datasets you're referring to) are generally around 3GB in size. It's more about the processing power needed for it to run (it's very GPU-intensive) than the storage size on disk.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 26 points 4 months ago

Cutting spending by 20% while not reducing output will definitely accomplish that, too!

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