From what I’ve seen, a lot of the pushback against “woke” games revolves around whether they’re good or not. Almost no one cares about a good game being woke, stuff like BG3 was widely enjoyed by a lot of people despite having gay characters/etc.

However when a game is bad or mediocre, people are quick to blame any “woke” content in the game. There’s a mentality of “they were putting effort in pushing a political/social agenda I don’t agree with, while not putting in enough effort on the stuff that actually matters”.

Of course, now you have a lot of people assuming whether a game will be good or not based on how the perceive it. But if it comes out, and is actually a good game, that’s enough to quiet most all of the complaints it seems.

It being free on Linux is pretty interesting.

I was reading about all the conflicting windows ui frameworks over the years, and supposedly windows frequently has different internal teams pushing different standards and fighting with each other over it. End result is that WinUI 3 is one of 17 GUI techs that’s still shipping today (8 of those are made by Microsoft itself, the other 9 are things like Electron, etc).

So this sounds like a much needed clean up, but like most things we’ll have to wait and see if Microsoft actually follows through on what they’re saying.

Something I’ve realized is that a lot of management for big publicly traded companies doesn’t care about any long term success of the company. They just want to turn a quick profit for a year or two, and then move on to a different company with a severance package and a raise. They will gladly steer a company towards ruin if it makes for a better financial quarter.

Thanks! I’ll give it a shot one of these days.

Do you mind sharing your TotK setup? I never finished it because my kids always want the switch, and I find the ergonomics really uncomfortable to play for long

How is Mina? I’ve heard some mixed takes on it, but it being from the Shovel Knight devs makes me want to jump on it.

I really enjoyed Outer Wilds, and Obra Dinn came up in some recommendations I read based on that. While it’s true that the games share a limitation that you can only play them “properly” one time, they aren’t yet hitting the same itch for me.

Also grabbed Chants of Sennaar awhile back, which I think may be similar to Obra Dinn.

I’ve actually run into several older games that have major issues on Windows but run great on Deck. Many of these require fan patches to fix their windows issues (stuff like increasing how much ram the game can use, etc).

A recent example was I gave a friend a copy of FEAR, just to discover it ran way worse on his high end PC than it does on my Steam Deck.

Mostly replaying older games this month. One new pickup is “Return of the Obra Dinn”, which looks pretty interesting. I think it will be (eventually) a fun puzzle to put together, but I’m not sold on the on-boarding process of being pushed from one memory to another. Kinda feels like the game is dictating the pace early on, and I feel like that could have been handled better. But I’ve heard enough good things about it that I expect I’ll enjoy it a lot by the end.

Apparently it’s contracted braille.

Contracted (Grade 2) braille is used by more experienced braille users. It uses the same letters, punctuation and numbers as uncontracted (Grade 1) braille but adds a series of special signs to represent common words or groups of letters, a bit like a kind of shorthand.

Books, magazines and other information tends to be produced in contracted braille, to cut down on size. Contracted braille produces much less bulky books and magazines.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4078957

This do not touch tag is a 3d print, the print creator says they made it using a braille translator website. Other braille “Do Not Touch” tags use some different braille letters for parts, and I don’t know enough about it to tell what the difference is. (edit: it’s contracted braille)

Regardless, doesn’t seem to be an AI image.___

Thankfully it sounds like no one else is having this issue. It’s either a beta only problem, or maybe something to do with my cheap offbrand dock.

People above said this is probably just using the $ for pesos, which would make this about $2USD.

As for US food prices, it varies a lot depending on where you are. Where I live, fast food meals are usually $7-10 and nicer sit down restaurants are $10-20.

I visited Norway about 10 years ago, at the time the food there was more expensive for a lot less food. The drinks weren’t unlimited refills either. Beautiful countryside though.

Sometimes the connection to the TV drops and it goes black for a few seconds

I had this issue for a long time, but it turned out it was just a bad HDMI cable. Swapped cables and it never happened again. Might be worth a try.

Probably was marked as sold out for awhile, I’ve seen at least 4 different websites report on it being sold out earlier today. I’m assuming some of those sites actually verified it showed as sold out online.

I just used the current article title.

It is noteworthy that it sold out, despite the price hike. Apparently it’s still desirable at that price, although without actual sales numbers it’s hard to say for sure.

Ouch, that’s rough.

I mean, this is technically better than it just not being available. But those prices are hard to swallow, makes me really glad to already have mine. Really hope nothing happens to it.

I flip to desktop mode and use the Steam Link app to connect to my PC. If you are looking to play a really high end game via streaming, I recommended not using the SteamOS streaming and rather using the SteamLink app. Performance and controller detection work much better.

That’s an interesting idea, I’ll try it out. Haven’t had much luck with Moonlight/etc working on my setup. Steam streaming is easy to use but performance is mixed, so improved steam streaming sounds great.

I appreciate the ascii drawing, thanks for including it!