… wait.

So now… Jack is… a dog?

Not the very mentally stable narrator?

… Is your dog literally named Jack, and I’m just jumping to the Fight Club joke?

confused whimpering noises

Thats… a full circle… circlejerk. With extra steps.

And Profit.

Goddamn, well done anon.

… or a baker.

… Maybe you just got attracted by the bait.

The Oxford comma is when you have a list of things that have basically one more comma than usual, following the penultimate member of the list.

Oxford: Red, green, and blue.

Standard: Red, green and blue.

… The thing that is missing from the OP sentence that dramatically alters its meaning is the word ‘with’, not a comma.

Maybe she should try having her friends over for ‘dinner’.

Could imply fava beans, cianti, bdsm gear, kinbaku ropes, who knows.

… cough what about pinkeye? … cough

Godot 4.7 will probably be out of beta sometime in May, btw, judging from their pace of dev to beta builds.

That is a promise he is literally incapable of keeping.

If he has 0 strategy for filtering out AI gen content… how on Earth is he going to decide what constitutes adult content, and then block that?

Army of content reviewers, like mainstream social media?

… An AI filtering system?

Just him and his crew making random decisions based on who annoys them vs who supplicates themselves to them?

Huh.

Get a grip trainer?

… Do we all count as veterans of the psychic war now?

We certainly don’t fear the reaper anymore.

Here’s what it sounds like when I use a computer. =P

Genuine question: Do you prefer smaller sized mice?

… You may just actually have small hands.

For reference I’m 7.5 inches from thumbpad/root to index finger, arguably on the cusp between how mice are often sized as small vs medium… and I can handle the chonker that is the Steam Deck just fine.

Its probably the same or close to the default hardware mapping as the default SteamInput mode for a Deck, in Desktop mode, would be my guess, basically sans virtual keyboard as Steam does its own virtual keyboard via Steam/SteamInput.

Obviously works much better and fully featured with the SteamInput system, but it isn't a total brick if you don't have Steam.

Which yeah, _should_ mean that it would be possible to write a fully opensource kind of controller manager/bus type thing for it.

It already works on any linux distro you can install Steam on.

Every outlet that you are seeing run a headline about the Steam Controller being in someway ‘controversial’ or ‘has a problem’ or ‘may be divisive’ …

I contend that this is an anti-marketing campaign, being run by basically, potentially, the entire AAA gaming industry that isn’t Valve.

Nearly every major AAA game company is currently imploding right now.

Except Valve.

Because Valve is privately held and owned, it doesn’t have a board of investors to answer to, to constantly juice next quarter profits for.

It doesn’t have a gaggle of people who sit on multiple corporate boards simultaneously, who sit on the boards of industry lobbying groups, who sit on the boards of astroturfed ‘consumer rights’ groups.

These people all know each other, or in some cases literally are the same people.

I of course cannot prove this conclusively, but just… look around.

This is nuts, the number of media outlets going with a non positive angle, in the headline… of a product launch.

Also consider that many of Valve’s direct competition has extensive, direct ties to the AI bubble insano-mania, both hardware and software companies.

… Its not normal to have so many different outlets have such a standardized general framing of … a video game controller launch.

This is what a retired ex corpo ex MSFT employee such as myself would describe as sus.

I might be fabricating a memory, but I could swear that I have actually used something like this, at one point, in a university library.

My hat is warm.

My hat smells safe.

My hat feeds me and pets me.

… I love my hat.

Oh yeah, he nuked that massive repository of technical information, memes, artwork, addons… etc… like, … over a decade ago now?

EDIT:

Sorry, just realized this is a high enough level comment that I shouldn’t wall of text the entire thread.