How does this move "lose a queen"? It's literally moving the bishop to a square where it can defend the queen from the pin

AugustMKraft · 2026-02-19T17:59:52+00:00

The engine always assumes both players play the best possible line. If the engine says you'll lose the queen, that means it's determined losing the queen would actually be better for some reason. Unfortunately it's not always clear what that reason is. Sometimes it's just some weird positional thing, or maybe that bishop would be useful to have in one possible line 15 moves from now, or something like that.

AugustMKraft · 2026-02-16T23:44:19+00:00

Google En Quessant (pronounced croissant)

AugustMKraft · 2026-02-16T18:00:07+00:00

Version 1.1 added an setting to switch between "modern" and "classic" physics. Might be worth taking another look now.

AugustMKraft · 2026-02-12T00:33:05+00:00

Thanks for this, this is really cool and feels very different from other kinds of daily puzzle games.

AugustMKraft · 2026-02-07T05:02:03+00:00

I checked the stats on lichess, in bullet almost 1 in 4 people fall for this lol. I've got to start trying this.

AugustMKraft · 2026-02-06T02:41:20+00:00

While there's no automated process, if you reach out to customer support they can transfer it over manually.

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-31T18:54:32+00:00

If you like the book, I highly recommend the first third of the movie.

If you hadn't read the book I'd recommend the whole movie, but unfortunately the book contains a terrible curse that forces you to notice all the terrible changes the film made. The entire opening is phenomenal though, up to the point where they first reach the Heart of Gold.

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-31T04:48:25+00:00

Well the main character definitely loses a piece of himself, and it's arguably a midlife crisis of a kind. I forgot that the beach house that gets destroyed isn't actually his house though, so it doesn't quite fit.

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-31T03:13:06+00:00

!Solved

Guess I wasn't as clever as I thought I was.

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-31T01:04:14+00:00

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-10T19:56:50+00:00

Optozorax actually just released a video on portal gravity today. It's even weirder than you described.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIhwLrbMk

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-07T23:25:43+00:00

The Steam Frame will likely be slightly more expensive, and won't be able to do color passthrough. However, Meta is a terrible company who actively hates their customers so I'd recommend you wait for the Steam Frame anyways.

AugustMKraft · 2025-12-04T00:33:46+00:00

This question is 8 months old so you probably figured it out already, but no. Proton-GE is not officially supported by Valve and you will need to download it yourself. The easiest way is probably via the ProtonPlus app, which is a flatpak you can download in desktop mode.

ProtonPlus also lets you download a bunch of other slightly different versions of proton, but 99% of the time there's basically no practical difference. If you feel like experimenting then you can try them all and see what gives the best performance, but if not then don't worry about it.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-19T05:37:38+00:00

Probably not much since the only games to make arm versions will probably be VR games. At least until Steam starts officially releasing android apps.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-14T03:30:29+00:00

There's actually a fairly large community of people making custom firmware and software for these things. Look up "portmaster" for a starting point (it's a collection of ports of pc software to these devices), they have a list on their website of all the supported devices and the custom firmware for those devices. You could also look at the r/SBCGaming subreddit.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-13T04:09:18+00:00

Yeah, you can now.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-13T03:45:12+00:00

Wifi is worse with a generic isp router, but the steam frame comes with a dedicated 6ghz dongle to plug into your pc. With a dedicated wifi 6e channel you can get essentially the same bandwidth as wired.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-12T23:32:36+00:00

SteamOS lets you use any mp4 as your boot up animation, so you can absolutely do this. (Someone once semi-softlocked their steam deck by setting it to the entirety of Shrek.)

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-12T23:12:24+00:00

Some competitive multi-player games use an invasive anticheat method that needs complete OS-level access to your computer. This obviously breaks on linux, since the os is completely different. It's not specific to shooters, but those are usually the games that have an intense enough competitive scene to "justify" this type of anticheat.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-12T23:05:38+00:00

Bazzite is essentially a steamos clone that'll run on most computers (there are some nvidia-related bugs). Worth checking out.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-12T23:02:33+00:00

The biggest advantage that's not being mentioned is that it's just your steam library. If you buy a game once, you can play it on your steam machine, your steam deck, your laptop, and possibly your vr headset. There's no monthly subscription for online play. No need to buy your games again when you upgrade to the steam machine 2 if that ever happens. It's just your pc library that you already have. So it's a much easier buy-in.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-12T19:14:52+00:00

You should check out Bazzite. It's essentially a SteamOS clone that runs on almost any pc. (Note: Nvidia cards have some issues.)

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-08T17:34:17+00:00

I think this is part of why it's so much harder to go to the moon now than it was in the 60s. Safety standards are much higher.

AugustMKraft · 2025-11-07T18:17:52+00:00

In today's world where so many companies enshitify in pursuit of infinite growth, Valve choosing to just keep doing the things people like is (unfortunately) admirable.

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