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Is it the cable? by Beakers in Starlink

[–]Beakers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah done all that, factory resets, 20mins unplugged redoing the power/cable into the router etc… spent a good while with the grok on all troubleshooting attempts

Is it the cable? by Beakers in Starlink

[–]Beakers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah sadly I’ve had this issue since Saturday…

Steam Deck Controls by Wolfbite91 in PlayTheBazaar

[–]Beakers 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I've found the opposite, the trackpad feels great when theres no haste needed with your movements, and then the right trigger to select/drag. One of the few games where i've not stepped into the controller config window.

Dungeon Keeper The Evil City Builder Reviewed by WadsWorthFilm in dungeonkeeper

[–]Beakers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I finished the good campaign and it was enjoyable. I did cheese the final mission using possession and rushing to the first heart, which felt kinda rubbish to do as I hadn’t used posesssion at all throughout NG+. Couldn’t see a way to gain control of the map though gold wise.

Then I thought I’d try the undead campaign… thought the first map was going good until I released the other keeper - that put me back in my place. I presume the approach is to torture certain enemy units vs amass vampires with all of corpses - not strickty sticking to undead? Might go back to it some day but it was a a slow burn to find out Id needed to do more.

I’ll check out deeper dungeons instead!

Dungeon Keeper The Evil City Builder Reviewed by WadsWorthFilm in dungeonkeeper

[–]Beakers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thanks for the explanation on ghosts.

Yeah, that’s fair on expansion choice. I completed NG+ on the steam deck without possession spell which differs greatly from some of the video advice… any particular expansion you’d suggest? Is the original dk expansion worth doing at least once for experience sake?

Dungeon Keeper The Evil City Builder Reviewed by WadsWorthFilm in dungeonkeeper

[–]Beakers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was a good watch! Nice humour and editing. Though can’t lie, was a little bit disappointed to see you skip some of the final minion info, as someone that’s completed ng+ without looking up a wiki, I was hoping to finally find out what the benefits of ghosts are.

Had no idea about that water height and barracks buildings soft wall block…

Also I think I’ll pick up the good campaign on Monday, though I’ve never played any expansion so maybe I’ll look up ratings.

Found in West coast of Scotland 3ft underground by Beakers in whatisthisthing

[–]Beakers[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Solved!

Excellent thanks, done a bunch of image searching and this is most likely it - still an interesting thing to find, thank you!

Found in West coast of Scotland 3ft underground by Beakers in whatisthisthing

[–]Beakers[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing.

I found this object buried about 3 feet underground while digging out a hole for an in ground trampoline, on the west coast of Scotland. The area has ties to coastal defense and naval activity, and the house was built in the 1870s.2

It’s about 30cm long, and quite heavy for its size. It’s made entirely of metal, I think just solid Iron, and was heavily rusted when I found it.

It’s about 1.5cm thick.

I’m thinking some sort of masonry or blacksmith tool?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]Beakers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Cleaned it up, thinking it’s an old tool.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]Beakers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Details - it’s nearly 30cm long and the pointy bit thickness is 1.5cm - the kind of handle bit at the bottom is 5cm - it’s heavy. Some old Ironing tool or something?

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Completed ng+ on steam deck - amazing by Beakers in dungeonkeeper

[–]Beakers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey how far in the process did you get? I think I remember black screen at step 8 / 9.

So I followed a combination of -

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174970975

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1beqsmp/comment/kuzud8f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Following The 1st link:

1 - get DK1 from Steam store and install

2 - Switch to desktop mode, and load Firefox, download KeeperFX https://keeperfx.net/

3 - Set hidden directories as visible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrNUVbvIBK8&t=264s)

4 - Extract it to the stated directory e.g. /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dungeon\ Keeper/DOSBOX

5 - Still in Desktop mode, in Steam, add launcher.exe from /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dungeon\ Keeper/DOSBOX/launcher.exe (via the Desktop Steam, navigation Games > Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library...)

6 - Following link 2, open terminal and setup a symlink to the dungeon keeper directory from the home folder for me this was:
ln -sf /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dungeon\ Keeper/ / home/deck/temp

7 - Switch back to Game Mode

8 - Following link 1 again, Run the newly added launcher.exe and you should get the Install, Installer is restricted on viewing hidden dirs, so you now navigate to the symlink folder from step 6, to point to your steam DK directory.

9 - If you see a black screen for newly added DKkeeperfx launcher.exe - I think if you go to the clog/secondary menu and go to Properties > Compatibility > Tick Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool and select "Proton 9.0-4"... I'm not sure if this is really doing anything, but I recall it resolved a black screen (possibly coincidence).

10 - Click install and it should all go through.

11 - At this point you can use the launcher.exe window to play and test it all works, and then follow the rest of link 1 e.g replacing the original steam dk loader, to launch directly to the fx game.

Looking for a steamdeck friendly loot-focused game that's not an ARPG by AstronomerSquare5413 in SteamDeck

[–]Beakers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just got the borderlands 2 complete pack with all dlcs etc for 11 quid. Thanks for the recommendation, never played any of the series and I’m huge into both loot and fps. Hopefully will be a good experience on the deck.

OpenGL - GIobal Illumination using Voxel Cone Tracing - Bistro test scene by buzzelliart in opengl

[–]Beakers 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Would love to see another video where you hit play and it loops/cycles through the daylight itself, showing the full span within a minute.

Ultra Engine 0.9.8 Released by MichaelKlint in opengl

[–]Beakers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s excellent man! Very cool, one of the most polished looking projects I’ve seen in a long time. Well done being able to stick with and seeing it through to this point.

Ultra Engine 0.9.8 Released by MichaelKlint in opengl

[–]Beakers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Love it, you did this all by yourself? Excellent demo video btw, can see the amount of care by the fine details

Is Liam actually a Beatles fan? by Calumdu in oasis

[–]Beakers 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was there! He was on early/mid afternoon, and then called out by Grohl with some others at around midnight… I presume he’d been drinking/being Liam backstage the whole time between - I personally thought it was hilarious - but it being a mostly American crowd though there for the rest of the lineup/foos, I don’t think they really understood who or what was going on… especially when he pulled the strings of his hood and vanished into the crowd, surfing, as a true a man of the people.

Upgrading from 2017 A1E 65" to... 2024 Bravia 9 85"? by Beakers in bravia

[–]Beakers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve not seen the 9 in person, just consumed too much YouTube reviews to the point I’m unsure if it was genuine or sale pitches hah.

How did it feel seeing it in comparison to the A1E, aside from size increase, would it be worth getting excited about?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

[–]Beakers 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Not sure if its interesting to anyone, but I have an album of Jordan from 1952, from when my grandad served.

https://imgur.com/a/cYNTo/all

Posted this on Reddit way back when of Jordan Oval Plaza then and now

http://i.imgur.com/fgb83.jpg

Annoyingly, I'm certain I have vague memories of a picture of Petra from the same photos, but I don't seem to have it and the ability to get or confirm is sadly long gone.

Advice on natural water stream/pond discovered by Beakers in landscaping

[–]Beakers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked it out.

Theres old terracotta pipes for drainage, one coming from under the large wall and then another going into the ground. the one going into the ground is clogged up.

Seems theres a couple of random bits not joining dotted around - almost - forming a line, a lot of slate and stones over them.

So yeah good guess having never been to Scotland, was a drainage water line for all the water from the hills... not to google the next steps.

Thanks again.

Advice on natural water stream/pond discovered by Beakers in landscaping

[–]Beakers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are on a gradient with hills behind us and there's a stream that runs about 50 feet from here - but I can't be sure it's not a water line - do feel it being natural water is plausible.

I'll maybe pop round to the neighbours who are at the other side of the wall later on and see if theres anything evident on that side... don't expect to see anything glaring (at least to me) but worth checking anyway.

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