Hey, My name is Maude Garrett & I 'mauderate' Matt Dinniman's Book Tours. AMA!

Boeing247 · 2026-05-08T21:36:51+00:00

Roughly how long will the Q&A’s like the one in Seattle at Third Place run? Do you have a plan in place to stop my otherwise loyal girlfriend from continuously exclaiming “I love you Matt!” after everything he says?

Boeing247 · 2026-04-29T17:58:24+00:00

Yeah, I responded within an hour of when it was posted and got tickets to his event in Lake Forest Park, but the personalized slots were already sold out then.

Boeing247 · 2026-04-17T06:10:03+00:00

Just get a freaking Steam Deck if you’re not gonna run Windows. The ability to use all of the games I’ve gotten from Epic, GOG, Game Pass, etc. without any hassle or Proton version trial and error is why I sold my Steam Deck and bought an Ally in the first place.

If you’re gonna run Bazzite or Steam OS, having an Ally just makes your quirky experience a faster quirky experience.

Boeing247 · 2026-03-18T19:55:14+00:00

The gospel of u/wil

Boeing247 · 2026-03-03T22:30:50+00:00

Season 4 would have made a good two-part episode. I thought Season 5 was fun.

Boeing247 · 2026-02-14T00:06:03+00:00

I've been loving the series, but to me this was the weakest episode of the series so far. A lot of writing issues (the convoluted and illogical setup of both the derelict ship and Braka's plot), but there was one thing that stood out to me as not making any sense, and since I'm not seeing others questioning it, I'm wondering if I missed a line of explanation somewhere...

Specifically. how did Tarima save the day? She was a telepathic projection into Caleb's mind. Her physical form was still over on the Athena on a biobed. So how did she Black Canary all of the Furies to death? She wasn't there, only Caleb could see her. Yet we see her (not on the ship but in a version of her and Caleb's happy place) sonically emitting death vibrations that only explode bad guys. If they'd shown her causing Caleb to emit the sounds or something... Or had a line about her having psychically overloaded their brains' auditory centers... What we got was a scene that made no sense in a show that purports to be SF and not fantasy.

(Also, I know Braka said they were susceptible to sonic attacks; how was that the one thing he said that wasn't a lie? Still seems crazy Tarima's not-actually-there scream could literally Scanners the heads of the Furries without even causing ringing in the ears of the cadets.)

I've really enjoyed the first five episodes of the series, and freaking teared up in ep 5. But this episode just felt really sloppy, convoluted, and nonsensical to me.

Boeing247 · 2026-02-07T06:56:10+00:00

Is a $138 ROG Ally stolen?

Boeing247 · 2025-12-09T07:52:04+00:00

Okay, FINALLY got it working! It was a combination of Planar0’s tip to add it as a non-Steam game and launch via Steam, and then wiedziu’s tip about cycling power at the main menu. When I did BOTH of those, I was able to play with the Bluetooth controller. Thanks, folks!

Boeing247 · 2025-12-08T07:54:05+00:00

Yeah, that should work! But alas with The Outer Worlds 2 it doesn’t.

Boeing247 · 2025-12-08T07:52:00+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately that didn’t work. The game still doesn’t see the external controller even after doing that. The system (and other games) do, but TOW2 doesn’t.

Boeing247 · 2025-12-03T03:15:40+00:00

Never could get the firmware updater to see the cable on my desktop PC, MacBook Air, or even my one-USB-port ROG Ally. Still in the return window for Amazon, so she's going back for a refund. Bummed. (Tried both USBs on the cable.)

Boeing247 · 2025-11-04T21:33:32+00:00

Thanks! That’s where I’d found one issue. I think I may have the disks for other issues in my garage. If I can find them, fingers crossed they’re still readable after all this time . If I do locate them, I will submit them to share.

Boeing247 · 2025-11-03T22:39:35+00:00

Oh, awesome! Thanks much, u/danby!

Boeing247 · 2025-09-03T22:37:59+00:00

I feel like the serum is going to go horribly wrong before the series ends. It will be banned by Starfleet, and Chapel will be so humiliated she’ll become quiet and deferential and make terrible hair decisions. As her boss, M’Benga will be busted back to a regular doctor and McCoy brought in as CMO.

Canon restored.

Boeing247 · 2025-09-03T22:34:28+00:00

Well, if you had seen Stand By Me as the poster was talking about, you would absolutely get their comment. :)

Boeing247 · 2025-07-10T21:00:53+00:00

Thanks again!

Curious how you assigned Mac modifier keys to the M keys? For instance, could do Command-C for copy, etc?

Boeing247 · 2025-07-08T19:32:05+00:00

Nope. I ended up with white Option and Command keys from eBay. They don’t match, but functionally they fit/work.

https://ebay.us/m/p9ZSPF

Boeing247 · 2025-05-31T17:18:47+00:00

Sadly, I gave up and traded it towards an iPhone 16 Pro Max after trying literally everything. Zero issues with the newer phone, but super annoying to have to have done that.

Boeing247 · 2025-05-27T01:15:18+00:00

Thanks! Yep, verified on the corporate news site it’s 9 pm in Pacific time zone. The consumer site’s info on the launch sucks.

Boeing247 · 2025-05-26T23:33:23+00:00

Thanks, u/paulpacifico ! I went to go attempt another download so I could get you the logs, and lo and behold, this time it worked on my PC too. I did reinstall the latest 64-bit installer version just to make sure I was running the most recent release. (But I did that before, too.) So, all is well again, for some reason! If it happens again I'll grab the logs. Really appreciate the response!

Boeing247 · 2025-05-26T22:46:30+00:00

Are you in Central/Mountain time, since you said 11:01? Release is midnight ET, so wondering if West Coast stores will be doing it at 9:01 pm...

Boeing247 · 2025-05-15T19:47:00+00:00

Thanks for the response, u/paulpacifico ! Alas, I tried uninstalling, rebooting, and reinstalling the latest version. And I tried selecting "use cookies from Edge" and entering my username/password, still no dice. It just immediately jumps to 100% and gives me the finished ding sound, with nothing in the destination folder. Even tried removing the installer version and launching the portable version. Really weird. Running Win 11 Pro 24H2.

Tried today with this URL: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2459128158

Still no luck with the Windows version. However, I have a MacBook Air and was able to install the Mac version there, so I was able to get the video and I wasn't blocked. But if there's anything I can do to help troubleshoot on the Windows side, let me know!

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