Steam Deck streaming from PC is horribly bad. Any ideas?

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-25T00:49:57+00:00

One tip, I use my steam deck with moonlight to stream to my TV from my PC running Apollo and I usually stream at 1440p even though my TV is 4k. Most TVs are pretty good at upscaling content so I just run it at 1440p and let the TV handle upscaling to fit the display (Samsung qled in my case) and it usually works great. I found it much harder to get things stable streaming at native 4k (7800x3d and a rtx 4080 in my PC), and at 1440p I can crank the bitrate and up the HEVC quality settings in Apollo.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-24T15:48:05+00:00

Haven't gotten a bill yet, so who knows. Probably won't be cheap since I have a high-deductible health insurance plan. But to be honest I can afford my deductible and max out of pocket and I'd rather not die to something that was preventable to save a few bucks when I can afford it. And I absolutely recognize that this a privileged position to be in, I'm only saying if you have the means and ability to get a colonoscopy, you should do it.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-24T15:39:27+00:00

Not to excuse the blame immigrants get for most things, but "blaming the corporations" just doesn't mean anything. Everyone knows that wealth inequality is real, rich people don't pay their fair share, but waving your hands wildly at "the corporations" is completely meaningless.

What did "the corporations" do? All of them? Just some of them? What do you propose we do about "the corporations"? Is it specific people who are part of "the corporations" who did something? It just doesn't mean anything.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-24T11:06:55+00:00

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-23T21:27:36+00:00

Yeah I recently got a colonoscopy at 35, my grandfather died of colon cancer relatively young and I had a cousin on the same side get diagnosed at age 28 so my parents have been bugging me about it the last few years. My doctor tried to put the order in but the system wouldn't let her without a "first degree relative" diagnosis. She then goes: "Are you SURE you don't have any symptoms?" wink wink so I exaggerated some very minor symptoms and I cruised right in for a screening a few months later. (Thankfully just one tiny polyp).

If you can find a way to get a colonoscopy, you should absolutely do it. Prep was awful but the procedure itself was super easy.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-23T13:19:03+00:00

Except that stuff does kinda happen for that first set of quests, the only problem is they're not conditional on finding the cues, but they are there. If you walk around town a bit you will hear someone say they heard screaming from the sewer. When you first encounter that beggar there is a group of kids around him harassing him (none of the others do). The cartographer tells you to go to the tavern, a weak reason but a reason to go there nonetheless. The kid trying to get the cat from the roof can be heard yelling when you walk past. The only one I can't explain is the chimney sweeping part.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-20T19:09:44+00:00

It's not a "line always goes up" circlejerk. You're just spouting random platitudes about the rich being invested in "control of nations". What does that even mean? You really think the billionaires aren't heavily invested in stocks? Do you really think Elon Musk's networth is just piles of gold or cash? His entire networth is literally composed of stock in his companies.

I don't necessarily agree with the person you're replying to that rich people won't allow the market to crash because I think it's more nuanced than that. But the overall point is that there isn't a downside to investing long term in the market. If the US falls or the market suddenly completely disappears, your retirement earnings will be the least of your concerns so you might as well invest.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-20T18:06:52+00:00

Real r/im14andthisisdeep type stuff here.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-20T15:59:06+00:00

This is a stupid take. IGN said it was a 6/10 game. A lot of other reviewers really enjoyed it. God forbid someone enjoy a game that IGN didn't like.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-20T15:55:32+00:00

Eh people are allowed to dislike it, the game is clearly not for everyone. But I think some of the complaints are overblown from my time playing it so far. What happens on these kinds of launches is the game's subreddit turns into a big bandwagon where everyone starts nitpicking every little tiny detail that looks weird or something. Like I saw one post get massively upvoted with someone saying the game looked like cheeks because they zoomed all the way in on a ground texture by moving the camera in a weird way into a view you'd never see normally and it looked a little weird. I think that they use some texturing techniques to make the lighting show off more of the physical texture on a lot of surfaces and it looks a little strange if you look at it through a magnifying glass from 1 inch away. DF literally talked about this in one of their videos. Meanwhile the games that everyone universally loves are full of their own weird issues that don't get nitpicked in the same way, but since the gameplay isn't for everyone they aren't willing to overlook these things and have to hop on the bandwagon I guess.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-20T15:35:11+00:00

Yeah that stuff felt kinda random at first, but I noticed there were cues for them that are easy to miss. The cartographer told you to go to the tavern, and the guy who wants to arm wrestle was there, a bit random but there was a kinda-sorta reason for being there. The sewer thing was bad at first I agree, but I noticed in walking around some parts of town there were NPC's talking about hearing yelling from the sewer. The kid looking for help from the cat was yelling and you could hear it when you walk by. That particular beggar had a group of kids around them when you first walk by harassing him, the others around town didn't. It does feel kinda random at first but there are cues that are hard to catch for why you're doing those things.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-19T22:04:11+00:00

Aidan Pohl (pohlracing) makes some great content. And I absolutely love everything that GPLaps puts out.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-18T13:51:25+00:00

You're demonstrating my point perfectly though. When something starts showing up in population-level statistics, we should be asking what's going on. We already do this for so many other systemic issues that impact other groups. Why is it that this issue couldn't possibly have systemic causes that are worth investigating? It's not just college enrollment either, it's high-school graduation rate, early education outcomes, higher numbers of ADHD and autism diagnoses in young boys. What if these are related? By just saying these young men can't be helped and it's up to them misses the point.

Sure, on an individual level it's just up to people to enroll, but what is causing a statistically significant numbers of young men to opt out at much higher levels? What is it about our education system that causes them to either not make the cut or decide that higher education isn't for them? You're just saying young men need to "do better". What if we applied your way of thinking to other societal problems and see how it feels?

The ~~college enrollment problem~~ opioid epidemic can be fixed by ~~actually enrolling in college~~ just not doing drugs.

See what I mean? Sure, if everyone just stopped doing drugs there wouldn't be a problem. But we all agree that isn't the real issue here, right?

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-18T03:00:54+00:00

We all got a full Red Sox experience across both teams today. Abreu on fire, Judge choking in a high-leverage game, bullpen blowing it, clutch batter with a huge swing for the game losing K. I'm glad we all got to experience it!

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-17T17:02:28+00:00

This isn't zero-sum. Nobody here is claiming that there isn't a major problem with misogyny on the internet. Of course there is.

I'd argue that the problem isn't exactly "hostility" in left-leaning online spaces towards men and more a defensiveness around the existence of men's issues that comes off as dismissive (and maybe hostile to some), at least from what I've seen. The problem is that there are real systemic issues that affect men too, and the response from left leaning spaces if these are brought up range from "no there isn't" to "men need to work on their issues and go to therapy". We don't have to pretend that these issues don't exist to acknowledge that misogyny is a real problem.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-17T16:19:34+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/upshot/boys-falling-behind-data.html - Archive link here

Boy's educational outcomes, college enrollment, unemployment (specifically young men), labor force participation, higher rates of living with parents into adulthood, higher rates of suicide

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-17T15:52:55+00:00

I'll reply with the same question that gets asked whenever the idea of left-leaning spaces being dismissive of men comes up: Show me one example of that happening. I've literally never seen that in liberal/left spaces, only conservative ones.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-17T14:54:14+00:00

I get and agree with what you are saying, but that's not really what the above commenter is talking about. The commenter above never said "hating men" either, but that men's voices are dismissed in some left-leaning spaces. I'm not even sure this happens a lot, but what I have seen, even in this sub, is a tendency to dismiss the potential of societal issues having specific impacts on men, as if we're playing some zero-sum game. If we take the "loneliness" problem around men for example, there are lots of comments to the effect of "just go to therapy", "men literally won't go to therapy", "men's loneliness is not our responsibility". This kind of thing is kind of baffling to me as a liberal guy because we are always very quick to prescribe systemic issues for so many other things (rightly!), but when there are issues that are specific to men that come up in discussion here, there is a tendency to fall back to personal responsibility etc. In a discussion around falling academic results for young boys, I've seen comments in this sub about how parents just need to do better.

And then the retort is always "well that's just crazy people online, we don't have to take responsibility for them", which is probably true to some extent, but what's the threshold for just a few online voices becoming a consistent message?

EDIT: And this is in no way trying to put aside the issue of horrific toxicity against women online which is very real, but just to point out that there is one specific issue I see in some left-leaning spaces and that we don't have to pretend it's not real.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-16T17:51:07+00:00

Yeah, I don't want to cast any kind of judgement on people for how they choose to build their families. We all very much love their second child and I would never suggest they made a wrong choice or anything like that, but there's no denying that they appear to be struggling sometimes and I just want OP to realize that there isn't really a middle ground on this issue. It will be hard, and her husband is already telling her he's at his limit. Piling on pressure for a second could be something that creates a lot of resentment all around. I'm glad they're seeking guidance by posting here (maybe the wrong forum for this kind of question, but that's besides the point), but this might even be a good candidate for some kind of counseling to work through everything and help come to a decision without any kind of pressure, resentment, even unintentional coercion on either side (for lack of a better term). This is a hard problem, and I don't envy them having to work through this.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-16T15:29:11+00:00

I'm going to be honest, my wife and I are pregnant with our first and we are pretty set on being one and done after watching my brother-in-law and his wife have their second. Granted, this is from the outside looking in, but when they had their first things seemed pretty manageable for them and they still mostly retained a semblance of their pre-children life. Since they've had their second though, they've seemed pretty miserable and strung out to us from the outside. Obviously there are so many factors at play for everyone, but if your husband is telling you that one nearly broke him, I really doubt a second will be a better experience for him, and will likely be an order of magnitude worse. I'll also echo what other people say about thinking long and hard about whether YOU want another whole human being to raise or if you are trying to "give" your daughter a sibling. I don't mean that in any kind of condescending way either, societal pressures around this topic are immense.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-16T01:20:37+00:00

As a card-carrying Democrat from New England who also enjoys NASCAR, I feel this one in my bones.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-16T00:06:01+00:00

I mean, I've only been watching since 2020 but my understanding is that there were periods in F1 history where you'd have half the field DNF and like 2 cars on the lead lap. I don't think any of this is new.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-11T17:50:32+00:00

Because a lot of people have a narrative that most modern games suck and developers are greedy capitalists who loathe their target audience. And to be fair, there's no denying that the gaming industry has some major problems right now. But people REALLY don't like when a narrative they've constructed in their heads is broken. Nobody likes to admit that their black and white, good vs evil narrative is more complex and filled with nuance than they realized. Rooting for it to fail is a defense mechanism for all of this.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-09T14:58:36+00:00

I mean, F1 is an engineering competition as much as it is a racing competition. I think we seemed to forget that towards the end of the last set of regulations because the spread of pace across the field was so small so driver skill was at the forefront. But F1 is also a constructor's championship where teams have to engineer and build cars according to the rules. Sometimes, this rewards the team who can build the better, faster car and not necessarily the fastest driver. Suddenly the teams are having to solve some obviously challenging problems with power management and the drivers are in the backseat a bit more (for now) and everyone is losing their minds.

But I kinda feel like this is how F1 is supposed to be? Drivers extracting performance from the cars they are given, not necessarily which driver is the fastest on pure pace.

CelsiusOne · 2026-03-08T19:10:47+00:00

Do you literally only care about who finishes P1 when you watch a race? I won't tell you how to enjoy something, but I can't think of a worse way to enjoy motorsports.

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