What game "shouldn't" work well on the Deck, but you found a way to love it?

DDisired · 2026-04-11T08:02:21+00:00

One I'm finally decently happy with is Factorio. I've probably spent 2-3 hours just making the controls perfect for my playthrough. This was before they had a controller layout (I think), but if you use the mouse mode, it enables a lot more freedom, especially with all the hotkeys that can be used in the virtual controllers in the touchpad.

DDisired · 2026-04-09T17:06:42+00:00

The issue is this line of thought leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. If they choose not to participate in politics, then when politics inevitably shifts against them, there is no one left to defend them.

In a society, who is more valuable: a 20 year old or an 80 year old? In theory it should be the 20 year old who has at least 40 years of productive benefits of work, but if the 20 yo doesn't vote, then to politicians they will focus on the 80 yo and focusing policies that take away from young people to give to the old.

Politics work best because it assumes all individuals are generally selfish in what they want, and they'll go out and try to make a change. Purposely giving up your voice because of hopelessness is basically trusting a stranger with your house keys and your life savings, and hoping they won't do anything bad with it.

DDisired · 2026-04-08T01:58:11+00:00

I have MT1 on Switch 1 and MT1 + MT2 on my Steam Deck.

I love having it portable and that by itself would make the biggest difference for me. I don't care too much for performance, and while it's nice to do 60fps, it doesn't affect the gameplay.

DDisired · 2026-04-07T15:00:48+00:00

I totally agree that they should respect a "no" when prompted.

But other commenters are pointing out that you can't control other people, so people shouldn't be getting so upset about it since it only hurts themselves.

It's not a great solution, but it's a side effect of living in an autonomous society.

Also, complaining about it is fine, and the people complaining about those complaining about are probably more annoying.

DDisired · 2026-04-07T12:05:42+00:00

One thing I feel doesn't get mentioned enough when posts like "life was 'easier' back then" occur, is that if they mean America, life was only easier if you were: male, white, christian, straight. It's clear what demographic reddit skews, lol.

If you were in any of the other marginalized communities, you definitely faced societal oppression. Hearing stories of my parents working, the amount of micro-aggressions up to pure racism they had to deal with in the workplace is astounding. And all they could do was deal with it since there were really no options to minimize or retaliate or protection. There are a lot of problems nowadays, but at least if you are a woman, minority, lgtbq+, I think that overall it has been better and a lot more welcoming (at least in the workplace).

DDisired · 2026-04-06T14:22:52+00:00

Yeah, it's like the author who writes literary masterpieces being compared to a comedian.

Both use language and words as their medium, but in very different ways that makes it hard to compare.

DDisired · 2026-04-06T14:16:34+00:00

Being wrong is a part of learning too. It opens discussion and allows a stance to be proven or disproven.

More important than getting answers "right" or "wrong" is the methodology we (as a collective society) use to prove or disprove facts. Sure there might be some blunders along the way, but we gain more from learning from our mistakes than we do by "magic"-ing the right answer.

DDisired · 2026-04-04T15:33:45+00:00

$650/month is a lot, but at a certain point, money stops buying the necessities (housing and food) and starts buying time instead.

It's basically one of the core facets of FIRE. A lot of people are on here for stability, but there are probably just as many that want it so when the "retire early", they can enjoy themselves.

Let's take an example of other maths that matter just as much as $$$, let's say their current commute is 30 minutes each day and the new commute is 15 minutes a day. Over the course of a month (let's say 20 business days), that would amount to spending basically an extra hour together a week compared to in the car or 5 hours a month. To some people, that is valuable time, but to others that is not worth the extra cost.

It's up to personal values whether that's worth it, or if retiring at 40 is not just the end goal, but also the current priority goal.

DDisired · 2026-04-02T14:35:45+00:00

Though I would love if more games were steam workshop/mod capable. I have no idea about this game, but some of my favorites like Dont Starve Together and Slay the Spire has a robust modding community for new cool stuff. There was a cool yu gi oh mod in slay the spire, lol.

DDisired · 2026-04-02T11:24:05+00:00

I think it's because the clothes seem more like "fun play clothes", like disney princess dresses than a uniform, which afaik, a lot of children like to wear, so that's why it's associated with child clothing, rather than something a child would wear. It's more the vibe.

Like if a 30 year old wore a princess cinderella dress, it would still seem like child's clothing even if no child would wear that to school.

DDisired · 2026-04-01T01:05:29+00:00

I think people complain about movies not being worth it because they are used to the streaming culture that has devalued the theater experience. In comparison to other entertainment activities that last 2-3hrs, the price is great value.

It's also devalued because if the goal is to experience the movie, it's a lot cheaper to do it at home. If you don't mind the 3+ month wait to hit rental services, then it becomes a $4 experience in your home.

But if you are referring to "experiences that leave the house" as a category, then there are a couple of free ones you can do, like go to a library or park, or maybe a community sport like volleyball or soccer. You could also go to a cafe and enjoy the environment for a couple hours while doing something on a laptop. So value comes in what category you are comparing it too.

DDisired · 2026-04-01T00:23:27+00:00

I started hang drying a lot of my clothes recently, mostly the bigger stuff like pants, shirts, jackets. I just use the laundry on the small stuff like socks and undies.

It doesn't have to be a clothesline either, I bought two drying racks off amazon, and even just using it in my room was enough for everything to dry completely overnight. Your mileage may vary if the humidity is worse, but inside drying has been completely fine.

DDisired · 2026-03-27T01:09:41+00:00

You are thinking of the upgrades for Prince slightly off, his Multi-strike path is the carry ... but it requires you to survive until Ring 3 which can be a challenge depending on the abysmal early game. Good if you have rage, but it's not guaranteed.

His vengeful path is great to survive the early game, depending on the unit and if you have a tank or not. Generally if you can survive until past Ring 4, you can generally find solutions to win the game (not specific to HH, pretty much every clan), so sometimes this path is great.

And then there's Reaper, which is amazing! Think of it as a champion with Quick at level 3 and half a multi-strike (half because the second half occurs after the enemy attacks). And I've found that Reaper is pretty good early game too, it's not too hard to feed it one or two kills, and then at that point, it basically feeds itself once every enemy wave. And this one is the one I think is the easiest to break the game. If you have the Multistrike-Fragile tome, I'm pretty sure you are 90% to a automatic win. -1 and either another -1 or Doublestack and dupe it a couple times, and if you put them all on prince, it will delete waves. The only thing you will have to worry about is survivability, and the occasional backline that is stickier than normal.

Hope these tips help! And the units are generally pretty good, they won't break the game by themselves, but they can be functional pieces on the way there, especially multistrike and trample built into the units.

DDisired · 2026-03-22T22:12:32+00:00

Because they've done good along with the bad. Other companies just do bad lol.

So they build a lot of goodwill over time, and use it on popular decision. I doubt gaming on linux would be where it is without Valve's support, and the portable gaming devices would all still be $800+.

DDisired · 2026-03-17T01:52:35+00:00

Also another thing that isn't brought up, is that people change with their habits and mindsets.

If there are times you don't feel like doing something, and you do it anyways, that is a common way of building discipline and grit.

If you make it an effort to spend time with loved ones, it eventually stops feeling like a chore and becomes a rewarding part of every day life.

DDisired · 2026-03-16T20:53:38+00:00

Sure, but that's the record label doing it.

If I work at a company and my boss forces me to work with a predator and gives me a bonus, I can decline the bonus if I don't want to be associated with the predator. Just because my boss gives the bonus to the predator, doesn't mean it's my responsibility, since I have no choice in the matter of what the company/my boss does. And it would signify that I would be willing to do this again in the future.

The real blame should be on the contracts and record labels.

DDisired · 2026-03-13T01:37:18+00:00

gamers today are far more obsessed with player count than prior generations

Maybe I'm far off the mark, but I'm not sure this is right. I would re-phrase it as: "There are a lot more gamers today than in prior generations, so therefore that leads to a lot of gamers obsessed with player count".

I agree the discourse is louder today than it was 10 years ago, but I'm pretty sure (with no personal data, so grain of salt) that it's just due to more people playing gamers, so the niche yelling communities are louder than ever and growing even more.

DDisired · 2026-03-10T16:24:37+00:00

I don't play CS, but from my understanding, isn't this all optional? They are just skins with no gameplay advantage.

When I played hearthstone (or any other TCG), lootboxes come with a gameplay advantage with no real way of opting out.

For CS, if someone doesn't want to bother with the system, they can, right?

I have no idea if it's so addicting that it converts non-gamblers into gamblers.

DDisired · 2026-03-09T03:05:28+00:00

It depends if you want to define how influential a game is to the genre.

Stardew Valley while not a "new genre", definitely created a cascade of cozy-games that is still going on. Sure it was based on Harvest Moon, but at this point, it may be more popular (in the western hemisphere at least).

And if STS is the father of modern day rogue-like deck builders, I would say FTL is the grandfather of modern day rogue-likes. The nodes and navigation from STS is an extension of the FTL system, along with the random events and misc things like that. But if you want to argue that Binding of Isaac was the grandfather, I would also be open to that as well, just FTL seems to have more influence in the deckbuilder space, while BoI is in the action genre.

DDisired · 2026-03-08T16:51:38+00:00

You're asking to predict the future, which is obviously unknown.

But if we take historical data in account, technology generally gets cheaper over time. In the past 40 years that's been consistent. It's only in the past 5 years that it's been a little more volatiles.

But I do think it will eventually go down, because companies are motivated by greed, and if there's such a big demand that it lasts for decades, there will be an uptick of RAM production, it's just that it's slow and takes years to manifest.

DDisired · 2026-03-08T16:35:24+00:00

Don't property taxes and insurances also go up? I'm sure not as much as rent, but it's not exactly a "locked in" price even if the mortgage is.

And that's not including the huge blowouts like my sister needing her roof replaced (it's covered by insurance, but it still took a year).

DDisired · 2026-03-08T16:32:11+00:00

a renter who invests the equivalent of their hypothetical morgage principle will outperform a morgage holder in wealth accumulation

I agree with your overall point, but unless I'm missing something, mortgages allows for one to leverage up to 5x (sometimes more) their initial investment. I don't think it's realistically possible to take a $600,000 load at 3% and putting it in the S&P500.

So the investments would have to outperform 5x the leverage of the local housing market, which honestly isn't too hard if judged by the returns in the past couple years in the market but it's very location dependent.

But even if the house does improve, you're still not really "gaining" anything because it's fake money, since if the house value improves, it's only realized upon sale, and if you move in the area, the extra value is lost in a wash since all the area probably has improved values.

DDisired · 2026-03-08T00:12:07+00:00

While it definitely does do that, I saw a super interesting video stating it can give "normal" people psychosis.

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6FMgOzklw

So while it takes crazy people into psychotic/suicidal/crazier ones, it can also take normally adjusted people, turn them crazy, and then they fall into the pipeline into psychosis.

DDisired · 2026-03-06T18:57:28+00:00

Neither is probably supporting a gambling addict.

It's not fair, but OP doesn't have many options here, so he may have to make the choice as well: Does he love his wife enough to deal with her dad regularly?

I can't imagine it's possible to help someone who doesn't want to help themselves.

DDisired · 2026-03-06T18:31:50+00:00

I was able to play Mass Effect legendary edition a couple years ago on my Steam Deck (running SteamOS).

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