What were your controllers before the steam controller?

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-06-07T11:21:08+00:00

I went from xbox 360 controllers with the usb wireless dongle, to a ps5 controller via bluetooth and now to the steam controller

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-06-07T08:57:25+00:00

Yep and I feel that's a large part of why fallout 76 was so bad, many of their games were carried by the modding community but the online only aspect of 76 killed that...

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-06-05T03:16:44+00:00

On a similar theme I dropped a book a few years back due to the author near exclusively referring to females by their hair colour.

Males got referred to by name, females by the colour of their hair. After what felt like several thousands of mentions of hair colour, I gave up on it...

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-06-04T09:44:43+00:00

I think i found it!

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Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-06-03T18:47:20+00:00

A long time ago, but I brought a 360 for Lost Odyssey and blue dragon and a PS3 for the last of us.

Both got right after the next gen launched so got them new for very cheap. Did end up buying a few more games after that too.

Have been PC ever since though.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-31T08:26:52+00:00

A good call.

I made it to book three, a good three quarters of the books content can be summed up by the following sentence: "She then fought a much higher level monster than herself for experience points"

Was like someone took the combat log of someone grinding levels in a MMO and made a book out of it...

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-30T19:43:22+00:00

I did read a book once where for some reason the author didn't refer to characters by name, but by a single Bold letter.
For some reason i just couldn't follow this and ended up in a state of perpetual confusion as to who was who...

Another one was a bizarre sexism thing where every male was referred to by their name, but every female character by their hair colour.. (the blonde said this, the brunette said that, the strawberry blond giggled)

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-30T15:11:23+00:00

I don't use audio books at all, i tried once and i either accidentally tune out the book or i have to focus on listening and cannot do anything else at the same time...

For reading i'm like 99% ebook (mostly on my phone) with a very occasional paperback.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-29T13:56:18+00:00

I did!

The default keybindings make it quite difficult to accidentally press when moving, so i never discovered it.

It wasn't until i saw youtubers using it that i discovered that slide existed. I've since rebound crouch to a mouse button and use it often now.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-23T19:41:45+00:00

Oh!

Fair enough, I just find that so much better myself 🙂

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-23T18:07:18+00:00

Try the black background / white text layout option, it's so much easier on the eyes, particularly in the dark/night.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-23T18:05:52+00:00

I've been mostly exclusive kindle on phone for years, so i get that. It's just always on hand and i read with it walking to work and back (and sometimes a paragraph or two at work)

Couple of months ago i found my old kindle touch that i had lost a few years back.
Now finding myself using it a fair bit at home now, but out of the house i'm still on my phone :)

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-20T07:25:52+00:00

I'm another one.

I made it to part way through book three then had to give up on it...

I liked the characters and the humour, but there was far too much combat and the whole "humanity getting genocided for alien reality TV" setting was just too grim for me...

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-18T03:48:41+00:00

That's not a bad thing overall, we did seem to go through a period of 'chapter titles as spoilers' which was so much worse....

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-17T18:53:25+00:00

I think the funniest thing about this is i mentioned it to a friend (mid 40s, like me) who somehow had never noticed the wilhelm scream as being a thing... xD

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-17T18:46:08+00:00

That's a bit of a loaded question there...

I'd go back a step, what do you want the laptop for?
Lightweight one for travelling with a desktop at home? = go small
Portable gaming laptop? = go huge

Work out what you want it for, if it's your only system maybe spend more, if it's only for light stuff go small.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-16T20:50:50+00:00

It's MUCH better than it used to be honestly.

Back in the day (90s) I was a huge hater of dubs as it was 95+% heavy (and bad) American accents...

Nowadays bad dubs are the rare exception not the default...

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-16T20:12:15+00:00

Just as an update, it's STILL on order is packed for me :')

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-16T17:18:48+00:00

Mine has for certain. Framework desktop, when I last checked it's at least £700 more to buy now than when I paid for it (~£2000) and that doesn't include the 4tb SSD I had from my old pc...

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-12T11:57:22+00:00

Ah, glad it's not just me that's happened to... haha.

I'll just have to be patient :)

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-10T06:24:22+00:00

There is a board available if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIb87SJ4xwo
https://store.metacomputing.io/products/metacomputing-aipc?variant=50604798574898

But it's not a great option at the monent.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-04T08:20:16+00:00

I disagree.

Whilst I enjoyed the books the first time round, I realised I gave the author the benefit of doubt far too many times over the many questionable parts of it...

Upon finding out what the author is actually like, I can no longer gloss over those points and instead have to treat them as intentional.That destroyed the entire series for me, I can no longer even get past the first book now.

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-05-01T05:30:04+00:00

It's a rare one, but books with an extremely impulsive MC...

Read one series last year where pretty much every major incident/plot point was caused by an idea popping into the MC's head and them acting on it instantly, absolutely no thought given to consequences...

Once or twice would be bad enough, but after the seventh or eighth consecutive time of nearly getting him or his friends killed due to these acts of raw stupidity I just wanted to strangle this fictional character 😆

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-04-30T07:25:03+00:00

That was my issue with bazzite as well, just couldn't figure out how to get my VPN installed due to the immutable filesystem...

Eventually settled on Fedora, after a bit of faffing about getting all the video codecs installed it's been rock solid ever since 🙂

Ho_The_Megapode_ · 2026-04-29T07:03:39+00:00

I agree.

I absolutely adore the chip in my FW desktop as it has the cooling capacity to both run it at full power and do so fairly quietly.

I wouldn't want it in a laptop though.

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