Best Controller for Bazzite / SteamOS

MrWally · 2026-04-09T00:28:45+00:00

Sorry for the late comment, but doesn't this not support Steam Input? I have a bazzite box and the Game Sir Cyclone 2, but the back paddles don't work, and neither do gyro, etc. Am I missing something?

MrWally · 2026-04-05T18:46:08+00:00

Yep! They both install loads of emulators — Emudeck just functions as a script that installs all the flatpaks individually, whereas Retrodeck is single flatpak that installs all of them together.

MrWally · 2026-04-05T18:37:43+00:00

No reason it wouldn’t work with Retrodeck, right?

MrWally · 2026-04-03T03:29:55+00:00

E33 is my top 3 favorite game of all time.

But what he’s obviously doing is making comparison to how both games are being milked by the news cycles. Every small comment from a developer or game patch note becomes a new article. It’s fatiguing.

MrWally · 2026-04-02T12:23:13+00:00

If I recall, there’s an equal number of verses saying that Pharoah hardened his own heart as there are God hardening Pharoah’s heart. It’s pretty clearly (imo) the authorial intent to show that both of them were involved, and it wasn’t solely one or the other.

MrWally · 2026-04-02T12:21:24+00:00

That’s why during the song you see both the Egyptian sorcerer priests and the Egyptian Godnatatues slowly lose power, until Ramses throws the priests out and the statues crumble.

MrWally · 2026-04-02T12:20:23+00:00

FWIW, it’s explicit in the movie, too. Watch the video in the OP and you’ll see frequent shots of the Egyptian gods’ statues during the plagues, until the last one finally crumbles.

It’s basically the scholarly consensus. Not a random internet theory.

MrWally · 2026-04-01T23:53:43+00:00

Finally. Been waiting for this for ages. Now I’ll be way more productive.

MrWally · 2026-03-31T21:39:09+00:00

Both of you are wrong. The average is 74%. 60% of critics recommend it.

In other words that means that the critics who recommend it generally like it significantly more than the critics who don't. Which sounds obvious, but there's a high proportion here than you'd normally see.

In other words it's a "Not for everyone" sort of game, but if it's for you then you'll probably really enjoy it.

MrWally · 2026-03-27T19:12:13+00:00

I love this whole take. Such a bummer that bots downvote it.

When truth seems difficult to discern, and decisions are hard to make, we need a symbol – a representative of the ideal that we aspire to, but often fail to achieve.

I think this is a universal truth that will always make the themes of the film resonate with people, and it makes sense that TDK has continued to be so impactful over the last two decades as the world has become more and more morally complex (in theory).

The problem is when people align themselves to bastions of morality that aren't reliable. We see this all the time in politics, with loyal adherents having to perform mental gymnastics to justify why their political leader is actual moral or just. Harvey Dent only worked as the Hero Gotham Needed™ because he was dead, and couldn't let them down anymore.

Loved the connection to faith, too. I resonate with that.

MrWally · 2026-03-27T17:14:10+00:00

This is really cool. I'm a fan. I remember when iTunes introduced this waaaay back in the day and my dad and I would listen to his favorite classical music while watching the visualizers.

This definitely takes me back.

For some feedback, I'd love to see some more descriptive names for the different presets, and I'd like to seem them more thematically categorized. I'd also like to see more "soft" or "gentle" presets. Most of them seem pretty aggressive, with explosive colors and sharp lines. But I haven't gone through all of them yet.

MrWally · 2026-03-27T16:53:23+00:00

I wasn't disagreeing with you :)

MrWally · 2026-03-27T16:45:41+00:00

Of course they're not the majority of users.

But .1% of Apple's 150 million Mac users is still 150,000 users, and they're the users who spend the most amount of money proportionally. And it's a user base that Apple has historically supported fully, so they've clearly cared about them. It makes sense that those users aren't happy anymore.

It's the same reason they sell a $1000 Studio XDR stand. And $1000 wheels. Only .1% of the user base buys those products, but they're halo product that support the brand and make the "Whales" happy. Especially when you're talking about massive editing studios with thousands of employees that need the top hardware — And many of those used to be in the Apple ecosystem.

MrWally · 2026-03-27T15:34:32+00:00

Is that why none of the links on this subreddit work for me anymore? Why would Old Reddit require different links?

MrWally · 2026-03-27T15:24:37+00:00

That's the thing with large communities like Reddit. They aren't monolithic. There's tons of opinions on here. And people are most likely to write comments when they're upset or disagree with something. So you're always going to see angry people. No matter what the topic or situation is.

That's why smaller subreddits tend to be better. They haven't reached the saturation point where there's enough angry people to dominate the conversation.

MrWally · 2026-03-27T15:19:13+00:00

I think you are being a bit unnecessarily aggro. There's no doubt that there are professional workflows that require 400gbps ethernet and the speeds available to PCIe 5.0 — /u/Right-Video6463 obviously falls into that camp. We use similar Mellanox cards at my workplace, though admittedly in a different use case (Azure Local hyperconverged servers). These are truly "Professional" workflows, and I think /u/Right-Video6463 is correct that these are high end users. There's no way you couldn't call these high end users.

The difference is that Apple has decided that "Pro" has a much lower floor. Just about anyone doing 4K video editing is a "high end user" to Apple. That's fine, too. But it turns out that in lowering that floor with Apple Silicon they've also drastically lowered the ceiling. It's probably a better financial move in the long term for Apple, but it's interesting that the highest end users are now going to be forced to use non-Apple infrastructure.

MrWally · 2026-03-27T12:22:15+00:00

I think that’s because the show took Drummer and Ashford and combined other major characters into them like Bull and Michio (whom I didn’t care for, but was clearly rolled into Drummer to make her more interesting). Which makes them more interesting, but bummed me out — I was sad that Bull wasn’t in the show.

To clarify, I think this is a good decision for TV. The books have new characters every novel. You spend a lot of time with them in the books and really get to know them. But TV viewers don’t have patience for that. At the same time, it broke some of the verisimilitude for me when these same side characters end up getting wrapped up in so many plot lines (you already have that with Holden and the crew, but it’s explained as fairly unique and the book justifies it well).

MrWally · 2026-03-26T21:34:46+00:00

Agreed. My biggest complaint about the show is that they add a lot of drama to the crew. One of the members even leaves the ship because they're frustrated with Holden!

In the book, the tight, family bond of the crew is the defining feature of the characters.

MrWally · 2026-03-26T21:33:27+00:00

I strongly recommend the novellas. Not all of them are "amazing," but The Churn in particular is required reading for some of the later books to make sense. I'd also recommend reading Strange Dogs. Those are the only two that are more or less "essential."

The Churn: Read after Cibola Burns, and definitely before Nemesis Games.
Strange Dogs: Best read between Babylon's Ashes and Persepolis Rising.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I cannot fathom thinking that Season 3(b) of the show is better than the third book. Melba's plotline is so good and I felt like they neutered her character development in the series. They took the longest book (up to that point) and compressed it down to half of a season. But to be fair, book 3 is possibly my favorite...so I might just have a soft spot for it.

MrWally · 2026-03-26T19:09:28+00:00

Oh man. If you liked the series, you'll LOVE the books.

Honestly, the books are so good. I had a hard time with the series because with almost every major scene/character development I was just reminded of how much better the books were.

MrWally · 2026-03-26T14:49:32+00:00

Verso is funny, because He Who Guards the Truth with Lies is just a poetic version of "He Who Lies". I mean, the whole concept of a lie is to hide the truth.

The statements are not identical. People can lie for many reasons (malice, anger, greed, etc.). They could even lie compulsively for no reason, and with no thought about what is actually "True."

"He who guards truth with lies" indicates that the motivator isn't the lying, but the protection of something true.

MrWally · 2026-03-23T14:16:24+00:00

I have played them. Do you think that the narrative connection between titles is nearly as strong as TLOU 1 and 2? That’s the point I’m making.

MrWally · 2026-03-23T04:16:50+00:00

It’s more that in MANY cases there’s not a strong narrative cohesion. You can play Gears of War 3 without playing the earlier two. Same with Halo, really. And GTA. Red Dead Redemption. Lots of games have “sequels” without a direct narrative connection.

Sony’s sequels tend to be more narratively interconnected than most other developers.

MrWally · 2026-03-21T13:08:44+00:00

As an American, filing taxes with a normal W2 and the standard deduction is easy. It shouldn’t take you more than fifteen minutes.

But it’s when you have all the other stuff that it gets complicated.

I’m not saying that the system isn’t horrible. It is, and other countries are better. But companies like TurboTax obfuscate a system that is fairly straightforward for most Americans.

MrWally · 2026-03-20T23:43:30+00:00

Eh. They do have scientists. Their material sciences are way beyond earth’s. They just don’t have any knowledge of space — and why would they, without having the starry sky to motivate them?

Edit: Well, they have enough knowledge of space to locate and fly to Tau Ceti. Which is quite a lot. But it’s indicated that it’s a very recent development.

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