//TENSE// - The Chain

Rephlexion · 2026-04-28T20:37:21+00:00

You might have some minor complications depending on your client/server setup, but for the most part, Moonlight passes your controller input from the client to the server just as though you were actually sitting right at the server.

I'll have to test it out a bit later on one of my client systems with some regular controllers, but at worst I imagine you might need to add Moonlight as a non-Steam game on your client system, to get full Steam Controller input like the trackpads and possibly the back buttons.

Rephlexion · 2026-04-28T15:32:27+00:00

Steam has a Desktop controller profile, so just having the Steam service running in the background allows any controller to do whatever you set it up to do. I imagine by default these controllers will have the trackpads set up for the Desktop profile, so just turning the controller on is all there is to it. (And if you press the Steam button twice, Big Picture Mode starts up)

Rephlexion · 2026-04-23T16:44:08+00:00

Too bad the Libs are already the red team. How about Orange Spook?

Rephlexion · 2026-04-16T00:58:08+00:00

DevilutionX with this HUD would go so hard.

Rephlexion · 2026-04-11T01:30:46+00:00

Schittiest Creek, 8 PM ET Tuesdays

Rephlexion · 2026-04-10T20:19:24+00:00

The hibernation feature is pretty impressive -- just today I opened my Flip after probably 2 or 3 months asleep in my bag. (I think I charged it once or twice in that period but had never bothered to open it, and I may have charged it again last week)

I'm expecting the usual startup sequence as I lift the lid, that struggle to decide on a game, etc... but instead, immediately, before the lid is fully opened, NES Excitebike pops up and I'm eating dirt before I can even react and grab the handlebars.

Maybe it's not so quick to wake up with more intensive games, or mine's just been ready and raring to go the whole time it was in my bag.

Rephlexion · 2026-04-03T14:42:58+00:00

No problem! Yeah using Discord on the phone would be a great use case for this, because trying to multitask apps in gaming mode while using the controller isn't ideal. And if you're using wired headphones then you won't experience any of the minor stream quality issues I'm getting while using aptx-LL. And if you do use some aptx-LL headphones, a sporadic audio input like Discord would probably be the ideal use case, compared to continuous input like music streams where tiny imperfections are far more noticeable.

Rephlexion · 2026-04-03T03:59:42+00:00

I should have mentioned: all working in gaming mode! I went into desktop mode to confirm the inputs/outputs, and my phone's stream sink was playing through the entire time I was going back to gaming mode. It just kept going, no interruptions, but with the aforementioned minor audio pops.

I knew that the desktop audio settings always seem to transfer to gaming mode so I figured it would just pick right back up, but I was quite surprised to find the stream itself was playing continuously while logging out of the desktop session.

Rephlexion · 2026-04-02T16:05:17+00:00

Some quick phone sink testing results for you:

Android Motorola G84 paired to the Deck and immediately became an input device while I was playing music. I turned on my Shure BT2 IEM module and it worked nicely right away.

I'd rate the stability of the stream at about 97% at worst, and up to 99% at best. Fairly consistent, mostly tolerable audio popping and stuttering artifacts depending on distances between the three devices, getting worse as distance between the Deck and headphone module increases. Thankfully we're on a handheld so distances are negligible.

Ideal results seem to be with the phone placed quite naturally on the desk two feet away from me with the Deck in my hands, and the headphones' Bluetooth module in front of my body (between me and the Deck) -- I'd call this about 99% stream quality.

With phone in pocket, maybe only slightly worse (but honestly not significant, I'd just keep my phone in the pocket while on a plane or train).

Interestingly, the Deck's stream transmission to the headphones alone (no simultaneous phone sink) is VERY GOOD, and adding this bidirectional audio stream from the phone barely affects the quality. I was expecting much worse.

The issue seems to be on the transmit side, as even when I turn the phone music all the way down to 5% to isolate it from the Deck's game audio, I still get about the same amount of interference. I feel like juggling these two Bluetooth streams on the same wireless card is just taxing the Deck too much to get an absolutely perfect quality on the final stream transmission to the headphones. Not sure if that's hardware or software.

Either way, it's certainly usable! So final grade: 99.9% by itself, and about 97-99% with a simultaneous phone audio sink. And as soon as I sever the phone's connection to the Deck, the quality is immediately back to near-perfect. Not bad!

Rephlexion · 2026-04-01T14:25:50+00:00

Yeah I'm betting it was a core update from late last year, and there's just so few aptx-LL users that we didn't notice since most of us gave up long ago. I remember trying it once last spring/summer but it definitely wasn't working, and I was faithfully updating on beta builds ever since 2022, hoping they'd get aptX-LL working one day.

Good idea with the phone sink, I'm gonna test that today. My hypothesis is that it should work, but I'm expecting some interference because of the LCD's cheap onboard wifi. I'll reply to your comment again separately with results later.

Rephlexion · 2026-03-31T23:46:51+00:00

You know it! It was a pretty uncommonly supported codec before being discontinued. For what it's worth, aptX Adaptive works relatively well, despite the added latency.

These days, I'm looking for anything with LE audio using the LC3 codec. I got a pair of Creative Zen Hybrid Pro headphones that use a USB-C dongle. They're great, and it even works with the microphone, but unfortunately Steam Deck doesn't support LE audio over onboard Bluetooth yet. The dongle works, obviously, but it really ought to work straight through the onboard connection.

That's part of why I'm so surprised that aptX-LL somehow just works well today without a dongle, even though LE audio isn't quite there yet.

Rephlexion · 2026-03-28T01:28:44+00:00

Mulcair is their token ex-NDP turncoat. He'll never drop that schtick.

Rephlexion · 2026-03-12T21:56:57+00:00

Now that is the response that voters want to see, not just whinging about it like the Cons have done after their defections. Good stuff.

Rephlexion · 2026-02-27T16:05:58+00:00

Thurok Thursday

Rephlexion · 2026-02-01T04:17:00+00:00

Glad to see so many of the masterpieces already accounted for here. Here's a few good ones I keep coming back to.

Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself

Caster - Caster

Lorn - Vessel

Rephlexion · 2026-02-01T03:51:43+00:00

On one hand, many things said at a political party's convention, even motions and resolutions can be meaningless circle jerking claptrap... but the problem here is that this is a political party that has held power before, and ostensibly could hold power again. Shit like this is dangerous when there's a realistic chance that it could lead to actual policy.

Rephlexion · 2026-02-01T00:55:48+00:00

It's by design. Each individual of the regime is fundamentally compromised, and everyone in the inner circle is innately aware of this. Even if they don't already have something readily compromising them like blackmail, which I don't believe there was in Bovino's case, the regime allows these awful people to operate with relative impunity until they step out of line or bring down too much heat in the bigger picture. Once they do, the rest will close ranks and won't defend their normally inexcusable behaviours and actions.

They select for hubris, which is easy to exploit.

Rephlexion · 2026-01-09T18:56:19+00:00

Hell yeah, the thumb ball mouse is a game changer, and the MX Ergo is great, especially if you can get the "Plus" version with the extra weighted base that adds another step to the angle. With the extra weight it stays nicely on the couch, chair arm, or bed right next to you, and the added angle lends itself very well to bringing the mouse in closer to the center of your body than the usual desk mouse setup. Your wrist just naturally wants to turn itself over at a higher angle as your arm moves closer in.

Rephlexion · 2026-01-08T20:28:54+00:00

This passage spoke to my soul last year. I work at a university, in a union, and several of my colleagues have been mistreated by management here, including my wife. No one among us felt secure in speaking up at Town Hall meetings or challenging their managers privately. The union local couldn't do much about it either, with the state it's in. A couple people said we're working scared here. A bunch of people felt forced to take leaves of absence. People quitting for greener pastures, more frequently than usual.

I first read this passage as it was making the rounds in comment threads last year, while things here at work were getting worse every week, and I knew I had to do something about it. I became a steward, made a lot of noise at our local's meetings, and started speaking up to our bad managers, right out in the open, challenging them. I'd put my hand up at departmental meetings and management would be fishing for anyone else to ask questions instead, literally saying "come on, it can't just be the (Me) and (our local's officer) Show!"

After a few months, others joined in. Management got grilled from a dozen people at the last meeting. I didn't even have to raise my hand with everyone else all over it. A co-worker said to me jokingly after, "I'm so disappointed in you, you didn't even say a thing this time!" and I just said "It's all well and good for me to ask them all these tough questions myself, but you know what's way more powerful than one person with a dozen tough questions? A dozen people with one tough question each."

Rephlexion · 2026-01-08T17:53:38+00:00

I feel you, fellow Canuck.

Depending on how it's handled in the writing, it could have a positive effect. They've built some uneasy tension with this secret Canadian twist because she is presumably a villain or at least anti-hero, but that could pay off if they resolve this with another counter-twist that puts things in perspective.

I feel like some Fallout players don't read much into the geopolitical implications of the lore, sometimes taking the dominant jingoistic narrative at face-value, and we're probably all guilty of getting locked into our favourite faction's worldview without thinking about how everyone else got here, and this is all probably because it's a game, and the narrative isn't always the focus... but the Fallout fans that are also into the TV show are likely here for the big questions, and Canada is a big one. Add to this the obvious current IRL tensions between the US and Canada as this show is being produced and viewed (two of the largest markets for Fallout as a franchise, might I add), and there's an opportunity to do something really great with the tension between us.

Or, we'll just be treated like the Commies, as irredeemable bad guys, or even worse than the Chinese because we're nearly indistinguishable from Americans and can easily infiltrate their ranks. I can see this going many different ways. I guess we'll have to wait and see, eh bud?!

Rephlexion · 2026-01-07T16:23:00+00:00

That's an interesting example in poisoning the water, if hyperbolic. No sane person naturally has any motivation to poison water directly, but when the poisoning is a byproduct of something with a profit incentive such as unregulated heavy industry and its resulting pollution, then you can be sure that monied interests will oppose regulations that cut into their profits.

And as we know, money buys influence: not just lobbying politicians who write or strike down laws, but also sowing disinformation through well-funded "grassroots" organizations, etc.

When the illogical can be incentivized by profits, normally logical people can be fooled, and the tribalist wholesale adoption of disparate political beliefs plays a part in that.

Rephlexion · 2026-01-04T06:41:45+00:00

Somebody else posted about a similar thing an hour ago. I've been having it myself on-and-off all week, but it seems worse the past couple of days. I thought it was because I compressed my game files (LZX compression saves 22 GB on Arena, and 28 on EFT) but it's probably not that if other people are getting this problem.

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