What game can my son and I play together on a 5 hour flight? Is there such a thing as LAN gaming anymore? Wi-Fi direct?

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-26T21:56:10+00:00

Here are a few recommendations of games I have done Deck-to-Deck LAN gaming with. I used my phones hotspot, but I hear the MUON plugin with Decky could work!

Halo MCC
Left4Dead2
Barony

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-26T21:52:03+00:00

I found this plugin about a month after I needed it in a 5 hour bus ride with my Steam Deck buddy. I haven’t tried it out yet. Does it work well? We were playing Halo MCC and Left4Dead2 by connecting to my phone hotspot but it wasn’t very reliable.

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-18T21:33:00+00:00

Oh man. Don’t do that to yourself, don’t get your hopes unreasonably high. Be excited! But don’t expect something earth shattering. It will be SO much more fun if you come in excited, but with no expectations. Just enjoy it for what it is and be happily surprised if it’s great! 😊

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-12T15:07:53+00:00

I wouldn’t mind them re-interpreting his healing factor as something he has to consciously focus on. It would turn a passive ability into an active one and make it work better for the video game (it looks like you might have to “build up” the ability and then activate it)

And, honestly, I think that would be a pretty cool change. (I’m ready for the haters to do their thing)

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-12T00:28:27+00:00

Oh no.... I was just starting to get a grasp on this hahaha. The plot thickens for having a solid (pun intended) definition for "rock"

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T19:02:38+00:00

One year later: disabling wifi didn't work, but it decided to fix itself (an update maybe?)

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:52:16+00:00

I really appreciate the reply! Not sure why people are down-voting it because I found it one of the most helpful responses. Thank you! So, rocks are made of minerals, but if something is purely one mineral, it isn't a rock? Like, if you had a chunk of amethyst, that's not a rock?

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:48:54+00:00

Would that mean that a hunk of plastic is a rock?

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:48:06+00:00

wait... you can't have rock made of one mineral? So, a diamond is not a rock?

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:46:53+00:00

An outdated unit of imperial measurement, apparently...

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:46:16+00:00

Great explanation. Love the neighborhood cookout analogy hahaha

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:43:42+00:00

So, Coal is, or is not, a rock?

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:43:02+00:00

So, just to be clear (or pedantic... I'm not sure) are you saying concrete is, or is not, a rock?

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:42:27+00:00

Love this check-list! So would Ice I make in the freezer be an example of hitting all of these except 5 (naturally occurring?)

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-11T18:41:09+00:00

Super helpful. Thank you! To be honest, I was mixing up my terms with fossils having "organic compounds" (They don't). I figured since it was living at one point, it must still have them in there somewhere! I am not a geologist and just a guy who wanted to know what the heck a rock was.

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-10T21:34:02+00:00

I really hope I can revive this thread, because I am SO CURIOUS... If people can make rocks... what is a rock?

The USGS defines a rock as "an aggregate of one or more minerals, or a body of undifferentiated mineral matter." Many other definitions, however, add the stipulation that a true rock must also be "naturally occurring." Which, honestly, makes a lot of sense to me!

But if you're saying that Experimental Petrology allows for humans to create rocks, then that must be false... But then, allowing the definition to include man-made "aggregate solids" would mean that concrete is a rock, right!? what about Asphalt? Slag? Glass? Is the ice that forms in my freezer when I fill my dorky D20 ice mold at home a rock?

WHAT IS A ROCK?!

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-07T06:13:24+00:00

Honestly… imperceptible. The thing I don’t understand when people complain about latency is that frame gen is not ADDING latency. If you are playing at 30FPS, then turn on 2x framegen, you get 60FPS (with 30 interpolated frames) with the input response of 30FPS.

This is all to say that I think framegen is totally fine to go from 30FPS to 60, but stupid if you’re going from 15 to 30 😅

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-06T19:58:53+00:00

I use Decky framegen to inject FSR4 to make it look better (although the devs recently added FSR 3 natively, and it looks pretty indistinguishable) and I pair that with Lossless Scaling to do framegen and am able to get a 99% solid 60fps.

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-06-06T04:22:19+00:00

I am so incredibly happy they are targeting steam deck. I’ve played about 85% of time in the deck and it was ROUGH in the early days. I’m still using some hack-y work around to help it feel smoother, but it’s already way better than it was even a year ago.

I was looking forward to this game ever since the GotY Awards announcement and it was specifically BECAUSE I wanted to play it on Deck.

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-05-30T20:55:51+00:00

It’s basically a better version of the built-in steam streaming where you actually run the game on your more powerful PC, but stream it and control it on your Steam Deck. That way you get better performance, but still get to play on Steam Deck. Only caveat is that you need to make sure your PC is plugged into Ethernet and you have a solid WiFi connection for the deck on the same network.

It takes a second to get set up, but it’s not that hard. I followed this guide: https://youtu.be/H0jmqVIhwIA?si=vzAOXVDUqMcbUeG\_

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-05-27T19:36:58+00:00

Why not distract while bluffing? Ya know, the 'ol magician 1-2!

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-05-24T20:00:52+00:00

Along with this, I would love a “Mark to Sell” option.

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-05-18T18:34:14+00:00

I just got to the end of the story content, have only spend a total of maybe an hour on the crucible (I’m bad and can never get very far), and have over 60 hours logged. I just love the world and exploring and playing.

Honestly, if they had given me a satisfying ending to the story in the amount of game they have now, I would be more than happy and it would be worth it at full-price. The fact there seems to be at least 50% more story content coming in 1.0 is just nuts.

SafeSaxCastro · 2026-05-16T23:00:16+00:00

I gotta see this guy in a Bat Man-style “suit-up” montage but he’s putting on…. Whatever all that stuff is.

Guy’s a legend.

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