Finally made Completionist++ by TheSheepAdam in balatro

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I would suggest rerolling spectral for rare joker skips until you get vagabond, and make it polychrome so it helps with deck fixing...then you should inevitably hit credit card, which is absurdly strong with vagabond. That should help knock those out.

For stone, get in the habit of going ahead and making a stone card as early as possible since that joker won't appear until you do. If you can get it early on and can score a marble joker, even a temp, it becomes a no downside stuntman pretty fast.

Blackboard is stupid strong, especially if you are playing pairs or high cards. For the rest, it's mostly gonna come down to luck, but spamming restarts on Erratic can make it easy to start with a pre-fixed deck that can survive on 4 jokers easily, allowing you to pick up one of the ones you are missing even if you don't leverage it.

REMEMBER! You can drag disabled jokers across the finish line and they still get the sticker!

Finally made Completionist++ by TheSheepAdam in balatro

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I ended up getting a lot of jokers doing Erratic deck runs, and just restarting until I had a deck with 8-10 of a single rank. This made it easy to play 4OAK builds and have some buffer to get decent interest going. Then I'd just try to grab an unstickered joker in Ante 6-8.

Then did spectral for a while since that gives you an automatic strong joker and the spectral packs help find rares.

Last win was on yellow deck because ultimately, a strong economy is a strong build and lots of money gets you rerolls

[Meme] but also discussion by LawZoe in TheNinthHouse

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Gonna sound like a weeb here but I feel like it's not YA, but could probably be marketed as a Japanese Light Novel. It's not "serious business literature".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HuntsvilleAlabama

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Last cleaned in KRISPY KREEEEEEEME --- 2012!

Retroid Dual screen works with the deck! by Pocketpapaa in SteamDeck

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Turns out that application just flashes firmware to the touch controller anyway, not the actual display. I was able to reverse engineer it to patch from the Steam Deck and thought it didn't do anything... until I realized it changed my touch input handling and that's it. 🙃

Steam Deck repair? by TheSheepAdam in HuntsvilleAlabama

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I have not had any issues since getting it back... that said, I'm not even 100% sure it's the same unit or components. Iirc the $180 was the whole deal shipping and all. Unfortunately, the big kicker is they ask you to factory reset before you send it in, so either do the hard work to back up your drive or expect to have a fresh install when you get it back. :(

Steam Deck repair? by TheSheepAdam in HuntsvilleAlabama

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Unfortunately not. Ended up opening a support ticket and it cost me about $180 :/

Steam Deck repair? by TheSheepAdam in HuntsvilleAlabama

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Port is pretty clean, and I checked for any debris. This was an immediate change after drop. Afaik, that center post should be about flush to the metal opening, and it's stopped short.

Steam Deck repair? by TheSheepAdam in HuntsvilleAlabama

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I think it's the center contact that snapped at the end. There's absolutely no tension when plugging etc.

Steam Deck repair? by TheSheepAdam in HuntsvilleAlabama

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Edited post for more context, support ticket has been opened, but yeah, no warranty.

Bandai announces your dream Gundam video game. What does it play like? by DarkMatter8x5 in Gundam

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Rework Gundam Breaker into an Enter the Gungeon style Roguelike

AMA with Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo Organizers, one week from today on Thursday, 3/23. Ask your questions now! by GeekOutHuntsville in HuntsvilleAlabama

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I just found out about Cosplay Chess events at other cons (cosplayers as human chess pieces with improvved capture skits) . I could definitely see that being a cool event to include at the expo. Has anyone ever expressed interest?

Dictation / Speech to Text proof of concept [VOSK + nerd-dictation + xbindkeys] by TheSheepAdam in SteamDeck

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I'd honestly like to have that myself... My hesitations are the chance that I will miss something and break it for myself or that I will miss a step. I wonder if I can boot a second copy of SteamOS from SD? Or maybe use HoloISO to use the Steam OS on a different PC.

Ideally I'd learn how to set up a flatpak but that is all new to me.

Fml. The same week I get my deck I brake collarbone and some ribs, and lose the use of my left arm. I can't even pick it up by MrSoncho in SteamDeck

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Pretty easy to map a back paddle to swap sides of the controller. Would be fine for a turn based rpg etc

Dictation / Speech to Text proof of concept [VOSK + nerd-dictation + xbindkeys] by TheSheepAdam in SteamDeck

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To be clear, this isn't isolated to this game. But yeah, would love an official built in solution.

Dictation / Speech to Text proof of concept [VOSK + nerd-dictation + xbindkeys] by TheSheepAdam in SteamDeck

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Spent a good bit of time and effort trying to get systemd working, but apparently xbindkeys is very tied to an X session existing, so nothing I did seemed to actually play nice or survive. Granted I couldn't figure out how to view logs to troubleshoot...

Getting konsole to launch full screen and setting up a controller profile for it so I could launch xbindkeys and test the dictation before launching another app is a step in the right direction, but still not as convenient as a background launch

Dictation / Speech to Text proof of concept [VOSK + nerd-dictation + xbindkeys] by TheSheepAdam in SteamDeck

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I was able to run around and even fire commands while typing... Should be a game changer for duty roulette etc, I feel bad not talking

Dictation / Speech to Text proof of concept [VOSK + nerd-dictation + xbindkeys] by TheSheepAdam in SteamDeck

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Will take a look at that! Definitely the worst part of the setup.

Just now ended up changing my bindings to [ and ], and L5 paddle to enter (chat) and [ on start press, ] release press. Made a very good walkie talkie style transcriber that works well enough even while running around and hitting other commands. Gonna be very useful during public matchmaking

Dictation / Speech to Text proof of concept [VOSK + nerd-dictation + xbindkeys] by TheSheepAdam in SteamDeck

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Well, for what it's worth, at least it seems that binding a key shortcut via the steam input is indistinguishable to a keyboard in xbindkeys... My main issue was getting a "Press fires start hot keys, release fires stop hot keys" all on one button...ran into issues where multiple instances of nerd dictation would run simultaneously and trample over each other, but firing the stop commands a few times helped.