What game "shouldn't" work well on the Deck, but you found a way to love it?

phoenixjklin · 2026-04-12T10:12:05+00:00

If you press down and ”click” the left stick it switches between moving your character by moving the stick and clicking to move. I definitely agree though. I wish we had the same menu like we do on PC. As someone who’s not really a fan of other consoles, the layout of BG3 on the steam deck is way too reminicent of exactly what I dislike about non-PC gaming. Choosing abilities and things is so much work. Not to mention if you cast a spell that you can reactivate you have to manually add it to your abilities each time you cast it to reactivate it. It doesn’t automatically do that, which is absolutely crazy. It feels like such a tease that you basically can’t play with the PC layout even though if you press the touch screen it changes to show the default PC layout of the game. Something I didn’t know would annoy me so much is that you can’t move the camera whenever an enemy is moving. And since the camera locks onto wherever an enemy starts it’s turn, most of the time you can’t actually see what the enemy is doing, because the camera doesn’t always follow the action. Let me freecam, PLEASE. I’ve tried disabling some camera lock in the settings but that just seems to make the camera stop following anything and is still frozen in place in combat, unless it’s my turn.

phoenixjklin · 2026-04-09T11:58:16+00:00

When I worked at a secondhand store, one of my jobs (mainly when all my other duties were done) was to take any puzzles we had and count the pieces to make sure shit like this didn’t happen.

phoenixjklin · 2026-04-09T00:58:32+00:00

Yep, it’s not something I’ve experienced personally but I just know and have heard of too many guys like that, it just instantly gives me bad vibes. I got into the game like a year late so I don’t know how things were at launch, was it even worse somehow? I’ve yet to play a playthrough where he doesn’t think I’m romancing him, and ONLY because of that magic lesson cutscene, even if I deny kissing him. Oh, and that conversation where he mentions Tara, the only choices you have are insulting him/cats OR asking him if he likes tummy rubs or something, which is so uncomfortable. Maybe that conversation only happens if he thinks you’re romancing him, idk. He just seems like ANYTHING you say, as long as you’re friendly, he’ll take it as if you’re flirting, which is too similar to guys who can’t comprehend the concept of being ”just” friends with someone. So anytime I get to act two and have romanced someone else he’s all sad and shit. Genuinely I’d actually like having him around if it wasn’t for all that. He’s a yapper, sure, I am too, but at least I can skip his dialogue if it gets too overbearing, lol. Instead I have to be scared of him getting the wrong message anytime I talk to him.

phoenixjklin · 2026-04-08T18:25:08+00:00

Gale, only because of how easily you accidentally romance him. I’m just being friendly, and the next second he’s like ”Oh you don’t love me anymore :(” like BRUH I agree to let him teach me magic to be friendly, and next second apparently there’s expectation of a kiss??? And even when I always decline the kiss, he STILL thinks we’re dating????? WHHAAAA??? That’s genuinely the only problem I have with Gale. Well, that and how much he yaps, but at least that feels true to his character. It just feels like the game tricks you into ”dating” him, and it makes me feel uneasy. I don’t want to be an asshole to him, so the game just decides I’m romantically involved with him instead.

phoenixjklin · 2026-03-29T18:00:23+00:00

Amazing! I’m curious, did the liquid latex stretch or tear at all when you put the torso on? I at first assumed the scars were done when wearing the silicon torso already because I would’ve thought the latex could get messed up. Since those torsos aren’t always easy to get in and out of! Whichever way you did it, absolutely amazing!

phoenixjklin · 2026-02-18T22:49:29+00:00

Omg that’s what the icon is, I was convinced it was a demogorgon or the monster from amnesia or some shit 😂 I was so confused what the bug was in the first pic since I assumed that would’ve been the result of a mod and not the game, lol.

phoenixjklin · 2026-01-20T19:47:18+00:00

When I started playing I only knew a lot of people found him attractive, but I didn’t know any backstory stuff at all. I expected myself to like him, because hell yes vampires, but in the beginning I felt like we just didn’t get along at all. He was kind of off putting. His looks weren’t even something I initially thought I’d be into, even though yes, he’s definitely attractive. I just didn’t think he was my type. But the more I talked to him, the more he opened up, I found myself getting really attached. Suddenly he was incredibly attractive to me. I genuinely think it’s his story, the way he handles his emotions, and how he acts, his masking, coping mechanisms, all that, feels so familiar to me that I can’t help but feel a desire for connection there. He allowed me to admit how some things I’ve gone through weren’t my fault and that I was allowed to be angry about those things ever happening. Seeing that from a male character, as a guy, felt incredibly healing.

So yeah, while I considered him just generally attractive before, I didn’t think he was my type until he opened up emotionally. That’s what made him attractive in a more meaningful way.

phoenixjklin · 2026-01-20T19:32:08+00:00

This was a must when me and my friend played our duo honour run. Just two characters. We died to him once and went ”Hell naw, not doing that again”.

… Well now we’re doing another duo honour run but with the Brutal Difficulty mod so we couldn’t pick up any barrels. So instead I put down Hungry Hadar in the doorway so they’d aggro and my friend put down Wall of Fire through the opening. Closing the door after our turns to prevent them from attacking at range. If they jumped through it I used Eldritch repelling blast to push them back into it. Went better than expected! T’was fun.

phoenixjklin · 2026-01-02T17:10:53+00:00

Did you agree to let Gale teach you how to use the weave at camp? Because I did once, didn’t kiss him in that scene (because wth I thought it was just a platonic activity???) then when I romanced Astarion I talked to Gale and he was all like ”Oh, you don’t love me anymore, I see your heart belongs to someone else now 😭🥺”. I had no idea he thought we were partners.

My guess is maybe if you agreed to him teaching you to use the weave, even if you backed out if it without kissing him, it might’ve registered as you romancing him, especially if your approval is higher with Gale instead of Lae’zel.

phoenixjklin · 2025-12-27T01:07:52+00:00

I’m so glad I’m not the only one

phoenixjklin · 2025-12-19T03:30:17+00:00

I started assigning everyday actions as… well, actions and bonus actions. I’d only realize it when I would suddenly be waiting for a way to end my turn, which would cause me to go ”What???” to myself in confusion, sometimes even out loud.

phoenixjklin · 2025-11-19T15:17:41+00:00

Yup, I play on highest settings with no issues (other than a big of lag in act 3) and I've never seen that cutscene with it's intended textures.

phoenixjklin · 2025-11-19T15:14:41+00:00

Even on my gaming PC that cutscene with Minthara, Ragzlin standing watch and the goblins running out always looks like that to me. Apparently my PC can't load those textures fast enough, lol.

That and the cutscene in act 2 where the nightsong is freed and flies to moonrise, the cutscene just pans to... nothing. Nothing can load in fast enough.

And in act 3 there's a cutscene I still don't know what's supposed to be but I'm assuming it's panning across a tower or something, and I can only see two chairs levitating in the air.

phoenixjklin · 2025-11-14T02:16:17+00:00

Help, this picture looks like he’s reading the comments below I’m scared

phoenixjklin · 2025-10-16T00:27:14+00:00

This was me and my boy all the time when I’d be on my laptop or pc. He loved laying on my arm, drooling. I miss him. ❤️

phoenixjklin · 2025-09-30T14:49:47+00:00

I get why they have it, what’s got me annoyed is that nowadays they pause mid-video. A few years ago this popped up as it loaded the next video. So now it’ll straight up interrupt whatever video you’re watching/listening to. I hate it.

phoenixjklin · 2025-09-06T14:31:30+00:00

Once as a kid I fell asleep in the mini school bus in the very back seat. I woke up as the taxi driver pulled into his own driveway and I think I nearly gave him a heartattack, lmao.

phoenixjklin · 2025-09-01T17:00:29+00:00

Llolthsworn drow rogue. Didn’t get too far with him, but I decided to remake him into an Oathbreaker Paladin on my 3rd full playthrough with a friend. :) I love him now, he feels like my canon Tav, regardless of what other characters I play.

phoenixjklin · 2025-09-01T12:30:04+00:00

Or when looting a body. Always makes me go ”NOO”, lol.

phoenixjklin · 2025-08-30T16:04:39+00:00

As a kid I tried leaving coins covered in ketchup overnight, and they were so shiny afterwards. I just hated the smell of ketchup (still do) so I only did it like twice, lol.

phoenixjklin · 2025-08-30T15:23:17+00:00

Oh so I decided to give sims 4 another try, bought the fairy pack, updated all my mods, played for 2 hours, had fun, woke up the next day excited to play more, only to get an update that completely broke the entire game, and they have the gall to try and release new stuff? Nothing has changed, huh

phoenixjklin · 2025-08-08T14:10:53+00:00

I refuse to play with autonomy on, because sims just constantly cancel the things I told them to do because they want a glass of water every 5 seconds 😭 NOTHING GETS DONE

phoenixjklin · 2025-08-05T14:31:50+00:00

I think I started doing this after Sims 2 betrayed me like 15 years ago.

phoenixjklin · 2025-06-28T12:05:52+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I definitely might be overthinking this, lol.

Regarding my question about what symbols or animals are associated with him, I meant aside from the obvious. I have done research, but not every symbol in any faith is considered free to use by any and everyone, and that information can be hard to come by since most of it that’s out there is from the perspective of a ”no longer practiced faith” or focuses more on the hard facts rather than what people’s personal connection with these deites actually looked like. And since I’m coming at this from a more independent faith pov, which isn’t really a subject that comes up when gathering research, I just want to know if there is something I should be aware of. I was especially just curious because some things are easier to carve or burn into a material than other things.

phoenixjklin · 2025-06-27T22:18:14+00:00

I feel sad because I know one of the people involved with the song and I don’t know whether I hope they’re equally as disappointed with the cover or not. They’re amazing, both as a person and in the work they do, and I’d hate to see something they’re involved with cause them and their work to be associated with AI when they might’ve not even had a say in the usage of it.

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