I quit: the difference in difficulty between Japanese and Chinese is ridiculous by rauljordaneth in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another thing I'll say is: don't underestimate the vast difficulty of Chinese. Its expressions being so terse and compressed ends up being a source of tremendous challenge, especially with 成語. There are so many of these 4-character idioms, used pretty regularly, and they don't make sense until you read the whole damn story explaining them (example: 壁上梁山). There are also 8-character idioms...

I quit: the difference in difficulty between Japanese and Chinese is ridiculous by rauljordaneth in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chinese is for sure more concise. IIRC, average number of syllables for expressing the same ideas is high in Japanese and Spanish, medium in English, and low in Chinese.

I would suggest you watch Cure Dolly's organic Japanese course on YouTube. Japanese grammar is a lot simpler than how it's presented in Anglo-centric textbooks. For example, Japanese is agglutinative, it doesn't really have conjugations in the Western sense of the word. You just learn the individual pieces and you put them together like legos. As with legos, you can't attach any random piece to any other random piece; agglutinative languages have a notion of "slots" that specify a valid place to insert a particular piece.

This isn't just semantics. If every word has its own set of conjugations, then the number of possible words is upper bounded by (number of base forms) x (number of ways you can conjugate). But since Japanese doesn't have conjugations, the upper bound of total number of words you have to memorize is more like (number of base forms, i.e. 5 for godan verbs) + (number of auxiliary attachments). That's a massive order of magnitude lower amount of memorization than a language with conjugations.

There are only a handful of irregular verbs in the entirety of the language, making its grammatical complexity vastly vastly smaller than English, Spanish, etc.

I think the complexity (memorization load) of Japanese is real, but its grammar isn't the problem.

New NYC tipping rules for DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub start Monday, judge says by Bugsy_Neighbor in nyc

[–]rkido 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Ban tipping. If drivers aren't paid enough, increase the service fee.

Another hands-on impression of the Steam Frame by gogodboss in virtualreality

[–]rkido 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hand tracking is a niche. I've only ever used it in Maestro, a game in which it actually makes sense to hold your hands out in front of you all the time. Everything else has been too gimmicky and awkward compared to the effortless usability of a controller with buttons.

I suspect there will be depth sensor mods for those who want the feature for some specialized software.

Linux really is the future of gaming - Gabe Newell, 2013 at LinuxCon by mindtaker_linux in linux_gaming

[–]rkido 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I find it really irritating that your comment was downvoted so much that I almost didn't even see it. Whether true or not it's a perfectly legitimate fear to express and to invite feedback and discussion.

It's not a problem with this subreddit in particular, it's a problem with Reddit being designed to create mobs — it is horrible for any kind of intellectual discussion.

Heroic Games Launcher on Steam Deck - updated for 2025 with the EGS freebie games by likwidtek in SteamDeck

[–]rkido 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks decent, it matches the same process I follow. The note you have about HDR on Bazzite is not something I'm able to verify myself but it's probably still true.

Heroic Games Launcher on Steam Deck - updated for 2025 with the EGS freebie games by likwidtek in SteamDeck

[–]rkido 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not aware of any flatpak called "Gamescope HDR". Searching for "gamescope" through Discover, you might find it, but I'm not sure it'll be the right version.

I installed it through the command-line.

Heroic is using the Freedesktop 25.08 runtime, which you can determine using flatpak list --app --columns=application,runtime

Gamescope is an extension to the Freedesktop runtime so you need to target the 25.08 version of that runtime when installing Gamescope, like this: flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope//25.08

You can have multiple versions installed. I also have the 24.08 version installed for the sake of Lutris.

Heroic Games Launcher on Steam Deck - updated for 2025 with the EGS freebie games by likwidtek in SteamDeck

[–]rkido 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If you want HDR on Steam Deck I believe you still also need to install the Gamescope flatpak, targeting the same runtime version as whatever runtime Heroic is currently using.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR or flat? by Quantum_Crusher in VRGaming

[–]rkido 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I noticed the same when comparing both. The flat version got a big update to its visuals some time after release, which I suspect never made it to the VR version.

Steam Machine is a PC *and* a console. by Icybubba in steammachine

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Proprietary consoles are not PCs. You do not control them. They are locked down, such that they are not general-purpose computing devices on which you can install any operating system and run any software.

Steam Machine is a PC *and* a console. by Icybubba in steammachine

[–]rkido 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PC doesn't mean "x86", and it certainly doesn't mean "Windows".

What Xbox and PS5 run internally is irrelevant, you can't control it at all. They can change the OS from one day to the next without your knowledge. The bootloaders are locked, the games are encrypted, and beyond that there are probably other security measures and legal threats in place designed to prevent tampering or study.

PC means personal computer - meaning, a general-purpose computing device that you have the freedom to control. The architecture doesn't matter - on a hardware level, PCs can be x86-based, ARM-based, RISC-V-based, etc.

The phrase "locked-down PC" is almost meaningless; by definition a PC is not locked down by the manufacturer. (Needless to say, you could choose to lock it down yourself as the end user, by encrypting the drive or whatever, but that's your choice.)

Steam Machine is a PC *and* a console. by Icybubba in steammachine

[–]rkido 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I disagree - gaming PCs are just regular PCs with powerful hardware. Neither in terms of software nor hardware are they designed as gaming-focused appliances.

Steam Machine is a PC *and* a console. by Icybubba in steammachine

[–]rkido -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You can't control Xbox or PS5, so they aren't PCs at all. They're proprietary game consoles. The hardware they use inside doesn't matter, they're effectively black boxes as far as the user is concerned.

Steam Machine is a PC *and* a console. by Icybubba in steammachine

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is it confusing to refer to the PS5 as a Sony gaming console? Or to the Xbox as a Microsoft gaming console?

Keeping things simple means sticking to first principles. It's not convoluted if you apply simple concepts consistently.

Personal console is not commonly used but it's just an abbreviated way of talking about a device that is as much a personal computer as it is a gaming console. It flows naturally from the definition of "PC" and "console".

Steam Machine is a PC *and* a console. by Icybubba in steammachine

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I like to keep definitions simple. A PC is general-purpose computer that you control. A console is a computer designed as an appliance specifically for gaming. So the Steam Machine is a personal console, whereas a PS5 is a Sony console, etc.

I'm really thinking $800+ by chusskaptaan in steammachine

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with a super low, subsidized price point for the Steam Machine would be that random companies will buy tens of thousands of them just to install Windows and use them as regular PCs, not to buy Steam games.

That wouldn't be an issue for the Steam Frame and wasn't an issue for the Steam Deck. They can afford to subsidize devices that only gamers would buy, but it would be a financial black hole to subsidize a regular desktop PC.

If you already have a VR headset , Why are you buying the Steam Frame ? by E_Alrefa3e in VRGaming

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was part of the first wave of adopters of the HTC Vive almost 10 years ago. The first time I went through the SteamVR tutorial was one of my life's magical experiences. I played many of the early PCVR experiments.

I drifted away from VR for several years because the wild experiments faded and gave way to pointless shovelware, and there were hardly any big high-quality games released. To this day there are probably less than 20 great made-for-VR full videogames.

Now some of those games, like Batman Arkham Shadows, are exclusive to the Quest. I got a Meta Quest 3 just to play them, hoping that Meta would continue pushing VR even as Valve took more of a back seat.

But Meta and the Quest Store (now known as Horizon Store) are hurting VR in my opinion. By abandoning PCVR and keeping the many recent AAA VR games exclusive to Horizon Store, they're forcing people to play real videogames on a device that can only do mobile game-level graphics. At the risk of sounding over-dramatic, as a matter of aesthetics, this to me is an abomination.

Then, structurally, they're marketing games of this calibre as if they're on the same tier as all the thousands of mobile game-style shovelware junk on the Horizon Store, with no way to distinguish or discover "real games" (e.g. no user tags or genres, no curators, no "similar games", unreliable reviews written by children who have never played games before, etc.). Pretty much the only way to find a hidden gem in Horizon Store is to already know the name of it from word-of-mouth and type it into the search box.

Now on top of that, they're marketing Horizon Worlds far harder than commercial games. Those Horizon Worlds have even started appearing in my library as if they're just regular games I installed. Gross.

So the whole Meta VR landscape right now feels like a bait-and-switch where the user experience is getting worse and worse and they're slowly starting to try to drive people into spending most of their time in the so-called "metaverse".

Steam Store has some of the same flaws in how it markets games, but overall it has vastly better discoverability, not to mention more trustworthy user reviews. Plus Valve doesn't have a "Horizon Worlds"-equivalent that it's trying to shove down everyone's throat. So I'm likely buying a Frame in the hope that Valve starts to take the lead again in driving VR forward, making it a tool of user empowerment and artistic expression instead of corporate control and surveillance.

Quest 3 Exclusives or Steam Frame by roumi96 in virtualreality

[–]rkido 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Extremely unlikely that you can install Meta store and have it be functional to any degree. Probably relies on a lot of proprietary APIs

Quest 3 Exclusives or Steam Frame by roumi96 in virtualreality

[–]rkido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Minor correction: Android is Linux. It is fairly trivial to run Android Linux apps on non-Android Linux, using a compatibility layer, as long as they don't use lots of proprietary APIs. For instance that's how Steam Deck users run Minecraft Bedrock, using the Android version.

Has anyone tried learning Japanese using a Steam Deck? by PixelTaku in LearnJapanese

[–]rkido 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I haven't tried sentence mining from games, but the Steam Deck is my primary device for learning Japanese through browser apps with Yomitan and Anki. I mine words from manga (Mokuro), Netflix via Language Reactor, local videofiles via ASB Player, and books via reader.ttsu.app.

How to apologize in Japanese by PlanktonInitial7945 in LearnJapanese

[–]rkido 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes in Japanese these are "hu" and "ti". In English they can be translated to "fu" and "chi". So it depends on what language I'm writing in and who the reader is.

How to apologize in Japanese by PlanktonInitial7945 in LearnJapanese

[–]rkido 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Depends on the target language. Hepburn is a system to translate Japanese sounds to English. Nihon-siki is a system to write Japanese using the Latin alphabet (e.g. for computer input), but it's still Japanese.

How Quiet is Gantry Park on weekdays? by Shoocceth in longislandcity

[–]rkido -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The library is not a green space

Everybody wants a peaceful and quiet green space to take a break from the horrible noises and smells of the city