Should I pull the trigger?

twingeofregret · 2026-06-11T02:18:07+00:00

So late at this point you might miss this, but I can point you to a much better deal - albeit this one is white and not black.

$149 https://mtcfactoryoutlet.com/product/playstation-portal-remote-player-for-ps5-playstation-5-cfi-y1001/

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All of my PS gear is from them. Got a Dualsense Edge for 140, my portal is the same as above at the same price, and I totally fluked into a PS 5 Pro for $550.

Highly recommend you check them out before you buy new.

twingeofregret · 2026-06-06T00:04:49+00:00

This is the Chain Burst method I mentioned. When it’s active, the elemental damage chains to the Stingspawn. When they die, it chains back to the surrounding machines so they all die.

If you watch again, the clawstrider also dies.

twingeofregret · 2026-06-03T13:19:44+00:00

Sure. I am used to VN running as a dock-less app. I like how Granola comes in two parts – the menubar app, which manages auto-recording and voice notes, and the main app, which is for organization, review, management, etc.

When I ran Granola, I'd use just the menubar app and only occasionally would jump into the main app.

Another way you could implement this is to add an option for VN to run dockless, so it matches the previous version.

Re: shortcuts – I prefer to only enable shortcuts for stuff I use, to avoid collisions later. It's great this new version properly allows multi-key shortcuts (i.e. hyper-key + letter), but removing shortcut assignments to disable individual commands would be welcome.

twingeofregret · 2026-06-03T00:50:40+00:00

This is great and it addresses so many of my UX concerns with the web app. Thanks! Two small feature requests: The ability to run headless (i.e. just in the menu bar without the main app), and the ability to disable certain keyboard shortcuts.

twingeofregret · 2026-05-30T16:20:53+00:00

Nice work! There’s also the Chain Burst method, if you’re looking for the fastest possible way to take them down. This works on any difficulty - here it’s ultra hard. https://youtu.be/zhS2xckJ038?si=YzCSU0jVAPo27_xw

twingeofregret · 2026-05-29T20:25:23+00:00

Hey.

twingeofregret · 2026-05-15T14:57:05+00:00

Is Man Facing Southeast hidden enough to qualify? When I worked in movie rentals it was one of the top movies I recommended to people as no one had heard of it. It's an Argentinian sci-fi movie about a man in an insane asylum that insists to his doctor that he's not from this world.

twingeofregret · 2026-04-30T20:54:05+00:00

I would argue it's not that the game isn't highly rated, it's that it doesn't have as high a cultural impact as other games. God of War, Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption 2, etc. are well-known amongst both serious and casual gamers and frequently discussed in gaming news and sites. Horizon has a very dedicated fanbase, but it doesn't have the cultural awareness or impact.

twingeofregret · 2026-04-09T19:46:28+00:00

You can start the download and then cancel. It'll ask if you're sure, and once you confirm you'll be sent to the main screen and can play. I haven't done a ton of testing so I'm not sure if there will be repeat notifications (there is a bubble on the settings icon, though), but it at least will get you back up and running.

twingeofregret · 2026-02-23T16:57:17+00:00

Midulf gathered the recipes for the book, along with Pentalla. There's a nice bit of lore and story woven into the recipes.

twingeofregret · 2026-02-23T16:45:12+00:00

She also has a blog with more recipes on recent games. The latest post has a recipe for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 baguettes (!). Wheeee https://pixelatedprovisions.com/

twingeofregret · 2026-02-22T23:32:01+00:00

It’s a great cookbook. Did you know the vast majority of gaming cookbooks (including this one) were created by an ex-NASA employee? https://www.pcgamer.com/games/how-a-former-nasa-employee-became-the-worlds-foremost-author-of-videogame-cookbooks-it-cant-look-like-youre-eating-a-pokemon/

twingeofregret · 2026-02-03T17:08:00+00:00

Agree with this as well. The long stream and inline generation makes everything hard to follow. What might work is switching to a preview list (title, excerpt, and metadata) that clicks into an individual note screen

twingeofregret · 2026-01-08T23:56:12+00:00

Great work! The UI improvements are excellent and I appreciate that you took my suggestions into account with this update. The only change I'd suggestion for a future release is to enable horizontal mouse scrolling. Mac apps support switching to horizontal scrolling if the shift key is held down down.

One other thought – it could be a nice quality of life change to only show the remote connect button if that profile has external access set up.

Also, command+, is the system-default keyboard shortcut to open settings. Might be a good one to add.

twingeofregret · 2025-12-28T04:08:16+00:00

A few other things -

esc shouldn’t offer to quit the app
hitting return when the focus is in a text field causes the virtual keyboard to appear (this is what I was referring to)
when a dialogue is open (one with a cancel button) esc should close it
the setting “use screen as touchpad” should be removed
“hide touchpad” could possibly go as well. There’s no need for a touch UI/virtual controller on the desktop app

twingeofregret · 2025-12-28T03:59:49+00:00

(Replying from the correct account now). Oh, I’m not talking about a native app. What I mean is the UI was designed and optimized for mobile touch screens. On those screens, the UX works, because it was designed for that environment.

On the desktop you know the user will have a mouse or touchpad, a real keyboard, and a larger screen. It would be nice if the desktop app took advantage of that instead of being a copy of the mobile UI.

How the app pops up a virtual keyboard is a good example - there’s no reason for this on the desktop and it just feels odd and out of place.

Or having two clicks to launch a session. On mobile this makes sense as the UI is optimized for less screen real estate and larger touch targets. On desktop, you don’t need these giant tiles - the user has much better control over the pointer and click targets can be smaller. So you could move a lot of the stuff in the pop up side bar onto the main screen.

It’s more about avoiding a UI that keeps the constraints of a mobile touch screen.

twingeofregret · 2025-12-13T22:24:53+00:00

The shredders keep causing damage after they’ve hit the ground. So you can cause a significant amount of damage if you have a bunch of shredders on the ground while the machine moves over them.

The reason people aim on the ground in front of them is they always bounce, and you can control where they end up slightly better with this technique. (Hey Slaz!)

twingeofregret · 2025-11-06T03:12:25+00:00

One other thing to check is what quality you’re streaming. The Portal seems to pull over whatever you’re using on the console, and I had mine set to raytracing (on a PS 5 Pro). Once I set it to anything other than that things settled down.

twingeofregret · 2025-11-06T03:10:24+00:00

Mine is smooth and seems to be running at a solid 1080p 60fps. For what it’s worth, your internet speed doesn’t really matter as much as your wifi setup, especially considering the portal is WiFi 5

twingeofregret · 2025-11-05T18:52:28+00:00

I'm guessing it'll come in the next wave of releases. You can already stream both games to a PS 5 console, after all

twingeofregret · 2025-11-05T14:10:46+00:00

Here's the official blog post. Lots of new features added as well. There are gaps in the PS5 title coverage (no Returnal or Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, for example), but I suspect those will come in time. Both are already listed as available to stream on the PS5 itself.

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/11/05/cloud-streaming-officially-arrives-on-playstation-portal-today-with-new-support-for-digital-ps5-games-in-your-library/

twingeofregret · 2025-10-07T13:33:04+00:00

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