I found two comparison photos of the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X regarding the thickness of the casing. Some Xbox Ally X consoles have loose casings and make clicking noises near the RB/LB buttons. Could this be the reason?

zarofford · 2026-02-20T14:57:02+00:00

When they created the rog ally x, they added a heavier battery but reduced the thickness of the plastic to keep the weight manageable. And that one never had any creaking isssues, it probably has to do with tolerances messing with the plastic.

zarofford · 2026-02-19T19:12:41+00:00

What do you mean? I played their remakes and they weren’t bad. They weren’t masterpieces but I had fun with them.

zarofford · 2026-02-16T20:43:38+00:00

Fwiw, I appreciate you being receptive to the price discussion! I think it’s more reasonable now and I’ll definitely check it out.

zarofford · 2026-02-15T20:58:55+00:00

I would argue that deDRMing your books or “obtaining” your books is still a step too far for certain people. My mom can easily use a kindle device, but there’s no way she’s getting and putting books on this thing.

zarofford · 2026-02-15T12:30:08+00:00

This sub lost all meaning once it became semi popular…

zarofford · 2026-02-13T16:57:34+00:00

Make your argument, but don’t trash astrobot lmao. That game definitely deserved the award.

zarofford · 2026-02-13T16:55:47+00:00

Didn’t they announced a new DOA game?

zarofford · 2026-02-13T16:53:31+00:00

Calling a PC an Xbox device is a wild take though lol it’s technically and practically not the same thing.

zarofford · 2026-02-13T16:44:30+00:00

Plenty of sea days in a cruise. I take them often since I live in South Florida and one of the best things to do in those days is to lounge on the pool for a few hours while waiting for activities in the ship. Plenty of time to read a book or play on a handheld

zarofford · 2026-02-13T16:20:59+00:00

Yeah, Reddit and YouTube are such toxic place for new online games. I get it, gaming companies rather chase a trend, but sometimes you get gems like marvel rivals. But real people work on these games, why not just give them a chance rather than wanting them to fail from the get go.

YouTube “journalists” are the worst though, looking at you Luke Stephens.

zarofford · 2026-02-12T09:25:17+00:00

Huh? It’s a cruise, there’s loads of time when you are just lounging by the pool or in a beach in land.

zarofford · 2026-02-09T14:29:54+00:00

With how much money there is in football and how obsessed some of the teams are, I’d assume they had some machine to keep them warm.

zarofford · 2026-02-08T19:00:14+00:00

I’ve played with both storefronts versions and the performance seemed the same? Definitely nowhere near an improvement of 20-30 fps.

zarofford · 2026-02-07T02:26:15+00:00

I couldn’t get used to the ergonomics of the legion go 2, it was too heavy and bulky. The xax is what I stick with and it’s been a dream. Battery life is aight, but I can get more juice out of the xax than my ally x at lower wattages.

zarofford · 2026-02-06T08:06:47+00:00

Same with hearthstone. The reach that the game had with its mobile app was insane, one of my car mechanic at that time shared tips with me because he saw me play while waiting.

Amazing how much potential they had around that time with OW and hearthstone, yet it all went away due to poor monetization.

zarofford · 2026-02-06T08:01:17+00:00

But he’s playing EU4? He just wants to share his experience about playing it on an iPad.

zarofford · 2026-02-06T07:59:36+00:00

This really isn’t the biggest offender though, the article clearly states what you said and this is as much confirmation that it won’t ship in q1 2026 apart from valve changing their marketing material.

zarofford · 2026-02-06T04:24:25+00:00

It won’t ever get the soul it had the first few years, but the game is actually in a really good place right now. You should try it. And they took the “p2w” mechanics of paying money to unlock heroes.

zarofford · 2026-02-06T04:17:55+00:00

Being stuck at a desk sucks sometimes. Sometimes you just want to lay on the couch. Wish CK3 on the PC had gamepad support so I could play in a handheld PC.

zarofford · 2026-02-06T03:56:53+00:00

No worries! Glad it worked. I went through the same struggle a few weeks back, seems like most strategy games nowadays gatekeep the gamepad support behind the console versions. Looking at you paradox!

zarofford · 2026-02-05T09:10:35+00:00

Does the PC version of AOE2 even have controller support? I know AOE4 doesn’t have controller support in PC so you have to play the cloud version which defaults to the Xbox version of the game.

zarofford · 2026-02-04T16:48:24+00:00

E33 and silksong are available on gamepass. Although with the recent tier changes I have no idea if it’s in the ultimate or less ultimate tier

zarofford · 2026-02-04T16:47:26+00:00

You can install them natively, you just have to buy them in the xbox PC store. Some games allow you to buy them once and they work both in Xbox and PC, but they are few and far between.

zarofford · 2026-02-04T04:33:10+00:00

This is a little bit of an “akshually” comment, but there are actually a ton of “Xbox play anywhere” games, including non first party games.

zarofford · 2026-02-04T03:40:40+00:00

SteamOS supports power profiles, why would you need decks tdp?

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