Stampela @ Stampela @startrek.website

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I have about 128 hours into Starfield, annnnd… you know how they give you a tutorial that’s on rail for the most part, then tell you “go there to do very important thing” and you see a squirrel, chase it, and suddenly you exposed corruption at the highest levels, found out where certain aliens come from, destroyed an entire faction, became a celebrity in a deadly game and people all over love you for the incredible acts of bravery? Then you decide to go where they told you and find out that no, the tutorial wasn’t over yet? That’s me. 128 hours of fucking with pirates, looting everything, helping everyone with the most weird requests and overall having a blast.

That said if you want Fallout in space uh, probably wait for a big sale. Also while it works fine on the Deck (much to my surprise) I didn’t play more than a few hours that way. It’s very cpu intensive.

Select is the one exclusive for Amazon, my understanding is that it’s meant to help with counterfeit ones, as only Amazon has them. Very good cards either way.

Not sure how it compares price wise right now, but look at the Amazon basics ones too: they’re made by the same company that bought Lexar and makes the emmc inside the 64gb Deck. Mine has been going strong for about a year now. Speed wise they’re essentially the same: the standard used in the Deck tops out at 104 megabytes per second, so any claims of extra speed are just marketing.

Busting makes me feel good!

I hate this, it’s fun but I can’t share it with anyone because it requires knowledge of that episode

This is quite impressive. Not sure if you have any experience with this sort of stuff, but not only the hand has 5 fingers, but the badge is essentially perfect!

I’m going to top that… I thank whatever assistant I’m talking to. After I get the answer. And they’re not listening anymore.

Real or not, it just feels wrong not to thank after I asked for something and received it.

In iOS there’s an option in the app to select a different icon, including the old design. Now, they’ve updated all the others so if you want the old design and for example the purple icon that’s a no go, but…

Ever played Eve Online? The “Noob ship” you get free when yours goes boom is bigger than a fighter jet, the battleships (fairly big) are about 500 meters and the capital monstrosity stuff gets to a plainly overkill 17 kilometers. And in all of this? It’s hard to figure out the small ships actually need a crew and aren’t just the pilot inside

Kiss my shiny laminated ass!

I’m just going to drop this here https://apps.apple.com/it/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id6444050820?l=en-GB for the Apple users among us: fast, powerful on device generation, works on iPhones, iPad and Macs (Silicon only, I think). Free!

Back when I had a 1060 3gb it was awesome! Always giving me nearly flawless settings for games, now with a 3060… we have very strong disagreements about the ideal settings.

That said yeah, a random software to install, that requires a new account and all for the privilege of installing the drivers? Hard sell.

Steam allows you to stream from another computer you have, GeForce Now is cloud based and depending on the subscription it can have a 4080 equivalent gpu.

Cool stuff!

It’s a very, very intentional move: you must link a Microsoft account to play, but it’s a “different account” so no transfer of saves. So different that it will remember all your records, will show races as already done (lots of fun figuring out what you still need to do), you can edit tunes previously shared (can’t edit them unless they’re yours) and if you want to try and launch both versions of the game it will complain about being already logged in on a different machine.

It’s not a subscription plan with games, it’s a cloud service running the (supported, stuff about licensing) games you already own on Steam.

Comments here are fun, seem a 3 way split between people thinking it’s GeForce Experience, game stream, and finally the actual cloud streaming service running your own Steam games.

I found it playable but being completely honest, the graphic settings are the lowest and while it looks fine enough for things nearby… shooting at enemies more than a few meters away means aiming under their name. Due to dumb circumstances making my gaming pc unavailable, I’m currently playing it “on my Mac” through GeForce Now.

40 is a sweet spot between 30 and 60: feels much more smooth than 30, is much less demanding than 60. And by the way, 30 is acceptable too as long as it’s stable. Sure it will almost certainly feel less smooth than other options, but especially as you say you’re playing on console mostly… chances are you are already used to 30 fps. I, for example, feel the difference between 30 and 60 in Forza Horizon 5 (and the magic 40) but that’s not preventing me from doing well.

The one thing that I’m not sure has been mentioned yet, is that the Steam Deck targets 720p. The screen is small enough for that to work out fine.

Make it color e-ink and this sounds brilliant!

I can only see the Dalek being reeeally pissed off, all “EXTERMINATE!” lol

Exactly, that’s why the Deck has as the default option to never shut down no matter how long it’s been inactive

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