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Nefarious 2.0: Apr 22, 2008; Offense is overrated anyway.

donate your switch to a pre-school

# ? May 6, 2023 19:35

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# ? May 24, 2024 19:06

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

Okay, here's a request for a simultaneously really specific and really general game recommendation:

I'm looking for something that plays decently on the SD, that I can probably finish completely in no more than 20 hours, and that plays well in 5-15 minute bursts. Doesn't have to actually be a short form game, just something that's not bad to put down and pick up. I just recently finished playing through Dredge and that worked really well.

I have way too much downtime while I'm working or stuck in meetings that barely involve me and the SD has been loving awesome to keep me from going out of my mind, but a lot of that is just playing roguelikes and stuff like that. I'm looking for something more traditional that I can actually start, play through, and finish in those little moments of downtime. Don't care about genre, don't care if it's new or old, don't even care if it has good controller support since I like the trackpads, as long as it's something where the UI isn't unusable or annoying on the Deck's screen.

# ? May 6, 2023 19:36

RandolphCarter: Jul 30, 2005

Marlow Briggs and The Mask of Death. Plays like classic God of War.

# ? May 6, 2023 19:40

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

King of Solomon posted:

A grip might help a little bit. I know I find my switch far more comfortable to use with my satisfye grip

That grip is really the best one. Super comfy.

# ? May 6, 2023 19:44

Shadski: Jun 1, 2011

Paradoxish posted:

Okay, here's a request for a simultaneously really specific and really general game recommendation:

I'm looking for something that plays decently on the SD, that I can probably finish completely in no more than 20 hours, and that plays well in 5-15 minute bursts. Doesn't have to actually be a short form game, just something that's not bad to put down and pick up. I just recently finished playing through Dredge and that worked really well.

I have way too much downtime while I'm working or stuck in meetings that barely involve me and the SD has been loving awesome to keep me from going out of my mind, but a lot of that is just playing roguelikes and stuff like that. I'm looking for something more traditional that I can actually start, play through, and finish in those little moments of downtime. Don't care about genre, don't care if it's new or old, don't even care if it has good controller support since I like the trackpads, as long as it's something where the UI isn't unusable or annoying on the Deck's screen.

I completed subnautica in this fashion and really enjoyed it

# ? May 6, 2023 20:11

Kwolok: Jan 4, 2022

Paradoxish posted:

Okay, here's a request for a simultaneously really specific and really general game recommendation:

I'm looking for something that plays decently on the SD, that I can probably finish completely in no more than 20 hours, and that plays well in 5-15 minute bursts. Doesn't have to actually be a short form game, just something that's not bad to put down and pick up. I just recently finished playing through Dredge and that worked really well.

I have way too much downtime while I'm working or stuck in meetings that barely involve me and the SD has been loving awesome to keep me from going out of my mind, but a lot of that is just playing roguelikes and stuff like that. I'm looking for something more traditional that I can actually start, play through, and finish in those little moments of downtime. Don't care about genre, don't care if it's new or old, don't even care if it has good controller support since I like the trackpads, as long as it's something where the UI isn't unusable or annoying on the Deck's screen.

Hades, vampire survivors, boneraiser minions, rogue legacy?

# ? May 6, 2023 20:56

unruly: May 12, 2002; YES!!!

RandolphCarter posted:

I just held my switch for the first time in a very long time, and it�s way too small after getting used to the deck.

This for real. tears of the kingdom is going to be so awkward.

# ? May 6, 2023 21:43

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

Paradoxish posted:

Okay, here's a request for a simultaneously really specific and really general game recommendation:

I'm looking for something that plays decently on the SD, that I can probably finish completely in no more than 20 hours, and that plays well in 5-15 minute bursts. Doesn't have to actually be a short form game, just something that's not bad to put down and pick up. I just recently finished playing through Dredge and that worked really well.

I have way too much downtime while I'm working or stuck in meetings that barely involve me and the SD has been loving awesome to keep me from going out of my mind, but a lot of that is just playing roguelikes and stuff like that. I'm looking for something more traditional that I can actually start, play through, and finish in those little moments of downtime. Don't care about genre, don't care if it's new or old, don't even care if it has good controller support since I like the trackpads, as long as it's something where the UI isn't unusable or annoying on the Deck's screen.

Aside from the things mentioned here already, the Ezio trilogy for Assassin's Creed (or honestly any of the good AC games), Mad Max, the two LotR Shadows of games, MGR Revengeance, Guacamelee, and basically any of the Yakuza games once you get them started and sit through all the opening cutscenes that set up the story. Then they all become tons of minigames and street fights.

# ? May 6, 2023 21:53

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

I�ve been surprisingly uncrippled by my switch after a couple days of kingdom tearing now, I figured since I�d already paid for the game I didn�t feel bad about grabbing the leak after spending a very anxious 20 minutes stabbing my switch in the guts with a soldering iron.

I�ve had a lot of breaks to gently caress around on my deck too though so maybe the secret is rehabbing with an actually ergonomic console at the same time as playing on the torture oblong.

# ? May 6, 2023 22:02

PageMaster: Nov 4, 2009

Subjunctive posted:

See if your satellites have a setting for mDNS relay or similar. That traffic sometimes doesn’t get bridged to reduce noise or something, I don’t really understand it.

Thanks! I don't understand it either, but it's the best and only lead I have so nothing Google and I can't figure out in a day

# ? May 6, 2023 22:39

Lord Lambeth: Dec 7, 2011

I managed to beat Doom Eternal and all DLC entirely on the steam deck. I am finishing games, eventually!

# ? May 6, 2023 23:24

alexandriao: Jul 20, 2019

History Comes Inside! posted:

Lots of people really wanting something to be possible isn�t going to magically make the deck any more powerful

buddy ive heard of people getting 30 fps on jedi survivor on the deck. thats more than it gets on like half of consumer pcs

like, last year my workplace paid 850�-ish for a pretty powerful computer for me to do work with. I bought a deck sometime last year and this thing plays cyberpunk with an almost steady 50-60fps, im pretty sure it would make my computer explode. that's impressive for something that's 1/3rd of the price.

I tried to pick a machine that would go for games too. Deck gets 60fps on doom, my computer struggles to get 25

alexandriao fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 6, 2023

# ? May 6, 2023 23:47

alexandriao: Jul 20, 2019

Subjunctive posted:

I reinstall my desktop periodically just for that fresh-new-notebook/September-in-a-new-grade sense of reinvention. Every time�every time�I forget to back something up and lose some game configuration or a working directory for a dumb project that I didn�t push to github, but I keep doing it for that dopamine.

partitions, my child... partitions...

(use a separate home partition for your user directory and then you can wipe the system and reinstall

# ? May 6, 2023 23:58

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

Thanks for the recommendations! I've been meaning to give Subnautica a proper playthrough, so I might give that a shot and see how it goes.

# ? May 7, 2023 00:25

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Man I love Subnautica. It does murder the deck�s battery but then I usually play dead cells or vampire survivors on mine so when I play a beefy game it�s a little surprising to me.

# ? May 7, 2023 00:32

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

alexandriao posted:

partitions, my child... partitions...

(use a separate home partition for your user directory and then you can wipe the system and reinstall

yeah I had a workspace partition and forgot which drive it was on when I wiped things

onedrive does OK, but I also just try to not be stupid all the time

# ? May 7, 2023 00:43

RandomBlue: Dec 30, 2012; hay guys!; Biscuit Hider

Subjunctive posted:

yeah I had a workspace partition and forgot which drive it was on when I wiped things

onedrive does OK, but I also just try to not be stupid all the time

hard mode

# ? May 7, 2023 00:45

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

RandomBlue posted:

hard mode

extremely

# ? May 7, 2023 00:51

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

My friends who will be returning to the Switch on the 12th, please do yourself a favor and get a Satisfye grip

# ? May 7, 2023 01:11

Lord Lambeth: Dec 7, 2011

Beve Stuscemi posted:

My friends who will be returning to the Switch on the 12th, please do yourself a favor and get a Satisfye grip

Ditto. Incredible how much better it feels on the hands with that grip

# ? May 7, 2023 01:14

Rolo: Nov 16, 2005; Hmm, what have we here?

RandolphCarter posted:

I just held my switch for the first time in a very long time, and it�s way too small after getting used to the deck.

I was playing with my Retroid Pocket 3+ today and dang this thing is tiny now.

# ? May 7, 2023 01:43

Mescal: Jul 23, 2005

alexandriao posted:

partitions, my child... partitions...

(use a separate home partition for your user directory and then you can wipe the system and reinstall

I understand why they don't want to bolt partitioning stuff onto every installer, but this would have been helpful as an easy automatic option in the GUI for me. Installed a few OSes recently here.

# ? May 7, 2023 02:15

bacon!: Dec 10, 2003; The fierce urgency of now

Steamdeck disk surgery trip report for those who might be nervous. I didn't want to re-install the OS, as I have spent 999999hours managing all of my NES rom artwork. I used clonezilla to directly clone the disk to the new one prior to the install.

- I bought the 1TB Western Digital drive from AliExpress
- I also bought a USB-C external enclosure for M2 drives from Amazon (it supports multiple sizes, and is practical to have around after the install)
- I followed these steps but once I got to the part of actually choosing a target, I did a direct drive-to-drive imaging and chose the new disk (which was mounted in the external enclosure). This only took maybe 20 minutes?.. and worked like a charm.
- I did choose "proportionally size my partitions" in clonezilla - now I have slightly larger root partitions and ~800gb free for games. This might have been a stupid choice, but easy enough to fix later
- Performed the surgery - the 1TB drive is a little chonky and I had to puff out the foil sheath to make it fit

It works like a charm, very very seamless. The physical disk installation was quite easy; taking the battery connector out was probably the sketchiest part (took a lot of wiggling) but overall its a very low difficulty procedure. 13 screws, a little wiggling, a little tape peeling. Easy 2/10 difficulty would HD upgrade again.

# ? May 7, 2023 02:15

Mescal: Jul 23, 2005

bacon! posted:

Steamdeck disk surgery trip report for those who might be nervous. I didn't want to re-install the OS, as I have spent 999999hours managing all of my NES rom artwork. I used clonezilla to directly clone the disk to the new one prior to the install.

thank u for the :greencube:

If every emulator enjoyer is struggling with the same conern, somebody should write a specific backup utility for your zelda cover arts for the, whatever the emulation suite it is we're using. There are loads of situations where you'd want to nuke everything except your zero suit samus art and save files from high school NESticle. I cry for anybody doing manual metadata.

# ? May 7, 2023 02:22

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

I got the 2TB WD and it slipped into the little foil jacket like a glove.

You have to go business-end first because trying to go the other way makes it snag.

# ? May 7, 2023 13:28

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Mescal posted:

I understand why they don't want to bolt partitioning stuff onto every installer, but this would have been helpful as an easy automatic option in the GUI for me. Installed a few OSes recently here.

Separate /home is a fairly common default among Linux distros. Most manage reusing it, too.

A common pain point between all modern OS' is that if you nuke the underlying OS and replace it, the user profile will now be owned by an unknown user ID. On Linux this is fairly easy to solve (reuse the UID or take ownership of the entire directory), but on Windows it's quite complicated�

# ? May 7, 2023 13:39

Hammer Bro.: Jul 7, 2007; THUNDERDOME LOSER

Antigravitas posted:

On Linux this is fairly easy to solve, but on Windows it's quite complicated.

Truer words were never spoken.

# ? May 7, 2023 15:13

Mescal: Jul 23, 2005

If you can't find your file, do this

code:

chmod +rw foldername
touch foldername

The first command (re-)allows read and write permission. The second changes the timestamp the file was last written. I don't konw why this fixes anything. If anybody knows what causes this, please let me know.

Edit for clarity: This is not a change in visibility, from the system's POV. It's a hacky bugfix for behavior that might be unique to SteamOS. The bug is not a GUI bug! The same bug is seen in command line.

Mescal fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 7, 2023

# ? May 7, 2023 16:55

DildenAnders: Mar 16, 2016; "I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.â

Paradoxish posted:

Okay, here's a request for a simultaneously really specific and really general game recommendation:

I'm looking for something that plays decently on the SD, that I can probably finish completely in no more than 20 hours, and that plays well in 5-15 minute bursts. Doesn't have to actually be a short form game, just something that's not bad to put down and pick up. I just recently finished playing through Dredge and that worked really well.

I have way too much downtime while I'm working or stuck in meetings that barely involve me and the SD has been loving awesome to keep me from going out of my mind, but a lot of that is just playing roguelikes and stuff like that. I'm looking for something more traditional that I can actually start, play through, and finish in those little moments of downtime. Don't care about genre, don't care if it's new or old, don't even care if it has good controller support since I like the trackpads, as long as it's something where the UI isn't unusable or annoying on the Deck's screen.

Batman Arkham City

# ? May 7, 2023 17:50

DildenAnders: Mar 16, 2016; "I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.â

Has anyone ever put Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands on a Steak Deck? Is there a way I could fit it entirely on a SD card? I don't think it would even fit on my 64GB version otherwise.

# ? May 7, 2023 17:53

Heran Bago: Aug 18, 2006

Beve Stuscemi posted:

My friends who will be returning to the Switch on the 12th, please do yourself a favor and get a Satisfye grip

I'm torn between that or the Hori Split Pad Pro, which is just a few bucks more.

Might not even use it handheld, so holding off for now. That's a pricey accessory for a single game.

# ? May 7, 2023 18:15

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Heran Bago posted:

I'm torn between that or the Hori Split Pad Pro, which is just a few bucks more.

Might not even use it handheld, so holding off for now. That's a pricey accessory for a single game.

I have both and I like the split pad pro. I don�t like how cheap the split pad pro feels though.

# ? May 7, 2023 18:18

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Mescal posted:

If you can't find your file, do this
code:
chmod +w foldername
touch foldername
The first command (re-)allows write permission. The second changes the timestamp the file was last written. I don't konw why this fixes anything. If anybody knows what causes this, please let me know.

This is not good advice, since touch only updates modification time and doesn�t affect visibility. Please don�t spread this misapprehension to other people via the OP.

I suspect what�s happening is that you are using a graphical file browser and it is sorting by last-modified time. The file you�re looking for is scrolled off the end somewhere and moves to the top when its mtime is changed. Even if that�s not it, it�s definitely not the case that touch unhides files.

# ? May 7, 2023 18:19

Mescal: Jul 23, 2005

Subjunctive posted:

This is not good advice, since touch only updates modification time and doesn�t affect visibility. Please don�t spread this misapprehension to other people via the OP.

I suspect what�s happening is that you are using a graphical file browser and it is sorting by last-modified time. The file you�re looking for is scrolled off the end somewhere and moves to the top when its mtime is changed. Even if that�s not it, it�s definitely not the case that touch unhides files.

Have you run into this yourself? When it happens, this behaviour is identical in GUI and TTY. You may be correct in assuming idiocy, but you're wrong about what's happening. Now I wish I'd recorded it when I ran this fix earlier today, it was the 3rd or 4th time I've done it.

# ? May 7, 2023 18:24

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Yes, please record it and post in detail what you�re doing (what software, how you�re looking for the file, etc) and what you mean by �show up�.

Do you mean that it doesn�t appear in an �ls� of its parent directory, by �in tty�?

# ? May 7, 2023 18:27

Mescal: Jul 23, 2005

Subjunctive posted:

Yes, please record it and post in detail what you�re doing (what software, how you�re looking for the file, etc) and what you mean by �show up�.

Do you mean that it doesn�t appear in an �ls� of its parent directory, by �in tty�?

No, I'm telling you, the files are not hidden. They're not read or write restricted. You gotta believe me. They don't show up in ls and they can't be opened with a command, they ain't there 99% of the ways you can interact with a file. I will absolutely record this next time it happens.

# ? May 7, 2023 18:31