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lotanis,

There’s a massive cultural thing in the US about the iPhone being the preferred phone and if you don’t have one it must be because you’re too poor to afford one. Obviously this is a result of marketing and isn’t universal but it is a surprisingly widely held view.

Given that, showing up in a group chat as a lone blue bubble marks you out as the inferior group member (in some people’s eyes). It doesn’t matter so much 1:1 but if there are 10 people the odd one out stands out.

lotanis,

I bought the JSAUX dock (from Amazon). Has been really good. It’s a fair bit cheaper than the official one and there are a load of reports.of the official one having issues.

lotanis,

Black Skylands. A friend gifted me a copy on steam after he had a transaction error and got two copies. Thought it might be fun for a few hours but I’ve been obsessed.

It’s an open world exploring game where you’ve got an airship and go from island to island, and it’s a top down twin stick shooter. The mobility is really enjoyable with the grappling hook, the combat is fun with interesting weapons, tech and upgrades and you have an airship!

lotanis,

There’s also Stormgate coming out later this year from a load of the former StarCraft developers.

lotanis,

If it’s dead then it’s no risk, right? Afterwards it’s either working or still dead.

lotanis,

Yeah, it can and should be a warning to studio heads, but as game consumers we absolutely should raise our expectations (and stop buying micro transaction crap). There are plenty of big studios with money who could buy the licence and spend years making the game, but those studios belong to the big publishers who optimise for profit not for game quality.

lotanis,

I think they mostly died when GChat turned off XMPP support and became a walled garden.

If Beeper does become a successful business though, there’ll be a full time development team “playing catch-up” with money behind them. It’s interesting if you read this that they’re rolling out features ahead of the message providers in some cases!

They’re also leveraging some existing infrastructure. Beeper is built on Matrix which does a lot of the heavy lifting for them.

Gaming laptop or handheld PC?

I recently posted about finding time to game as a parent and the community has provided a bunch of good suggestions. Thank you! After reading all comments, I think it really boils down to accessibility of gaming for the occasional moments of free time that I do have in my busy schedule. The ability to pick something up easily,...

lotanis,

Gaming laptops are really just portable PCs. If you’re playing on them on in the usual “Keyboard and Mouse” way then you need to put it on a table to make that work properly. Maybe you could do it on a sofa but it’s very quickly going to get uncomfortable.

Handhelds on the other hand are extremely portable and happily usable anywhere. They’re also a lot cheaper than a gaming PC! I’m a big fan of my Steam Deck and recommend it a lot, but I should admit I also have a Gaming PC which I use for multiplayer stuff with my friends

lotanis,

This is great news! I was debating getting Battlebit and even though I was planning on mostly playing on my PC this put me off, out of principle. But now Deck compatibility too is great.

Instead of "casual" or "ranked" they should just have "play to win" or "play for fun."

Because it doesn’t seem to matter currently if you play ranked games or casual games, the general experience tends to be the same. But one has numbers and things to go with it. You still get people playing to win in casual games and you get people dicking around having fun in ranked games, and the ranks don’t necessarily...

lotanis,

There’s different levels of playing to win though. I play a lot of R6 Siege. In the evenings I mostly play casual with my friends. I’m either using the random button to pick my operator for variety, or I’m playing all shotguns for a battle pass challenge or I’m trying to find ridiculous places to put a frost mat.

Within that structure I’m trying to win the rounds, but it doesn’t matter if we lose. I’m just having fun in a game with my friends.

lotanis,

Have you played Deep Rock Galactic? It’s a wonderful games where you play a dwarf mining things, fighting off bugs while you do it. You play in a group of up to 4 people trying to complete your objectives together.

I find it really hard to explain what makes it great, so you’ll just have to trust it’s avid fan base!

lotanis,

Would love to hear how Andromeda actually is. There's been a bit of an anti-hype cycle with everyone criticising it, but I've always wondered if there's a decent game in there (but kne that's not quite as good as the original trilogy).

lotanis,

I just bought it on the GOG summer sale!

lotanis,

It is weird that diablo feel like you haven't really started the game until you've completed the story once. Like that whole well written story and beautiful cut scenes are in fact the prologue to the real game.

I haven't actually completed the story yet, but that's what it feels like at the moment. To be clear though - I'm really enjoying it!

lotanis,

I've never played Heroes of Might and Magic at all. What's it like? Should I get it and where should I start?

lotanis,

Pokémon, via emulation.

I'm playing Ultra Moon on the Steam Deck and it's wonderful and chill.

lotanis,

I'm just about to give GW2 a go on my Deck. Thanks for this message - I'll take any advice I can get!

lotanis,

Consistency from Steam Deck to PC makes a lot of sense and means features can come to everywhere at once.

lotanis,

Haz 2 is plenty hard enough for inexperienced players who don't have a full set of upgrades on their weapons. But yeah, Haz-4 and 5 is what really makes you think about optimising your builds (if that's where you find your fun).

lotanis,

Definitely!

DRG is one of those games that I find it really hard to explain why it's so good. They've just done all the little things really well and the resulting experience is just fun.

I mostly play co-op with a couple of friends, on a not particularly high difficulty so we can have a good time killing bugs without too much stress.

lotanis,

Sony ports to PC have been great on the Steam Deck for me. They’re games with control systems that work well on console, and mostly run pretty smoothly. The Spiderman games, for instance, are excellent.

lotanis,

It's definitely resulted in me spending more money on Steam. If I'm buying a game and there's a choice I'll now buy it on Steam every time. Plus there's some games I never would have bought because I'm doing a load of gaming on the sofa and whole travelling.

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