huertanix @huertanix@cybre.space

Luigi is definitely a bottom.

tl;dr

My cyber Monday strategy of getting an RX580 + Steam Link + Steam Controller was a terrible idea and I should have bought a damn Switch. Anywho, have a great weekend, I hate modern gaming and will return to my plant and book related hobbies now.

...but of course the Steam Link can have a keyboard or mouse attached to it to deal with choosing settings on a projector or larger TV than your laptop, removing the advantage of not needing a keyboard and mouse on your sofa. Oh, but you can at least use the Steam Controller's right trackpad as the world's #1 shittiest trackpad ever (and I'm a Linux user sometimes)! I won't even get into the security concerns of what is basically remote desktop access with questionable access controls.

Steam Link:

Aside from the fact that the product is rightfully being put out of its misery and discontinued, the setup and each round of play requires a physical back and forth between wherever your TV and laptop the second any settings have to appear before actually launching a game, which in some games is every time, and sometimes with no option to actually launch them because half my library is old games and despite them being "ported" to macOS don't actually run on it. (cont)

...which of course means you can make your own config whatever you want, but you have to spend an hour figuring out what button mapping is expected in a game then map each control to match. An absurd upfront time cost that doesn't exist in any other hardware platform outside of building a controller from a damn Arduino.

Steam Controller:

* No game works out of the box with it, requires digging through settings to find a controller config created by "the community" which is apparently full of people who love remapping controls to never match what's mentioned in the game (e.g. Black the Fall game instructions say "press X" but the only controller mapping that let's you, oh, use any buttons whatsoever re-mapped X to A. Also right trigger in the game was mapped to the left lower not-trigger. (cont)

The Steam Controller and Steam Link are the Arch Linux and Hindenburg of gaming, respectively. Let's go through the reasons how this pioneering hardware was linked to a shitshow implementation...

change.org petition to get the amtrak snacc car to carry jumbo dc pizzas.

Last night I had a dream that Sinema was down ~200 votes and I feel like this week has been a lame version of Battlestar Galactica's "33" but at 5PM AZ time, slamming the F5 key on the updated Arizona Secretary of State tally every day.

Current status.