Fubarberry

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

I think part 2 of 3, but I'm not completely sure.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

the fact that it sold a lot means it’s a market that it’s probably worth the investment (can’t imagine it’s that much)

Something I've heard is that deck users tend to buy more games and more new releases than your average non-deck user (which makes sense considering most of us are financially well off enough to buy a second PC for portable play). So even though the total number of deck users isn't huge compared to steam as a whole, there's a much more significant percentage of launch purchases that are being played on deck.

Some indie game reported that 10% of their launch sales went to people playing on Steam Deck, which is a sizable market chunk, and a much higher percentage of players than the the steam hardware survey would suggest to expect.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I love it everytime I see a big company trying to ensure their game runs well on Deck. Companies caring about performance on a linux device at all is wild.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 0 points 7 months ago

Opening up the controller and cleaning the joysticks directly might have actually made it worse. The joysticks have their own lubrication, if you clean the directly you can remove that and ruin them.

My experience has been that cleaning up the joysticks with the controller closed up is safe and generally fixes any drift or sticking buttons. Opening up the controller and trying to clean it with the same spray can be damaging and isn't recommended.

And to be clear, the actual stick mechanism can break down and cause drift too. But every case of joycon drift I've ever seen between my couple sets and friends' sets were always fixed by a quick spray of cleaner.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not claiming it's a standard maintenance practice, most people won't have the spray, and aren't accustomed to needing to needing to maintain a joystick like that.

But it is truly a simple, cheap, easy fix for almost all cases of joystick drift (not just on joycons, but all controllers). I really think nintendo should have worked to spread the knowledge, and provided free cleaner to people with issues.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

The drift that joycons get is almost always just caused by dirt/gunk under the joystick flaps. If you spray a little electrical cleaner up under the flaps it fixes the drift immediately. Might have to repeat it 1-2 times a year.

It's always bothered me how big of deal joycon drift is when it has such an easy fix. Obviously it would be better if I didn't happen at all, but it seems silly that people are throwing away good controllers that only needed a 5 second cleaning. Only thing I've ever had to replace any of my joycon controllers over is problems with the rail connections to the switch, where it swaps back and forth between wireless and direct connected. But my original 2016 joycons are still going strong, just stuck as wireless only joycons.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

I have this Baseus power bank, which is supposed to have 74 watt-hours. The top review did some testing, and got 62 watt-hours out of it, which is about 83% efficiency.

I've been pretty happy with it so far. It also shows what voltage/amperage it's charging at, which is handy for identifying bad cables.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was reading about Tetris in a PDF 4 days ago, and wondered if Doom would be possible.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I hope you enjoy it, it's been one of my all time favorite purchases I've ever made.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm assuming getting all your passengers there is considered a 100% run. I think the players branching out into lower % runs will open up some pretty big time savings and make for much more interesting runs.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

AS others have said, the key is making your son a separate steam account, and then adding him to your steam family so he can access your games. That will let you both play your games at the same time, as long as you aren't trying to play the exact same copy of a game (1 game copy = 1 player at a time).

This also will give you access to some parental controls and let you limit what games he can access. I don't want to share some games like Cyberpunk or Baldur's gate with my younger kids for example.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Charger is unclear, but I think it fits come included.

The vents are a real concern. They intend for this stand to work with multiple devices, so it's very possible it will block the vents on some.

 

TL;DR: Steam briefly showed options to buy refurbished Steam Decks for the following prices:

  • 64gb - $319
  • 256gb - $419
  • 512gb - $519

The steam page has since been taken down, but will hopefully go live officially soon.

Edit: That was quick, refurbished units available now.

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Here's the article with the rest of the photos.

 

What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?

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