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Well, you see, guns and booze are adult things (with tons of lobbying and taxes and corporate interest), while games are for kids and stupid and non-Christian. Simple!

Just what the fuck is this timeline? I was born in Russia and spent a good chunk of my life basically idolizing USA, UK, EU, other European countries, English-first countries, etc.

By the time I had the language and professional skills to try and migrate into a probably really good life, suddenly there's a rise of authoritarianism, loss of privacy, rollback to the political right and intolerance and hatred and whatever.

There's still a long way for these nations to go before things are as bad as here, but the differences still are dwindling at an alarming rate and I often find myself wondering if it's gonna be worth the effort if I want to eventually move to someplace that still respects privacy and freedom and is sensible about the Internet and digital technologies.

There's still a lot of perks from knowing English as well as I do, but at this point, I think I'd have to learn German or Swedish or some other northern EU language if I ever make up my mind.

And by the time I'm ready, these countries will roll out some bullshit, too, right?

And then there's Visa and MasterCard telling you what you can and can't purchase because some conservative cesspool wrote some emails - but gamers' emails are ignored...

It's all so demoralising. I miss looking forward to the future with hope and excitement for things.

Das heißt Zeit für Kulturaustausch und Lokalmemenkonsum. ;)

I actually bought this when I was a kid! Loved hearing some Twisted Sister in the menu!

I don't think I ever beat it as a kid, but thankfully never forgot about the game. I don't remember when exactly I bought it, but it probably wasn't 2003; regardless, I enjoyed the visual and the gameplay and the theme.

It's great to see other people actually remember and speak well of the game. I might have to revisit.

Rock on.

I'm probably going to have to create multiple configs to play around with. So much to experiment with so much variety.

Thanks for sharing all this! Super happy to see that my months of tinkering didn't exhaust the possibilities that Steam Input provides.

Crazy to think how much Valve has done for gaming and tech being just one company with arguably not that many people working there; especially given the rumors of extreme freedom in terms of what the employees can focus on.

Wow, thanks for such a detailed response! Really helps me see it now. I think I just often used Action Layers instead of Modeshift in many cases, blurring the line between the two in my mind.

Chords sound amazing. When I use the trackpads in The Finals, I often press them in doing certain things (especially on the modifier button layout) and mess things up. Somehow it never occurred to me that I could just disable some actions during specific scenarios. The sheer ability to do that is a long known fact for me, though, so I'm ultra confused as to why I didn't include that in my config.

Thanks again, it all really helps!

Thanks for the explanations and demos!

Yeah, I find myself gravitating towards this kind of setup every time I want gyro and (at least) five more buttons on one of the trackpads. Kinda glad to see I'm on something that seems to have some proven record.

Can't wrap my mind around the difference between modeshifting and action layers, though. The former seems much easier to use, but somehow doesn't work that consistently for me, so yeah, I end up doing what you're showing.

Were you yourself ever able to adjust to this kind of scheme on Steam Deck? It seems to be working well for me for some time, but there's moments when I somehow get lost in the inputs despite knowing them to a degree that I don't have to think about them at all.

Some games doing a poor job at mixed input doesn't help either: things like prompts rapidly switching between that of MKB and controller, or the game not allowing you to switch on the fly, etc.

Yep, not excited for Starfield generated planets type of deal when it comes to dialogues and such.

And pvp games like The Finals clicking the right pad to switch through gadgets and using the trackpad to quickly turn and activate gyro, and not feeling like my inputs were too slow versus mouse users. And not having to bother with aim assist.

Mind sharing the setup, please? I've played The Finals on my Steam Deck and gave the trackpads+gyro a fair try, but couldn't land a scheme that made me really comfortable and let me perform well at the same time - lots of unintentional clicks as well as not pressing shoulder buttons to activate the modifier.

Having a trackpad act like a touch-sensitive dpad with gyro felt very close to perfect, though. Just couldn't tweak the entire scheme well enough.

Genuinely, is there a good outlet that's easily available in text that is not like that? Preferably with proper full-body RSS.

Difficult to read about my beloved hobby in this hyper-monetized culture.

A certain level of officials in Russia kinda has to make this sort of proofs of their work. I don't think it's a law or anything like that, but it's a strong cultural thing. Similar to how companies can send employees to "volunteer" with something, expecting them to make photos with brands visible and stuff.

It's all PR work. Ever more important when your party is busy doing everything it can to ruin the country further.

Ganz korrekt. Nicht oft, dass man auf dem Netz Kaufkraft versteht oder bringt, wenn man über die Preise in den Kommentaren spricht!

Doch wir sind auf Lemmy, einer der Kluge Örter.