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  • New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought

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  • Honestly, for me I don't really need a new steam deck. The OLED deck is almost perfect already. I don't know that a ton more processing power is necessary for me. Whenever I've wanted to play a more demanding game on my deck I stream it from either my desktop gaming rig, my ps5, or from Geforce Now. (Though i know obviously not everyone is going to have those luxuries) The only thing I think I would REALLY want would be a WiFi chip that doesn't shit the bed if it doesn't like the router your using.

  • I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

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  • but you can't use instrument controllers

    You definitely can. They even sell guitar controllers now specifically for Fortnite Festival.

  • Scientists claim to have unlocked ‘secret sauce’ needed for fine chocolate

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  • I mean the issue there is the empty carbs it's put on. Not the MSG itself. It's definitely not a problem when I season my chicken and veggies with it.

  • Youth as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

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  • I'm a 32 year old man with a receeding hairline. I too see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work. Unfortunately no one else wants to see that.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours)

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  • Not that it invalidates your points at all but I played HL Alyx sitting down on an original oculus quest on a computer with a 1060 and an r5 2600. It was great but it and Beat Saber were basically the only two VR games that were fun enough for me to play for more than a few minutes at a time.

    That quest has been collecting dust since I beat Alyx.

    Really hard for me to recommend spending several hundreds of dollars on hardware when there's really only one game worth playing. But if you can find a cheap used quest or WMR headset it might be worth picking up and then selling just to play Alyx. Alyx is probably one of if not the most well optimized VR games out there. You really don't need that powerful of a rig to play it.

  • Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2025? I'd argue yes — but with caveats

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  • While I wholeheartedly agree. I do want to make one small note for anyone that reads this and thinks like I did.

    Don't get one if you want to use it for professional audio work. It's a niche use case I know but I thought I'd be able to install Reaper and use it as a little music workstation since reaper is just right in the discover store. Unfortunately, the Steam Deck's audio drivers are basically only good for playing back audio. When trying to do audio work they were unusably buggy and had a bunch of latency.

    If you want a little computer to make music with get a raspberry pi instead. Use the steam deck for gaming like it was intended for and don't be dumb like I was.

  • Trump vows to try banning mail-in voting before 2026 midterm elections

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  • Yes

  • Sudden memory

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  • Definitely the latter I'm sure.

  • Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says

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  • While thats definitely true for many games it's less relevant for console makers and its hardly true universally; definitely not true for the insomniac games I mentioned.

    Plenty of games are coming out that are optimized very well. Unfortunately, UE5 has gotten way too popular and devs often don't seem to really know how to optimize games developed on the engine. Kinda the downfall of having an engine that appeals so much to artists but not so much to engineers. I think the only remotely well optimized game I can think of that was made in UE5 is Hellblade 2. And even as impressive as that game is from a technical standpoint (nothing can fix how boring it is) I still have stuttering problems with it. Though my rapidly aging R5 2600 is not helping things there.

    But there are still impressive PC games out there. Recently Doom The Dark Ages, indiana Jones, and Kingdom Come Deliverence 2 come to mind as games that are impressively well optimized on PC. Especially KCD2, that game feels like black magic to me.

    I think this is less of an issue of cost cutting by devs and publishers, though it's definitely a factor, and moreso just devs not being as knowledgeable about optimizing games as they used to be.

  • Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says

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  • Fucking why? These dudes always cite the cost of making games increasing as a reason for this nonsense but they never talk about the many many factors working in their favor already.

    First, most people are probably not buying physical games very much if at all anymore. And because of that people don't really buy games used anymore either since used games in general are much rarer. So more people are buying games directly from company storefronts. These same storefronts that also make games stay more expensive for longer periods of time. Not only that but there are literally more people playing and buying games now than have ever done so in the past (at least up until very recently)

    All of these factors should be increasing Sony's profit margins. If anything games should be getting cheaper. Not more expensive.

    And I don't buy that a ps5 game is significantly more expensive to make than a ps4 game. There's barely a difference between each system's capabilities in terms of graphical detail in the assets a team needs to produce. Most of the benefits of ps5 come in the way of higher resolutions and higher frame rates. I have yet to see a game release on ps5 that couldn't have also been ported to ps4 with lower resolutions and frame rates.

    Even the games they said needed the ps5's speed were eventually ported to PC and run on the Steam Deck just fine. (Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart for example)

    These statements aren't anything more than a company executive trying to gaslight people into accepting unacceptable pricing strategies.

  • Sudden memory

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  • I've recently this past year or so let my hair grow out past my shoulders for the first time since middle school and because of that I've become a hat guy for the first time in my life to keep hair out of my face. This past May I went to Pax East and bought a NASA hat and a really cool looking Atari trucker hat as souvenirs. The NASA hat ended up fitting a little better for my head so it became my every day hat but just the other day I remembered I hadn't seen the Atari hat in a while. Looked everywhere for it and I can't find it. No idea where it went and im so pissed. It was a really cool hat.

  • She ate a poppy seed salad. Child services took her baby.

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  • Someone knew there was a drug test and flooded the office with Poppy so they wouldn't get caught.

  • The Texas Democratic Walkout Is a Strong Opening Move

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  • Unfortunately, ballot initiatives are literally not a thing in Texas. The change would have to come from either the Texas legislature itself or a sweeping law at the national level. Good fucking luck with either of those solutions.

  • Most Israelis not bothered by reports of suffering and famine in Gaza, new poll shows

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  • Why did they put quotation marks around Arab? It sounds like they're doubting the people were actually Arab. Looks real gross.

    Edit: should really read articles before posting. The quotes are a critique of the study as far as I can tell. The study refers to Palestinians living in Israel as "Arabs". If the study doesn't properly identify the individuals it's researching I have serious doubts about the legitimacy of the results.

  • He's not even a regular man

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  • When he made the dumb ass statement criticizing James Gunn for calling Superman an immigrant a small part of me wanted to believe he was just actually concerned about the financial future of the franchise and just thought incorrectly that angering bigots would negatively affect the film. But this completely confirms that nope, he's just another racist and bigoted scumbag.

  • Name him.

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  • Nancy.

  • Sexting

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  • It definitely weirds me out too and I at one point definitely had this opinion. But then I was with a woman once who I was very, very attracted to; Possibly more than anyone else I've been with. (Not that that's a bunch of people) She started calling me daddy repeatedly while we were getting into, and despite me being a little weirded out by it I, uh, didn't stop.

    Horny is a hell of a thing.

  • Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

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  • I mean, what do you expect them to do? how are they supposed to get permission if they're dead?

    /s

  • electrostatic spider flight

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  • Didn't the baby spiders fly away at the end of Charlottes Web?