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morgan423

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  • What movie did you love that had a stupid plot but the execution was excellent?

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  • Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common “disaster movie” plot for the time)

    Your fun trivia fact for the day is that Airplane! was actually a remake of a 1950s plane disaster movie called Zero Hour! Same plot, even long stretches where they go same plot points and sometimes even shot for shot...

    Airplane! just had a tonal change caused by throwing a bunch of ridiculous gags in, essentially becoming a parody of its origin movie.

    If you need a YouTube rabbit hole to fill a couple of hours of dead time at some point, well, there you go.

  • Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it?

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  • As someone who replaced a dying laptop with a Deck, I can tell you that it's simply this: it functions great as BOTH a handheld and a regular portable PC, both docked and not docked.

    Granted, I was lucky in that I already had one of the more expensive needed extra components (a really good 1440 gaming monitor that my sister gave me after she upgraded to 4k for her rig), but I literally only had to grab a dock, a couple of cables, and a bluetooth keyboard / mouse / headphone combo, and I was good to go. Far cheaper than a new (even-low tier) laptop, and it still would have been even if I would have had to buy a monitor... and honestly, I don't miss getting crouch-heat blasted in the least.

    Also, FWIW, I don’t think the Deck is particularly good at anything that is not gaming.

    Honestly, that feels like an opinion from someone who hasn't used it in that way. It works great for non-gaming stuff, even while mobile. 800p is totally okay on a sub-8 inch screen, which isn't too small at the distance you view it from when not docked. I also don't have issues with needing to one-hand the Deck often, but when that happens, laps and chests exist, depending on where I'm using it, so it's never really been a problem.

    As far as desktop navigation goes, it's great. It has a touch screen, but if you're someone like me who doesn't like to touch the screen and print it up, you can just make up whatever control scheme is most comfortable to you. I use the joystick instead of the touch pad, I just find it easiest.

    All in all, the Deck a great experience while mobile, and isn't anywhere near as bulky as a gaming laptop to carry around.

    Literally the only thing I ever miss is the ability to easily text chat in games while docked, but most stuff I play now, I can just use the mic if I have to talk to other players.

  • Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it?

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  • It's my daily driver as well, I've had both LCD and OLED, and native display is normally off for both when I'm docked to my monitor. Personal preference, I don't need the small Deck screen as a second monitor 99% of the time when I'm setting five feet (1.5m) away, and I don't like losing my mouse cursor in it.

  • Does anyone else use their steam deck as a PC? How's it?

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  • I'm one of those weirdos. It's my daily driver desktop PC.

    I ordered mine with the same intentions as everyone else in the Great Queue of 2022 and waited patiently until it arrived in June. The week before it did, my old laptop finally kicked the bucket.

    At first I intended to replace that laptop, but... I docked up the Deck and fell in love. I had already divorced Microsoft and was on Linux anyway, so it was an easy transition, and the Deck is far more capable than that old laptop was, so weirdly... it was an upgrade. More capable on daily tasks, and more portable when I had to be on the go with it. It's been a great several years, and no regrets.

  • YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users

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  • Less people watching on desktop can also track with less people actually owning desktops or using them to watch YouTube

    Not what's happening. The change can be pinpointed to an exact specific date for everyone. It's just statistically impossible to explain that away as "fewer people are watching"

  • YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users

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  • It's not related. A bunch of different content creators across a bajillion different genres have publicly shared that it's one specific type of view (desktop views) affected in their analytics (no other view type shows any statistical difference), and it's acting the same way for everyone.

    It's just not that total views are down... it's evidence that YouTube has changed the way they are counting the views of PC viewers. Why, or exactly how, no one is sure of yet (pretty sure YouTube has been silent on it and the reasons that it is happening are all speculation).

  • Baldur's Gate 3 introducing a native Steam Deck build that improves performance by reducing CPU load and memory usage

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  • I play with a controller or the Deck controls all the time, and I actually prefer the controller UI to the M&K UI; once I got used to the way everything was laid out, and how to manipulate the wheels, it just felt like a better experience to me. To answer your original question, there are no functions or information missing from the controller UI, nor is any of it particularly difficult to get to in normal play... you just have to get used to where everything is.

    They are radically different UIs though, and I wouldn't expect everyone to like them both. If you give the controller UI a solid try and it doesn't click for you, it's definitely okay.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 introducing a native Steam Deck build that improves performance by reducing CPU load and memory usage

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  • That's great and all, but it's locking up my Deck for quite a bit of time while it slowly and painfully downloads and patches.

  • What is the best advice you can give to teenagers?

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  • My advice would be to ask a variety of adults (who you know) what they wish they knew when they were in the time period of being your age through their early 20s.

    Not everything they say will be applicable to you, or will be impactful, but you're bound to pick up a few valuable insights that might give you head starts in several areas, if you implement them while very young.

    The toughest part of youth is that you can't know what you don't yet know, and any strong life lesson shared with you by someone else who endured the pain to get it, so that you don't have to, is worth its weight in gold.

  • Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320)

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  • In a specific use case: absolutely. If you want to dock it a large percentage of the time and use it as a "PC games console," plugged into power and hooked up to your TV / projector / monitor / whatever:

    1. You're not going to care about the built in screen as much
    2. You're not going to care about the lesser battery as much
    3. The huge savings over an SD OLED will help you get over the 1 or 2 FPS you'll lose in most games.

    If you're that person, you should definitely go for it. And even if you find yourself playing handheld more than you thought you would, it's still not a big deal.

  • What are your thoughts on Smart Glasses?

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  • If they addressed the privacy nightmares that they are likely to present... by not being directly connected to the internet, by using a local and contained personal AI instance, by never being able to film anything with them without it being clearly obvious to others... then I'd be excited for that kind of tech.

    But we all know that it'll turn out to be the dystopian, corporately-connected, data-leaking version of the tech that'll spread everywhere. So, I'm actually not really looking forward to it.

  • Is there a cheap phone thing that lets you use your phone like a Google Glass or AR headset or something?

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  • I mean, Google did this back in the day, does that count?

  • what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?

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  • That's extremely risky, a TON of people speak Spanish, including a bunch who you would assume did not by surface-level appearance. Your coworker got really lucky that they didn't get caught and called out.

  • what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?

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  • I'm trying to figure out why a manager would assume that people speaking in Spanish are doing it to have a nefarious, malicious secret code, when Spanish is the fourth-most widely spoken language on the planet, and is not a difficult second language for English speakers to start picking up comprehension with.

    If I wanted an evil secret code, wouldn't I pick something far more obscure?

  • Have restaurants like Taco Bell gotten crazy expensive for what you get or am I crazy?

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  • Fast food has priced itself mostly out of my household. Probably better for our health, but we spend far more time cooking now.

    Used to get it probably twice a week for convenience. Now it's down to about once or twice a month, during the handful of occasional evenings where we have absolutely zero extra time to cook.

  • Valve fixes Baldur's Gate 3 issue on Steam Deck / SteamOS

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  • This is why I always force the Windows version of stuff by using Proton on everything. I hate to say it, but the native Linux versions of a lot of games are inferior.

  • have you found a good use case for generative AI?

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  • I use it at work for stuff where it would be inefficient for me to pick up entirely new side skills to only be used rarely and sporadically.

    For example, I made a spreadsheet tool to compose ordering spreadsheets in Excel for a system at work that needs them. Most of it uses basic macros that you can record with the basic macro recorder in Excel, with no special skill required, but every now and then I need to introduce functionality into it that's far more complex.

    Instead of learning obscure VBA coding for something I do once every two months, I can just tell ChatGPT that I have spreadsheet A called this and spreadsheet B called that, assume that they are both open, and write me a macro that does A and then B and then C and then D between them.

    It does it in five seconds, I plug the code in, test it, and then go about my day. That's its positive use case for me.

  • What are you doing to protect yourself?

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  • Guns were never the problem

    Places in the world that have far less gun proliferation statistically, objectively have far less gun violence per capita, and less injury and death resulting from it.

    It's almost as if guns aren't used to hurt people as much if they aren't available to most of the population to use. Not sure what else to tell you.

  • [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - September 2025

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  • No mods or anything, if that's what you're asking. I just got proficient and practiced with quickly setting it up over multiple runs and character types. I normally use the same logic for almost every character for consistency:

    Generally wheel one is going to be standard melee and ranged attacks that all characters have. I'll also put stuff on wheel one that some characters will use as much, or more than, their standard melee or ranged weapon attacks, like their most-used ranged attack cantrip, or Booming Blade for melee characters who have that. Weapon-specific attacks (like lacerate, charge, et cetera) can go here if there's room... otherwise I'll get them onto the first wheel with open slots after this.

    Wheel two will be standard actions... stuff like toggling lethal / non lethal damage, the disengage/sprint/stealth buttons, et cetera. Class actions (eldritch knight weapon bind, hex blade warlock weapon hex, barbarian rage, et cetera) go here too.

    Wheel 3 (and 4 if needed) I primarily reserve specifically for item toggling. If you didn't know, you can shortcut equipment changes on the wheels by putting items in these quick slots, so for example: if I have the the lock-picking character using the advantage on lock-picking gloves when they open something, but a different set of gloves at all other times, then I can make a shortcut for both gloves and put them on the wheel, and switch them from there really quickly when needed, instead of digging through the character inventory screens and searching for them every time. Same goes for necklaces and rings that have a once a day effect and then you switch to something else, or that Dancing Lights necklace that you occasionally wear when you need to see something better and then afterward you put your normal necklace right back on, et cetera.

    Then the next wheels are for the spells for casters. Cantrips on the first, level one on the next, et cetera. If they don't have many total spells (like an eldritch knight or a pure melee warlock or something) I might combine a couple of levels per wheel. If they're an encyclopedia wizard with every spell known to humankind, I'll just keep filling out wheels as needed, keeping everything roughly sorted by spell level.

    Last wheels, finally, are consumables like potions, throwing items, attack items, et cetera.

    It can be a pain to organize these for a few minutes at the start of the game, or each time when you first gain a new companion, but once you have them set up, it's silky smooth from there and all your characters flow with the same logic regardless of class.

    There might also be a mod out there that helps do this, I'm not sure. I haven't seen one yet, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, there are half a bajillion mods for this game and I doubt I've seen anywhere near all of them. Hope this makes sense and helps, and have fun!

  • [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - September 2025

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  • Once I got used to sorting stuff on the wheels, controller and the controller UI became my favorite way to play the game. I use it even when docked.