I'm waiting for Borderlands 3 patches, eagerly, so I can play multi-player online. Maybe Borderlands 2 patches as well. I tried to play online with my brother-in-law for the first time since I'd installed BL3, and it wouldn't connect for the first time ever.

Of course, it mightn't be an issue if Aspyr got off their Asspyr and patched Borderlands 2 already.

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Quoting: NanobangIf System 76 want to make something, start making Steam style controllers so I can shake this sense of hopelessness and loss I've had since Valve announced they were discontinuing theirs. :wink:

I hadn't heard that. That's too bad. I think the Steam Controller is the best gamepad ever made.

I'm sorry to have been the one to break the sad news to you then. Yeah, Valve sold the last of them out for $5 during their Autumn sale. There's a lovely write-up at the Verge [External Link] about the controller's passing. I've got three of them, and I'm still using the first one I bought back in '14, so I expect that I'm set for ... well, a good while.

I think the Steam Controller is like Linux itself: clearly superior, but, because it requires the user tinker and think now and then, puts it out of realm of interest for the mass of humanity living comfortably in the middle of the Bell curve.

I'm going to help derail slightly, but only because it's relevant to the whole one size does not fit all...

Personally, I don't like the steam controller. Badly shaped for my hands, feels like poor construction quality, and needs additional userspace utilities to use it (unlike my other controllers).
I much prefer the Logitech F710.

Which then makes me wonder about peripherals like a keyboard, mouse, controller - maybe the way to go is 3D printing. Easy assembled devices that can have some of the externals customised further than they are now. I know mechanical keyboards make this easy to switch around the keys, but I sometimes get the feeling it could go further with the right engineering behind it. One can dream I suppose.

Absolutely one size doesn't fit all, nor is the necessity for user setup something everyone is gonna dig. I guess those are things I meant when I compared the Steam Controller to Linux.

Your point about how the SC is badly shaped for your hands is a common complaint though. The SC is a bit large for the smaller-handed members of humanity. I will contend that it does require a bit of adjustment for anyone coming from the PS/XB etc. type of controllers for anyone whose hands aren't too small.

The whole "it feels cheap" complaint is exceedingly common among reviewers of the SC. I myself had a moment of disappointment when I first clicked one of the pads and heard its plastic-y "clack" sound. But this is an issue of personal aesthetics that in no real way reflects the quality or utility of the controller itself, and I quickly moved past it.

I hear a lot of good things about the F710 conroller, and I know a lot of people dig it deeply. Of course the Steam Controller is still the best controller ever made ... :P

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Quoting: AciDIt's weird nobody mentioned the awesome Typematrix keyboard, and its Dvorak layout:

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I've been using this one for about 16 years now, and I can only recommend it.
The vertical columns and middle enter key are a must-have (http://typematrix.com/2030/why.php), among other nice features.

My only wish would be that a laptop vendor integrated such keyboard directly. That would be a dream come true!

Here are other variants, like the Qwerty one:

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...and the pure blank one (which is pretty handy when combined with translucent skins):

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Quoting: NanobangAfter 4 decades of touch-typing on QWERTY keyboards I'll never be able to type on anything else. I'll certainly never be able to type on anything as singularly arranged as the System 76 keyboard shown above.

Well, I can tell you that the brain is a marvelous machine, since I already touch-typed on Azerty before, and while it took me about 3 months to regain (and surpass) my previous wpm speed on the Dvorak layout, this absolutely does not mean you forget how to touch-type with your previous layout.
This only happens with Homer Simpson ;)
When you learn to drive, do you forget how to ride a bike ? Well same thing with keyboard layouts !

It certainly looks interesting (though, again, I'd want to try the QWERTY layout one :P). I'm aware that the reason for the offset keys of the traditional keyboard have to do with the natural angle of fingers above the keys, so I'm curious about how it would feel to type with the grid of the Typematrix unit.

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Quoting: NanobangIf System 76 want to make something, start making Steam style controllers so I can shake this sense of hopelessness and loss I've had since Valve announced they were discontinuing theirs. :wink:

I hadn't heard that. That's too bad. I think the Steam Controller is the best gamepad ever made.

I'm sorry to have been the one to break the sad news to you then. Yeah, Valve sold the last of them out for $5 during their Autumn sale. There's a lovely write-up at the Verge [External Link] about the controller's passing. I've got three of them, and I'm still using the first one I bought back in '14, so I expect that I'm set for ... well, a good while.

I think the Steam Controller is like Linux itself: clearly superior, but, because it requires the user tinker and think now and then, puts it out of realm of interest for the mass of humanity living comfortably in the middle of the Bell curve.

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Born into the age of typewriters, I took typing as a junior in high school to prepare myself for using the Vic-20 I was saving up for.

After 4 decades of touch-typing on QWERTY keyboards I'll never be able to type on anything else. I'll certainly never be able to type on anything as singularly arranged as the System 76 keyboard shown above.

In fact, the one and only thing I'd change about almost every keyboard available today is to worldwide and forever replace the crap "US" style ENTER key with the eminently practical "British" style one:



If System 76 want to make something, start making Steam style controllers so I can shake this sense of hopelessness and loss I've had since Valve announced they were discontinuing theirs. :wink:

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I own it, but haven't yet played it. I will say to anyone interested in this game, give Party Hard a look-see as well. A bit more fluid and bloody, it is nonetheless a puzzle game at heart, trying to kill as many partygoers as you can in an increasingly elaborate set of parties. It's available on Steam [External Link] and Humble [External Link].

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Kotaku [External Link], reporting on a Business Insider [External Link] article, recently reported that Indie devs are largely avoiding Stadia owing to concern for Google's long term commitment to the platform and lack of any real financial incentive.

Personally, I'm all but convinced that Stadia is going to end up on the Google junk heap with all of Google's other "exciting new" gewgaws and whatsits of yesteryear.

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Ooooo! JC3 is playable now? That was the last game I played on my Windows Box, back when it was first released. I stopped playing pretty early on simply because I got tired of dealing with Windows. It might be time to install JC3 on my Linux box and continue the mayem!

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Puts me in mind of Crush, Crumble, and Chomp!, one of my fave games on the VIC-20. Though the carnage might be more appealing to me with larger dollops of blood and guts and fiery explosions, it certainly looks cheap enough to risk a few bucks on. Wishlisted!


(Lol, first time I've seen "Linux Manjaro (Arch) 64bits Xfce" as the recommended setting for a game. Nice!)

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Quoting: Tchey... i hate QTE scenes ...

I know, right? I stopped playing Tomb Raider because at least half of it was just one QTE after another. Come to think of it, that's why I never finished the final boss battle in Turok 2 on X360, just an interminable QTE. I don't remember them from Farcry 3, so I must have blocked them out.

Anyway, all this is just to say: I feelz ya, compadre.

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