The highlight of my morning so far was discovering a creator who makes felted nudibranchs [External Link] (including my favorite species!), so I'm definitely picking this up when I can afford it. 😃

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In addition a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events.

Can't wait to see what wild and wacky race courses people create using this feature. 😆

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Just used mine to play a pass-'n'-play game of Terraforming Mars Sunday night at the Keck Observatory HQ during an observing run, while waiting (fruitlessly) for the weather to clear up enough for the telescope to open. 😄 I'm still more of a desktop player overall, but for certain situations I wouldn't give my Deck up for anything. (Now if only I could go back in time and give it to my 10-year-old self…)

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Slay the Spire co-op is so much fun. I've played a ton of it with mods in the original, and I have the board game version where it's the main focus. Glad to see they went with it in the sequel as the natural development from the original game.

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So like a first-person mashup of Magicka and Noita, huh? Sounds hilarious. I'm just not a big fan of the art style.

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Quoting: ben-greenLOL.

I use middle click copy to the already open terminal, so it's one click to copy, then press return. Does that count as one click or do I get marks off for using one keyboard key?

That would have been smarter. 🤣 But also you can press Enter/Return on a virtual keyboard! (Something I only realized as I was writing the post.)

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Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: pbyay -S prefixer *is* a couple of clicks ;p

Huhh dat a termnial command so no its not jus clicks

Why, 'tis a mere nineteen clicks to enter it with a virtual keyboard! Not a single key-stroke necessary! 😉

(Unless, does yay require sudo? Then it'd be more… 🤔)

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Quoting: dpanterOverwatch Overwatch 2 Overwatch 3 Overwatch surely is one of the games of all time. 🍌

Wait, so Blizzard can't count to 3 either? 🤔

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Oh man, multi-stage rockets Besiege-style is going to be amazing (and very shades-of-KSP, I suspect). Can't wait for the new "I built one machine to solve every single level in Besiege" videos to come out. 🙂

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• Foveated rendering uses eye tracking data so the game only renders high resolution data in the portion of the viewport that the player is looking at.
• Foveated streaming, on the other hand, uses eye tracking data so that the PC only streams high resolution data in the portion of the viewport the player is looking at.

I must be misunderstanding this, because I don't really see much benefit from foveated streaming. Foveated rendering makes sense; the game can selectively render a small area in higher detail and save compute power for the rest of the frame that's not in the user's central vision (thus allowing potentially higher framerates). For foveated streaming, it sounds like the PC still has to render the entire frame in high resolution, only for a bunch of that data to be lossily dropped in the streaming process. (This seems to be the only way it could be a "system-level feature" that "applies to all games".) I get that that has the benefit of lowering the amount of data streamed, but that doesn't seem like a particularly large benefit for a device that will likely be kept in close proximity to its broadcasting station; it might marginally improve battery life or provide redundancy in electronically-noisy environments, but as far as I can tell it neither improves the image the user sees nor reduces the amount of computing power the GPU needs. What am I missing here? 🤔

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