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Latest Comments by Philadelphus
Bomber Crew is free for keeps on Steam until June 2nd
5 Jun 2022 at 6:47 pm UTC

Picked it up June 1st, I'd been aware of it but never interested in checking it out before. Can already tell I'm going to have a long history of failed missions with this game. :tongue:

Valve reveals the top 10 most played Steam Deck titles and they're all fully Verified
4 Jun 2022 at 6:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liam DaweDid an update, the top 10 list is now sorted by play-time as a Valve dev on Twitter showed it.
Ahhhh, okay, that ordering makes more sense to me now. :happy:

Valve delay the Steam Deck Docking Station
3 Jun 2022 at 1:13 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: eldakingLooking forward to throwing one of those at my friend Richard and shouting "Dick, duck the deck dock!"
May I suggest the slightly less useful but (to me at least) slightly easier to say: "Deck Dock Dick, duck!" :grin:

Valve reveals the top 10 most played Steam Deck titles and they're all fully Verified
3 Jun 2022 at 12:59 am UTC Likes: 3

As for what's popular based on user play-time, over the last month these were the most popular on Steam Deck:

• Aperture Desk Job
Wha…how? Isn't that like half an hour long or something? Does it have some serious replayability I haven't heard of? Are there a whole ton of Deck owners who have fired it up, played ADJ, and then nothing else, to skew the statistics? Like, nothing against the game (I haven't played it), but I honestly don't understand how that's most popular based on user play-time.

Though I guess if everyone plays it for half an hour it's still as popular as a game that half of Deck owners play for one hour, or a quarter for two hours, and so on… :dizzy: I suppose that says something about the diversity of games enjoyed on the Deck. :smile:

Bee management game Hive Time gets a sweet update
25 May 2022 at 6:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

Aww, who could say no to that happy face? :grin:

Bee management game Hive Time gets a sweet update
24 May 2022 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBug fixes, huh?
Yeah, gotta keep all those Hemiptera [External Link] away from our Hymenoptera [External Link]! :tongue:

Looks like iFixit have Steam Deck parts available now (Update: it's gone)
21 May 2022 at 6:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: BlackBloodRumCan't even get the steam deck itself yet (ordered 17th july) let alone parts for it :cry:

On the plus side, if they do enough parts I might be able to build my own without needing to wait for valve's less than 1 minute since launch a week's worth of pre-orders sent schedule for UK? :woot:

(for reference, valve, per week are shipping on average 20-60 seconds worth of orders for UK each week - at the rate valve are shipping I'll get mine by early 2023, or mid 2023 by my calculations based on 1 minute's worth of orders per week, despite them claiming I'm in Q3, I'm just waiting for the next delayed announcement.)
That was my thought as another Q3-gang member: if all the parts go up in the next three months, I could just buy and build my own faster. :tongue:

Just gotta hope Valves continues to manage to ramp up production rates, I suppose.

Vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.2 is officially out now
19 May 2022 at 7:00 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubiDid you give the official AppImage from the Inkscape download page [External Link] a go yet? I only started it but it seems to work just fine.

I've used Inkscape as long as it's been around, and Sodipodi before that. It may not be perfect, but it's still my favourite vector graphics editor. 🎔
No, but I managed to get my Flatpak errors worked out and have 1.2 now. Now I just need to come up with a little project to try out the new features. :smile:

Vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.2 is officially out now
18 May 2022 at 6:20 pm UTC Likes: 4

Well, I've been using it for various projects for over a decade at this point, and I'm really excited about some of these changes. They sound pretty incredible. Unfortunately Flatpak, though saying it has Inkscape-related updates, is throwing cryptic errors at the moment so I can't try it yet…

This Steam Deck Durability Test had me watching in horror
17 May 2022 at 6:54 pm UTC Likes: 3

Just that thumbnail has me wincing—since I don't feel like watching the video, anyone want to spoil it: is the upgraded glass worth it?