GIMP is a very powerful and important piece of software that I wish they weren’t so obstinate about giving the worst name ever. I know it’s just an acronym, but it is in effect the name of the project. I’ve taken to calling it GNU IMP instead.

Sometimes it’s both!

The best thing about being an OG Steam controller enjoyer is if the new one sucks I still got my baby.

I’ve definitely thought about it. What do you use?

Software exists to de-couple the original Steam controller from Steam itself, and under the hood it was just another xinput device with trackpads and gyro slapped on so if you plugged it in it was a mouse and a (bad) Xbox controller. It will likely be the same case for this one. It is true that you won’t be able to remap anything or adjust sensitivities without a software layer. It does not have to be Steam.

Genuinely pretty cool stuff, and I don’t like to compliment Valve very often. I knew another Steam controller would look like this, it was a no-brainer with the Steam Deck. I really enjoyed the first one, as someone with very bad nerve issues with my hands it was (still is?) the most ergonomic non-split controller, so I hope they’ve kept that sensibility with this one since the Deck itself is kind of a nightmare on my hands for long-term use. I guess we’ll see. I hope you can use the split VR controllers with non-VR games. Their promotional video made it sound like you could, but I’ve never used the Valve Index so maybe that’s always been supported. I think it’s really funny they’ve brought back ‘Steam Machines’, that thing they tried back in 2012 or whatever and it totally flopped, but it’s not going to flop now because computer software sucks so much and Linux is eating everyone’s lunch.

This is correct, and I would add Dwarf Fortress to this category too.

I’ve been told gaming “has never been better.” Well, suit yourself, I’ve got a thousand-game PS2 library to go through.

For the record, I’m aware that this is not your quote. I am adressing a rhetorical “you” in my message. However, I’ll use the more direct you now. You asked for discussion about the quotes you posted, and I gave it to you. I am not sure what’s weaponized about my sincerity but it is, indeed, quite sincere.

Incredibly bad take. How one can look at the global negligence of COVID prevention, which I remind is a novel, highly-transmissible neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure, and conclude that it is actually bizarre and antisocial to care about it, that it is playing into conservative ideology to have trust issues from the immense trauma of navigating said global negligence as one cares about it, is beyond me. I treat people who are not doing anything to prevent the spread of COVID as a threat because they are. As it turns out, that’s a majority of the world population right now. We are all living the “if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?” scenario in real-time. Don’t blame me for not jumping with you.

No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.

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