Are using Decky loader? The ProtonDB badges plugin is great for this!

Battlefront 2 - unsupported officially, but actually plays fine with no tweaking and gets a gold badge on protonDB.

Having the plugin shows the good badge on the games store and installed page

Here you go (online emulator): https://www.retrogames.cz/play_716-Atari2600.php

Yep - ‘open with m365 copilot’ has such a ring to it. Why they threw out their decades recognisable office branding is beyond me

Windows is better - they wouldn’t use it for atm’s if it wasn’t superior

That is nice! LG just did it differently - it didn’t just feel like a rectangular slab. Plus I never put a case on it with a back like that.

That picture brings back memories - such a nice phone

Yeah I was going to say I order from inkstation (Australia) and have never had an issue with third party toner or drums. And they’re a quarter of the price of an original!

Excel

That and the Prometheans were just so unsatisfying as enemies.

The teleporting away (and appearing randomly), how you didn’t seem to visibly hurt them / bullet sponge, disappearing on death etc all contributed to it feeling like a chore to off them.

5 was a bit better but still nowhere near the fun of 1-3/reach/odst

I do like that you can keep the stats of gear you’re wearing but change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before. Nice to actually be able to look good and have good gear.

One thing I’ve done is turn off the Minimap. It’s made it more interesting - I actually pay attention to the landscape details and the golden path thing is actually useful. Just wish you could keep a compass visible.

I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.

Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.

I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.

Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.

Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.

Interestingly in Ukraine they are beginning to use drones with huge spools of fibre optic cable to transmit control and video signals. They’re doing this because of the jamming.

Could it have something to do with how long the US election cycle is? It seems that basically the whole term is full campaign mode for the next election.

Compare to other countries with much shorter official election campaigns (4-6 weeks) and I wonder if they are less tiring.

Rockmelon?

Porque no los dos?

I love that there’s a relevant Posy video that is only 22hrs old

Vista wasn’t that bad. The dodgy selling it on computers that couldn’t handle it was an issue (much like they still do with selling laptops with only 32gb storage).

I still think it was one of the nicest looking - black taskbar with the start button sticking up, sidebar widgets, aero glass etc

Why was it seen as a misstep?
I have memories of ramps, black z cars and a hotdog mission…

I think so, it doesn’t look like any device from here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA).

The logo is from the first palms, but it’s way too curvy

I’d recommend reading this article that was linked in the AP article which has more details about the sentence and following appeals:
https://apnews.com/article/morgan-geyser-slender-man-stabbing-release-petition-09a2537704c926675c39349a45f9bfde