…but they were talking about it in response to a comment about frame-gen

I’m just calling out the drift in the meaning of the comment chain. The entropic drift, if you will.

Antialiasing and upscaling are fundamentally different tech than frame generation

Vortex is (going to be?) open source, for what it’s worth. Still dependent on Nexus tho. We need a “Lutris for mods” with community sourced scripts

Hell, there’s gaming oriented mini PCs that are 1/2-1/3 the size of a PS5 Slim, with double the performance…

Sure, for triple the price. Steam Machine’s draw here is that it will likely be around PS5, possibly PS5 Pro level performance for around the same price (they said entry level gaming PC, so I’m guessing base price around 600).

Also, kudos for GabeCube, perfect nickname

In general I turn to Anker or Belkin for power banks, just make sure it can provide at least 25W of power.

Using a battery pack while playing is no worse than playing while plugged into any other charger, unless you’ve got the battery pack mounted to the deck itself, in which case you’d be adding heat. Personally I just keep a 10000mAh battery in my backpack on flights and run a USB-C cable from it to my deck. When the battery runs out, the deck stops charging so I unplug it. Simple as that. When able to plug in directly at an airport or via the plug between seats, I plug in the big battery and unplug it from the deck.

Make sure you have a fast charger so you can get the most out of short stops to top off the big battery.

Recently it’s been AutoRogue

Ah, and before I forget: yes you can modify the controller layout for non-steam games, as long as you launch them via Steam’s UI. Otherwise you’ll have to modify the desktop layout and launch it from desktop mode.

Regarding Steam Deck compatibility, it’s generally best to look the game up on ProtonDB, since this includes both official status and crowd-sourced reviews.

Per this page:

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/discussions/2728

GoG achievements are supported in Heroic, but you need to enable the setting, see the developer’s comment from 2024 towards the bottom of that page.

Some users said it doesn’t show the achievement unlocked display in the game but it shows the achievements on your GoG profile.

Yep, monopolies are bad, mkay

Yep, exactly this. He’d rather destroy the entire country than lose power, in part because as soon as he loses power he’s likely going to prison for the rest of his life.

Lawful Evil to a T.

Doesn’t count as bad as long as it’s recognized by the government as legitimate.

FYI, it would almost certainly cause no damage. 91% isopropyl alcohol evaporates extremely fast and with no electricity flowing it couldn’t short anything.

DXVK is not “Proton’s fixes”. It exists as a separate entity whose development Valve has helped fund and who Valve devs have directly contributed to.

Proton’s fixes are out-of-tree tweaks to DXVK, Wine and VKD3D that, put together, make games work much more seamlessly and smoothly than they otherwise would.

I used to use Lutris, but I found Heroic more consistent and convenient for filling the same purpose. It’s quite good at downloading just the diff needed for GoG game updates these days, for instance, which is key for big games like Baldur’s Gate 3.

He absolutely is giving away money. Absurd amounts of money.

Agreed. Proton is important as a bit of an “iPhone moment” where all this tech comes together in a way where non-techies “get it” in the sense where they understand why it’s useful, even if they’ll never bother to learn the details of why or how.

Proton is Wine plus DXVK and VKD3D, as well as a big pile of little tweaks and out of tree changes that Valve maintains to specifically maximize game compatibility and performance.

Proton uses Wine, which is a Windows system call API translation layer for Linux. In other words, it translates commands for the Windows kernel into calls for the Linux kernel.

So it’s kind of an emulator and kind of not, but regardless the metaphor of a translator is fine. As a lightweight translator, you might say it’s like using Google Translate on your phone to translate back and forth quickly and automatically, rather than having a person in the middle who needs to think about it.