NeryK

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The Sniper Elite series is basically nazi-killing porn. Those won't let you down, especially if you enjoy unplanned testicular detonations happening to nazis of any kind.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The people laid off in 2023 (no less than 16% of the company's headcount) might have opinions upon hearing that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Most GitS installments are unconnected. The only actuel sequel to the original movie is the followup movie "Innocence" which is a very different beast. You can find a complete relation graph on AniDB.

My recommendation would be to watch the "Standalone Complex" series (2 seasons + 1 special) from the early 2000's. It's top tier even though the CG does show its age. Then if you want more you could go ahead and watch the "Arise" tv show from 2015, not bad but not as good as SAC.

I would strongly advise against watching the recent Netflix-produced SAC_2045 : it's painfully bad and ugly-looking.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Epic actually financed Remedy's development of the game, as opposed to swooping in at the last minute to offer a timed-exclusivity deal. In that case I was fine buying the game on their platform if it meant the game got to exist at all. After all I do not expect Valve to sell their games on another platform than their own.

Don't get me wrong: I'd rather the game was sold on Steam, or even better, DRM-less on GOG. I did wait for a number of those timed exclusives to find their way on Steam or other stores (Borderlands 3, Kena, Journey, Control, Hades, etc). It's a shame that so many people will not get to experience AW2 because of its delivery platform, because it's a damn unique game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Il faut du matériel spécialisé pour tailler les verres (ce que vendent des fabricants comme Essilor Instruments, Nidek, Briot).

Tu peux aller chez un opticien équipé (s'il propose des "lunettes en 1h" par exemple) et lui donner ta monture. Tant que ta monture tient dans un gabarit pas trop exotique, il pourra la faire lire à un "lecteur de monture" (ce genre de machine: https://www.essilor-instruments.com/e-tess/).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Circuit Superstars runs beautifully on the deck. Do not be fooled by its top down point of view, it actually leans towards simulation rather than arcade (aka "simcade").

On the other side of that coin, BlazeRush is full on arcade mayhem. It is also top down PoV, which I find lends itself very well to portable gaming.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Looking good ! This show looks like it will be crunchy if nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's been 20ish years but the name that sprang up to mind was Now and Then, Here and There. I don't remember much except it was pretty bleak and sad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not Steam emoticons though, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Welp, it makes sense to drop it when there is this big influx of players... But yeah, as always more paid stuff brings out a lot of "discourse".

Hard pass for me due to high price and low interest this time around. I don't like weapons or stratagems being exclusive to the super store, but that will not prevent me from restoring freedom to many Voteless tonight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Guild Wars 2 has been my theme park MMORPG of choice on and off for the last 12 years, with >2500h. I have also spent ~1000h on Elite Dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Bilan de la semaine

  • 1 ou 2 missions de Helldivers 2 quotidiennes
  • 1 niveau de Trine 5
  • quelques séances de Dead Island 2 pas hyper concluantes
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Patch 01.001.104 (store.steampowered.com)
 

Only seen this happen once in my 400h of playing.

 

Cool demake concept video with very strong Metal Slug vibes (also the video ends with an ad for a new Metal Slug).

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Spear crashes hotfixed (sh.itjust.works)
 

Reportedly, in patch 01.000.403.

 

Now that my Steam Deck LCD has been relieved of his duties as a daily driver desktop PC, I finally went ahead and replaced the Delta fan with a Huaying one. It turned out to be relatively easy to do ; and lo and behold, it is indeed quieter.

Recent adopters may or may not know there was a medium-sized kerfuffle about disparities in noise profiles of early Steam Deck units. It was proved and narrowed down to a difference between 2 fan models (see Gamers Nexus detailed analysis).

Obviously the one I got was a "bad" one, emitting a high pitched noise when running at full speed. I did not find it unbearable but it was still not ideal, particularly when using the SD in quiet environments.

Took me 2 years to get to the point where I figured it was an acceptable risk to attempt the replacement. How many of you did the same and kicked the Delta out of your unit ?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

"Mars Express" est un film d'animation français de science-fiction sorti en 2023. C'est le premier du genre depuis "Kaena, la prophétie" (2001) selon son réalisateur, Jérémie Périn.

J'étais passé à côté lors de sa sortie en salle en fin d'année dernière, en raison d'une flemme caractérisée d'aller crapahuter au cinéma. Le film est maintenant disponible en streaming et j'ai pu rattraper le coup. Sans aller crier au chef d’œuvre, j'ai vraiment apprécié ce film et je le recommande vivement à tous les amateurs de SF.

Et puis, "c'est français, c'est la police française."

 

Well, shit. Unfortunate news from the Vinegar Discord: Roblox will block Wine in future releases.

This is going to end my "Steam Deck as a primary desktop PC for my kid" experiment.

 

TL;DR: watch the 2 minutes video for the fix.

Story time !

It's been a hot minute (~1year) since I needed/wanted to tinker with my Steam Deck. It's currently living its best life paired with the official dock as a desktop PC for my kid (e.g. YouTube and Roblox dedicated machine). So yeah, I went and forgot the sudo password I set back then, and I unhelpfully did not save it in Keepass or anything.

Today I put in the work to reset it... Here goes my journey.

  1. Try out every password variants of mine I can think of for 20 minutes. FAIL.
  2. Google it, stumble on some real stupid "solutions" promoted to the top of the results. FFS Google.
  3. Lots of YT videos seem to agree that recovery media is the way to go. Seems overkill. Cannot we get a root shell at startup or something ?
  4. Find an alternative method that looks suuuper risky (tinkers with the recovery partition) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYBpEysFMDM]. Nope not going to try that one.
  5. Go back to /r/SteamDeck (been a while) again the consensus is to use recovery media. Ok ok, recovery media it is !
  6. Follow instructions at https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 and make a bootable USB drive. Easy Peasy.
  7. Muck about for a while with the dock's USB ports because the drive is too large or the ports are too close together. FFS Valve.
  8. Boot successfully on the recovery media, and start the 3 commands-long procedure.
sudo ~/tools/repair_device.sh chroot
rm -f /var/lib/overlays/etc/upper/passwd
rm -f /var/lib/overlays/etc/upper/shadow
  1. First command fails, which is a shame since the others cannot work if this one does not. Fuck.
  2. Back to googling and redditing (beggars can't be choosers). Find someone with a very similar error in a quite recent post. No answers though, except one by the OP himself who says he found a way AND DOCUMENTED IT. Thank you /u/TheArtfulAardvark for proper Internet etiquette. Obligatory XKCD curse avoided.
  3. Watch the 2 minutes-long video with cautious optimism. Does not seem too hard nor risky... To good to be true
  4. Perform the procedure, goes more or less exactly as described in the video (not exactly the same version of the boot menu, but same items).
  5. Fail to return to gaming mode with CTRL-ALT-F1 for some reason, so trigger a command line reboot.
  6. Check that the parameter added to GRUB was not saved (it was not).
  7. Return to desktop mode and finally set a new password with passwd. Exhales. Thanks for the video and instructions 10 Minute Steam Deck Gamer.
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