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Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.

My mastodon account: @tuckermMy blog: https://tuckerm.us

  • HORI announced a special gamepad for Steam / Steam Deck [classic "Xbox layout"]

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  • Yeah, it definitely needs trackpads that are easy to reach in order to be a Steam Deck controller. (And I'm saying "easy to each" because the awkwardly placed Playstation touchpad doesn't count.)

    I'm curious about this part, though:

    Gyro in the "Steam mode". With the sticks having a touch sensor too.

    That sounds like an advantage over a Playstation or Switch controller. I'm guessing that means you could enable the gyro just by touching the analog stick, without having to press a button. That's like what most people did on the Steam controller, where the gyro would enable when you touched the trackpad.

  • Play Your Way – enjoy your GOG games with Luna cloud streaming

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  • I'm guessing GP was referring to the fact that the DRM-free download store is partnering with a "you don't actually own this" streaming service. As long as it's optional, I don't have an issue with it, and the word ironic doesn't necessarily imply that its a negative.

  • Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code

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  • Very cool. I'm also really curious about how the author ended up looking at Blazblue when working on this, haha.

  • YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

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  • This may not work out the way I want it to, but I'm actually a little excited about these tech companies making a bunch of anti-consumer decisions all at once. So many mainstream users will be looking for alternatives, and it's going to provide a great opportunity for non-profit open source projects. It's already happening with the fediverse suddenly becoming a viable place for discussion in the last 1.5 years. After Windows Recall was announced, I've seen more people talking about switching to Linux than ever before. Part of me can't wait for unskippable Youtube ads.

  • METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER - Official Trailer #1

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  • That's Metal Gear Solid Y for those who are more familiar with the Xbox layout.

  • Anyone notice the PS1 and Dreamcast are designed similarly in a way?

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  • This post made me realize just how few consoles had a CD flap. Is it just the Playstation, Dreamcast, Saturn, and Gamecube? Kind of weird how that was the default for CD players pretty much forever, but not many consoles went with that. PS2, Xbox, and everything after those had some kind of tray or slot. Maybe it was because they could visually stand apart from their competitors more that way.

  • What was announced at Summer Games Fest that you are most excited for?

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  • I've never been excited for DLC before, but Street Fighter 6 adding Terry and Mai, from King of Fighters, was very unexpected. I think that was my favorite.

    I've been playing Capcom vs. SNK 2 whenver I have a few minutes to spare these days: https://saltylike.us/@tuckerm/112482256002789207.

  • Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

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  • Bleh, I really hate to side with Google, especially when releasing this documentation benefits users and hiding it benefits Google.

    But it seems weird for this new license to be legally binding. If someone committed this to the wrong repo, and that person didn't have legal authority over the original content, then how can they have legally relicensed it?

  • God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC

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  • Aw, I was looking forward to this one. But also, meh, my unplayed backlog is huge.

    I'm gonna put on my casual-observer-business-analyst hat real quick: it seems weird that Sony is making so many decisions that they know will piss off customers with their brand lately. Microsoft has been striking out hard with underwhelming exclusives, whereas at least Sony has had a few hits. Sony could take advantage of that and use this generation to crush the Xbox brand pretty hard. The payoff would be huge later on.

    Business execs always fancy themselves as military generals; I'm sure they've heard that Napoleon quote, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Instead, they seem to be taking advantage of Microsoft's blunders to just knowingly make their own blunders.

    Like, even from a cutthroat business exec mindset, there is a profit-motivated reason to just chill out with the anti-consumer stuff right now. Your biggest competitor has been absolutely unloading a clip into their own foot for like two years. Quit drawing attention to yourself.

  • German parliament will stop using fax machines

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  • I think the the previous post was sarcasm. :)

  • New open source Bandcamp alternative "Mirlo" is a worker co-op!

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  • One in 10 Republicans less likely to vote for Trump after guilty verdict, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

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  • From the article, emphasis mine:

    also found that 56% of Republican registered voters said the case would have no effect on their vote and 35% said they were more likely to support Trump

    Far more of them like that he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about the fact that he cheated on his wife.

  • A good leader always farts first 💨

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  • I was expecting the twist to be that fart was an acronym. Like:

    Fess upAdmit mistakesReassess directionTime-bound

    A good leader is willing to have a F.A.R.T. discussion.

  • TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 revealed for high performance in a small package

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  • Their Infinitybook models -- both the 14 and 16 inch -- disappeared from their site recently. It was their slim, lightweight model, and I thought that was their flagship computer, too. I'm wondering if the Stellaris Slim is the new Infinitybook, or if there's a new Infinitybook coming that they haven't announced yet.

  • Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day

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  • I'm so glad I bought this in a store back when PC games were still available in physical releases. Even though I'm pretty sure this one was just a Steam installer on a CD, I love having an actual copy of The Orange Box on my shelf.

  • Privacy@Lemmy.ml: How can I make email sub-addresses with only letters or numbers and no special characters like plus?

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  • Unfortunately, this seems to be the only option, besides using your own domain so that you control forwarding yourself. Basically, pay someone like Firefox Relay to do forwarding, or do your own forwarding. Firefox Relay does give you five email addresses for free, which is cool. (https://relay.firefox.com/#pricing)

    I've noticed that the "+" sign trick with Gmail just doesn't work at all anymore. Anyone that wants to maliciously send you emails knows to remove what comes after the + sign, so that you can't tell which of your sub-addresses was originally used. And anyone that hacks a database to steal email addresses knows to remove it as well, to cover their tracks.

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    Texas judge reprimanded after telling jury that God told him sex trafficking suspect was innocent

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  • Note that this was a few years ago -- I searched for the judge's name, and it looks like he has since retired.

    It's always frustrating that these stories usually end with someone receiving a written warning, rather than being removed from their position due to the fact that they are obviously unqualified for it.

  • Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government

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  • I know that Telegram has a lot of users, so I'm not describing all of them here. But I've noticed that it seems especially popular among people who kind of like to "play pretend" as underground hackers. You know, the kind of person who likes to imagine that the government would be after them.

    This mudslinging feels like more of a marketing campaign than anything else. An info op that will work well on the Telegram users who like to imagine that they have outmaneuvered all the info ops.

  • Rule

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  • Man, I'm hoping for a reintroduction of this character in Street Fighter 6. Twelve had so many unique properties that other SF characters have never had, like an air dash, and the fact that his forward walk simply went underneath projectiles. They just made him do no damage for some reason.

    All of the SF6 rebooted characters have been great so far.

  • 8bitdo made a Commodore 64 variant of their keyboard

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  • Nice, it's good to know that the software being Windows-only isn't a dealbreaker for keyboards.