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  • I typed out a huge reply complaining about Razer and then deleted it and tried another, shorter, reply which I also deleted and tried walking away from this thread. To make it briefest, don’t buy Razer. They don’t support Linux. Their windows software sucks a ton anyway.

    I’ve used my Razer hardware with the Steam Deck and Dock like a sort-of laptop and it all works out of the box but LEDs sit on demo mode since there is no software to change them. You can’t change anything in fact so any macro keys are useless too. The selling point for me was customizability which isn’t there on Linux. Don’t quote me on that I know how absolutely stupid it sounds in any other context.

    I bought all my Razer peripherals before they even announced the Steam Deck. The software has gotten worse and a newer version bricks a gamepad I like to use as a media controller from the couch. If I had to replace anything I would definitely go with any other brand now. I don’t see that happening any time soon though because the Deck does most if not all of the work in games now.

    Sorry about having no recommendations in this reply. I have a bone to pick with Razer today. Synapse shit the bed mid episode last night and my media controller gamepad bricked out for a few hours. I recommend staying away from Razer for your sanity. Also don’t waste money on features not accessible on Linux.

    My neighbor growing up who still lives with his parents and doesn’t drive has all his rent and car money spent on his computer. I have his old graphics card and it doesn’t struggle with anything I throw at it. I think he uses Steelseries. I trust his judgement more than mine. Steelseries probably holds up to a lot of wear and tear or else the guy wouldn’t be wearing them out and getting new ones.



  • In the wake of the API shit I would use the report function for basically everything via browser. It was the easiest way to block a user and waste effort for the mods who stuck around all in one go. Never really posted or commented so I didn’t catch a ban that way.

    And by everything I mean I had a short fuse. Bad grammar, saw the post twice, the post or reply is just too “reddit”, the post didn’t bitch about the API thing enough, accidentally clicked on it, saw the post twice, user beat me to the punch with a joke worse than mine, sometimes I wouldn’t even read posts and just start smashing that report button.

    My understanding is that moderation tools were also fucked over like the apps we loved. So to me it was a good way to kick em while they were down and make them get familiar with the shitty interface to do their volunteer moderation for free.

    Without fail I would report admin and mod comments. That’s probably what got the bans for the first few accounts. Eventually I got browser fingerprint banned and found my way here.

    I joined after finding a good username/avatar combo






    1. It showed up one day in your apple library
    2. You couldn’t delete or remove it
    3. The band’s stupid name stood out in any library due to it being short
    4. At the time you couldn’t get rid of the album. It sat there eating up memory space and the best you could do was disable the album from playing in shuffle.
    5. Thank you OP for reminding me about this. It took over a decade but I finally got that album out of a now empty music library on a device that sat unused in a drawer. At some point between then and now deleting the album from your library became easy. Back in the drawer it goes.







  • Widdershins@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldGaming Pet Peeves
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    2 months ago

    I want to GIT GUD but I’m not the kind of person who can dodge and parry while managing a stamina bar. ER and DS games look awesome but I really can’t do much sightseeing in them. I tried Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 3, and Elden Ring and in all of them I hit a wall against the first miniboss who I should be learning to parry on. I’ve always leaned toward dodging taking priority before parrying and a stamina bar limits that.

    I recently played through Ghost of Tsushima and parried a thousand cuts. The game doesn’t have stamina though. I understand stamina as a game mechanic but find all it adds is tedium. There’s what I believe to be some good games hiding behind a stamina bar. I can enjoy the games until the stamina bar runs out and then I’ll be thinking about enjoying a different game.