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I Blame the [Steam] Thread

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Yeah, that's about it. The selfie camera bugs me a bit, and there's no zoom in/out feature when not in selfie mode, so I haven't taken a lot of pics. It really needs a better photomode!

    It really does. I like that characters start to pose, but man, it's sooo barebones

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Yeah, that's about it. The selfie camera bugs me a bit, and there's no zoom in/out feature when not in selfie mode, so I haven't taken a lot of pics. It really needs a better photomode!

    It really does. I like that characters start to pose, but man, it's sooo barebones

    And they don't stand still so if you see the expression and pose you like you have to wait for them to repeat it and be quick on the "take picture" button.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    And if you take a full body picture, your character just stands there. Not very exciting

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Clearly the frank west games had it right

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Clearly the frank west games had it right

    Right! Let me take sexy shots of Minnie!

    I mean uhhh-

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Already some pretty impressive custom designs out there

    https://www.reddit.com/gallery/x9wyzq

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    SanderJK wrote: »
    I think BL3 had 2 season passes, and this version only has the first one.

    That's okay. The second one is not good.

    Designer's Cut add Arms Race which is a weird sort-of Battle Royale thing and a new skill tree for the existing classes, and Director's Cut has a few short side missions and a raid boss. You're just fine to get the first pass which is a pretty good collection of DLC campaigns: the Cthulu one and the Western one are stand-outs for me while the casino one is merely OK and the Krieg one was lacking (but I never really liked Krieg so your mileage may vary there).

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    NEW FIT NEW FIT NEW FIT
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  • akjakakjak Thera Spooky GymRegistered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I think my 6-year old daughter would love Animal Crossing or the Disney game, but there's a lot of reading and she's still learning. That means I get to hear, "Daddy, what is he saying?" every few minutes while I'm trying to work.

    When I was trying to encourage my then-6yo to read more, I bribed him with his own Dragon Quest Builders 2 save, and told him I wasn’t gonna read any of it to him. Hah. It pretty much worked (I read a few tough words for him).

    The Disney game has some reading, but I wouldn’t call it essential at all, and I think you might even be able to get full voice-over

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    edited September 2022
    The Disney game has a bunch of dialogue in the quests which you have to complete though

    e: 40,000 gold for a Cinderella dress? Are you kidding me, game?

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Yeah, no voice-over in Disney. The characters say a few random lines/greetings, but otherwise everything is text, from quests to tutorials.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    e: 40,000 gold for a Cinderella dress? Are you kidding me, game?

    Gotta grind more Heartless. There's a good spot in Pride Rock.

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Donnicton wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    e: 40,000 gold for a Cinderella dress? Are you kidding me, game?

    Gotta grind more Heartless. There's a good spot in Pride Rock.

    Would if I could! You can only cook and sell so many soufflés before you lose your mind

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    @Pixelated Pixie I found out that you can rotate and zoom the camera in photo mode the same way you would while placing furniture (thus the two pics I posted above)

    it's not much, but at least you can fit your whole character in the frame and show off outfits

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Donnicton wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    e: 40,000 gold for a Cinderella dress? Are you kidding me, game?

    Gotta grind more Heartless. There's a good spot in Pride Rock.

    Would if I could! You can only cook and sell so many soufflés before you lose your mind

    How about papier-mache, pottery and candle-making?
    hmm, maybe you aren't ready to hang with Rapunzel after all...

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Donnicton wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    e: 40,000 gold for a Cinderella dress? Are you kidding me, game?

    Gotta grind more Heartless. There's a good spot in Pride Rock.

    Would if I could! You can only cook and sell so many soufflés before you lose your mind

    How about papier-mache, pottery and candle-making?
    hmm, maybe you aren't ready to hang with Rapunzel after all...

    YOU TAKE THAT BACK

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    @Pixelated Pixie I found out that you can rotate and zoom the camera in photo mode the same way you would while placing furniture (thus the two pics I posted above)

    it's not much, but at least you can fit your whole character in the frame and show off outfits

    ...

    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    I will say I am enjoying dreamlight valley but fuuuuck is it buggy. Early access and all that but currently I have two relationship quests bugged out to be incompletable. which is kind of annoying since one of them requires items that I am now unable to remove from my inventory at all.

    When inventory space is like hell limited.

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    @Pixelated Pixie I found out that you can rotate and zoom the camera in photo mode the same way you would while placing furniture (thus the two pics I posted above)

    it's not much, but at least you can fit your whole character in the frame and show off outfits

    ...

    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

    I lied. It didn't change anything. I was already doing that. I thought you'd found some other new camera trickery.

    Oh well, still freaking loving this game. <3

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Gonna stream some more FF3 in about 30 minutes.

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    @Pixelated Pixie I found out that you can rotate and zoom the camera in photo mode the same way you would while placing furniture (thus the two pics I posted above)

    it's not much, but at least you can fit your whole character in the frame and show off outfits

    ...

    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

    I lied. It didn't change anything. I was already doing that. I thought you'd found some other new camera trickery.

    Oh well, still freaking loving this game. <3

    Welp. It was new to me, because the goddamn game does not tell you that you can orbit the camera around and zoom in etc -.-

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    I bought a recent Humble Bundle and have several games to give away. What's the best way to do that? Reveal all the codes myself, and put them in codes tags? Hold a SteamGifts contest first, then send the codes out by PMs? or by Humble's own native "Gift to a Friend" option? Please advise.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I bought a recent Humble Bundle and have several games to give away. What's the best way to do that? Reveal all the codes myself, and put them in codes tags? Hold a SteamGifts contest first, then send the codes out by PMs? or by Humble's own native "Gift to a Friend" option? Please advise.

    Steamgifts handles everything if you put the codes where they ask.

    This involves pulling each code individually from humble bundle

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  • HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    edited September 2022
    I bought a recent Humble Bundle and have several games to give away. What's the best way to do that? Reveal all the codes myself, and put them in codes tags? Hold a SteamGifts contest first, then send the codes out by PMs? or by Humble's own native "Gift to a Friend" option? Please advise.
    The codes tag was bugged some time ago and sometimes it would not show the option to redeem the key (1, 2). Not sure if they already corrected it.
    Appart from that, I would say that any option that avoids posting the game key or the HB "gift to a friend" link directly (in order to avoid that a bot grabbs it) is a good option. Some of those you already mentioned:
    • Steamgifts giveaway (safest option since it automatically checks that the recipient redeems the key into their account)
    • Forum PM
    • Posting the key but with some characters missing/changed along with the instructions on how to correct them (less safe than the previous two but I tend to do it this way because I'm a lazy ass).
    Also, if you are gifting to random people and you are not using Steamgifts specifically, it is generally safer to use game keys instead of gift links.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Remember to set a minimum level as well to filter out the chaff

  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Scrooge McDuck had two items of a set for sale: a tux and a gown. Bought the tux, because ladies in tuxes look rad, but uh
    tux = 1,000 gold
    gown = 40,000 gold


    what is going on

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited September 2022
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Scrooge McDuck had two items of a set for sale: a tux and a gown. Bought the tux, because ladies in tuxes look rad, but uh
    tux = 1,000 gold
    gown = 40,000 gold


    what is going on

    Disney is utterly shameless with the "girl tax." One of my sons really wanted a Minnie Mouse tricycle back in his Mickey Mouse Clubhouse phase, and he got the Mickey one not because "that's for girls and you're a boy" but because "they're the same toy but one is $30 and one is $55 for absolutely no reason."

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Scrooge McDuck had two items of a set for sale: a tux and a gown. Bought the tux, because ladies in tuxes look rad, but uh
    tux = 1,000 gold
    gown = 40,000 gold


    what is going on

    Disney is utterly shameless with the "girl tax." One of my sons really wanted a Minnie Mouse tricycle back in his Mickey Mouse Clubhouse phase, and he got the Mickey one not because "that's for girls and you're a boy" but because "they're the same toy but one is $30 and one is $55 for absolutely no reason."

    That's fucked up

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  • QuestorQuestor PAX Aus Tabletop [E] Melbourne, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    I bought a recent Humble Bundle and have several games to give away. What's the best way to do that? Reveal all the codes myself, and put them in codes tags? Hold a SteamGifts contest first, then send the codes out by PMs? or by Humble's own native "Gift to a Friend" option? Please advise.

    Randomly drop them on denizens of chat - oh wait that's just what I do....

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    I'm not sure /codes still works on the forums, it broke a while back. I use Steam Gifts for the most part now, it's just a bit slow to get them in, and there is a limit to how many active gifts you can have up.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I look to see if the game is on anyone's wishlist then arbitrarily decide who to give it to. Sometimes RNG is involved

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I look to see if the game is on anyone's wishlist then arbitrarily decide who to give it to. Sometimes RNG is involved

    I had a fun encounter doing it this way once, along the lines of "oh I forgot I wishlisted that. Thanks, I guess"

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    For fans of Splinter Cell's Spy vs Merc multiplayer, the upcoming game Spectre is a spiritual sequel to it. I got to play some of it at PAX West. Check it out:

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Now we just need a spiritual successor to Mass Effect multiplayer.

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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    edited September 2022
    Why did noone just try a fake code to see if it worked:

    edit: [codes] does not a thing!

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    The codes tag hasn't worked since August... of last year. We've never to my knowledge gotten acknowledgment of the problem much less news of a fix, so I wouldn't count on that it's ever coming back.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    This is so funny I can't even be mad, I've played all sorts of demanding games on my deck no problem, doom eternal, Spiderman, Elden ring to name a few and I finally found one that causes my steam deck to hit its thermal limit and throttle itself and..it's...temtem.

    The other games would typically ramp up the GPU to max and not make use of the cpu I think, temtem keeps both near 100% utilization and knocks me over 90 C pretty quickly ..so this week I'm going to be following some guides to apply new thermal paste and pads ..lol?

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    This is so funny I can't even be mad, I've played all sorts of demanding games on my deck no problem, doom eternal, Spiderman, Elden ring to name a few and I finally found one that causes my steam deck to hit its thermal limit and throttle itself and..it's...temtem.

    The other games would typically ramp up the GPU to max and not make use of the cpu I think, temtem keeps both near 100% utilization and knocks me over 90 C pretty quickly ..so this week I'm going to be following some guides to apply new thermal paste and pads ..lol?

    I have similar experiences with games that are CPU heavy. With it being a 15W TDP it just doesn't seem to do super well when a game pins both CPU and GPU. Detroit Become Human was one I recently expereinced that with. Certain areas that were hitting the CPU hard and pinning it near 100% would drop the frames to 20 or so when it usually stayed close to 60 just because it had to ramp the GPU down pretty hard to give the CPU the power it needed.

    Just running into the limits of physics there.

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