morgan_423

"I said make way for Willie, ya bloated gasbag!"

Thanks, I'd forgotten about this one. Our AC will be out for a few days. I've already started loading water bottles into the freezer.

I've used it before when playing non-docked (otherwise I have a Blue yeti condenser mic hooked up into my docking hub).

The people I was playing with said I sounded good and clear. I've used it both with Discord and with Steam voice chat and I've never had an issue.

EDIT: I saw your post about issues with it when using wired headphones. That very well may be, but I can tell you it works fine with Bluetooth headphones (I alternate on a couple of pairs of BT bone conduction headphones).

Being aware of your own shortcomings and that you don't like them is a gargantuan milestone, OP.

Most people are in extreme denial about who they are, and what their shortcomings are, and it leaves them very poor in regards to the potential to grow.

If you're aware of and acknowledging things you don't like about yourself: that's actually a huge and powerful thing. You know what the things are about yourself that you want to improve.

Always remember, you don't have to change completely overnight or anything, like you're freaking Ebenezer Scrooge being visited by ghosts.

You can start by picking any one opportunity you see about yourself. "I don't like that I (negative trait/action), so today I'm going to focus on (doing something positive regarding that trait/action)." Focus on that for a while... find joy when you succeed in being better. Don't beat yourself up when you fail... just look at it as more opportunity to grow. Over time as you're establishing positive habits, you can add new things to work on.

Your knowledge that you are on a journey of improvement and your determination are your superpowers.

I will say that if you decide that you want to grow for the better, definitely check in with the pros if you can, and not just random folks like me on the internet. But my point is, your self-acknowledgement is HUGE, and can be a tool you use to chisel your way to a better you. Don't dwell on the past and keep beating yourself up about it... instead use it as your base to climb from. You've got this if you want it.

I said it elsewhere, but it's almost like they looked at the market research showing Steam PC gamers would buy a gazillion Steam Controller 2s or Steam Deck Controllers if they made and sold either one, or both.

And then they decided to make something that was neither one of those things. It's totally bizarre.

Ah, yes, the Quing of SpadeHearts. The best card in the entire deck by far.

I just saw that they launched a new MMO with PC / Android cross play called Tarisland. But that's literally all I have heard about it, I couldn't tell you if it's any good or not.

Not totally realistic, there aren't enough interrupting ads in there.

It punches me in the soul when someone uses the phrase "acoustic bike." I get that people are using it like it is used in guitars, but it makes no sense when applied to bikes.

The literal definition of acoustic from the dictionary is "of or relating to sound, the sense of hearing, or the science of sound." Non-electric bikes barely make any sound! Calling them "acoustic"... it is a terrible label.

Non-neutral nouns have always struck me as odd. They provide no info gain whatsoever outside of actually providing a gender if you're referring to a person or animal (for example, in Spanish, gato -> male cat, gata -> female cat). And in those situations, a short sentence can provide instant clarification if needed in a non-gendered language like English.

It's a language feature built to be helpful in one use case, whilst simultaneously being worse in about a bazillion others. It's a very odd choice.

Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US... this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.

Be sure to check community control layouts, and not just the default.

I've had several games I thought would be terrible on a controller, only to discover someone had invented an ingenious and intuitive layout already.