Very interesting. The data shows that they stopped importing most controllers about three weeks ago.

Is that because it takes that long for a boat to cross the pacific?

Or was it their first batch and Valve is now waiting for the next one?

Trying to figure out how long they will be out of stock

Don’t jinx us… we’re in the middle of a war, there are new tariffs every other day. I’m sure something could happen to the controllers supply chain.

The worst part is that I still believe I’m fairly new and inexperienced to this game… How’s it like at 4k ?

Factorio! 2k hours :)

I hope that Steam will enable cross platform compatibility for their controller. I don’t need the trackpads to work on my friend’s switch. Just a 1 to 1 mapping of the buttons from a switch pro controller is good enough.

Opus Magnum, Dwarf Fortress, Noita, Rim World… so many games would be unplayable on Steam Deck without the track pads.

I’m thinking about the people like me who have a Steam account, want this controller, but would also love to use it at our friends’ places where there’s just a Switch 2 or a PS5.

For compatibility, I’m better off using 3rd party controllers.

I think that we get stuck too much on how it works. We need to step back and ask ourselves what we are trying to explain.

The goal here is to have them try out a new social media. The media looks, feels and behaves like twitter. So the only explanation needed is “it’s like twitter”

You can then add what differentiate it from twitter “it’s open source” “it’s not controlled by big tech” “there are no ads” “it’s good a blocking nazi content (ymmv)”

IMHO advertising the decentralized “like email” nature of mastodon as a starting point is counter productive.

Won’t that cause true economic chaos? There already is more music than one can listen to in their lifetime. You’ll never have to listen to the same track again if you chose so. That is true before AI comes in. So how to you chose what to listen to? Where do you put value in music?

AI is just going to devalue music and art in general. Flood these industries in a race to the bottom.

I have created a machine

It can know all your secrets

I will sell your own secrets back to you

Because I own my machine and it now owns you too