I absolutely do not want Windows.

An Android device doesn’t run my Steam library.

I’m aware of Portmaster, but that’s a manual process that is only possible for certain engines. Whereas SteamOS can just run all my games.

What are you hoping to get from SteamOS that you aren’t able to get from any other Linux distro?

Hi. I’m the guy that wants a low-spec model that fits in my pocket. I exist. Just gimme something that can run my favorite 2D indie games and I’m happy.

I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus last year and ended up loving it far more than my Deck, which is actually just gathering dust still. And now I dream of seeing SteamOS in that size.

But nothing you’re describing will fit in that kind of form factor. So if you want to enforce minimum specs, you’re really telling me I can’t have my dream handheld.

I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus last year, just an impulse buy because it was on sale dirt cheap. Ended up liking it so much I wish I’d bought a more expensive model with analog sticks.

Meanwhile, my Deck gathers dust because it’s just too bulky too fill the void left behind by the GBC/GBA/DS I grew up on.

First manufacturer to get SteamOS running on a form factor that fits in my pocket gets my entire bank account. Doesn’t have to be beefy, just needs to run all my favorite 2D indie games.

I definitely feel like my tastes have narrowed with age. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve found a few games to really really fall in love with, and not much else pulls my attention away from grinding those top favorites.

When I was a kid, I could only get a new game every few months or so, so I kind of had to make the most of each one. Now I’ve got several hundred games in my Steam library, and more than half of are unplayed, because they don’t grab me enough to boot them up over playing another ranked online set of riichi mahjong today.

Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary. (Chronicle is a close second)

Puyo Puyo Tsu is the greatest competitive puzzle game ever made. Such a simple set of mechanics gives way to an incredible amount of depth. I think its greatest strength relative to the rest of the genre is how much importance it places on actually paying attention to and adapting to your opponent. Some of my favorite other puzzle games are guilty of feeling more like a game I play adjacent to my opponent rather than against them, and I’ll give them a pass if the core gameplay loop is fun enough, but I consider Tsu king of the genre for having the most true versus in its versus mode.

But Tsu’s skill curve is terrifyingly impenetrable for beginners, it’s one of the hardest competitive puzzle games to learn. Just understanding how to make chains is extremely daunting, and that is but the tip of the iceberg. Paying attention to what your opponent is up to while still being able to concentrate on what you’re doing is an order of magnitude harder, and that’s kind of where the real game begins.

20th shines by being the most comprehensive package full of additional content for players of all skill levels alongside the classic Tsu ruleset. There’s a whopping 20 different game modes to play around in, many of which are much more immediately fun for a beginner to pick up, get hooked on, and hopefully enjoy the game enough to want to eventually learn to scale the mountain that is Tsu later.

Sadly, this game never got released in the west, and none of the games that have come anywhere close to it. And I think that’s a large part of why the series is struggling to gain any kind of recognition in the west, we’ve never seen the best of what it has to offer.

A few other names have been discovered that ChatGPT also will not output, and none of them seem to be anyone special.

I think the most plausible explanation is that these individuals filed a Right to be Forgotten request, and rather than actually scrubbing any data, OpenAI’s kludge was to simply have the frontend throw an error any time the LLM would output a forbidden name. I doubt this is anything happening within the LLM, just a filter on its output.

It really depends on what games you play. Some of my favorite games are so niche that ‘matchmaking’ simply consists of Discord pings. The upside of that is that you will get a very close-knit community out of it.

Anything 2D should run on a toaster.

I’m legally obligated to shill CrossCode as the greatest RPG ever made.

There are definitely plenty of games, especially those with harsh skill curves, that do benefit from knowing what you’re getting yourself into.

Well if nothing is permanent, then I guess the word ban doesn’t have to be either.

Undertale, but at this point you’d have to have lived in a cave for the last decade to not know most of the spoilers by now.

Your question is built on a faulty assumption, so I simply answered with another question that would more accurately reflect what we’re discussing.

You gave me a word which only means temporary, which is very much not what I am looking for. Do you understand what the difference is?

You’re hung up on the assumption you’ve made that anything that isn’t explicitly defined as temporary must be permanent, failing to consider that a word could simply mean neither. This assumption is on you, no one else has made this assumption and a dozen people have all explained to you why that’s not so. No one else is having trouble with the word but you!

You made this thread to ask a question, got answered, and proceeded to reject every single answer given to you. Why make the thread at all if you’ve already made up your mind that the rest of the world is wrong?

‘Ban’ isn’t just a word for a temporary condition. Just as it isn’t just a word for a permanent condition.

Can you give an example of a word that could be temporary or could be permanent, and the definition explicitly points both out?

Neither is implied unless otherwise defined. I’m saying that it isn’t necessarily temporary either. It’s not explicitly defined as temporary because it doesn’t have to be temporary.

Back in my day we had both tempbans and permabans as two types of ban. If you wanted to explicitly specify, you’d use one of those terms.

It’s not redundant to have more specific terms. Assumptions like yours are exactly why disambiguation is useful.

Why would you assume anything at all? It also isn’t explicitly defined as permanent either.

It isn’t explicitly defined as temporary because it doesn’t have to be temporary. It isn’t explicitly defined as permanent because it doesn’t have to be permanent. The word could be used in either situation.

To my mind, Ban has always meant permanent.

I’m not sure where you got that association from. Even the dictionary definition you gave says nothing about permanence.

This is a question of prescriptivism vs. descriptivism. People might say they shouldn’t be used as such, but I’ll bet a lot of people who say that are guilty of doing it anyway.