That girl who plays Steam Deck and writes about gaming + Linux a lot

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025
  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPMtoGames@lemmy.world•100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam)English
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    17 hours ago

    They made an announcement on their Steam event page, which goes into more detail as to why they did it this way.

    Which you can find here

    Previously, we offered free Key applications to replace game versions for existing players. However, as of this month, the number of supplementary Keys distributed has exceeded 30% of the total sales volume prior to this initiative—and we still receive numerous feedbacks from players stating they haven’t received their Keys, along with complaints about slow email response times.​

  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPMtoGames@lemmy.world•100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam)English
    2·
    17 hours ago

    They made an announcement on their Steam event page, which goes into more detail as to why they did it this way.

    Which you can find here

    Previously, we offered free Key applications to replace game versions for existing players. However, as of this month, the number of supplementary Keys distributed has exceeded 30% of the total sales volume prior to this initiative—and we still receive numerous feedbacks from players stating they haven’t received their Keys, along with complaints about slow email response times.​

  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPMtoGames@lemmy.world•New moderator for this community!English
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    9 days ago

    To me if it’s a new release of a game…of course it should be shared! The first person to post it (preferably with their own views on the game coming written underneath) keeps the community up-to-date with what games look like. Trailer ‘dumping’ really only happens when there’s a big event, and the point of that event is seeing trailers for games. It makes sense to have them shared here.

    But posts sharing the same trailer after that first? Removed.

    I don’t think of it as ad spam, because it’s not like Rockstar is making a Lemmy account to make sure we see the GTA VI trailer. If we denied trailers being posted, there’d be some very angry Silksong people when that one got the trailer!

  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPMtoGames@lemmy.world•New moderator for this community!English
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    9 days ago

    Yes!

    Okay so before 2 or so months back, I worked as a pen-tester (red team), so when I wasn’t breaking in to facilities, or convincing security guards that I was the CEO’s daughter or a worker who forgot their pass, I was typically on my desktop. Which left me some time to spend contributing to spaces like this community on Lemmy!

    Since then though I had a bit of a health hiccup, and took time off. I’m still taking time off, and while I’m being as active as I can, I’m now with quite a bit of time to spend doing things like this, or writing the odd feat. article/interview and sharing it on my friend’s site - so maybe I’m lucky, in one regard?!

    Right now I’m playing Red Dead on my Switch OLED, and Deus Ex Mankind Divided on my Steam Deck :)

  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldMtoGames@lemmy.world•Favorite Modded Console?English
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    9 days ago

    I see the OG Switch can be modded and looking into that, seems like you can actually push it to do 60 FPS instead of the 30 it’s locked into when you buy one if you overclock it.

    You can! That’s the sys-clk! And it makes playing ToTK far less stuttery than it is without this!

    You can do all kinds of things, but my fav has to be the ability to run your own themes on the Switch. I’m not sure why Nintendo refused to allow themes on the Switch, but something like themezer lets you customize the look of your home, menu, settings, lockscreen etc to your heart’s content:

    The OG can be softmodded, you just need to slide a RCM ‘jig’ in the right-hand Joy-Con rail to trick the system into booting into recovery mode, and then you can inject the exploit. It’s dead simple, but it can get tiring - having the do the same process each time you shut the console down. Some users try using folded foil or a paperclip (all you’re doing is ‘shorting’, so it works), but I’d recommend the dead-cheap dedicated jigs people make before trying that one:

    You can also install Linux (not so great) or Android on a partition for emulating weaker older systems, you can back your saves up, play with cheats, use texture packs, even use any bluetooth controller from any company with the Switch by using MissionControl and…well the list is long for things it can do!

    Every single Switch can be chipped (whereas only original 2017 and some 2018 V1’s can be jailbroken with the jig) however, my OLED is by far my fav chipped console. I did it myself (but to do it you need to be VERY proficient in micro-soldering), with the ‘kamikaze’ method, using the Picofly. This means it never loses the exploit, and it can be shut down and rebooted without losing the ability to boot into both the stock side (regular non jailbreak side - for online games) or the jailbroken side, where you can be as hacky as you want (as long as you remember to block Nintendo’s servers from being able to see you!)

    People take the scene to great lengths, they customize everything and it can end up being an artform. I love my modded OLED, but I’ve also jailbroken V1’s, and chipped the V2 and Lite. I love seeing what some people end up making:

    It’s well worth looking into! If you’re after a cheap V1 to do it the cheapest way you can, look at Buyee. They’re everywhere in Japan and so reasonably priced!

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