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  1. The steam deck is not limited to just steam games. I have lots of non-steam games running on my steam deck just fine. Steam Proton will run *anything* in linux, not just steam stuff. All you have to do is go into the steam menu and add your stuff as a non-steam game, and it'll work, complete with steam overlay and gamepad support. Aside from the usual non-steam stuff you'd expect like GoG and EA and such, you can also run windows-only indie games on the steam deck just fine. Like, I put Another Metroid 2 Remake on my Steam Deck no problem. And what's funny is it was actually even easier to just add the windows version of AM2R instead of going through the trouble of installing the linux version! I have a dock for my steam deck that does this. I got one early so it's pretty no-frills (it adds an ethernet port, 3 USB ports, and 2 video out ports - 1 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort), but they have some 3rd party ones that even embed power bricks into the dock so your dock acts as a second battery for the deck. Neat stuff. Also, if you go this route, I'd recommend buying an 8bitdo controller. The Xbox controllers connect through bluetooth and constantly drop connections in my experience. You can get around this by buying an Xbox controller dongle, which lets you connect the controller through microsoft's proprietary wireless connection instead of bluetooth and it becomes rock solid, but the downside is you have to install a driver called xone on your steam deck. And that involves quite a bit lof linux that I don't think the average person would be down for. As in, you have to go to the desktop mode, and download the driver source from github and build it from scratch using make. And before you do all that, you have to unlock the steam deck (valve locks down the rootfs in linux so the average person doesn't accidentally fuck it up and brick their deck), and every time the deck updates, you have to do the entire process again. Which brings me back to the 8bitdo controller -- it looks and feels almost exactly like the xbox controller, except it has extra buttons on the back, and hall-effect joysticks so they never drift, and it comes with it's own dongle for the dock that they made specifically to work with the steam deck, so its all plug and play. Can't recommend the 8bitdo controller enough.
  2. When I was a kid, the very first thing I was ever ride or die for was SEGA. I didn't have an NES, I had a Sega Master System, the Sega before the Genesis. I grew up playing Outrun and Altered Beast and Afterburner in a local laundry mat. My dad was huge into video games in the 80's, and he infected me with a love for Sega Blue way before it was cool. I watched them go from completely unknown to the biggest brand in video games for a while and it was cool as shit. I had a Sega CD -- it was literally the first CD player anybody in my entire family had. I had Sega Channel, which was netflix for video games back in the 90's. I preordered a Dreamcast and picked it up on 9/9/99 with NFL 2K, Power Stone, Soul Caliber, and Sonic Adventure. So for the past 22 years, Sega's absence has soured video games for me. And now, once again, they're finally swinging for the fences with this new era, new attitude, new sega branding: They're all-in on reviving their image, starting with bringing back all the games that made them such a huge part of my childhood. Already announced is: Shinobi Crazy Taxi Jet Set Radio Golden Axe Streets of Rage Rumored to be coming next is: Virtua Fighter 6 Altered Beast Eternal Champions Outrun Kid Chameleon Panzer Dragoon House of the Dead Thunder Force Super Monkey Ball Alex Kidd Afterburner Today's kids just don't know.
  3. The fastest man on earth just said that joining Sark took him to places they never thought possible with all the football world's spotlight on him. That's so insanely badass, and so completely anti-mack brown. Mack Brown's greatest season is infamous because he stopped coaching and "let vince be vince," so you never had anybody standing around praising his coaching job. The biggest stars in football right now are saying when it was all said and done, Sark made them better, and holy shit that's going to take our program places. I'm so fucking pumped up right now.
  4. That first TD catch vs Bama that opened the floodgates was beautiful. I'm so happy for Worthy, he's an awesome representative for UT. Hook em!! We're gonna look back on X in the future and realize they set the foundation for an entire new generation of Texas greatness.
  5. I got a couple of his aggy books for christmas. They're fucking hilarious.
  6. Back during NFL Quarterback Club 96, you could call a fake punt on any down, at any point on the field, and the CPU would line up for a return every time. It was quite literally an unbeatable play, and I used to have insane scores like 300-0 lol.
  7. considering the other power conferences have 0 each, absolutely.
  8. Big 12 is a religious conference. Does the church of scientology field a football team? What about heavens gate?
  9. Or gave up on the Uber geeky build your own desktop gaming rig thing 15+ years ago? I once tried to keep up with that nonsense and it was a relief going back to consoles and not having a million different things that could go wrong. Oh, and having that monster machine you spent $3k+ on being pretty much outdated for some newer games within 5 years or less. Yeah I like mods as much as anyone, but I don't have time for fiddling with all the small issues that come with PC gaming these days. I'd rather drop the cost of a good videocard on a console and games optimized (for the most part) to work with them. Boy this post certainly sounds like someone who hasnt used a pc in 15 years.
  10. You better have a pc with a titan rtx 24gb inside. You know, the video card alone that starts at $2500.
  11. https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/first-and-10-dear-sec-texas-is-built-to-take-over-everything/ "It’s all set up now. The timing is perfect, the investment has been made and Steve Sarkisian is on the way to building a monster at Texas. A monster that can take over the SEC."
  12. Aggy seems to think Sark's contract is similar to Jimbos: https://aggieswire.usatoday.com/2024/02/18/texas-aggies-football-jimbo-fisher-texas-longhorns-steve-sarkisian-contract-extension/ Except for that whole "coming off of a conference championship and top 3 finish" thing. And the fact that Aggy will still be paying Jimbo after Sark's contract expires. But of course, they squint at Texas, and only see their jizz jar sheep humping visage. Also, "Doomed to repeat history" only applies if you have a dogshit miserable history. Texas has an awesome history and is one of the winningest programs ever. Texas repeating history is a good thing. Aggy, not so much.
  13. Just a few days ago, microsoft had a conference to announce they were essentially winding down their console market and transitioning to being a 3rd party developer, releasing games on playstation and nintendo. Their major revenue source, gamepass, has flatlined, and outside of the us, the xbox brand essentially does not exist. They are doing the exact opposite of coming back.
  14. imagine not only having a mugshot, but also looking like a cross between the lead singer of Smash Mouth and Guy Fieri, and not feeling an ounce of shame when it's posted. Liucci has to have an embarrassment fetish or some shit, only explanation.
  15. the last game I saw in person as a student at UT was the rose bowl vs bama. I had 5 years of season student season tickets through the texas athletics website at that point -- i'd get a full student season ticket every year because doing so would let you straight up buy a Red River Shootout ticket upfront without dealing with the lottery bullshit or the second hand market and I went to the RRS every year I was at UT. I was a super senior on my victory lap, so I not only got to buy a national championship ticket to the rose bowl at face value, they wound up being *insanely* good seats, 2nd row, right in the corner of the end zone. Legitimately some of the best tickets I ever had in my life. I remember me and a friend of mine went to go pick up our tickets at the box office at DKR, and they had police escort us because there was a crowd of students outside shouting ridiculous numbers at us to buy our tickets. No fucking way was I going to sell something like that, though. Shame that the game wound up being the Colt McCoy Injury game, and that's how I left UT. Probably my worst moment as a UT football fan, and it was still pretty fucking cool. Still have the ticket put up with my other UT memorabilia. Being at that game, and then going to the game in austin and having my 71 year old mom have a heart attack at the game, it made beating Bama last year feel so insanely, amazingly cathartic. I can't wait for life in the SEC.
  16. When I went to school, our worst year was a 10-3 finish that still landed in the top 10. We were also the number 1 party school in the nation at that point according to playboy, and the top ranked public university. I saw Texas reach #1 in basketball for the first time ever during my time at Texas, and watched Texas win a title in Football, Baseball, and Volleyball. Fuck my time at UT was awesome, literally a golden age for the school. I only saw us lose to OU once during my time at Texas, in 2007. I followed that up by watching us beat #1 OU at the cotton bowl the following year. Also, drop dead gorgeous women on campus fucking everywhere. What a time. When I went to Texas, we were top in class in fucking everything.
  17. go stick another catheter in, old man.
  18. Endowment money is used for basically all non-sports stuff at UT, the actual school. UT Athletics is self-funding, one of the few in the country. It generates all its own revenue and has a surplus, so it doesn't need to dip into the endowment. The endowment is used to pay for world-class, high-name professors and fund cutting edge research in medicine and science. It's what makes UT an actual good school, not just a large state degree mill. When I went to Texas in the Aughts, we had Warren fucking Spector teaching a comp sci class. This was like a full decade before "Game Dev" was an actual degree at universities. For those who aren't into game development, Warren Spector is a goddamn legend, behind games like Ultima VII, System Shock, Wing Commander, Thief, Deus Ex, and he also did quite a bit of work for Half Life 2. He's been a major creative force at Origin, Looking Glass, Valve, Eidos, Ion Storm, and Disney. Texas hired him to teach a new kind of class that didn't exist anywhere else in the country when he was at the peak of his career. They were able to make such a splash hire because we have an insane endowment. And Texas makes similar "holy shit" hires in every college it offers a degree in. Texas is legitimately a great school, I didn't choose to come to Texas for the football program like Okies do for OU, I chose to come to Texas because it was an awesome no-brainer choice for academics. Being amazing at Football during the same time period was just an added perk. I've always been incredibly proud of the computer science legacy we have at Texas, which was my degree.
  19. The very best thing about this video is that we finally have footage of holding up trophies beyond the 05 Rose Bowl. Feels fucking awesome to see our current starting QB holding the conference title. Loved the shot of Sam Ehlinger throwing up the horns and Bijan wiping a tear, too. Just getting started. I can't fucking wait till september.
  20. My absolute favorite thing about them running to Adidas, the #2 shoe brand, is because they went to Nike, the #1 shoe brand, and asked for the same deal as Texas, and Nike replied "You are not, and never will be, Texas" and wouldn't budge. Everything about their Adidas deal screams #2 little brother.
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