This was pretty much my reaction as well.
The Minisforum HX80G. That's the older model. They have the HX99G, HX100G and others now. They all range in price but Amazon has sales.
I picked mine up for $650.
I'm the same way but I bought one of those mini pcs that has a laptop cpu/gpu in it, installed ChimeraOS on it which essentially turned it into a steamdeck.
I have that hooked up to my living room tv and it's my main gaming device. It's essentially a console. I never upgrade anything. It runs what I play at 1080p with med or high settings.
Suits me just fine. I mainly just want to sit on my couch and game on the TV instead of being at a desk like I did years ago.
Ah OK. Every time someone asks how to find other communities, I see that Lemmy Explorer site linked, which is why I searched there and was confused why this community wasn't on there.
Nice to know it's showing up in other indexers though.
I checked that Lemmy Explorer site and searched for "patientgamers" and this community don't show up.
Just the ones on lemmy.world and sh.itjustworks
I was just wondering how you all found this place. Are you all on lemmy.ml?
Does this community show up on any lemmy indexer?
Like others have mentioned, I am in the same boat of having multiple communities to follow with the same name but on different instances and I forget about others or (more likely) don't even know that others exist.
It does bug me that I can't group communities that exist on different instances together. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to a collection of communities that I can give a label to.
A way to group all patientgamers communities together would be a huge help.
It's just the way the whole federation stuff works I guess. And I like it...Except for when I don't 😂
That would be really awesome of you!
After I've picked two winners, we can have you pick two more and you can send them the codes directly as well.
We can make it the giveaway part 2.
When we get to announcing winners I'll message you!
Thanks!
It's more like thanks to everyone who has been posting and commenting in the last year and keeping the tone/mood of this place chill, inviting and friendly, which is all I wanted.
Apparently I hadn't checked in a while, because Steam used to not have digital gifts, I swear! But Yay, I do see they offer gifting digital codes now.
Thanks for the info!
I just checked and I already had that in my wishlist! Definitely looks cool
Hey everyone,
We're coming up on a year anniversary (I think) of this community and I thought I'd do some giveaways to celebrate that.
It's semi-annoying that not all game stores have digital gift cards you can purchase so there are a few options here.
- Amazon digital gift card: for those of you who buy physical games
- Physical Steam gift card: the slowest option, as it requires me to leave my house and buy a stamp and mail something (the horror).
- Gifted game directly in Steam / GOG.com
For the gifted games / gift cards it'll be capped at $30 -- after all, we're talking about old games here right? If you want a few games that total up to $30, that's cool too.
I'm going to pick two members at random from those who reply here as the winners.
Just comment with what option you prefer, and ideally tell us about what game you'd like to get (I'd prefer to limit the low-effort comments if we can. I like the discussions people have here so please do try to comment more than just "#1" ).
I'll sticky this post and will leave it open for 2 weeks (end of April is the deadline)
Thanks for keeping this community a cool place with good discussions!
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UPDATE 4/30/24:
This contest is officially over!
The 2 randomly chosen winnders are:
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz
@Dymonika@beehaw.org
Congrats!
I will be messaging you both individually to get your email addresses or steam/gog usernames so I can gift you your games!
Thanks again to everyone again for keeping this place going!
This has definitely been the case with me as well. Especially as I got older and had less time to play anything.
I've always been partial to story over mechanics though. I just think the preference has tilted much further in favor of story games now.
Found some info on this place:
Trying to figure out why this post is so down voted.
I looked up the game and it was released 3 yrs ago.
It's recent but it's not new so it's not really incorrectly posted here vs a normal games community, right?
Is there some other info about this I don't know about?
Trying not to moderate too much here. And I haven't needed to really. Everyone's been great with posting great stuff here overall.
Just was curious.
It would be nice if you could include a description of what the video is when you post link to a video.
Thanks for the tip! $6 is too good to pass up. Just purchased it!
This was a really cool thing to do. Thanks for sharing with the community!
Wow that's an amazing run you've given that kindle! I used to have that one as well, years ago.
If you are sticking in the Amazon/Kindle world, then a new Kindle (whether you go with the base Kindle or the Paperwhite) you'll have a much faster experience for sure. The newer eink readers now can do several page turns without any real visual flash of the refresh. It's a small thing but very nice.
The Paperwhite has a backlight which is helpful for night reading. You'll also get dark mode in the new software (not sure if your keyboard kindle has stayed up to date with software updates or not). Also there's waterproofing.
The base kindle just loses the light and the waterproofing.
If you're not going to stick with Amazon, take a look at the Kobo readers. They're a great alternative to people not stuck in the Amazon world.
I can fetch the comments for a post using the API using:
comment/list?post_id=
and that works fine but I have a question about how to determine what comment is a reply to another/ determining the comment nesting/threading.
From what I can tell the only thing tying any two comments together is the comment.path prop.
Is that correct?
That prop seems to be in a format where each nested comment has the root parent path number followed by . then their unique number. And each subsequent comment is another number sequence after that and so on.
Example:
root comment:
json { "comment": { "path": 12345 } }
child comment 1:
json { "comment": { "path": 12345.327928 } }
Is this correct?
Can someone who has used this API explain how this works? There are no doc comments in the docs for the http client so I'm just winging it here.
It's only been 2 weeks since starting this community up but I do love how active it has been.
Lemmy was very much a ghost town for me when I first signed up and couldn't find any communities to match the ones that filled my feed on reddit.
Now I see a healthy amount of activity in this and other communities that have sprung up recently.
Really cool to see people starting threads and offering the nuanced discussions on games here--which is really the stuff I was hoping would happen.
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has posted and commented and contributed to making this community alive.
Keep it up!
Anything good?
I'm hoping to get some time to play Return of the Obra Dinn if I could get any significant amount of time blocked off to game.
I saw the recent API charge news with Reddit and saw that people were discussing alternatives to Reddit in the event we all have to abandon it.
Joined Lemmy here and noticed one of my favorite subreddits had no Lemmy equivalent — so I created it.
I have no desire to be a mod, so if anyone wants to take on that role just let me know.
I’m just hoping people do post here if they’re checking Lemmy out and seeing what’s available community-wise.