You're right, it was called the Steam Machine, my mistake. I honestly don't think it was very influential in pushing Linux gaming forward, it was a first attempt that was ahead of it's time and Valve kept after it.

The market is flooded with various controllers, but they're all basically the same. I think what Valve is going for here is not really a new controller to take the world by storm, but a companion controller to help sell the Steam Deck. In order for it to be a true companion it must match all the inputs the SD had so people don't have to change their bindings. I play the SD docked and I have to say switching between an Xbox and SC depending on the game and adapting my bindings is annoying when it all just works on the native controls.

When Valve made the SC they were starting from scratch and went with an ambitious design, and let's be frank, no one but a small niche of people liked it because they had grown up with thumbsticks and were unwilling to relearn. With the SD they compromised with both input schemes, which I have to say we need to be grateful for. Look at all the SD competitors and they all ditched trackpads to appeal to the general market. Valve could have done this too.

So largely I agree with you, it would be nice to have a SC 2.0, but I honestly don't think this new leaked one will sell all that well. It's just a companion to sell Decks and I'm grateful they are willing to try that.

I can understand where you're coming from, but this is realistically a better option for Valve and most consumers right now.

When Valve made the original Steam Controller they were trying to kickstart the Steam Box, which at the time played PC games that were not optimized for controller input on a TV. They needed to have a very outside the box contoller to accomplish this, and so they gave the Steam Controller a try. The touchpad inputs with enough custom mapping really were revolutionary, but only for a small crowd that wanted to play Sim City on their TV.

Nowadays, every game has standard controller input. Trying to get people who are used to the joysticks to switch to virtual trackpads is a non starter, even if it could be technically superior in some circumstances. The compromise is what we have now, a full controller layout with touchpads as extras, to maintain that backward compatibility with old PC games. I think it's the right decision, and this is personally the controller I've been waiting for.

I'd love to see Steam re-make the old Steam Controller to give old fans a replacement, and I hope they do someday, but they have to pick their battles as they certainly wouldn't sell in any volume. In a previous quest for a perfect controller I came across an open source 3D printed one called the Alpakka. Maybe DIY or a startup indie company will pick up the torch where Valve left off to give a true replacement? I hope so because the right controller for the right job is a wonderful thing.

I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but you're going to have to expand on that last statement.

It looks like Mitch McConnell, and he is.

Raise the military spend now. Stop kicking the can. We've helped, sure, but we need to do more.

I'm really hoping the NDP can flip Calgary next election and we can climb out of the mess the rural vote has put us in. It's getting bad.

Nothing is 100% the same, sure, but some vegan alternatives come really damn close and nuggets are one of them.

I've never tried the brand listed in the article, but I've had about a half dozen different brands over the years from my grocery store and most of them have been awesome. The prices are ridiculous though, that's the only reason I don't get them more often. I will only buy on sale.

It's unfortunate that we are at this point where economies of scale have not yet kicked in, because once they do these things should be substantially cheaper to produce than actual chicken nuggets.

How will that advice have any effect on the environment? That's what this article is about.

That's odd. Try httpforever.com instead.

There's a radio guy that has a series called Cart Narcs on YouTube where he runs around patrolling shopping parking lots and shaming people into putting their carts back.

It's a guilty pleasure of mine.

When I first read the headline I thought someone was making a mountain out of a molehill for some accidentally mislabeled sandwiches at a table.

But to actually BUILD a menu with no understanding of the dietary labels... that's, quite something.

I'm not so hopeful. The government is shifting to full crazy and he helped them get there. Unfortunately I think if he holds on long enough he'll be alright.

First off, let me say that I see a close to zero chance that society will collapse in a matter of months or that there will be mobs out to kill disabled people.

America has reached a turning point and is certainly starting to spiral, but these kinds of radical changes you're talking about take a long time to happen. People revolt violently when they can no longer afford bread, and the US is nowhere close to that.

Quality of life is declining, job opportunities are diminishing, but America is so far away from bread lines that it's just not going to happen in the short term. Remember the elites DON'T WANT social collapse. That's very bad for business! They will gamble with our future and with the prosperity of the country for a little more over and over, but they want to keep the system up and held together with duct tape as long as possible or their profits fall too.

So yes, there is real turmoil, but nothing is coming to an end tomorrow, next month, or next year. Keep educating yourself, but stay positive and do what you can to enact change.

I agree that the source has bias, but that's half the problem. Where is coverage from everyone else? If Isreal is not going to open up its detention centers to review or audit, then we have very little to go on and claims like this we have to accept as possibly true.

It's likely a bit of both. Trump has no issue not paying his debts and several entities that have done business with him have gone under because of that.

Russia has to have something on him for him to consider not blowing them off. It's likely it could be as simple as him considering them a formidable enemy. They could cause problems for him and his family, potentially the foreign assets of his company, etc. They're not a small bank or drywall company to be messed with.

As much as I loath hearing about the man for another four years, reading Drumpf again brought a smile to my face.

That's crazy, I don't know how you do it. When my SO and I got back together after I had gone vegan she tried it for me and has stuck with it ever since. I can't imagine having to fight against my SO or watch them eat meat every day.

Sorry, I know you're not commenting for relationship advice. I'm sure there is a world where two people could have different beliefs on this and still coexist, but yours sounds... hostile. I'd really ask yourself if they're worth it.

I think liberals understand this, at some level, but they know they are powerless to do anything about it within the system they've built for themselves. They can't outright say this, or they would never be re-elected.

They have completely embraced neoliberal economic policies, and thus depend on corporate money and support. The only thing they can do is toss people a bone here and there, and implement slow policies that might help over time, but won't rock the boat now. Business do not like sudden changes, they want predictable stability as that's what their investments and forcasting is built on.

Conservatives are also in the pocket of corporations, but they simply have no problem lying to their voters. They will point the finger, blame the other, make outlandish claims, and purposefully mislead the public while having no intention of helping them. They just want to solidify their power and line their pockets. People fall for these lies because they're tired of the status quoe and any kind of major change sounds like a benifit. They're shooting themselves in the foot, but they don't know it yet.

Is it crazy that he'd be better if he was a five-time ultimate smackdown champion and porn superstar? Camacho actually tried to put the smartest guy on the problem.

It's looking like the Republicans will control the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. They are going to jam anything they want through in the next two years and use the stacked supreme court to keep it in place for the next 30.

The checks and balances are gone.