Follow-up question - each portafilter is two shots right? So if you end up adding an third shot to a coffee, what do you do with the leftover fourth one?
(Or do you have a smaller, single shot portafilter?)
Yes that's true! I find that games like that have their own sort of niche, in which players usually know quite a lot about the game (from watching others play it online) before jumping in. And there's an expectation that they'll refer to the wiki regularly. These kind of games can't have a tutorial that covers everything, because there's way too much to cover.
This is a weird one for me because it often depends on whether I paid for the game. I got the first Fallout game for free (from GOG or something), and when I inevitably became confused by the UI and objective I ended up giving up on it. If I'd bought the game (either today or back when it came out) I definitely would have invested a lot more time into it, and got past that initial hump. Back when PC games came on disc with an instruction guide, reading that was part of the experience. There's definitely a awkward period around the early 2000s when games were becoming way more complex, but before in-game tutorials were regularly a thing. I find it hard to go back to a lot of those games.
Likewise I played the first hour of Resident Evil HD on my PS4 (free with PS+) and never had the motivation to get into it. After paying for it in a Humble Bundle, I played through the whole thing on Steam and loved it! The fact that I'd paid for it was able to outweigh the fact that the game was quite outdated. I guess I felt like I wanted to get my money's worth.
Any game from 2005-ish onwards feels 'modern' enough that I don't usually have this problem.
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a really interesting heist type novel with some great world building. Cool how it basically started its own 'cyberpunk' genre.
I've read Project Hail Mary - that was great fun, and went to interesting places I wasn't expecting.
11/22/63 is one I've been wanting to read. Will definitely do so at some point next year!
What did you think of Neuromancer? I finished that not too long ago.
Wow that's a lot! Do you have any particular favourites of the ones you read?
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Well I hope you're able to slow down the pace a bit (assuming that's what you want)!
Ah thanks for clarifying. Would you not say that reading it slower would be the more enjoyable method? If you're after escapism, wouldn't it be better to engage yourself fully in the plot? At least for me, I find escapism works best when I'm fully immersed in the story's world and characters. What you've described sounds more akin to someone skimming a research paper.
Storygraph is quite a good alternative from my experience
So this is a very niche tool, but I thought I'd post about it in case it has uses elsewhere.
Recently I heard about Moonring, a free RPG based on the Ultima games. It's really fun, and it seemed like a nice fit for the Deck. And for the most part it is - there are plenty of custom control layouts already that work well.
The one thing that annoyed me however is speaking to NPCs. You need to listen out for keywords and then type those in to advance the conversation. The game auto suggests what you may wish to say - for example 'treasure' may be mentioned and when you type 't' it suggests the full word. You then press tab to confirm. So a lot of the time I'd need to type a+tab, b+tab etc. This should work fine in theory but the steam keyboard is extremely temperamental! Bringing it up every time I wanted to quickly type was annoying me...
So I wanted to know if virtual menus could help, and yes!
To set this up, you want to create 8 Action Sets, labelled ABC, DEF and so on (PQRS and WXYZ are grouped, like on an old phone keypad). Personally I'd set ABC up first and then you can copy that action set when creating the others.
Whilst in the controller settings, press R1 to move across to the ABC action set, and then create a radial menu on the left trackpad. Within those settings, set the center button as changing the action set to default. Then add new buttons to trigger A, B and C. Under general settings, change button type to 'release', otherwise it can be quite easy to misinput when using the menus. Create the remaining action sets by copying ABC and change the buttons for the remaining letters.
Finally, create a touch menu on the default action set with buttons to change between the action sets. I also added buttons for tab, backspace and enter. As before, make sure it's set to 'release' activation rather than click.
I'm not sure how useful this will be to (if you want to type anything substantial, the regular keyboard does a good job) but it's cool to know that it's possible!
I might edit a few bits in my controller layout, then I'll export it in case anyone else wants to try this out.
Edit: Now uploaded to the community as 'Omega's layout' :)
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That's interesting to know, thanks! Most coffee shops where I live would probably never get busy enough to use a spare shot. Perhaps they change out to a single shot portafilter, but I've never noticed.