Edited to add, I also kinda hate that analogy because in your analogy you’re painting Valve as a victim (having been robbed). Valve isn’t a victim here; they made bank.

Wrong, Valve is a victim here. That’s the point. One should not be mad at a victim.

Channel your hate towards who are the actual problem and causing this.

You seem to not realize that Valve didn’t “fuck up” (or created scarcity). It is the scalpers and only scalpers to blame.

Edit: As an analogy (don’t take it literal, its just an analogy) would you blame a shop owner for getting robbed, because he did not stop the robbery and now you can’t buy your milk? It is not the shop owners fault that you can’t get your milk now.

I agree with you and do not dispute this claim. It was wrong from Valve to not do the pre-order dance and special ordering process they already did before. All I am saying is, that Valve did not create this with the intention of scarcity. Instead getting mad at Valve, one should be mad at scalpers and UPS.

Valve simply underestimated the demand for the controller, and that scalpers would buy it for that price. I don’t think they did that with the purpose to scarcity. Why would Valve do that, what is the reason in your opinion? And why would even Valve give free games by choice (even expensive games) for anyone who did not get the controller?

Feels like Valve created this scarcity with the stupid ordering process

No, Valve did not create this on purpose. The ordering process is done to fight scalpers. In fact the first batch of Steam Controller did not have any special ordering process and that’s when scalpers and bots purchased all controllers in short amount of time. That is why Valve made it more complicated and limited to order. Yes your situation is frustrating. But you can’t fault Valve for you not being able to pick the controller up or how UPS handles the situation of what is possibly be a theft. Don’t blame Valve for this.

I feel sorry for the wait and uncertainty; its the worst (not literally off course). Lot of people report in forums that they did not get it. At least you got a free game of choice. For that it was probably a nice and not bad at all. In fact, I would have traded the wait for a compensation, lol. So enjoy the game.

Stop telling me what to do. You are not my real dad.

Not exactly, one option is missing: We might be days from the launch away.

Got mine from first batch. I’m in Germany too and mine was sent to Netherlands first. It went smooth and got it at expected arrival time between 11:00 and 13:00 clock. So this should be expected. Also in between my wait time of a few days, there was a blackout time of the GLS tracking, when it didn’t show anything. I thought I might not get it, but after hours later the tracking went live again. I think this happened in the warehouses when it arrived at Netherlands and later in Germany.

I’m aware of EmuDeck and RetroDeck, and prefer using RetroArch on Steam Deck directly. I’m not really interested into any layer that sits in between for the input and manages the systems. I’m deep into the manual configuration of RetroArch already on PC and the Deck and I like it this way. It is cool what those projects do, but its not for me. I do not want to give any third party control over this.

As for the controls, I already have my controls and like how it works. My only “problem” is, that Steam does not offer us a way to document and upload the document (be it text only) with the Steam Input configuration.

I use virtual menus in RetroArch on my Steam Deck. Whenever I touch the left trackpad, the emulated game pauses and a menu shows up. On selection the game continues and runs the shortcut associated with the action in RetroArch. And there are more functionalities I am using. It really needed exact timing and fine tuning. Unfortunately I never uploaded it, because it depends on a specific configuration of some shortcuts that has to be done in RetroArch.

And that’s my biggest problem. There is no documentation or README we can write for the downloadable user configuration. Even a hyperlink would be good, so I could provide a webpage or PDF / Textfile for download.

I wasn’t criticizing at all. Just tried to define what I mean by creator and user. You was takling about “how do you think LLMs are trained” and I told you that the user was probably not thinking of who trains the LLMs, or fine tune them as you said. And yes, fine tuning the open weight falls into creation process, as they are rebuild. That is not the same as an end user who downloads the final usable product. And yes, it makes sense.

That still falls into the category “creator” to me, if you need to rebuild. I was making the distinction to an end user, comparable to applications that you download and use and configure. Instead of rebuilding the source code with your modifications.

Do I misunderstand here something? Or is this a communication issue caused by different interpretations?

For the longest time I was avoiding the npm. But for certain stuff I needed it to set up my Neovim environment, that depends on npm. And reading headlings and articles like these makes me feel very uncomfortable. Not sure if I should re-evaluate my setup.

To be fair, the rule doesn’t prohibit talking about goblins entirely. It just has to be absolutely necessary and relevant to the user query.

I think he (or she) is talking about the user of the LLM, not the creator.

I always thought it’s just ghosts or maybe aliens. Never thought that demons are the real ones.

I think the headline was meaning its just a paraphrase. But I can see why Daniel got bugged by this, as it was not clear.

I have the box myself. You are right, it says designed by VALVE and assembled in China. I didn’t think of checking the box, only looked at the controller and on the controller itself it does not say where it is made in for some reason.

Well there it is then.

That’s the puck that is made in China. It’s a separate product with a different product ID. So that is not a proof the Controller is made in China, especially because VALVE has a facility to build the first Steam Controller in US. Most likely smaller parts are made in China, but the Controller might be assembled in US, in VALVEs own full automated facility. I’m guessing here, but we have no proof right now.