I grew up in the southeast US and while I don't think I have a strong accent and have tried to cut other southern things out of my speech, I quite like "y'all". In my opinion it's the best gender neutral second person plural word. Most others are needlessly gendered or sound even weirder.
I have a Chromecast (/Google TV, their branding is a mess) and Apple TV, and have used Rokus family members have. In my experience chromecast has the best app selection, it's just running a modified version of android. It does require specific tv versions of apps, but the standards are as low as the rest of the google play store for better and worse, so anything you can get on an android phone that you'd want on a tv is probably on there. It also (with a bit of trouble) allows sideloading, and I've put some github projects on there like SmartTubeNext (ad-free youtube with a better UI).
Thank you so much! I have this controller and love it, but had pretty much given up on the gyro being possible to use on PC.
This number is basically useless except for headlines like this. Actually using my steam deck I don't care at all about the verification status. There's plenty of unsupported and unknown stuff that works well, and there's verified games I've run into issues with. Playable is also a particularly bad category because it's weirdly picky about certain things but not others, and it seems to be rarely updated when games get patches, so stuff can get better or worse than it's labeled. I just check ProtonDB or look up youtube videos of someone playing a game on deck if I want to check something.
Don't know if you've played/heard of these, but some good short singleplayer stuff on gamepass that might fit the types of games you like and you could easily finish before then:
A Short Hike is getting added today and is something I'd recommend to anyone if you haven't played it. Very pleasant game, and as the name suggests it's very short, you can complete it in an afternoon.
Celeste is on there and is one of the best 2D platformers, if you enjoy those and haven't played it definitely try it out.
Death's Door is a top-down zelda-like, and one of my favorite takes by indies on that type of game.
Doom 1/2 are classics that are still very much worth playing and hold up well.
Mirror's Edge is a first person platforming/parkour game, a bit older at this point but holds up pretty well.
Monster Train is a deckbuilder roguelite, which I know is a polarizing genre, but if you're either into those or open to the idea of trying them it's one of the best. Might not fit as a shorter game depending on how much of the stuff in it you want to do, but you could at least get a good taste for it and see if you like it.
Both of the Ori games are good metroidvanias that are relatively short.
Prey is a great immersive sim/fps/stealth game, if you've tried other Arkane stuff like Dishonored, or the Deus Ex games, it's similar to those.
Both of the Psychonauts games are great 3D platformers. 2 is especially good and a big step up in gameplay, as you might expect with the time gap between them.
Tinykin is a 3D platformer with some Pikmin inspiration, where you're a tiny person exploring a giant house, very fun if you like platforming and collectathon type stuff.
Seconded, one of my favorite podcasts.
Backed the kickstarter and eagerly awaiting it!
Eh, other developers are already basically making Zelda games minus the name, and you can play them without giving nintendo money. Unsighted, Death's Door, and Crosscode are all great and take strong inspiration from Zelda, just to name a few.
It's not out for a few more months but I recently tried the demo for Fortune's Run, which is now one of my favorite depictions of a cyberpunk world in a game. It's an immersive sim, maybe with a bit more focus on direct combat than most. The gameplay is fun if a bit rough in some spots, hopefully it gets polished up for launch but it's very promising. Everything about the presentation though is top notch.
I did, I was very into the idea but unfortunately it was pretty disappointing. Reviewed it in more detail a bit down the thread.
I wrote up some reviews of demos I tried here.
Good fucking riddance. I hate these things, people leave them just lying across the sidewalk all the time.