Nils

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[–] Nils@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think mouse and keyboard only works properly in Desktop mode. Not sure if intended or a bug.

My suggestion is to open a support ticket with Valve/Steam. They might help you troubleshoot it, but most likely they will escalate the problem to their dev team as a feature request / bug report.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I think anything with *-punk is some sort of Sci-fi with the best people could predict of the future at the time.

My go to for finding new books and authors is to check the Sci-fi awards nominees: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, ... There are also two small book-stores nearby where workers put their reviews on the shelves of books they like and recommend.

Also, science fiction is not trademarked. =p

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells https://marthawells.com/murderbot.htm
Easily my favourite contemporary author.

It is a Sci-fi, but fits the Cyberpunk high-tech low-life aspects you seek, like megacorporations dystopias, slave labour, surveillance state, robot conscience, augmented humans, etc…

I also read Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman recently. A recommendation from one of those book-stores.

Some alien corporation is going to mine Earth's rare resources and the surviving humans participate in a dungeon crawl reality show. Kind of Running Man meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It is LitRPG - which I am not a big fan but the writing of the first 2 books are good.
I am not a big fan of the last released couple of books of the series, as it feels more like extended power-trips that permeates the LitRPG genre.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, I did not know that. Thanks for explaining it.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought MS Sam was an accessibility feature, that you can enable and disable text-to-speech. Did they use that for NPCs voice-overs?