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Cake day: March 15th, 2026

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  • But, it’s just beer.

    15 is old enough for mead! (In Germany, unless she bought it herself, than 16 would be the required age. That bar looks pretty German to me.)

    But… Dwarven mead might be considered hard alcohol.

    But, she’s an elf, so she might digest alcohol completely differently…

    This is a much harder question than just comparing 73 to 100.


  • It’s harder to pronounce internationally, which makes it a weaker global brand.

    Also, in the early days of wakeword detection, the detection algorythm actually triggered by the ‘melody’ your voice creates automatically when producing certain vocal sounds. This basically triggered a recording before going through deeper analysis to actually determine, if this was supposed to be an actual request.

    For Alexa, the a-ex-a is easy to detect. For “Hey Siri” it’s basically a ‘chime bing bing’ sound in a certain rythm. For Cortana, it’s or-a-a. But Jeeves is only a single syllable, both the J and ‘vs’ are harder to pronounce and basically not relevant for wakeword detection. So the whole wakeword is basically just “eee”, which is a bad wakeword.

    So… Just not gold, both technically for reliability and efficiency and economically, not so great for global brand recognition.


  • Aiming is way more precise. Not as good as motion aim + Joystick, but there is also no other controller that can dynamically activate motion aim depending on how you touch the Joystick.

    It’s essential for navigating menus and windows. Both on a desktop or browser, as well as in any game that clearly has a layout for use with a mouse. I played GuilWars2 on my SteamDeck just fine, thanks to the trackpad (and abundance of modifier keys).

    Absolutely essential in Strategy games, where you have to select one of multiple units, pick fields … I don’t get, how people can do this with a Joystick. I know, some of the games are available on console too and work completely with joystic, but it’s just so cumbersome and unintuitive, compared to the trackpad.

    What I also used in Guildwars, is the radial menu from Steam, to bind hotkeys to nested menu entries, easy to navigate on the otherwise unused left trackpad. I basically went in and added something like that to most games I play on the Deck.