u/alias530

Context—I've logged ~60k miles over the last 13 years. I build my own bikes and I'm pretty obsessive with maintenance. I replace chains as soon as I can get the chain checker (Park CC-3.2) in with a little pressure, which results in slightly less than 0.5% wear. I lube chains (Rock N Roll gold for road, blue for gravel) every 50 miles or 2 rides, whichever comes first. I'm a lean 220lbs and have a 300-350w FTP (been a while since I tested) and I know that this will lead to faster drivetrain wear.

My road bike (Ultegra 8000) has 15.2k miles and I changed the cassette at 9.2k and the chainring/chain at 11k. Since then I've had to replace the chain at 12.2k, 13.5k, 14.5k, and 15.2k. The cassette tests fine with the Rohloff chain checker but I replaced it anyway this time.

My gravel bike (SRAM Force AXS... I use the Park CC-4.2 due to flat top chain) has 3600 miles and the first chain wore out at 2100 miles. I figured I would start checking it when I got within ~500 miles of the 2100 miles the first chain lasted. The chain checker fell in with no pressure. I replaced the chain and it's skipping under load so I clearly waited too long.

How am I killing chains so fast with such diligent maintenance? 700 miles on the last road chain is insane.

I quick tapped the power button while playing a game like 3 days ago when the battery was nearly full. Just pressed the power button again and have 6% battery.

Did I need to have exited the game and then tapped power or do i need to long press power to get it to not drain battery? The game says I have 75 hours of play time when I only really have 2 so I assume that meant it was running all this time.

I just spent a few days with a close friend that I met through gaming and met a bunch of his friends who are all mostly gamers. I spent a ton of time talking games and had ZERO games in common with any of them. I play a LOT of games (nearly 100 completed last year) and a lot of time watching gaming related channels so this struck me as odd. I hadn't even heard of the majority of what they play. Even in my circle, where the majority of the guys I know game in some capacity, I have minimal overlap in tastes.

I don't feel like my taste is weird or obscure... the first ~2 dozen games that come to mind as favs would be Elden Ring, Sekiro, Grime 2, Dark Souls 3, Doom Eternal, Armored Core 6, Lies of P, Unsighted, Half-Life 1 & 2, The Last of Us 1 & 2, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Uncharted 4, Split Fiction, Witcher 3, God of War/Ragnarok, It Takes 2, Blasphemous 2, Cultic, Soma, Expedition 33, Neva, Turbo Overkill.

Since they have native bleed?

I generally play FPS, metroidvania, and soulslike but some of these don't lend themselves well to handheld. To give you an idea of what I like, some of my favorite titles that I think would go well on SteamDeck are Ori 2, Blasphemous 2, Grime 2, Neva, and Unsighted.

Getting to the late game on my first RL1 run (just Godfrey/Radabeast left) and I'm starting to ask myself "what next?"

Maliketh was a huge difficulty spike and I'm not sure I can take much more than that. Assuming you're using an appropriate number of Scadutree fragments, how does DLC RL1 compare to base game RL1?

I’m having a hard time with Maliketh RL1. Cold Nagakiba +25 with impaling thrust.

When he does a dagger swipe opener, I dodge, r1, dodge back. If he opens with anything else—claw drag, rock throw, or shockwaves, I dodge and punish with impaling thrust (except shockwaves which I jump). This often works but sometimes I can’t recover from it in time to dodge before he throws the handful of pebbles and it 1-shots me. Is there a tell that I’m missing or are some of these just not safe punish windows for impaling thrust? Pebbles after shockwave seems to catch me out the most. Should I be jump attacking that instead?

At the phase transition I walk forward right a little, dodge forward right, and sometimes I have time for an AOW. Am I doing something wrong here? Additionally, when he jumps and plunges his sword into the ground it seems like sometimes there’s no follow up and I can punish. Sometimes there’s a Malenia-esque flurry that I can’t ever seem to dodge if I’m anywhere near the front of him. Sometimes there’s a red AOE that I can dodge consistently. Sometimes he’s sitting on a red ball that explodes that I can dodge consistently.

In both phases there are things that 1-shot me if they happen but I can’t figure out what makes them happen or how to tell they’re going to happen until it’s too late.

I like to listen to and semi watch challenge runs while I work. Ginomachino, Lilaggy, squillakilla, and Bushy are great but I've watched all of their youtube videos. I've found a few others but their dialogue is so cringe I can't watch them (bryceinator13 & Skumnut come to mind). No randomizers or mods, just base game/DLC challenge runs. Any suggestions?

I took a break from single player games from ~2016-2023 then spent the last 4 years catching up. A few years of 50-100 completed games each and my backlog is empty. When I filter out unreleased games from my Steam wishlist there are only a few and I'm not truly interested in any of them. I'm about to replay something instead of starting something new once I finish what I'm playing now.