World of Warcraft on Steam Deck

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Steam Deck oLEDInstalling World of Warcraft is actually super easy on Steam Deck.  Though I’ve found more than one very convoluted tutorial on YouTube on how it can be done.  Including an insane trip to find the AddOns folder.

Some actually tell you to sort by date and look for a numbered folder.  What the actual 🦆?  Why make it so hard?  My setup has the folders super easy to find.  No hunting dated and numbers folder.

Here’s the easy way to do it:

First use the Steam menu on your Deck and choose Power.  Then Switch to Desktop mode.

Then, go to System and open Discover (the software manager for the Steam Deck)

Discover

Discover

Install Lutris (search for Lutris and choose install)

Once installed, open Lutris and click the Plus + : Search for Battle.net

Lutris

Lutris

Add Game

Add Game

BattleDotNet

BattleDotNet

Once the installer comes up, merely follow the onscreen instructions.  Make sure you check Add Shortcut to Steam.  This way when you’re done, you can launch it from the Steam Deck like any other game.

Take care not to log into the Blizzard Battle.net app on the first appearance.  Instead close it.  Once you complete the install and have closed Lutris.

Now you can install any AddOns you want in the following locations:

/home/deck/Games/battlenet/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns
/home/deck/Games/battlenet/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of
Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/AddOns

Once you have your AddOns installed, such as the important AddOn of ConsolePort so you can play WoW on your Deck.  Simply use Dophin just like any other file manager.

Dolphin

Dolphin

Now you’re ready to play World of Warcraft.  Switch to Steam Deck using the icon provided and launch WoW.  You will need to use the touch pads as a mouse to get through game install and launches, but after that the game play is fairly good and easy!  To log into the game, use Steam + X to bring up the virtual keyboard.

Enjoy 😀

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All My Favorites

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My FavoritesWhen in a relationship, you each make sacrifices to make it a happy union.  Or at least you try to.  You sometimes watch her shows to spend time with her, despite the fact you find them uninteresting.  Or you give up your favorite condiments because buying two brands of basically the same thing is not cost effective.  Plus they go bad.

But sometimes you do your thing and she has no interest or vice versa.  So you get what you want, but miss out on the time with her.

What got me thinking about this so much is the fact I was shopping for the first time in my new house.  I happened to pass by an old familiar favorite from childhood.  Plochman’s Mustard.  I had forgotten it because I wasn’t able to buy it for years.  In my relationships it was almost always French’s they wanted.  A little thing I know.  But I bought it and now I don’t have to go back to brands I didn’t care for.  I think it’s far better.  Realizing I can finally do whatever I want now.  Have whatever I want.  Watch whatever TV I want and not to have to hide in my bedroom to do it.  Eating all my favorite foods all the time now.  Eating healthy without dealing with the pissing and moaning about how they only want to eat junk food.

I know this is a superficial blog.  But when you put off your life for so long just to make your other half happy; little things like this seem exciting 😀

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EDID is a Bitch

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EDID AdapterSetting up my Steam Deck turned out to be a bit of a challenge.  Not because of my deck.  That was easy and while it’s meant to be a handheld device.  I really want to be able to also use it on my TV while at home.  I soon learned of the challenges of simply connecting it to a TV isn’t so straight forward.

Because the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) of my deck wasn’t recognized by the Samsung TV I have.  The TV is a 2020 Smart UHD model.

I knew I’d have to limit the frame-rate of my Steam Deck to 60.  That was a given.  But I was only able to get the TV to recognize it twice and as soon as I’d turn the TV off, the information was lost.  It wasn’t easy to realize that it was a communication of something I’ve never had an issue with before.  So not knowing much about the issue, I spent hours searching the web for people with the same issue and how they fixed it.

Side Note: Have you ever noticed that doing internet searches are far less useful than they used to be?  You search for something and you’ll find a plethora of other people asking the same question but no answers.  Or you get results that are completely unrelated to what you are searching for but somehow are related to the latest media nonsense?  I digress…

After changing my search query multiple times and weeding through endless pages of useless results I finally got educated on EDID and how you sometimes need to fake the info in order for your device to be recognized.  In short you need an EDID Adapter.

I bought the recommended device from Amazon and a few days later it arrived and now my deck works like a champ on my TV.  Though I have been thinking I might want a new TV.  My 55″ looks small in comparison to my living-room.  Might splurge on a holiday deal and pickup a 65″ TV.

I work a lot.  So my time with my Steam Deck has been very limited.  Plus it seems I can’t have a day off without someone needing my attention.  I was hoping living alone would alleviate this nonsense and I could enjoy some solitude.  I mean after working 50+ hours a week, it would be nice to relax in my own home.

I’m excited to see what I can do with a Steam Deck.  I have successfully installed all my favorite games, just haven’t spent much time playing on it.  Also I need to write up how to install World of Warcraft on a Steam Deck.  The videos I found where convoluted at best.  There’s a seriously easier way.

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I Feel I’ve Earned It

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I Feel I've Earned ItFifty four years on this earth and I’ve just now obtained goals that I couldn’t for so long.  In the last 12 years that is.  Something about relationships has just been preventative to my obtaining things I always wished I had.  I’m going to go with mostly the women I chose for companions were horrible with money.  I live alone now and I have things I’ve tried to have in the past but couldn’t, because somehow we couldn’t afford them.  Even though we both worked full time.  I realize now that I am sure the problem was I put my trust into them handling the finances.

You’d think that I would’ve learned after the first bankruptcy not to do that.   Or at least by the second bankruptcy.  No…  It was the third that finally tipped me off.

I know I’m good at math because the Supply Officer on the Enterprise immediately pulled me aside when I was assigned to the ship and immediately made me an RPPO of the entire ships budget.  While I don’t think the title matched the job, I did it well while I was there.  I made sure all department heads spent their money wisely.  Impressive considering I was just an Airman Recruit (E1) fresh from A-School.  I even won awards for doing my job well and received a boost in rank and pay (from Airman E3 to Third Class Petty Officer E4) just for performing a flawless review of an inspection while my First Class Petty Officer was on leave.

Yet when it came to relationships I’d hand over my pay check and misplaced my trust to someone who clearly sucked at handling money.

Now that I’ve fixed my shattered life.  I’ve achieved everything I’ve set out to achieve before with someone else.  Weird how that I could do that on a single income as a single man.  But couldn’t with someone else.  I digress.

Now that I own my own home, I decided to spoil myself too.  I only have a 0.18 acre lot for my house, but dammit, I have always a riding lawn mower.  Not just any old one, but a brand new one.   At this point in my life I don’t really relish raking leaves for hours when I can user a bagger to suck them up and take care of them quickly.  Or not waste more time than I have to mowing the grass.

Or the fact I own 5 guitars.  I don’t even know how to play them that well, but I have very nice guitars for learning on.

I’m able to buy things I want and still have money in the bank.  These are just a few examples of what I’ve been able to do to enjoy my life now.

Things like this I was never able to have until now.  I’ve worked hard all my life to only come up short when I trusted someone else.  Now I only trust myself and I find I am able to do things I’ve put off in the past.  I think now I feel I have earned the right to enjoy life more than I was able to before.

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My Top 5 Favorite Guitarists

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Top 5 Favorite GuitaristsAs I said before, I don’t follow trends.  I make my own way and my own rules.  I’m not like many others in this world and choose my friends carefully.  Same goes with my heroes.  Today I’m going to share my top five favorite guitarists.

First let me say I’m so happy the ‘Guitar Solo’ died.  I love an electric guitar, but a screeching twang solo was never my idea of goodness.  Especially the 20 minutes solos of the 60’s and 70’s.

Alex Lifeson – Sure Alex has a lot of guitar solos.  Once upon a time I enjoyed them and others.  But over the years solos just became noise to me.  But when it comes to unique sound and catchy riffs.  Alex Lifeson produced some of the most iconic in the history of Rock.  I can hear 2 seconds of his guitar and know it’s a Rush song.

Roy Clark – I have to say, Mr. Clark to me, was Eddie Van Halen of his time.  Even right into his old age, this man could shred with the best.  I’ll never know why when there is a best guitarist list, I almost never see him on it.  There’s no denying that Roy Clark was one of the absolute greatest guitarists.  And damn he’s funny!

Phil Collen – Not to belittle Steve Clark who was also a phenomenal guitarist, but Phil turned Def Leppard into what it is today.  His tone and licks were some of the best in Rock History.  Still one of my most favorite bands today.

Eddie Van Halen – I feel like I’m just regurgitating the same verbiage everyone does when it comes to Eddie.  No denying he was at the top of his game.  It’s a shame his time was cut short and so many years wasted on silly band issues.  There’s so much more he could’ve done before he passed.

Ted Nugent – I’ll never know why Uncle Ted can’t get more love in this world.  He’s a world renowned guitarist and a true blue patriot.  Yet when top guitarist lists come out, he’s rarely on one.  To me the lists are biased.  Ted’s riffs and techniques are freaking flawless.

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