3DS, no contest. Even factoring in PCs, Steam Deck is a bit behind.

I'm past the phase of daily playing it, but still don't usually leave home without it, and I feel I'm only halfway through games I might be interested in after almost a decade. I just found Professor Layton this year.

A third of my vote for 3DS is just because of DS games, really. Almost cheating, but my favourites are the 3DS ones anyway.

We had a wealth gap between the poor and rich, and now we're getting a wealth gap between the rich and super rich?

Base price seems fair for a PS5 form factor PC, if you want that (I do). But I was hoping to grab the 2TB model... that's making me reconsider.

Apparently 2TB hard drives are already pricey anyway, but maybe I'll try to be careful and uninstall games more, like with the Deck? 512GB is already mostly full with emulation and games I want available on hand though...

They're done with haptics, apparently. Do you think haptics don't belong to a controller? It costs you nothing for these to be in the controller and you'll personally also never actually see them.

This is a "QUIT HAVING FUN" moment

Goodbye to Steam Deck for this? Both, both is good.

I'm buying this not just for TV play, but hopefully also streaming to SD as a performance upgrade (without handing a ton of money annually to GeForce for laggy inputs), as someone who hasn't had a desktop to do that in a long while. At that point, Steam Deck is a GabeCube accessory turning it into a Switch.

I remember when I was a kid who joined a mostly American guild with Discord server in Warframe.

I was so confused when I wrote the time in 24h and the guy I was chatting with seemed genuinely uncomfortable with me writing in military jargon.

(He also believed in ghosts and I had trouble explaining the difference between additive and multiplicative multipliers to him)

Crosscode has a ton of dialogue changed if you turn on NG+ modifiers, such as carrying over levels or using a "cheat code" for ludicrous damage, 1shotting almost everything.

One NPC quotes the "you cheated not the game, but yourself" copypasta.

And some people STILL can't beat it without parries.

Granted, I'm in Act 2 (Expert), and I think the ludicrous level factor into damage is to blame. The fact every other (mini)boss you fight is overlevelled, and just a few levels seem to be a 2-3x damage difference, is so stupid, I imagine someone running into 3 in a row and just giving up.

Should we remove hardware requirements or reviews, because then you could argue you weren't informed about the game not being your type? Are game demos bad?

Informing the customer being bad sounds backwards. This could only backfire if the fps prediction is wrong, and I still think for most people this would a positive, I wanted a feature like this.

Valve still hasn't figured out physical copies and reselling.

But then, maybe they eventually will, or Sony and Nintendo give up on physicals (as they seem to want to)

Saying indies are expensive seems wild, but I kind of get it since the Steam Sales on pre-2015 games go hard. And easy piracy of anything up to PS2.

"Initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware"

I'll take any news I guess

Patented Skinner burgers. Old family recipe. For steamed hams.

Is this close enough?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbosBxqiYY

Well, it's SOMEONE ELSE getting bitten, but close enough.

"Are we the baddies?"

Wiimote played sounds, and from what I saw online, that shitty little speaker gave a lot of memories to kids (especially the Smash Bros Brawl sounds)

There's a whole company/llm about doing that whose CEO gave a Ted talk about it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JrIxFZRA

After that, I actually had a pretty wild idea about someone using to replace dead/missing people in chats. Imagine the horror of finding out your friend died months ago, or got kidnapped. Horribly impractical but sounds like a good novel.

I was thinking that they might require a Steam account to order, the same way they stopped scalpers for Steam Deck, but there'd be ways around that.

It'd be hilarious if you needed something like "profile level 10" to order though.