Gotta rely on old people and their bum knees to predict the weather.

I understand what you’re trying to say, but “most” people don’t actually have TikTok or Twitter or proper comprehension when it comes to stuff they’re not intimately familiar with.

These headlines are ass.

It’s meant to evoke a sensationalist response in people who won’t bother clicking on these articles and only rely on metadata, comments and headlines.

The “Libs of TikTok” account is doxxing… would’ve made it hell of a lot clearer but nah, the confusion is the point.

GoG does have regional pricing in some countries. It’s very limited but saying they don’t have it at all is false.

Unless they have specific applications that require windows 11 to run, I’d recommend just putting them on Linux mint and putting the browser shortcuts and mail and whatever else on the taskbar so they don’t have to go “searching” for anything.

As for Dual booting, it causes issues on the same drive in my experience, I do not recommend this approach.

If you have 2 drives, that becomes more manageable but again, at that point, what’s the benefit? Especially if you plan/want them to boot into Linux by default so they grow acclimated to it.

You know it’s fake because there’s no way the ICE clowns would know which country to send him back to.

Just make sure you don’t confuse which thermometer goes where.

I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.

Somebody make this into a free game on steam with some dumb achievements and being able to change the colour of the nub if you do it 100 times or something.

Licking batteries has been proven to lighten your mood according to three major scientists with published papers in Nordic countries.

Used batteries just come with the extra benefit of being multi use, first in your regular electronics, and then in your synapses.

Isn’t this the same bullshit they pulled in Australia?

While I agree people’s experiences vary wildly, there’s plenty recorded gameplay video that shows it happening.

That aside, they can take their invasive measures and shove it up their cloud where it can and should operate, not on my goddamn machine.

Secure boot. TPM2.0. And a kernel level anticheat on top.

Yet, still hackers in game.

I legitimately have a meal before going to my hygienist appointments, the more random small bits it has like seeds or tiny nori stripes and whatnot, the better.

Supposedly makes their job more interesting when they have something to dig for.

Their words, not mine.

Not sure how recent we’re talking but within the last year or so my 2 biggest disappointments have been once human and nightingale. I can usually work around jank and weird creative decisions, but unfortunately neither of these two were worth any of the time I’ve spent playing em since they felt like they didn’t seem to want you to progress.

Played once human for about 3 days, nightingale for around 3 hours and then refunded.

And tarkov isn’t even on steam… yet?

Look Outside just had a major 2.0 patch. Solid horror game. And it’s 30% off at the moment.

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Both? Both. Both is good.

Fair points, but I’d argue to the contrary in light of the following:

• The steam deck was developed and released at the beginning of 2022. That’s a ~3.5 year difference in hardware and what was considered good value. (As a person buying a lot of hardware I might be a tad biased on this point so I acknowledge it)
• I did hear mixed things about the screen itself from a friend that has it, heard that it’s extremely scratch prone and that the battery doesn’t hold on for very long, but maybe that depends on the title you’re playing, the brightness and refresh rates.
• it can do 120hz, which is nice, but that’s game dependent and there’s no guarantee that it’s implemented or enabled for every game. From what I read previously, cyberpunk only does 30-40 fps on switch2 so that’s pretty much entirely out of the question for that title at least. I won’t make any guesses or misleading statements about other titles since I haven’t seen the benchmarks and haven’t been following the news on those.
• the fact that it’s robust and convenient to use in your hands is a perk imo, not a demerit, perhaps this is something more catered to the younguns which I don’t wholly understand though.
• also in regards to the above point, the controllers, albeit a little larger now, are still pretty bad and still experience the same issues as the previous generation thereof) subpar mechanism, no upgradeability, and no repairability besides having to send it to a repair center/replacement. Meanwhile should you experience any issues with your deck, the instructions and parts to fix it are available on the ifixit website at extremely reasonable prices should you wanna do it yourself.
• performance… I haven’t tried cyberpunk on my deck, so I can’t really comment on it specifically, but as far as a good chunk of the 100+ games that I’ve played on it are concerned, it’s been running extremely well in all aspects of the games, even the ones that weren’t fully steam deck verified… meanwhile even first party games like DK have lag spikes when you open the map on the latest and greatest… to me, that’s unacceptable.
• and while I understand the premise of people wanting to play first party games from Nintendo, similar to the above point the quality has been going downhill, and some of the newer IPs (Nintendo and even Sony) are being developed as more of cross platform release or ported to pc eventually (often with enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes)

I am going to briefly mention the subscription requirement for Nintendo online, some switch 2 versions of the games costing extra vs the switch 1 versions, as well the exorbitant prices (and lack of discounts even down the road) for any games sold on their store, and the fact that if you want to tinker with any of that, you can get hardware banned from online services entirely.

These are, as you mentioned, not hardware related, but are still quite hefty anti consumer practices and while not the main topic of the above hardware discussion, should carry a lot of weight in the decision to buy into that ecosystem.