UltraMagnus

It's good for rural areas and areas without many internet options. Even my internet isn't really that bad, and it would still take a few hours to download a game that large. It would be convenient to just take an SD card from one device and put it into another.

I'm glad that they're thinking about these edge case scenarios. Valve is good about this- for example, I've never needed any of steam's accessibility options, but I'm glad they are there.

Gameplay - quick time events weren't super annoying (I wasn't a fan of telltale batman quick time events), I personally liked the hacking minigame (though not everyone did), and the actual "dispatch" segments were tons of fun.

The story was excellent - I kept expecting a "twist" like we've seen in a lot of superhero media recently, and there weren't any big twists. I think this was a good thing, it's nice to see more of a "reconstruction" of good guy vs bad guy.

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Steam's business model does prevent it from pricing its consoles like Sony, Xbox, Nintendo, etc. since they need the console itself to be profitable, not just a means of bringing in games sales.

It's plausible that they're taking into account an uptick in overall game sales from this console - at least for me, I've been purchasing new games mostly off of steam rather than playstation/nintendo ever since I got a steamdeck - but you're right that they aren't going to sell at a loss.

Regardless of the price (and whether or not I even buy one), I think it's healthy to have another "big" player in the console market.

I suppose the use case would be for journalists, distributing banned books, and so on - pure text-based information. However, video footage is extremely useful in today's media environment - how many current events do we see first from some tiktok or twitter video, rather than nightly news?

I suppose I'd want to know if my fridge was about to explode... /s

In seriousness, though, you're right - the problem isn't with the technology, it's how the technology is used

Out of curiosity, how did you know? They're showing up as banned now, but the comment seemed normal to me

I think it's important to consider other points of view thoughtfully, and question your base assumptions. Sometimes, constructive and argumentative discussion can help with that, assuming both parties are informed and respectful.

Now, how often have you seen a disagreement in the comments section where both parties are informed, respectful, and working constructively to really understand the underlying issues?

Sometimes, it's best to just walk away, and blocklists are an excellent way to do so.

YouTubers really are the way to go. For me, there's no better way to see if I want to play a game than watching someone play it.

And for story games best played blind, I go by word of mouth.

Yep. There are people who can vote who were born after Portal came out XD

Possibly for breast cancer? Men can get breast cancer, it's just not as common

As soon as I got a steamdeck this year, I started kicking myself for every game I had bought on console T_T. I've got plenty of steam games, too, but I never had a particularly "good" gaming PC until the deck, just laptops

Oh yeah, that's definitely around the time when games started getting "big", especially with Halo.