The MX Master 2S fared better than one MX Master 3 and the 3S I got from an RMA…
The surface is already getting gummy.

Downvote for 3rd party.
Every party more is important as to not give any party full control.

CDs never really went away there. Sin e 2 or 3 years I am creating a new collection of CDs.

Theres an actual difference between spending money on things you enjoy vs unable to pay for food and rent.

Couldnt OP use the boot loader feature of Windows and add their distro as anotger option?

Already fiddling around enough with tge stuff I do with my PC which I installed Win11 on and I am in the EU meaning less BS than the US version (no forced upgrades, no ads (as described by US citizens) and so on).

I use Debian on my server as it’s a tool. Same for my pc. And I have a steamdeck.
And every tool has it’s worth no matter if it’s made from shitty chinesium or baller titanium.
I like the way Windows handles most things and I prefer it over having to fiddle with the way every Linux distro does it’s own thing (and I will never use Ubuntu).

Didnt even know Civ had a story. Only played Civ6 and didnt really bother looking to hard as I just expected a turn based strategy game.

And that’s totally okay, if you are fine with it.

You can’t compare open end games like Minecraft and Civ with a mainly story based game like GTA.
What you do after the campaign is your issue.
I just say that it’s understandable if you compare it to traditional media.

I will maybe buy it once it’s on sale.
No way in hell will I buy it for full price lol.

And the price creep will come because you and me are a very quiet minority in comparison to the casual games that buy a nee console solely to play the newest GTA or CoD.

Got my steam deck. I am fine without a switch.
Nothing lost and if I’d need it, emulation works good enough.

At least this game may be worth it if it’s $/h.
Nintendos game might be <40hours long of pure campaign (excluding open world games like pokemon)

My life went down in Containment doing 1v1 splitscreem pvp with my friend.
I will never let anyone say Halo 2 was worse than any other entry.
It’s either Reach, CE or 2 (in the chronological order).

I mentioned one time pay.
If it’s that expensive, I can’t help you (or the devs) because I won’t play it then :-)

Ain’t no way I’ll pay that.
I would have discussed if it meant a one time payment but hell nah.

I say “Hey Google, where’s my phone”

Rings my phone at max volume

Maybe a later fix that corrected it.

Yeah if I remember right I needed to launch it once after this was so inflated and then it went back after syncing.
I mean it’s okay as long as a sane number gets out.

This should fix itself once it reconnects to the internet.
My time went from >100h after closing it back to a sane number.

Thrice*

See RDR2: No.

Probably not because GTA6 is planned to release on pc so they will do most of the work beforehand and the xbox is basically a glorified stripped down windows OS.

Tbh it’s fair if the quality and the (useful) amount of €/h of entertainment fits.

If it’s 75% go drive here, go deliver there from a story going for 100h and maybe 25% of it is actually exciting contetn, I’ll pass and wait for the >50% off.

To the title question: Yes.
I won’t bother buying a console just for one game.

I mean you could get the chinese domestic versions. I think Huawei has ones with stripped domestic Android.

Something chinese (lol)

The issue is more with recent consoles e.g. Switch and Ps5/xbox

Well…If you want to emulate current gen, prepare to deal with consequences.
I believe Sony/MS turn a sort of blind eye to emulators of old gen if they arent hurting sales and being egregious with their presence (e.g. promote what it can do rather than word of mouth)

Afaik gog galaxy does do cloud saves.

Lol go look at german mobile carrier prices.
Then you will actually cry.

Still does. But I think you need to manually enable it

GPDwin for example?
I always wanted a mini laptop basically as big as my current phone but actually mobile.
Sadly I didnt have enough F-U money :(

And yet you have said it without any prompt to do so.

Not like the shareholders care about long term projects.
I mean they might die before they see the end result

Makes sense.
Though I wouldnt pre-order anyway just to not count against the pre-order metric.

What’s the difference between doing your way and maybe wait a day or 2 until gameplay is published?

No.
My backlog is so big and my interested in gaming became so little I prefer watching YT or stuff on my Jellyfin server.
I wanted to play Helldivers 2 but decided against it because I had nobody else and now it’s kinda in late-progress I won’t even bother.

Yuzucha?

Considering what the SteamDeck can provide already…Not really

Maybe it’s just me but I felt like the space was for the better. Maybe it’s just the fidelity of the game that helps it vs the older gen.

Didn’t play it so I can’t comment on the SA part.
At least they have loads of little details in obscure places

Only if the interesting content scales with size.
I am honestly excited to what GTA6 can bring to the content map. Considering how dense some parts of GTA 5 already are.