If this is accurate, it should get Muskiboi in deep doodoo in Germany where this kind of stuff is highly illegal.

It’s not like the Nazis invented this shit.

You could try to get a used Steam Deck. That will let you play most current AAA games and plenty of indie or older titles for not a lot of money. Apart from that, I wish you all the best and I hope things get better for you.

Corruption.

And you can get a whole collection of games for the piece of one Nintendo game. They have a lot of kids’ games too.

I wonder if we get a Steam Deck 2 by then.

I’m going to play all those games! Really! Some day.

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Another dangerous terrorist eliminated.

PUT DOWN THAT JELLYFIN SERVER AND NOBODY NEEDS TO GET HURT!! THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!!!

They already managed to brick the defence industry. So now IT is next.

If there weren’t so many pathetic losers paying for this sort of crap, none of this would be happening.

That thing would be OK if it was reasonably priced. They don’t even pretend to be interested in anything other than squeezing money out of their customers. If there was meaningful competition in the sector, this wouldn’t be happening.

Those games are so expensive because people will pay those prices. There are plenty of cheap games to be had.

The death of affordable computing in America.

OK. Never bought anything from Nintendo, so that’s not a great sacrifice.

Wait, what? Are you implying there is a world outside the US? Preposterous!

So, is there a nude mod yet? Asking for a friend.

I know a great loophole for avoiding setting up a Microsoft account: don’t use this steaming pile of shit in the first place.

I’ve been playing quite a bit of Grim Dawn lately. It really captures the spirit of the original Diablo.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

You’d probably be breaking a lot of sanctions. And if you’re not part of the oligarchy that will have consequences.

They’ll probably drop the price soon. At $500 it might be worth looking at…

Meanwhile Nvidia:

The 9070 would have to be below $500 to have a chance.

Oh noes! 600 billion fluffybucks that only ever existed in the feverish fantasies of stock market analysts! Oh the humanity!

You’re obviously not a true red blooded American! True patriots enjoy being choked to death by exhaust fumes!

Finland has been “close to completing” their storage site at Olkiluoto for quite a long time now. Let’s see when they finally get it into production. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

They don’t care about being liked, they just want to prop up the oligarchy by controlling access to information.

And they want to hedge against Windows trying to monopolise the gaming market. You know, the kind of thing government oversight used to prevent in days gone by.

Just give us the damn price, ffs!

That would be a massive headache because you’d have to make it work on any hardware. And if you bork your users’ PCs you’re in for a really bad time. It would be much better to come up with a new Steam machine.

And they haven’t managed to come up with a decent product in decades.

I’ve built my latest PC myself and yes, i could absolutely do that. But that’s not the point. The point is that i want Linux to succeed as a mainstream OS. A machine like that would go a long way, even more so than the Steam Deck.

Absolutely. But now is the time. They have a huge game library that’ll run without any hassle and anyone who can use a console can use Steam. I’m honestly surprised nobody has done that yet. If I had a few million lying around in the bank, I’d do it myself.

Yes, that is what I mean. Installing an OS is just too hard and/or too much bother for most people. If Linux is finally to achieve mainstream acceptance, the product needs to be ready to run as soon as you unpack it. You know, like the Steam Deck. And yes, I could do the install myself, but I can’t be bothered.

Sure. But the Deck is a bit underpowered for a 4k TV. It would have to be powerful enough to play most games at 4k with some frame generation.

Sure. But that was then and this is now. Gaming on Linux has come a very long way since then.

Yes, I could just use Bazzite. But i want something that works out of the box.

Box, machine, whatever.