That’ll probably be the big news from all this, further global release. I’m not holding my breath for the next iteration until the end of the next console generation (the upcoming "switch 2"generation)

Our first pair, one went from kidney disease (many years of diabetes before this) ten years ago, the other left us 3 weeks ago (18 years) but was possibly a disguised vampire who feasted on her sister as her first victim (evidenced by: her long life and a string of very unfortunate puppys, her blending into the night, and her somehow being allergic to cats)

Here’s to Tiggy and Fluffy hanging out in the good place. (My wife swore she would never have a cat named fluffy, but it fit her too well, within a year she was fluffy and she remained fluffy her whole life)

Fuck cancer.

And fuck anyone who claims there’s soon to be a cure for Kitty kidney disease.

And I know 2 that didn’t, I’m 0 for 2, you’re 1 for how many?

It should be as hard to own a gun as it is to drive a car

I’m glad it points out what people think Trump did well in, but how the fuck do people think Trump will lower the price of household commodities and rent when 2016-2020 (and it’s policies) are when all this shit kicked off?

Man I don’t even reply to my family’s political bullshit on private feeds, what makes you think I’d give 2 neurons of effort calling out a practical stranger out in public?

That’s the top of the slippery slope that leads to consumption.

If you see a Republican trying to lick your dog, correct the behavior immediately, they’ve proven themselves not able to exhibit self control in those situations.

It’s still 2 comments for every kick, fresh.

A rare Lemmy thread that has more comments than kicks.

The screen protector is peeling just a little bit around the edges, but it’s put on really well, and I don’t want to use the replacement just yet, but it’s slowly ever encroaching and leaving more and more of a dead zone in an area I don’t touch all that often, but when I need to I question whether or not it’s time to put the new one on.

It’s been like this for almost a year now.

Also no ir blaster, so I can’t subtly mute the commercials when I’m at the in laws.

Or it broke?

Came to say the exact same thing!

Stupid plastic parts.

Yet still people will find reason to complain.

80% of my catalog is platinum and gold, 20% I probably wasn’t going to play anyways.

My library is plenty large enough and it’s 80%+ gold verified on protondb, and I’ve found success in running titles that were unverified (but not borked, I’ve never tried any of the dozen or so borked games in my library).

Disgaea 4 runs flawlessly without any modification on my deck, it does take a moment to start, I believe that is when it’s trying to connect to the online servers which I have entirely disabled through the in game options menu.

I won’t attest to anything outside of steam, because I didn’t buy a laptop or a console, I bought a steam deck. And I have more than a thousand games ready to go on it.

Edit to add: not sure where you pulled “universal compatability” from, I never mentioned that at all. Contrary to that statement all of the games I mentioned, and everything I’ve ever tried playing, are titles activated through steam.

Please feel free to ask my any specific questions, I will answer them as unbiasedly as possible.

I jumped on ordering mine working 30 minutes of its announcement, I waited 7 months to get it, and I’ve used it probably 60% of the days since I’ve had it. I still use the laptop some times (especially when my wife has it for some games, and I bought my mom one of her own so she wouldn’t be using mine constantly when she came to visit)

There has been 1 game I’ve tried to play that hasn’t worked, people say it does, but there are 2 versions of the game (square enix, final fantasy 8) and I have the older version, for some reason no control input is sent to it no matter what I do. I’m sure if I bought the new version it would work fine, but I’m done with that company after they bricked my phone copy of ff6 (even though the phone didn’t change at all) and told me “if I want to continue playing you need to buy the new version”. I’m sad they seem to be doing the same thing with all their old games.

That rant out of the way.

I have 1400 games in my steam library, the above is the only one I’ve wanted to play but haven’t been able to get working.

I highly suggest a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for first person style games (I’m too old to get used to the “gyro control fine aiming”, but the younger people say it works great.) and 4x games.

I play a lot more 2d platformers and rogue-lite games on the deck than I ever did on a PC/laptop. The controls are fantastic and there’s no input lag like I used to have with a wireless control to my PC.

I’m about to buy a 3rd because my household, and the company we bring over, sometimes use mine when I want to be using it.

Some of the games I’ve played on it: red dead redemption 2, Witcher 3, elder scrolls Skyrim, rim world, dead cells, path of exile, Warhammer total war 2, sid Meier’s civ 5 and 6, subnautica, factorio, satisfactory, monster Hunter frostborn wrath, baldurs gate 3.

It’s actually amazingly good at running the ported PS2/4 and xbox360 games, I was amazed to see 5-6 hours predicted battery life while playing dynasty warriors 8 and Disgaea 4.

I was thinking about getting a new gaming laptop to replace my 5 year old 15" dell, but the deck filled that need perfectly, and at a fraction of the price a new computer would’ve cost.

When I originally bought it (pre ordered the 512 gig) I bought a “leather skin” and screen protector, I’m glad that I did, but I think the skin was going overboard.

If you aren’t a gamer I’m not very sure how much desktop function there is, I’ve only done it once or twice, but I was able to YouTube and Amazon through the browser.

If you get one (and I highly recommend it) I suggest getting a kick stand, a Bluetooth mouse and a Bluetooth keyboard.

My next investment is going to be a “dock” and a pair of a.r. glasses so I can charge it and use the glasses as a monitor and lay in bed and game until mold grows over me.

Edit to add: I’ve actually found a couple newer games that developers have decided my laptop is “too out of date” to run, but will run just fine on the deck, so there’s that!

“I made these”

As they’re living with their parents because they can’t afford an apartment of their own.