I don’t think the Steam Machine is going to be placed in the market as a competitor for consoles. It’s probably not gonna be sold at a loss. The Steam Machine is a competitor to Windows. It’s Valve’s solution to show hardware makers and publishers that a PC gaming market without Microsoft is possible. At the moment Valve’s business is way too dependent on Microsoft. With the direction Win11 is going, Microsoft is a serious threat to Valve’s survival. The more anti-consumer Windows becomes the more likely it will push PC gamers to consoles.

Remember the first Steam Machines came out when Microsoft tried to force their Windows Store on developers in Win8.

Also the Roman elites literally only had sex with their wives to procreate. For pleasure they went to the brothel or fuck a slave or concubine.

Dear Satan, I meant to write you sooner, but I just been busy

Many probably never tried the Amazon position. It’s where the penetrator lies on their back with their knees on their chest. While the penetrated is on top, either standing on their knees, and controls the sex and makes thrusting motions. It’s like an inverted missionary position.

You find a magical rainbow stone inside though.

South Korea is literally Cyberpunk.

Only exists in my head ✅✅

she and her family do not disclose their refugee status to everyone as “some liberals here do not like refugees”.

Sure it’s the liberals

AI was never used to refer to human like intelligence anyway in the AI field. Like any form of computer “intelligence” was called AI. Like chess machines or NPC logic in a game were called AI. It just needs to seem intelligent like the word artificial implies. It’s only now with these LLM peddling companies that suddenly the general public thinks AI refers to reaching human intelligence.

And pull them too.

Yeah if it was bad you wouldn’t see three East-Asian countries in the top 3 of life expectancy.

Play the Pornhub sound and watch every teen in the family get a Pavlovian response.

In my country, the Netherlands, vehicles are taxed yearly by weight and gasoline is taxed heavily. SUVs aren’t super popular in my country. Also some cities are considering to charge higher parking fees for large vehicles.

The vehicle tax is used to maintain infrastructure hence why the Netherlands has the best maintained roads of Europe. You can basically feel and hear when you have crossed the border into Germany or Belgium.

I don’t see how it will have any effect beyond what the Steam store already has on the indie market. Indies already flourish thanks to Steam’s use of discovery algorithms instead of human curation.

The Steam Machine isn’t going to compete with consoles. It’s not a replacement for a console and the target market for this machine is PC users not console users. Console gamers who don’t know what Steam is will not buy this machine like they didn’t buy Steam Decks instead of Nintendo Switches. The goal of Valve’s hardware push is to show that an alternative for Windows is possible. Valve wants to break Microsoft’s monopoly on the PC market. Since Microsoft is the biggest threat for Valve. The more anti-consumer Windows becomes the more it puts Valve’s business in danger, since a shitty Windows experience can push PC gamers towards consoles.

Reminds me of this standup bit:

https://youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o

They need to “talk less”? Does this idiot not understand that they have press obligations. Not to mention if Hamilton did the “I’m only here so I won’t get fined” move that the FIA president would make up a new rule to punish Hamilton.

Also I doubt this nepo baby Elkann has ever achieved anything on merit. Everything he has touched turned to shit.