And still Control Center will survive somehow like an undead cockroach.

I plan on doing what I did for GTAV: wait ten years for it to be free on Epic or whatever, play it, then go “huh, yeah I guess that was alright” and never think about it again.

I just got off a three hour Splatoon Raiders session with my brother. It’s so fun.

The game keeps throwing xp and items and upgrades at you your brain keeps getting that drip feed of dopamine.

I have always enjoyed the single player Splatoon stuff and Salmon Run more than the PvP simply because I’m not super great at the PVP so this is right up my alley.

I’m also happy to report that at least in this multiplayer season we had zero issues with lag or garbled mics over gamechat. It all just worked perfectly.

Valve, who ushered in the digital only landscape for PC, is like, “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!”

Edit: this is a joke. Please Steam nerds put down your neck beards and chill.

Some real “hotdog suit guy” shit going on with NVIDIA of all people say ram is too expensive.

Step 1) don’t connect it to the internet.

Thats all the steps.

If Dave Feloni starts saying this shit then I’ll worry.

So 1.5 trips to the grocery store.

So the price of a Steam Machine (that runs as well as a six year old PS5)?

Yeah, no game bought on Steam is owned, just licensed. It sucks. Have to go to other places to actually own it digitally.

Steam kinda killed physical PC games 20 years ago.

And the Steam zealots will come and say, “Yeah, but but you can still buy games on other storefronts! So it’s not like this Sony thing at all!” OK, sure.

But Steam still helped kill physical games on PC.

I appreciate the article points out AppleTV as being the only one without ads at this point. They also have great shows and the fidelity of the video is good.

Tim Cook sucks at this point, but who ever is running the TV business is doing a good job.

I’m leaving a comment here for when they say birthright citizenship is illegal soon.

Isn’t this the third time it about one calendar year?

Depending on your steam machine you get, it might have empty slots. I think one of the interviews said some will have a single stick of 16 and some two sticks of 8 just because the stock for RAM is so dumb they are taking what they can get.

Exactly like a Switch 2 Game Key Card.

You can still share and trade those.

We should audit them. Then we’ll know where the waste is!

(This is a joke. I know they have never passed an audit.)

I’m going to do the same thing I did with GTAV: wait ten years and get it for free on Epic or whatever.

I wonder if you still have to tap X to run like it’s 2002. At least default that shit to the Tears of the Kingdom style where you just hold the button.

Here’s a post about Nintendo raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50. People there are much less “chill” about that price versus this Steam Machine that is essentially a PS5 by all accounts on performance.

In this thread the people may not be AS mean as I was saying, there are people in there going “fuck Nintendo” as though Nintendo wants the bad press from raising prices.

And I’m not saying people should love Nintendo. I don’t really care about that. It’s just always funny to see the juxtaposition between these things. Lemmy is definitely a “I love Steam! It’s my favorite place to license games and not really own them!” kind of community. I get it. But every one of these companies are getting screwed by the same political climate and hardware situations.

https://lemmy.world/post/46580000

The price increases were also a function of tariffs and junk, too. Just a big double whammy.

I think it was MS last year who started off the price hikes. Then they did another this year.

Nintendo had tariff issues right when the Switch 2 was launching then finally upped prices in the last month or so, and Sony just in the last couple of months had to adjust prices, too.

I don’t really think any of these companies raised console prices before the idiocy of the trump admin and the AI bubble, though. Not that I can recall at least.