The way I see it, a box of drives still needs something to connect it to your network.

And that something that can only do a basic connection costs only a little less than something that can run a bunch of other stuff too.

You can see why it all gets bundled together.

They know how to play Red Dead Redemption at least.

They meow as well.

I can see why it was popular with hikers.

Never know when you might need to start a fire to keep warm.

When I was doing work experience in around 1995, I did mine at a local computer firm. A few days in, the doorbell rang. I looked over at the security camera. It was four lads in balaclavas.

I thought we were going to get robbed. The boss opened the door, put his hand over the camera, and returned a few seconds later with his hands full of SIMMs. Which he dropped on the table in front of me.

“Test these will you” he said, and that was it. That’s what memory theft was like. A bunch of lads breaking into offices, nicking the RAM from the PCs, and selling it local computer shops who would sell it right back to the offices they stole it from.

Not one guy having an expensive package stolen at random.

That would be scalpees.

I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.

You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.

I assume this is just to hide the fact that there’s precious little worth watching on it.

Also sounds non fatal, so not the kind of thing they worry about on packaging.

I got around that by being a bad pirate. If I’ve watched it, chances are I’m nuking it in a few days from my download drive to make room for something else.

I saw the Legion Go S for £399 at Costco as well, with 4 times the space. Is there any downside to that one over the Steam Deck? I think it’s marginally better performance and a slightly bigger screen, but is the compatibility as good?

A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.

PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.

I’ve got to be honest, the price of a game is probably the least important factor on whether I make a full price purchase.

I’m not going to rush out and buy something I’ve no real interest in. I can count on one hand the number I’ve made this generation. On PS2 I’d be grabbing something every week or two, but now I just can’t get excited for the latest and greatest updates on old formulas. Half the time I buy just to encourage them to make more games like that, like I did with Talos Principle 2, Astro Bot and Split Fiction.

I might pick it up later if I feel inclined, or see it on a decent discount. Like Clair Obscur, that I picked up for £29 in a sale just because I remembered it existed and fancied something to play over the winter holiday.

A good APU solution like in the consoles would be a nice option though. Especially now with RAM prices through the roof again.

If it was going to be cheap, they’d have told us. They’ve prepared us for the worst, and we’ve still got people huffing the copium thinking the Steam Frame will be price-competitive with the Quest 3…

It’s also what happens when there’s no jobs for 6 months of the year. It’s no surprise that a lot of the seaside towns in the UK are also on the list of the most deprived towns.

I don’t think anyone hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.

Kids these days don’t even squash coins on the train tracks.

Still, they’ve got dodgy Temu e-bikes to kill themselves on now.

In fairness, the PS1 Dualshock was damn near perfection. There’s a reason everyone has copied it ever since.

Before that, you should have seen the bullshit we had to go through to move the camera around.

Certainly makes a lot more sense than a CD

Can’t wait for MILF Sex Raft