If you’re doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.

He’s the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.

They said OP post was TLDR, so they didn’t see that part 🤣

Not picking it up myself, but definitely hope that you enjoy it.

NGL, the whole FEX-compatibility thing that’ll let you also play non-VR games on it with a normal controller is kind of neat, though I have no idea of how it will perform vs Steam Deck / Steam Machine / other starter PC.

If I were in a situation where I didn’t have normal displays everywhere, I’d consider it as a traditional AR solution.

That seems a bit high high to me; if they want to move them in significant quantities, I’d think they’d need to try to land in the $80 USD range, give or take a hair.

They have quite a few other controller options out there that they are competing against, and even though it’s awesome, they definitely could potentially price people off of it.

Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s also a “depletion of LCD screen stock and/or 7nm APU stock” ingredient in the Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore soup as well.

Hook it up to your living room TV, and make it your entertainment station? With a good set up, you can stream on it, play retro games and emulation, miscellaneous media… I could see it being much more useful than a standard Roku / Fire / et cetera USB stick.

I have a M & K available, and play docked a fair percentage of the time, but when I’m docked, I still prefer the console controls over M & K for BG3.

Much more streamlined, the intractable UI is not as busy, and the whole game is much cleaner-looking (95% of what you’re looking at is the game world when you have no UI elements calledup… whereas the M&K UI are taking up a chunk of screen real estate all the time).

I don’t have a problem, I can stop gaming any time I want!

This row of games is 92% of my playtime, there were a bunch of other games from my collection but I only played them briefly here and there.

100% Deck, it’s currently my only PC.

Some hypothetical impressionable youngster: “Why would anyone need to shake their eggs up?”

OPENS THREAD

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

No issues yet, but I’m docked and using M&K or external controller probably 85% of the time or so.

I plan to keep my Deck as my stream-to around the rest of house device far into the future (read: until it disintegrates, the ergonomics and form factor are that good), even after my next upgrade to the Steam Machine or similar option, so I will be Hall-replacing the sticks if / when they start to drift.

I use Excel at work, not in a traditional accounting sense, but my company uses it as an interface with one of our systems I frequently work with.

Rather than tediously search the main Excel sheets that get fed into that system for all of the data fields I have to fill in, I made separate Excel tools that consolidate all of that data, then use macros to put the data into the correct fields on the main sheets for me.

Occasionally I’ll have to add new functionality to that sheet, so I’ll ask AI to write the macro code that does what I need it to do.

Saves me from having to learn obscure VBA programming to perform a function that I do during .0001% of my work time, but that’s about the extent of it. For now.

Of course most of what I do is white collar computer work, so I’m expecting that my current job likely has a two-year-or-less countdown on it before they decide to use AI to replace me.

The classics never die.

Finally taking a break from BG3, though that will probably only last until I have a SM sitting in my comfy gaming zone.

Still heavily playing Deep Rock Galactic with friends, Streets of Rogue has entered my short-time gaming rotation, and I just picked up WH40K: DarkTide on the recent sale.

I haven’t heard many people talking about a key group here.

There are quite a few people out there who play the Deck handheld 95% of the time, so they rarely dock it… but they also aren’t out and about traveling with it.

They just play it in comfy spots around their house, without ever really hooking it up to a larger screen extendedly. There are probably quite a few of them talking in this thread.

For any of these people wanting a performance upgrade: Steam Machine is going to be HUGE, and much better than switching to a slightly more powerful handheld at nearly the same price point.

These people can hook the SM up to a TV to check on it alone if needed… but primarily they will locally stream from it to their Decks. And it’ll absolutely crush 60/70/90 FPS (the common max display rates on the Deck screens, depending on what flavor you have and whether or not you’re overclocking the LCD display) at 800p, with graphics cranked WAY up on a ton of games.

It’ll definitely be a fantastic era to be a household Deck gamer.

I’m not worried. Valve absolutely nailed the Deck ergonomics. They knew what they had to do here.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

To be fair, I think you were expecting something from it that isn’t part of its core.

I don’t play it myself, but I have several friends and family that do, and they all cite it as their comfy, repetitive (by design) game that they play for a half hour at the end of a day to unwind and shut their brain off. From what I can tell, THAT seems to be the goal of the game, and it sounded like you wanted the opposite from it.

I use a bunch of YouTube enhancing extensions.

SponsorBlock. so very, very good. First user into a video after it drops, who has this extension, marks the portion of it that is the YouTuber’s ad read / sponsor segment. Extension auto-skips it for every user who watches after. Saves a lot of time.

Multiselect for YouTube. Just what it sounds like, you can select multiple videos at once to add or delete from playlists, instead of doing them one at a time.

PlayerTube. Use approximations of player UIs from bygone years. I’m partial to 2013 myself.

Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Shorts Block. Self explanatory from titles.

Others (non-YT) I use…

Change Case. I watch my keyboard and not my screen whilst typing, and this just lets me quickly flip large chunks of unnoticed caps-lock text back to normal once I discover it, rather than having to retype it all.

Simple Translate. Quickly run highlighted text through a translator on the right click menu.

Multiplayer co-op FPSes, on the other hand, are freaking fantastic. There’s a reason why my friend group gaming rotation is primarily composed of Deep Rock Galactic, Left 4 Dead 2, and Vermintide / Darktide.

It depends on what you mean by viewpoint. If they’re disagreeing about objective reality, 0/10. If we can’t agree on an objective level, there’s no point.

This is pretty much the crux of the problem right here. How are you supposed to have any kind of productive conversation about the world if they are living in a fictional one that doesn’t actually exist?