steelplatedmech

I went and bought a DSi and 3DS and jailbroke them, and I’ve been very happy with them playing games like Hotel Dusk and Star Fox 64. I’ll play vintage games on vintage hardware before I do cloud subscription gaming.

It does make the Steam Deck offline experience better, since Denuvo ones are the games I’ve occasionally encountered it needing to be reactivated to play.

Been a while since I watched LTT. But, found out some original people left. Watched Jake’s video going over his time there as one of the LMG lifers on why he quit. An interesting thing he said was “You kind of start thinking while you’re working on your boss’s third house, if you’re ever going to be able to buy a house.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVxgcKQO2E

I lost interest in LTT years back after he started coming off as more of a tech bro throwing around his wealth and his opinion on unions.

But, pretty surprising LMG Lifers like him who were there before LTT became a corporate success didn’t get things like shares, but instead were paid like regular employees. Thought the wealth would have been shared among the staff who helped get the small start up into something big.

Guess it was one of those usual we are family type businesses where early staff put in long hours at odds hours with various responsibilities to help the business get its footing, but people never really progressing beyond simple employees so didn’t benefit from business growth like those who hold shares would.

Glad I got my Deck when I did. Got a lot of use out of it, but I couldn’t see myself getting one at the current price. What a bad timeline.

Now they are extrapolating estimated figures as annual when it hasn’t even been out a full month? What a terrible article. And jumping the gun when price of the Steam Machines could go up even more with component costs not locked in for years for Valve, but closer to months so more affected by changing part costs.

I like that discs aren’t tied to an online account, so anyone in possession of it can use it to play the game. The company can’t take away access like they can banning your online account.

I think it is more that whether benevolent or malevolent there are more decisions that align with what PC gamers want compared to other gaming companies.

Like push for Linux and trying to make it more accessible to the average user. Compared to where Linux was when the first Steam Machine came out and how much more user friendly it became after the Steam Deck is one area. Still lot of work to do, but leaving Microsoft behind isn’t as daunting as it used to be for gamers.

With other consoles the stands outs are more the exclusives.

But, there are more clashing of ideas like paid online, requiring locked down hardware, and inability to install whatever you want on consoles. Console ecosystem has been much more confrontational just because of being a closed ecosystem for those that want a more open one.

I’m happy to see titles that were console only becoming available on PC. Even if revoked it opens a path to still being playable on PC if game gets cracked, but initial hurdle is coming to PC in the first place.