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Cake day: March 2nd, 2025
  • Truth. It low-key feels like there’s an audience of gamers that think Valve is trying to gouge them or something. As if they don’t know how much work valve company has put in to making games as affordable as possible.

    Wait until. They learn how much resource they put into Waydroid/Lepton, FEX and Proton, and then just gave away to the world competent gratis, as open source. In a world where our hardware has always been subsidized by whatever platform company was trying to wall us into the garden, we need to have honest and frank conversations about supply chain dynamics.

    That often isn’t ossicle with iPad folks, and I’m beginning to think my Steam account is older than some of the people flinging you downvotes out here.

    1. If it isn’t wireless, and if it isn’t functional standalone, then the only option would be a tethered headset.

    That already exists, get yourself a Vive or even get yourself a Quest 3 and then use the USB tethering mode (Virtual Desktop just shipped this feature, though many of us suitor argue it’s inferior to a healthy WiFi 6 tether).

    You, as a consumer, are well served by the existing slate of available products across the past decade…

    1. I’m relieved to hear that you won’t be buying it, that means that when I can queue for a pre-order that’s one unit I’m closer to bringing home. This is a luxury item in a season of brutal Supply constraints, and I will be fortunate to be able to invest in my amusement, like this.

    … For what it’s worth, ARM SOC’s are growing wildly powerful and I will benefit from being able to play local stuff even without tying back to my beefier PC for fullfat experiences.

    I already do this when I play steam games , including 3D titles, on a handheld AYN Thor.

  • I absolutely adore GOG for being like this, and for consistently applying pressure to publishers and other marketplace vendors alike.

    I just also have A Steam Library with like 1200+ titles, and it’s measured in Terabytes. And butrot in my physical media will be non zero, in long enough timescale.

    I consider my continued patronage of buying games to be my subscription costs to the platform vendors. 🤣