See the thing is it's not like I have the ability to see the future.
I can just see the rudie goldberg machine's mechanics and how it functions and tell you exactly what it'll fucking do. I don't let the fucking majesty of it cloud the judgement of final product.
But it really is just amazing how ALL I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT is how bad game preservation is, how shit products are made, The Broom Example Never Stopped Working.
And here we fucking are! Even more examples! Like holy hell, Crowbcat's videos on console and shit are painfully accurate. Shit is just made like shit now.
My Gamecube fell down a flight of stairs and rolled like a dramatic die on my gram mama's concrete garage, It Still Works.
Steam Deck. 1 month being modded and games being put on it. 1 month pulling it out to actually play them. 5 months between, in my closet, in the original, fucking, case.
Dead.
Gaming ain't worth getting into. I'm a bit fucking scared of my 3090, motherboard, CPU, and Ram now, because that was the last thing I ever got for my computer since the 1080. That was 2 years ago.
What's the average lifespan of shit? Because I avoid buying shit for exactly this reason, it's made cheap, it's made quick, there's absolutely no quality control, and nobody gives a shit, if it's, in prospect, interesting, then it gets a pass.
The fact is the SteamDeck is not a portable device. It cannot handle more than maybe 5 hours of gameplay before reaching 20%, the harder the game you play, the worse that battery gets, noticeably, Baldur's Gate 3 practically tanked the battery permanently.
The SD card I got in juts out and is genuinely so hot it could cause a fire and cause longterm skin damage upon prolonged contact.
Setting. Everything. Up. Is. More. Work. Than it ever should be. Some things admittedly are just click and go, most things, are not, and require you to use the terminal, and the codes to put in, make no fucking sense and 90% of the time! Don't work!
Everything needs to be put on your desktop to work. I'm dead serious like where your wallpaper is? If you want it to work? Has to be there. Or on Steam.
It's not usable in bed that's for fucking sure. It's too big and heavy, it's hard to find any position that feels comfortable other than on the fucking toilet, so you know, sitting, like, consider at a desk, except with a mouse a key- Fucking what is the point????? Portable????
Lightbleed. Dear. God. The Light Bleed.
Shit just stops working. Every update breaks any and all customization, do NOT bother with anything visual as it will break.
The SteamDeck's Gaming Mode UI is abysmal. It's just bad. It's leagues above modern consoles but that's not even a compliment, you can spit on your own shit and it'd be better than the horseshit they took from the street. It's still awful to navigate.
It's comically amateur. To pull up the keyboard you need to press Steam+X, it is exceedingly hard to find these bindings when you need to and generally you're going to google it, On Your Computer or Phone. Most of these bindings just show the sheer density of how out of their scope they really are. This device was not meant to have a desktop mode. And the fact the device was fine until I launched into it, is further evidence of such.
You're just always fucked if something stops working. Everyone has a "theory" and none of them work. Hundreds and hundreds of dead forums posts and bumps from desperate ops.
Seriously I can't stress enough how bad Linux is for the average user. You're better off teaching every human to fish than you are to get 30% of the population to respect Linux
It also hardcaps to 800p in desktop mode which makes steamlink on PC (Trust me you're gonna want PC controls!!!!! As Always YOU'RE GONNA BE AT A FUCKING DESK) feel very awkward and too big. Don't get me started on the size of the windows. Oh my god. Go back, go back to school.
Otherwise it works for gaming. I just. Can't recommend it. It's a pathetic heap. There it stays, forever. In my closet.
Where it was Last Month, and the month before that, and before that, and before that, and before that, and before that, and then I got the thing!
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