Mayhems tangled mess of controler cords

[Princess Viola]

Steam Hardware - Steam Machine launches today! - Steam News

All the details on how to sign up, plus some background on how we got here.

store.steampowered.com

over $1000 for the base model steam machine with only 512 GB storage and no hugging controller lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

and it's basically PS5-level power lmfao

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Even I have more storage than that.

 

[Ironbite4]

Yeah and Valve is not happy with that price point.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I bet Microsoft's happy. I'd have been interested in this thing just for a desktop.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Performance largely equates to:
CPU- Roughly between an Ryzen 3600 non-x and 5600X
GPU- Roughly between an Arc 570 and 580, or about 20% behind the "proper" desktop AMD RX7600 in most cases
There are outliers, of course.

Gamers Nexus had a number of complaints about some messy OS issues (lots of SteamDeck UI remnants and autodetects), and oddities like some games defaulting to Linux versions rather than play the Windows version through Proton (which, in many cases, offered better performance). A not-insignificant number of games remain unplayable due to anti-cheat issues.
They do stress that, given the state of the DIY PC market, it's not egregiously overpriced. That said, Valve has said that, due to shortages, some machines may ship with 2 8GB sticks of RAM, OR, 1 16GB RAM stick. It's not clear how significant the impact that will make in gaming.

Also, DBrand is making custom "Companion Cube" enclosure.
LTT has a more condensed take, but hits many of the same points Gamers Nexus brought up. And good context to the pricing and console comparison

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I hope they don't give up on the idea. The world needs this, if it ever becomes cost effective to make it.

 

[unluckiness]

Perfect Chaos is just Water-type Biollante

 

[unluckiness]

Why is Master Ball rank in Champions easier than Ultra Ball?

 

[unluckiness]

Season for Pokemon Champions is ending in a couple of days and while I'm glad to have hit Master Ball tier, it's kind of monotonous? I suppose all PVP games settle into a meta eventually but it hits harder when your roster has hundreds of characters.

 

[unluckiness]

Dear first person horror games, I know you're trying to be scary and all but it would really help if you lit yourselves enough so that I know when I'm walking into a wall.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

MVG said it couldn't be done. The homebrew community said "hold my beer"
Behold, Doom on the Neo Geo AES

 

[unluckiness]

Vergil got his plan in DMC 5 from watching Dragon Ball movies and not even one of the cool ones.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Cooler 2? A Broly sequel?

 

[unluckiness]

Worse. Turles.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Eh, I feel like that one was fairly mid among the movies. But that might be just because the bottom is so low. Bio Broly ranks as the worst to me.

 

[MEDdMI]

Somehow, Broly returned.

 

[unluckiness]

I dunno, I feel that since they’re all not canon anyway, the worst thing these movies can do is to not be memorable. Turles is just worse Raditz with a green thumb and I cannot for the life of me even remember his henchmen’s names or appearance

Biobroly is stupid and has lame fight scenes but at least I can remember most of the movie and it let the secondary characters have the spotlight. Meta Cooler’s defeat was dumb but at least they tried to put Goku in a situation he can’t punch his way out of.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Dead Zone is kinda canon. Something like it has to happen.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Dead Zone has to be canon for the Garlic Jr arc to happen. On the other hand, that entire arc is anime-only filler, and making it canon causes a minor plot hole (in the first episode of Z, everyone is shocked that Goku has a kid, but in Dead Zone they know about Gohan already).

I believe the only canon movie is History of Trunks. Cooler could fit in the time skip before the Androids ( the only real discrepancy is that Gohan has a tail again, but it was shown to grow back at least twice before), but the rest just don't fit.

Cooler IS canon in GT, since he shows up when all of the villains break out of Hell, but GT is an alternate timeline. Or something.

 

[unluckiness]

Out of the movie villains, I always wanted Cooler to get canonized. Broly is okay but I dunno, there are only so many stories you can tell about the berserker type of character.