Oh. That makes sense, I play mainly on SteamDeck, but I’ve been thinking of getting a Steam Controller for my PC, since the majority of what I’ve bought in the last year has been “SteamDeck Verified”.
It’s been tickling my brain that “SteamDeck Verified” badge also makes it a lot easier to tell how a game will act with a controller on PC.
An egg cooker is a special appliance for people who feel like their pot doesn’t take enough electricity, and doesn’t cuss them out with a special beep when finished.
It’s pretty great when it’s done well though. But it’s so rarely done well.
I’ve heard appliances make beeps or sing songs that clearly meant “job completed successfully”, or “low battery”, or “I need rescued before I can work again” without any need to consult a manual.
Agreed, about keeping more goofy songs out of the kitchen.
But I’ll make an exception for my egg cooker.
My egg cooker beeps the equivalent beep to “I will fucking kill you all. Also these eggs are done. Seriously though, if I weren’t just an egg cooker, I would stab you right in the eye.”
I would trade that beep for pretty much any other sound, even a goofy song.
“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.
Also, your username is perfect for this moment.
It’s not “superhero fatigue” it’s “almost nobody fucking stays home from the theater when they’re interesting infectionsly sick” fatigue. It’s exacerbated by “studio executives are too fucking stupid to embrace premium home streaming during the time where when the hype machine is still active”.
I was super excited for “The Marvels”, but still haven’t seen it. I’m hyped now for “Deadpool and Wolverine” and probably won’t see that until it hits $4 on Redbox.
I saw that Wonder Woman movie. I paid a premium to stream it from home on a Friday night. I liked it.
If they can’t sell me movies while I still give a shit, I’ll grab it from the dollar bin in a decade. Or if I have a friend who can be arsed to make me see it sooner, well I have no idea how they managed that, but aye expect it be superrrr convenient. Yarrr.
Yeah. You wouldn’t download some kid’s lunch of bread and fish!
Yeah. You’re both right.
The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).
The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it’s running inside an arcade cabinet.
Pandora’s Box is a game machine, with games pre-loaded. It tends to have thousands of arcade games pre-loaded.
It’s a popular choice for restoring actual full size arcade machines, with dead motherboards. It’s also an option to upgrade (or just revive from motherboard death) an Arcade1Up.
With some effort, a cheap PC will do the same job, but some folks like that they’re premade and ready to use.
So, they are just a fancy decoration?
Exactly. There’s so many better ways to play these games:
So the price is really only justifiable, to me, by thinking of the cabinet being a piece of the decorated furniture.
As someone who sometimes buys these, the price, when on sale, is often cheaper than buying wood and hardware to build my own outer cabinet, control deck and screen.
There’s trade-offs - the materials used aren’t quite as nice as I would pick, but then the included, already applied, art is very nice. And there’s the convenience of not having to plan out all the details like control layout, monitor, side art, top bezel.
To me, it’s really a piece of furniture, rather an affordable way to play the included games.
The CPU cores also only last about 5 years, for me. Which isn’t good, considering that a cheap modern computer will easily last 8-15 years.
I, personally, don’t give a ton of consideration to the included games. I’m really just buying the outer shell and licensed artwork. That’s what I’ll be looking at when not playing.
I’ll replace the innards with a Raspberry Pi when it dies, if not sooner. So I’ll play whatever games I want that fit the control scheme.
I also replace all of the controls, about half the time. The included controls outlast the CPU core, but don’t feel as nice to play on as a set that’s reasonably easy to replace them with.
I’m at a very “play for couples minutes when and where I have time” phase of life. So my gaming is almost 100% on my SteamDeck.
That difference seems far lower than I would have guessed.
Oh. The “verified” status accounts for the difference. That’s fair.
My initial mental math was including unverified Indie games I already bought for my PC, most of which happen to work perfectly.
I expect that difference to go up fast over the next few years as more indie devs discover that they don’t actually need to change many of their old games to get verified.
Looks around at famously successful people…
Good news, that one can be overcome.
Did you happen get the “rich parents” starting feature? It seems to be the preferred solution…
The accuracy of that painting could be improved…
Yeah. Just “the resistance” is also fine. Or just “surviving humans”.
Yeah. This is going to suck worse before it gets any better. The good news is that all the useful content (outside of sales gardens) is going to be here in the Fediverse.
The other good news is that the state of Cybersecurity investment is abysmal, and the walled garden content is going to get breached/leaked/pirated a lot, for a long time to come.
This is an exciting thread. I’m gonna check all of these out, thank you!
For me, it’s still MineGame on MineTest Engine. Particularly with LWScratch mod, adding programmable robots.
I feel like a clip on screen cover is a necessity, to protect that big beautiful screen.
I use a cheap one, but many of my friends get the dBrand one.
Today I learned that. It never came up for me since I do most of my game shopping on my phone. That could be really helpful later.
Thank you!