Is that because it’s too old to be updated? Never had an ipad or iphone, so I genuinely have no clue.

Don’t take any wooden buckazoids!

Every so many years I fire up a King’s Quest or Space Quest.

Oh I agree completely. There are many “more powerful” devices out there, but very few people actually prefer them if they’ve used a Steam Deck before. And its battery life is fine for what it is, but it would be awesome if it was twice as much.

I’ve seen ARM64 in action firsthand in the new Macbooks. The energy efficiency especially is off the charts. Since battery life was the Steam Deck’s greatest flaw, chances are an ARM architecture version can squeeze a lot more juice out of the same battery size in the future.

It was a bit more involved than “advertisements”. It was a targeted psyop. Cfr Cambridge Analytica.

He also gave women agency…

I see one of the architects of our destruction, I upvote for visibility.

I’ve had several die on me in Raspberri pi’s after prolonged use.

There’s already small NVMe drives the size of, say, four SD cards with up to 1-2 TB capacity. So it shouldn’t be long I reckon.

My experience with playing games off an SD card in Steam Deck was… lackluster, shall we say (performance-wise).

I share your feelings about SD cards.

I think they might eat the extra costs because they know they’ll more than recuperate it from increased software sales. Hell, XboX as a console was a loss leader for MS for over a decade.

Doubt they’ll be that pricey. I think they’re aiming for 600ish or thereabouts. I’m not the target audience (beefy gaming pc) but I love the concept and what it’ll do to further indie gaming. It’ll probably also pull people from consoles to pc gaming. Valve can’t stop winning.

I wonder if we’ll ever see widespread hate of the older generations take root in the youth. Wouldn’t blame them.

It’s largely the same in mainland Europe. Youth centers are disappearing everywhere because their subsidies were either cut wholly or partially. And then the youth get accused of “hanging around” and being a menace. Yeah, of course, you fucking took away their only safe space.

Both I reckon. The old ones are all offline of course.

Then they will always be useless as standalone trustworthy agents.

I’m ancient, but I learned both to use the computer and English when I started gaming on the family Amiga at around age 6. My fondest memories were of adventure games like King’s Quest and Space Quest, which incidentally required decent command of English.

There’s tons of more modern and kid-friendly adventure games out there nowadays, but the principle stands.

No, the corporations learned their lessons from back then and they’ve successfully divided us along ideological or other lines, rather than class. In fact they’ve tried to fully erase class consciousness and I’d say they sadly succeeded.

I meant Theroux’ interview, not his subject. He’s not responsible for the things his interviewees say.