It all depends on what you’re looking for. I’ve put hundreds of hours into games and gotten way less than $1/hr, and I’ve also had a great experience paying significantly more.

So I don’t see games in terms of $/hr, especially these days when I’m more limited by time than money. Instead, I look for unique experiences with cost being a much lower factor. Generally speaking, I spend much less than $1/hr since I buy a lot of older games, but I’ve spent far more ($5-10/hr) on particularly interesting games.

But yeah, generally speaking, I’m willing to pay more for indies than AAA titles because indie games are more likely to offer that unique experience.

American tourists escaping Prohibition

Wait, they banned salads along with the booze? That’s too far!

Is 12AM after 12AM?

early 2000s

Nothing good happened in that time period:

• .com crash and the lost decade
• 9/11 and the TSA/Patriot Act nonsense that followed
• Bush, and the start of Iraq and Afghanistan wars
• Dreamcast discontinued, and Sega drops out of the console market (duopoly ensues)

And of course History, Discovery, etc turning to utter crap.

No, that’s an ornithologist.

An orgasm is the term used to refer to relative positions in a set.

I loved that controller as a kid.

Why? Look at how many people here say they want Steam OS, and Lemmy skews heavy toward Linux users. This is that, but OOTB.

I don’t think it’ll sell anywhere near as well as the Steam Deck, but it’s also a less exciting form factor. I do think it’ll sell a fair number of units though.

The cheapest equivalent prebuilt I can find with similar specs (RX 7600 is slightly better than the Steam Machine) is $850, and a DIY build is more like $900 (lots of corners cut), so there’s probably not much margin on the prebuilt. Valve is probably saving some cash with their custom CPU, and they’re probably shipping it with a Steam Controller, hence the $800 target. If component prices rise significantly before launch, I could see $1k.

1. Yeah, I’m guessing $800-1000, and they’ll probably throw in a Steam Controller. That’s about how much a comparable PC would cost
2. I’ve been debating it, but it needs to be something my 5yo can use.
3. And that’s Valve’s target market here, those unwilling to DIY.

Get ready to riot because there’s no way it’s that cheap. My money is on $800-1000.

That’s a rip off, it’ll be more like 1/4 troy ounce, if that

Eh, I don’t particularly enjoy building PCs, but I do it because it’s cheaper, esp. for upgrades. I’m really not the target market for this.

That said, this is the right product for a lot of people. Many don’t want to mess with their gaming system, they want it to just work. That’s why consoles are popular, and the Steam Machine being a bit more expensive than a console and get access to Steam’s catalog is very attractive to a lot of people, especially if it otherwise works like a console.

Yeah, I’ve been guessing $800-1000. That’s a decent deal on a prebuilt with this performance.

I used Linux for regular desktop stuff before I installed Steam on it. Steam got me back into gaming.

¿Por que no los dos?

Yeah, TP is renewable by design, since it comes from trees. Being from a grass like bamboo doesn’t change that, and bamboo isn’t absorbent, so I’m very concerned about the process they’re using to produce something that’s supposed to be somewhat absorbent.

I wanna know how many square cubits it is.

Use something like Backblaze or Hetzner storage boxes for off-site backups. There are a number of tools for making this painless, so pick your favorite. If you have the means, I recommend doing a disaster recovery scenario every so often (i.e. disconnect existing drives, reinstall the OS, and load everything from remote backup).

Generally speaking, follow the 3-2-1 rule:

• 3 copies of everything on
• 2 different types of media with
• 1 copy off site (at least)

For your situation, this could be:

• 3 copies - your computer (NVMe?), TrueNas (HDD?), off-site backup; ideally have a third local device (second computer?)
• 2 media - NVMe and HDD
• 1 copy off site - Backblaze, Hetzner, etc

You could rent a cloud server, but it’ll be a lot more expensive vs just renting storage.

And we Americans trash talk France. I don’t know why though, they’ve been nothing but helpful, what with the Revolutionary War and the Louisiana purchase.

Nope, SNAP is food assistance, meaning you get a couple hundred dollars to spend on groceries. UBI is cash you can spend on anything.

Headlander was surprisingly fun. Probably not my favorite, but certainly up there.