My SteamDeck is on its way..

[superj]

yeah, i don't know how you let internet go for that long and didn't assume command already.

 

[Blmpkn]

I'm just not too terribly high maintenance I guess lol.

The amount of internet things I can do with my phone is *mostly* enough to satiate that hunger.. at least through summer.

When work slows down for winter and its too cold to want to be outside is when I do all the video games and want streaming services and stuff.. so I'll be making that call to the aclu relatively soon

 

[Blmpkn]

What is that?

Steam Deck

Available now.

www.steamdeck.com

 

[Uncle Gump]

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It's heeeeeeeeere!

Unfortunately, we don't got no internets at the house -__- so I gotta wait to go by my buddys house later on to update the thing and install a couple games.

We were supposed to have internet like.. 6 months ago.. but the person in charge of that project has been dragging their feet lol.. so I think I'm about to take over as project manager.

FYI... the cart typically goes behind the horse.

 

[Roert42]

Why pay for Internet when your friends have internet?

good excuse to spend more time with loved ones.

 

[Blmpkn]

Why pay for Internet when your friends have internet?

good excuse to spend more time with loved ones.

I like this thinking lol.

This is a buddy I need small doses of though even for me.. he can be a bit much sometimes.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

I like this thinking lol.

This is a buddy I need small doses of though even for me.. he can be a bit much sometimes.

All of my buddies are those. And lady friends too. This is why I don't mind so much being lonely lol, at least I get to enjoy being alone.

 

[Blmpkn]

All of my buddies are those. And lady friends too. This is why I don't mind so much being lonely lol, at least I get to enjoy being alone.

Eh. I feel bad saying it to be honest, it's not his fault.

He's had SUPER bad seizures for the past 12 years or so.. the more he has the wonkier his brain function gets.. mostly grumpiness. Nothing has really helped him. THC tincture takes him immideately out of a seizure.. but nothing seems to reduce his chances of having them. He seems to have one a week on average.. sometimes having clusters of 3+.. super unfortunate.

 

[Roert42]

I had an old co worker that got in a bad car accident.
Had to take medication three times a day to prevent seizures.

He was very excitable.

 

[oldgeek]

Poor guys. I think I would be grumpy too.

Oh, wait, nobody would probably be able to tell the difference.

 

[Blmpkn]

Alright... I've had this thing for a few months now and it's absolutely awesome.

All I've done so far is use it to play games as a handheld.. havnt explored the desktop mode and havnt hooked a mouse and keyboard to it yet to play games that way but... I'm definitely in love. Steam has (once again) revolutionized gaming 100%.

The game I've played the most of on the thing so far is Oblivion, and it's great. Oblivion on steam unfortunately doesn't have controller support, so it took me a few minutes to set up the controls.. but its near flawless. Looks miles better than the console version too... with maxed video settings I get around 5 hours of battery life.

I finally bought the GOTY edition fallout 4 and started playing that the other day.. it's been running fine so far on max video settings.. and once again looks MILES better than on console.. only get about 1.5 hours of battery life though. I might bump the video settings down a little bit to see if I can stretch that out to 2 hours.. I've seen on reddit where people have messed with settings enough to get 4+ hours of battery life with FO4 but idk if I'm willing to sacrifice that much video quality for playtime lol.. it looks DAMN good right now.

 

[Roert42]

Can you download any game from your steam account onto it?

 

[Blmpkn]

Can you download any game from your steam account onto it?

Yes sir. And steam will tell you how compatible each game is with the deck too. Verified games get a green check and are 100% good to go, some games show a little exclamation mark/warning icon type thing that let's you know your likely going to need to mess with some settings to get the game to run right (mostly control related) and other games get listed as not compatible or something like that... however... not compatible doesn't always mean not compatible lol... the original DOOM is listed as non compatible.... but its immideately playable at 100% functionality lol.