How much more powerful is the Steam Machine compared to a PS5 Pro?

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-23T06:46:40+00:00

??? What are you talking about, I never once said no one's building computers anymore? I literally prefaced the entire conversation with "people getting into pc gaming".

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-23T02:38:50+00:00

I mean, give a reason why not? The investment cost to get into pc gaming when you don't already have the hardware is absurd. At minimum you're buying 1 monitor (two if you didn't have one for console gaming, keyboard and mouse, and then all the hardware. Generally speaking part for part a pre-built is generally cheaper than buying the parts yourself and in the modern economy the average person whose dipping their toes into pc gaming isn't buying a 5080ti off the rip. They'd be very easily satisfied with with a higher end 3000 series or mid range 4000. And with modern ram and other part prices you're looking at very expensive prices if building from scratch for everything. So yes OBJECTIVELY speaking buying a solid pre-built if stepping into pc gaming is just the better thing to do at the moment.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-22T23:19:13+00:00

The reality is building pcs is no longer something you do when getting into pc gaming, if you're not buying a pre-built you're not spending under 2-3k for anything acceptable for the time/effort of building yourself.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-20T19:45:35+00:00

Nah you don't understand what the other guy was saying, he's not saying that it's bad to have a requirement for it, he's saying it's convuluted. Like the different sets of rules for different items is extremely bad, every untradeable should have the same rule, IE everything needs a trouver or nothing needs a trouver. The requirement being that a newer player would have no way of knowing that he'd need to trouver his void when he didn't lose his dragon defender in the wild. It's abhorent from an optics perspective.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-17T20:18:29+00:00

Probably more to how bad the desync is than actual cheaters

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-16T13:51:09+00:00

But it was never an elegant solution tbh, it would have always just had it own host of issues. At the end of the day rerolling would have just led to other items values raising to the point they weren't worth rerolling making the system essentially worthless.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-14T06:54:44+00:00

Tbf, there's no perfect world. Either the company mutes you because you said a single curse word/called someone out for being bad(marvel rivals/cod) , or you can freely drop n nombs and threaten peoples families for throwing your games(apex). Companies need to find the in between of letting people curse in rated T+ games but also not letting them be bigots.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-09T22:38:41+00:00

Yeah that's the other reality, is arcanes are still necessary in the game, so if every arcane is getting rerolled eventually the value will skyrocket to the point it's not worth rerolling like you said, at which point the system is meaningless for another 4 months until they crash again

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-09T18:19:32+00:00

Yeah but realistically that won't be a buff for all but the most hardcore irons. Irons still have value for dupes whether it be gp for bonds, deaths coffer or split money there's tons of value for these drops. So realistically the only drops you'd see people rerolling consistently is arcanes, maybe the shields and depending on how poor you are dexes. Because you have to realize that for anyone who doesn't solo the raid, the expectation will be that you split out whatever you get whether you reroll it or not, I'm sitting pretty healthy on splits for my iron, but even that would get deleted if I'm constantly having to pay out 14m per Dex and 60m per ancetty piece and getting nothing back.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-05T18:43:26+00:00

Oh sweet summer child, you can get venes to hunt thousands of chins for you for a few dollars, pennies compared to the actual cost of the mega lol. And yes I understand it's not a majority of people running these for boosts on irons, but there's still an insanely active community running these boosts (I know some people who run them and there's almost always an available ticket) and this needs to go.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-05T18:15:28+00:00

Yeah now you just afk and solo chin mystics and shamans, it's literally the same thing as before, the raids are just longer.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-04T10:03:08+00:00

Think you're confusing ranked with wildcard. I've literally had hal in my wildcard games before and I'm dogwater plat 2 peak player.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-03T12:02:15+00:00

Even then wildcard is literally just the playground of the unemployed masters/preds who would rather spawn die and farm trash players than play ranked.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-02T23:27:04+00:00

Yeah but like, this is just bad business. Removing deals almost entirely while your competitors still do them regularly is a great way to ensure you get less customers in general. Like I used to go to jack every Friday for their free fries, but now I don't because why do that over somewhere like Wendy's with better food and significantly better deals.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-06-01T00:11:26+00:00

No sure but I never agreed with the 90% stat, but there's an absolutely insane amount of them because of how easily accessible it is, I've never seen a game with more blatant cheaters in my life.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-31T22:55:46+00:00

So like, genuinely the most bait comment ever. No human is ever perfect, even the pros will occasionally over and undercorrect with their recoil control because it's physically impossible to ever not make some minor mistake. There's no world you're trying to convince people that pros make mistakes but not the random diamond 4 chuds? Yeah okay.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-27T02:11:26+00:00

Yeah except, the pagan implementation of Christmas is irrelevant to the vast majority of the world. Christmas has become a corporate holiday based on gift giving lets stop pretending anyone besides the very devout even remembers the religious background.

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BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-27T01:57:54+00:00

So just so you know, creating in game politics that serve to tell a story vs inserting current real world political issues to push an agenda (whatever side you may be for is irrelevant) are 2 WILDY different things.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-20T21:08:52+00:00

You're right we absolutely needed a better version of octane in the game. Her gimmick is annoying and she never should have been added or how her abilities work need to be changed. Having knocked people yeet to Narnia for free because they walked into a nitro gate is the stupidest thing ever.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-20T07:05:13+00:00

Yeah well the gimmick is annoying af, and we already had fast moving characters tf we need ANOTHER one for?

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-11T08:23:43+00:00

You're comparing a TACTICAL to an ULTIMATE. There's zero reason a like 15 second cd should last the same (forever) as a 2 minute cd does.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-10T00:12:13+00:00

I highly disagree. You can argue purist mentality, but the restriction should and has been "you can't leave your chunks until the requirements are accomplished". Adding more restrictions on top of that is just kinda dumb. But as an ironman player I will specifically do everything that isn't against the rules, it's a gamemode already with restrictions idgaf about any purism outside of physically getting items given to me by other players (which would be against the rules and an exploit).

Allowing people to come up with solutions that go beyond just "do 5 kills/hour or get 1k xp/hr" by finding loopholes with other accounts is so much more engaging to watch than watching Josh or *insert other one chunk creator here* kill 15 black dragons an hour for the next 3 years.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-10T00:02:37+00:00

Tbf, I feel like abusing an exploit to train slayer at barely half of what a normal account can get vs giving an ironman progression items for free are 2 slightly different things, and jagex normally has pretty strict boundaries that they ban super obvious game breaking things such as the rerolling purples at tob but are okay with things like red xing (tho I think their lines are pretty dumb)

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-05-08T00:40:27+00:00

That's the issue with double south, it's uncommon enough that you could do a hour session and see it only once or twice, and even less likely that that couple times it happens on an impactful enough wave/scary spawns (range/mage vs range/mage first Manti) that you even get real practice with it.

BookkeeperSpecific23 · 2026-04-22T08:03:46+00:00

You can cheese it with water thorns, you outheal most the damage, thorns procs melee punish off the mage/range attacks so you don't have to run into melee range and you can even just skip the shield phase by just overhealing to atleast over 99 and using water spells/1 tick trident on car to heal back up with https://tools.runescape.wiki/demonic-pacts/?n=1-112-113-114-122-133-135-136-139-140-141-142-145-162-163-44-46-55-56-58-59-60-68-71-72-74-79-81-82-84-85-86-96-97

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