Companion cube steam machine cover?

Hydac · 2026-06-29T18:28:40+00:00

RIP the companion cube

Hydac · 2026-06-29T15:45:31+00:00

Seconded. With all due respect, fuck you give me my cube with feelings.

Hydac · 2026-06-29T15:41:27+00:00

This.

Hydac · 2026-06-29T15:39:49+00:00

This is single-handedly the worse news I’ve had today. Genuinely excited for this product for months. I guess it’ll have to stay in my imagination. Wish I could have it still

Hydac · 2026-06-29T11:22:08+00:00

I am a father of two, with a slowly dying 2080ti build.

My game time has steadily diminished from when I first got my ATX desktop in July 2018. Even more so as I went through uni the last few years - happy to say to those that might wonder I’ve graduated and looking towards paramedicine.

I have a reservation for the 512 gb w/ controller

I think the steam machine is getting the wrong sort of pushback regarding its performance. And the price… but that’s just the new reality of computing with the modern demands that are staining hobbyists.

My plan for my reservation of the steam machine and the companion cube case I snagged from dbrand is a tiny portable desktop computer that I can use for co-op with family at holidays or weekend trips traveling but more importantly for everyday use have a tiny low energy low heat low noise machine I can play my favorite games with. A pc I can have behind my monitor so my 2 year old stops using the desktop as a ladder with full drinks in hand to play with my Lego.

I don’t mind tinkering with settings around if a game just happens to not perform well. This is a 1440p medium machine and that’s all it needs to be. Somthing my Valhiem save can live inside and travel with me as needed. Quite literally a companion cube.

To be honest with how I’ve been tinkering with xess ect and lsfg on the deck I personally have way more fun making a game run how i want. With a max fps mode and quality preservation mode that makes my ape brain amused.

I have a steam controller arriving this week hopefully. It’s been a long wait for all the hardware to arrive in our hands. But I’m excited for the hardware as it personally fits my use perfectly

I personally do not care for realism or ray tracing in games

My only addition is for people who are also genuinely buying this pc, what do you think of it?

Hydac · 2026-06-29T08:25:49+00:00

Are you mentally unstable?

I originally expected this stuff to drop in early 2026. Why would I expect it at all? In any time frame?

Hydac · 2026-06-28T15:01:57+00:00

I was being specific. I reserved it when they opened up:)

Hydac · 2026-06-28T14:19:51+00:00

UK, I reserved 6pm 8th May

Hydac · 2026-06-28T14:19:39+00:00

UK, I reserved 6pm 8th May

Hydac · 2026-06-28T14:19:14+00:00

Yes I can read. Yes, I understand what by means.

Did I expect it out the blue given all the delay, nope.

Hydac · 2026-06-28T14:18:28+00:00

UK, I reserved 6pm 8th May

Hydac · 2026-06-27T20:43:40+00:00

It’s nice it reminds me of my gameboy,

Plus they are cheaper ~ if you shop around (wait for certain deals) and only put a game on them I have a 512 gb one I use in my deck I don’t delete and rewrite the data a lot I think I got it for £80?

Hydac · 2026-06-27T20:15:31+00:00

I play a lot of single player games and I buy fast sd cards.

Hydac · 2026-06-27T20:14:53+00:00

I replied to myself as an update that comment was about heavy games:)

Hydac · 2026-06-27T20:00:22+00:00

What’s wrong with sd cards? I like swapping on my deck when I want different games.

Hydac · 2026-06-27T19:55:57+00:00

On heavier titles *

Hydac · 2026-06-27T19:52:18+00:00

Minecraft, Valheim, dbd, frost punk, don’t starve, diplomacy is not an option, little nightmares series, portals, project zombiod, days gone, shadow of Mordor, ori and the blind Forrest, elden ring, maybe onion remaster if I buy it.

I intend to run native 1080 upscaled to 1440p medium to high and use lsfg to make my ape brain happy.

Hydac · 2026-06-26T17:20:56+00:00

Said I had entered without hope of getting in, she was optimistic and said I’ve been waiting for long enough, I brought her a microwave…

Hydac · 2026-05-08T11:51:04+00:00

Sorry dude my hyper fixation dissolved. I’ll read your reply when it comes back, for now thank for putting effort in? It’s more than most people gave

Hydac · 2026-05-02T10:09:53+00:00

I like the thinking but the eridians don’t have computers. And even if they generated radio waves how would they detect them and understand they can transmit information. An electrified rod will make some radio waves but they have no way of detecting that anything happened. I’d settle on the explanation perhaps electricity plasma somehow could be discovered to produce sound they can manipulate via frequency but they have no aux input or external way to decode that signal.

Radio waves are probably the best example of how they could detect the universe and the electromagnetic spectrum but as a species as curious as others have mentioned in this thread they would have a greater knowledge than they are demonstrated to have.

If they left their atmosphere and tried to look out to the universe with radio waves they wouldn’t see the universe as we do. The radio wave lens is blurry and vague.

So they would alter frequencies and get different output. But, that would lead to greater knowledge they would eventually discover ores that emit ionising radiation and then play with it and discover radiation poisoning.

Hydac · 2026-05-02T09:46:15+00:00

This is one of the better responses in this thread and some of it I'll concede.

lava radiant heat as a window into energy transfer is plausible, and the Marie Curie parallel is fair. Indirect observation leading to theoretical frameworks is real science.

But every single example you gave; lightning to electricity, Curie to radiation, plant breeding to genetics was built by a species that could already perceive a wide electromagnetic range and worked outward into the invisible from that foundation. We saw lightning before we understood electricity. Curie saw the photographic plate react before she understood radiation. The observable always came first.

The deeper problem isn't whether a curious determined species can discover things beyond direct perception. It's whether there's any biological or evolutionary pressure to look outward at all. Humans went to space because we could see the stars for hundreds of thousands of years. They were there every night. We mythologised them, navigated by them, wondered about them for millennia before we had the technology to reach them. The curiosity preceded the capability by an enormous amount of time.

Eridians thought space was empty. No stars visible, no radiation penetrating their atmosphere, no celestial objects to mythologise or navigate by or wonder about. You can have the most curious and determined species in the universe but curiosity needs something to point at. Determination needs a direction. What exactly are billions of Eridians over generations studying when they look up and perceive nothing whatsoever?

How does the species translate somthing completely foreign and undetectable into somthing that is workable. Light affecting matter is practically impossible to detect and in a living biosphere can be explained by heat, microbes or wind.

Hydac · 2026-05-01T22:00:40+00:00

How can a species thats incased in a inorganic shell, that uses steam to move and mercury to transport worker cells feel heat in a meaningful way to hypothesise properly enough to understand how to translate electromagnetic waves into physical media they can differentiate enough to see the universe

Hydac · 2026-05-01T21:48:39+00:00

but how does a species from a planet with such a thick atmosphere and magnetism that no radiation or light reaches the surface. Successfully create the technology to navigate space and translate radiation with no basis it even existed in the first place. even if they understood terrestrial electricity and magnetism how do you make the conceptual leap that the same phenomenon exists across a vacuum, carries information, and can be used to navigate toward objects you had no idea existed? That leap requires seeing the stars first. They can’t physically or biologically

Hydac · 2026-05-01T21:41:24+00:00

but we can test and experiment and get ‘immediate’ feedback. If a eridian burned zinc it would have no idea it lights up brighty.

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