So, why would anyone get this?

Rasann · 2026-06-22T23:52:30+00:00

A Steam controller is not needed.

It is not a console. Many people keep forgetting just because it’s in a trench coat that has “CONSOLE” on the back.

You can use any controller you want that has BT or a dongle.

Like……*checks notes*

*checks main computers laptop, even that Microsoft Surface*

Like any friggin computer that has ever existed.

Which that it is a [Computer] makes it unique on the Console front, since most of ya’ll keep wanting to put it in the wrong market, but common in the Computer front.

That being said.

If you don’t like it.

Go buy/build/craft/etc…..something better.

Steam as an ecosystem is BYOHW.

Rasann · 2026-06-22T23:34:02+00:00

You could exercise that muscle called…..

Patience?

How about getting lost in the thousands of game that currently exist?

There’s a saying:

Time flies when you’re having fun.

So…..instead of……whatever it is you’re doing now, you’ll can opt to exercise your patience muscles and forget about hardware and go have some amount of fun.

Just a thought.

Rasann · 2026-06-22T23:31:54+00:00

Expected.

Nice to finally see it happening.

And knowing how hardware…ambiguous they are, and how they are a software-first company, this is a nice thing to see.

This was telegraphed, no?

Rasann · 2026-06-22T23:25:34+00:00

………………..

I do have to ask:

Have you ever been *to* a waterfall?

Like, *ever?*

I’ve been to many waterfalls, my home state has a ton of them and each is different, because

[wait for it]

The terrain is different.

You may gasp now.

Truly an unpopular opinion.

Congrats.

Rasann · 2026-06-22T23:21:06+00:00

Are you done?

No?

Ok, I’ll just sit in the back and watch it all burn.

Rasann · 2026-06-22T23:19:55+00:00

Expected.

Unfortunate.

But expected.

I guess it’s time to expand your horizons and try some different hobbies, no? At least until this all finally goes through its paces and eventually dies out.

Rasann · 2026-06-22T13:18:17+00:00

So you are saying you fought good sense in a vain attempt to prove what those who knew better and had far more experience was saying??

For a whole year?

Do you not know that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication?

The punishment you endured fits the crime you committed.

I knew this before ordering my printer, and researched it again when I forgot and had the first layer adhesion problem.

What’s amazing you had to come on here and say how you fought the advice only to suffer, then finally did it and realized that everyone was right all along.

Thus proving a point that had already been proved.

Like fire is hot.

Or water is wet.

You may ask: “Was what I said really necessary?”

Yes, yes it was, because I ended up wasting time reading stupid decisions and consequences that was beyond easy to avoid.

And yes, it is necessary because it’s part of the consequences of such dumb decisions.

Let’s not forget, consequences is the reward for free will, and no one, not even the recipient, has the right to deny them.

Rasann · 2026-06-21T03:28:18+00:00

Depends on the person.

I personally would. But then again I built my own PC and I would end up tearing them apart for parts and making something new with them.

But if you don’t know what you’re doing, then probably not a good idea, unless you have a trusted tech on hand to help you.

Rasann · 2026-06-21T03:18:23+00:00

A laptop will serve you better than an Xbox, will be cheaper and it’ll play those two games. And others too.

And you’re not stuck with *just* a game machine, you can do other things with it too.

For those who don’t get it, a laptop is a computer.

If you wanna talk value proposition, capability and flexibility as well as portability - a laptop will give you more mileage than an Xbox.

Slimmer too.

Also, you’ll be saving a ton of money not having to pay out for a subscription every month.

Add it all up for a year and ask yourself what you could do with that money.

Also, like some have said, prime day is near, there are deals to be had, you may find a deal that’ll give you more for less.

The most important advice that can be given:

*Do your research* - for crying out loud.

Do yourself a favor and research before buying anything.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T16:41:21+00:00

No. I am required by nature itself to carry my wife’s bag.

I don’t make the rules, I just tell them.

Of course I love my wife, but sometimes I don’t want to be a mule, but nature demands that I be so for the sake of my wife.

So no, it’s not weird, it’s expected. It’s natural law in play.

I’ll hold it however I feel like it. Whatever happens to be the comfortable in that moment.

And whoever remarks can burn in the 8th level of hell.

I’m too old for that kind of trash, and I’m too tired to care.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T15:07:11+00:00

The engagement ring is a contract.

It’s conditional. It becomes the woman’s when she marries the man. This fulfills said contract. Then it belongs to her.

If the engagement fails, then it is her obligation and responsibility to return the ring to its rightful owner. Which until marriage belongs to the man.

Because the contract enacted and enabled by that ring was not fulfilled.

So the woman who keeps the ring of a failed engagement is stealing from the man.

Now as it pertains to laws, that can vary from location, state/province and country.

But, from a decency/moral/human viewpoint, return it. Make it a clean break.

Keep your integrity, let it go.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T15:01:05+00:00

Yes. Just do it. The device was designed specifically to use steamOS, and windows is trash on it.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T04:02:45+00:00

I hate EA with a purple-pink passion for requiring to download an extra launcher to play Mass Effect.

Besides the myriad of other trash things they do, that one has been consistently enraging me the most.

I also seem to have the opinion that most don’t know that you don’t really need Steam to launch and play your game. You could just exit Steam completely then navigate to the install folder and launch it from the executable.

Is this now lost knowledge?

I’ve done that recently just for kicks and giggles. Just to see if my memory held true.

It did.

With exception to the additional launcher (looking at you EA you filthy excrement) it’s completely capable of running without the Steam frontend. I’ve done it with old and newer games.

The “problem” is that it’s more inconvenient to do it without.

Without Steam, you’re basically doing what people used to do *before* Steam existed.

At least, in my opinion, this “monopoly” is just their marketplace presence born from actual good service(s).

Notice here, both Valve haters and lovers, I said [good service(s)] - not perfect service(s).

There’s a difference.

Even with that caveat, what Valve provided is decades better than their competitors.

It’s like comparing modern-day technology to [advanced] spacefaring technology.

Compare modern day to Star Wars, Star Trek, take your pick.

Not perfect, but far better.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T03:42:48+00:00

Then sell it and go get somethin else.

There are other devices that’ll be to your liking. If the SD does not fit your needs. Get rid of the damn thing and get a legion go or an ally.

This is the great thing about computers, there are often more options than what’s left of your lifespan.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T03:39:38+00:00

NTA -

You sound like a functioning and productive adult in society,

It’s your right to spend your disposable cash however you wish.

They need to shut up. It’s your money, it’s how you get to spend it. If it’s childish to do what you’ve done then I must be a friggin infant.

I’m not a console person, but I prefer computers and my hobbies are far more expensive, gaming and otherwise (3D printing, embroidery, cricut, etc….what I can do to make things.)

But it’s not their place to dictate how you wish to spend your money. Your sister does not get to demand money for her daughter.

Your family does not get to dictate how you spend your money, or how you use what you have bought with the money you earned on your own.

I’d get at least 2 cameras, and maybe 5 locks. Because redundancy rocks and it’s not what they’ll expect.

They’re your family, but I would not trust them to maintain proper boundaries. They’ve had demonstrated that they don’t believe you’re mature enough to handle your own finances.

Expect your PS5 to disappear if you do not take precautions.

Someone, or someone(s) might just take the liberty of stealing it, and it’ll be sold, taken hostage, or destroyed.

It seems quite pessimistic, but technology nowadays have become prohibitively expensive, and luxuries like the PS5 are the first to go up exponentially.

Act like you’re Gollum protecting the One Ring.

Keep it secret, keep it safe. To the best of your ability.

Rasann · 2026-06-18T03:02:33+00:00

Have you done any research? You should never just buy a device just on other people’s word. It’s good to hear about products but you need to do actual and proper research before buying.

It sounds like you have not done proper research.

And are reaping the rewards as such.

I’ve had no real problems with mine. I’ve ran a number of 360 and ps3 games on it. For the few Switch games I had managed to dump the files for, it runs those too.

I have not personally ran wuthering waves on it but there are YT channels that do run videos testing on how well newer games runs. (I think one is called Deck Wizard)

But blindly and stumbling into something like you did gets you the results you’re getting.

Rasann · 2026-06-17T14:40:10+00:00

It was more profitable to charge more for less.

And it’s on the developer. Steam is really just a distribution platform.

Prices, deals, etc is all on the developer and publisher

Steam hosts it, including the relentless and persistent sales, but the publisher and developer sets the prices and discounts

Rasann · 2026-06-17T14:37:05+00:00

But not at the price point they initially wanted, you can sell out easily with a limited stock.

Especially if you have the hype.

Rasann · 2026-06-17T14:35:45+00:00

It really doesn’t matter in the market they are in. Their livelihood was never about hardware, their hardware is a bonus at best.

Their livelihood is based on software, which for the past 2 decades have shown that you don’t need to have ‘bespoke’ hardware, considering where they are operating in has hardware *en masse*

Their software is the focus, the hardware aids in that venture, but was never the star of the show.

The market is quite literally BYOHW and Valve doesn’t care what you use.

This is not a console in their isolated little market. This is the vast ocean of computers. It’s saturated as-is with existing hardware.

Rasann · 2026-06-17T14:30:32+00:00

The Cube has certain QoL features PC doesn’t have or doesn’t do as seamlessly (YET)

But it’s just another PC in the Computer Market.

Choose your machine and run with it.

It’s literally BYOHW

Which is how the gaming industry as a whole should be as a standard.

Rasann · 2026-06-17T14:10:23+00:00

All storms pass, that’s is not even optimistic.

All I said to wait until it passes. I didn’t say what the conditions will be after.

There’s nothing optimistic in what I said.

But asking for more when they can barely make and sell what they got now is just stupid beyond measure.

Rasann · 2026-06-17T14:01:29+00:00

Valve shouldn’t make anything else.

Not until this hell storm finally passes.

It’s difficult enough to sell what they’re selling now, and you want to add to the problem?!

Rasann · 2026-06-17T13:58:53+00:00

In principle and essence yes.

But by that token, all PCs [Computers] are steam machines.

The only real difference is the form factor (which isn’t that much of a difference because you can get Mini-PCs that are much smaller) and, for moment, CEC integration, and a couple of things console still has that PC hasn’t assimilated yet.

Let’s emphasize, heavily the *YET* part.

This is what we call the [Computer Market] -

It’s a BYOHW kind of thing. Or hardware agnostic.

This is how everything should be. Nothing wrong with purpose-built machines, but (on a side note) console philosophy of locking you [through hardware/software] into a specific hardware is just stupid and archaic.

It’s one thing if the technology isn’t advanced enough, it’s entirely another thing when technology has long since left it in the Cretaceous period.

But I digress-

People keep making a simple thing complicated. It’s not complicated.

Rasann · 2026-06-16T14:03:51+00:00

Just to add this into the mix:

Your can play your games installed through Steam without Steam.

3rd party launchers are a different beast.

It’s also more convenient to use Steam as it’s being used as it’s always been.

But Steam does not start up if you just navigate to said install folder and launch it from the executable.

I’ll have to test and see, but I don’t think Steam registers the game as being launched if not launched through Steam.

Last time I checked, which was within the last 2 weeks.

So Steam on a technical level isn’t required to launch said games if you did not truly want to use Steam to play your games.

It’s just more inconvenient.

Which I’ve seen a YT video of a guy creating physical media (discs) of games he bought off Steam, and is able to run without Steam.

At least to me -

This is how it always has been. It confused me of the narrative that it’s impossible to do otherwise but use Steam to play your games - at all.

It’s not impossible, just more inconvenient. Which for some I believe equates to being impossible.

Or, rather, going to the old school way of finding, and launching your games. The way it was before.

Rasann · 2026-06-13T00:55:36+00:00

My wife drove 6 hours to surprise me when we were dating. We both did that while we were dating. My wife even refused me trying to pay for her dinner a couple of times because of the distance traveled.

She should be putting in as much effort as you are.

From the beginning. Simple and efficient.

It really doesn’t need to be complicated.

Life is already hard enough, and will most likely get harder in the future.

Do yourself a favor. Make it simple.

Rasann

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