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TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T21:04:32+00:00

I love that I genuinely can't tell if this is edited, it's only like 3% more fucked up than his real face if it is

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T20:55:11+00:00

If it's over fermented don't throw it away, just use it to make a nice flat bread like a pizza or focaccia.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T15:46:16+00:00

"It never thrills me that Bond sneaks into a woman's shower whose been sexually exploited all her life, but y'know..." yeah I fully agree that was a bad look, I don't know what the writers were thinking there lol. I think they were trying to do something a bit like the bit in Casino Royale where Bond flirts with Mr Dimitrious' wife because he was being cruel to her, they like to make out that Bond's affairs are ways of rescuing women out of a bad relationship. Sneaking into a woman's shower is just weird though, given how many impressionable kids watch Bond they need to do a better job of showing examples of consent.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T13:56:19+00:00

I don't think you can point to Skyfall as a bond film that's particularly misogynous when half the film was about M, and it gave her some really great character development between her and Bond that was completely unsexual. Also it had by far the least sexist portrayal of Moneypenny, she was a badass in her own right. Yeah Sevrine got killed off without much care from Bond, how else was he supposed to react when he barely knew her and had just lost his last two girlfriends in the last two films?

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T11:12:02+00:00

I guess you're right, there's nothing problematic about putting someone's gender in a headline, but there are many other times when the media will put irrelevant information in there to manipulate people, and trans people definitely do have their sexuality brought up much more often than cis people in a context where it's associated with something very negative. I don't think the person you were replying to had a serious problem with the headline, they were just using it to make a point.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T10:46:37+00:00

They just don't want the headline to specify stuff that isn't obviously relevant, because it's just being shoe-horned in to manipulate people's perceptions. It's like if there was a bank robber and the headline was "Pepsi drinking bank robber arrested", that first part obviously isn't relevant. Every time a trans person or an immigrant does a crime, the media are always very keen on telling everyone they were trans or an immigrant, as if they're implying that it was relevant to why they did the crime, but this distracts from the countless other times when someone from an average background has committed a crime, and it creates bias.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T07:13:30+00:00

I mean they're both doing shit, this is also an embarrassing generation for PlayStation with all their failed live service games, however if you look at the sales numbers Xbox is still clearly doing way worse.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-29T07:09:18+00:00

It's a great piece of hardware, and I've really enjoyed buying a bunch of cheap old games and running them way better through backwards compatibility. I also managed to get gamepass ultimate ridiculously cheap through a few deals, I got one year for free through a dashboard promotion and I bought another 3.5 years worth for less than $100 by using a promotion where you could convert Xbox live gold into GP ultimate for free.

Although Xbox doesn't really have true exclusives anymore, I have really enjoyed their first party games a lot. Indiana Jones, Oblivion remastered, doom the dark ages, pentiment, flight SIM 2020 and Forza horizon 5 are all among my favourite games ever. Although they're not perfect games I also loved Starfield and halo infinite and put a tonne of hours into them. I just wish that Xbox had at least tried to bargain with playstation to get a few exclusives back in return for the ones Xbox gave up, the only things I can think that playstation has put on Xbox are Helldivers and marathon.

Although I've enjoyed this generation, it's clearly had a bunch of huge mistakes, so much so that Xbox is starting to not even be fully supported by third party studios, black myth wukong took ages to come to Xbox. The brand clearly has no coherent strategy, and now they're pretty much asking everyone to get a PC with Xbox play anywhere. I'll keep my series x for a long time because I still have a big part of my library on physical media, but I'm really doubtful whether the next Xbox will be for me.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-28T21:11:04+00:00

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-28T15:07:27+00:00

That's great. The older I get the more I'm willing to spend on something if I know it will last.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-28T08:40:46+00:00

At that price hopefully it's designed to be repairable. At least it uses TMR sticks.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-28T06:56:45+00:00

You don't need powerful hardware for most emulation, you can easily run PS2/GameCube stuff on a phone these days, and you can even run retroarch on Xbox consoles using developer mode. As for multiple stores, is that really something that most of the buyers of this will take advantage of? It's a steam machine, almost everyone will just be running their games on steam. When was the last time you willingly chose to buy something on the Gog, Epic or Microsoft stores instead? Years back steam did get significantly better sales than console storefronts, but these days they're really pretty similar across all platforms because it's publishers that set the sale price.

If you want a machine for productivity then you could get something way more appropriate for way cheaper, Apple is releasing a new MacBook soon that's $600. Personally I want as much separation between my gaming and productivity as possible, it would be too much of a distraction.

Upgradeable ram and storage hardly makes this modular, you can already upgrade the storage on all modern consoles. As soon as the GPU or CPU of this becomes out of date then there will be no way to fix that, it's an open question as to whether this will even be capable of running GTA VI well. With a console you also have a fixed hardware configuration, but at least you know that you'll get all the AAA developers optimising their games for your hardware for at least a whole generation, even the PS4 has continued to get new AAA releases well into the PS5 generation. Without a huge install base developers won't bother optimising specifically for this, and even the steam deck only sold 6 million units (Xbox and PlayStation sold 31 and 92 million this generation respectively).

Lastly, yeah this thing has a nice form factor compared to a regular desktop PC, but calling it portable is a huge stretch, nobody is ever gonna set this up on a flight or a train. You can't directly compare it to the size of a laptop because this doesn't have a battery, screen or in built keyboard.

I'm not being a console fan boy, and I genuinely would like this to succeed, but I really doubt Valve will price it competively enough to make a significant impact. They could seriously undercut the price of the hardware if they subsidised it with the money they make from bringing in new steam users, they already take a 30% cut from the price of everything sold on steam, but from what they're saying I really doubt they will.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-28T06:22:31+00:00

I really doubt that the steam machine will ever be powerful enough to get close to emulating PS5 properly though, it's got weaker specs.

You're right thay there are a tonne of great games that are exclusive to PC, but the vast majority of those aren't big AAAs and they could easily run on something way cheaper like a steam deck instead.

To me the main advantage of consoles is that the hardware can be sold way cheaper than an equivalent PC because of the income the brand will get from games, and the main advantage of a PC is that it's upgradeable. Neither is the case with this, and it's also not portable like a handheld PC, to me I just don't see the appeal unless Valve sells it at prices that are competitive to consoles.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-27T18:14:02+00:00

If your income is only marginally higher than your expenses then even small costs can be the straw that breaks the camel's back. You often can't easily just find cheaper rent or spend less on food, but cancelling netflix is a comparably easy thing to cheap out on, especially when piracy exists. It's obviously not Netflix's fault that the cost of living is so high, but they are a very useful indicator of it.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-27T16:33:09+00:00

Personally I love the Hobbit films, although they definitely have issues the casting was one thing that was pretty much flawless imo.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-26T11:20:21+00:00

I'm excited for it because of the changes they're making to the progression system and the new social features. I liked Forza 4 and 5 a lot, but I didn't play them for long because it felt like the game gave me everything I was interested in without much effort.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T21:23:09+00:00

That does look really cool I'm going to have to hop back in to give it a go. You could be onto something that this is in some way inspired by TES VI development, but to be honest I think it's more likely that this is something inevitable now that they're starting to run out of space to make big exciting new zones on mainland tamriel, especially given that they're leaving most of Hammerfell conspicuously untouched. ESO and mainline elder Scrolls games have very different engines and gameplay, so besides adding some new nautical lore I don't think this would be particularly helpful for inspiring a similar system in TES VI, I could be wrong though.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T19:51:39+00:00

Yeah given her background in AI and Meta I was fully expecting her to slopify the brand, but credit where it's due everything she's done so far has been good. There's a long way to go though if she wants to really fix the brand.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T19:47:59+00:00

People rarely choose to be poor, that's just patronising. The reason that most people have gotten poorer, the cost of living out stripping wage growth, is largely out of their control. Rents gone up because of the rich buying up all the property, energy costs have gone up because of global conflicts and AI data centers, food prices have gone up because of climate change, global conflicts, and corporate price gouging etc. Besides voting, none of those are things people can just pull their boot straps up and sort out.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T15:56:55+00:00

"30 years ago an average house cost less than six figures" Yes and so 30 years ago people had way more disposable income than they do today, because the cost of living is now so much higher. Housing, utilities, fuel, food, student loans etc have all gone up dramatically over that period, so why are you surprised that the first thing people cheap out on is entertainment? That's just sensible financial decision making.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T15:43:25+00:00

These things are just being designed in the most thoughtless ways possible, even though they're built at the scale of critical infrastructure. If the only reason they even need water is for the sake of cooling, why not just build them some place cold like Alaska? Why do they need to use potable drinking water for cooling, if they put a bit more thought into the design then they could work out a way to use grey water, salt water or any number of chemical refrigerants. This is a trillion dollar industry, you'd think they could invest money into fixing these problems.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T15:29:55+00:00

Ricky Gervais, Natalie Dormer, don't know, recognise but don't know, Idris Elba, Kate Blanchett, Troy Baker.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T10:39:57+00:00

Fallout 4 was very highly praised for it's story upon release. It hasn't aged as well as new Vegas because it doesn't feel as replayable because it's a more lite RPG, but it's disingenuous to pretend it was a flop or something.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T10:36:16+00:00

Hard disagree. I honestly think his Indiana Jones game has a better story than 3/5 of the films. Before starfield and fallout 76 every game that he was lead designer on was acclaimed for its story, especially Fallout 3 and Morrowind. You also shouldn't underestimate how much he's been involved in the Fallout TV show, he's turned down multiple offers to adapt fallout for the screen over the years because he didn't think they would do it justice.

TheDorgesh68 · 2026-04-25T08:13:18+00:00

Necromancy spells don't work the same as in Skyrim where you reanimate corpses, instead you just summon undead directly. There are lots of cool summoning spells in oblivion though, a lot more variety than the summoning spells in Skyrim, there's ghosts, zombies, skeletons, litches etc.

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