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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying people should constantly buy new stuff. I mean, I daily drive a 1968 Ford Galaxie 500. I still run a GTX 1080Ti in my gaming PC (partially due to cost, but also the 1080Ti was just a really good card). I am a big proponent of “keep stuff operating for as long as possible to prevent more waste.” I love repairing stuff. I am also content with what I already have. I dont have to have the latest stuff, if what I have now works for what I need it for then its no big deal to me.

    Im just saying for someone considering this as an upgrade, if they aren’t content with the Steam Deck they have, then probably they will get way better value out of buying a new one than they will from a $140 screen only upgrade.


  • $140 seems like a massive rip-off, honestly.

    Maybe if this was like, $50 I would consider this, but $140 is too much to ask just for a screen upgrade that people have to self-install.

    Like, I have an LCD Steam Deck, and the screen does fine. Sure it would be nice if it was a bit brighter, but not for $140. I mean, a new OLED Steam Deck is $550 but includes performance, battery life, and WiFi speed increases as well, including a screen with a 90Hz refresh rate even if most games never reach that. Plus, this screen requires that I flash a custom BIOS, why would most people want to do that when they can just run the stock one from Valve?

    I don’t see where this gives such a massive benefit over just buying an OLED model. Too much loss for not enough gain, IMO.



  • Nintendo (and Sony, actually) have been highly criticized for censorship of games on their platform. Particularly, adult anime styled games.

    I know this may come as a shock to you, so please sit down before you read this, but adults do infact buy and use Nintendo consoles.

    Hentai games (or rather called by their proper name, “eroge,” which is a portmanteau of “erotic game”) are pretty popular amongst Japanese gamers. In fact, many of Japans biggest games or game franchises started off as eroge. Nintendo intentionally cutting out that much of their market would be stupid, as it means less sales of their hardware, obviously.

    I am unsure how these games are filtered in the eShop, though I would imagine that a parent would be able to control the ratings or tags of games that would appear in the eShop of their child’s account, to prevent these games from being in their child’s eShop feed. I don’t know how, as I haven’t used a Switch since about 2018.






  • Mostly one at a time, but it depends.

    Typically I play Marvel Rivals with my friend group, as it is one of the few multiplayer games these days that supports at least 5 people on a team (we already tried League, Paladins, etc and got tired of that real quick).

    On my own, I sometimes feel like playing a retro game, so I have been playing Legend of Dragoon, but recently my save file got corrupted somehow so I haven’t restarted. Instead I switched to playing a less retro game, Need for Speed Carbon. Its been maybe 10 years since I played it last, so it has been interesting dealing with the horrendous rubberbanding and random crashing on PC. I also like to play Goddess of Victory NIKKE as a mobile game whenever I have down time but am away from home.

    But I don’t think it is atypical to really focus on playing one game at a time. I’d say that would actually be quite unusual and likely only done by people who have a job playing multiple games per day (a not so good reviewer, streamer, etc).