I showed these to my middle school graphic design teacher and it gave him the easiest Photoshop lesson ever. He made us make a bunch of them. They got featured in the school art show. This was like 2004-05. Good times.
Grew up with people like that. My dad and my brothers. They're so out going and funny on the surface. Great in their element of drugs and alcohol. The moment you dig deeper they're cesspool level human beings. I'm the opposite. People usually tell me I'm so intimidating or quiet, but once they get to know me I'm a big teddy bear. That's because I got to listen to you speak first. See what type of BS comes out of your brain. What actions you take.
Out of that list XCOM or HOI4. If I may add a suggestion, the original Subnautica is on sale for $7.49USD right now. One of the best video games I've ever played. I'm not a horror fan but the game was so good I could deal with it. Eventually you get used to the horror aspect and it gets easier to play. For me there was a flip where everything went from super scary to this is my home. Then you're running by the scary elements making jokes and cussing them out like friendly neighborhood rival. That was just the story portion of the game. I didn't fully explore the creative side of it. Still the fastest and best 75 hours I've ever spent on a video game.
I took a screenwriting class in college. We had to write a paper on a horrible movie of our choice. I just searched worst movie ever made and Manos came up. Writing the paper was the easy part. It took me 4 tries to get through that movie in one go. I couldn't do it. That's how bad it is.
Yeah no problem. I think I know where the disagreement is stemming from. I may be wrong so you can correct me, but you look at the Steam Deck as a handheld PC competing with other PCs. I look at the Steam Deck as a handheld PC competing with other handhelds in general. That's the disagreement. It's a fine line because neither one is really right or wrong. We fall on the opposite sides. I have a PC that is much more powerful than the Steam Deck. That didn't make the Steam Deck obsolete to me. I wasn't looking at the Steam Deck as a PC replacement.
My last paragraph and your actions with your friend prove my point. If they weren't comparable you wouldn't bring them up together. I do agree with you that software sells the system. That's why I bought a Switch to begin with.
That and surprisingly Breath of the Wild always crashes my PC after a while. I don't know what is causing the crash other than possibly a spike in memory that freaks the GPU out. Luckily Unicorn Overlord doesn't do that and that game looks a million times better on my PC. It upscales really nice.
I get what you're trying to say but I really disagree. You can compare the two because they're offering the same basic premise. The ability to play video games in a handheld form. Of course the price is different. Of course the capabilities are different. Of course the power of the two machines are different. That's a given. They're two different pieces of technology. We compare technology based off of what they're offering. These two machines are offering the same thing. The ability to play video games in a handheld form. In what world is anything that's offering the same thing as another thing not up for comparison?
For me the Steam Deck made the Switch a redundant device. You can compare them apples to apples. Store experience? Steam Deck wipes the floor with the Switch. We all know the Switch has a horrible store experience. Online capabilities? Steam Deck. Don't have to pay $20 a year to use online capabilities with my Deck. Form factor? Steam Deck is a big bulky machine but it's more ergonomically better suited for me because I'm not as scrunched up like I was holding the Switch lite. OG Switch may have a better experience there. Games they offer? The only thing a Switch offers that separates the two in favor of the Switch is the ability to play Nintendo games natively without jumping through hoops.
You can say the Switch is a console and the Steam Deck is a PC all you want. That's factually true. You can even compare that. They're both computers with a processor, a fan, some form of gpu. One offers a closed off user experience bound to the rules and end user license agreement of a single company. The other is an open full blown PC experience where the makers of the machine say do whatever you want to it. Because you can do whatever you want to a Steam Deck you may run into problems with it that you wouldn't otherwise experience on a console. That's a fine and fair comparison.
To say they aren't comparable is shielding the Switch from criticism. It's doing a disservice to anybody who is looking for a handheld device to play video games because you're hiding information from a perspective buyer who may have a certain set of requirements pertaining to purchasing such a device.
Yeah my PC is part of the reason the Switch was so disappointing too. I really wanted a handheld so I didn't have to sit at my desk. Turns out I sat at my PC way more than I ever turned on the Switch. Outside of the exclusives it was a really redundant system.
This is my answer too. As soon as I read the question it just hit me. I only had a lite. Never the big one. The thing was fragile. It always felt like I was gonna break it even just holding it in my hands. I babied the fuck out of that system. I really enjoyed the games I had for it. I played it quite a bit. It's just that the system itself was kinda jank. The lifeless interface, the slow store, the slow games that pushed the hardware too far. Just bleh. Then Steam Deck came out and it blew it out of the water in every way possible.
If it was just going to a casino and playing a few games I wouldn't mind it. The fact that it has infected sports and video games like the plague is what's really killing it for me. Sports is particularly horrible. You got dudes out there who think just because it's a $5 bet here and a $2 parlay there and they hit for $200 once 3 years ago means they're always on top. Then it takes away from the actual game watching experience. Bro comes in all miserable because they lost out on $100 by 1 pt or some shit, but their team won by 21pts. Just vibe killer. Go away. Then you got Mom involved in it who's irresponsible with her money to begin with. Complaining how her bills are past due, then dropping money on prop bets she never wins. I see this everywhere and it's fucking disgusting.
The people who create this stuff are just preying off poor dumb asses with no brains or impulse control.
Video games(NOT ALL, YOU KNOW THE TYPE) is programming our kids to feed into that from day 1. It used to be illegal and taboo. I'm not talking 50 years ago, I'm talking like 5-10. It was never this out in the open. People operated with integrity when it came to gambling. The addiction side of it was taken seriously. All that was thrown out the window. Now you got zombies sitting in smoke shops gambling away their meager savings then bumming cigs off everybody who passes by. This part of culture really fucking sucks.
Old enough to be able to say she lived through the bombs dripping in WW2. Older than the Orange Pedofascist. Old enough to prove why age limits need to be a thing. Bitch is expired milk that turned to cheese and separated causing the jug to explode from the gasses.
The books get better as the story moves along. Though there are some pain points. Depending on if you like Game of Thrones dynasty type drama, there's some of it sprinkled in there that was a drag for me to get through. Then there's a reliance on one character in particular that becomes sort of heavy handed as the story goes on. For the most part it's at it's best when talking about the Cielcin and the other space stuff. Overall I'm loving it. 4 books in and there's no way I'm stopping. Plus it's a completed series!!
Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. First book(Empire of Silence) is half Dune then it finds its own story to tell. It gets really fucking interesting. The whole series explodes into this grand space opera. Good stuff.
I showed these to my middle school graphic design teacher and it gave him the easiest Photoshop lesson ever. He made us make a bunch of them. They got featured in the school art show. This was like 2004-05. Good times.