OswaldBuzzbald

LE has an offline only mode.

No need to apologize friend. I just always want to inform everyone that the Steam Deck is capable of being used as a PC on the go if you have some peripherals. I have some third party launchers, and emulation stuff on my desktop side. I also have KeePass and a Google Drive for my passwords. I personally don't use it for any other desktop activities because I have my laptop and my desktop for that, but it could handle those tasks (word processing and office tasks, general web browsing, etc) just like my other computers do. I even bought a nice little keyboard and have a wireless mouse for my Steam Deck, as well as a portable screen.

As far as homelab and server applications like Pihole, yeah I would probably not run those on the Steam Deck either, but I also wouldn't put them on a laptop or my desktop. I put those on my homelab server running Proxmox because I turn my desktop off when it's not in use.

This one is simple! You see, they stop selling games to their customers. Instead, you can get monthly access to their catalogue of games. Then you don't have to worry about owning them. Sometimes less (for you) is more (for them).

Not to mention that it is literally a PC. It even has a full desktop environment mode running KDE.

I saw someone say they intentionally made a take for take remake of the NMS trailer.

With a $400 drone.

I'm down for some more Cyberpunk stuff. I loved Edgerunners and the games have a great story and characters. I just hope CDPR retains creative control over the show and it gets a big fat budget.

Are we watching a "changing of the guard" where the studios that used to bring out the hits are dying, shedding their talent and new indie projects are blooming in the fallout? I remember Bioward being a fantastic studio during the Mass Effect (and prior) years. They're a shell of their former selves now. I see this happening with Bethesda now too, although Starfield is not that bad. It's just nowhere near as epic and fun as Skyrim was. Then you have studios like CDPR that seemed poised to take the crown with CP2077, and although it's a great game, they certainly fumbled hard at launch. It's an interesting time in the game industry.

Seems just a tad bit too soon, but I don't know what their stock is looking like. I also expect to hear about a new VR kit from them before we get a new SD, but we will see.