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Not arguing that you can get slightly better performance for a slightly lower price, but that's a substantially larger machine. The Steam Machine is little bigger than its controller in any dimension and easy to hide on a shelf; that Q300L is definitely a small desktop. It has niceties like HDMI CEC, so that it can wake your TV when you start it up from its controller. And it's whisper-quiet.

$70 extra for a really living-room ready games machine does not seem at all unreasonable to me, plus it turns up ready-assembled. If I had to replace my gaming desktop, it doesn't seem unreasonable. Replacing my gaming desktop would cost about twice what I originally paid for the damned thing as well, but that's a different matter.

PC version is incredibly hard to get working on modern computers, fwiw. SecuROM servers are all closed down; I've got the SKIDROW patches but have never managed to get them to start up. Emulating the 360 or PS3 might be easier...?

Zero remote exploits since it was released. That's what divinely-inspired coding looks like, everyone.

Fill up a jerry can or two with petrol next time you fill up your car, and save the vodka for making martinis.

He dereferenced a pointer to the 1970s and retrieved the shirt that way.

I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:

• the worst UX that you could possibly imagine, with menu after menu arranged seemingly at random, and buttons doing different things at every level
• functionality delivered via plugins, at least half of which do not work
• directory scans failing seemingly at random, with the errors hidden away in log files that you have to shell in to retrieve
• terrible documentation, inevitably consisting of forum pages about how it used to work a decade ago

It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.

The RAM is the HBM kind that won't fit in your motherboard at home. The GPUs tend not to have video outputs, require power supplies around a kilowatt, and powered external cooling. The whole lot of going to landfill when the bubble bursts.

The storage is reusable, I think. You might get a deal on SSDs and hard disks.

Just bind update/shutdown to a key you don't press often, like keypad insert.

yay --noconfirm ; sudo shutdown now

Any problems with update, computer is put straight out of its misery. Bang.

Now I am wiser! Thanks AON.

Bad for the bee as well...

It's its trick mode. You can convert it without dropping your attack 'combo' on odd-numbered hits, so you can rush up to an enemy, quickly 'cane hit' twice to stun, then 'whip hit' until you've killed it with a bit of AoE coverage that stops any other enemy in front of you from sneaking in. Works great when you need to clear out a large number of mooks; the whip is a bit slow when you're fighting single high-difficulty enemies.

In fact, might bust Bloodborne out again after I've finished Mina, always something more to learn about that game...

Ah, but that's the joy of it. You don't need a new PC for this; a very old one will still run it absolutely perfectly. And I agree with OP; great game, although I'm still only 2/3rds through it.