Regrettable_incident
@Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
There is now a selection of handhelds out there that are newer and arguably better, but they’re also expensive. I kinda think the Lenovo legion go gen 2 might be cool with steam OS installed - but it costs like 2k
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I work full time so my screen time is limited, but the steam deck is my only gaming device, and in terms of enjoyment per ££ spent, it’s probably the best thing I’ve ever bought.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I would be curious to know what are the manufacturing costs of the steam deck and how much profit is made. I’m guessing it’s a single digit percentage, but TBH I don’t know shit.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yeah, I’ve had my steam deck a couple of years now, crazy that it’s now worth more than I paid for it. Don’t know what I’d do if it dies.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 days ago:
Yeah fair point. I doubt they’d meet the deck’s ergonomic quality either.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT 3 days ago:
Yeah same here. I keep meaning to, but there’s so many good games and I have limited screen time. About 50 hours in to baldur’s gate at the mo and looks like this is going to be a long one!
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
There’s better handhelds out there now, but they’re more expensive. The Lenovo legion go 2 is supposed to be good if you install bazzite or steam os on it but the top end models are like £2000
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
Yeah, and they’re probably not making much profit on it. The cost of components is ludicrous.
They’re kind of fucked with the steam machine & frame. Unless they can source cheap components they’ll probably have to price the things so high it pretty much ensures these products are DOA. I dunno, maybe they’ll keep delaying release.
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 3 days ago:
Sorry, I this came up in a discussion with someone else who replied and I realised that I’d missed out some important context behind my own purely anecdotal experiences. I was, for way too many years, addicted to smack and crack, so I tended to move in those circles. This meant that I saw a section of society much more towards the dodgy end of the spectrum. My experience with having seen crackheads blagging benefits is not something the vast majority of people would see. And it’s probably correspondingly rare.
I’m sorry you dislike my ‘if they’d just. . .’ comment. Yes, it’s definitely reductive, but I stand by it. Addiction is a different conversation, so rather than go off on a tangent I reduced it to ‘If they’d just. . .’. But that’s kinda what it comes down to. I’m not unwilling to discuss my own history, my overdoses, hospitalisations, horrible situations I ended up in, all that stuff that goes with a smack habit. And the crack on top just shifts your problems up a gear. I’ve been clean for a few years now, but just last week at the doctor’s a simple blood test took about 45 mins because I don’t really have any veins left. Humiliating, really, but entirely my fault. I did this shit to myself, my responsibility, my fault. So I kinda know whereof comes the shit I’m saying. ‘If they’d just stop. . .’ is what it boils down to for every addict. I just stopped, and relapsed many times. But you’ve got to just stop. It’s really the only way. At least in my case, things had to get very ugly for me to finally get clean. I still have issues with alcohol and nicotine, but I’ve quit everything else.
Like you, I’ve worked since the 80s. Actually, lots of junkies just work extra shifts to pay for their habits, we just only notice the obvious ones begging in the street.
Sorry to hear you’ve been going through the mill with the system. Yeah, we assume that if we’ve worked and paid taxes all our lives, the state will look after us when something goes wrong. And increasingly that is not the case. A civilised society should look after its poor, its sick, its homeless.
There are organisations that can help you navigate the Kafkaesque corridors of pip, I hope you are able to reach out and get some help.
As I said, I did know a couple of people who successfully navigate this stuff when I really didn’t think they deserved the support - but they weren’t stressed so it wasn’t such a big deal for them. I guess that’s the difference. And again, my life experience and anecdotes are the exception not the norm.
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 3 days ago:
No worries mate. Yeah I understand that things are even harder in our punitive benefits system - and across much of society - for ppl with ‘invisible’ disabilities. As a taxpayer, albeit lowest level, I’m fuckin infuriated that more of my contribution isn’t spent on helping the people who need help. The disabled, the elderly, the NHS. Any society that doesn’t make looking after its vulnerable members priority number one has taken a wrong turn. At least IMO.
Anyway, sorry if I offended you and best of luck in navigating the system to get the support you need. I’m just sorry it can be such a nightmare for people in your position. It really shouldn’t be. If you’re having issues with the system, there are organisations that can help. I hope you won’t hesitate to reach out to them if you have trouble. Take care eh
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 4 days ago:
No worries, it’s an emotive topic, particularly to those of us who have disabilities or have friends or family in that position. They should be able to access support without having to jump through Kafkaesque hoops.
It’s probably worth mentioning that my experience is certainly coloured by my own history - for many years I was addicted to smack and crack, and so of course my social circle included a whole lot of proper wrong uns. I’m far more likely than the average person to have known people who have committed all sorts of crimes, including those involving benefits. This really does skew my anecdotal experience. I should have made that clear in my original comment.
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 5 days ago:
Yeah you’re right, it’s totally anecdotal and I have no way of knowing if this is widespread or extremely rare. Just giving my own experience.
- Comment on "Top Movies" in Amazon Prime is full of series 5 days ago:
Isn’t that doing more harm to the environment than you then? I appreciate the sentiment tho
- Comment on How is it possible that Bungie didn't get in real legal trouble due to all that "vaulting" bullshit during Destiny 2? 5 days ago:
I’m just kind of surprised they’ve treated it the way they have. They could have continued to develop it and made ways to bring in new players. It’s like taking your prize cow out back of the barn and shooting it in the head.
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 5 days ago:
They don’t seem to be able to filter out the chancers either. I’ve known a couple of people getting pip who were definitely capable of working if they’d just stop doing drugs all the time. Seems like many of the people who are really in need are unable to navigate the system and the appeals process. It’s much less stressful for people who don’t actually have a disability!
That said, I’d much rather have a system that less a few piss takers through if it means the people genuinely in need can get support.
- Comment on Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve never tried VR but I’m probably going to buy a steam frame whenever they arrive. But part of the reason for that is I live in a small space with no room for a big screen and there’s some non VR games I want to try on a screen bigger than my steam deck.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah right, especially with handheld devices becoming increasingly popular. The steam deck was by best purchase by far, in terms of fun per pound spent. And there’s much more powerful alternatives out there now.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, my gaming laptop. Bought a few years ago, 3050. It was good and I could play games on it - but I live in a situation where all my electricity is solar generated and limited, charges 12v batteries and runs mains appliances via inverter. And the laptop was just too power hungry for long gaming sessions.
It was more a failure of me to properly research than a problem with the product, but was a let down. Bought a steam deck and never looked back.
- Comment on New Steam update shows four Steam Machine models, though we still don't have a release date 2 weeks ago:
I feel like that pricing might be optimistic. They are obviously putting off release because component costs mean they’ll have to go with a pricetag that makes the product DOA. They’re in a shitty position, really.
- Comment on Sony hasn't decided on PS6 release date or price yet, and may even "change business models" in response to the memory crisis 3 weeks ago:
It also rules out all the customers who have shitty internet.
- Comment on Engineer creates video game of Alaska’s Tracy Arm landslide, which generated a megatsunami 3 weeks ago:
I mean, we’re all going to die one day. At least those people got to go out like a Michael Bay movie.
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 3 weeks ago:
What if we sell just a couple dozen really expensive devices. . ?
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 3 weeks ago:
Yeah exactly. New games are often buggy and I just can’t justify the cost. If they’re interesting, I put em on my steam wishlist and get them when they’re on offer.
- Comment on Day 658 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Your goose reminded me how much I enjoyed untitled goose game. Think I’m going to play it again today. Honk!
- Comment on Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles 3 weeks ago:
The windows phone they came out with a while back - actually wasn’t too bad. But they dropped the idea like a turd in a leaky bag, if they’d kept going and improving it they might have a competitor to android and apple by now.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
I’ll keep my fingers crossed! 🤞
However I kinda suspect it may be valve responding to all the gamers who have been saying they want the controller now, it doesn’t need ram so why wait to release it with the other products? I get that valve probably wanted to do a simultaneous release, but that just doesn’t seem possible any longer.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 5 weeks ago:
Yeah right -they are realising they fucked up and trying to correct it. It’ll be too little too late for many people - but at least they are trying. Must companies seem to pull this shit then double down when they’re criticised.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Damn shame, but if they released the steam machine or frame at the moment, the price would probably have to be at the point it would ensure the product didn’t have a chance to catch on. Pity, I kind of want a steam frame.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
When steam frame?
- Comment on Driving game poll 5 weeks ago:
I actually sometimes used to do this in cyberpunk, just kinda cruise round night city. I think there are lots of games that allow you to do this sort of thing.