Yes. But you claimed “about 5 to 6x the purchase price for a PC vs a console”. Which isn’t double or triple. And neither did I claim that you could build a PC at the same cost, I said 1-1.2k plus a few hundred more. Which is around double.

I don’t think you’ve realistically ever been able to build a matching PC at the same price ever, because they are almost always sold at cost or sometimes at a loss as the manufacturer gets their profit selling games, not the hardware. Same deal why VR hardware from Meta is so much cheaper compared to everyone else - because you need to then buy your games from Meta as well.

As for the Steam value…

If the goal is to build a PC that’s the same performance level as the console in question, even with current ridiculously inflated prices it isn’t nearly that expensive.

PS5 Pro ($699) is an 8-core AMD Zen 2 with 16Gb of RAM (shared with the GPU), a 2TB SSD, and a GPU roughly in line with an RX 9060 XT or RTX 5060TI. Late last year, building a matching PC would have been somewhere in the $1-1.2k range. Today it’s few hundred more due to the AI caused RAM shortage.

It’s when you actually want to outperform consoles and push the graphics settings far beyond the optimizations and targets of console games use when things start to get expensive fast.
But I slowly take it back one 75-90% Steam sale game at a time.

Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can’t turn their computers off, now they complain when they can’t turn them on…

It’s using a whole bunch of Steam Deck spare parts bought from iFixit, and a few after market upgrades like hall effect sticks and an extremerate shell replacement. Buying a single trigger (just the plastic R2/L2 trigger, mind you) for $20 to fix a broken $500 Deck isn’t too bad, but trying to build an entire controller from spares is really not economically sensible.

But if you did indeed have those parts already for some reason, the rest is all rather cheap, common components. Cannibalize a Deck, and the extra cost would probably be well under $50.
…plus the $500 to buy a replacement Deck, so don’t actually do it.

If you want to make it singular like he/she/it, then make it singular.

He has a car, she has a car, they has a car.
He was friendly, she was friendly, they was friendly.
He sounds fine, she sounds fine, they sounds fine.

Notice the issue?
A singular they is an okay concept, but you then have actually allow it to be singular, in every use - a direct replacement for he/she with no other word or sentence changes necessary.

AFAIK it’s a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren’t federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.

Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.

Which would still not be perfect because “foo@bar”, “foo@[123.123.123.123]” and “💩 @[IPv6 :::1]” are all technically valid email addresses.

It looks like the only validation that doesn’t block something valid pretty much would start and end at “It has at least one @ symbol, and something on both sides”.

Eh, the anthropocene extinction event will be like the sixth big one, something periodically wiping out a ton of species and life restructuring itself is kinda just natural at this point. As the saying goes, life will find a way. It’ll look different, but just like the previous five times, it’ll do just fine.

It will, don’t worry.

He doesn’t want to be the president of the solar system, there’s no oil anywhere so what’s the point.

Finally we can defend ourselves again from those pesky Swedes and their constant invasions! They did it in the 1700’s, they could do it again at any time!

As an actual highway-legal car, certainly not. But there are plenty of other categories you can stuff random vehicles way easier that could still be useful, such as the European L6e/L7e Quadricycle.
The US equivalent is the NEV.

Combining concepts is one of the core functions of a generative image AI - fairly sure nobody trained them on of videos with athletes made out of pasta either.

But they were trained on images of both naked people, as well as tons and tons of stock photos of children in swimwear and bikinis, so they know how to combine the two to create images of naked children.

All bicycles are velocipedes, but not all velocipedes are bicycles.

But are you sure it means two wheels, and not every other wheel? Maybe we should call them twicecyles to avoid the confusion.

The unofficial one was leaked a month ago :p

GTA 6 is developed and being published by Rockstar Games. BG3 was developed and published by Larian. If you want to be that strict about the difference between CD project and CD project Red, we can ignore it for now.

Blue Prince was developed by Dogubomb and published by Raw Fury. It has a 3rd party publisher, therefore it’s not indie by your very clear definition, no?

Which means Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and GTA 6 are indie titles, while the majority of the indie game award nominees and winners are not because they have 3rd party publishers.

Well defined indeed.

Used Pebble is one option.
If you can handle soldering in a battery, you can usually buy a Pebble or Pebble Steel for really cheap (just make sure it isn’t a first batch glued shut model). Don’t get a Round, batteries are really hard to find. Pebble 2 and Pebble 2 Duo will also need replacement side buttons, they disintegrate quickly.

Obviously they will have zero days of warranty though :p

I’m willing to bet that without the Deck, most AAA games would have already jumped to requiring roughly PS5-level PC hardware now that last gen consoles are effectively dead.
UE5 on the Deck might not be pretty, but making it run at all on it lowers the minimum requirements of a game tremendously.