EnsignWashout

Understanding of asshole bosses, more like.

Washington is mentioned, but not with enough context to determine that Washington uses the cameras.

Which is weird, and other comments mention the whole article may be AI slop, rehashed from somewhere else. :(

Let's be sure to name and shame, for anyone who missed it: Georgia and Florida.

Company is - you guessed it - ~~Flock.~~ (Mention of Flock in the article has been removed with a correction.)

Apparently he makes bank.

Epic!

Thanks!

I was going to push back on your point here, but then I couldn't think of a game that makes a good counterpoint.

Before they enshitified all the sports games, I would have pushed back a bit and comparer running Windows for a specific game to emulating an Atari for nostalgia.

But actually, the last good version of many of those sports games probably runs in Wine now anyway.

One pushback - there's still community on some of those very shitty games. I understand people not wanting to leave their gamer group behind.

Of course, my gamer group all moved to SteamDeck.

Ouch!

The good news is you'll get invited to Cobol/AS400/Mainframe conventions if eventually you're the only ones left on Windows.

Those folks have similar challenges, but are great to party with after a day of conference talks.

Yes. Cola, Orange Cola, Rootbeer Cola, Mister Cherry, or Zest!*

`* ~All colas except Zest and sold out. Pressing Zest! delivers Orange Cola.~

I can’t see these gaining more popularity over Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo if they are only sticking to do retro.

Right. I don't think they are particularly trying for those markets - although Sony dropping physical media of any kind is probably doing Evercade a favor anyway.

I carry my Hyper Mega Tech Pocket more often than my SteamDeck or Switch Lite, because it is so much smaller.

From my understanding, most indie companies want maximum reach for their games, especially for the amount of time and money they put into things.

Yes. Evercade's gimick is multiple games per cart, rather than exclusives.

Some of my Indie game collection I got cheaper by buying it on Evercade. Some idie devs I have only discovered because they included a game on Evercade.

A few I have bought again on my SteamDeck, to add it to my family library.

Nothing explains Arch users, they're a mystery.

I mean, I'll agree 100% that docking a SteamDeck has been hit and miss, depending on the game. I have about the same annoyances docking a SteamDeck as docking a laptop. I'm not angry at Valve or Windows about that, but I am very impressed with Nintendo.

I haven't had more wifi issues with SteamDeck than with my Switch or Switch Lite, or with a typical laptop.

I don't use SteamDeck desktop mode, except to install my free copy of Luanti, so I cannot comment.

Now, when we dive into specific games - mutiplayer code varies wildly between games on PC, and SteamDeck is still much closer to a PC expeirence, in that regard. If that's your point, I'm with you 100%.

A "Steam Remote Play Verified" badge would go a long way!

Edit: Decky is a mod right? I haven't had anything on my SteamDeck break every few weeks.

Oh! We did have a long running bug where various network stuff never worked quite right after waking from hybernation, which I fixed by rebooting after any time I let the deck sit for awhile.

That was patched pretty recently. It never bothered me much (once I understood the solution was a reboot) because the boot time is like 20 seconds.

I admit, I am pretty technical, but guessing that it might need a reboot after hybernation is something I think I learned from gaming on a Windows laptop.

Still, to your point, a better experience for folks coming from PC gaming than coming directly from console gaming.

I would have gotten here sooner, but I had to take time to write a scathing review for that asshole Ea-nāṣir selling me bad copper.