u/classixuk

It’s on BBC1 right now (Absolutely Fabulous The Movie) after the World Cup match. The daughter (can’t remember her name) has a half sister who I am sure is played by the actress playing Jasmine on Eastenders atm. A little bit younger, but same bone structure, accent, smile and eyes. Unmissable. Yup…she’s just popped back up on screen in a scene with the camp guy from Glee. It’s definitely her!

What else has she been in?

Right, off to enjoy the rest of the movie! :)

Hiya folks,

I’ll try to keep this short.

I’ve a steam library of almost 300 games (most recent played being Librarian:Arcane Library). My first ‘Valve’, as it was called back then, game being ‘Half Life 2’ and me signing up for a Steam account.

Decades have passed since running around as Gordon Freeman, but my love for gaming has never ceased…from platform to platform, and it remains alive today, albeit in different forms.

I’ve been watching the SteamDeck since launch. Wow! A way to ‘take your whole Steam library with you’ sounds amazing.

After a few life events, I decided life’s too short. Just press buy. So I did. It arrived on Friday.

Setup was a nightmare. It seems many have had that whole 1 minute remaining screen, and an inability to connect to their own wi-if (goes to your router login, rather than your broadband login), but I stuck with it. Put it on a hot link with my phone for internet setup, and after every time it said ‘1s remaining’ I just left it, knowing it had more to do. Sure enough, it would then reset back to ‘2 mins 30 seconds remaining’ but eventually installed itself.

I then had to go into desktop mode (which you can only access after the initial install has completed, otherwise you’re screwed) to find the Wi-Fi settings and connect to my router. Then back to game mode.

Connected my steam library and was shocked to see only 67 games in my library are deck verified. ‘Never mind, I’ll play one of those!’ So I played Stray - a recent steam sale purchase. Got through half of level 3 (I’d already played lvls 1&2 on my main PC) and the battery was at 48%. This was under an hour. I was so appalled, I went to AI for the answer and reduced my frame-rate to 40fps and lowered my power consumption etc.

Went off to bed really regretting my purchase.

Today we had an internet outage (rare occurrence) due to the heatwave). I was grateful to be able to pick up the SteamDeck and play Overlord 2 (an old favourite of mine) which I’d downloaded last night. However, I could just as easily have watched some TV, or heck, being honest, streamed Overlord 2 to my HP Envy through steam from my main PC over LAN seeing as I was in the same house.

I imagined, due to all the Reddit posts, YouTube videos, Tik-Tok and Steam advertising that this would be the perfect product for me.

My PC is really old now. It’s an i54690k with a gtx970 and MSI gaming motherboard.

I imagined having my steam library with me would be a great bonus, but in reality, it’s a tiny bit better than the aging PC i want to replace it with. I’ve already mentioned, if you’re using it at home (mostly) you can just buy a cheaper laptop instead. It will stream your steam games on a bigger screen (your laptop’s) with no effects as it’s using your desktop graphics and CPU.

So honestly, how I’m feeling, is this product is only good for people who are at home a lot near a charging point, like to play GOG, or just like to buy the latest tech to do an unboxing video on YouTube and earn some advertising revenue?

If you’re thinking you’re playing last years best selling game on a flight from Europe to America, forget it!

Am I wrong? Please help me love this thing before I initiate a return.

For context, I own a pair of meta rb 2’s which I love wearing everyday, a ninja 15-in-1, an amzchef, an electric car, an Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone. Tons more I can’t recall, but I do love tech and wearing it.

Just not this device?🥴🤷‍♀️