• marighost@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    That’s also why they chose not to subsidize their hardware prices. You can buy their hardware and do whatever the hell you want with it, including not use Steam.

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      16 hours ago

      Another genius move by Valve. I would never have purchased

      • Steam Deck (the OG, then the OLED)
      • Steam Frame
      • Steam Machine

      If I couldn’t rip the Big Picture mode out and fuck with the underlying linux OS.

      Hell, I brought my original Steam Deck on a work thing instead of my work laptop because it worked so well (including with an external monitor).

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        14 hours ago

        Hell yeah. I’m pretty locked into the Steam ecosystem myself and finally got the Frame purchase email last Friday. I’m hella excited.

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          13 hours ago

          I never played half life Alyx, and omg, it’s great. You can crush cans by just squeezing.

          I can’t believe nobody else has made a VR game like this.