GabeCube
gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed
Submitted 2 weeks ago by crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
sorry by dose is stuffed.
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 2 weeks ago
GabeCube™, GabeGoggles™ and the GabeController™. Maybe we’ll get a GabeBoy™ next
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe we’ll get a GabeBoy™ next
steam deck
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Off topic but the NeXT logo is my favourite logo of all time. If I get a GabeCube I’m 100% putting a NeXT sticker on the front
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
tino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
How did you like that case?
I almost went with that before getting the M1 Case back when it was just a forum post order.
tino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not an expert but I wanted to build my own gaming mini-PC. I followed this guide step by step, which was super useful because they were giving useful tips to make sure everything fits and works correctly: techbuyersguru.com/…/building-a-small-form-factor… (they update the config each month so the current guide is very different from 5 years ago) But, in retrospective, I think I should have gone for a bigger case because there is basically no other GPU that can fit this case anymore.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I’d call it the PlayBox.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Half Life^3^ confirmed!
Chivera@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Companion cube skin pls
SeaDawg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Saw one just here ! lemmy.world/post/38761008
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Absolutely. A Companion Cube shaped gaming PC would be perfect.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Might as well call it the billionaire cube
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Hoho! It’s because he made money hahaha!
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Noooo!!!
It is ok for Gabe to be billionaire and profit off predatory gambling practices on children and micro transactions and selling broken games and selling unfinished games and repeatedly trying to monopolise the pc hardware industry and being anti consumer and taking 30% of all game sales
Because he monopolised the PC marketplace so I no longer have to leave the house to buy anime porn games.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
he didnt monopolise anything. the consumers did. valve does not enforce a monopoly, its just the competition shoots themselves in the foot all the time
also for the 30% you get a hell of a lot of service as a dev, including but not limited: the biggest storefront in PC gaming servers provided by valve managing of transactions free advertising on mentioned storefront. and thats just a tiny part od what you get.
and he aint trying to monopolise harware, nothing is preventing you from installing Windows on your steam devices, nor are you limited in peripheral harware choice (like controllers)
valve aint forcing you to do shit, therefore they aint monopolising anything. the competition just kills itself by providing horrendous service
vapeloki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.
Valve does not behave like a monopoly, and it takes its money to improve gaming for all.
I would get it if someone here would be really simping for Gabe. But may I remind you all, this is a shitposting community and this is a meme.
If not for Valve and their openness towards Linux, Microsoft would long have followed Apple and made a walled garden out of Windows.
If you want to make sure that gaming is not getting a walled of eco system be Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, that you need Valve.
Just look at that release: NO AI bullshit, no walled garden, no vendor locking. No locked bootloader’s, repairability and consumer rights are in the focus.
If course you can point out that this is a profit oriented company and everything they do, they do to make money. And I would not argue with that.
But this? What is this? Why?
LwL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that’s how retailers work, it’s not an unusual cut for an online store.
I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.
Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.
Fuck the gambling though
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not ok but that where we at.
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
They are all billionaires.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I mean you could do that with most all electronics
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Says the guy writing on a billionaire phone.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just received my Fairphone LOL
Cope harder and simp your fave billionaire as much as you want
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Indeed.
*Sent from my billionaire rectangle
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Add another year.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Somehow I get NeXT vibes…
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can someone tell me how do I recreate the guitar tone from Hazardous Environments (the Valve theme)? I want to do a funny thing!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
single coils, reverb
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
this motherfucker looks beautiful
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can anyone tell me why anyone would want to buy a Steam Machine? Serious question.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It may not he for you, but there’s a huge potential audience. Somebody who is used to the console experience and wants that simplicity for playing on the couch, but wants access to PC gaming platforms like Steam.
I like tinkering with my PC, but a lot of people don’t. They like consoles because they can pick up the controller, push a button, and it powers on and works, and they never have to worry if a game will run. If it’s released on the console, it should work.
Yeah, there’s 1001 ways to get a PC running on the TV, but none of them are as dumb-simple as turning on an Xbox. This device solves that issue.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hell, even consoles aren’t as easy as they used to be. They require accounts with Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, they require updates for the console itself as well as individual games, most games have to be “installed,” you still have to think about internal storage…
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
People who don’t have a game pc, and don’t have the time or the inclination to tinker with one, but who do like to game.
People who would like to play retro games on their TV but don’t have the desire to tinker with a raspberry pi to set up their own arcade.
audible_obituary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been PC gaming for 20 years and always wanted to be able to play them on my TV. Yes, the methods exist, but it feels needlessly complex- right now I have long cables running through my small apartment just to play on my TV… with latency. It feels like to get everything running you need specific dongles, cables, hardware, ports, and then there’s compatibility issues on top of that.
I’m not a computer savant who runs a home network and meticulously manages their home tech. I’m also not a total noob- I can troubleshoot issues, setup mods, do some basic tinkering, etc. which puts me ahead of many, many typical users. That said, I have other hobbies and things I want to do, and the amount of work it takes to get this stuff minimally functional just isn’t worth the time and frustration for me (inb4 someone replies “just try xyz!”).
The Steam Machine is something I’ve always wanted. A one-stop shop I can plug into my TV, hook up my controller, and boom- steam library at my fingertips. No worries about compatibility, cable runs, or any of that crap. Plus, it could get someone like my partner (a lifelong Mac user who hates computers in general, can’t troubleshoot, and loves Nintendo games) into PC gaming.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I see. Thanks for the reply. You sound a lot like me actually. But one of the many things I like to build is computers and when I heard that the CPU was soldered on, I thought, well that just gets thrown in the trash as soon as it’s outdated. And it seemed like it wasn’t as good as a different computer running the same stuff, but I hadn’t heard anything about it until now and that’s ALL I’m hearing, so I figured I must have missed something.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s half the reason I got a steam deck. It can’t play everything but it can play a good portion of my games and I can plug it into a TV.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I can see several different niches for it.
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PC gamers who want an HTPC. Which isn’t really a niche that is served without building an ITX machine, with parts that are premium priced for no reason I can think of. If you want to play some of your PC games on a television, well, there aren’t a lot of great solutions.
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Console gamers looking to convert. Consoles have come up in price significantly, the “turn on and play” aspects have eroded to the point a console is a slightly discounted mi-tier gaming PC that can’t spreadsheet. The Steam Machine will be at a little bit of a price premium, but you get a console-like user experience with all the benefits of the PC ecosystem, like mods, streaming, self-hosted multiplayer, etc.
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IT professionals who just want to play games in their spare time. I’ve heard a lot of sysadmins and developers and folks rage at the idea of coming home from a long day at the IT mines only to futz around with PCIe lanes and EFI settings. The most hacker dude I know showed me his personal phone: a non-jailbroken iPhone.
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Noobs that are sick of Microsoft. There’s people out there who would like a gaming PC without Windows, but for one reason or another can’t move past the need to buy a computer with an OS installed from a for-profit company.
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Parents buying kids a gaming PC.
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ezeno789@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The probability of releasing Half Life 3 is non-zero considering the lifespan of the universe and the possible existence of parallel dimensions.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Missed opportunity to do a goatse gape cube
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Valve having such a stronghold on the market is both:
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I avoid buying from Steam and prefer GOG when I can because I don’t really want to have continued access to my games collection be dependent on Gabe eating his veggies, avoiding saturated fats and doing at least a 30m walk a day to keep the risk of a heart attack low and look both ways before he crosses a road so as not to be run over by a car.
In almost 4 decades as a gamer and a techie I’ve seen plenty of good companies turn into evil companies and start to leverage whatever dependencies customers had on them to pretty much blackmail them into paying more, sometimes after the founders died, others when the founders cashed out or just lost interest in managing the company’s direction and yet others because they were evil all along and just hid it whilst they built their customer base - enshittification isn’t ust a XXI century thing, what’s XXI century about it is that many companies nowadays already have it as part of their mid and long term strategy from the start.
Best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about, unless you have no other choice, even if at the moment they’re basically a benevolent dictatorship.
Better safe than sorry.
kevin2107@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They are not public so we are safe for now. When they go public they go shit mode
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sadly i guess it could happen to GOG too. I mean, anything you have already bought is safe but someone could step in and change the business model and end such a great thing.
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Valve is set up as a horizontal organization. I expect that to continue after Gaben’s death. He doesn’t really do much at valve these days anyway.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, well, somebody is going to inherit his share of ownership, and even if he goes out of his way and sets up a Foundation for the purpose of preserving the founder’s vision that will inherit his share, such Foundations tend to over time end up subverted and doing the very opposite of what the founder would’ve wanted.
Best avoid situations were your shit is hostage to the whims of a big company for whom you as and individual consumer are irrelevant.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I like to believe the main reason he got into BCI research is to digitize himself and live on as an actual Steam Machine.