stevedice
@stevedice@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Squad Goals 3 days ago:
you belonged to a marginalised group
Oh, shit. I left out hugely important context. This happened in Mexico so it’s probably neither of those.
- Comment on Squad Goals 4 days ago:
Twice I got my face plastered on the flyers of a conference because none of the other speakers looked Mexican enough. I still don’t know if should have been offended.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 5 days ago:
Depends. I’d love to say go with GOG whenever possible but they have some utter shit in their store. Like, old versions of games with bugs that were patched years ago or just plain don’t work. Dragon’s Dogma where online is completely broken comes to mind. So, I guess find out which version is the best on a game-per-game basis? I realize how much of a fucking non-answer this is and I’m sorry to have wasted your time.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 6 days ago:
Sometimes I conjure up the delusion that having a big feline is doable if raised from birth because my little feline is such an adorable baby that she shows her belly to literally everyone she sees even when she’s never met them. But even this cute ball of fluff will dig her claws into my leg to avoid falling when she rolls over while napping on my lap. Imagine if those claws were 4 cm.
- Comment on CompSci freshmen will relate 6 days ago:
What if I don’t wanna get shipped to El Salvador for throwing up gang signs?
- Comment on Where's the best point to jump into modern Resident Evil? 1 week ago:
Just jump right into 7. 8 is kinda like 7 but more action oriented. Still pretty fun. Then go RE2 Remake and RE4 Remake. They’re the best in the entire series. Then play original 4 again and realize I lied to you and that one is still the best.
- Comment on Where's the best point to jump into modern Resident Evil? 1 week ago:
Ethan, NO.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, you are definitely bringing nothing constructive with your goalpost moving.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, it’s a thread about the market differences between the PS3 and the Steam Machine. You’re just being in your obsession with being right.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
What’s stopping them from throwing a blanket over the shelf and just posting the same notice on the blanket? That’s what I mean by toothless law.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah, brilliant argument. Shall I take this as your agreement that $750 is not console pricing?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s not a console in the same way the Steam Deck isn’t a Switch competitor. I get what you’re saying but putting “console price” at over $750 would just mesh it with PC pricing and then the distinction would be meaningless.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re quoting someone else.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 week ago:
Yes, it is riskier. That’s not my point, though. It is that telling people “just don’t do that” isn’t helpful.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 week ago:
Umm, actually. All proprietary software is unethical and introduces huge risks to your PC. People should stop playing any game that has such closed closed source.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That PC at microcenter is much faster than the Steam Machine.
Here’s some benchmarks for the 7600M, that has the exact same specs as the GPU in the Steam Machine.
notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-7600M-GPU-Benchma…
Here’s some benchmarks for a 9060XT which is the GPU on your link:
notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-9060-XT-16GB-Benc…
And here’s some benchmarks for a desktop 7600 which is another card people are comparing the Steam Machine to:
notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-7600-Benchmarks-a…
In case anyone doesn’t wanna wade through the terrible way notebookcheck presents information, I’ll post the numbers for CyberPunk High Preset at 1080P just to give you an idea of the performance difference. Nothing particular about why I chose that game, it’s just the first I found that was on all 3 links:
RX7600M: 62.3 FPS RX7600: 90.1 FPS RX9060XT: 127.2 FPS
If we set the 7600M as 100%, then the 7600 and 9060XT are 144.6% and 204.1% respectively.
I think people are thinking the Steam Machine will be way faster and that’s why they’re coming up with these outrageous prices.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Only one of those 3 consoles is comparable to the Steam Machine. You can’t grab a product from a different segment in the market and lump it in with the rest just because they’re the same kind of product. If that were the case, I could just look at a ThinkCentre and say “see? $200 is PC pricing” but that would be insane because nobody looking to buy a ThinkCentre would consider a Steam Machine – just like nobody looking to buy a PS5 Pro or the disc-version of the PS5 will consider a Steam Machine either. So yes, youe failure to consider market segments means that you are wrong.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
It’s easier to bitch about the woes of a thing I already don’t like than to have to make any effort in changing my habits, mmkay?
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
No, buddy. English is also not my first language and you write like shit. You’re also an asshole about it, have a victim complex and are a hypocrite. You’re just an all around shitty human being.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
Are you legitimately insane?
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
That’s probably one of those toothless laws that can be easily bypassed on a technicality. Like, just say the shelf is for “storage” and not “display”.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
Sure. Not for RAM, though. It ain’t water, friend.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
What market are you shopping at?!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, but there’s some unhinged people arguing it’s gonna be $800 or even $1k.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re the one that brought up Valve selling at a loss because you think anything under $800 would be selling at a loss. It is not.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Seems like they changed it two months ago. That still puts a $650 30% above the PS5 MSRP so no $650 isn’t console pricing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You seem to think the Steam Machine will be much faster that the specs imply.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
An educated guess. The specs of the “semi-custom” components perfectly match with existing products. However, if I were to put my tinfoil hat on, I’d point out that the 7600M has been out for 2 years and you still cannot find a laptop with one. Almost as if someone snatched up all of the supply.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Care to share a link to a PCPartPicker with that?
Nope. Already closed the tab and can’t be bothered to do it again. I did check the link you provided and I see where you went wrong. We’ll get to that in a bit.
It’s literally not, they custom developed it for the product, similar to the Steam Deck one, it is based on the architecture used on laptops, but so are Playstation and Xbox AFAIK.
It literally has the exact same specs as a Ryzen 5 7400F and an RX7600M. But hey, you were right, the CPU is actually not a laptop CPU.
Can you provide a link to such a prebuilt? Here’s the first prebuilt I could find with similar specs, and it’s 1k periphio.com/…/firestorm-7600-prebuilt-amd-gaming…
Sure I could. I won’t because you already did and your prebuilt even is a $50 cheaper than the one I had found. Remember that I said we’d get to why the part list you posted was wrong? Here we are. An RX7600 has 32 compute units and a boost clock of about 2.6GHz. The
RX7600M“custom GPU” in the Steam Machine has 28 CUs and a boost clock of about 2.4Ghz. This results in the full size 7600 being anywhere from 30% to 70% faster than its mobile version depending on the game and about 50% in synthetic benchmarks. So those PCs with “similar specs” you brought up are not similar at all.And the other one is 700, your point is?
What other one? The one nobody bought? I guess Valve could go the same route if their goal is for nobody to buy their product.
It didn’t happened with the Deck because it’s not sold at a loss, so it’s cheaper to assemble a similarly built PC for you. But I definitely saw several posts through the years recommending people just buy a Steam Deck as their machine in certain conditions. If the Steam Deck costed 300 I guarantee you people would be using it as their daily drivers or building clusters of them.
It didn’t happen with the Deck because it’s one of the worse ideas ever conceived. It won’t happen with the Cube because it will remain one of the worst ideas ever conceived.