You are taking the comments too literal. If something is subsidized (which means cheaper than normal) and it is useful as a PC or PC parts, it will be vacuumed up by non-gamers as well.

You are technically correct about mega corps and such but missing the point being made. Every subsidized PC not bought by gamers is lost money for Valve.

Megacorps won’t sit and refresh Steam sure, but fucking scalpers absolutely will. There are lots of shady middlemen companies that will buy them up from eBay and resell to small businesses too.

Hell, I’d snap one up and resell on eBay in a heart beat myself if this thing goes for anything close to what a PS5 sells for. Let’s say $1200 in parts, I buy for $700, I resell for $900, reseller scoops up a few hundred at a time off ebay, sells in bulk to small businesses for $1100… Everyone wins… Valve fucking loses. Now, let’s say a million people do the same thing because it is free money.

This is how this works and why they can’t subsidise this thing like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have. (Also why Xbox doesn’t run actual windows for that matter.)

Hi Mudkip, you are totally right! Our posts are getting very sterile. We will try to delve into the reason for this and do a better job going forward.

I suspect more than a few of us are feeling called out with this comment.

Depending on how many fucks I had to give that day, might have even written that in the comments!

Finally! This is peak dopamine hit. Distilled and so pure. I can finally look away now.

Not this shit again!

Me, the one time I order something every year: “Oh shit oh shit oh shit are they gonna bring it to my door? the depot? Or maybe they’ll leave it at the post office again or shit maybe they’ll try to find my house but can’t because google maps sucks here and they’ll take it back and someone will give me crap for living in a place that doesn’t exist oh shit oh shit oh shit I’m never ordering something ever again it’s all gonna fail! I better call the depot and let them know that something might be dropped off with them…”

Meanwhile, my wife who orders 5 billion things that all arrive without incident: “Oh neat! Another parcel! I forgot I ordered this!”

And it’s detrimental how?

They’re very open about who sponsors. And you can’t tell me that their production quality is cheap.

Can confirm. We had an infestation of house hippos last year and didn’t even notice them until half way through winter and realizing all of our mittens were missing.

^ Right here. Company I worked at had trash dropped in the back of one our service vehicles (as well as some straight up vandalism), had lots of personally identifying info and the culprit had already made themselves well known to our staff a couple weeks prior. Guy told the police the trash was stolen and nothing further ever happened with it.

Grew up with ms-dos. Spent half my career in telnet and ssh consoles.

When I just want to play Balatro at the end of a long day fuck any system that requires more than click click to get me in.

That’s why I’m switching to Linux when windows 10 is no longer supported because fuck win 11 and the amount of regedits it’s gonna take to get that working.

My brain is itchy now.

In the movie the glasses let the wearer see the truth. This template is often used backwards but it’s correct in this case.

It’s the “is it a space or is it an underscore” that gets ya.

Thousand times this. For actual builders that care about the nuance it all probably makes sense but then there is me over here looking at pre-builts wondering why the fuck are two seemingly identical machines have a $500 difference between them.

I’m spending so much time pouring through spec sheets to find “oh the non-z version discombobulator means this cheaper one is gonna be trash in three years when I can afford to upgrade to a 6megadong tri-actor unit”.

I’m in this weird state of to cheap to buy a Mac and can’t be arsed to build my own.

LED lighting. Usually can adjust to whatever color lighting you like. Pure aesthetic value, no actual benefit to the performance of the machine itself.

And my axe!

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