I opened holiday season with a shock: Installed Steam Deck stable update, put it back in the case. Two or three hours later it jumped from the car's window shelf. I thought it wanted to be played with, but it was dying from heat. It hadn't shut down and even smelled of molten plastic.

It still works, but...

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Quoting: pmatulkaSteam Deck is being sold only in EU, UK, USA and Canada (https://steamdb.info/app/1675200/).
To sell it in Asia Valve use external partner.
Is there someone here who has right knowledge and can explain to me why Valve can't sell hardware for whole world?

No knowledge, wild guessing:
* You need to know the local regulations, custom fees, whatever. For the EU, you need a CE sign - where do you get it, what does it need, ...? What kind of manual is enough to not get sued?
* Maybe it's as simple as not paying every parcel from the US to the other side of the world? Better have someone with big storage over there and send a ship full at once...
* What's the RMA regulations? And better not have them send it back to the US, and then back to them again after repair...

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yes I probably have but I'm going to bore you with it again because I can.

That's the spririt!

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: EikeI absolutely recommend this game to everyone who likes the genre!

Backed by Ron Gilbert and recommended by Eike. On the wishlist it goes!

I hope both factors contribute equally! ;) :D

No, I really loved the game. The drawings are great (they lacked money for animations so they made a one-fits-all grab animation - but that one's so nice that I would have preferred it to dedicated ones), puzzles are good, it's actually funny, you get to play three people in three times who have to interact, and it totally doesn't deny that it's got the idea from Day of the Tentacle...

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I absolutely recommend this game to everyone who likes the genre!

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Quoting: tonRIt does make sense that Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (ROC) got the Deck first as they have fairly sizeable Linux community especially Taiwan.

I guess that most Steam Deck customers don't care for Linux though.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! Hmmm . . .

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

Two, of similar size, actually.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumReally wish some of them would grow a brain and stop blaming us for everything that's wrong when we were fighting the same fight they are........ :grin:

I'm not fully sure what you're talking about, but... The youth absolutely should do some things better than we (well, I was thirty when you were young :D ) did, and we shouldn't see that as an affront. Optimally, we did our best and they do their best - on our shoulders.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: buckysrevengeI think them finally fixing issues with Nvidia GPUs w/gamemode (new BPM) is a nice step towards getting SteamOS 3.x out as a generic ISO. I'd love to get it set up on my old Steam Machine (currently running Manjaro stable and new BPM), the ease of Valve's updates on the Steam Deck translated to a dedicated HTPC would be nice to have again.

what is bananas per monkey and how does it help? I can't find anything about BPM

Big Picture Mode

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: hardpenguinHuh, it never affected me THAT much. I guess my gaming sessions are short 😅. Plus one could restart the stream every now and then. Anyway, glad it is fixed!

Yeah, I've had this bug since it was introduced in 2019. Restarting the stream didn't always work. A reboot would, but that kinda defeated the purpose of remote play.

I'm glad they finally fixed it. I'm curious as to how it got introduced in the first place.

Introduced? Maybe at a party. The host was all, "Oh, hey, Remote Play, great to see you here! Say, there's someone you just have to meet--sound bug, this is Remote Play, I've been thinking you two would really hit it off!"

... but finally, after three intense years, they broke up!
(They said communication just hasn't been working...)

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