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.

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.

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.

I like to believe the main reason he got into BCI research is to digitize himself and live on as an actual Steam Machine.

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 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.

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.

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.

GabeCube™, GabeGoggles™ and the GabeController™. Maybe we'll get a GabeBoy™ next

sorry by dose is stuffed.

Oh nooooo

Indeed

single coils, reverb , bridge pickup, play near bridge

edit : although it might be a baritone/bass vi ?