April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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FreiheitUndGlaube
BlockedI can't believe we already have porn of this console lmao
Fluffy Inferno
MemberRule 34 never disappoints.
Existing user
MemberPut a switch emulator in it
user 400440
MemberThat's half the point of it, Valve really woke up and said "Fuck Nintendo"
tdbreslawski
MemberWhen valve comes out of the basement and says “fuck (insert company here)” you KNOW even they fucked up
ZombieDWolf
Member1. Its been mentioned that any USB/Bluetooth can be plugged into it so it can have a KB/M if you want. Also it's a handheld so complaining about no KB/M is weird.
2. At most its only $100 more than a switch and when the OLED comes out, it'll be $50 more. Of Course it won't have any Nintendo exclusives, but it can either have your steam library or if you want you can replace the OS and make it an emulator machine and then you can have those Nintendo exclusives.
3. Yea probably.
For $400 its a very good budget PC, that is also portable. Also there is plenty of reason to hate Nintendo and the Deck should hopefully be good competition for them. From what I could look up on the other Portable PCs they are expensive as hell, and like I said earlier, the Deck is fairly inexpensive comparatively.
Rubicon7
MemberIf you want pc games on the go this is the best possible thing that could've happened.
Good controller built in, no awkward laptop kb+m or external controller, plus steam input configurations.
**Standardized** hardware- devs actually have a more common target if they want to cover the portable pc market, since this opens that door wider; the Chinese pocket pcs were all different so making games sure to run there would be almost nil.
Also it's crazy affordable and I'm excited that a pc designed for games is this affordable.
I signed in just to post this, look at me fanboying. : p
Secret72
Membery'know, hate to say this, but honestly i think i like the design of the GPD-WIN machines better.
user 263426
MemberNice Bo Burnham reference.
shinjichen
MemberRule 34 needs to chill.
MrBigBadBully
Membernever thought I'll log into E621 today and shed tears at an image. This place truly has the wonders
MoltenSilverIII
Memberdoes pc master race still apply to this?
user 400440
MemberYeah, it's basically a compact gaming laptop.
doinmyresearch
Member>no keyboard+mouse
get a laptop
>not upgradeable
that's the same as a switch
>no nintendo games
has the entire catalogue of steam games which is much better
>less battery life
to be expected from a fucking portable pc running much better graphics probably
user 749867
MemberThe fact that people can’t understand that these consoles focus on 2 different audiences really shows how slow people have become
maroraio
MemberHaving access to the entire Steam library means you cover literally every audience and then some. The Switch has catered to the indie market pretty well regarding consoles, but Steam blows it out of the water in that area as well. That only really leaves the Switch with Nintendo titles to really crow about as a selling point. I like Nintendo but if the steam deck takes off then its going to be some very stiff competition. Its an actual choice over the Switch where before there was none like it.
fuzoku
MemberI’m glad the Switch is finally getting real competition. I got an OLED because of the indies and exclusives. Now I can look forward to playing even more indies on the Steam Deal (if I can ever get one before they all get snatched up and scalped)
abd33
Memberlmao and nintendo still came on top because the average consumer touches grass, pcmr in shambles
MarioGuy2323
MemberYou can't even play half life on switch therefore steam deck better
ItzRokki
Member*WH40K Dreadnought Voice* Nintendo Coomer Spotted, Lethal Force Authorized..
tyran285
Memberlove that reference to bo burnham's welcome to the internet :P
unstable-nuclei
MemberPLUS it's the ULTIMATE piracy device. i have like 300 hours on pokemon platinum and it was literally more expensive than to buy a steam deck and pirate it than buy a DS along with a legitimate copy
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