Watch Valve's Gabe Newell deliver some Steam Decks

I'll tease in this message because I place high Liam's value, and the good direction linux gaming is taking thank to this Steam Deck.

That's pure communication. Like war propaganda on every side across Europe currently: it's made to forge a legend out of nothing, a bard's tale (Jasper?), to force one's view/storytelling (Gabe = the cool, legendary guy,that take care of customers) into population minds. Either it is true, and we don't need this simulacrum; Or its false, and he need this simulacrum.

Ok, why not, even doing a article on that, but it's not an information. Moreover, Gabe won't be delivering deck into indonesia, honduras or Ouganda, while claiming that's a way for obtaining a true "return" of customers: ....he means English-speaking, US citizen centered opinion ; So, again, pure communication, everything in this video is artificial; even not showing him walking (with difficulties). In short, pure marketing, zero information.

He wants to take into account for ALL customers? Let's do a public videoconference meeting with low moderation, nothing like Agoras since Athenian early democracy for a truly-horizontal discussion and egalitarian exchange of vision and ideas.

Fortunately, Liam wrote "A fun bit of marketing but..." ... But this 'But' immediately closed the critical mind, the necessary writing distance between the fanboy fuelled by marketing and the journalist :(


And finally, to Liam: you are procrastinating with this middling article :D. We ask for more review of this machine please ;) Hardware change of ssd for example, how it behaves in office tasks, video watching, etc. All stupid question like : can I play or watch video in the bed while my half is sleeping (fan sound, click of the buttons, etc.)? <3

Quoting: Geppeto35Fortunately, Liam wrote "A fun bit of marketing but..." ... But this 'But' immediately closed the critical mind, the necessary writing distance between the fanboy fuelled by marketing and the journalist :(

I've literally no idea what you're trying to say at this point. It's a very quick news tip, to show the video and not really anything more than that. Nothing about what I've written here is in any way "fanboy" and I'm as far as you can get from a Valve fanboy and have been very critical of them in the past.

Quoting: Geppeto35And finally, to Liam: you are procrastinating with this middling article :D. We ask for more review of this machine please ;) Hardware change of ssd for example, how it behaves in office tasks, video watching, etc. All stupid question like : can I play or watch video in the bed while my half is sleeping (fan sound, click of the buttons, etc.)? <3

Check our YouTube. Multiple new videos going up per day at the moment.

Quoting: Geppeto35That's pure communication. Like war propaganda on every side across Europe currently: it's made to forge a legend out of nothing

Certainly true. However,

Quoting: Geppeto35Either it is true, and we don't need this simulacrum; Or its false, and he need this simulacrum.

Well, no. In this day and age, in fact perhaps always, the truth doesn't just insinuate itself into our minds without help. Even if it's true (or more likely, partially true) we still need "simulacra" of it.

Quoting: Geppeto35Moreover, Gabe won't be delivering deck into indonesia, honduras or Ouganda

Well, no. He lives in Seattle. The only claim this whole thing has to some kind of naturalistic authenticity is that he decided to just go and do some deliveries where he lives.
There's a lot of imperialism behind the fact that big global companies are often headquartered in Seattle and never in Indonesia, Honduras or Uganda. But once that's the case, it would just be stupid tokenism to pull stunts in such countries, like Bill Clinton "feeling your pain".


Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 1 March 2022 at 5:17 pm UTC

From Twitter:

Quote1- This was Gabe’s idea. I thought he was nuts.
2- But I/we all miss interacting with people/customers so I am so glad we did it!
3- We picked random Q1 reservation holders nearby. To make sure they’d be home, I told them they had to be home to “sign for delivery”.

After Q2 2024 :p