u/emeralddawn45

It wouldn't set a legal precedent. Valve would still be well within their rights to shut down any other products that did something similar. If they signed a license agreement now everything would be fine and above board, and valve would still be able to do this exact thing to any other brands who did the same thing if they so chose.

As long as you're using and plugging in your steamdeck reasonably often(every couple of days) the suspend mode is fantastic and there's little reason to ever do a full shutdown or reboot in my experience. Boot into desktop mode the first time, and then just use the suspend mode to stay there, switching to gaming mode only when you want to play games. It also doesn't take very long to switch from gaming mode to desktop mode or vice versa, I find the main time killer is the initial boot up into gaming mode the first time after shutdown.

Or you can just load games out of desktop mode, a recent update fixed a lot of the issues I had with the steam overlay not working in desktop mode and denying access to the powerful steaminput configuration options. That all works flawlessly now in desktop mode as well. I haven't actually switched back to gaming mode for some time, since I use desktop mode to install games anyway and test the installation, it's easier just to stay in desktop mode now.

Or just use the thing that's more functional, more user friendly, and isn't garbage that doesn't need to be 'whipped into shape'. Will never understand the fucking Stockholm syndrome some people have for Microsoft's bullshit.

You can already emulate all those consoles on Android though...

I mean aside from it being a money grab and a waste of time, if he really wanted to help others why not write the solution in the details of the video? Because he doesn't care about helping people, he wants the views, and that kinda sums up most of the problems with the internet today

I don't want anyone to suffer I just didn't watch the video. Thanks for taking the hit, that's a true service.

I didn't watch it, I don't have time for that. These type of YouTube video fucking infuriate me, like unless you need to visually demonstrate something just write it out. And even then you could add pictures. It's just grubby time wasting and grasping for ad revenue.

Fucking 9 minute video for something that could be a few sentences of text, gross. Fucking gate keeping information.

I mean i could see this actually being a good stunt to raise awareness about it. Like use something fake and safe like a time release tablet that makes the drink fizz up suddenly 30 seconds later, or causes the whole thing to turn colour rapidly or something. But i doubt thats whats happening. Might make for a funny party theme with a close group of friends who are all in on it and targeting each other though.