Sure, but if you’re working with something 6x as powerful as the Deck a lot less tweaking will be required. Especially if more developers start putting out recommended Steam Deck/Machine presets. It’ll only get easier from here.

I’d say that’ll be true vs a Steam Deck 2 in a few years, but with the Deck now as old as it is and if you prefer to play on a TV vs handheld it’s pretty easy to justify spending a little more for a lot more power.

Not perfect, no - but 9 times out of 10 it behaves exactly like a console.

My soundbar has an HDMI passthrough, so I plug my Apple TV into that.

Right now on the Steam Deck, yeah - but if they're elbowing into the living room with this thing and replacing consoles it'll be much more common.

The switch I got has auto-detect, but I have a Samsung TV that wants to auto-detect every new device that's plugged in so it's a hassle every time.

Go to 4-5 years and that's basically a console generation.

We use it a lot! At least, we will for the next few months until my Game Pass sub expires.

This doesn't look like the kinda thing you'll wanna buy and then upgrade a bunch (outside of storage), TBH. If tinkering is your thing and you've got cash there's no reason to not go with a traditional gaming PC instead.

I might even be willing to do something crazy like this if it would do the same auto-switching that the TV does by itself, but I don't want to ask my family to use two remotes or even get a whole universal remote setup that complicates everything.

Mine has a passthrough so I plug my AppleTV into that.

I am lucky that my 10-year-old is not nearly so pepper-averse!

Any pro tips for how to encourage him to eat stuff and not decide in advance that he hates it?

I wouldn't call mine ultra picky but he's 10 now and progress has been a heck of a lot slower than I expected, and there's little rhyme or reason. He'll eat a hamburger unless any type of condiment (including cheese) has touched it... but he'll eat cheese pizza or a grilled cheese. Baffling.

It was very "Have their cake and eat it too" in that respect. Not a period piece so much as an alternate reality where technology went faster but fashion went slower.

Yeah I'm a fan of not rushing things but I am also a fan of seeing another X-Men movie before I'm 50. And given the way the Blade reboot seems to have somehow died on the vine I'm not brimming with confidence.

It was cool that it was retro-futuristic - old-timey fashion and CRTs everywhere (including building-sized ones) but flying cars, competent robots, and FTL are NBD.

Apparently the 1920s Blade costumes were repurposed for Sinners?

This was the first Marvel movie I've watched with my son (though we saw Superman together in the theater a few months back). I guess now I've gotta speed run him through the whole MCU (or at least the good ones) before this time next year.

Oh, you better believe I got the hot dog.