Get you some split sleeves. I was the same way with my cords until I got that. Tried zip ties, velcro cable ties, etc and nothing quite worked until split sleeves.
I will check those out. I'm gentle with everything, so cable gore was fine. My wife is really rough on thing, but they were super organized so their cabels were fine.
Now my messy cables get yanked around by my wife and kids.. And they all die sooo fast.
Rocksmith also has licensing issues causing DLC to disappear, it's an inherent issue with all music games, really. Rock Band actually did a shockingly good job relicensing almost all the DLC when Rock Band 4 came out in 2015, aside from a handful here and there that were pulled when the original licenses expired it was really only in the last year or so that stuff has been disappearing. Both games only have 10 year licenses for DLC, so after that it starts getting delisted. You should be able to redownload it as long as the servers are up, so it's just new purchases that are affected.
For Rock Band specifically there's also groups out there that have "preserved" it all too
The charger for the controller can be plugged somewhere else, preferably close to the couch, so you don't have to come close to the Steam machine to turn it on.
Nothing quite like playing Street Fighter 6 on WLAN, when it becomes an RPG and starts to have random elements like attacks missing, failing or just outright getting deleted from existence.
Sure in many types of games it’s an acceptable compromise the game can account for.
In fighting games, where every input is measured by the frame WiFi players can be a nuisance. WiFi inconsistency is inherent to wireless and happens for multiple reasons.
If someone plays fighting games and they can use Ethernet, they absolutely should use Ethernet.
unless you have a crappy router from more than 2 decades ago, wifi is more than enough for most people even on competitive titles. maybe if you’re the top 10-20% of players you’ll need ethernet, otherwise the average gamer wouldn’t even notice wifi from a decent router from a wired connection.
that being said, ethernet is the better option as i said earlier, but only if it’s an option. having ethernet for myself and many others would require some home reno work done to accommodate that and it’s simply not worth the cost.
It's also completely circle-jerked and overblown, as PC players tend to do. Modern routers can absolutely handle even fighting games. It's not 2000 anymore where it's going to be a slideshow.
I played Street fighter on wifi for a year. Got all the usual rage-mail from salty people with all kinds of excuses for why they lost, but never once did anyone complain about the connection being laggy as a reason. Not once.
People always blow it way out of proportion. You see it in all games, fighting, FPS like CS2/Valo, mobas like League, etc. Acting like their plat lobbies are going to be ruined by 1-2 extra milliseconds of latency.
I do sim racing and VR so every single port on my computer including the extra pci usb card and extra sound card are filled with cables. I live in cable hell and I couldn't care less
I was about to comment the same thing. I don't do VR anymore, but i have so many USB cables and power cables everywhere. My SO took it upon herself to clean up my cable setup one day while I was at work. I love her to death. Talk about a night and day difference lol. Can't even tell it was a rat's nest before
I have a USB C extender that holds my mouse, keyboard, headset, camera, and both monitors, so that I can easily swap it to my work laptop when working from home. I only have that, power, internet, and a couple random things charging. Basically just three necessary cables.
How?! Other than the power cable and display output to my two monitors, I still have my mouse, keyboard, Ethernet cable, webcam, controller, printer, and a USB hub to connect my wireless peripheral dongles (mouse and kb).
My computer can wirelessly connect to most if not all of that on its own, and it has USB slots on the inside to use a couple dongles without them being outside if i wanted. I still use almost entirely wired setup
i have a wireless mouse usb, wireless headset usb, wireless headphones usb, hdmi, and power cord plugged to mine. my 8bitdo controller charges on my phone charger
You don't need any dongles to connect a Keyboard/Mouse via BT.
Meaning, it's obvious what everybody is trying to say and in most cases BT is far away from ideal or even usable, but technically you only need a cable for power supply and your display to set up your PC.
Bwahaha, I have a Switch on my desk connected to my single monitor through HDMI split and all my stuff is wired, and I have an external sound card, right now it's 11 wires hanging from the desk top.
Also doesn't "The Goomba" in the picture come across as unnecessarily aggro?
"They're out here treating it like it's revolutionary."
Except no one said it was revolutionary? They were just stating a simple "this is how easy it is to set it up." The Goomba's response makes sense is the original post was like "Look how few cables it takes, console peasants are trembling in their diapers!" or some shit.
(And wired mouse+keyboard* for no battery worries (yea and headphones be wired too but I have speakers as well and I meant keyboard\), plus my hotas whenever I’m playing Elite, and oh look I’ve placed myself in the exact same situation)
I can't do that. My gateway is not in the living area of the house. Even if i did get permission to make a new hole i would need at least 200ft to reach my PC going through doorways and up stairs. That's great if it works for you but my point is not everyone can do that.
If you want to play online at least on PS5 you need to pay for some subscription thingy. Idk what it is called since I only use my PS5 for single player games but I do know multiplayer is not free.
While I do agree those subscriptions on consoles are awful, can we at least be honest about the pricing? That’s not how much it costs to access online there.
Nintendo, for example, charges $20 per year. Still terrible that they charge for it, but that’s literally 15x less than what you claimed.
To be fair, because it is essentially a PC, you could buy your games on GoG instead and make offline copies on physical hardware (your NAS, an USB-Stick or whatever. Even discs if you really wanted to).
depending on your setup this could apply to any PC (as long as were allowing Bluetooth receivers to not be counted)
It's weird seeing this level of glazing for the Steam Machine when the Steam Deck had nowhere near as much glaze despite being way more impressive on release..
A Valve parasocialist not glazing anything they do or make? Impossible. You might as well tell Nintendo to lower the price of Mario Tennis Fever so more people will buy it.
By far most PC things have better price/performance. Proper desktop prebuilds can easily get 60%+ performance overhead for the same price, so not even the same ballpark.
You can do the exact same thing on a regular PC it's not special. Normal PCs support Bluetooth but there isn't a point on using Bluetooth if you are keeping the computer stationary.
All you need on any computer is the power and video cable if it supports wifi and Bluetooth which any computer can either in the motherboard or by slotting in a $20 PCIe card if your PC is from 2008 and doesn't have it already
That's why this got upvoted to the top of the sub, right? Have you just not been here since the release of this thing? I see way more people whining about "glazers" than I see glazers.
So how is this bad? Why are we treating Tyler Price's tweet like it's glazing and not just him being happy about that aspect of it compared to his previous setup? No where in the tweet does he say it's something revolutionary. Are we really just upset because people are happy about something that doesn't meet our standards of happiness?
It's like seeing someone express joy over a $20 bill found on the ground outside and scoffing at them because it wasn't a $100. The kind of people to gate keep happiness must be miserable.
It's a homemade JBOD, it uses SAS cables, a 40 buck SAS card from Ebay, an acrylic frame and rubberised screws from AliExpress, plus a Noctua fan and a controller. Sata power comes from inside the PC and goes outside from the back. All in all it cost me like 150€ for the whole thing. The reason I didn't just get a NAS is that I normally use the files for seeding torrents, I never feel the need to look for files on my HDDs from far away, normally I put them in drive temporarily and then delete once on my phone. The entire rack plus HDD inside my PC is a total of like 34TB.
unless you want 8bitdo or any other controller with proprietary usb dongles to work properly, or want stable internet, or want mouse and keyboard in bios, then yea
It’s cause they’re comparing it to a PC. But they don’t understand a PC meant for at the desk tends to have more accessories than a of meant for the couch.
My mini PC or othe TV computer has power, HDMI, and maybe a few wireless dongles. My pc at the desk has power, hdmi, display port, mouse/keyboard, usb dac, etc. they are trying to glaze a little I guess
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u/Classified10 Jul 18 '26
If I had a Steam Machine you BET I'm plugging in more than just two cables.