RicoBerto

You are correct in that all technically fit the definition of computers. However consumers don’t care about technical definitions or think rationally about purchases. They don’t all do a rational analysis of the products on the market that would accomplish their goals and spend accordingly. They walk into GameStop and buy one of the boxes that makes call of duty show up on their living room tv. Just like the Deck fits the definition of a handheld computer with a built in screen and controllers for playing games but isn’t stealing any customers from the switch.

Deck isn’t selling millions and it’s doing just fine. The Steam Machine will be a small computer box priced as such and there won’t be a single person that decides to buy it over a ps5, and that’s fine. Valve doesn’t have to compete with consoles cause they don’t make consoles.

Valve themselves have said that the Machine will not be priced like a console but like an entry level PC whatever that means. The only people that will notice this to buy it are people who already know what a PC is.

It’s a small computer, it isnt going after the Xbox or PS5 customers. It’s going for the people who want a computer in their living room.

Way ahead of you bud.

Save the environment by NOT doing a bullshit chore? Sounds like a fuckin win to me. I already wasn’t going to, but now I can feel smug about it.

This is the single most innocent quirk I have ever come across, if it stops you from sharing in the discourse you must not have had much to say in the first place. Seriously, our world is so fucked up that one person choosing to use an old letter for fun or personal enjoyment is sooooo far down my concerns list. You might as well be worried about what color shirt they are wearing right now.

Flavacol is just an artificial butter flavor with salt made into really fine particles. But you are correct, any time you’ve been to any business or place that had a popcorn machine you can pretty well guarantee they are using it.

I used to make the popcorn at Target and it’s what we used.

Oh it’s also cheap as shit and the carton will last you forever so just pick some up if you are curious.

Rules as written, rules as intended.

This isn’t a petition like change.org. It’s to get this brought in front of politicians that HAVE to make a ruling based on it.