Not only is it Friday, but Friday is the day before Saturday and what the fuck are we doing on Saturday?
Tell them
You've got your little witcher dice and I've got my fucking
Ragnarok dice and we're ready to go. We're ready to go. Oh, we both need to make our fucking characters
So we'll do that. We'll do that tomorrow
And then we're fucking then we're good to go and then Darryl-y Darryl-y Do's gonna fucking
Meet us at about five
And then we're golden
Krusty he's gonna have to fucking join midway. I reckon so
What an exciting time if you've listened to this podcast from the fucking near beginning
We've always spoken about how we wanted to delve into D&D and tomorrow is the fucking day unless we all crash on the way in
Oh, Connor gets too angry with us for being dumb-dumbs. He chucked us out
He's too polite any
He's already planning it all he's primed and ready I can't wait it's gonna be fantastic
What if this is it I'm scared it is well, if this is our thing I'm scared it is we're like, ah
We've got a drive to the middle of nowhere to fucking play D&D
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm excited. It's gonna be good in it. I still don't know what I'm gonna pick class wise
No, I'm not 100% I didn't know whether to just try and make something around me
or go full hog and
Proper fantasy with it. Oh, yeah, don't make something about you
You just the whole point of it in it to go as far from you as possible. Oh, no, because you can also
Well, you wouldn't you would like to take yourself on a little adventure
All right, I'm too fat and old for that shit, bro
Probably like 13 stone. I wish I was fighting stone away more than Matt mate
Yeah, but Matt's about four foot. Matt is a big boy with a big belly
So muscle you'll be all right. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm thinking
Big fuck-off weapon build
That's just gonna be me. I'm gonna make a big old fucking geezer
I'm we were gonna make a big old motherfucker that swings big old motherfucking weapons around or I'm gonna have a dwarf
That swings big old motherfucking weapons around because they're very powerful people
I'm gonna do as I'm told
Whatever connoisseurs to do me do no questions. I'll make your fucking character. He can't tell you what to do there
Yeah, well, I have a good look. I tried to do a couple of times, but it's not happening for some reason
What is that on the?
Online thingy majig that we did ages ago. Yeah, I've done it. I've done it like four or five times and
Every time I've been in the middle of doing it off something's come up and then when I try to go back on it
It won't let me click on the fucking character. So I have to start the whole thing again. Mm-hmm
So I can't start getting snotty
Calling me a fucking idiot
I'm sure we'll be having words tomorrow. You can't kick off of him in his own cat kick off with a DM
I'm excited. I'm an absolute fucking novice
So it's good. Oh, we all are we all are only know from boulders gate and from the podcast, but
That isn't it still means nothing to me. Yeah, he messaged me. How many do you want mate?
We have all these look
All these different kind of you made was that for I think I've made five but there's four there
Just one of me edit it. It mind don't look like his screen. Yeah, I don't know if this is the phone thing
But yeah, we'll make it work. Have you have you been watching any of that fallout series? Nope
No, I got no interest in it
Zero zilch everyone keeps going. I watch yes. I don't want to thank you
Wow, that's first 15 minutes of this episode gone then no, you can crack. Why don't you want to watch it?
Have you watched it all? No
No, crack on. Why don't you want to watch it? You don't have fallout?
No, I just don't like the look of it. I know it's getting good reviews and rah rah rah, but it just for me
It's uh, it looks like it's going down the comedy route too much
Fallout's supposed to be like dark and gritty not fucking colorful and silly. That's not what I'm talking about
Fallout is definitely not dark and gritty
Definitely not dark and gritty. Well, it is it definitely isn't what fucking fallout have you played fallout 1 2 3?
Yep, new vegas. Yep. Same as me. They're all comedic dark and gritty. No
Definitely not what the fuck are you been playing? What do you mean?
What do you mean? What do you mean? They're all a laugh
Not like fucking so not a lot of like fallout 3 and new vegas all dark gritty fucking
gray pack color palettes everything's like
like just dark bro, and then fallout 4 is all like bright blues and yellows and popping off and shit fallout 4 took fallout in a
Complete different direction to a free new vegas and then the series is following that sort of format. So i'm just not interested
Did you play fallout 4? Mm-hmm. You didn't like it. Yeah, I liked it, but there's no one as good as free on new vegas
For me anyway, I want a fan of new vegas. I liked free
I think they're all pretty good many playthroughs are free. Oh, new vegas is the best one. They're um
They're not remastering it are they they're updating it
Yeah, I see that for for next gen and then add it in a couple of little bits fallout 4
I feel like that could be quite
And that could be quite exciting. I
Think I might be a sucker for that one. Yeah, Clark. He was just playing it a couple of weeks ago
Mm-hmm. So I think he's a bit devastated because he's all full laid out now and they've just gonna release the next gen
Edition so to speak 60 FPS and all that so yeah exciting same that fucking
What was that fallout 76 it's the same that that never
Stabilized I think it did I think it's quite popular but it's just nothing to really shout about
Really? I feel like that's one of those
though where it's like
You know how you can't really say that much on Ark survival because you don't play Ark
Mm-hmm. It's just one of those games where obviously people love it, but I can't I can't question it at all
I feel like that was fallout 76. I played maybe like
20 hours of it and that was it and I've I ain't got fucking clue how that was years ago as well as I went
It released. Yeah, I probably played it two years ago. I'd say and yeah, it's just this is not for me
It's just not really but still I say it was just basically fallout 4 which I didn't enjoy as much as the others in
Multiplastic in so I was never gonna like it as much as the other ones
So yeah, not really my thing but yeah, go ahead crack on with the dumb not bothered about spoilers because I've only watched one episode
I just liked it man. It was good. It's very fucking gory which I enjoyed
And yeah, it's just interesting me and Steph were watching it and I was quite I was quite fucking tired after the first episode
So didn't continue on
But I am caught up with Shogun
Have you watched?
Episode 8. It's good episode. Yes. Mm-hmm
We can't say anything on that one because a spoilers. Yeah, it was good. It was good. It's very good
I didn't pay too much attention because I had to watch it yesterday. I
Really wasn't in the fucking mood
I'll just fucking watch West Ham lose 2-0 in the Europe League and
Yeah, and she's I
I was just about to go bed after the game
It was like 10 o'clock or so and then she come in with some benign
Jerry's and went Shogun. Oh fuck sake. So yeah, I'll put it on
I didn't really pay much attention. It's not a sort of show
You can't watch because you have to read the fucking subtitles. I was literally about to say I mean, I mean
Some of a habit when I'm watching something it's not grasping my attention
I just start flicking on my phone and I found
Whenever I do that in Shogun, I have to like throw my phone across the room because it is one of those where the minute
You're not paying attention
Then subtitles just fucking blitz through yeah, it's probably the weakest episode so far for me because I was paying zero attention
Because I was just watching people go mad on Twitter about West Ham
And I was like, it's a very good episode. You should rewatch it
Nah, I saw the main points. I saw the big bits and that
Kind of get where it's going but to be honest with you
I really like it, but I'm only really interested in it when old John Blackthorne's in it
Because I find his character quite captivating and I like listening to him in these ways, but when he's not in it
I'm a little bit like
It's not grabbing grabbing me as much. Yeah, so I'm just fucking him
Infatuated with all of it. I think it's great. Um, I'm definitely gonna have that sadness when it's finished
Because it will be and I feel like with the way the story is
It's one of them where definitely wrap it up in a season but
Also kind of don't continue it as much as I want it to be continued. They've already said they're not so yeah
Which is good. Some things just need to be fucking cooked and then left alone for sure
What else was there was fucking
What did I say?
You see the fucking um that mod for Simpsons hit and run?
Nah
If you're not the um
You remember remember ages ago. I was talking to you
About that guy that made was making like a one-to-one
Version of it and using like the same assets and shit like that. Well, it's it's it's that guy and he's basically made like a free
Mod, I guess
um
Brandon sent me a video about it
And it's basically just Simpsons hit and run but with a little bit more
Puzzazz and it's perfect. But I need to google it because the developers of that game
Apparently desperate to remaster it or remake it but they're not allowed to
And I don't know why
I have no idea. I've never played it to be honest with you
Have you?
No, I suppose you were a bit old
Maybe no, you might have been probably if I was playing it when I was a kid and fucking loving it
You might you might have been fucking past your time
I'll tell you what I did do
Port Steindec
Did you?
When?
um
What for?
Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah
Which one?
uh
OLED 512
Stop fucking tapping your leg
The more you say don't do something more I won't do it
All right, well, then everyone just have to listen to your shitty tapping in the background
Mm-hmm
But yeah
Bought a steam deck and it comes in three to five days
What you want to elaborate?
What do you have to elaborate on? I bought a steam deck
Fucking hell, you're like a brick wall today. Jesus christ. Should we just pause it now? Do you want to just stop it now?
What for? It's like talking to a fucking ice cream
That makes no sense
What?
Elaborate. What do you want me to elaborate on?
Why did you buy one? Why did you what what made you go for the fucking most expensive one?
It's not the most expensive one
The OLED? Yeah, it's not the most expensive one. The one terabyte is the most expensive one. All right, well still
The reason I didn't go for the most expensive one is because it's got a um
It's got the uh anti-glare glass on it apparently that just makes it worse
Yeah, that's what I read when I was first looking at them. So I didn't bother with that
Um fucks around with the resolution a little bit
Yeah, it just makes the colors not as good and stuff like that and they said you're better off just buying a 512 one
Sticking in a sd card
And then making a terabyte your own screen protector on it. Yeah, so that's what i'm gonna do. That's what I did
Yeah, so that's what i'm gonna do. That's what I did. What's my yeah
I'm excited for that to turn up and play with it and see what it's all about
Um, what made you go for it? I don't know. I just fancied it. My mate's got a portal at work
And he's bringing it in
And he keeps singing his praises. So I said let me look at it
He let me look at the other day and it was fucking shocking. It's one of the worst bits of equipment i've ever seen
I don't know who's buying it why they're buying it if I bought that I would be taking it straight back
Absolutely shocking bit of shit. This is tantalizing go on. It's shit. Have you played one? No, it's fucking shocking
You have to so you have to have your playstation on or on standby mode or whatever. It connects to his hotspot
And it's fucking awful. I was playing mortal combat
single player
So offline and it's fucking jittery. It's glitching
it's like
Lagging but it's offline like input lag type shit. No, just lagging. It's like it's got it's got input lag for sure
but um
Yeah, it was just it was glitching all over the screen. It was just
Like it was pixelating
I was like how are you playing this bro? And he plays arc on it as well
But you are supposed to use it with a stable connection. Yeah, but he but his connection is like 5g and that so
you know, I
Don't know. It's shocking. He said that's it doesn't get much much better than that. It can be better but oh really?
Yeah, it's not it's not great. Obviously it's made for being used at home
But yeah pretty much the main reason he's got it is because he hasn't got another telly
So whilst everyone else on the telly he wants to play his playstation
So you got that but no
No, you can find you you have to have your playstation on right on standby. So if you go out
Forget to put your playstation in standby or whatnot. Then you can't play anyway
that's the
that's a um
That's a feature that I really don't like about it
But also it would be so easily solved what I say easily, but I don't think it would be that simple
To just have the ability to switch your playstation on from the app
Because you can you can switch it on from standby mode in the app because it has to be turned on in order to be using the portal
But you can switch it on if it's in standby
It turns the playstation on
Yeah, yeah, that's turn it on. Fuck that. Fuck that. You're a load of shit
because it's
Don't think of it like it's it's um
Uh, it's essentially streaming
The game so the any game that you're playing on the portal has to be downloaded on your playstation and your playstation has to be switched on
Which you can switch it on as long as it's in rest mode
But you can't switch it on if it's turned off which i've always found annoying because I will
If you've got the feature for me to turn the fucker on when it's in rest mode
Surely you must have the feature for me to switch it on when it's turned off
That would make more sense because like you just said if you've then gone out and you're gonna fuck I ain't turn my playstation on
You can just pull up the app and go put it on
Just makes no sense. I don't know why they thought that would be a good idea to design it like that. I mean
Why not design it similar to the steam deck where it can just connect to your playstation account and access your playstation library
Surely they have to be able to do that because then you would need to have think of all the software think of
You it's far easier from a software point of view to stream something
Then it is to create a device that can hold all the information on that device to be able to then play that
As good as if you were just streaming it think like the steam deck the amount of hardware that's in that or the asus rog
Any of that shit the lenovo
Their powerhouses whereas the portal is just a streaming device
It hasn't hasn't got any of that. Yeah, I mean don't get me wrong. It's it's a lot cheaper, isn't it?
It's 200 quid, but I think you might as well pay for it
200 quid, but I think you might as well pay extra and get something that's actually
Usable because unless you're if unless you're in your house, I wouldn't be using that. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, it's certainly when we plan online games fuck that but it's also and the input lag is doggy
But you have to even on the main menu of the playstation screen. It's lagging. You gotta remember as well that it
It was never it was never advertised or intended to be used
Outside I didn't know you could until he told me you could yeah, I didn't believe him
It was it was it was made for that one reason of if there's no free tv. I can use the portal
and a lot of people jumped on it and enjoyed that I don't know if
I'm gonna imagine that if you are connected to a stable wi-fi that it would play a lot better
Um than if you're connected to fucking
5g because it's just not as stable as wi-fi
I just don't I don't like the fact that you have to be streaming everything all the time
Why why can't they just make a new playstation?
Handheld why they got no one wants his fucking portal shit everyone everyone wants a new Vita or PSP
Everyone's always crying about give me a new Vita
No one wants a fucking a device that essentially is useless unless you're next to the console you could already be playing
You know what? I don't
Really know because you remember with the um
With the PSP you'd get different discs wouldn't they were smaller
The old one is it or the Vita was the old one?
I think the PSP was the old one. I think PSP was the first was the first one
Then you had the V right? I only had the PSP and used to get the little discs with it. Yeah
I was I was about to make a point of maybe they don't want to
Fork out the infrastructure to then hold something like that. However, most shit is digital now
Yeah, and the PlayStation 5 is only 800 gig brand new like storage wise
And then a hundred of that is taken up by the system. So call it 700 maximum
Is that what you've got? Well by like you said by Steam Deck Steam Deck is a terabyte
the fucking SD card that I've slapped in my little one was like
500 and something and it was like 30 quid
How do you do that because it there's two slots in there. There's a there's a SD thing and then you can get like an internal
one to put inside as well
Did you have to take yours apart? No, no mine's literally on the
The underside of it. So where you're holding it underneath it
You literally like a SIM card just pop that in and then when you
Download stuff or when you look in your storage or whatever you literally say internal and then SD card
There's yeah, what's the video? Yes, there's some geezer taking it all apart and that and he was putting like in a new storage thing
So I was like fuck doing all that. I'm not that capable. There's probably like saying yeah, it's probably just changing the hard drive
I know he was putting internal storage in yeah changing the hard drive. No, I don't know
Yeah, you you wouldn't have to you just buy a fucking memory card and just
Slop that in but yeah, you can like download games on Steam
Right and then just play them without being connected to the internet. Yeah, so that that is what the PlayStation needs
I think I don't know why this dead the market to have a console handheld console that can only be used to stream
Essentially next to the machine that you're streaming from
In the the money must be so small. It's very nice and it was expensive for what it is as well
Do you want your quids not in the sniff? Is it no not for?
Not for the reasons of I can't use a telly at the moment
Let me let me switch my PlayStation on and get that all going and then go and use a fucking
Little portal especially you can get like a normal Steam deck now for like 300 quid
But why would you buy the portal like if you're willing to spend and you've got 200 pound expendable funds
Don't spend it on a fucking poor
Yeah, cuz a lot a lot of games that are on PlayStation and now on Steam as well. The the gap is getting ever increasingly
Smaller in terms of what you can and can't play across different platforms
the fucking
The near future very much is you should be able to play everything on everything
Which I think is what most companies are aiming for because that's kind of where the money is
but
Obviously we had this conversation when it was first announced and then when it come out
And that we could not understand the reasoning behind
the PlayStation portal
Give me a fucking PS 5 of a terabyte on it before you give me a fucking PlayStation ball
Where's my fucking terabyte PS 5 was like?
500 something quid where the fuck's that?
I had no interest in the portal at all who are who sat there in a board meeting
Who sat there and when we need to do something innovative?
For the PlayStation we've got a keeper player base and we got a fucking drum up some money and some business
What should we do? What can we think of we got Steam decks popping up? We've got Lenovo legions popping up
We've got aces. We've got all the other weird ones popping up. What should we come up with?
Oh, I know let's not do that and we'll just split a controller in half
Put a phone screen in front of it and then we'll stream everything right next to the PlayStation that you've already got
Don't get me wrong. It feels good like the control and stuff
It feels really nice. So a very nice feeling handheld and as I say I had no interest in it at all
Not one piece of me ever even paid it in mind and then he when he said he got one and
I said, you know, you can't play that work. All right. He was like, no, no, you can't. I don't think you can
He bought it in and showed me
Instantly, I was like if this is good, then I'm gonna buy one interesting. I'm gonna buy one
Yeah, and as soon as it because he was like not gassing it up, but he was like no no, it's alright. It's alright
It's not too bad. And then as soon as it come on right bear in mind, I
Press the power button
Did nothing I held it for two seconds or so and did nothing. I was like, what am I doing?
He's like, yeah, you have to hold it for a long time. I must have held that button for about six seven seconds
Yeah, but anything to happen and then for it to actually
Connect to his because if you're not connected to Wi-Fi does nothing
I literally nothing you can you can't even look through your your screen
You can't do anything and it took probably about three or four minutes to connect to his hotspot and
Then as soon as it become available and I moved left or right on his home page
The input lag was just I was just like wow
I couldn't play any game like this because you know when you're like, you know
You're talking to someone on the phone and they're for some reason. I don't know why you're talking to someone
I don't know why this happens. It happened to me the other day funnily enough. It's just a delay
Yeah, and then you're talking and waiting ages. So off putting yeah, it's horrible and that's the same as input lag, right?
It's a horrible feeling. I couldn't play like that
So when I put it up more combat and yeah, I thought that's a simple enough single player game
You can play it just scorpion vs. Subzero and you it's just going all
Pixely like this is like the screen was tearing. Do you know I mean it was fucking awful
I honestly I just can't for the life of me see
What on earth possessed them to make that I don't get I don't get it. I really don't get it
Can you I don't know if you can play that whilst?
Someone else is playing your PlayStation. No, well, yeah exactly. So what is the point?
You can only you can only because obviously you can have multiple accounts on your PlayStation
You can have a primary account as well in the secondary and blah blah blah
as far as I'm aware you can't flick between the two if you're if you're playing on your
Portal while your PlayStation's turned on and someone switches the user then it
Cuts it all off because it's because it's streaming from that
That PlayStation but that account as well
It's proper odd. It's really odd and it's
It's strange because it's not even like you can say that
PlayStation have never dabbled in the handheld universe because they definitely have everyone loved the
Years, yes still play them now. Yeah, they definitely have so so why why you know in a world where?
Handhelds are popping up left right and center. You wouldn't just go fuck it. Let's have a crack
No, I mean because ain't a switch like one of the if not the highest selling console this generation
Right. So everyone wants the switch
Yeah
Everyone wants the handheld shit and I know a lot of them sales come from kovid where people wanted it and stuff
like that, but
The handheld thing is massive. Like why are you not?
What is the point of the poor? That is what I can't cross. What is the point? I really don't get it and
Yes, it's disappointing. But that that is my reasoning. Basically. I was like, I didn't realize I wanted a handheld until I
Almost wanted a poor and then I was like, you know what fuck it. Let me look at these steam decks
Well, I I haven't used my steam deck for months
I'll be your PC player right so I'm not yeah, so that's the difference. I I
regard that as
possibly
One of the coolest gaming purchases I've ever made in my life
Because despite me not using it it's there
I check it routinely because I don't want to let the battery run out to zero because you're not supposed to do that
It's not good for battery health
And I keep it updated and it just sits in the drawer
So it's fine and I'll use it whenever I get that itch to want to use it again
If I don't I don't fuck it. The difference is with you, right is that
If you're going if you went to France or something other than I bring it with me
Yeah, but yeah, but you would you could take your laptop and you probably would take a laptop
I don't I won't do that or have anything really that I would do that for but I would definitely take the same deck
And yeah, I just think by the things you can do on it. Obviously I was torn
Looks I bought the steam deck then I started I was dumb
I was running out of battery on my phone and I was I was really want to buy it now for my battery dies
And then it died and then I started looking more into detail about it
Which is the wrong way to do things don't do things the way I did it
But I went home and then I started like doing the comparisons between the Rog and what's the other one the the
The Lenovo Legion so they're good. Like they've all got their they've all got their pros and they've all got their cons
99 percent of the videos are watched all said if you have to pick the free go for the steam deck because
Whilst this might have slightly better frame rate
This might have slightly better performance all in all package the steam deck does it the best
the yeah, the steam deck is your jack of all and and a lot of people are comparing it to
Back in my day when I was really little
And the handheld market was big then like the steam deck is the Gameboy
You know I mean and then the the Rog is like the little Sega. I come in well
They had mega drive or something. No, they had their own little handheld. I can't remember the game gear
So like they've got like but the Gameboy is the one in it right? So and and also
Like Steam decks in it for the long haul, you know the because steam have already got their their audience
They've got they've got you by the bullets steam deck has a its operating systems
There it's and obviously but
Valve has the money not saying the fucking
Asus don't or fucking Lenovo
But they so the the Rog runs on
Microsoft
obviously the steam deck runs on
fucking
It's Linux or something like that's the one I don't know what that means
I don't know what that means. They kept saying that I have no idea. You don't need to it's just basically
Linux is it
it's like the developer mode of fucking a
Computer it lets you delve in and do basically whatever you want. Where's like on like so like my laptop for example, I
Can but if I wanted to get into all the files of the of the laptop itself and get get really into the nitty and gritty
It's a little bit more difficult on something. That's that's on Windows
whereas
Linux is is sort of it's designed as like a
For a developer basically it's designed in a way that you are able to do
Whatever you want with it, which is very good
If you know what you're doing if you don't know what you're doing, it's very bad because you can fuck it up really easily
That's what people are saying my my recommendation is do not go into the desktop mode
Unless you're just going on Google do not go into that and have a look because
Everything's there
absolutely everything but
There are so many guides on YouTube that are idiot proof that
Well, I don't know I'll put that to the test you're you're able to figure stuff out pretty easily
I mean don't get me wrong. I it already has emulators
Pre-downloaded onto it. That's another thing like I don't mean to interrupt mate, but you can fucking play tears of the kingdom on it
Yeah, you can get a Nintendo switch emulator. Yeah, why are you buying a portal? Yeah, dolphin and all that shit
It's all done bro, I don't understand
I've always wondered because I've often seen it like tears of the kingdom is so much better with like unbreakable weapon mod
And I'm just like how the fuck you mod in that shit. It's it's a little bit more difficult
So I tried to emulate a couple of Pokemon's on there and it weren't working for me the guides
I was watching for whatever reason it wasn't working
I'm sure I was just doing something stupid because it is a lot of move files to here unzip them here blah blah blah
but
it's the
The fact that I couldn't do it doesn't mean that it's stupid
It just means I'm stupid the fact that you can do that on this little fucking handheld device that was sub 500 quid is
Is incredible you're able to emulate anything and it's not like it's we fucking we're in the dark web here doing shit
They were not supposed to be doing valve encourage you to do it
They encourage you to fuck around with the settings and to and to do little cool tricks. I mean fuck me you can put wow on it
Yeah, I mean you can you can put anything on it. Hey, that's that's the key for me
What you just said there is like I won't put a Nintendo emulator on it
I know I won't but you can you can is enough for me
Yeah, you you you'll probably play it the same way as I do and that is to stay in the fucking steam for sure
It's so many games on steam that I want to play but I never can for two reasons one
I don't play the laptop enough to I only like playing with controls
So the steam deck all the games that I want to play I can play on a control and I know I can plug the
X what's control is not the same. It's not comfortable. Yeah. Also another thing you can do you can dock it and then get it on the
Telly, yep, do I mean like why you buy the portal the fucking thing the negatives of it?
I will say and they're only slight is that
For me, I feel it's just slightly too wide
When you're playing it and you're you're it feels comfortable but on the analog sticks
And the triggers sometime they just feel a little bit too far apart where you almost like stretching to have to do stuff
But that's like it's no deal breaker. It's not unplayable
It's just a little thing that I noticed when you go from a dual shock to fucking steam deck. It will do
The battery on them is wank the battery on them are just shit, but you're asking it to do a lot. However
Ways that I come around that is if I'm planning on if you if you want to fucking take it to work with you
When you know, you're not doing much that day
Do what I do spend a little bit of fucking extra money get yourself a battery pack
That's how it has to be one that's powerful enough because I bought one that was just a standard one
They're not powerful enough. The one that I've got is and it will give you a full
400% in one
I think you can do it twice before the battery block runs out. So
Whatever I did when I was playing it rather than just let it run out
I just plug the fucker in because also what's very smart with the steam deck is to preserve the battery when you plug it in
It will bypass the battery itself and just go straight to whatever you've plugged it in
So it's not drawing charge from the battery. It will go up to a certain point like charge it to like 90%
100% things like
95 96 percent and then it will stop charging and then it will just draw its power
Straight from the power source that you plugged into same as this laptop. That's why
This back this laptop only ever state is turned on with the battery plugged in
But when I the battery itself is absolutely fine because it's not using the battery
It's using the fucking mains unplugged into the Steve that works exactly the same. That's why
When Steph was playing boulders gate free on the steam deck
I did a lot of research because I was worried because she was playing with it plugged in because it would die quite quick
And then yeah, that's when I found out all the all the shit that no it is clever
It will just bypass the battery entirely when it knows as a fucking direct source. It's very very intuitive. Yes genius
It's very clever and yeah things like that boulders gate bang get me in. Yeah
I can play boulders gate on the go. Yeah apps of Aghanluti
And it don't get me wrong boulders gate looks way worse on the steam deck than on like the laptop or PlayStation or whatever
But you can fiddle with the settings to make it look as good as it's gonna look on the steam deck
But don't don't expect stuff to look as perfect as it does on a PlayStation, but
Really not that bad. I'm not bothered about graphics. Anyway, I never have been
Like the big hitters obviously, I'm still gonna play on the consoles and stuff like that
But when I want to play the binding of Isaac enter the gun, you know, any vampire survivors, bro Tato
I mean, yeah, you know, I love all the little indie games saying like what's that game? You and Conor were playing
I want to try out. Yeah. Yeah, that's the sort of shit. I want to be playing
Yeah, so and and obviously it has the added benefit of our boy for steam. Oh, it doesn't I want to play it
But I want to like sit back and just have a controller
Then I'll just bring up steam on the laptop and plug a controller in
Steam it's my it's an account. I'm adding games to but you can even you can
You can play your steam deck, but then open up steam on your laptop and then
Put basically pull your emulate your screen on your steam deck onto your laptop through steam
So like it's very nice and I only did it a couple times because you don't fucking need to do that
But you are able because obviously they're they're the same system
One thing I do like about the steam deck as well is the customization of just your profile
Yeah, what is that? Because I just in steam in general because
When I bought it give me like six and a half thousand steam points
I want to get a standpoint. There's a there's a shop where basically on the steam deck and and on your steam account basically
and on your steam account basically
You can
change like the border around your profile picture like mine for example my
Icon is the watch the buttons logo and then the border is like this green slime
That's forever dropping down the picture, but it's the exact same color as the
as the green in the background to what's the button so it's quite cool and
And then on your actual steam profile that everyone can view you can change the banners the fucking background the wallpaper
You can have dynamic wallpapers and like some really cool artistic shit
I think Connor added me on steam. Yeah, and he had loads of flashy shit. Yeah
I'll show you after this but then with the with the steam deck
It has a startup animation. Yeah, that was that was one of the extra things on the terabyte version was that it gives you a
Startup video or something. Yeah. Yeah, I've got the startup movie or some shit. Yeah, and you can
You can buy more of them with the steam points and you can also set it to
Randomize so I've got about 10 different ones and it will randomize it every time I turn it on something like that
So little but so fucking cool. Yeah, it's very cool. I was going through them
I didn't know what the points exactly were for but all the things I was seeing with them and there were things like
I
Thought it's not but it was things like the barrel from Lord of the Rings up flying and flames in war and then it
That's cool just to have the steam that starb like that would be gas. Yes, very very cool shit. There's
Very cool. There's like there's like a few bugs that I've run into before so like for example
Every now and then whenever like after a long time applying it when you
When you because you never turn it off just like the switch you just put it into rest mode
You don't like you don't have to turn the fucking thing off. You just I'm
Mostly do about that. I have to turn everything off. I get well
I see the I have to like shut stuff down there. The switch was always like that
It was it was hard to shut it down. There's such a pain in the ass. Well, don't well don't do it with the steam deck
It's not what it's intended for it's intended to be put into just fucking sleep mode
But every now and then I encounter a bug where I put it into sleep mode
And screen will turn off, but you know when a screens turn off, but you know, it isn't yeah
so, you know, we're like say
You lose the HDMI from your telly and it goes that black but it's like a lighter black. Yeah, yeah
it will do that and
It's basically because there's like there's some
thing running in the background that's preventing it from fully turn off and I have to fucking
Fiddle around with it and fuck about but it's only happened a couple of times
Nothing like deal breaker
And yeah, that's about it
I think there's been a couple times where like it hasn't turned on properly
but I
Just put it down to whilst it's annoying
It's also a teething problem because this is the first handheld that valve have ever come out with and mine's also the most basic
Model that you can get. Yeah, the OLED it says like the multiple
The multiple improvements rah rah and the battery life is supposed to be better battery life supposed to be better
not amazingly better, but I'll never the less the
the processing speed is better the
speed of
Pulling games from the SD card to actually playing is better because that's another thing you have to pick the right SD card
Can't just throw a cheat. Well, you can just throw a cheap one in but it's not gonna be as good as the more expensive like
Samsung Evo fucking SD card that they they all have their
Their preference. I think mine's like a sand disk or no, I think mine might be a Samsung Evo to be fair
But yeah, the the version that you've bought has like the best
Processing speed but when you do a side-by-side comparison, you're talking like point five seconds
Oh, yeah, it's really nothing that this is why I went for the most basic one because I was I'll just throw an SD card
Into it because I knew that future me wouldn't be playing it as much as fucking pass me for I would be
so I was I'm not gonna spend a silly amount of money because whilst it's cool to have I
Don't want to I'd be more pissed off if I'd spent like 500 quid on it
And it's just been sat in my drawer for two months without being touched
Yeah, I mean whereas now where it's like it's there. It's cool. It's couple hundred quid
I'll crack it out when I want to
Yeah, you can talk it always forget that you can dock them. Yeah, like I say, there's loads of stuff
I want to get for it and then the
The case that they give you is already powerful like the case is like a big bulky protective thing
Yeah, it's a big bulky protective case. Yeah, I need to get the screen protectors
I need to make sure I get the right one for that because I'm terrible put them on I had one on the switch and
I always end up getting a bubble and it pisses me off. Mm-hmm
But yeah, like I said, I've watched so many videos yesterday
It was just fucking I watched too many videos made me feel sick
Yeah, I'm gassed I can't wait to get it. Let's see what it is even down to the the in-game overlay
There's a button on it where you can just press it and it will come up with a
List of options. Yep
See that one was just performance and you can it has a slider on it and it will go from something because mine you as
It will just show you your frames in the top right
But then it will show you your frames and you're fucking like your wattage or whatever and then like the big the beefiest one
It just gives you a drop down of fucking everything that's going on in the background like all the numbers and shit looks really cool
But I'm like, I don't know what the fuck I'm looking at but it's very it's very quick and easy to just flick between
Between it all. Yeah, it's very nice and you can change the battery set. It's just a computer. It's great
That's all it is. Another reason I really wanted it was because I love as we literally spoke about it last week
And this wasn't even on my mind when we were talking about it
But like that cross-save shit, but that's coming into hell divers
Yeah
so to play hell divers to on the ps5 at home and then just grind it out while I'm out and about or
I've been anchoring. I don't know why I don't know why I am the way I am
I don't know why I'm like this by am so deal with it
I've been anchoring to play a bit of ESO
No, I don't know why
but the fact that
The fact that I can play ESO out and about yeah, he's fantastic
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if that is quite done if I could play that on the Xbox. Yes, I was in cross
Yeah, that's a shame. But nevertheless I could just play it. I've seen people play on there and they play solely on the steam
I'm just I will give it it all the times. I've played it at work and I've been connected to my hotspot
It hasn't been a single issue. It's been no buffering
There's been no issue like the games that I've been playing have played absolutely fine when they're connected to the hotspot
Mind you it'll fucking rinse you your data, but if you've got unlimited like a lot of people do
Then then you're all sweet. You could play the portal and then play single-player games and have a terrible time
Mmm nuts to me absolute nuts the wolf and Steins played really well on Steam Deck
Yeah, you were playing you were playing the Jedi survival one as well
And you're dead. I saw an order you played for bit on there. Yep, and then all like spider-man's on there
There's another thing that I love is when you're on the Steam Deck
When you go into steam because obviously when you turn it on it fucking loads it all up your order there in your profile
And it has the store there
It tells you it has the category in there for Steam Deck
So all the games that are verified good to play on the Steam Deck and even if there's ones that
Because they'll have like a green tick to say that no
These are these are perfect for Steam Deck and then there'll be ones where there's like a little orange sort of circle thing
Where it's like, yeah, these are good like these are fine, but there are some issues
And then there's ones where it will go like untested or not suitable for Steam Deck
but even then
We spoke about it ages ago. The ones aren't unsuitable. For example, one of the Prince of Persia's
It says is absolutely not compatible with Steam Deck
That is because there's one tiny online aspect that doesn't work on Steam Deck with the rest of the game does
Yeah, so even then you haven't got a fucking listen to it. There's a just got a double check and well, I'll remember it for you
There's a website. I think when you get your Steam Deck actually
There's a in one of the books they give you it tells you the website where you can look it up
and you can look up any game that you want and it will give you a
Rating on how good it is on the Steam Deck and give you loads of real player reviews on how it plays so you can figure
Out before you buy shit if it will work
Yeah, yeah, so it makes it a lot easier rather than you spending like fucking 50 quid on whatever
gas for football manager
We've also like all the games that I've thought about I've googled and if they're good on Steam Deck
And yeah, I haven't found one that I've wanted that people have gone and that shit tiny teenagers wonderland
Yeah, I'm not really a Borderlands fan man. Very fun on the Steam Deck. I'm not Borderlands fan, but very fun
Yeah, it's that
Was very
Because it's like a board game when you're trying when you're traversing around the world and then you go into like
first-person shooter
Mode. Yeah. Yeah, look at some stuff on it man. It was a real quirky fucking fun game
I know Connor played he liked it. I just wanted to turn up now and that is painful to me
Because I could have got it on Amazon, but it was like 200 quid more and I genuinely thought about it for a second
Why it's right by straight from fucking steam? Yeah, I did but now I have to wait
They emailed me on the way, you know, and I was like, ah
Come on, baby, cuz I bought it and I haven't heard from them since I was like you motherfuckers
What you have to do is make sure that it's updated
like a like any PC when you turn it on the
Whatever the button is on the left hand side. I have a free dots or whatever and then you scroll down to
System and then it's literally the first one it says system update and you just check that every now and then because it
Periodically you need to update it
sick though, no
Yeah, I'm I'm happy for you. I'm happy for me. I think it's cool. It'll be um, because it I think it'll be
It'd be cool for you as well because you've obviously come from a Nintendo switch
Mm-hmm. So you'll you'll get the full view of of of the comparison because they're so
Unsimilar place just like you know what it is, right?
I love the switch because it's a handheld console and when I like I didn't this time because I haven't got switch in
I gave him to the kids and I was in when I was in Ireland
I just reading and I love reading and I don't want to stop doing that either but
right just
It doesn't have to be like a deep fucking game to just be able to pick a
Console up and whack Star Wars Battlefront on and just fuck about just shooting shit
Yeah, well, that's enough for me like that. That'll do me. I haven't got a diver
Dread actually all them ones like me is they're the sort of games I want to be playing like I want to have there's loads of games
That are on my backlog that I haven't actually bought call it the lamb
Yeah, no things like that bro, you know terraria fucking like a much
I'll be much more inclined to play Stardew Valley because that's the sort of game
I would rather play not on the other one play on a big screen on the control
But if I want to play on the little fucking well high fire rush was the first game were properly completed fucking
shadow of war
Sick game really good on fucking stage. I mean games like that bro to just sit there and play that yeah, really good amazing
I'll come gassed. I can't wait. I told Jim. I've got it. She didn't ask me no prices. So I told her no lies
You know because I've got washing machine the other day
So I kind of felt like I said I said to Matt I was you know, I want to buy myself something man
Maybe not like that. So it was the washing machine a present for Jim. Well, she well has fucked up in it
I had to get one and I said to her
I just called her up. It's like the washing machine there. Yeah, I paid a little bit extra take the old one away install a new one
She didn't have to lift a finger, you know, I'm that kind of guy
I said a washing machine there. She's like, I love it. She loves that sort of shit. I don't know why so I fucking love it
I love the washing machine. I'm so happy. I was like, are you really happy? She's like, yeah
I brought myself a little steam deck. So what sounds like a lot basic game boy. She's like good for you
Basically a game boy. You took that down so much. Yeah, just a other than saying it's a computer
Other than saying it's a computer. Yeah, so she's just like I say ask no questions, you know lies
Yeah, yeah, yeah true. She'll probably Google it and go what the fuck
It's a it's a it's a very unique powerhouse that style a very good trend and a very innovative trend
and it also it plays a lot of
Triple-a games very very well, but it plays indie games absolutely
Incredibly, bro. There's so many games
So many theme that I can't play. Well, I can play like I said, I play the laptop, but I'm just not built like that
I don't for me to I haven't got a lot of big table
Let's see and be comfortable or gaming chair anywhere. I could sit
It just has to be on my lap really and it's uncomfortable and I don't like it
So like there's so many games that I want to play but I can't play comfortably
And even then like say I could get the steam deck the docket and play on the telly
So I can have that ultimate comfort. I'm guessing to do that. You probably need a controller of some description
What to dock it? No to dock it and then play on the telly because your steam decks obviously docked
You can't play it while it's docked like with the things
Yeah, I'm not really 100 sure how it works. But yeah, there's space
I know that there's the dock in it and then the USB goes in the back and you plug it in the HDMI
I just don't know the controller. Yes, and I don't know if it's the steam controller or Xbox controller or whatever
You want to use? I don't know but the fact that you can as I said
I think you might be able to connect your dual shock to it. It's just amazing. I can't wait. I'm fucking gassed
I think yeah, I think you could connect your your PlayStation controller to that game
I always see people go on about that. I've always wanted to play never had a chance. I think it's called like
V for rising or satin
Is it called that if you had a that V for rising?
V as in the letter V is in Victor. Yeah, and then
I'm sure it's called V for rising
Or V rising well, yeah V rising. Yeah that one there is look
That thing but it's always like people always gassing about it
Vampire hunt for blood in nearby settlements to be going to strength evade the scorch your son survive
Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing open world full of mystery gain allies online and conquer the land of living
It looks like a kind of Diablo esque. I think it's more like a you know, like a
What's that game we played Valheim?
Yeah, it's more like that
But is an upcoming action role-playing survival game developed by stun lock studios and published by level infinite
first
Announced on May 5th 2021 for Windows it entered early access on May 17th 2022 and it is scheduled to be released on May 8th
2024 within a week. It had surpassed 1 million sales. It's coming. It's coming soon. Yeah, that's good timing, you know
But that's that's what I mean games like that. Fuckin hell is 35
35 dollars, so whatever that is
Just under 70,000 reviews nine and a half nine out of ten stars on Steam
Yes, but it's a big in the game, bro
I always see people play it and they love it and it looks like my fucking jam very positive
I know it's in so it already come out. Yeah, it's already out on like early access, right?
Oh shit. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah out for a long time
Early access. Oh, yeah, and it's like a really popular game
So I can as a vampire hunt for blood and it are you just said that in it?
Um, yeah, I'm sure it's more like it's like Valheim kind of drive
But it's a really popular game and one I've always wanted to play and I've been waiting for its console
But obviously has it never come out anyway
And it's just that that's exactly the sort of game that I always want to play but can never can yeah
I just I was this this is from 19th of March
with
77.8 hours on record. I wish this had controller support so I can play on Steam Deck or just use on PC
cool
But that is that's what I mean though that is the sort of game that I'd love to play I mean they might I don't know
It's probably worth don't go off of just one review of someone say there's no one else saying that if fucking
Well, there's no one else mentioning it
Awesome game. I wish all early access games were this flawless if you're into the vampire lore
This game is for you
The developers allowed plenty of room for you to run wild with your imagination when building your castle and the garden
The graphics are very pleasing the gameplay is awesome, but the music is something to die for I never bought a game soundtrack
But I will now it's just so pleasing
How does a game have free DLC expansion packs if it's still in early access
It's the way it goes now. It says here is very rising steam deck compatible
and it says
It it says it's compatible on the same deck on steam, but it only uses mouse keyboard support
So it doesn't make sense where you can plot you can put them out
But what you can do with the beauty of steam so you know how?
Game we've said before on PlayStation if you buy something
The minute you download it you are unable to refund it under special circumstances
They are cunts nice for that kind of stuff. Whereas steam they have a no bullshit policy
Where basically you buy a game you've got a certain amount of time you can fucking return it
Yeah, so you if you really wanted to you could buy it download it see for yourself
What actually cracks on and then if it doesn't work just fucking refund it
Get your money back and it's literally as simple as refund reason why done
It says people do play on steam day. It's just not as easy as it would be on
keyboard and mouse
So you go so yeah, you might be right
Community controls work well you can tell it wasn't meant for controller, but you can certainly do it
There you go
So your dreams haven't haven't been diminished you may continue
But that but that I say that is the sort of game that I really want to play and they're the perfect games for
Steam deck. Yeah, cuz it I'm pretty sure there's a category that tells you like what's being played
and it gives you a lit the top list of
of like the most popular games and I think they do have one for the Steam Deck category like what are the
the most
The popping games for fucking Steam Deck and it's good as well because gem watches so much shit on the telly that I'm not interested in
but much like yourself and Steph I like it cuz she can go and watch stuff in the bedroom
I don't like that. I like to be like next to her even if we're not doing or watching the same shit
So she can watch her shit and I can play my shit and we're all happy plus
Steam Deck has a whammo fucking charger and a whammo charger means that this charges in about 30 minutes
Oh you plug your phone into that do you?
Not supposed to but yeah charges it fucking super quick
Rapid quick love that yeah, they're fantastic things
I'll um when you get it if you want to get a battery pack and shit other I'll I'll send you the link
I've got so many accessories I need to get for it. Yeah. Yeah
I'm like a kid at Christmas
This is the closest I get to feeling like a child does before it's birthday or Christmas
The only thing is that I don't know if anyone's come out with any decent cases the case you get with it is very good
I don't know if anyone's come out with any
Any cool cases and you can't
You can't put a case over the Steam Deck itself
There's no like
Skins for the Steam Deck or as such unless you're like custom making them
I don't think now I saw someone with a white thing on theirs. They said they put some white shit on there, but I'm not interested in that
I literally just want it to be safe
Screen protector get a fucking get a back get a power bank for it
And then you're good to go. That's that's basically it
Start of your journey
and and if you fucking
if you
If you play it and well to be fair
I feel like you're the kind of person where you aren't gonna play it for five minutes and then put it down
That makes sense. I think it seems to suit your lifestyle pretty well
It's perfect for me that there's only one concern I have for it and it's got nothing to do with it per se
It's just all I do now is read when I'm not playing computer
Obviously not a home with the kids if I'm out and about or I'm on the lunch break, I just read I don't want that to stop
Because I love reading and I've just started that 33 book series. I finished that series by the way
What a shit ending six books six fucking books. I read. Yeah ending is fucking shocking bad. Yeah
Well, the last fucking words come from a character that no one gives a shit about hasn't been in the last book
It's great. Right and and there's so many characters that were just like well what happened to them then?
Like they were building up so there's a whole book about one guy who was like fucking basically a dragon and
He was doing this that and the other
He lost the battle and then at the end of the book it was like but it's not over. Ra ra ra ra
It never heard from him again. Well fucking shocking and I looked into it because I was like am I just not a avid reader?
Or is that terrible and it was like apparently there was like three different authors throughout them six books
So I can see why it's got a bit shit. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
I'm currently reading two books alongside each other. I could never do that. That's mental reading
one about
Frau
It's that that archive that I'm reading where it's got three books in it
That's the second one in that installment and then I'm reading another one, which is about the Lich King
But the one about the Lich King stays in the work van
So when I'm not fucking working, but I'm at work, then I'll crack that out like I did today
And then the other one stays by my bedside. So I read that
But what I did have is I didn't read both of them for a couple of days and kind of forgot where I was
So I had to quickly like flick through a page to figure out what the fuck was going on. But yeah, no, it's good, man
I'm enjoying it really enjoying it far more than than what I ever thought I would
I've for a long time
For a long time for what I'll read is fucking boring. But no, I'm I'm I'm involved with it. Steph's made me a bookmark
That's just a penis. Love that. That's very good. Love that
But yeah, no, I'm I'm enjoying it
But yeah, it's weird because this this archive
Written by three different authors as well
And you can definitely tell
The the difference in in the authors one first one is made written by this
Guy called like Chris knack or some shit like that and I don't like his style
Whereas the one I'm reading at the moment both of them are made read
The author is a woman called Christy golden, I think
And she's fantastic
You definitely you definitely learn about an author's style very quickly
And you can just tell when it's um
That knack geezers is fucking awesome
And you can just tell when it's um, yeah, knack geezers is fucking boring man just waffles on
Whereas this chris is this christy woman. She's she's she's decent. I'm gonna continue reading
That's what it's all about
And that's that and i'm sure next week we'll be able to fucking talk about steam deck again
I hope so. I hope it's here hands-on review. When did you order it?
Uh yesterday said three to five days, but I don't know if that's working days or I don't know
I don't know. Yeah, it should be here. You should be all right. All right, sweet. See you later. Hooroo