I haven't received an email to purchase the Steam Machine yet. I know that they're going to be sending them out over the coming weeks/months but I haven't really seen any accounts of anyone getting to purchase it yet Has anyone out there received an email and was able to actually order one?

Follow Steve because he is him

Remember when we collectively bullied Xbox into walking back the XBONE's required "always-online" feature and the mandatory Kinect that added 100 bucks to the price tag? Maybe we can teach @playstation.com the same thing 😤 NOBODY WANTS THIS, Sony.

I've been all digital for a while now but I've always been a proponent of physical media and the option being there for people. This makes me sad

More Metroidvania goodness. Kyle Thompson games are all on sale on Steam. A great opportunity to play them before Well Dweller to come out later this year! When they're on sale on Steam, they're often also on sale on other platforms

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Hollow Knight AND Silksong are on sale during the Steam Summer Sale if you were interested but were holding off

I have a lot of the games in the bundle already but it's a great deal for the games you're getting You'll see me highly recommending both Islets and Bō any time someone asks for recommendations for metroidvanias. If it were $16 for just those two it would be a good deal

If you don’t like a Goofy Movie, please just go ahead block me right now.

Still mad about the Steam Machine price

Let's talk about who the Steam Machine is for, who it's not for, and if I can truly recommend it based on what we know about it youtu.be/i-NoMrMNO24?...

Xbox is raising console prices. GTA 6 is officially $80. Meanwhile, Switch 2 continues to dominate sales. Gaming is too expensive, Star Fox is good, hardware struggles. We break it all down on The Expansion Pass. What's your biggest gaming purchase this year? 👇 www.youtube.com/live/tee97jw...

I still want the Steam Machine but the price stings. Fuck AI youtu.be/GBBNK7aHQfk?...

If you post any screenshots of or talk about any Metroidvanias feel free to tag me because I love to see it!

If any accessories companies are seeing this and want to reach out to me for a “collaboration” for my YouTube channel I just want you to know one thing If your rules on the collab are for me to submit a copy of my video for you to review it first the answer is a hard no so don’t bother emailing me

The neurodivergent panic of using a word or phrase properly but suddenly you question if that was the right word or phrase for what you meant and then you look it up and yeah of course it was exactly perfect but there's no way your brain will let you just have that moment

Had a really weird dream last night that I left my current job for my old job but it was in an office building nearby which was weird because everything I did there was to help people onsite As I'm sitting there working my boss shows up and tells me it's good to have me back but it's not my boss

In case someone else needs to hear this today.

We have an announcement tomorrow. Until then, it might be wise to avoid purchasing any Apogee games on Steam.

I just sent someone an email referring to them as Karl and then seeing their name is actually Kari, and I clearly misread it Please wish me luck as I pass away from embarrassment

I'm working on a video about the Steam Machine launch news, the price, and who the device is actually for. If you have any questions at all about it please comment them and I will see if I can address them in my video!

Please never teams message me, "morning!" and then wait for my reply. If we don't talk regularly then messaging me means you want something so just tell me what you want We're literally here to work so if you need something that I can help with just say it I have 25 tickets to work on. I'm tired

Fuck AI. All my homies hate AI.

Kháris put this into the exact words I feel about this. My heart breaks at the price announcement. I’ve been saving up and I’m still very excited to get one but yeah this sucks AI sucks. Unfettered capitalism sucks

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As a spicy food lover I’ll take any opportunity to eat something spicy Seasonal allergies suck but I’ll eat something spicy and it helps clear everything out, especially with my asthma I refer to this process as “self medicating” lol

Might delete TikTok. I love some of the stuff on there but at this point i3 of every 5 videos are some kind of ad, paid sponsorship, or some TikTok shop garbage I was following a guy because he would draw random people and it was so interesting and now he only sells TikTok shop garbage

Look I know that companies are pushing for their staff to use AI for whatever reason but if you need chatgpt or copilot or whatever to write emails for you then just don't send emails. Just resign I'd rather receive no email at all than an AI slop email that is stripped of humanity

I will NOT be ashamed for my beliefs

I love this. Slightly related, slightly unrelated but there's a category of thing I like that's "bad cable TV guide synopsis" of movies. One of the best I've seen was for Terminator 2 - "Teen skips school to hang out at the local mall" and like yeah that happens but man... lmao

I picked out some of my favorite Metroidvania and Metroidvania adjacent games! 9games.pages.dev

What's a word you definitely know how to spell but when you type it, you never get it right. Confirmed I often type it as confiremd by accident. My fingies move faster than my brain apparently.

This needs to be talked about www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETle...

I opened YouTube and the very first video it showed was a short titled, “Unboxing the Steam Frame” and in a panic I went to check to see if there was official news. I discovered it was actually a short from 7 months ago tied to news coverage of the original announcement and I was so annoyed

On that note I promise everyone - When I make something, be it a video or anything else, I will make it myself. If I don't have the skill required for it to be good it'll either suck or I'll pay a real person to make it

Just watched this video and it was so good. Ignore the title which might seem like it's pro AI, it's not. It's full of dunking on AI and praising real, human made things Adam is a huge proponent of having real people make real things and get paid for it www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrJ...

Podtroidvania's June episode is out now! Please check it out. Unfortunately I had to record this in 85+ degree weather with no AC's installed yet so my MacBook Air decided to overheat and not record like 20 minutes of the beginning of this episode. I had to literally place the laptop on an ice pack

Explain your @ My name is Jeff. I love metroidvanias. I was out drinking one night and texted my good friend @isitthesh0es.bsky.social “hey wouldn’t it be funny if I streamed Metroidvanias and named the channel, ‘Jefftroidvania’?” I changed my name on all the things very soon after that

watching a season of taskmaster is like playing a persona game in that when it's over i miss my new friends

In midst of the all the (undeniably exciting) remake talk, I keep forgetting that we're getting... A BRAND NEW Castlevania game *and* A BRAND NEW Silent Hill game *and* A BRAND NEW Mega Man game *and* A BRAND NEW Spyro game I feel very specifically catered to. Just need a brand new Ace Attorney!

There was talk on whether or not the shipments of "game consoles" they've been receiving were frames or machines and this showing "virtual reality devices" means that the previous shipments were likely steam machines. There's also rumors that machine review units are in hands already

I played the hell out of this game back on my family's computer. I don't remember if we played this on the Gateway 2000 or an earlier PC but it was like a board game. It was fun and silly and when you became broke your character wore a barrel instead of clothes for some reason. I'd play it again

Started writing thoughts about some stuff for a video. Ads forced into games, AI bullshit, component shortages, and the mass price gouging that companies are calling necessary Poured my heart into a note on my phone. I may never record this video but I’m in my feels about it and I could cry

A moment of seriousness: there’s great irony in the fact that Microsoft is one of the parties directly (and indirectly) responsible for the DRAM and NAND flash shortages. They push for AI and then tell you we need ads in games so you can afford their console which is inflated by their own hand

There’s plenty of ways to keep your products affordable but no one wants this No one wants ads in games. They don’t want ads on their home screens They don’t want ads in loading screens or when you pause They don’t want ads in a boat they don’t want ads with a goat… What was I walking about?

I'm part of an amazing group that streams horror games every Halloween to raise money for St. Judes. The team is called Spooky Judes and we have a community Discord server. Please consider checking it out and checking out all the members that contribute to this awesome cause! discord.gg/MsVHpYv64w

Do you think the Ocarina of Time remake is going to have a sky cube or will they do the sky differently?

It was in the mid 80s in CT today and my household was not equipped with AC units yet so I tried recording this and my computer just got too hot and OBS failed to record a good third of the podcast. I actually ended up placing my MacBook Air on top of an ice pack to keep it cool enough

Absolutely no mention of Metroid LMAO. This direct wasn't for me but it was for the fans of other Nintendo franchises I don't play (besides OOT remake. Excited about that) Overall I think it was a strong showing and clear that they're trying to bring as many games to the platform as they can