Switching 2 Steam Deck? - LGC #659 (Patreon)

Will $500 Switch 2 prices help Steam Deck adoption? Wizards of the Coast DMCA'd a Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod, AV1 still kind of sucks, Ricochet set a new record, and everything you need to know about tactical downhill skiing.

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00:00 Intro

      00:45 Canadian power outage

      01:21 Touching hot object for science

      03:03 Microdosing cornbread

      04:31 The Omen in 2025

      06:25 That's a bunch of magic cards

08:52 Steam speeds up downloads

      10:25 Fixed additional playtime hack / workaround

      11:48 April 1 tech stories

12:56 Setting the all-time player count for Ricochet

16:36 Sonic Advanced 2 decomp project

20:00 Haste: Speed minus Sonic

22:03 Skilander: SkiFree on meth

24:13 Wizards of the Coast DMCA BG2 Stardew MOD

      26:32 We will never finish the Adventures of Drizzle

28:30 The Swapper: First update sin ce 2014

31:29 Decomp vs emulation

      34:49 GameCube controller support

36:37 Switch 2 announcement and Silksong

      38:15 $80 Mario Kart World

      40:13 Pay to upgrade games

      41:04 The Steam Deck competition

      43:42 Does $500 change the equation?

      45:00 Will the Switch 2 sell out day 1?

      45:23 Release date for the Nintendo mobile phone?

      45:45 Pressing the C button

      46:59 Piranha plant webcam

      47:38 $80 today, $100 tomorrow

48:22 Last of us 2 on Steam Deck

49:31 The slow adoption of AV1

      51:41 Twitch "enhanced" boondoggle

      54:44 Still wanting on Twitch

      54:59 People don't care about quality

56:25 First PC games and systems

01:02:19 Something arrived from the wishlist