It could be fixable, only way to find out is opening it up. I’d first try reseating all the ribbon cables, as one of them might have come loose because of the drop. Otherwise, if you can identify any damaged parts, you can get replacements for most of them and replacing them is pretty doable. If you can’t find any physical damage, your best option is probably to send it in.

Looking forward to trying it out. I’ve been teaching myself Freecad for a while and I’ll be honest, it has been a mildly infuriating experience at times. Still seems like the best option for a free CAD tool without ridiculous licensing terms though. This looks like quite an improvement in any case. Hopefully it’ll even fix the regular crashes I’ve been getting.

Those are definitely some impressively low minimum requirements for a 2026 AAA game. Curious to see how it’ll actually perform on Steam Deck though.

You probably had a faulty DVD burner then. I did it within the last year, using my modern computer and a cheap external drive.

Nothing’s stopping you from burning a CD right now. But ultimately, these kinds of nostalgic memories are less about the tech itself and more about remembering the happy times of youth. Bringing back the burned CD won’t bring those back I’m afraid.

That’s GBA/PS2 era, definitely retro.

Do you recall where you saw that? I can’t find that statement. Would be cool if true though. Wasn’t possible for Index Controllers.

If they work like the Index controllers, no, they won’t connect without Steam VR running and the HMD connected. But maybe they’re different.

I don’t think you can do a whole lot with the Frame controllers without the Frame though.

Maybe so, but getting neither kind of terrible tattoo is always an option, isn’t it?

Imagine wearing some AI slop on your skin for the rest of your life…

Didn’t say it was, also I’m not a vegan. But you do realize there are options that are neither petroleum nor animal-based?

That has to be the first non-vegan fork ever made.

Clockwise, to me, goes forward. The file explorer sorts from top to bottom by default. It makes perfect intuitive sense to me. You may say that volume and time go “up”, but it’s not like they’re literally moving in space in an upwards direction, are they? They increase.

Keep in mind that this is much more powerful hardware than what previous games were running on.

And it looks a little bit more graphically impressive than previous instalments?

Definitely, but anything else would have been very disappointing. They have much more hardware power at their disposal compared to Switch 1 after all. I don’t know if I’d say that these are impressive graphics by Switch 2 standards, but they’re finally at a point where they look nice, which is ultimatey all that matters.

The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products. Even when it’s not as blatant as it is here, there’s always a motivation to not anger the company too much when you get their products early and for free.

It’s not that I’ve never tried it, I’ve dabbled in it consistently over the last few years. If you had said there was a major difference compared to 2 years or maybe even a year ago, sure. In the last 4 months, I guess we’ve gotten stuff like Claude 4.6, which saw an increase in coding performance by 2.5% according to SWE benchmarks. An improvement, sure, but certainly not an exponential one and not one which will fix the fundamental weaknesses of AI coding. Maybe I’m out of the loop though, so I’m curious, what are those exponential improvements you’ve seen over the last 4 months? Any concrete models or tools?

But in those 4 months AIs evolved a lot

Has it really? I don’t feel like it’s much different for programming compared to 4 months ago.

Who would create a bot for this purpose and then also give personal details in the instructions / memory or access to photos?

It would be 2 different people: One person instructing their bot to ask other bots for private data and another person using their bot for whatever purpose who was stupid enough to give it full access to their data. AI bros are often pretty incompetent when it comes to IT security especially, so I think it isn’t such an unlikely scenario.