Posts Tagged ‘Steam Deck’

So it seems that I don’t have a choice on the matter.

Bub’s Steam Deck will not charge, and it’s something that we bring absolutely everywhere. He treasures it.

I’m going to have to finance a new Steam Deck for him. I’m waiting for my credit to roll over, which has the games that I got him for Christmas on it that I intend on paying back as soon as this pay period (or cycle, whatever you call it) ends, and then I’ll put a new Steam Deck on credit for a six-month period where I won’t have to pay any interest on it if I pay the entire amount of it in the allotted six months. This is what I did with the first Steam Deck, but for a much higher price since scalpers were picking all of them up making them incredibly difficult to purchase. So whenever that happens, I’ll pay what’s currently on my credit so that I don’t have to worry about interest, then I’ll purchase this new Steam Deck and wait for it to arrive here…

This won’t be the most awful thing for my credit, but I do like not actually owing money to anyone.

I should not be surprised at this, and yet I still am.

It looks like Bub’s Steam Deck will no longer charge, so I’m going to finance him another one next month.

Since there is a more abundant supply of them, I don’t quite have to worry about scalpers inflating prices.

I’ll also manage to pay a whole lot less for it, so I’ll be able to pay this off much quicker if we can’t get his current Steam Deck to charge. I anticipate being able to pay the entire thing off in two to three months depending on how I do it and what my budget looks like month to month, and I’ll have six months to pay it off without having to pay any interest on the purchase. I think I’m going to go for the exact model he has…

I’ve finally loaded the Steam Deck for Bub!

I have a functioning 1TB Sandisk microSD, so in Bub’s Steam Deck it has gone!

It took me the better part of a day and a half to download all of his games to it, but I downloaded all of his games to it and I am finally done with that. I am glad to be done with that because that is the “big ticket” item that he’s going to be getting from me for his birthday, and I know that he’s just going to love it. I just need to learn to work the buttons a bit better since the way they are set up is not native to me, but I don’t think that will take me too terribly long. We’ve been playing Chrono Trigger together, and I may go back and do the quest that gets you the Crono doll because it frustrated me at the beginning of the game when I was playing it on the computer with a controller in hand. Maybe it will be easy enough on the Steam Deck that I can actually do it. Either way, I’m getting that Crono doll. We are taking Crono with us to the final fight…

If it’s not one thing it’s another, but we make do.

Bub’s Steam Deck came in the mail yesterday!

I’m in the process of setting that up for him. I need to get a microSD card for it so that he has access to all of his games, and I’m in the process of having one shipped to my house now. It’ll get here when it gets here, and then I can finish putting this thing together and give it to him for his birthday. The theme of this year’s birthday is (probably what it has always been, but with a bit more oomph this time) games, because Bub loves games. That’s one of the ways that we’ve bonded over the years, and I see absolutely no harm in it.

I also got my formal assessment results in the mail, and I am autistic! Not that I wasn’t told that I was after I completed testing, and I don’t see it as a disability (I do have mild adaptive deficits, but a lot of those come from anxiety, and I have generalized anxiety disorder largely caused and exacerbated by… well, my mother, who I’ve written about, and who I’ll probably continue to touch on in subsequent posts to flesh this out a bit further). I have the results kept in the bottom dresser of my drawer where I tend to keep important things that I’m not going to need to grab on a regular basis, things that I’m probably not going to need to grab at a moment’s notice for some reason, so it is what it is. I mean, I already knew that I was autistic, so… yeah…

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