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Thanks. It makes all the sense in the world for me to get the 254GB version, but I spent 800 odd pound on an Asus Rog Zephyrus laptop in 2020 that's got plenty of juice left in it so it's just about me battling with my pride now.

So I preordered one when they first launched and got it about mid last year. I primarily play at home and do have a decent desktop which im probably upgrading soon to. Would I go back and buy one? probably not but for my needs I dont really need a mobile gaming device. Is it awesome? Absolutely. The most I used it was around Christmas time when I spent a week at my moms. The fact that I could essentially port most of my steam library to a portable device was the selling feature for me. Everyday they are seemingly adding more games that are steamdeck verified. The current sale prices seem good and if its something you'll use I wouldnt wait for another sale Id be surprised if you'll see much more of a discount until a second version inevitably comes out in the future. Theres two cautions Ill give you, One; the battery life on any of the triple A games is kind of mediocre - you can tweak settings to get more but for something like God of War, The Witcher 3 or Red Dead ive played all on the deck and the average life is about an hour and a half ish give or take a tad. So the number one accessory to add is a good battery pack. Another small caveat on that one it has to be a 65W charger to charge the deck while playing with it at the same time. Two; Third party launchers are a pain in the ass to use on the go in offline mode. Theres hoops you have to jump through essentially. For example rockstars loader for Red Dead or Bethesda's for Doom Eternal (theres many more) all require an internet connection. Theres a couple work arounds for this problem. Either you launch the games at home while you have internet and then its safe to sleep it and pick it up later. Or secondly I hotspot my phone briefly and then turn it to offline mode afterwards.

Wrexham v Notts County. 2nd v 1st. Both on 100pts. Wrexham with a game in hand mind. Probably the biggest game outside the Premier League including playoff finals, for years I'd say. Monumental. I shall be watching.

Not everyone is like you and your wife

Heard good things, but not really looked into it that much really. @Mel81x and @Rab might be able to advise better.

Martin Quast from Sport1 kicked it off by asking the following question: Mr. Streich, I would like to ask you one or two questions about the coaching situation in general. FC Bayern has fired its coach because the season's goals are in jeopardy. Marco Rose in Leipzig, eight matchdays before the end of the season, is talking about how he feels that the end of the world is happening at his club. Sandro Schwarz [Hertha coach] has been getting his nose kicked in for weeks now. VfB Stuttgart now has moved on to their fourth coach. The half-life of coaches is currently only about one year. Only you and a handful of others have been around longer. Of course, you are a special exception because you have nothing to do with all this "hire and fire". How do you see this development? Can you understand Marco Rose when he says "it's the end of the world here"? Even though they are in the cup semi-finals and are closely behind SC Freiburg on 5th place. How do you see this situation of coaches in the Bundesliga at the moment? Streich's response: The pressure is immense. But the pressure in society is immense. And because we are always on TV and because many people still love football...even though there are things in football that are catastrophic. Disastrous. But that goes hand in hand with society as a whole. The pressure is enormous. Ask, if I may say so, the people who are responsible for cleanliness in hotels and clean the rooms. Ask them in what time they have to clean how many rooms. Everything is individualised. There are hardly any chains of connections in many areas of life. By chain of connections I mean...in the past, hotels were often family-run. People you knew worked there. From the village, from the city. You knew them. There were connections. Over decades, through families. It's all different now. We live in a world of big corporations. We have major issues. We always talk about the middle class. Small and medium-sized companies are having an incredibly hard time. Yet it is that middle class that has brought us this incredible prosperity and wealth. And not the big corporations. They are the ones who ruin it. They destroy prosperity. They have become independent. And in football you can see that directly, so to speak. The way things have developed, it's extremely difficult. We have an incredible number of people with mental health problems. These people have mental health problems because they are totally overburdened. Because they no longer get any warmth. Because there are no more reference points. No connections. This is a problem for society as a whole. That's concerning from my point of view. It's scary too. I don't want to speak for all coaches...I'm not directly effected by this issue, so I can't say anything anyway. You have to ask the coaches who do a good job and still get fired after eight months or after ten or after twelve or after four. But football has always been an expression of society as a whole. The sport directors are also under enormous pressure. It's madness. Because the connections are missing. Social media...the club loses two, three games. And then people lose their minds and spread things on social media, it's terrible. That wouldn't have happened in the past. Not to this extent atleast. Not that people were any better before. Not one bit. We weren't better, not at all. And there were much worse times than now, 80 years ago and before. But the reference points are missing. If you know someone personally, you think about it before insulting them. Saying something directly to someone's face, that's becoming less and less. That's one reason why with us...(I mean we're also a comapny, if we are honest. That doesn't sound all that nice because we are a football club. But we are also a company)...that's one reason why with us it's not like that. Because we have continuity, because we have connections. But I've already said it. The crucial point in our club will be how we deal with this growth. Whether we are able to meet and mentally deal with each other. In the areas where that is not the case, things are going downhill. Sure, there are huge corporations these days...the small companies pay all their taxes and that's of course right. Because they have to support society. But the mega-corporations hardly pay any taxes and when they are supposed to pay taxes, they change countries and blackmail the countries. This is the situation. This is neo-capitalism. We live in neo-capitalism. And neo-capitalism destroys. That is my personal opinion. Of course, I am only a football coach. But since you asked me, I am giving you an answer. I love this man.