I have had great times with my Deck, I picked up the 256 GB and upgraded with a 1TB MicroSD. I have to say, as hardware goes, it's quite solid. It's also very easy to get into the Linux backend and set it up for emulation and other side loading, and it does 6th Gen and back reasonably well, with a couple forward for the Nintendo line. I haven't tried it myself but as I understand it, it's a reasonably good build even for the switch. I'm not usually a device fanboy but I'm actually looking forward to the next iteration.
As for high performance, I can verify for Elden Ring, as with pretty much all of the modern titles, it runs at a steady 30 FPS 720p, with the occasional dip. If you fly long flights a lot, it's great - just be cognizant of the low battery life and run on AC where you can.
I have a friend who says it needs to go one of two ways - either encumbrance matters hard and is super realistic, where you can reliably carry 30-60 lbs of gear for long distances, and that's it, or it just doesn't exist and you can lug around as much shit as you want and abstract out the rest, because the middle ground where PCs can carry like 250 lbs of shit leads to a game where you're constantly just sorting through your inventory about the best vendor trash you think you can packrat to sell while moving through a dungeon, and that's slow and unfun. The low carry weight turns every interaction into "is it better than my current gear?" which is really easy to answer in the moment, and when weight doesn't matter, you just hoover it up and sell it when you get a chance.
Granted, I'm only like five of the twelve hours in I'm supposed to be before the game starts getting good, but my god they made some baffling design choices here. Possibly the most egregious is the fact that every skill comes with leveling requirements - for example, the worst offender I've seen is the oxygen (stamina) skill requiring you to completely exhaust your meter 20 times before you can put a second point in. (Worth noting, 'completely exhaust' in this context means deplete both the regular O2 meter and max out the CO2 meter, which depletes more slowly than the O2 refills) The only way to reliably and safely do this, considering you only really need stamina in short bursts when playing normally, is to literally just run fucking laps. Bad and boring, to the point that I will say, without a hint of sarcasm, that the person responsible for making it this way should be moved off the team. I cannot fathom how that person arrived at the conclusion that doing chores was somehow the most exciting and innovative way to spice up FO4's perk system, because that's all it is underneath, and it is an aggressive waste of time.
God I feel that. Right up there with Peter's request to his therapist to zonk him out during work hours, make him think he enjoys it. Honestly either of those and I think my brain would clear right up.
Kids in America are so fucking cruel. We're taught pretty much from the get-go that it's everyone for themselves, and the only thing that keeps it from turning into Lord of the Flies is the school's culpability if one kid kills another.
Common Sense is a mental, mundane advantage that results in the GM making a Will roll when you have your character start to do something the GM feels is stupid. On a success the GM can warn the player ala “Hadn’t you better think about that?” (Basic Set 43)
I'll be honest, I understand the college student's point of view because for the most part, the teachers in the geneds did not give two fucks about what they were teaching, and I had already learned enough that wasn't directly relevant to my interests when it was free. Like, seriously, I put up with over a decade of this palpable disinterest in K-12, now I'm paying for the privilege of taking more of it from adjuncts, because the college says I need to buy $20K worth of credits before I can talk to someone who's actually motivated?
Yeah, that always came across as "I'm trying to neg you but I ran out of my best insults like an hour ago so I'm throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks." Same with the adopted joke.
The best case scenario is that it releases in whatever broken mess it ends up being, with good bones and the same kind of thoughtful worldbuilding B1 had, and the community picks it up similarly and makes it into a cult classic.
I'm not holding my breath though, people are still scratching their heads on the developer announcement.
Meanwhile, the audience: "Holy shit, two Ramirezes!"