Valve's Steam Machine is the second price jumpscare of the week after GTA 6 😑
Starts at $1049 for the 512GB model without a Steam Controller. With controller, $1128. The 2TB version costs $1349 solo or $1428 bundled. If your wallet can handle it, enter the raffle to buy one now on Steam.
Valve explains why it isn’t subsidizing the Steam Machine
It’s more expensive than consoles, but there are reasons for that.
https://www.theverge.com/games/952004/valve-steam-machine-price-not-subsidizing
Valve trolls data miners, Dark Carnival found in Dota 2's code Patch 7.41d sneaked in Sense of Foreboding on Axe and event-related variables. Valve's answer? They renamed one to "Why are you reading our variable names?". Ringmaster is expected to be the main character. Official announcement pending.
#SteamAndEpic #Foreboding #Ringmaster #Carnival #Official #Valves
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/06/valve-kills-its-retail-gift-card-program-due-to-scammers/
🤨 BrownDust2, the provocative gacha has officially landed on PC, but it won't be on Steam.
Studio GAMFS N put the PC build up on its official site as a FREE download after Valve's strict store rules cancelled the Steam release. It supports cross‑progression with the 2023 mobile version, but purchase/region swaps for payments are capped at 3 per account.
From Compactrons to Nuvistors: Vacuum Tubes’ Last Hurrah
https://swling.com/blog/2026/05/from-compactrons-to-nuvistors-vacuum-tubes-last-hurrah/
I do not have a "radio valves" problem.
And I do not need one...
But just over the way in Peterborough: "Large amount of radio valves stored in containers in shed moving and don't want to go in skip"
https://freecycle.org/posts/101911394
I'm not sure what hashtags to put on #radio #valves lol... but yeah, if anyone wants a "large amount of rdio valves", there ya go. The post lacks... detail.
His and hers. There was a paper bag of waiting-to-be-properly-boxed #teeth as well. That was properly filed into the right box by the relative's other half. Obviously. One has to be tidy about these things.
And they're only 3 litre boxes, too. Not the 50 litre ones that I had to use for the #valves, #resistors, and extension cables.
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