**💀 Local Man Frustrated by Son’s "Steam Deck" Insists, "It’s Just a Nintendo Switch with Extra Steps"** 🎮
Let’s be honest, Linda. My 14-year-old saved up his lawn-mowing money for six months to buy this "Steam Deck" thing. I thought, *fine, we already have a Nintendo Switch, but if he wants to work for it, whatever*.
It arrives. It’s huge. It looks like a tablet strapped to a toaster. He’s been in his room for three days. I go in to tell him dinner is ready, and he's swearing at a screen that says "Proton Experimental."
I ask him, "What game is that, *Fortnite*?" He says, "No, Dad, it’s *Skyrim* for the tenth time, but it has mods for Thomas the Tank Engine."
Linda, I’m not paying for a $400 device so he can play 10-year-old games on a tiny screen that needs a high school diploma in Linux just to turn the WiFi on. Why can’t kids just buy a console that works out of the box? This is why society is falling apart. "It’s for my steam library," he says.
He owns three games. He paid for a device so he could play a game he already owns on a computer he already has. Where’s the common sense?