<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Was this actually the Switch 2 announcement or the other Steam OS devices (and new processors) that were announced at CES? It&#39;s easier to imagine one of those having an effect on Steam Deck sales than the Switch, which to all intents and purposes seems like it&#39;s targeting a completely different audience. Regardless, it&#39;s a curious effect.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> what about Lenovo Legion Go S announcement ?</p>

<p>Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/steam-deck-sales-drop-hard-following-the-nintendo-switch-2-announcement/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/stea</span><span class="invisible">m-deck-sales-drop-hard-following-the-nintendo-switch-2-announcement/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Steam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamOS</span></a></p>

<p>The devs of Celeste have cancelled their follow-up game Earthblade <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-devs-of-celeste-have-cancelled-their-follow-up-game-earthblade/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-</span><span class="invisible">devs-of-celeste-have-cancelled-their-follow-up-game-earthblade/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Earthblade" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Earthblade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Celeste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Celeste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a></p>

<p>But this is exactly what a real, effective, successful resistance is: many, many, many individual and small group acts to stop, or even just hamper, the tide of authoritarianism.</p><p>It&#39;s hiding one immigrant. It&#39;s giving a police entity the wrong address. It&#39;s buying something at your local store and not online. It&#39;s hiring a Trans person. It&#39;s purposefully not completing a task. It&#39;s filling out a form wrong on purpose. <br />Resistance isn&#39;t heroic or filmic. It&#39;s a million tiny little refusals. 10/</p>

<p>But it seems that there is so much psychological satisfaction in doing, ironically, what I am doing right here. I&#39;m using language in a virtual space, easily lulled into the fantasy that I&#39;m making a difference. But I&#39;m not. My words &#39;fork no lightning&#39;. Not IRL. </p><p>The cinematization of our imaginations has gaslit us to believe small acts in a local environment are too small to matter. It&#39;s not global enough, grand enough. It&#39;s made us feel too small individually for any of our acts to count. 9/</p>

<p>So... I&#39;ll leave the subject of leadership there and move onto the problem of virtuality.</p><p>Effective resistance requires concrete action. And concrete action is always hyper-local. It can be organized and incited through communication channels, but it cannot stop there. That&#39;s not a resistance.</p><p>But social media (and &#39;the medium is the message&#39; theory) has led us to believe that posting a protest on a platform IS action.</p><p>It isn&#39;t. Action is embodied. It is concrete. It means physical change. 8/</p>

<p>One of the most tragic examples of this failure was the Spanish Civil War. Of course, history doesn&#39;t repeat itself exactly. And the internet really does fundamentally change the dynamics of human movements. But yeah... a refusal, on the left, to be led, to coalesce, played a big part. </p><p>Now, it may be a failure of imagination on my part to see how an effective resistance is possible without concrete leadership. I hope so. Because our appetite for rejecting the imperfect seems limitless to me 7/</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Maybe in some exotic hardware variant that&#39;s not publicly available? (Or not available anymore?)</p>