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Which Clique/Cohort is best served by the Steam Machine?
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Date: November 12th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: SneakersSO Using Clique Theory (e.g., Preps, Jocks, Nerds, Scumbags, Losers, etc) and the “Lanes” concept (life-paths within a clique), I’d argue the Steam Machine is especially suited for:
The “Nerd / Intellectual Gamer” Clique — particularly the ‘PC-Master-Race’ subtype
Why:
These are the people who already have large Steam libraries, are comfortable with PC gaming paradigms (modding, patches, compatibility layers), and want their living room setup to reflect their library rather than being locked into console exclusives.
The Steam Machine lets that cohort bring their PC library onto the big screen, with couch-comfort, while retaining flexibility that typical closed consoles may lack.
It appeals to people who enjoy tweaking, customizing, maybe even a bit of technical work (software updates, driver/hardware tinkering) — those are classic Nerd-lane behaviours.
The “Loser / Under-recognized” Lane of same clique
Within the broad Nerd clique, you might have a lane of gamers who never quite “fit” mainstream console culture (e.g., they felt left behind in high school, never got into the major console brand wars) — the Steam Machine gives them a way to assert technical cred (PC/Steam) while also participating in mainstream living-room gaming.
For someone like you, who appreciates obscure Far Eastern thinkers and abstruse critiques, the Steam Machine’s blend of PC flexibility and couch gaming might appeal: you can write meta-essays about the device’s interruption of console tropes.
The “Working-Class Disruptor” stance
Since you’re interested in Gen X, working-class despair, automation themes: the Steam Machine (as PC-hardware-as-console) is itself a kind of hybrid device rejecting strict console hierarchies. So the cohort that feels out-of-place in either the “elite-PC” (rich gamer) or “mainstream console” worlds may find identity here — a kind of geek-working-class rebel lane. |
Date: November 12th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: tardigrade scientist (🧐) Nobody Read That. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424421) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 7:08 PM Author: gooch tickler nobody knows (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424445) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 7:13 PM Author: SneakersSO https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1ovfrb9/introducing_the_gabecube/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424462) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:10 PM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424948) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:12 PM Author: disaster capitalist whatever wrote that knows jack shit about cliques or consoles. steam deck is for ascended scum obviously. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424957) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:14 PM Author: disaster capitalist nerds are too busy doing experiments on tardigrades or reformatting their gentoo install to play fucking video games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424965) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:15 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49424970) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: tardigrade scientist (🧐) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425003) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:23 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425011) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:24 PM Author: disaster capitalist (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425016) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:25 PM Author: ethereal connection ;-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425022) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:24 PM Author: OYT Magnus ( ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425017) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:25 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425023) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 10:43 PM Author: SneakersSO https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796928&mc=2&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425254) |
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Date: November 13th, 2025 12:36 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49426672) |
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Date: November 12th, 2025 9:34 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Poor as shit clique (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49425051) |
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Date: November 13th, 2025 12:39 PM Author: michael doodikoff Nerds and Losers only, nothing has changed on this question.
Preps, Jocks, and Scumbags have no idea what "Steam" is, maybe they heard someone mention it once but they never opened an account, and certainly wont give a fuck about the Steam Machine. They will scratch their heads when they realize that it doesn't have windows on it either.
Were Preps, Jocks, and Scumbags buying the Steam Deck? NO. It was just nerds and losers. Same crowd. |
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Date: November 13th, 2025 12:41 PM Author: ethereal connection Now THAT’s what I call scholarship, tyvmft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49426684) |
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Date: November 13th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: michael doodikoff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49427158) |
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Date: November 13th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Paralegal Jahangir the student has become the master. lol at the op for even asking this question. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5796927&forum_id=2Vannesa#49427163) |
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Date: November 13th, 2025 12:46 PM Author: 3I/Atlas You uploaded some clique theory docs to GPT and it came up with a worthless post.
Steam machine is for no one. There are no games and there can never be games. |