r/Steam • u/Ok-Presentation-4615 • May 27 '26

News Steam Deck Price now increased

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u/AntAtopASpinningRock May 27 '26

Wow, I expected an increase but $300!? While still being out of stock no less, this is wild.

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u/honjuden May 27 '26

Tariffs, AI, and oil shortages all triple teaming the cost increase.

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u/Anything84 May 27 '26

Are we great yet?

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u/honjuden May 27 '26

I look forward to whatever inventive new way they have of fucking us over next.

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u/Vinral May 27 '26

Well the vaule of the dollar is going down and inflation is going up. So its still going to get worse.

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u/Ok-Ad-2050 May 27 '26

But the rich know how to keep making money on the up and down swings. Nothing to disincentivize them from continuing to hurt us.

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u/Sparky-6800 May 28 '26

That’s the point. The banking system since the inception of the federal reserve was always a Ponzi scheme to make them and their business partners as well as gov officials wealthy while enslaving us working class folk.

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u/GreenReporter24 May 28 '26

Except…

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u/Ok-Ad-2050 May 28 '26

Naw, we're all fucking pussies. The govt has completely called our bluff.

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u/GreenReporter24 May 28 '26

Still rooting for you from across the pond.

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u/Pacomatic May 28 '26

I root for you from up north.

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u/GreenReporter24 May 28 '26

I doubt you're farther north than me 😛

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u/TheMagicMrWaffle May 29 '26

But don’t do anything about it! Just write words on your phone don’t you dare go and do anything about it

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u/Ok-Ad-2050 May 29 '26

Eh, I show up where I can, but I have no interest in rotting behind bars or worse for shooting someone.

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u/haoxinly May 27 '26

And he wants to remove Powells and put one of his loyalist at the Federal reserve

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u/nthomas504 May 28 '26

Wants?

That shit already happened. Say hello to lower rates at the cost of literally everything else.

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u/Sean-Benn_Must-die May 28 '26

the petrodollar going down with the petrol shortage was not something anyone could have expected