Steam Deck

[J T]

This is quite a funny story. On the Steam Deck you can encode a file to be used by the system as the boot screen or animation. It can be an image, animation or video file.

One owner decided to encode the whole of the Shrek movie as their boot screen file. But Valve only ever considered a boot animation would be a few seconds at most, so never bothered adding the ability to skip it. So this user had to wait the whole length of the Shrek movie every time the system booted.

Due to this story Valve have now added the ability to skip the intro animation.

Ahh that is funny. While it shows determination and initiative it also shows that if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

I wholeheartedly approve of such silly endeavours.