200 might seem like a lot, but I can see it.

I actually got married last Saturday, we had about 120 guests.

Between close friends, family, people that you can’t see as often because they live far and the +1s (and in the case of a guest in a polycule +2s) it goes up pretty quickly.

From the top of my head, we had about 20 family members, 20 friends from work, 25 people from the LARP we organize, another 25 from the LARP we play at, 8 bridesmaid+groomsmen, then a handful of friends from our other social circles.

I guess it depends of your definition of tertiary character: not all people we see every week, but it doesn’t mean we wouldn’t like to if we had the time and it made any kind of sense in the realities of adult life.

Yes, two on the whole planet!

It’s very in demand.

Take of that what you will, but I have the same specs/requirements as that other person.

I don’t think it’s as rare as you assume: couch gaming PCs are a thing, and expecting similar compatibility as consoles is normal.

I see lots of “alternative steam machines” going around, but none of them have HDMI CeC, which is the killer feature of the steam machine for me.

Hooking up a small form factor to a TV is simple.

Having it wake from sleep with a wireless computer, which in turns turn on the TV and switch to the correct HDMI input just like a console is the real value proposition to me, and none of those really offer it, as off the shelf GPU don’t support CeC.