I do like when subcontext gets revealed, however it's a bit of a miss here.
Shield, from what I've read, seems as the perfect price/performance tablet currently. It seems to beat anything from Apple and is faster than Cube i7 Stylus.
The question is if streaming more than 60FPS capable machine game onto consolerubbish standard display is acceptable. I really don't think anyone who uses 60+ Hz monitor connected it with PC over HDMI. It's possible to do it, but then you limited yourself on 60FPS.
If someone doesn't care about frames, why buying a tablet at all? Why not ebay some superold nintendo and that's it?
I mentioned my mother. She is obsessed with some games, but these are all casual, you can't expect 80+ years old person to play Doom. In her case, and assuming her current cheap rubbish tablet died, I'd buy her Shield right away. She wouldn't use many of it's features, but sure as hell she wouldn't suffer from the gadget being slow as dirt or plain rubbish.
Teleporter won't exist as long as oil lobbies exist. It would perfectly fit microtransactions climate, but the "enemy" is still too tough. So I'm not making it. I don't want to get killed. And I don't want to detail it in P&R subsection here.
Let's see what happens with electric cars in the next decade then we can return to teleporter idea.
Not sure why would anyone carry their PC on a trip. I do travel here and there, but I never ever bring anything with me except the bloody phone, and even then I'm not using it for playing games. I was at hospital for a surgery a couple of weeks back and took nothing with me - instead of wasting time on nothing, I've used the time to socialize with other patients. Three of us were there, we had TV in the room but we couldn't care less about it, we were discussing a vast of different life experiences.
While I used the recent example, this happens always when I'm anywhere outside of my home. I have no time for gadgetery, I'm more interested in people. Oddly, it happens almost everyone else feels like that too. All you need is to start talking.
Yes, with people you don't know. Forget silly Hollywood panic based "don't talk to strangers" irrational thing.
The industry wants you to become lonely. That way, you'll buy any garbage advertised as modern socializing method. You don't need that crap. Just shaking hands or a hug with a stranger is worth more than sharing memoires on facebook.
I don't want you to believe me. I want you to try it.
And for god's sakes my neighbor just called me on a coffee. Will I stay and write some more? No. I'm off with the guy - although he's into Pokemon Go. But Pokemon aside, he's very talented in music, so many topics we didn't even scratch yet!
Next time don't bring your shield with you. Try to manage without it, but do give people a chance.