I would love to! I really want to play Rogue Trader and the Pathfinder games, but it seems anything other than Stardew Valley really kicks in the fans and creates some heat. A bit worrying given it's already very hot here and I'm cautious of causing some long-term damage running it at such temperatures for long sessions. I've been tempted to buy something like a Steam Deck at some point; I really missing passing a bit of time playing things, and I'm really trying to figure out what works with this thing.
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I find that surprising but not. I can do Blender stuff on my Macbook Air but character work is agonisingly painful so I usually just have to do hard surface things (buildings and objects). I used to be able to do some pretty hardcore stuff on my last MacBook Pro (a billion years ago), and I know sibling dearest is able to run Minecraft on her (much more current) MBP, but Apple's quality in general seems to be stagnant at best.
Play actual tabletop (or virtual tabletop if you can't find anyone local to play with) :D Then you theoretically shouldn't have a fans issue. And if you ever try out Rogue Trader let me know what it's like, I kind of vaguely looked at it as I thought it might be something fun for me and youngest to be able to do together, as he only likes DnD and I hate that system, but while he has played CoD a couple of times with me he doesn't like that system, and he has been trying to get me to play Warhammer with him and I've tried a couple of times but I suck at it XD
I find that it can run games decently, certainly at a playable state. Just the fans and the heat are the concern. Even on low everything it still generates quite a bit of heat. For running programs though it's fine, I don't have problems video/photo editing; I'm actually very happy with the performance on that end. The only times I've heard the fans kick in and the laptop generate some heat has been from running games, but at the same time that makes sense given how intensive games are. But I did expect a bit more from it.
Battery life goes out of the window with anything remotely intensive on this thing. The 16 - 20 hour battery life Apple claims the M2 Pro has is just a lie. Chrome alone will push my battery down to 8 hours if I'm lucky. Add on any social stuff like Telegram and it comes down to about 6. I haven't had a laptop in forever though, I've been spoiled with the luxuries of a high end desktop for most of my life.
Oh, 3% of the battery capacity is also gone within six months of owning this. So most of the time I just keep it plugged in if I can to avoid adding on cycles.