Half life Alyx. It’s such a good game that it makes me sad there isn’t more.

At least there are tons of custom maps in the workshop.

I doubt anywhere in the world has an electrical utility designed to support paying for users to produce solar. Folks seem to think it should be 1 to 1 on what you produce should equal whatever you would have paid, ignoring all the other maintenance, redundancy and load balancing the utility has to provide.

Between solar and something like localized battery storage to handle usage surges we could probably handle it better now, but I don’t think anyone is building that kind of system.

Insane take. There were tons of reports at first because there was a lot of interest in the launch. I was checking that site regularly to see how many were going out. By the time my order came in, I hadn’t visited it in over a week and I never bothered returning mine delivered. At this point, it’s just a waiting game and people don’t feel compelled to share when theirs comes in.

I found it ignorable at first, but in darker indoor areas of Alyx it was super obvious.

Like complicated bright backgrounds weren’t bad, but blander dark spaces had a very distinct border where the resolution dropped.

The main engineers buildings this stuff are millionaires. They’ve been making probably $400k on the low end and we know of salaries over a million on the high end.

Still not enough to survive an actual world collapse though.

Yeah but in the US it’s always a bunch of heavy smokers that want to play at those. Got tired of coming home and having to immediately take a shower

Nah some of us were already working. Plenty of IT work was done by kids in high school back then. I definitely remember replacing some servers because of it.

Why would highly reviewed games being older be a bad thing? Those are the most likely to run well on Frame.

Older games are awesome and cheaper than grabbing something right at release. If anything, something being newer gives me more pause since the issues haven’t been worked out.

This will make an awesome travel computer. Still capable of playing games, but also a giant screen for movies or even desktop work.

A lot of hotels make hooking up the steam deck to the tv a pain so this way I won’t have to deal with it anymore.

Basic interior, but very comfy and amazingly cheap used in the US! One of the few cheaper models that had a heat pump standard and should comfortably be able to do a 150 mile round trip in snow without stopping to recharge even as the battery ages.

Still not following. You’d rather buy a 7 year old car that’s depreciated the same amount as a 2 year old car, regardless of any difference in quality of the two? I’m out the same amount either way and in EVs I’d rather have the more modern tech.

You seem much more into looks than pure cost of ownership anyway. Which to each their own but I can’t fathom talking about price and then targeting luxury brands. Even used, you’ve got higher maintenance costs than the standard brands. EVs still need tires, windshields, etc and even off brand parts for luxury are a lot more expensive.

Not if you aren’t diving a Tesla. My 2023 Nissan is only 20% more than my 2017 Kia.