Thatuserguy
@Thatuserguy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 1 week ago:
I’ve said this plenty of times but this stigma of VR is a REALLY REALLY weird one, especially since I keep seeing it. There are so many arcades and whatnot you can try VR where it’s just tethered in place. So many VR experiences are designed such that you can absolutely play them sitting down in a chair. The idea you need a “holodeck room” breaks down the second you look into it all.
Not only that, but the Quest can play VR games, and it’s running a phone processor. You don’t need top of the line hardware, just enough to run a normal video game, which I’m willing to bet if you’re a pc gamer, you literally have more than enough.
I beat Alyx on a $250 headset and a laptop with an underclocked 1060. In my shitty 800 sq ft apartment’s dining room. And it was still an absolutely phenomenal experience. Was it top of the line? No. But it was still plenty playable. These days my pc is in my bedroom and I just hook it up and play in the empty space in front of my bed. You absolutely CAN sink thousands of dollars and a dedicated space into it if you really want to. But it’s hardly a requirement and still plenty serviceable without it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
The quick way I was taught to eyeball it is to shift the decimal over one place to the left in the total, and double it. That’s 20%. In this case $30.53 > $3.053 > $6.106 ~ $6.10
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been gaming primarily on Xbox since the 360. After Microsoft bought and closed Tango though? I literally vowed to never buy another Xbox product again. I can’t even remember the last time I booted my Series X
- Comment on Things that make you go hmm... 3 weeks ago:
Drawing lines is too hard. Better to just drain a 3rd world nation’s water supply to do it instead. You understand
- Comment on For Steins;Gate watchers, what do you think of Steins;Gate 0? 5 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat as an anime only and feel like I was taking crazy pills. All my friends watched it and loved it, but I had so many issues with it and felt like the tone and feel of the show was so far removed from the original I couldn’t bring myself to like it. Outside of maybe the last few episodes, it just overall seemed mediocre in every sense and I don’t understand what the hype was for it?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean, I played most of my library in that space. I ‘S’ ranked plenty of Beat Saber maps on Hard. Played Space Pirate Trainer a few times. The Lab. Phasmophobia. Etc. You can genuinely easily play most VR games seated if you really wanted to, even if it’s not as nice as having standing room
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Eh, I literally played Alyx on a gaming laptop with a 1060 in front of my dining room table in no more than a 3x3 cube with a $300 headset. That is not a very high barrier to entry for existing pc gamers at least. A Steam Deck exclusive may fare a little better since it’s a self contained console, but I doubt it would do that much better if VR was enough to discourage people tbh
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Very doubtful tbh. You can look at HL: Alyx as an example. It sold well I’m sure, but not Nintendo level. As much as people like to belly ache about VR being too hard to get into, it’s truly no more expensive than a Steam Deck if you actually bother to take more than 2 seconds to legitimately look into it.
I played Alyx on a mobile 1060 and a $300 headset and while it wasn’t top of the line, it was still perfectly playable. I imagine most gamers these days have at least that, but Alyx absolutely did not sell like hot cakes. And I doubt the Steam Deck would either, even for HL3.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I used it. And I used Edge. This is the most braindead change they could have made. Edge automatically synced passwords to Authenticator across mobile and PC. Losing the ability to autofill passwords outside of Edge makes it significantly less useful.
If anything, as someone who was in their garden, this change is unironically making me want to go find another garden to play in instead of stick closer to theirs. Why is Microsoft so hellebent on making people hate it’s software recently?
- Comment on Half Life 3 3 months ago:
Rumors I’ve seen are they are going all in on the physics. Like, every object in the game has material properties like flammability that will react differently in the environment. Some rumors about some procedural generation tech being involved as well, but not to what extent it’s being used
- Comment on POV: you're still sleeping and it's still the weekend 3 months ago:
OH GOD I CAN’T SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EYES
- Comment on The Betrayal of Limited Run Games: What They Don't Want You to See 4 months ago:
I’ve been hanging on the new release emails waiting for months without a peep. I’ll honestly be shocked if I see it eventually at this point
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 6 months ago:
If not it will soon. Maybe even 2 copies at the same time
- Comment on Viktor Antonov (art director on Half-Life 2 and Dishonored) has passed away 6 months ago:
Hope whenever tf HL3 eventually comes out (hopeful I know) they cns emulate his style well at least. That super sleek industrial look is a bit part of the style of both Dishonored and HL that I love
- Comment on Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline 6 months ago:
Microsoft not shooting themselves in the foot every chance they get challenge (impossible)
- Comment on The bicycle industry wants you to think this is impossible. 6 months ago:
King shit 🙌
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 6 months ago:
Honestly to a certain extent I think being decentralized is somewhat beneficial. Perhaps it’s just the fact I’ve been visiting forums for like 20 years and feeling jaded, but I never liked that any knuckle dragger could easily make an account and act like an ass.
It’s not a very high bar to clear to figure out how to sign up for lemmy, so if you can’t even figure that out, maybe it’s for the best to help prevent polluting the user pool. If you’re gonna be an ass, you should at least have to work for it.
- Comment on TV Anime "GRAND BLUE Season 2" is scheduled for 2025 broadcasting 6 months ago:
Oh boy I can’t wait to learn more about diving!
- Comment on I can't believe I haven't had a shower since last year..... 7 months ago:
Carrrrrlooossss…
- Comment on Good feet?? (Fall season 2024) 10 months ago:
I sure as hell can’t say I respect you, but I admire your conviction