I miss Windows Media Center. It was so great back in the day.

I don’t think Amazon has much of a chance. People like their Alexa for the simple stuff. We had a free trial of Alexa+. On day 2 my wife was complaining about how slow it was, and by day 4 my 13 year old daughter had figured out herself how to switch back, because she hated Alexa+ so much.

Same for Steam Deck. UE5 games can ‘technically’ run, but they look a lot worse than other games. It’s the only game engine I check for.

That looks like it would be pretty fun on the steam deck. I’ll have to try the demo

I think they’re relevant for people who like them. Most games I don’t care, but for games I really like I’ll use achievements to see of there are things I haven’t yet discovered.

Sometimes it’s fun to compare to friends.

I don’t really know why they disable them with mods installed. If a person cheats and gets them all, who cares? It’s not like there’s actual value. If it makes them happy, let them be happy.

And yea, an opt out feature for people who don’t want them would be good, too.

I really want this to be good.

It does look really good, so I’m keeping my eye on it.

Same. I want to race, not spend my time driving to the race.

That’s funny, reading your post I immediately thought of Ball x Pitt, before you even mentioned it.

That being said, I actually loved that game, and obsessively played it for 60 hours. I think it took me 3 or 4 hours to beat the first level, but to me it felt very rewarding. For me it was more about figuring out the right ball evolutions and character selection to beat a level.

That did change for the later levels. After a while it became too easy, and it just felt like grinding to unlock the next thing. The harvesting component was actually a refreshing break between runs, and probably kept me playing longer than I would have otherwise.

Thanks, I actually didn’t know about that. I had to enable it in settings for it to show up.

I was happy when they had a free weekend of No Rest For The Wicked. My wife and I are always looking for good co-op games. This one wasn’t for us. It was almost fun, but not quite. Definitely glad we didn’t shell out for the early access.

“market reaction suggests that more capital isn’t going to be a viable substitute for a business model anymore.”

Time to find the next vague thing that investors can pour trillions into without really knowing what it is or does.

Hah, we got a second deck, too.

My son got 2 Pokémon games and a dlc. Seems like there’s plenty of life left in the Switch 1 for now, so no need to update.

When we got the switch 1, it actually sat unused for most of the first year. After a while we started to really enjoy it though. Maybe we’ll get a switch 2 in a year.

I think it’s just not trying to be a pass through headset, like the vision pro and galaxy xr, which is honestly fine with me, if it keeps the price from going into the thousands. If it’s feature built for giving a virtual display for gaming, and does that better than anything else (and I think it will, given the special dongle specifically for streaming games), then that has value.

Lucky you 😂