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Isn't Black Mesa Half-Life 1?

That's not particularly rational given how quickly computers progress in both performance and cost, a current-gen $1k Macbook Air will run circles around your M1. You'd probably be much better off spending the same amount of money on cheaper machines with a more frequent upgrade cadence. And you can always sell your old ones on eBay or something.

Games like this based on an existing skill would really benefit from the ability to start at higher levels. I'm a pretty proficient typist, it'd be a lot more interesting to me if there was any risk at all of me failing.

Good? I've got gigabit symmetrical and I'd much rather stream just what I need rather than have to dedicate an entire hard drive to storing a planet I won't see 99% of. And if it replaces some of the god-awful updating procedures from 2020 then all the better.

Where did this article title come from? Last I checked, "soon" isn't "now," the feature isn't actually available yet

Can someone please help me understand why this is useful? The article mentions malware scanning applications, but if I'm sending you a malicious PDF, won't I want to clearly mark it with a .pdf extension so that you open it in your PDF app? Their examples are all very obvious based on file extensions.

Alright dude, you clearly just want to enjoy your $3500 toy, don't let me stop you. I love and support you, brother. Meanwhile I'll keep doing a ton of stuff on my technically inferior VR headset that the AVP can't do at all, like actually playing games.

I'm not ignoring anything, but if my Lamborghini got out-accelerated by a Toyota I'd be upset about that, too. There's all sorts of other things to be upset about, again compared to the Quest 3. External battery pack and weight issues. No PCVR support, so you can't use the established ecosystem of games. No controllers at all, even for what could be an emerging ecosystem of Apple games. No headphone jack (I can't believe we're still doing this). The EyeSight thing doesn't work and it seems like all the marketing for it was simulated images.

The parts that are better end up not mattering. Why do I care if the resolution is better if what I want to do with it is play PCVR? Why do I care if it's great for watching movies if I'm not a loner who lives by myself? Why would I ever want to be represented by some nightmarish Persona thing?

Again, there are just way more compromises here than is justifiable for something that's literally 7x (at minimum!) the price of the competition. I want the iPod of VR/AR, this ain't it.

Blatantly false. The FOV, which is one of the most critical performance characteristics of a headset, is inferior to the Quest 3. I'd _expect_ every single thing to be better if I'm paying 7x, but it just isn't.

It's VR-only but VTOL VR is incredible and I think matches what you're talking about here? I haven't played those older ones you mentioned though

We are in an absolute golden age of PC flight sims, especially with the immersion that we can get from VR, so when you say "all games" you mean "console games"

I spent all day with friends going around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. We had to Uber around since the subway was mostly disabled. That was expensive and traffic wasn't great but we got around just fine. All the places we went to were open and happy to serve us.

Oh my, polluters will need to cover the cost of their externalities for once in human history, let me go grab my pearls