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  • Just Cause 3, but I’m honestly a bit tired of it now. I love just wingsuiting around the place and I’ve never found anything else that gives me that same level of catharsis.

    I do switch to JC4 occasionally just for a change of scenery, but the wingsuit feels too… floaty? In that one. Idk, just doesn’t feel the same.

    I am desperately open to suggestions for something similar in terms of brain off flow state gaming.






  • In my opinion this is the best outcome. The technology is not ready, and it’s potential for abuse is far greater than it’s potential for good at present. It needs another 10 years minimum to ensure it can at least be controlled to some extent. Breaking these models is trivially easy at the moment.

    Microsoft won’t put it on ice, but maybe they’ll fuck it up badly enough that people will forget about it for a while. We’re currently at the “VR in the 80’s” point in the journey, imo.


  • Kraiden@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlA soul for a soul
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    Lol, you can dream, just don’t pre-order.

    Edit: actually, going to expound on this. I predict the following:

    An initially buggy, but impressive engine with a mediocre, and probably too short single player story that will be overshadowed by always online crap that you can’t turn off. There will be one or two missions that are news-worthily provocative in some way, featuring overly graphic sex and/or really REALLY violent. You’ll probably have the option to play it in co-op mode. It will ship with online multi-player. will have game breaking micro transactions from the start, and the online space will be utterly toxic from day 1. They will milk this engine for the next 20 years until it (and we) beg for death. You will be able to dance. Like in fortnite, dance.







  • I replied to “your other comment”.

    I meant the one made elsewhere in this thread where I explain why I don’t think it’s a shit argument. I think the wireless is a legitimate upgrade over wired when we’re talking about a mobile phone.

    The fidelity is one of many many pros we have listed
    I don’t understand what this has to do with anything.

    I’m trying to point out that your “pro” of better fidelity doesn’t mean anything in a space where people aren’t using a lossless format, and so aren’t taking advantage of that extra fidelity anyway. This is admittedly an area I’m not strong in, so I could well be wrong, but I don’t think there’s any difference between wired and wireless when the source is Spotify.

    you don’t have to choose.

    Alright, this is fair. It would be great to keep the option for both. However, I don’t think it’s fair to knock Fairphone for not offering this option though, particularly because it takes space on the pcb and is an extra component cost (yes, a small one, I admit)

    People are calling it a money grab move to not include a headphone jack, and I just don’t think that’s fair.


  • it would be a shit argument

    This is fundamentally where we disagree. See my other comment

    That is a pro, not a con

    Never said it was a con, nor did I mean to imply that jacks are obsolete overall, only that it’s a valid move to not include them on a device that is primarily used to stream audio and thus doesn’t need the extra fidelity. Unless you want to try and tell me that Joe Public should be lugging around gigabytes of flac files?

    lick Tim Cook’s boots

    Lol, personally I prefer the taste of Han Jong-hee or Kenichiro Yoshida’s boots

    jack comes with none.

    Respectfully, this is rose tinted glasses talking. Do you know what my wireless buds workflow is?

    1. Open case
    2. Insert buds into ears and wait for “Bluetooth connected”
    3. Tap left bud
    4. Music plays.

    Compare that to

    1. Pull out buds
    2. Untangle cord
    3. Pull out phone
    4. Fumble jack into the microphone hole for 2 minutes
    5. Look at device, and insert jack into correct hole.
    6. Unlock phone
    7. Open music app of choice
    8. Hit play
    9. Music plays

    With wireless buds, I don’t even have to know exactly where my phone is. To say nothing of having to carry it around with me which, if you’re doing housework, or a workout can be a pain.

    Also, anyone who’s ever had buds forcibly ripped from their ears because they’ve dropped their phone will tell you:

    Wired buds ALSO have drawbacks