The best part is they havent made a compelling game in 10 years. So i wont buy a game of them ever again either way. Its an easy life tbh.

As someone who watched funnee lets plays of it and also played the game itself 15 years ago: You’ll get the full experience by watching a 10 minute video. Yeah, its funny that this turd made it onto actual store shelves. But there isnt much more to it. Its an utterly broken barely working ‘game’. Had i fun driving really fast backwards and clipping through bridges? Yes, but for like 5 minutes and it wasnt more fun than watching someone else.

Selling this garbage despite its infamous meme status is an utter insult.

I dont need a laptop right now but damn this thing is sexy. Its been a long time since hardware gave me that “do want” itch even though i dont need it. Ryzen would have been great but even with an Intel SOC this thing is a compelling package.

Uh, okay. Whatever?

show me that magic llm which doenst infringe the copyright of nearly everybody, which doesnt have an unprecedentet impact on the enviroment to train and run, which wont be used to cut of people from their income, which isnt owned by technocratic billionaire assholes, which isnt peddled and promoted by fascist goverments, which doesnt halluzinate, which isnt a blackbox, which actually works and doesnt fail at the simplest tasks sometimes, which doesnt infringe my privacy(allegedly tbf, but you know). the list goes on.

sure, sure technology itself isnt evil. but thats not a hill i want to die on in case of llms. they’re problematic on so many levels. full stop. i dont think its a naive take to have some skepticism against this clusterfuck. potentially some technologies could make the world a better place. but llms dont fit into this category.

Why not both?

tbh not in the mood to argue with you about it. if your a hasan fan. fair enough. i’m not. as i said i dont consider him as bad as elon, not even in the same ball park. but i still consider him shit. i was even subscribed to him a few years ago. i’ve seen enough first hand. my views on him arent filtered through takes of others.

so i was about to give you the win by going silent and just leave it be.

but:

i hope you realize how much right wing propaganda has gotten to you.

fuck off. get bent. posted as a leftist.

wouldnt go as far as saying that hasan is a decent human being. no doubt, i rank im way higher than elmo. but that guy is still problematic on so many levels even if his believes align here there with my own. but to apply even more nuance to my shitpost: the most unfair part of my post was to generelise an individual single dev beeing the entirety of the soulless corporation of ubisoft.

/hmm, lots of fans around here. idk how one can fall for this disingenuous fuckface. but you do you.

Hasan, Elon and Ubisoft… what is this, a shit triangle?

This is a weird one for me.

When the first Wreckfest(back then Next Car Game) launched as a crowdfunded game 12(?) years ago as an early access title it made sense. Flat Out as a franchise wasnt in their hands anymore and it hit rockbottom. So to develop a new game in a genre which had no competitor at the time with the community was compelling. Ngl the development was rocky at times. But in the end they made a super good game. THQ Nordiq got on board and with that funds for very big improvements in the tech it dearly needed. At times the game barely ran on high end PCs. But the engine got optimized so well it started to run well on the (now)last-gen consoles, then the switch and even mobile phones. But with that came also a lot of additions i really disliked. The physics got nerfed for the consoles but also on the PC, DLC galore, FOMO weekly events, the pretty realistic(ish) focus on folk racing shifted more into Flat Out 2 madness. The current game is very different to 1.0 . Not all for the better IMHO(!)

Either way: They again have a franchise with name recognition, they have a decently modern engine and game with lots of content to build upon and a publisher with funds. I dont see why an early access is needed? Especially in this super bare bones form with barely any cars or tracks(some even lifted from the last game) and nothing(!) else. I’ve put hundreds of hours into the last game. I still love it. Also i could really use finally a fresh new racing title after all the disappointments in the last years. But this… in this form isnt it. Especially knowing the community feedback might get thrown out in the future when the money man make decision. Meh

i’m way less concerned since i read the question correctly the second time.

“Rumors suggest that Team Red was caught off guard by the aggressive pricing […] , while Team Green priced the RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 ‘MSRP cards’ at $749 and $549, respectively.”

WTF are they smoking at Toms Hardware?

Its such a weird ass nothing burger of a product.

Like i get it why it exists. Display- and lenstech are getting at a point where textclarity is good enough. Mobile chipsets can provide enough standalone performance for most office workloads. If you need the added processinh power of a workstation wireless displaystreaming is at a fairly mature point for 2D content when it comes to the lack of compression artifacts and the latency is solid enough. Passthrough is at a workable state, too.

Gaming wasnt the killer feature for VR for several reasons. So parroting apple and pivoting to this whole AR computing device schtick is understandable(ish).

But i watched both the initial AndroidXR Google presentation last month and now the shitty influencer marketing video of MHKBD and their messaging is so weird. The big sellingpoints are: You have Gemini AI, the Playstore is preinstalled with which you can ask Gemini AI to install new apps, Gemini AI also works with the preinstalled Google apps. Did we mention Gemini AI yet? Chill the f- out.

Look i own and use VR-Headset for 6 years now. I follow the subject since the Oculus DK1 was first announced. I like the tech. But there is nothing coming from either Google nor Samsung which makes me excited for the future of AndroidXR. Because i tried to work with a VR Headset. My current one has enough pixel density, pancake lenses and is consired one of the most comfortable on the market. Its utter shit. Waving your hands around in a 3D space isnt a good UX for 90% of the time. Having a device strapped to your head isnt comfortable. Battery life of like 2 hours is a joke if you want to get shit done. Having a cable strapped to your head mounted device for added battery life is even worse. Do you remember how we all happily traded our audio devices for wireless ones because its soooo much more comfortable? Yeah… The resolution still isnt great enough to combat eyestrain over long periods of time. The list goes on. Sure there are obviously some usecases where hmds can provide a real benefit. But for now most stuff is pretty niche. But i’m pretty sure circling your hands in the air so you can ask a LLM about the shoes your wearing isnt solving problems we encounter in our worklife. As a life style product? Give me some fucking entertainment, man? But not a single word about that so far.

Then have you tried to actually work with Android? I tried it several times with the desktop modes like DEX or Ready For… Its not great for abundance of reasons.

Then there is no confidence in google left. Like we all know they will kill off AndroidXR in 4 years. If not before that. If you could bet on it the quotes would be so bad it would probably better to just invest the money in s&p500.

Also i see no attempts at establishing an open plattform like android used to be. Every big corp wants to be the monopoly holder of a closed gardedn of the next big tech revolution. So they can pump ads directly into our eyeballs. Fuck this shit.