I’m seriously considering moving back with my parents and taking my equity out in cash. My home has doubled in value, but maintenance is too high, taxes are too high, insurance is absurd and a complete scam…it’s a nightmare. Nothing like what my mom described for her first home when she was younger than me.
It’s depressing despite being able to say I’m a homeowner.
I always go for 720 or 1080 despite having decent 4K TVs. My reasoning is file size too but because I don’t have a ton of space to spare for all the stuff I want to store. I have about 2TB left but that’s going to get used up eventually.
There are some things I’ll go for the high quality stuff like Super Mario Bros which looks amazing but that’s rare for me.
30GB for one movie is nuts.
I’m really hoping so. I feel bad for players with the older headsets. It didn’t inspire confidence in me as a Quest 2 owner and it made me rethink an upgrade to a newer headset. I may be in the minority, but I like keeping older hardware/consoles as long as I can even if it comes at a cost to performance. I’d rather be the judge of when I need something better.
I’m wondering how and why they made those changes after leaning more into open source and with third party headsets set to release soon.
Speaking as a Quest 2 owner, most games on there feel overpriced. Combine that with how Meta treats older hardware and you can safely guess that many players are probably not feeling confident buying games on that storefront anymore.
Meta recently made developers not allow new updates or installs for older headsets which effectively locks games you paid for away from you being able to play them unless you buy a newer Meta headset.
Conversely, you buy it on Steam where the prices don’t seem to be nearly as much in some cases too, and you can use it with nearly any PC VR headset and they don’t limit it only to newer headsets. Games I buy on Steam feel like mine and I actually have long term access to them. The Meta store’s versions feel like a long term rental situation, as long as I keep buying the newer headsets which is not feasible.
The only benefits of buying on the Meta store is that it can be taken on the go and doesn’t require a PC to play.
Another streaming service that was never needed and shocking going to cost more because the parent company is fucking stupid and greedy as usual.
Damn, I was feeling a little pre-nostalgic for that era.
Goats will eat everything and still look for more to eat.
Neighbors on both sides of us had goats when I was younger and their backyards were always dry, dirt deserts with only one particular flower they’d never touch because it was poison. Even trees weren’t spared as far as the goat could stand on its hind legs or could pull down.
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The screenshots and video on the Steam page doesn’t go into the detail of what you can do when it comes to controlling your Sim-like characters. But this video shows more of that aspect of the game https://youtu.be/BEys39TsRdw?si=t3HU3vFlNO9q0O0T
Granted, it’s a lot of games in one like other top down tycoon manager games and has some elements of tower defense.
Most recent, but not the absolute worst, was ripping my pants at work. I bent down to pick something up and heard the rip. It was over my crotch region too. Thankfully I had boxers on but was still pretty embarrassed.
Thankfully my boss was cool about it and I just drove over to Costco down the street and got a new pair and changed in the back of my car. He make a joke when I got back which was fine.
Space Colony is an older game that was like Sims in space. I got this at Big Lots years ago and played some of it and apparently this is the remastered version on Steam.
Not to mention it was a smart home with all kinds of AI minus the “artificial” part of AI.
Users in my org will fail the test email and then report the email telling them they failed 🤷♂️
I’m in the same boat as you. I print what we call “functional prints”, things that are tools that aid you in your everyday life than the little toys and other knick-knacks. Not to put down anyone who does print those, it’s just not my thing personally.
I had success with a used printer many years ago. I traded a guy my old Xbox One for his XYZ da Vinci Pro that was pretty pricey at well over $500. He said it didn’t work but parts for it were available directly from the manufacturer and it ended up just needing a replacement extruder for $90 and worked just fine after that. I’ve since made many modifications to it.
Used printers can be easy to come by depending on your location or if you choose online like eBay, and ones that are listed as broken can be fixed if you know what you’re doing and looking for. That was not my first printer but my third so I was aware of how these things worked and what issues might be present and how they would be fixed.
You may have similar luck but being new to the hobby, may not since you’re not as familiar with the process and how they operate. So you may want to stick to buying used in a known working condition.
But you can still get good deals on a used printer that does work and without the hassle of having to put it together like you do with some printers you buy new. But I think having to put it together can be beneficial as it helps you understand how the printer was put together and how you can take it apart if need be.
Most printers will last you a long time but you will need to replace parts on them as time goes on and it’s not uncommon for you to add new features to them over time as well. I’d say they’re more comparable to a house than a car. A car is only really good until 100k miles and then starts to break down and a house is similar, but usually lasts a lifetime as you make major repairs and make upgrades to keep it lasting. But being a 3D printer, we can sometimes print replacement parts in expectation of repairs and new upgrades, so it’s not all always as bad as it sounds.
As for specific recommendations…I’m largely happy with my decade old printer but the market has vastly changed and there are much better ones on the market so I wouldn’t recommend my XYZ da Vinci Pro to you (there are other issues with that printer too that have only gotten worse with time due to the way it was made) and I’ve since moved from FDM to SLA printing which I don’t recommend SLA for beginners or those not printing for things like miniature figures and models, so I’ll leave specific recommendations to others here.
In case you don’t know, FDM is the more traditional type of printing you’ve probably seen where it extrudes plastic onto a build plate to form the 3D object. SLA uses liquid resin in a vat and lasers to form the 3D object in that vat to stick to a build plate but upside down. SLA is more toxic and requires more safety attention on the user’s part and the printers and resin are more expensive and tricky, needing more post processing on prints than the FDM style but results come out looking more finished and layers are less noticeable. They are generally smaller and usually used by people who are printing small models like a Warhammer/Dungeons and Dragons figure. I don’t recommend it for your use case, but if you are curious, I have an Elegoo Saturn.
It’s not Lemmy as far as I know, but Dread is an onion site like that other site we don’t mention.
Probably because it adds something to the game that is unexpected and creates dialogue around this.
Kind of like that Dune popcorn bucket. They absolutely knew what they were doing. Everything on the internet is sexualized to death.
It’s just that CP77 was really poorly received on launch, too much so, that no one made memes about it because people were too busy memeing the horrible performance of the game. But had the launch gone successfully, guaranteed it would have been memed to death and talked about for a long while.
Sounds easier to list what you can do there.
I worked with adults with developmental disabilities in my early adult life, specifically those with behavioral issues and some with gang affiliations (some of them may have been on the spectrum or may not have but used our program as a way out of jail/prison).
I got punched in the chest, spit in the face, threatened with stabbing, and more. I’m sure at some point I was either slapped or punched in the face too.
I’m not sure about that. Index fans are still waiting for the sequel to their hardware.
I wonder if Gabe/Valve is content with the OLED model as is and doesn’t find a reason to make another so soon.