$5. Not that costly at all. They do filter a bit anyway:

The longer timeframe also allows us to do some extra validation on the signups to make sure they’re real accounts, with only one per household.

Not giving away criteria for this is a good thing.

Yes, that’s why you cannot ever stop scalping. However I believe there’s enough data for Valve to prioritise real customers, the first batches could be quietly sent that way.

I also don’t think scalping is that big of an issue here, the lottery system is mainly to stop the first come, first serve FOMO and panic, rather than scalper protection. It’s just blown out of proportion because the products are in high demand and low stock, so people wanna point fingers somewhere. There’s never that many listings for scalped products versus how many are actually sold.

Valve’s words about the lottery:

The longer timeframe also allows us to do some extra validation on the signups to make sure they’re real accounts, with only one per household.

Hopefully they are taking more into account than we think.

The accounts have been created and used a long time ago.

Hey, but something similar to that would actually work best.

They have data to see that someone has bought Valve hardware and used it in the past. It would stop most scalping, obviously impossible to stop it completely, but that would feel more fair than a lottery that a scalper could win anyway.

Any accounts that bought a Valve Index and then never even used it would be immediately blacklisted and accounts that did use it would be eligible to purchase the Frame. People would be angry that certain accounts got benefits then instead of scalping, so you can literally never win when selling highly-anticipated, low volume products

You should have to download it is the point. It shouldnt come in the base browser package. Its bloat.

Isn’t there supposed to be a one click disagree to all button, legally? Or did I misunderstand that law?

Those content with the genocide deserve the same fate as the ones committing it. Fuck you Ed Sheeran.

Fuck you too, you are supporting far worse damage than you think. And no, that is by your extrapolated logic, not mine.

These glasses are not designed for the visually impaired.

Or we can just not have these or AI and survive just as we have. We dont need screens strapped to our faces, we use them too much as it is.

There’s already options for visually impaired and we do not need AI sunglasses.

Dont expect the pro-AI crowd to have any reasoning capacity. The only argument they have for AI is “I’m lazy”.

They said they are not subsidizing any of the new hardware.

Maybe when they are cheap and durable, but until then, completely off the table for >99% of the market. But as they are right now, there will just be a niche.

Kojima isn’t much different, sure he loves making games, but he will happily see you part with your money. Sony and the media just turned him into some kind of legend and developed a cult following around him. His games are what you said, his and his teams art, but they don’t live up to the hype and anticipation the media generates. They would be well suited as self-published niche games, rather than forced AAA titles.

There is a third option.

I wouldn’t want to keep feeding Kojima millions upon millions for his vanity projects either, to be honest.

Strange that Xbox decided to pay up.

Also, they are worse phones. The flip style makes more sense as a foldable. I don’t think there will ever be much market for them.

Yea but BG3 was highly marketed and anticipated, whereas this will be the first time many are hearing of Nighthawks.

Valve should treat all games equally. So this is just favoritism bullshit.

I’ve never heard being close as an issue, I can’t see any problems from distance myself. They just have really bad viewing angles, so yeah if you are slightly off angle to it, the edges start to fade. My IPS experience was horrible though, tried a few and the blacklight bleed/IPS glow is just horrendous. I use dark mode on everything, so there’s no avoiding seeing it. OLED gave me eye strain and burn-in isn’t something want to deal with (the monitors just become ewaste after a couple years). So… here we are with the good ol’ TN panel.

Fascism grows in silence, it should be combatted. If fascism is all people see, it becomes normalised. It wasn’t defeated in the past by people doing nothing.

Well there’s other downsides to it, but IPS glow is it’s only defect.

Severe enough that it renders the monitor unusable. Even if you win the “IPS lottery”, there’s still some and I can’t understand willingly buying something that looks broken. TN is definitely king still, even with the worse viewing angles, but like who uses their monitor from 45 degrees.