Plebcouncilman

Probably the same reason everyone doesn’t just talk English.

If you consider 10.99 (for criterion channel or other streaming platforms) too big a risk then the only option you leave open is piracy. All other options require you to spend money with the possibility that you might not like it.

Why do you call her Barbie? It implies that she’s hot but she’s not. I mean from afar she kinda looks hot I guess but once you close in she looks like a dried mango.

So when does the movie come out?

It’s most definitely not. The ROG Crate app is pretty good. And if you spend a few minutes setting up shortcuts, everything becomes a whole lot easier. But I basically never touch the windows layer on my ally anyways.

Every time I read a take like this I remember that quote about people being able to see the end of the world but not the end of capitalism. Why are we worried about an economic crisis instead of imagining a post scarcity world in which we automate all labor? Maybe I’ve got too much of an optimist in me.

I saw the Netflix series and the first season was amazing, like one of my favorite TV series ever so definitely will check it out. Sad that the second season was so… stale I guess? I think Anthony Mackey is just not a very good lead actor.

That depends a lot on what you’re playing and what your expectations are. I use my Ally to play older games and indies and I feel like it’s great for that. AAA experiences I play on my Xbox Series X.

I have a friend who’s had every handheld and he says they all suck, but he’s expecting to play stuff like COD at high settings and 60fps. That’s just not realistic.

But again I’m coming from growing up with gameboys and Nintendo DS so I don’t have the expectations that someone who grew up in the HD generation might have.

I think a lot of the hype is because it’s the first of its genre. It does for cyberpunk what LOTR did for Fantasy I guess and in that regard I can understand the hype.

Also he’s very good at using simile and metaphors to give a feel to the world and to kind of separate the genre from science fiction. He does some nice things by describing organic stuff using artificial qualities. Like of course you have the iconic “The sky above the port was the color of TV tuned to a dead channel”. But then there’s this other part where Case takes this potent drug and the description is something like his bones became chrome under silicone or something along those lines that I thought was awesome. But the plot itself gets lost in all these very vivid descriptions and how he literally moves from one scene to the next without anything indications.

Neuromancer.

I loved Cyberpunk 2077 and everyone keeps saying that it’s a rehash of Neuromancer so I had to give it a go.

I’m enjoying it but I feel like I might need to read this more than once, the writer’s style is strange to say the least and I feel like I’m never quite understanding what’s going on. I’m not finished but so far I think Cyberpunk’s plot hits harder, but that’s probably because I’m a brainlet maybe.

Also slowly working through Prologomena For Any Future Metaphysics. I’m trying to read Marx but to read Marx I need to read Hegel and you can’t read Hegel without reading Kant so here I am.

I bought mine used with the SD card slot busted and I still think it’s great. Maybe because I didn’t pay 600 bucks for it!Definitely my favorite handheld ever.

I think the Steam Deck is pretty neat and I love the design of the device itself (I am not enthusiastic about the Ally’s L337G4mer aesthetics, and even less so with the monstrosity above), but for me not having access to Gamepass is a deal breaker so I’d never consider it. Maybe when I fully jump into PC gaming sometime soon I’ll switch my tune. But I digress. Other than the SD issue I’ve found that the ROG Ally is a very capable device and I have seen no other issues with it to be honest. The software it comes with is actually pretty good and makes it so that you don’t have to deal with Windows almost at all. The coolest thing is that you can dock it and you basically have a mid end workstation too.

My fist handheld was the Gameboy Color so it just boggles my mind how far we’ve come.

What do you mean? The ROG Ally has been successful. It’s a great device.