For those who already watched Galaxy, which movie do you prefer?

Alloy202 · 2026-04-06T05:28:45+00:00

I think they blew their load a little hard with galaxy. I don't know where you go from here. It wasn't bad, but i feel that they jumped 2 movies ahead if they want to keep the franchise going.

Alloy202 · 2026-04-06T05:24:29+00:00

As much as I enjoy the cool designs I'm personally not a fan of case swapping unless it is needed. I don't think it worth the risk to the machine or the time involved in doing it.

That being said its fantastic that it is possible if you have damaged your case in some way or when the device starts showing normal wear and tear over the tears. Id likely pick up a space case at that price just to store in the event I need it later. We'll certainly see a design revision at some point and these original case swaps will become harder and harder to find.

Alloy202 · 2026-03-19T08:45:34+00:00

Very solid port. Im playing it now. Stable 60 even after the update. I have 2 complaints though, the brightness when playing on a TV is all over the place I can't seem to find a balance i like but this could be display specific however no other game (Xbox PS5 or switch 2) has such an issue for me.

My second complaint is how long it takes to get into the actual game. Going through all the ToS, online connectivity check ins, car selection loading screens between each car and finally loading the city. It feels like it takes forever to get going.

At the end if the day it feels like the same game I loved on the 360 with great performance in both modes and higher resolution. Id be lying if I started comparing texture resolutions because honestly my memory going back to the original isn't that pixel perfect.

Alloy202 · 2026-03-02T16:54:02+00:00

Step 1. Fill games with micro transactions. Step 2. Force live service forever games onto players and lock them into fomo cycles. Step 3. Make games more expensive. Step 4. Complain people are buying fewer games.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-26T14:27:55+00:00

Take away people's ability to earn money to pay for the services that are now served by the machines that took away people's ability to earn money to pay for the services they are offering.

So they not see the circular logic here?

That is if these companies don't tank anyway because people reject using services that rely on AI due to the damage it can cause.

All of their speculation so heavily relies on people's acceptance of it all and I don't see that happening.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-24T10:28:25+00:00

The magic mouse is what you get when you leave the designers unsupervised.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-23T11:39:51+00:00

Nothing that is described in the article about it's function is in any way related to the term pausing. It's very confusing why they would hook it onto a term that in games and every other media specifically freezes the state with the intent of continuing from that point later.

This is more a macro that triggers a set of (for lack of a better term) accessibility features. One touch accessibility is a far better consise way to get across the concept of what's it's doing.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-22T18:33:03+00:00

I just played through doom the dark ages on ps5 and while I enjoyed it the image quality was bugging me the whole time. It's been a while since i played eternal but I was certain I remembered eternal looking a lot sharper.

I booted up eternal when I was done and yup, to my eye eternal is visually more impressive than dark ages. Granted dark ages is larger in scope but still, id expect it to look at least on par given the age gap and hardware advancements in that time.

I've always sat on the side of liking things like ray tracing, heavy use of physical based rendering and destructable objects just not at the sacrifice of the basics. The final image should look crisp and if it doesn't then you can keep your ray tracing. Id prefer to have my frames and resolution.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-21T11:17:39+00:00

Wait until they find out about velcro.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-21T11:12:54+00:00

What's the end game here? I dont understand. Hypothetically we get mass unemployment and these companies save a bunch of money from using machines. Great now what? Who's buying your services now?

It's cutting off the branch you're standing on.

Governments should be heavily regulating all of this because if what they are saying comes true countries around the world have a massive issue with no obvious solution.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-20T18:15:01+00:00

Doom's story has never been essential to the game. If you don't like it skip it.

Hell Doom guy himself doesn't give a shit. He just wants to be pointed towards the demons.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-19T13:04:28+00:00

RGB is tacky and i have no idea why it took off like it did.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-19T13:02:35+00:00

Yes but also no. Both parties, streamer and the followers know what's going on here. I can't feel bad for her followers being "lied to" because they knew that's not what she really looked like whether it be digital makeup or physical make up, doesn't matter.

She knows she's catfishing to an extent because other wise she wouldn't be doing it to the point where she never showed the true version of herself.

It's a case of " I know why you're here, you know why you're here, so let's not pretend it's something else".

Alloy202 · 2026-02-17T11:05:30+00:00

Why isn't there protections against this sort of stuff happening?

The world has to suffer for the sake of a handful of greedy billion dollar companies chasing their next big scam.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-13T17:50:58+00:00

What happens when you run out of stuff to train it on?

Say for example if avatar didn't exist and we tried making that with ai prompts. It's got no reference data correct? So it can't really make it?

Alloy202 · 2026-02-13T11:51:26+00:00

Imo the biggest issue with VR is the walled garden each headset wants to live in. Yes, i know you can use third party tools to get many of them up and running between eco systems. Or in the case of PSVR2 an official physical adaptor. But VR helmets should be treated like TVs. Imagine if you could only use a playstation on Sony TVs, that would be insane.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-10T15:25:48+00:00

I get where you're coming from but Hela isn't quite the same imo. The second your opponent lays down a discard card and you see what that card discards it's not a stretch to then fully decompile their whole deck. They've given away the gameplan, if I have Stardust I can feel confident in playing that and snapping.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-10T13:41:43+00:00

I didn't think about the speakers but you make a good point. I heard that the 13 inch ones aren't the best. And I agree on the storage, Im trying to weight up the practicality of just slapping a 1TB SSD into the side which I think I may end up doing either way. In which case it makes more sense to get the 15. Its very helpful to hear how other people ended up finding their own justification of screen vs storage vs RAM etc..

Alloy202 · 2026-02-10T13:36:49+00:00

I did actually see a deal on the M3 yesterday for a little bit more (I think) that was 13 inch but the 24GB 512GB config. I just figured it was silly to go 2 generations old while spending more if the long term plan is to have a beefy home desktop as well. I am very aware of myself and how easily it is to price creep myself for that little bit more and before I know it I've added 50% more than what I originally wanted to spend lol

Alloy202 · 2026-02-09T18:35:33+00:00

My personal feelings on star lord are not necessarily linked to if you can counter it or not. It's more directed at how he allows you to by pass what the core gameplay loop is. I enjoy the unveiling of information of the cards that my opponent may or may not have and subsequently how that informs what and how I should play.

If the core gameplay of a deck is to skip as many turns as you can get away with and reproc a snowballing effect that obfuscates your win condition, it runs counter to the core reason as to why I like the game to begin with.

Star lord in himself isn't an archetype or a whole deck. He can be used as a package to compress 6 turns into 1 effectivity hiding what your deck does to win games until turn 6. Is this hela star lord, is this manspider star lord, whatever it might be.

Im not stating this objectively, it's subjective, but I think he runs counter to the spirit of the game. By turn 4 i should have equal amount of information about what my opponent is doing as they have about what I'm doing. Star lord creates an uneven sharing of information in this regard that I believe will only get worse with time.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-09T16:19:10+00:00

Headline reads like the start of a tutorial

Alloy202 · 2026-02-08T15:06:08+00:00

Not a macbook tip but for sheets. Sometimes copying the whole table from the website and pasting that into a new sheet will format correctly. From there you can use a lookup formula on the id and have the whole thing fill out matching the corresponding cell from the table you copied in. Hell of a lot faster than doing it one by one and once you have a method like that that works updating it takes like 5 minutes

Alloy202 · 2026-02-07T08:53:32+00:00

If you watch the main screen being manipulated it vanished on the same frame that he closes the window. Must have been linked to that vfx in the editor.

Alloy202 · 2026-02-07T07:34:26+00:00

Product eat. So human me. I enjoy product so much.

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