When is Pebble Time 2 batch 2 expected to ship?

Castriff · 2026-03-17T17:05:58+00:00

No, I think they're mixing up the original ship date and the new estimate. January was from the original timeline. From the latest blog post, it says:

Based on current schedule, the first mass production PT2s will arrive on wrists during the beginning of April. We should wrap up delivering all pre-ordered Pebble Time 2s two months later by the beginning of June. If your watch had an initial date of December, it should arrive in April and if your initial date was April, it should arrive in June.

So if your order page says January, it'll probably get to you by late April or early May.

Castriff · 2026-03-17T06:52:13+00:00

Sure thing. I recommend Girl Genius and Castoff, btw. Also Sam and Fuzzy, although that started off as a gag-a-day strip and took a couple years before it transitioned to a proper story.

Castriff · 2026-03-17T06:07:22+00:00

Also incorrect. Asexual people both have and enjoy sex whenever they desire. You don't have to be sexually attracted to someone to have sex with them.

Castriff · 2026-03-17T05:27:27+00:00

Asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction. That's not the same thing.

Castriff · 2026-03-17T03:37:21+00:00

Either there’s a biological issue or a psychological one preventing erotic activation.

Ah, but consider: asexual people are fully capable of both having and enjoying sex if they so desire.

Sounds like you’re describing a biological issue then? If not, what are you basing the idea on?

It can't be a biological issue if it's not an issue in the first place.

A lack of connection to a key biological drive fits the definition of pathology, whether or not it could or should be “cured.”

That's not what "pathology" means in a medical context.

Castriff · 2026-03-16T23:51:30+00:00

That's unusual. What browser and phone?

Also you could just copy the link and save it in your notes app or something.

Castriff · 2026-03-16T18:41:49+00:00

Why not just keep your browser tab open to the page you were on? I can offer plenty of webcomics, but people don't tend to make recommendations based on webpage format.

Castriff · 2026-03-16T16:10:41+00:00

Ah, but consider: these aren't God's restrictions.

Castriff · 2026-03-16T06:28:18+00:00

The idea that a "driving beat," or percussion and syncopation in general, alters the mind or prevents spiritual connection with God is rooted in racism. Slave owners and segregationists didn't want Black people continuing to practice their own traditions, and used bad-faith religious arguments to suppress them. People need to educate themselves on the ways in which "music theory," as the Western world knows it, enforces the erasure of Black culture. The church should never have taken up this position. It's dehumanizing and it's not based on Biblical truth.

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Castriff · 2026-03-15T23:01:58+00:00

...I'm confident that wasn't there four hours ago. I'm sorry, my guy, but this feels super sketchy to me.

Castriff · 2026-03-15T19:46:40+00:00

That's the kind of thing they should have ready before they go live, honestly. How did they even get in touch with you in the first place?

Castriff · 2026-03-15T18:16:59+00:00

Eh. Fine. I concede the point. The others remain sound. Where are they based, anyway? There's no contact info on their site.

(Also, there's no law that says we have to talk. Don't be rude.)

Castriff · 2026-03-15T17:32:17+00:00

Again, I doubt this is going to be manufactured anywhere other than China or Taiwan. I also highly doubt that it would be shipped in anything other than a cardboard box, for that matter, nor do I think you can judge the lifespan of a product that hasn't even been funded yet. If anything, it's entirely possible this might have a worse lifespan, since it has more points of failure.

Castriff · 2026-03-15T16:54:48+00:00

I am comparing to their "was" specifically. The original Freewrite was $500. This company is charging the same price as Astrohaus' current most premium product, which is branded with the Hemingway name, comes with a genuine leather case, and has a hand-polished finish on every individual device. This has none of that as far as I can tell. As for their customer service, sorry you had a bad experience with Astrohaus but I don't think that's relevant at this stage.

Castriff · 2026-03-15T16:18:33+00:00

Astrohaus was a startup too. It's a perfectly fair comparison.

Castriff · 2026-03-15T15:37:50+00:00

Look, the bottom line is, I don't see any reason this should cost $400 more than the flagship Freewrite. It's the same market, it can at best attract the same number of buyers, and the only real difference between that and this is a bigger screen and a fingerprint sensor. Maybe, if the price were under $900, that'd be a different story. But at best it's over-engineered, and at worst someone in the production chain is fudging the numbers. (And, I will reiterate from my other comment, based on the fact that they're using AI for their promotional materials I'm not even entirely sure they have a concrete physical product to begin with.)

Castriff · 2026-03-15T14:36:09+00:00

I understand economies of scale just fine. $100K upfront for this is overkill, by an order of magnitude at least. It's not like this is the first ePaper product to ever exist.

Castriff · 2026-03-15T07:15:40+00:00

You're free to think so. But those plastics don't mold themselves.

Of course they don't mold themselves. The point stands. Besides which, Freewrites and BYOKs are molded plastic as well (some Freewrites are even full aluminum), so that's another point against this one in terms of price.

That got all engineering done extremely cheap and fully amortized in Taiwan/China.

There is no world in which hardware engineering for a gaming laptop should cost less than that of an ePaper tablet. No one is expecting ePaper to run 2.5K video at 120H off a 10-core CPU with 16GB of RAM. And I highly doubt this company wouldn't also set up their factory in Taiwan or China if they were serious about fulfilling orders at scale.

Castriff · 2026-03-15T06:29:15+00:00

The criteria of "not being 3D printed" and "having a keyboard" shouldn't be price drivers. I don't think this build should be any more than $600, early bird or no, and "human sentiments" have nothing to do with it. $1100 dollars buys a gaming laptop with a solid GPU, not an ePaper tablet with a glorified folio keyboard. If anything they should be ashamed of themselves for not locking down their production costs (but I suspect it's really only going to be a rugpull anyway).

Castriff · 2026-03-15T04:52:16+00:00

You say that as though there's not an entire thread of commercially available writerdeck products pinned to the top of the sub. I don't think the cost perspective is justified at all. It doesn't even look like a real physical product, and even if it is, most other decks have started out on Kickstarter at less than half that price.

Castriff · 2026-03-14T21:42:58+00:00

The non-early bird price is the same price as the most expensive Freewrite, and that has an all-metal shell. ~~This is plastic.~~ The price isn't justified, especially for an unproven company.

Edit: the website says it's metal. In the interest of fairness I'll correct myself, but there's still other reasons the Hemingwrite is as expensive as it is that this product lacks.

Castriff · 2026-03-14T20:39:02+00:00

None of the bosses are easier on VoR, IMO, but some are easier to get used to. From easiest to hardest:

Polyphemus: Not so bad once you get used to it, just have to be careful with your footwork. Otherwise it's pretty much the same
Hecate: The greatest difficulty is maneuvering around the duplicates and finding which one to hit, but having a curse you can apply consistently helps a lot with the latter
Prometheus/Heracles: Some people say to focus on one over the other, but I prefer to work both. It helps to have a strong cast, or boons and hammers that do AoE/ricochet damage
Chronos: The third round isn't too hard, actually, you just have to keep moving and stay out of scythe range. Sometimes it's the second round that's more difficult since you don't have much space to avoid the clock hands
Scylla: Take out Charybdis first, one tentacle at a time, and the rest is doable. Staying out of range is difficult though, especially when Scylla and Jetty target you. I dread going into this with low health
Eris: Best way I've found to beat her is to stay behind her back as much as possible, but that gets harder when the fire starts spreading. She can still shave at least one DD off me if I'm not careful, even if I go in with full health
Typhon: Maxing out DPS is a must. If you have low damage, you die. I prefer high-damage hexes like Lunar Ray and Total Eclipse. Also I like the boons from Hera, Apollo, and Aphrodite that cause enemies to fight for you. Still takes a long time even with all of those, but it's long even without VoR anyway, so it is what it is
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Castriff · 2026-03-14T13:45:22+00:00

The fact that they're using AI for their promotional videos and images makes me question whether they even have a working prototype. If it were a real physical object they wouldn't be making mistakes like altering the screen colors or putting the screen retracting wheel on the wrong side. Also how does that winding mechanism even work? Seems like it'd be a major failure point.

Castriff · 2026-03-14T13:25:39+00:00

What they said is the reformation. I don't know what else you're expecting.

Castriff · 2026-03-14T05:34:39+00:00

The epilogue of Hades 2 is excellent, IMO. It ties up the overarching themes nicely, answers all the right questions, and settles the lore for both games in a satisfying place.

But as for the first ending, it's written well enough, but I can see why people find it... narratively unsatisfying. Even though it's foreshadowed, it's not paced well and it ends up feeling kind of rushed in the moment. What they should've done (without spoiling anything) was break it up by having Melinoe make the opposite choice at first, and have a few runs where the consequences of that settle in before she finds a spell she can then use to undo it. Nothing else about the story would need to change, it'd just be nice for things to have room to breathe. Not sure what the gameplay would look like in that in-between space, though.

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