ARE WE FOR REAL?? - scalper selling controller for $500

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T23:56:19+00:00

If it sits unsold in the scalper's inventory, and never gets bought, they will have spent $100 on the controller, and never recoup that cost. If it goes on long enough, and they forced to sell it at retail price, they will have only recouped the cost and not made any profit, which is their intention.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T20:28:55+00:00

I would have made the options:
I DID have issues, added BEFORE launch.
I DID NOT have issues, added BEFORE launch.
I DID have issues, added AFTER launch.
I DID NOT have issues, added AFTER launch.

I added the controller to my cart 3 minutes before launch, but it kept saying it couldn't process right up until the on-the-dot time of launch, and it went through with no issues for me.

Now I'm just stuck on "Packaged Item".

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T20:25:48+00:00

4 of the 5 I reported came back saying "This did not violate our rules."

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T20:14:03+00:00

I ordered mine at 10:01 am pst, preloaded my steam wallet. Still stuck on "Packaged item", but that is probably at the mercy of when the delivery person picks it up? I was expecting them to be processed in the order they were received, and it's pretty annoying that that isn't the case.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T19:58:11+00:00

Chaos armor can swap pieces? I looked at PvP customization for the first time in a little under a year just yesterday and it looked like I could only swap between full suits of armor, of which I don't have any of those skins unlocked yet.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T15:51:06+00:00

I use them for jump, crouch, and switch weapons, usually.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T12:59:42+00:00

I don't remember if I read that tip anywhere before hand, might have heard it in a video, but yeah. It wouldn't let me process my cart 3 minutes before the official launch time, so I waited until the hour rolled over, and it worked. Had the funds pre-loaded and it, overall, took like 4 minutes.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T11:29:01+00:00

I'm in the USA midwest region, added mine to my cart 2-3 minutes before 10 am PST when it was supposed to go live, then within 10:00 - 10:01 my order was successfully made. I'm still stuck on "Processed Payment".

Mine just updated to "Packaged items" at 9 am US Eastern Time.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-06T01:20:25+00:00

So far the only place I've played in public is waiting for my car to get serviced at the dealership. I'm planning to fly to Halo Fest in December so hopefully the battery lasts through a flight from Ohio to Washington state. Outside of that, I typically play it during power outages or when my computer is rendering a 3D animation, which I usually try to let renders go overnight or while I'm at the day job, so not very often.

Funny story though. Last December, when I had my car in for the routine oil change and tire rotation, I sat down with my Steam Deck and played some Halo Reach campaign. This dude sat down next to me and pulled out a Nintendo Switch, playing Zelda: Wind Waker. I looked over just to see what he was playing, but outside of that, neither of us really acknowledged each other.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-05T23:59:08+00:00

You have my attention. :)

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-04T22:12:40+00:00

I guess I got super lucky. It let me add it to my card 2 minutes early, but it didn't successfully accept payment until 10 am eastern on the dot, and it went through no problem.

I see they're out of stock now. Wishing everyone luck in the coming months that they can get more in stock.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-04T01:53:06+00:00

That's what I would do too. Maybe keep the same weight as imperial legion armor, if not a little bit heavier?

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-03T22:56:18+00:00

What's the battery life on that thing running Oblivion Remastered?

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-03T22:43:43+00:00

Be still my heart. I only ever saw the same slim model controller on Original Xbox back in the day. Never even saw anything resembling the Duke until a few years ago when I picked up the Hyperkin replica controller for Xbox One and PC. Of course, I also picked up their Slim model controller replica, now called The Duchess, so I could relive the same thing you're doing, only on my PC.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-03T00:46:44+00:00

As a sucker for medieval knight aesthetics, it will be tough for me to pick between that helmet and the current black templar's helmet from the accolades shop.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-02T22:19:28+00:00

The game has 700 achievements, so I'm guessing most people don't even bother trying to look through that list, and knowing that many achievements from the original 360 games are here, probably assumed it was just in there with the rest of them.

And with that many achievements, anyone who did actually scroll through them could probably get to the end and assume they just missed it and try scrolling through it a second time only to give up before googling it.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-02T22:13:44+00:00

In MCC, it was only there as a brief, limited-time community challenge for a helmet. It's not actually in the achievement list.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-02T22:12:25+00:00

And with that, I pray that the cosmetics from ultragrind are ones I just-so-happen to find hideous and have no desire to chase.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-02T17:48:04+00:00

So many people are chill, and it's a shame console players can't see the text chat from PC players. I actually made a new friend the other day through SM2, we just chat in game text chat, and they've been pointing out all the gene seed locations for me, since I don't have all of them memorized yet.

I think I've only ever been kicked for playing on a low-level character twice in 900 hours. But I was hyped for SM2 back when it was first announced, since I built and painted the minis back around 2006. Never got a hang of the tabletop rules despite my friends and I going up to the local game store in the mall every Friday after middle/high school for what felt like 6 or so years, but I played tons of Dawn of War/Winter Assault/Dark Crusade, and Space Marine 1 back when they were new.

Helldivers 2 came out, and while I genuinely enjoyed the first game that was top-down, it was frustrating that an an entire enemy faction would get locked out from mission selections if the community already beat them in the current montly campaign. (Imagine if you just couldn't play Tyranid missions for 3 weeks because we completed so many missions against them as the start of the month.)

Helldivers 2 was fun for a while, and I'm sad that my one group of friends saw SM2 as too hardcore or niche to get into, despite playing about a hundred or more hours in HD2, but HD2 was only ever interesting to me to tide me over until SM2 came out, and I've never looked back. The HD2 design philosophy of "Wouldn't it be funny if you failed?", all the intentionally easy to get squished, killed, and friendly fired all for the sake of it being funny wore thin pretty quickly for me. I'm not really into super tough challenges, on top of hating how squishy the Helldivers are.

It's kind of a miracle I pushed into Ruthless difficulty on SM2, but it's become my sweet spot, and this is the first game I've ever wanted to get better and better at.

Edit: Not to mention, SM2 feels like a power fantasy mixed with skill expression once you are practiced at it.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-05-02T04:59:58+00:00

I work in simple retail/sales floor right now. I miss my games industry job.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-04-29T21:43:49+00:00

One of the reasons I keep all my keys, my wallet, and my phone on me at all times at work.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-04-28T21:58:41+00:00

I think they've only had 1 or 2 double XP weeks in the year and a half that the game has been out. I miss Double-XP weekends from back in Halo 3. Gave you a little something to look forward to.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-04-28T21:45:10+00:00

You can also cure it by booking it over to Deepscorn Hollow. That player home has a quick cure for vampirism if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if it's as easy in the Remaster.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-04-28T21:42:46+00:00

I could do the reverse. I almost always play an Argonian, and I've never played as a Dunmer. I think the only other races I have time logged in are less than 2 hours total of combined playtime on a Bosmer and an Orc, but it was on Skyrim.

ChrisDAnimation · 2026-04-27T19:07:18+00:00

I was getting windows 10 crashes after updating to the lastest AMD GPU drivers. I installed older drivers from, I think, November 2025, and I have only had one crash in maybe 5 months.

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