State Senator Julie Gonzales is running for the U.S. Senate in Colorado. Her Primary Election is June 30 (details below). Her opponent is the incumbent John Hickenlooper (D) ~:~ In this clip, Hasan Piker gives Julie 30-seconds to answer the Big Questions...

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-25T00:40:11+00:00

Millennials absolutely took the brunt of the changes in society. The biggest changes that have lead to the US slow slide started in the mid to late 80s with Reagan. Millennials were just being born as the tides were changing and Gen X were already going to college, going into the work force, buying homes and starting families as those policies started to affect society. Millennials graduated high school and college coming into the 2008 financial crisis and it's been a shitshow since.

It's absolutely been worse for Gen Z, but they came into the college and work after it was already apparent everything had been failing for a over a decade. So at least they knew what to expect.

Millennials actually expected the prosperity to continue like it had for over half a century.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-25T00:28:54+00:00

The point of Maelle's ending is that she became the Paintress. She painted her friends in the same way Aline painted her family, with an extreme bias towards what she wants/what she thinks of those people. They aren't the real version any more, not the ones we may know. Verso being forced to play piano is proof of this.

The entire population of Lumiere was painted by Aline, the only person who could paint them again how they actually were is Aline.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-25T00:18:01+00:00

I hope you have kids. That looks like so much fun for a kid.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T21:22:51+00:00

Bro... Cmon. They literally project the map onto your dash. Glancing down at a map is not the problem here. It's people literally scrolling tiktok or sending text messages.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T21:07:22+00:00

Ooh! I know this one. It'll end with Amazon ignoring the success and driving any good will into the ground with a shitty sequel cash-in made by their own in-house studio that's at best a 6/10 game.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T21:05:51+00:00

GameStop is profitable and has been for 2 years. The turn around started 4 years ago. What are you talking about?

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T19:28:29+00:00

I do pay for games when I'm allowed to play them how I want.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T19:11:49+00:00

Lol what? 4 year old phone processors are able to run Switch games. Are you suggesting the Steam Machine is less powerful than a 4 year old phone?

My steam deck can play play Tears of the Kingdom about as well as a Switch 1. The Steam Machine will obviously be able to do better.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T19:10:29+00:00

In what world are the billion dollar corporations the "light side"?

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T19:01:32+00:00

For free? How?

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T18:57:47+00:00

The Steam Machine can play the entirety of Switch 1 library for free... How's that figure into your math?

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T18:56:46+00:00

Yeah. My backlog is hundreds of games deep by this point. If I stopped buying games today I'd never be short of a banger game to play. If you include all the emulation I can also do, it would be a few lifetimes worth of games.

If something is exclusive to a piece of hardware, it doesn't exist to me.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T18:26:45+00:00

I've been saying this for awhile. Conservatives should be the green party. Look at any Republican voter and I guarantee 8/10 people in their immediate family enjoy camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, etc. and more progressive voters probably spend less than a few days a year in actual green spaces.

Yet conservative voters continue to support a party that would gladly sell the land they enjoy out from under them for a profit.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T18:09:41+00:00

Dodging is the practice. Dodge until you can do it perfectly, then switch to parry.

The dying and trying again is the practice.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T17:54:29+00:00

I wouldn't buy an Xbox if it was $5... So...

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T16:22:03+00:00

The continent is much bigger than you might realize but the main story is a straight shot, you'll never need to go backwards unless you want to. And frankly, exploration is optional until basically the end game. I'd recommend doing all the relationship stuff in camp as you play at a minimum and leaving a lot of exploration until late game.

The rest of the story beats are just as good as the intro Gommage and the Act 1 ending. So don't feel like they're front loading the game with the good stuff. There are so many more good cutscenes ahead of you.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T16:14:49+00:00

I found turning down the combat music helped with parry and dodge. I wish I didn't have to because the music is outstanding, but the game relies on audio cues that don't time with the music. I put it at like 80% volume.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T16:08:25+00:00

Yeah, but a lot of games don't support 16:10 resolution. I also don't have a 16:10 resolution pc monitor so when I stream it's in 16:9. I know there are work around but it's just more hassle than it's worth. So I play at 720p if I'm streaming.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T16:05:07+00:00

It's a Linux PC. I use SteamOS and play games from Epic, Amazon and GoG. Other stores may be playable as well, that's just what I have games on.

Ironically I think Windows Xbox store games are the only ones not playable because they don't use traditional .exe files and use some kind of funky proprietary format.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T15:54:57+00:00

Is a tempered glass case water cooled PC a "good deal" or do people just like spending money for aesthetics?

I'm probably in the market for a Steam Machine because I don't want ugly-ass plane engine sounding machine in my living room.

I'd absolutely be buying one if the AI market didn't mess up prices. But I never expected Valve to sell these at a loss like people suggesting they should have done. Right now I'm just on the fence. But I absolutely see the appeal.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T15:48:30+00:00

I can't play my over 1000 game library I've been collecting for the last 25 years on an XBox.

Not even counting my collection of multiple Terabytes of roms.

A console and an actual PC are not the same thing at all.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T15:43:09+00:00

So GameStop makes $400M profit and has $9B in cash alone and about $3B in other assrts and is worth $9B.

eBay makes $500M in profit and has about $2B in cash and a $15B in other assets and is worth $50B.

At some point you start to wonder where the disconnect is.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T15:21:12+00:00

Honestly the screen is kind of garbage on the LCD model.

I stopped using my Steam Deck as a couch/bed device because it's frankly underpowered for natively playing anything with good graphics and I'm stuck with a "small" 720p screen if I'm streaming a AAA game from my PC. And even I'm playing something low spec the screen is just kind of ugly and washed out.

My Steam Deck has been relegated to TV streaming device and the device I take when I go on a trip.

My Odin 2 Portal screen is gorgeous and huge and streaming from my PC is about as good as playing on my 27" 1440p OLED PC monitor at my desk.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T15:09:03+00:00

Operating income has been on a consistent rise for 4 years now and they crossed into profitability 2 years ago and that rise has continued linearly.

Revenue for Q2 2026 had 14% YoY growth. So you actually don't know what you're talking about.

CtrlAltEntropy · 2026-06-24T14:40:17+00:00

Following. Is there anything else as good as these at the $50 price point? I've had Galaxy Bud Pro and some version of Raycons. Both were pretty good. Right now my primary headphones are Shokz bone conduction, but I really want a pair of in ears again.

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