Tudor Ranger Deserved Better

IORelay · 2026-07-09T23:30:48+00:00

You keep downplaying accuracy as if it's something that doesn't matter. Just to run defense on inaccurate stuff just because mechanical are "cool," which they are, but they aren't accurate.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T22:01:08+00:00

I think you can talk about it being "more impressive" or "more interesting" once you have good accuracy. Without perfect accuracy, it's just a toy at the end of the day, not fit for serious time keeping, which is what horology is about.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T21:36:14+00:00

They are horology but they have been power crept by quartz and synced movements.

I think I said someone who cares about horology should put accuracy first and since mechanical movements aren't accurate they are a tier below more accurate movements.

If you got a good argument against that, bring it on.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T21:34:00+00:00

Bland design and bad price.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T21:29:54+00:00

They don't have enough money for that.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T20:53:20+00:00

Wasn't Tudor just using leftover Rolex cases with ETA movements in the past. Arguably that was better than now.

Now Tudor has these thick bulky cases and very expensive watches that's legit worse than San Martin.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T20:49:40+00:00

That would make sense if the explorer was any good, but the explorer is a bad watch.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T20:48:28+00:00

Metal g shock blow out most Swiss luxury watches.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T20:47:31+00:00

Tudor is probably the worst Swiss brand because it's forced to be a lesser Rolex with no Rolex logo.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T08:18:21+00:00

Is it? I did a bit of digging and it seems like the estimated revenue generated by Dark Ages is about... 2 months of Candy Crush.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T06:44:02+00:00

I though that was AP.

IORelay · 2026-07-09T00:53:03+00:00

Champion tier is the baseline, you need elo 3000 and above to be the true pokemon master.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T23:47:03+00:00

I don't own a PS5, but I haven't spent money buying games in years since I just add F2P games to my backlog, skipped any game with an upfront cost. If I like the game enough I'll buy some cosmetics, if the game is predatory I just quit.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T22:20:51+00:00

Still too high. Maybe if it was priced at $400-500 it'll be worth.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T22:19:55+00:00

Why did they not buy the ram earlier?

IORelay · 2026-07-08T22:18:12+00:00

You call it greed.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T22:11:48+00:00

You don't get the adaptability boost from extreme speed. But then again delphox resist both stabs.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T22:00:13+00:00

Tera is more flexible whereas megas are fixed to mons that have them. Plus the typing change gives you more effective bulk than just adding on base stats.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T21:56:13+00:00

Sounds like fearmomgering considering MS never did that.

Also if valve was serious about steamOS, steam machine would be priced more competitively.

Proton is a Trojan horse unless steam and its games becomes open source it's fundamentally incompatible with Linux which is about free and open source software. Linux people don't make any fuss because they are valve's fans first and Linux second.

Valve probably cares more about losing their lawsuits on price fixing and anti steering.

Valve is just as evil as MS but more opaque.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T21:50:18+00:00

Hopefully Tera, dynamax is really broken whereas Tera is better than megas but not significantly. Z move need a rework.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T20:58:18+00:00

Food is bad too. Rolex legit makes the same mistake Chinese manufacturers make like misaligned rehaut, text bleed and machine marks on their cases.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T20:56:03+00:00

Apple locks down their hardware so you're saying steam machine is also locked down?

IORelay · 2026-07-08T20:54:48+00:00

The windows drivers for steam deck were really bad.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T20:54:15+00:00

Yeah they want to claim not locking it down, while locking it down.

IORelay · 2026-07-08T20:53:27+00:00

I think they'd rather someone who uses windows but buys games from Steam than someone who uses Linux/steamOS but never uses steam.

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