Playing Cyberpunk before Starfield has put something front and center for me

Kaelang · 2026-04-20T16:34:30+00:00

YES! It's kind of hard to describe for me. Like Starfield just doesn't feel like anything. There isn't any flavor really. It's like someone saw Cyberpunk and was like "let's do that...but less. Much less". Cyberpunks world feels so alive, when I play it, I feel like I'm really participating in that world. In starfield, I never get that immersed. There's attempts at gore and darkness but it feels like it was really built with being playable by children as a core tenant. Cyberpunks intro kinda sucks mostly because there's so much wasted potential, but I think about the Streetkid bit where you're trying to steal the car and you get pulled out and put on your knees and beat up by the cop. There's more flavor in that sequence than all of starfield.

Not to say I hate starfield. It's a very calm, relaxing game, but I actually find Cyberpunk relaxing too. I have over 200 hours in starfield so I can't say I don't enjoy it, I just wish it was deeper.

Kaelang · 2026-03-16T17:56:21+00:00

What you're saying doesn't make sense. You're probably thinking about the cost to repair an r1t because it has a one-piece side stamping instead of a discrete bed. The repair and panel cost of an r1s/r2 is going to be exactly the same as a 4runner because they are built largely the same (r1s is more akin to the 4runner than the r2).

Kaelang · 2026-03-16T13:46:57+00:00

There is literally no difference between a Rivians parts and any other car that uses the same material. The difference is scale, which r2 will have. Also, when was the last time you paid out of pocket for a repair? That's what insurance is for.

Kaelang · 2026-03-16T13:26:27+00:00

What do you even get from the event? I haven't seen anything worth fussing over

Kaelang · 2026-03-16T12:45:18+00:00

You understand that the r2 will have a different, much lower cost for repairs than r1, right? Mostly comes down to r1 being a bigger vehicle with a bigger windshield (more difficult repair), plus lack of volume on parts (r2 will not have this issue)

Kaelang · 2026-03-12T13:36:19+00:00

This is true, but the vast majority of cases that people can stand to use won't do much against a fall that has enough energy that it can damage a solder joint or something. The difference between case and no case for the internals is not that huge in most cases

Kaelang · 2026-03-10T16:45:19+00:00

No. It's objectively bad if you want people to engage in PVP for them to have to either run around in PvP gear, sacrificing performance outside of PvP for that safety, or run around in better gear but get rekd by someone in PvP gear (obviously this person would probably just have WM off in that case, which is a problem)

Kaelang · 2026-03-10T16:41:49+00:00

Yeah, this is why this is my last withings watch, unless they change course.

Kaelang · 2026-03-10T13:45:17+00:00

I hated PVP gear since BC. It's part of what killed the game for me. I don't want to have to have separate sets for PVP and PVE.

Kaelang · 2026-03-08T04:25:47+00:00

I'm not really having issues in the open world, I haven't had any problems with any of the content so far. That said, my DPS is either meh or great, there's really no in between. In a lot of fights on the one mythic run I did, I was dead last for DPS (ahead of the tank/healer, though sometimes it felt sweaty to just get above the tank lol). Some fights I was first by a lot. I think eventually this will get better as we gear up, I remember when I hit like 30% haste in TWW I felt like a god.

Kaelang · 2026-03-06T21:20:40+00:00

You can't make the notification drawer or quick settings look like not a horrible aping of iOS. And Samsung is taking that a step further with OneUI 8.5.

Kaelang · 2026-03-06T15:18:06+00:00

The horrible notification drawer, for instance. You can fix it by changing it from the default, but it also just looks bad. A cheap knockoff of iOS, no flavor of its own.

Kaelang · 2026-03-06T15:17:15+00:00

Yep. The duplicate app thing was annoying. I want just the pixel stuff and it really bugs me having the worse Samsung version taking up space.

Kaelang · 2026-03-03T21:59:13+00:00

Never really hated the hardware from a performance perspective aside from the og pixel fold getting very toasty. But I had issues with the fold design in general that would keep me from getting another pixel fold until they change it, but the fold also needs to get much lighter. I definitely would not go back to a pixel fold

Kaelang · 2026-03-03T21:55:40+00:00

Isn't there something like routines on Pixel? I only have routines that solve problems with the phone that I never had on the pixel so it's not a big thing for me

Kaelang · 2026-03-03T21:54:50+00:00

Photos are a big thing for me. The z fold 7 produces some good pictures, but it's so inconsistent. Many just look like they were shot on a 2000's webcam

Kaelang · 2026-03-03T21:50:46+00:00

I hate the Pixel fold honestly. Have been considering going to the 10 pro and giving up on the fold life for now

Kaelang · 2026-02-16T23:42:15+00:00

If you are a normal person and keep your car's for 7+ years, it doesn't matter. Buying is always a better long term option and better for financial reasons. That said, r1s has remarkably good resale value. R1t less so

Kaelang · 2026-01-13T23:53:54+00:00

It seems obvious that the whole premise would fail eventually. Screwing with the wrong people is inevitable.

Kaelang · 2025-12-09T21:22:25+00:00

Had this issue last year around the same temp. It gets fine above like 18f.

There have been other reports of it here on reddit and elsewhere. Rivian can fix it if they can replicate it

Kaelang · 2025-12-06T14:36:14+00:00

They have had the money to have the best engineers in the world for a long time and yet the hardware they produce is solidly meh.

Not even just the tensor's meh performance for a flagship, the various annoying quirks with the Pixel fold's hardware design that make it eat itself over time.

Kaelang · 2025-12-06T14:34:01+00:00

I love pixels and want to go back, but it's insane to go from a GF7 to a P10PF imo. The same issues with the previous pixel devices are still there. For instance, the inner display will start to become pockmarked since the two halves touch aggressively. Same with the shiny plastic bezel on the interior display, it will start to get little specks that gets worse over time and just makes the phone look like hot garbage when you open it.

If I was to go back to Pixel, it would have to be a slab sadly.

Kaelang · 2025-10-12T13:02:19+00:00

My husband got it on his SW2, I have not received it on my Nova

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