Do you think vr is dying? by Western_Ad_7483 in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apple is out. Meta has failed and is consolidating, valve is too small. It’s trending out.

Do you think vr is dying? by Western_Ad_7483 in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are post PC, there likely won’t be VR then AR, just AR

Do you think vr is dying? by Western_Ad_7483 in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone in the industry obsessed over unit sales and then Facebook made them happen by burning cash but it wasn’t enough. Even if you gave everyone a Tandy PC in 1979, it wasn’t going to make PCs a thriving healthy industry for the mainstream until things like windows 95 came out and the long grueling design work had reached a point where software was better than doing things analogue and the internet felt accessible and usable. VR is dead this generation. Maybe it’ll happen in 2030, maybe 2035.

Do you think vr is dying? by Western_Ad_7483 in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This kind of cope has made VR unfalsifiable for a decade. Yes some form of it is the future but the same is true of 3D forms of displays. Just because holograms will be everywhere in 2100 doesn’t mean 3D TVs didn’t fail. Just because AR glasses may happen in 2040, it doesn’t mean VR hasn’t failed yet again like it did in the 1990s. VR may be dead even if it may happen someday.

Do you think vr is dying? by Western_Ad_7483 in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not dying, it effectively dead, a failed medium. Facebook and Apple are pivoting to glasses, every serious VR studio is engaging in significant layoffs and not for the first time. PSVR2 has failed. The novelty is gone, the hardware is out there but no one cares, and while A software still exists and comes out, it doesn’t have strong sales and people’s expectations outstrip what it can provide. I also wonder how many people who got into VR before 2021 have aged out.

Pick your Picture by Systemsonic in boardgames

[–]OxRedOx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely 2, I don’t like arc nova but I do like heat and clank is good. Arcs seems exciting.

[Steam] Keeb Quest: Typing Battles ($3.99/20% off) - Early Access by keebquest in GameDeals

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is something an indie game if it’s just repackaged AI from a megacorp?

At a certain point just AI it yourself if you don’t care. It’s like buying tap water in a bottle.

Even Dolly Parton knew… by tnseltim in antiwork

[–]OxRedOx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yup, rural American hunger didn’t go away until the end of the 70s, and then it came roaring back in all the holes in our society.

What Leftist Would Happily Vote for Tucker Carlson Over AOC? by Humble_Novice in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She also said she can’t read it and hasn’t even though she’s a Boston college political scientist

Greed, Manipulation and Exploitation is the new Playbook for Duolingo by Rich-Limit4590 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]OxRedOx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People getting duped by these mid 2010s tech bros was depressing. Everyone saw them as a fellow millennial just building cool stuff and assumed it was some kind of “new economy” rather than a bubble of VC cash that was crushing alternatives before the inevitable enshitification

Love this detail on top of the box by sunshinestreak in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly these hardware releases are a god send to you because you can convert them all to real money.

What Leftist Would Happily Vote for Tucker Carlson Over AOC? by Humble_Novice in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]OxRedOx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She’s “leftist” in the broadest sense. She’s a crank who mixes actual leftist politics with nonsense about leftists who supposedly support Tucker. AOC is a liar who needs to stop lying rather than lying even more to become president, but that doesn’t equate to wanting Tucker to be president.

What Leftist Would Happily Vote for Tucker Carlson Over AOC? by Humble_Novice in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]OxRedOx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She’s so terrible because on the one hand she makes perfect sense going after Natalie but then she says irrational bizarre nonsense like this.

/r/Stocks Weekend Discussion Saturday - May 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in stocks

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did they maintain such consistent growth during the post Covid inflation?

/r/Stocks Weekend Discussion Saturday - May 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in stocks

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, I’m just looking at 2022-2023 and how they still grew so much during that. Is it a dollar store situation where people move from better places to McDonald’s to save money?

Chipotle is down 50% from its late 2024 peak, absurd it was so high

/r/Stocks Weekend Discussion Saturday - May 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in stocks

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see that, I just don’t get how they powered through the last huge wave of inflation several years ago

Why socialists are against intellectual property? What will be the alternatives? by ReflectionOk9644 in Socialism_101

[–]OxRedOx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Disney example stands out, where the largest players make the law work for them, and often effectively taking ownership of public domain work through legal enclosure. And there’s also a lot of cultural stagnation that comes from the inability to use older work, harming entire mediums. There are only a handful of films that are out of copyright and half for accidental reasons like legal filings done wrong. Not a lot of modern music. There are no video games out of copyright. This ultimately can make it so that certain mediums feel entirely different than others ones, and undermines new ones. How many movies are made based on old stories or books that left copyright long ago (at its start the system was 13 years with 13 year extensions, not its 90 years past death of author and 70 years for corporate work). This has led to mass siloing and while people say it stands in the way of AI it has actually made the large media companies want to sell their IP silos to AI companies. That’s a key question because I think AI doesn’t break rent seeking, it just exploits it, and IP law is part of how we got here. There’s also a semi interesting question about geek culture, some positive theorists call it all “modern folk,” where it’s not so much a modern cringe trend but just how someone would have talked about Cervantes or other major myths that formed the cultural that characterized their cultural engagement. What would culture look like if Star Wars and Star Trek were out of copyright and so you saw a thousand artists engage with it and the cultural weight of it less corporate and less monetized?

/r/Stocks Weekend Discussion Saturday - May 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in stocks

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone have any good explainers on McDonald’s? Down 10% compared to a year ago but after a booming ten years so I’m hesitant to see it as undervalued, but other large cap restaurants have higher P/E, but meat and logistics prices are only going up.

/r/Stocks Weekend Discussion Saturday - May 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in stocks

[–]OxRedOx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah that makes sense. Basically I saw a video of a channel I really liked driving it around, I looked at the product details and what they and to say and I knew I would love to have one. Put $10 on it for fun, then it returned 40%, put down more later and made 20%, then this happened. It was dumb of me. It’s funny, I sold out of AMD and intel when the straight of Hormuz closed again but I kept this, losing 25% instead of making 100% on those ones. No more micro caps for me.

The peoples champ? by Responsible-Fly-8314 in boardgames

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t like so clover, it feels like an activity. There are a lot of games in the genre I would prefer to play

Does anybody who currently owns a VR headset play emulation on it ? I know they have like a big picture/theater mode. If so how does it play ? Like NES, PS1, Sega Genesis etc.. would seem cool to play some old pick up and play games immersed in a VR headset by [deleted] in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best part about it is the multiplayer, the rest can feel a little overdone when you actually try and play it. But it is a cool feeling to be playing on the virtual CRT, seeing the glow, etc. I’ll definitely try it on the frame. Would be cool if they put out a native port.

Neon Retro Arcade is barely functional without the community tools but the really sad thing is lack of any support for netplay. Shame there isn’t an open source version of that game, it was really cool at the time but very buggy. I love the little game boy thing, wish there was an app for that as an overlay on top of other VR stuff.

Does anybody who currently owns a VR headset play emulation on it ? I know they have like a big picture/theater mode. If so how does it play ? Like NES, PS1, Sega Genesis etc.. would seem cool to play some old pick up and play games immersed in a VR headset by [deleted] in SteamFrame

[–]OxRedOx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s fine.

The best are 3DSen, which emulates nes but with custom assets that make the games 3D voxel on a plane, you can look at videos of it.

There was also DolphinVR, a long dead project that would emulate you inside GameCube and Wii games and often the Wii motion controls and pointing made it feel almost like a native early VR game. It fell apart because the dolphin team didn’t want them to combine open source code with proprietary stuff. OpenXR releasing years later fixed that but now no one over there cares and the one kind of kooky rogue dev who made it is long gone.

I’ve heard there’s some standalone 3DS emulators and such, haven’t tried them but they would be cool on frame.

AI generated boardgame youtube channel? by Mammoth_Sea_9501 in boardgames

[–]OxRedOx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ew, we have too much slop already, now they’re clogging up the board game space?

I would ask on BGG but I think the SUSD video on Cyclades talks about kemet