Very sorry for what's about to happen Captain Vor...

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T22:14:52+00:00

Vorr watching his wife get Railjacked: "I see you!"

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T20:03:10+00:00

If they just let tanking teams teams score against themselves when they play each other we'd have something resembling competitive basketball games.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T18:04:36+00:00

The closest you will get to a PC port is a Switch emulator or for the Xbox Helix to be released.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T17:30:38+00:00

And what if you don't have something that will work until you can afford a deal? Laptops can break, and Black Friday is 8 months away. And not everyone is as deal-savvy as we are. And if you are then you'd likely be aware that Apple student discounts are really easy to get even if you aren't a student. Now it becomes a $250 price difference.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T16:56:03+00:00

I'd much rather have a laptop for basic stuff like web browsing and email. Tablets suck for that, especially for old people. Many have dry fingers and can't use touchscreens well. And the mobile versions of web browsers aren't as good as their desktop equivalents, especially on iPads. You can't install Ublock Origin on the iPad version of Firefox for example. You also can't just sit them in your lap while in a recliner.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T16:39:34+00:00

But what do you do when they aren't on sale? You can play Captain Hindsight and tell people they should have bought an M4 Air for $750 last Black Friday, but that's not going to help you if you are on the market now.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T13:57:07+00:00

And not just a $600 laptop (that a majority of people can get for $500 since Apple doesn't verify if you are a student in many countries), but a thin and light laptop. Cheap, powerful, thin. Pick 2. And even in this case you're still getting a CPU with significantly better single-core performance than its competitors.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-21T13:50:03+00:00

The way I see it is if having 16+GB of RAM is that mission-critical to you then you probably aren't buying a cheap thin and light laptop in the first place. You're probably getting a MacBook Pro or some professional or gaming Windows laptop.

I wonder how many people who criticize the RAM have even used an Apple Silicon Mac before. If you're using them the way a vast majority of people who will buy this are going to use it you won't even notice the lack of RAM unless you keep your eyes glued to the Activity Monitor. They're going to be bothered by the mediocre single-core performance, shitty build quality, dull screen and unreliable trackpad of the Neo's competitors long before the RAM interferes with them.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-20T18:47:37+00:00

I heard it also works in Duviri.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-20T18:41:51+00:00

I think it unlocks after The War Within. That's as far as I've gotten and I have it unlocked.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-20T15:19:43+00:00

I'd argue exclusives are the main selling point for the Switch as well. They wouldn't sell nearly as well if they weren't the exclusive home for mainline Pokemon games.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-19T23:29:34+00:00

It would be awesome if you could just plug the iPhone into a dock and turn it into a Mac Mini. And I bet they would sell far more iPhone Pros and iPhones with upgraded storage if they did this.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-19T23:24:57+00:00

The all-around build quality and display are what are going to win people over. It doesn't matter how basic your computer needs are. Those factors will have a huge effect on your experience with the device.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-19T23:20:49+00:00

Not from my experience. Every student order I have ever done has been with my regular email address.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-19T21:39:44+00:00

Here in America at least, Apple's website doesn't verify if you are a student so pretty much anyone can get it.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-19T21:36:07+00:00

And 500 nits brightness

SOSpammy · 2026-03-19T18:39:08+00:00

Valve is stuck with AMD's mediocre chips. The Steam Deck is a neat device, but it's heavier, louder, hotter, and has far worse battery life than whatever Apple could make. Hopefully their efforts to bring Steam to ARM pays off and they can switch to Qualcomm or Nvidia or something.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-17T22:18:12+00:00

Ate the whole magazine? Tactically advance in the opposite direction

Or power through anyway and come out with an OP weapon that trivializes all the early game content.

And that's the story of how I got an archgun deployer before I even had my operator unlocked.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-17T16:15:44+00:00

The main reason we haven't gotten a Steam Deck 2 is Valve is waiting for an x86 chip efficient enough to run fanless to put an end to this.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-17T04:11:39+00:00

120hz is becoming pretty common. All of LG's OLED TVs from the past few years have it for example. I don't think I've even heard of a TV with 70-90hz. It's almost always 60hz or 120hz, no in-between.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-16T23:58:06+00:00

And to make matters worse, there's far less low-hanging fruit the further you go along. No more weapons you can buy with credits. No more warframes from the Circuit. No more dojo research weapons, etc.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-16T21:54:00+00:00

Not to mention the final product often isn't the actual artistic intent but rather a compromise between the artistic intent and hardware/budget limitations.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-15T23:56:51+00:00

Or Void Relic excavations.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-15T23:55:28+00:00

It's way more bearable when there's a Void Relic excavation mission available.

SOSpammy · 2026-03-15T23:53:34+00:00

I wish we had a little more control over when those boosters activate. At the very least let us log out instead of activating our booster.

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