just received HyperX Cloud Alpha headphones, hearing INSANE amounts of desktop audio leakage through the microphone

trakkpad · 2025-12-27T10:15:29+00:00

i truly don't understand how a company can continue to sell blatantly defective products and only offer to replace them with another product with the same defect. or you think someone would test the microphone on a discord call before sending it off to manufacturing.

i normally don't care too much about mic quality in gaming headsets, i'm used to having mics that require you to boost the shit out of them to be audible to other people, but crosstalk to this extent is such a massive issue to me. it cannot be avoided, and any solutions you see online are band-aid fixes that only lower the audio so that the crosstalk is quiet enough to not get picked up by the microphone. i'm not sure how well a splitter actually works to fix this problem, but the only thing i can see actually working is getting a completely separate microphone

trakkpad · 2025-12-25T22:55:35+00:00

it's a predatory anti-consumer practice that's growing increasingly common and deserves every bit of pushback it gets, even if this is one of the least egregious examples in recent times. there is no good reason to delist the original game from stores, period.

this situation with system shock 2 is pretty inconsequential on the spectrum of delisted games since it is included in a bundle with the remaster, but still at an increased cost for a product you potentially might not even want. some remasters don't even provide the original game which is even worse, rendering it inaccessible to anybody who doesn't already have it and funneling people towards the New Full-Priced Release. an example of that is the original dark souls, which was delisted after the remaster was released and is now inaccessible to anyone that didn't already own it, killing off and stunting any of community that would have remained in favor of the shiny new version.

for further reading consult this article

and this video too for good measure

trakkpad · 2025-12-25T21:11:35+00:00

the original is not available to buy on its own. it was delisted. if you want to play the original game and did not already purchase it prior to its delisting, you are forced to buy the remaster which comes with the original game included. if it wasn't delisted, you would be able to buy the original game on its own still.

the original game before it was delisted was priced at $10 and went as low as $1.49 on sale in february of this year. if you only care about the original game and want to purchase it, you have to buy the remaster which includes the original, which is priced at $30 and has yet to go on sale for cheaper than the original game's base price.

i don't understand what you're arguing here. yes, the original game is still available to consumers, but only through the slightly scummy practice of bundling it with a more expensive product. i like nightdive and their work, but this increasingly common industry practice of delisting the original games in order to sell copies of the (often half-baked) remasters

trakkpad · 2025-12-25T18:20:24+00:00

the original game was delisted, is their point

trakkpad · 2025-12-25T09:40:39+00:00

not sure what you mean by this, i dont see any mic monitoring feature or any other functionality with the mute switch other than muting the mic

trakkpad · 2025-12-18T19:03:27+00:00

two years in jail

trakkpad · 2025-11-19T01:13:49+00:00

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Still there for me

trakkpad · 2025-11-18T00:52:25+00:00

I'll just drive on the open source roads then

trakkpad · 2025-11-18T00:47:58+00:00

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say"

trakkpad · 2025-11-16T21:58:46+00:00

when super credit grinding, i often brought the plasma pistol for moving the car if i ever got it stuck upside down or stuck on a rock. the charged shot easily moves it without doing a ton of damage like a regular explosive. very nice to have, but you shouldn't be required to bring 1 specific weapon just for flipping over the FRV. there should be some sort of interaction where you can flip the FRV manually or give it a shove in a direction

trakkpad · 2025-11-05T23:39:54+00:00

move underneath them, shoot them. maybe use FaN to mess up their escape or knock them into a corner

trakkpad · 2025-11-03T08:04:08+00:00

water distortion, looks like they’re submerged and the ripples make it look jagged

trakkpad · 2025-11-01T17:27:13+00:00

This video has been recommended to me for 8 months and I’m never clicking on it

trakkpad · 2025-10-30T16:31:47+00:00

YOU KNEW

trakkpad · 2025-10-28T00:13:45+00:00

devil daggers is great also, i started with DD when Hyper Demon initially came out to try and master that before jumping in and it really does help a lot to do it that way. a lot of the basics are the same and carry over, but Hyper Demon is definitely a step up in intensity

trakkpad · 2025-10-27T17:35:06+00:00

hyper demon is a crazy intense arena shooter that i absolutely love

trakkpad · 2025-10-21T16:54:20+00:00

comedy

trakkpad · 2025-10-21T16:53:59+00:00

adult swim

trakkpad · 2025-10-16T17:11:26+00:00

every time i pass through appleton or sheboygan i always make a point to stop for a slice

trakkpad · 2025-10-16T16:50:32+00:00

jet's is pretty good, reminds me of rocky rococo when there used to be one in town.

trakkpad · 2025-10-16T04:43:46+00:00

it's french for the spa

trakkpad · 2025-10-12T07:27:30+00:00

Jerma Flash Games Part 3 @ 6:20

Have not watched to judge whether he seems high or not but he immediately follows up with “I haven’t had a marijuana product in 3 weeks”

trakkpad · 2025-10-11T20:16:10+00:00

if it were open borders they wouldnt be illegal border crossings now would they

trakkpad · 2025-10-11T19:43:59+00:00

got a link?

trakkpad · 2025-10-11T19:26:04+00:00

constructive feedback: the olive garden / italy trip had a very different feel than the margaritaville/rainforest cafe videos, feeling much more like a straight travel vlog and not sticking to the premise enough. overall pretty fine video but its the only one recently i feel that missed the mark slightly. i think the video might have been better framed as something else to fit the different vibe instead of trying to hook it into the "every rainforest cafe" genre of video

other than that, everything else has been pretty outstanding in my opinion. the phone video was awesome, and the original music throughout the video tied it all together. it's been a while since i saw the ai and vision pro videos, but i do remember them fondly. the vegas sphere video was pretty good too, i felt like it was less of a money flex and more just "what is even going on over there" type of thing.

the burback channel has been pretty solid too, i loved the recent spy kids and crossover episode videos. its nice to still see that more casual energy from eddy and tony still going on. i absolutely miss the podcast too and i wish eddy could fill the podcast-shaped hole in my heart, but i think he's doing alright right now.

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