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  • So does Pixmax, HTC, Valve, or Pico no longer exist? VR is facing issues with adoption. I'm sorry but to the VR snobs even though I love VR having people argue you can't experience it unless you spend close to a grand on something that many people's feelings towards it are take it or leave it is a bit too much for most consumers. Meta is problematic with buying up so many of the vr game makers but at the end of the day these companies chose to sell themselves and lets be honest here the VR market isn't hot right now and prior it was fucking worse.

  • I mean it has a place in the market. Even though facebook sucks, they are the leaders/pushers of VR at the moment. No new person wants to spend 1000+ dollars on something they may end up hating especially with the rumors around the quest 3 lite. Like meta makes up about 60% of the market-share of those who take part in the steam hardware survey.

  • Well the article doesn't link at all any of this, yeah it does make this pretty bad.

  • This typically isn't a problem for many organizations, well it is but its more on an individual basis rather than collective unless you discount the higher ups and middle management (but that is its own can of worms), but back to my point its not a problem because the offending parties fucking get fired/charged for this shit.

    I think you are missing my point. My point I will say was rambly so I will give you that, but it was saying people who aren't cops typically suffer consequences for their actions ie you cuss at a customer, you will likely be fired even when you are probably in the right. So I agree with you. The is the problem with cops in the US, almost 0 oversight.

    Did you miss the fact that they shot at his wife 19 times too? That would have solved the domestic dispute, I guess.

    Its not great but I will say its hard to say if they were really aiming at her or they just sort of continued to mag dump on the husband. The Glock 22 is the most common pistol for law enforcement. Standard mag capacity for one is about 15 bullets. There are 3 officers so 45 bullets in total assuming these aren't reduced size magazines and if they were you might see 10 round mags with one of their pistols already having a bullet in the chamber which would total about 31 shots. Which by looks of the total shot count, which makes me believe this may the case.

    Edit: Without body cam footage, its hard to say what truly transpired but I don't think its hard to believe a person who was in the general direction where the bullets were landing will say she was being fired upon but she may not have been target. The complaint was written in this way but at the end of the day it is a story that is based on memory, human memory is a very unreliable narrator. I can't fault her if she didn't remember all the details properly since she did go through a rather traumatic event in many ways. Don't take this as me saying the cops are in the right since no, they fucked up super hard. An innocent man is dead, a woman is husbandless, and their children are fatherless. There are so many ways they likely fucked this up. Hell she may even be right about every single detail but at this stage, we just don't know the full story. Its just 2 different statement without any extra evidence to back it up until body cam footage gets released, which will likely be seen via discovery in the lawsuit.

  • I mean what is worse? Someone who has nothing to do with this dying horrible to a person who is possibly involved in domestic dispute possibly getting shot to shit. Which isn't good but at least one has some degree of correlation between what sparked the event than it being a pointless endeavor. Again part of the problem is how abundant guns are in this country. You have a right to bear your arms as the constitution says but the reality is if a fucking cops has a scent of a gun on your ass, chances are the encounter isn't going to end well for the citizen. I'm not saying its right but it is the reality of the situation. So no it isn't okay but having a completely non involved party die makes this 10x worse.

  • But its multiplayer only (which has its own problems). So a crack would be pointless. Its always pinging home, so it just wouldn't work.

  • Oh yes, instead of the IRS we get private companies who knock on our doors and harass us, who will take a far larger cut than before for the sake of privatization. Taxes gotta be collected and sorry its pointless to be angry at the IRS when they are just following the laws that congress have established.

  • I, for one, don't want "bad guys" to be murdered out of hand. I don't think the police should have that power, I don't think the government should have the power to kill its citizens at all.

    I agree with most of what you said but I disagree here. Like I would love for it to be easy to subdue "bad guys" but taking down someone non lethally and without any other major risk factors involved while subduing them is a bit unrealistic, primarily when they are armed(either with a firearm or any other kind of weapon). I want to see every "bad guy"(or man who isn't even involved) see their day in court but we don't live in a fantasy land where you can knock someone out without any ill effects like in the movies. Like many of us are talking behind a screen, there is a major problem with cop training and I 100% support them having to train far more but we have to keep in mind death can come in a fraction of a second and people are going to be on edge because of that. Again I already brought up my problems with the warrior training since they do heavily focus on this aspect and its way too focused on, they seriously see footage of cops hesitating and getting killed, so they program cops to always be afraid of every interaction but I just don't think we should completely discount death can come in a mere moment. In America, there are literally more guns than fucking people here and that is part of the problem.

  • Yes, yes the warrior mindset training course, of seeing the common person as an enemy. One of the many problems I alluded to cops having. Again cops have many problems and realistically its partly because they are human. This typically isn't a problem for many organizations, well it is but its more on an individual basis rather than collective unless you discount the higher ups and middle management (but that is its own can of worms), but back to my point its not a problem because the offending parties fucking get fired/charged for this shit. Cops for some reason help each other out and since they are the enforcement branch of the law, they get quite a bit of wiggle room, which is stupid. I just think its delusional to think cops are mass serial killers when realistically 10-27% of cops ever discharge their firearm in the line of duty outside of the range (in the US). Many cops are fucking dickheads but I just think that past user is a bit delusional. Again policing in the US has major problems but we can't lose sight of the fucking facts that most cops have never fired their weapon and probably even fewer have actually killed someone (justly or not). We as the people just want the people who fuck up drastically to be punished, so ACAB is merely a statement of the criticizing the organization rather than all the individuals inside it.

  • Wow, you are delusional. This isn't to say cops don't have big problems. They have major oversight problems but to suggest even though its not unfair to say some cops are sadistic but to imply they are serial murderers who will for funnies kick in a random ass door to shoot and kill everyone inside is a bit too absurd. They would at the very least need possible deniability since it will be discovered in discovery of the case.

    Edit: The logical answer is the cops are given the incorrect address, its a game of literal telephones usually involving high intensity situations where people may not be easily understood or have the time to talk. If you ever worked for a call center, you would know call quality can be fucking garbage even at the best of times.

  • I mean quite the opposite. Ff you are talking about the plebs, you would have a point but the Unity changes they are now trying to force through are going to other companies who typically don't like it when you mess with their income unexpectedly. They likely will switch to a new engine with their newer projects, so they don't have to deal with a surprise change.

  • I'll be damned, I seem to be wrong. I don't know how they are going to run these games natively but I'll be damned they are running natively (probably).

  • Yeah its not a great look but at the same time, human memory is a very fickle thing. There is a reason I'm all for dashcams and the such since eye witnesses are worthless and can easily be primed to see what others want them to see. Maybe he is doing it for clout but lets be honest here I doubt most people would remember exact dates/times of something that happened 22 years ago. Hell I legit can't remember anything I did 15 years ago, its all sort of a blur.

  • If you read the article you would know this is all being done via cloud gaming. So the phone isn't doing the processing/rendering. Its just being given a stream that you can interact with. Latency and honestly I imagine graphical quality will suffer due to compression but maybe AV1 encoding will give it a bit of a lead. I'm not saying this isn't awesome but its no secret cloud gaming may not have great longevity and I doubt Apple is going to let you keep your copy of _________ if they ever shut down the service.

    This is apparently incorrect, these are running natively which is surprising. So I will retract my former statement but keep it for posterity .

  • I mean it sucks but its clear enough of the "original" audience stuck around. Growth is important and only appealing to your og audience is a sentence for death if you are trying to make being an influencer a job. There is a reason why many influencers have to diversify even when they originally were primarily making videos of a single game because once that game popularity starts to drop, their audience is all they have and people simply "age out" of content and there is nothing wrong with that. Hell this isn't only to influencers but to most products.

  • Fundamentally disagree. You are just opening the system to cheaper bribery. Senators like Bernie Sanders would be thrown out even when he has one of the highest approval ratings by his constituents. Term limits do nothing for congress but make said congress people look for their next opportunity after the gig (which is already a problem). Its on voters to make sure candidates like Mitch McConnell or Dianne Feinstein get replaced. The call for term limits is just change for change without any thought on its possible effects. You may ask why do I have this double standard for congress but not the president? The simple answer is there are 100 senators and 435 House Representatives, most people barely fucking know who their senators/reps are but you are just making for a revolving door to disincentivize even caring about them now since eh they are going to disappear in a couple years anyway, the power difference between being the sole power of a branch of government vs being merely a member with either 1/100 or 1/435 the power of the body changes things since congress is far more a collective than any of the other branches.

  • Except your logic falls apart pretty quickly.

    You are choosing to blame people who are getting exploited. Either firstly they are being hired under the table to do this work under the market rate. Wouldn't this be the fault of the employer then. They are hiring such workers who are also not paying "their share". Conservatives are so quick to point at illegal immigrants as the problem but rarely the people who you know actually pay them to make living in this country possible for them.

    Now what if they were stealing someone's identity to work a normal job? Its not right but identity theft is a large problem because we Americans for some fucking reason refuse to establish a national ID system. Where there are safeguards and ways to fix this but nah we are stuck with Social security numbers, which were designed merely for Social security for those above the age of 65 to claim their benefits but then it was misused by the IRS (which can we seen as fair since its a public entity in government) but then it was then abused by private organizations like banks and employers. Side tangent over, if an illegal immigrant did this they would then be paying "their share" of taxes. So your complaint is a nothing burger.

    If we had an illegal immigration problem it is because there is a clear market for people who provide for them and it ain't only the democrats. Republican's Corpo rights focus is all about this and letting corps do whatever the fuck they want to do but focus on the suffering of others is their promise to their dimwitted voters (who vote primarily for abortion bans and immigration problems).

  • I mean you aren't wrong, Epic did the same exact thing when Valve said no NFT bullshit on their market.

  • I mean it depends, what are you talking about? Yeah I can see the point of not arresting people for dropping the N word or something or maybe doing a Hitler salute but are you referring to people using their own freedom of speech to argue/debate one's own opinion? Maybe a companies right to associate with only those it choose to do so with (unless that discrimination is against those of protected classes). Like no company would probably want to be associated with a known verbal racist, it just hurts their possibility to get new clients or possibly sever current client relations. The reason why many companies go "woke" or stray to the left is because companies never want to have one of their advertisements right next to a Nazi/race supremacist rant, people will start associating the company with what their ad is paying for. Elon is learning in the most ass backwards way of why Twitter did X thing, in this case why twitter wasn't the "haven" of free speech is because advertisers don't want this and advertisers are the ones who pay a hefty chunk of the bills.