I have a pi and i also have had a pc to a tv setup. They have there purposes, but having a dedicated device thats semi cheap for a tv so the kids can easily navigate using a remote to play videos is more ideal and practicul. My main tv for me is a tv connected one and i mainly use kodi through it. Never used a pi for this type of setup, but i have a few for other things that are stand alone with no screens.

Weirdly enough i never even considered that one. It is pricier than what i want to spend. The others i found are about $80-$100 while this is $200 from what i see. Ill definitely consider it if it is that good.

“A Reddit user says they used Claude to create Android TV patches for Paramount Plus that remove ads from the streaming experience. Disney Plus patches are also already available.”

When forcing us to use AI and it didnt make you any profit, and now it’s helping to take more of it away. Gotta love it sometimes!

I am still thinking about moving to it. Im tired of firestick and roku. Theres not really much else either from what i looked at. Just some 3rd party hardware builds with android tv on it. A few look really good as well. Sure it costs a bit more, but im tired of giving those companies all my data and they aren’t perfect either.

Not as crazy as i expected when clicking it. Still, gets harder and harder seeing places like this raise costs on stuff they could easily absorb the hit on yet rather pass the buck onto the consumer… for anyonr curious its a $1 increase to the 1 month and $3 increase to the 3 month, but nothing said about the annual plans.

So far i feel like i am super lucky. I set mine to autorenewal years ago and the extra years i brought before they changed the system and raised the prises got me by without worrying about the increase. They ended 2 years ago and i have only had to pay $80 a year for the full top tier subscription which i think is $150 a year. Just went through again a few months ago. I noticed if i cancel the auto renewal or try to pay for it outside this it will charge the full amount. So i will absolutely not change anything and happily accept this amazing glitch! From what i read online there are some others that had this happen as well and had to do with the extra years and services combined that made this somehow get stuck. Everyone says do not touch it! Maybe one day they will correct it, but here is hoping this lasts at least a few more years because i would not pay $150 anyway lol.

Change business models scares me. It sounds like the first steps towards exactly what the entire industry wants to become. No more hardware, just streaming devices where they own everything with the excuse of shortage manipulation. Good luck if it comes to that, it’s the first time I will say goodbye Sony since growing up with them from the beginning PS1 era.

Early 2000s i had everything, xbox, gamecube, ps2 and everything prior. Since then i only went with Sony getting a PS3, and PS4. No wii or wiiu or any xbox since the original. I did get a switch a few years after release, which was great as well, but idk about the switch 2 either. At this point its been PS5 and a gaming PC which I was lucky enough to build only a few years ago when prices came down for a short time and hope it lasts about 10 years. This will have to get me buy for the foreseeable future, and just hope the hardware doesnt fail first.

Yeah, that will fix things.

Looks like the best thing sega has done in years. Looks solid and will definitely check it out when it releases, which looks to be this winter.

Probably because they realize there is no demand or use for it, hopefully. Maybe, just maybe, we reached the point where it needs to justify its value and that the time spent integrating it is just not worth it. And last of all xbox is on its final leg, i think its detrimental that whatever the next step they take will have to be a win.

As huge of a gamer as I am (or was?) I am sad to say I never expected this in a million years, but its by far Fall Guys… been playing it since its 2020 release basically every day or every other day since with maybe only a few weeks missed when times were busy. The appeal? It’s super simple, fun, and a great game to play with friends. At the beginning we had like 12 people playing this for a solid year. Fell to about 8 people on and off for the next few years, and the last few years I still got about 5 people who play. On average we will have 3 of us per night playing for an hour to 2 hours. It’s not even fully about the game, it’s an excuse to relax and talk to friends which is easier to do with a game that doesnt require strategy or communication. Either way my end of year highlights show its been my #1 played game every year with about 400 to 500 hours a year just in that game. We have tried to find something new, but it’s just never the same.

No, maybe it’s because im older and never really got into the trends of caring about stuff like that. I just can’t see how the engine should matter. Either way to me if the game sucks and somehow it was due to limitations then thats still on the game since they picked to go with it to begin with.

You forgot one more thing, they still have not changed their model. Instead of investing some of that money into attempting to create new good games, they only seem interested in buying other games that they feel will make them money. Instead of doing the work, they would rather just buy up properties that look promosing. Here’s looking at you Fall Guys.

Sounds awful, thanks. I can’t wait to laugh when I see the ridiculous amount they probably want per month.

Your not old, your me!. Most of these plus some others definitely, plus a bunch of modern ones as well. Shocked you only liked Half-Life 1 and not 2. I thought 2 was mind blowing at the time and still feel like it’s the first game to bring us into the modern era of games to this day.

Nothing new. The timeline for physical games being created is always several months prior to release using the final build at the time. The only confusing part seems to be that the game can be used offline until a new patch? If the system is not online at all how will it know a new patch exists? If the game checks in when booted then thats not offline either.

PS5 it is then!

Makes no difference to me. I don’t mind them either way, but considering how they do nothing to effect the game i would say keep them. If anything they serve a purpose of statistics and possibly how far you are into a game. Considering i have never played a game with mods they are never disabled for me either. Ive been there when they started which i think was the year after the PS3 launched so 2007 or 2008 when the update came to introduce them. Its pretty cool seeing almost 20 years worth of that data on what i did and in what year i did it.

I did the same thing even on my PS5. Saved the file like normal which saved to the cloud, then i disabled cloud saving and proceeded to do everything else off that save to get each ending and then copy that cloud save back down overriding my local save. I was shocked it worked so well. I think i ran into 1 issue with getting all the weapons since 1 could not be obtained again in the first play through but i had my friend join my game and he gave me the weapon and laughed when we realized it worked. I love that i not only beat that game but also got every achievement, so i guess that means i do enjoy them.

Once we created standards to create everything we see today it became to expensive to invest in alternative home grown solutions. Sadly with the focus of maximizing profit over innovation most ideas just revolve around the existing infrastructure in place to do what they want. I hate it as well and everything feels very stagnant.

FF7 was one of the moments that changed gaming for me when I played it way back. I dabbled with a few other RPGs at the time, but after this it got me to revisit and really appreciate the others and i felt rewarded for doing it. I have a bias towards the game so I was super excited to see and know a remake was actually happening. Then we got it and to me it was also special in its own way. Maybe more in the way of letting me remember just what i loved so much about the first all over again. It wasn’t the same, it had its quirks, but overall it felt like a success to me. The care they had with the big moments was spectacular and it couldnt look better either. My only complaint would be the entire game was linear, which is absolutely ok considering the masterpiece rebirth is. I also love the fact that this game is not just a remake which i would imagine you figured out by now. I wont go into it, but it absolutely is its own thing and at least to me it’s exciting to see how this comes together in the end. The music is also incredible and compliments it all very well.

Or to many people have been burned by his promises and waiting for it to drop and see how it does before any commitment to sequels. I hope it does well because it sounds really cool, but we all know it can be a big flop as well.

So delay a few years and make it a PS6 exclusive. It feels like one of the few they have left so why wouldn’t they.

I just heard about this earlier today. My biggest issue is that this wasn’t something they made people aware of prior? It absolutely should have been disclosed prior to release. I hear good things about the game, i just know not to buy it on switch.

I have been waiting for Witchbrook as well. It looks really fun. Never heard of Cairn but dam does it look really interesting as well.

This is where I am confused. I hear this, but I also keep hearing they used AI to create assets when it was first started development as placeholders for future assets. They were all replaced long before the game was ever released. I also heard that the assets used were stock unreal 5 assets which were AI generated but again replaced later long before the game released. So which is the real story?

I don’t think I have ever watched the game awards, but I do look at the results and trailers the day after. I am glad Claire pulled through! I was following that game the year before it released and it looked incredible. For me it was a day one purchase and glad I was right! It was definitely an experience. It’s also the only game I have purchased this year outside of black friday where I used a gift card to buy 3 cheap games.

My biggest complaint is not that they sell you stuff, it’s that they price everything so dam high… like spending $20 in these games should get you something significant in my eyes, instead you barely get a 10 random pull where you probably end up with crap. Screw that… with that said if I do get into one I will normally throw the game like $20 total purchasing a few things if they feel worth it. I am currently playing Chaos Zero Nightmare and the prices are so bad I haven’t spent a dime and don’t think I will. Its a good game otherwise.

When i was looking into switching to linux I tried out a bunch of flavors through vm’s and I am glad I did because the one I thought I wanted ended up not even working through a vm and in the end I also loved CachyOS the most as well! This was earlier in the year and honestly I am still planning out how to rebuild my main pc. Im more afraid of spending an entire day formatting and rebuilding and not be in a position where it works well enough and be disappointed that I lost my setup that worked fine.

Quick question, can you buy a pc and run the same OS and version of steam that this pc they built uses? Im assuming its the same as steam deck. Just wondering if you could build it exactly the same outside just installing steam.

Oh, I agree. My price is just speculation. Also, Xbox is done. They had a handful of exclusives this year that, as far as I saw, were nothing to sell systems over, and from the looks of it, only Fable is set for next year. As soon as I saw them jump ship with a console and finally share their best games like gears of war, I knew it would only be a matter of time.

That handheld is also windows only and to late to the party, and your right they just went full pc only at a price nobody will pay when you can probably get your own pc that will have little difference. They will be with Sega soon enough and probably use the companies they purchased to continue creating games for everyone else and maybe just focus on the windows store for semi exclusivity after the pc thing fizzles out.

On the one hand, i get it. It will be for enthusiasts only if that’s the case. On the other hand, I feel like for the amount of profit this company brings in, I am a little shocked that they don’t even try to cut the price back a bit to sell more. I guess whats the point when you don’t even have to do this at all and it sounds like the entire project is just a fun way to spend some time seeing what you can come up with and sharing that with the people that can afford to buy cool things.

As someone who never saw Instagram before yesterday, I was a little shocked at just how much crap was AI generated and just useless fake content. I kept hearing how bad AI was, but until I saw just how bad I really had no idea. I imagine reddit is getting closer to this exact model soon enough.

Dang, I missed that. Honestly, I haven’t looked much at humble in years. If thats what they are still pushing, then I will definitely start following again. Thanks for the heads up.

I used to do humble years ago, then I remember something changed and the selections were never that good. It’s been a while since I found one worth buying. I also fo Epic every week. I have been for about 3 or 4 years now.

These days? I dont mind it. With the offering of the 3 games a month, it’s been fine. As someone who’s gotten old and barely plays anything, it’s nice only spending the yearly subscription and getting up to 36 games a year. Sure, not all are great, but there have been plenty of big games offered that let me play the big stuff I missed and probably still wouldn’t pay $20-$30 for.

A good example would be Alan Wake 2 this month. Really wanted to play it but couldn’t really bring myself to buy it.

First time seeing this, and it looks really good. Can’t wait to play it.

Im guessing speed. To me, one of my favorite improvements over the ps4 was load speeds of everything. It felt like I went back in time to SNES days when walking into the next room was instant, unlike on the ps1 for the same games.

I am old because, for me, my favorite was battlefield 1942. Had so much fun, and it wasn’t as competitive, which i enjoyed even more.

But only relatively recently have demos started allowing you to play through a long demo and allow you to use that save and continue playing the full game if you purchase it. They wouldn’t be that long if that wasn’t an option since you dont want people to get too far only to make them start over.

Only 1 less year than the ps4 pro. It’s not really that bad. I don’t own it, but I don’t mind that it exists. If it was cheaper and I had a better tv that took advantage of its features, maybe I would have swapped for it.