(just to give cable weight/dunno)

Bullet vibes

Ferrite cores perhaps

Tervy is probably the most right but idk

You're saying it's not bullet vibes?

What type of meme is a bullet vibe

Should be pretty pointless with ferrite on thin headphone cables...

im pretty sure they're there to give a little weight so when you put them over your ear they dont curve away too much

tempted to sacrifice my ATEs to see whats inside :D

Do it!!!

i really like my hds2s but only the earbuds that came with them fit

@Archy Chinese folks pick English names for themselves for [insert book here] reasons, but the tl;dr is, no, they don't pick a name for your sake.

I'm planning on making a comparison video with the kz ate vs bose soundtrue vs the shitty Samsung earbuds that come in the box of phones

So far really like the kz

Anyone have a good review for xiaomi note 3 prime edition + MI band 2. Just added it to my cart

google exists

I see redmi note 4 isn't that much more expensive

Any thoughts on how weak the nintendo NX is? I cant belive it's so weak

any thoughts on how all games made using hardware less powerful the the current generation of computer hardware are absolute garbage? the graphics in final fantasy vii are terrible. people who loved that game must have been mentally handicapped.

So your thought is that it doesnt matter.

i don't have thoughts, only shitty opinions

you can buy a 22-core xeon processor on ebay if you want a really powerful computer

if nintendo announced that they were going to give creative freedom to some well deserved game developers for their console and stuff like that it'd be worth it is what i'm saying, sir. it's about the software

sorry for the snark but nintendo has never ever been on the cutting edge of technology. they make fun kid game systems

for cheap

Id say that's unrelated but the problem with used xeons is motherboards, which arent just expensive but will have to shipped expensively to my country

*maybe* snes was the one time when they had better technology. but that was a weird outlier

its more interesting that the switch|nx doesn't really give a damn about VR as its core technology. either they still have latent pain from the virtualboy or they just know they can't compete in that area and it is saturated

Strap in boy, just ordered redmi note 4

also re: xeons, if you are in a country with any sort of datacenter infrastructure, you could very well try to lurk on forums where hosting folks linger to get used hardware. you'd likely get a reasonable deal if you give anything close to a reasonable offer. otherwise, ask a friend and put the mobo on carry on luggage?

or better yet: volunteer to work with one of those crazy people that help run the infrastructure of the internet?

https://www.isc.org/

I've been looking but everything is sold for reasonable prices, unlike the US or whereever they're sold like dirt

fucking magnets

so useful

did you make sure you got the one with the right radio frequency bands for your service provider, @Archy

Nintendo seems like they're giving up on stationary consoles and going full mobile(with a dock). Also giving up on gimmicks.

docking is my fetish

idk the new console seems like a throwback to the game and watch vs form factor which is fine and good

i was a young tyke when I had many a fun day with my donkey kong vs ice hockey game

was awesome at primary school; was envied

I think VR is a pretty bad, so im not suprised.

vr is bad now the way 3d printing was bad 6 years ago

or maybe they're the same; they're both nascent technologies that have a lot of headroom to improve yet

remember that VR was basically abandoned for years

and then oculus decided to rethink the whole core design and rebooted it

VR/AR will get there in the sooner future; i agree w/ you that the current stuff is still gimmicky

We'll see, there's just no good way to control most games so far. And they're useless for desktop use due to low resolution, and overpriced, at least for 1080p

And no games.

there's a lot of unexplored room for asymmetrical multiplayer gaming using a headset

and tablets

What would be good would be a screen replacement.

Depends on what you're looking for.

Resolution, size etc?

we've definitely beaten the horse damn well and dead with games on a 2d plane

including 2d projections of 3d environments (fps)

Not really anything more you can do with 3d, it's just immersion

but especially with esport taking more of an accepted role in society, there is room for games that use stuff like VR along with people playing support using smart devices, deep analog controllers and such that start to blur the line between a traditional electronic game and traditional sport / performance

That's far out, man.

which is exciting to me tbh since maybe it can be a cure to some of the ills in the current gaming arena

i mean, DDR amirite

there's plenty of precedent for it

Dance dance revolution..?

just needs to be more of a team accessible thing and for the hardware to be put out by a risk-taker with deep pockets like nintendo

yeah dance dance revolution. more spectator sport than most, one of the most watchable things

Sure, it's a niche arcade thing. Where VR like vive fits

the dev process and the kits just still aren't so mature yet you know

i'm sure i'm not that special in thinking about this stuff, but getting buy-in and work done towards making neato things is risky and arduous in the beginning

anyways switch is an incremental thing towards more localized social gaming

Then they could use very powerful machines so 4k screens are viable and have threadmills so you can acctually move somewhat propperly, but it'd be a very limited arcade thing.

How is switch more localized than previous nintendo?

that's difficult to say; i may have misspoke, but at least from their marketing material, they do seem to be trying to recapture a more seamless local multiplayer experience

Gaming in general has become much less local, online is now the standard and ps4/xbone has few splitscreen titles.

i specifically mean a local group vs an online team, in the same vein as a team of folks playing CS or league

with the emphasis that the experience locally is assymetical ala "keep talking and we don't explode" or whatever

and less throwaway than people locally on the screenless controls manipulating a single cursor or a turret and using their lower level of attachment to a display to use their cognitive skills in other aspects of the "competition", e.g. strategy or planning, support and comms, etc

so anyway

none of that stuff would have anything to do with raw computational power, save the niceties of having the capability to real-time encode video for built-in twitch streaming or whatever else

it's a lot of hard dev work and UI work

Yeah then they have to make a good modern game..

And they'll probably be pretty reluctant to do realistic settings with the weak system

i'm risking getting into philosophy here, but I get the feeling that the folks who emphasize graphics and immersion are less in it for gameplay and competition as much as experienceporn and extrareality eyecandy

i can appreciate it all, but those games don't so much tickle my need to play a game as much as titles that focus on actual problem solving or mechanics

all this shit is risky compared to sitting backseat like Valve is or churning out metrics-driven development like blizzard

maybe nintendo is being risk-adverse too but we'll see how their first party titles pan out

I think the VR devs are playing it safe though by pricing so high, that they wont lose bad if it flops

They could risk more and push it out significantly cheaper but that's a risk

software or hardware? the hardware is arguably as cheap as it gets now in the current incarnation

Hardware, but software too

close to being subsidized by title sales but that's another rabbit hole

VR won't reap too many benefits from moore's law and is limited by the physical kit

big deep rabbit hole but if people pay $450 for a pair of sunglasses and $400 for a cell phone it's kinda silly to say that VR is overly expensive

The rift is mostly a cheap ~1080p screen, gryros, expensive headphones and the sensor

it costs $400 for a 70" 4k TV at walmart in the US now

so the redirection of funds could go towards the VR kit if popular culture and a team of attractive streamers starts to generate that mindshare to create demand

people seek the lust-worthy items instead of investing in something silly like a 401k

a $500 VR kit seems like a natural progression

Also yes, they're different experiences, competitive games and casual games are more like board games, either something you want to be good at to prove yourself but for most people something to do with friends while immersive games try to immerse you in a different world and amaze you

yup... so VR is perfect for that market

the Nintendo Switch takes the more common ground road

there's an intersection of the two that would hopefully evolve things further

be it AR or local multiplayer "copilots" who remain in the "real world"

The BoM of a rift is ~$200(and could be reduced even more by larger scale), they could cut the price quite a bit if they were confident and wanted to get VR into homes

the worst thing is lukewarm press

tohsaka rin has left!

if it was slashed in price today and people bought them up cheap, and it became like pokemon go, it would be a disaster

But they're playing it safe and making customers pay for all the RND so if they fail they wont have huge losses.

a VR shop needs good rapport with developers

if they made a dust-magnet doorstop right off that bat for the sake of being first to market then they might as well say they're making it a totally open platform for everyone and they're just going to liquidate and become a nonprofit organization

because it commodizes everything they've made

race to the bottom is not good

The closest I can think of like that is battlefield, very immerive while having fun and lasting mechanics, and they had the commander mode in bf4. Commander mode failed though since the commander couldnt do much.

hopefully the money they make goes towards investments in better development tools

Somethng like that needs loads of both CPU and GPU horsepower though

games like battlefield and mechwarrior would definitely benefit, and are obvious choices for launch titles, but i'd hazard to guess that the blockbuster titles in that vein would be much more interesting than that

i'm sad there aren't more games that try that RTS+FPS formula since it can be fun, albeit hard to balance

world of warships kinda does that with carriers

anyway there are people getting paid to do this stuff, rest assured

nintendo can have my mcbucks

for not following the pack at least

But a cheaper VR sets would mean incentive for people to acctually make serious games, which are almost nonexistant atm, they'll have to get them out before others will invest in games for them. Hype also dies down, and it wont come back for a good while once it's a flop in peoples mind.

It wouldnt make them more of a comodity, other than being less of luxury items, it'd acctually make more competition less likely to enter the market if they pushed out the best product for a good price.

And I dont rest assured about anything in gaming, I see little but decline.

you might be right, we wouldn't know without more empircal data

rts+fps?

so EVE?

the oldest example i can think of is Starsiege Tribes and the Battlezone reboot from 1999

in a weird way, MOBAs capture that feel since it's so monomanically skewed towards one unit

Shame about mobas that't theyre so much more about pure skill than fun tactics.

i'd enjoy playing an FPS against player-programmed AI

so folks would throw together some strategy and loadout against incoming human attackers who have all the disadvantages except "superior" realtime adaptability

When we were new to mobas we'd talk strategies and even draw at a whiteboard at a LAN, but eventually we realized that's pointless at normal levels of play (Maybe even at pro?) since it's mostly about the skill.

yeah APM and pixel-perfect distance calculations win the day in mobas unfortunately as you've observed, and it's a problem of balancing a game over time due to the spirit of humans and their ability to find exploitative tactics quickly

that's kinda why i'm such a fan of asymmetry

symmetric games tend to get degenerate quick quickly

and frankly, boring

it becomes about skill very quickly, especially if randomness is minimized

might as well play rock papers scissors

Also a reason why I think competitiveness makes games less fun. Not that there's much you can do about it. More that I think the pro scene, twich etc is making gaming worse.

on the contrary, i think games are designed with fun as an afterthought, so competitive games are less fun

haha also true

it's a frequent complaint of friends of mine that fun takes a backseat to monetization and engagement

who work in design and such

one guy went indie and the other left gaming

i'm glad i never entered the industry

It's probably pretty bad to work in most big companies

If you care about the game, anyways

making money to send your kids to college is directly incompatible with taking risks for fun and interest

so of course big companies make the shit shovelware you see

anyways gaming will never die and honestly it is possible that boardgaming is where true gaming will forever live on, even when electronic games become passe in favor of experience rides

there's enough games that exist today in the human library that I don't think it'll be a great tragedy if the games industry suffers for the short term

i still have yet to finish playing final fantasy xii, for example

(ha)

It'll be locked down experience rides and competitive gaming, probably

you only need pen, paper, and imagination to be a game dev

that's how the best folks design most games in the beginning anyway

the rest is just lubricant

You could say elder scrolls is a "experience ride" but you're at the controls and can do as you please

But top notch graphics and sound is a big part of it

(But of course not very good unmodded)

i have more fun playing with human beings, even if it is by proxy / turn based

super mario maker is in a way multiplayer in that way

Well... I am too, but only when Im free to do what I want

maybe because i try to go out and camp / ride my bike, i'm not as wowed by graphics as much

That's only really avalible in minecraft and to some extent stuff like dayZ

No I like camping and enjoying nature, but I want to look at beautiful things in games too

anyway gotta cook lunch but it was nice talking, feel free to respond i'll reply later

Byebye

Fuck. This PSU is not dissasemblable

Anyone who got the Xiaomi Mi Box international edition?

i want elder scrolls 6 but itll probably be shit

they'll be a mobile game

>google elder scrolls 6
>second hit is a 2 year old site from computer magazine
"next bethesda hit will be 'argonia' not Fallout 4"

@Deleted User At worst it'll have a Mobile companion app

Probably for inventory

my bet that its for "family life"

I actually didn't mind these game companies trying to make a wii u out of the non-nintendo consoles

what has been theme in E.scrolls lately

Kind of neat actually

Welcome to the /csg/ server, <@!163028380130738176>!

Shame I barely used it

There just wasn't a huge reasoning for it

Are HD681 comfy? i am an audio pleb and dont listen to music. it is only for vidya and youtube stuff. i have got a big head, so i fear that the chink head sizes will give me headaches

yes

why do I have the hots for xperia phones?

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MPHSNY4000I/Sony-Xperia-XZ-Dual-F8332-32GB-Black-Parallel-Impo?utm_source=PriceBusters11January&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Retail&utm_content=PriceBusters_0111_09upd8&qr=ec_PriceBusters_0111_09upd8

Welcome to the /csg/ server, @Jacob!

Fuck

@hellomynameisJHWH theyre ok, the pads they come with are awful though

so for comfyness i need extra pads, on it!

when you select pay with credit card on aliexpress it says "powered by alipay" at the top does that mean I'm actually using what everyone calls alipay? or is that someting else?

as I understand it: the real deal is something else

It's basically the alibaba version of paypal

Don't be concerned

yeah i know but I heard people say that you need to pay with alipay so I was wondering if just clicking through on the order and inputting credit card details was "using alipay" like people suggest or do I need to make some account or something

nah you dont need to

you can though, then you ll have a balance like when using paypal

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anon634 has left!

anyone know what the "Chinese Domestic Delivery Fee" is on taobao

using superbuy

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Welcome to the /csg/ server, @Zepha!

hey, is ordering safety razor from ali risky?

cause i did, now i'm curious if i would get chinese aids. 🤔 🤔

probably yeah

oh well. 😕

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/BAILI-Luxury-Silver-Color-double-edge-razor-classic-safety-razor-with-1-blade-1-case-BD179/2130121_32647620401.html

will an out of date passport work for gearbest verification tbh

just realised

I've used an aliexpress razor for two years, it's fine

if in doubt, boil it :^)

yeh thats what i was thinking @myuutsu

@hellomynameisJHWH >argonia

hello star trek species naming disease

heh lets just name the species after the planet

good one humans and human writers

I guess Cronos is different

i got a $2 razor off of amazon that's as chink as it can get

still use it after 4 years

dorco blades are pretty bad though

they dont hold much of an edge

>lithuanian MRE

>basically inediable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89AN4dx63A8

Are any MREs actually good though. All the ones I have had were pretty rubbish.

As a friend in the army once told me

They should great, but the laxative action is crazy

As a friend in the army once told me

They should great, but the laxative action is crazy

From what I hear

But I'd like to try one

Hard to source though

"I love fried chicken, but if I had to eat it every single day, sometimes warm, cold or soggy for a whole month, I would start to fucking hate it"

He basically said it's better that they're basic bitch because at least a mediocre taste is consistent

http://www.infowarsshop.com/Infowars-Life-Select-1-Year_p_1698.html

Get some Alex Jones approved shitty food

>infowars

No

>Patriot Panty Line

http://www.armyandoutdoors.co.nz/collections/cooking-eating/products/mre-single-meal?variant=2450385731

Pretty expensive for a single MRE

"THIS ITEM IS RECEIVING A HIGH VOLUME OF ORDERS - "

I fucking doubt it

http://www.armyandoutdoors.co.nz/collections/gifts-novelties/products/novelty-fur-handcuffs?variant=23289231683 Interesting item for a Army surplus store to have...

water filter merchant alex jones here

Can anyone recommend a good chink mouse?

unauthorized authentic razer mice

Love when things say genuine counterfeit

or cheapo steelseries