“how the fuck are you so good at this?”

Drawing a penis on the glass in the opening scene is like dropping the baby penguin off the map in Mario 64. It’s a compulsion. The thought enters your head and, once it does, must be executed for the simple goal of seeing if you can.

Valve: We need a way to sell our high end VR headset. Let’s release it with a long time fan favorite title; we can use Half Life to get people otherwise not interested in VR games into the ecosystem, and maybe they’ll get other games too!

Half Life fans: watch someone else play the game for free without buying Half Life or an Index

Valve: surprised Pikachu

but is there much gameplay if you remove the VR stuff?

Good question. The gameplay blends very smoothly with the Index and doesn’t feel gimmicky, it’s hard to say how much would feel “missing” playing on mouse and keyboard.

Well it’s a good thing PC parts are so cheap right now.

I’m not saying it’s easily accessible by any means, but you can definitely get a headset for a good deal less than $1500, and many (if not most) games can be played sitting at your desk in the same position you’d be in if holding a traditional game controller.

I agree it sucks that there’s no non-VR version. I just wanted to say that it isn’t exclusive to the obscenely wealthy or anything, if you already have a PC capable of running it you’re likely in a position to be able to swing getting the gear for it.

I have bot posts enabled and only see one from 4 days ago. The posts may have been purged.

It seems silly to me. The rocks don’t look like they’re made of plastic so unless someone already knows about them or finds a plaque to read about them they’re just going to assume that they’re big rocks. Which are pretty enough, don’t get me wrong, but rocks made of rock are also pretty, won’t potentially seep micro plastics into the ground, and don’t cost 100k a piece. If the point was to show off what can be made with recycled plastic, making something that looks naturally occurring and visually hiding the fact that it’s plastic is an odd way to do it.

Idk, I think more cities should invest in public art projects but this one seems pretty off. I get the concept. But if the idea is, “look what can be made with recycled plastic”, why not make a sculpture that’s actually interesting or pleasant to look at? It might’ve even been better if the rocks were just whatever color(s) they ended up being after they were made, but the based on images in the article it looks like they were made to literally just look like big rocks.

I feel like this project just does not achieve the goals it sets to meet. It’s not particularly thought provoking (unless there’s some sort of plaque that explains what it is, but who’s reading that?), and the visual appeal can be replicated at a fraction of the cost with something that does not need to be maintained and has zero chance of causing environmental harm.

but if the laws are anything like Massachusetts

Californian here. They’re not. Lol. I mean you can do a private party sale and the guy is welcome to store the rifle in his trunk on his way to the meet, but all firearm sales or transfers have to be done at an FFL (basically a registered gun store) and require a 10 day waiting period, meaning you’d meet with the person at the store, do a shit ton of paperwork, pay a fee to the FFL and the DOJ, go home without the gun. Then come back 10 days (specifically 240 hours) later to meet up again, do some more paperwork, pay the person, and you’re now the proud owner of a gun that cost you 15-25% more and infinitely longer to acquire than if you lived 200 miles to the East.

Thankfully, making guns so much more expensive and tedious to acquire than damn near everywhere else in the country has rendered it physically impossible for criminals to steal guns or otherwise obtain them illegally. Now, if someone goes on a killing spree in a shopping mall, they may face legal repressions if the paperwork doesn’t come back clean.

Click bait. Nothing to do with the files.

Why is every conflict marketed as “WWIII”?

I mean I know why but it’s annoying.