The UK is a lot further north, and it’s probably not a massive loss.

It was enough to prevent me getting “free” solar panels (while that was a thing) though, so I’m still salty about that.

All the new houses around here with no solar would indicate that is not true. They’re not even required to have a south facing roof.

If you have a solid gaming PC, yes. There is no immersion quite like VR. No amount of monitors will get you there.

It’s a bit of a faff each time you want to get it going (having to start the link each time), at least compared to a dedicated headset like the original Rift. The Quest 3 is a bit pricy, the 3S and 2 not so much. There’s a few decent exclusives for the 3 that aren’t even available on PC, so of the two I’d get the 3S.

Low framerate will make you dizzy. The resolution not so much. You will need a decent GPU.

Most VR games are fairly small and low budget affairs. The big exception is Half Life Alyx which is amazing. The game I come back to the most is VRChat, just for the massive number of worlds that people have made. It will help you get your VR legs over time.

It was either that or show that picture of Bin Laden again.

They didn’t have to but they did anyway.

What did Episode 1 and 2 push forward?

It will consist of 4 x 20 second rounds and they will both be wearing inflatable Hulk Hands.

The expected pay day is $100 million each.

I don’t see why it would only be Chinese immigrants doing it.

It’s all over the place.

It’s all fun and games until you’re left with a bunch of crap you can’t sell, or it turns out you were shipping dangerous products and now you’re on the hook for it.

Enjoy your 5% profits though.

Elon turned it into his own personal Nazi blog where people can’t block him.

The first is a bit rough. It got a remake with Black Mesa which used to be free, but I don’t think it is any more.

I’d honestly just start with 2. It’s a better game all round. You can always go back and play Black Mesa later if you like it.

If you have a VR headset and a decent rig, Half Life Alyx is well worth it. I’d definitely play HL2 plus Episodes 1 and 2 before heading into that one.

I do wonder how much higher that would be if GPUs targeting 4K were £299 rather than £999.

Although some of it is down to monitors being on desks right in front of you and 4K not really being needed. It would also be interesting to for Valve to weight the results by hours spent gaming that month (and amount they actually spend on games), rather than just counting hardware numbers.

Maybe not monitors, but certainly they are standard for TVs (which are now just monitors with Android TV and a tuner built in).

An the issue for PC gamers is that Nvidia has spent the last few years convincing devs to shovel DLSS into everything, rather than a generic upscaling solution that other vendors could just drop their own algorithms into, meaning there’s a ton of games that won’t upscale nicely on anything else.

I just don’t get whey they’re so desperate to cripple the low end cards.

Like I’m sure the low RAM and speed is fine at 1080p, but my brother in Christ it is 2024. 4K displays have been standard for a decade. I’m not sure when PC gamers went from “behold thine might from thou potato boxes” to “I guess I’ll play at 1080p with upscaling if I can have a nice reflection”.

Matchbox were always better.

Fun fact. Coal plants release more radioactive materials than nuclear plants.]

Except the ones that blew up. Those ones were extra spicy.

Seems to be just photovoltaics and spinny things.

Thank fuck. Can we have cheaper graphics cards again please?

I’m sure a RTX 4090 is very impressive, but it’s not £1800 impressive.

Well they only need to do the first part of that.

It’s slightly less impressive when you realise they could have built a massive slide instead and got mostly the same result.

Guess it’s better than a massive diesel truck though.