the actual issues are that everything is basically shim-based (Steam officially supports theirs, Oculus stuff needs https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive), and any game that tries to show you a visual representation of your control might be slightly wrong in terms of button placement, but the hardware itself is genuinely good (reasonably high resolution, decent quality panels, it’s probably ~30% better than a PSVR and 10% behind a Vive in my experience) and if you’re used to software shims it’s a fine value
Yeah the visual design has more saturated colors and the simplifications are cartoony rather than blocky/polygonal, which is very much the trend of the moment and not particularly Half-Lifey.
Also I thought the City 17 setting was played out when I played Episode 1 in 2006, so going back to that well is ehhh…
That said I will still enjoy playing any variation featuring that cop flatline noise
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what is a shim
wine
smh
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yeah but it’s like 1/4 the cost of comparable hardware and it does head tracking without any other gear
them’s the breaks
can I wear the nerd helmet and use mouse and keyboard?
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Very noticeable in the green ‘power sparkles’ heading up the power lines towards the tower, you’d never see that color or that gamey a signifier in 2004 Valve. In a post-DOTA 2-Valve, though, there’s heady training in these visualized ability splashes.
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Also dammit I was going to hang around a friend’s place to play through the game but I really am going to need my own headset for making a level huh
robert guillaume passed away
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Far Cry 5 came with a pretty good level editor.
pretty weird to see all this attention on tactile gun operating porn lifted straight out of the popular hobbyist genre that very explicitly avoids living targets
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lmao
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it’s not the same actor for alyx either, but whoever is doing the new voice sounds like a much closer match
I’m just being finicky, the new actor for eli sounds fine. it just seems like a different personality.
aren’t you doing webdev now
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everyone knows web developers aren’t real programmers
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A shim is a spacer/thing you wedge in between two other things to keep something in place.
Apparently shim is also an API.
I have no idea which one people are talking about in this thread.
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gender obviously, try to keep up here 
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