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An unfortunate example.
I'm sure Vertigo Amsterdam was full of talented developers who love VR. The standalone market just can't sustain it.
They have "big games" in their portfolio (Arizona Sunshine, Metro Awakening), but a deeper look shows no PCVR exclusives.
Arizona Sunshine (original + Remake + Arizona Sunshine 2)
After the Fall
Metro Awakening
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow
The 7th Guest VR
Unplugged: Air Guitar
Hellsweeper VR
A Fisherman’s Tale (1 + 2)
Skyworld: Kingdom Brawl
Maskmaker
Traffic Jams
Every game on the list is either a standalone exclusive or cross platform.
Kids with standalone headsets have the attention span of a gnat and the buying power of a margin investor circa October 2029. They want free live service games that are interesting for 90 minutes. These games work on iPads and iPhones, but ffs they fail so hard in VR.
So when studios attempt to capture the PCVR and standalone markets simultaneously... Arizona Sunshine and Metro Awakening happens.
Objectively decent games, sure... But uninteresting to PCVR purists looking for and willing to pay for something extraordinary... and too expensive, too long, and too unremarkable to blow up among the tweens and 10 year old iPad kids with quest headsets.
#VR is for PC gamers.
We need a couple ballsy studios with the talent and capital to sell headsets (Valve), a couple PCVR/PC cross platform hyper-niche giants (Eagle Dynamics, iRacing), and an army of independent developers able and willing to risk building extraordinary experiences that will sell ~100k-~200k copies.
VR is extremely niche. Lowering the barrier to entry, mass marketing to casuals, subsidizing developers, and churning out mobile content has been tried at scale. It failed.
That doesn't mean VR is dead. VR is alive and well among its extremely niche market segment - flight sim nerds, racing sim nerds, and gamer adults with expendable income.
VR is for PC gaming. Standalone is a failed side show until such time as technological maturity makes standalone and PCVR indistinguishable from one another.
Until then, I think Valve has the right track with the frame. Make a great platform available to PC gamers and PCVR developers. Make it modular such that aftermarket tinkerers can go nuts. Don't leverage the whole damn business on it.
And don't worry too much about price because the market segment that matters isn't much worried about it either.
1 million regular PCVR users and 20 badass games is plenty good for VR.
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- Safety on when not firing. Non-negotiable.
- The VA is broken (fix it), but so are vets (compensate them).
- A Class (or equivalent) USPSA, PCSL, and PRS competitors can outshoot 99+% of the US Military and Law Enforcement.
- Tactics matter. Hard skills are prerequisite to tactics.
- Fitness is a hard skill. Train it.
- Speed, surprise, violence of action + hard skills still wins.
- Standalone did irreparable harm to VR.
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The kids and I went grocery shopping yesterday and I taught them the shopping cart theory.
Daughter: "So are people who don't return their carts bad people."
"We don't know if they're good or bad, only that they're selfish and lazy."
"Wow! there's a lot of selfish and lazy people here."
Yes, love. Yes there are.
Amazon is cooking!!??!!?
Secret Level - Teaser Trailer | Prime Video youtu.be/gLihxsmI_OU?si=FIZi… via @YouTube
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What a rare thing, to be free.
248 years ago, 56 free men, representing the American colonies, signed their names to a document effectively declaring war against the most powerful empire in the world. The war was won. America was born. And we were gifted a Republic... If we can keep it.
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He didn't know it was a police officer. Someone banging on his door announced themselves as a police officer. He answered his door while holding his legally owned firearm at his side in case someone posing as law enforcement intended to do him harm and under the (false) assumption that a law enforcement professional wouldn't murder him in his home for doing so.
The gunman failed to wait for backup before walking into a domestic, forfeiting the opportunity to employ contact/cover principles. The gunman failed to give verbal commands to the victim. The gunman failed to employ de-escalation techniques. The gunman was consumed by confirmation bias due to a single source report from a concerned neighbor that proved to be false but nonetheless led the gunman to the victim's home under the assumption violence was imminent.
The shooter behaved like an armed militant coward. Thank God it's not fall and there weren't any oaks dropping acorns or it could have been a mass casualty event.
Are game wardens allowed to murder hunters for walking to deer stands armed?
Can Amazon delivery drivers mag-dump a home owner for answering the door holding a gun at their side?
Are we going to start killing 2A auditors on sight?
Was this police officer truly so poorly trained that he "feared for his life" because a civilian had the audacity to own a firearm in his presence?
Martial profressions require their practitioners to incur risk to their own lives in favor of preserving the lives of others. Don't become a soldier or a cop if you're unwilling to die on the job.
Is "the right to bear arms" really a right if agents of the state can kill you for freely exercising it?
But yes, the officer will claim "I was scared," and will get some paid leave, a letter of reprimand, some retraining and then will be back on the beat.
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Gray Zone Warfare is really good. @gman228 and I grinded out the majority of the starter village tasks over the last two nights. It feels so good to have a giant open world tactical FPS with built-in purpose to go out and accomplish something. Sure, its a massive sandbox, but I'm compelled to play to to progress, grind, get more gucci gear, cash, and kit up for PVP hunts.
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Fallout Series was 15/10 LOVED it, really like the flash backs and they have quite of bit of source material to make sooooo many seasons. Would love to see some Battle of Anchorage scenes in the future, Liberty Prime etc. Now were pretty much playing Fallout all week!
Just finished the new Fallout TV series, @HaloTheSeries should take some notes on how to make a good game adaptation…
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I love all of you guys/gals but I feel like I get 150k views and thousands of shares on gun shit and mostly crickets on missing kids.
So……a solution must be found. I’m thinking I’m gonna have to start working with industry partners to do giveaways based on missing person shares.
And given my placement in the industry I’m near certain I can coerce pre release giveaways
🧵Seth spoke for a long time last night. I want to keep #SebastianRogers at the forefront. There are a lot of familial issues, as we are aware, but I want to share in this post about all the things he said about Sebastian.
(This will be long but I believe all points are important♥️)
-Sebastian is in regular classes, but in a program called "why we try." This program would allow Sebastian to have more time on school work/ have less questions on.
-He doesn't have a lot of shoes because his feet are growing. He has an old pair of tennis shoes, a new pairs of tennis shoes, and a new pair of boots that are all at Katie's house. Seth has no idea why the number of shoes Sebastian has is so secretive.
-Seth says Sebastian is not a 120lbs , more like 106.
-Sebastian was diagnosed with chromosomal deletion syndrome as a baby. From my understanding he was diagnosed with Autism at Vanderbilt last October.
-He has an iPhone (left a home) but it is locked down from apps and internet. Although, Seth says when his phone was not locked down, and he was at his house he would Minecraft videos on his phone on youtube.
-When Sebastian is at Seth’s, he FaceTimes Chris’ daughter a lot or she Facetimes him.
-When Sebastian is running, he runs like Naruto ♥️
-Seth had been teaching Sebastian how to cook, and shop/ find things at the grocery store.
-Sebastian REALLY likes math.
-The only thing he asked Seth for for Christmas was to see his grandparents in Texas.
-He last spoke to Sebastian on that Thursday after school. It was a short conversation about school and his day. Seth wouldn't call him on Katie's weekends, he didn't want to interfere with their time.
-Seth says Sebastian has an honest smile and an old soul.
-Seth said the closest thing to hiding Sebastian would do at his house was reading with a flashlight under his bed. He always knew he was there though.
-Sebastian has his fishing and sportsman license. He loves to fish.
-This is only coming up because of previous comments from mom and stepdad; Sebastian had no bed wetting issues while at Seth's house. He had issues apparently at Katie and Chris' with using the bathroom. He would often have pull-ups on when he would get to Seth's, and he would tell him to take it off.
-Sebastian was taught to always have his phone, wallet, and house key.
-Seth wasn't aware Sebastian liked Taylor Swift 😂
-Sebastian has an iron deficiency and bruises easily. He is supposed to take supplements in the morning and at night. Seth has never seen signs of abuse on him, and Sebastian has not mentioned that to Seth.
-He is not obsessed with flashlights, but he has been taught that they are important to keep on hand in case of bad weather etc.
-Sebastian is capable of staying at home responsibly for extended periods of time during the day.
-Sebastian has a "lazy eye" and his glasses are to correct that, his eyesight has gotten worse as he has gotten older. He puts his glasses on anytime he gets out of bed. His glasses have not been located.
-He had just bought himself a new student ID
-When Sebastian grows up he wants to work with animals.
-Seth doesn’t believe he would go on an adventure with a friend, he believes if he wanted to do that he would go with him.
-Seth believes in order for Sebastian to get in a vehicle he had to know the person or be forced. He has never run away before. He has never left with a friend without anyone knowing.
-Sebastian was already enrolled in school at the district Seth lives in, in preparation for his move.
-He is directionally challenged.
-Sebastian has Seth's number memorized.
-He had not taken any money with him, but money was found tucked in his room in an "atm" he had made.
-Every weekend Seth has with him is a good moment, everyday is a good moment, every time he gets to teach him something is a good moment.
#Tennessee #Missing
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Please welcome our new Community Manager, Corey aka @DevilDogGamer! 💪
A Designated Marksman in the US Marine Corps with a passion for Tactical FPS games, Corey has been a content creator for over a decade, covering various FPS games, including #GZW.
Lamang Island awaits
Alright, I didn’t think it was this drastic of a change…may just need to redownload.
It's been a couple weeks now, so the question is: have these recoil changes made a difference to you?
I'm enjoying Tarkov and I'm seeing a lot of people getting back into the game BECAUSE less recoil.
Just feels like a fun time in raid at the moment.
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