My uncle was the East coast director of sales for Nikon for years. In the mid 1980s he invested all his personal wealth in 3D photography. He attempted to get my mom and dad to investour families very very meager life savings.

Nostalgia is a depressing human impulse.

The individual story. These are mass market consumer widgets. The individual story is that it was manufactured by the tens of thousands. Sold in a mall . and then left under a television stand in a puddle of kool aid.

I love that even after all the terrible terrible business practices Valve has used people still think that they don’t charge because they are cool.

Well if all you do in chat is yell obscenities at 12 year olds than no I guess you don’t need it.

It really really is though. Its a core functionality. If people don’t use it that’s fine but online games are meant to be played WITH others. Or you’d just play with bots.

If it makes you feel any better I didn’t move at all and didn’t make my first lasting friendship until my early 20s. Those kids were dicks.

Right. Its a propriety  splitter. If this costs more than $2.99 its ridiculous. Youcan buy this device (non squid shape variety) anywhere for almost nothing.

Exactly. We have people defending this when the ACTUAL story is just that simple.

What? This is less flexible. Right now you can use your phone to do all those things and have your console or pc handle your chat. Thismakes that less convenient. Now your phone is needed to provide the chat functionality. This will not “take off” because it’s objectively worse than literally every single other…

How good does that sound when you do it? How often have you had to tell someone to turn down their tv sound?

Ha! Not only did I do that. I had a complex and terrible multiple tape recorder (multi tracking system). I thought I invented that shit! So terrible sounding. 

That would be a disaster dude. RRunning tv audio (on a delay) through the Mic your using is a recipe for unplayable feedback loops.

Right it’s the 7 that has the inexcusable cash grab proprietary headphone bullshit.

Young kids? Most kids have phones. llive in a working class area and my kids were the last of their friends to get phones. I waited until they were each 10.

Well many who played the new pvp reported much higher escapability and higher ttk’s. I actually like it. The 3v3 modes were the most interesting and satisfying modes. larger modeswere too chaotic.

Yeah I’m a sucker for pathos and ptsd in friends so I’d probably want to hang with soldier.

I like it actually. If the gloves were removed it would be quite nice. Thegloves really do make it overkill though.

It’s pretty clearly an aspirational statement.  

The original game was set well after electric lights were invented but the story took place on the frontier.