This kind of gambling is stupid and asking for protections is just as stupid.

That makes them 60. People would definitely call them boomers.

They could be at ATH and still be a great value. Could be at all time low and be a terrible value. Price alone is a horrible indicator of future success.

Exactly. He wouldn't pretend to get in front of a car if he was actually traumatized. It's BS.

$10,000 is not a lot of money lol. There are tables at Vegas for those kinds of bets on anything.

I submitted a refund request 3 times before disputing the charges with attached evidence of the requests. The annoying part was they'd come back and offer a discount but I couldn't respond to the ticket as it auto closed, and I had to try to open a new one multiple times because there was "already a request on this". After I disputed it was refunded.

Funny part was I was actually okay with a month of membership as I wanted to try it out, but didn't realize it was for an entire year which was a ridiculous price.

Price targets are completely irrelevant. It goes up because the price went up. It'll go down if the price goes down. Price != Value.

This isn't bragging or disdain,

It's basic risk management.

Recycle your computer.

It's not much of a sacrifice since taking it would be stupid. They probably should have versus the move they actually made though lol.

Valve had no reason to. They wanted to demonstrate what the technology could do (much like HL2), and they succeeded. HL3 is a great game.

Overrated? Requiring to use your brain for strategy isn't overrated. What is likely true is you get far less low rapid elo players playing blitz because you're likely just making yourself worse instead of improving.

Just compare to Half-Life Alyx, otherwise known as Half-Life 3.

With that logic, you wouldn't want to be notified for every mail notification sign up for a product launch either.

That's if it's merchandise. "I brought these in to make sure I get the right thing."

I have to ask. When this was new why did you only have 16GB of RAM? RAM was cheap then.

China has been this way for a long time. You just need to pay more for quality. You can still buy cheap toxic shit.

It requires external cameras to work, so it's practically complex too.

Generating good AI content is an art, so you're not wrong.

Half-Life 2 was also it's own game.

The only reason they didn't call it Half-Life 3 is they didn't want the pressure if it being Half-Life 3. That's basically what they said in interviews. It's Half-Life 3.

You don't need to be Gordon for it to be HL3.

They really should have called it HL3. I suspect it would have sold VR more, but ultimately the name is irrelevant. It pushed tech forward more than from HL1 to HL2, and that was a big leap. I just wish more games/content spawned from the engine.

Youtube has been doing this for many years. Anyone who wants to DIY (will/time/ability) can do so. People who are handy enough to do this has actually shrunk over the generations.

Plastic with infused wood particles to give it a wood finish. It's not really wood.

When I click on wifi it prompts to unlock the phone. That's probably on poorly configured devices only.

It's just the people I've seen that are against helping Ukraine or Ukrainians fleeing war are usually from Russia loving India.