Except for storage capacity.

I don’t think that was ever any secret.

I have to agree with him, honestly. HL2 was novel for its time, but if you’re playing it for the first time in 2026 then yeah, it really doesn’t hold up to modern game experiences. I also dislike games that end ambiguously or on cliffhangers, and the lack of closure provided from sequel-bait endings like HL2’s can be annoying to people who just want to play a complete story. I want to see it through to the end and get the feeling that my actions had any sort of consequence to the world, and HL2 really doesn’t provide that.

And narratively, the fact that Gordon is a silent protagonist really doesn’t make the player feel like they’re a real part of that world, and rather they’re just going along for an on-rails carnival ride. The player has no real agency to affect anything that isn’t a part of the singular route offered by the game. This would be okay if it was a role-playing game, and the player is intended to use their imagination to fill in the blanks, but HL2 is a wholly linear game where characters just bark commands at you from start to finish.

Honestly, for being a negative review, I think he was very fair about it. It’s an important part of gaming history, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into a great experience for modern players.

It’s not like Meta just shut down some random game studios. They chose to get into bed with Meta. This was the most predictable outcome.

Kill or be killed.

Dial Home Device.

I fear it’s actually worse than nothing, due to the precedent it’ll set for other platforms.

Whether or not you read it doesn’t really matter and isn’t the point.

But what would I fill the jar with?

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Stadia was a Squandered Opportunities masterclass. That platform had SO much potential; the tech was there, and the tech worked, but Google hired the worst possible person to run the project.

Should keep playing, maybe you’ll recreate the SM64 upwarp glitch. :)

Chronus can be detected on consoles, just not super easily. And it kinda depends on each game’s developer and their ability to implement such detections. I know that Embark Studios have said that they’ve found ways to detect such devices in The Finals.

I believe that, while they can’t detect the actual hardware plugged into the console, they’re able to detect input patterns that would only be possible from M/K (such as 0ms AD-spamming). Of course, I can’t imagine that’s 100% foolproof on its own, either.

I’m kinda out of touch with hardware pricing these days. Let’s say I wanted to buy a second PS5 for the purposes of turning into a desktop like this; would that be better or worse than just buying normal hardware and building a PC of equivalent specs?

If this is something you want to try for yourself, either buy a second PS5 and use a burner account on it, or be prepared for the possibility of losing your entire PSN account. This goes for pretty much any internet-enabled console modding.

Nintendo deactivated a 10+ year old account of mine when I tried modding a Wii a while back. It wasn’t a huge deal at the time, because I still had physical copies of most of my games at that point. But these days, my library is almost entirely digital, so I keep separate fuck-around accounts so that I don’t find-out with an account I’ve spent money on.

How?

I mean… now that Grok mentions it, they do look kinda similar…

I’m not sure if you’re joking or not, but I literally saw offset 2010 glasses exactly like that.

Honey is different, because it basically never spoils. There have been jars of honey found at archeologist dig sites that were hundreds of years old (or more) that are still perfectly edible.

Those assholes probably kept a working version of Inbox for themselves. 😡

How’s the person supposed to know there is even anything on the card…?

Because it’s an arcade and loading funds is what people do with those cards. Also, those cards are generally accountless, and not tied to any sort of identifying information, so snatching one up and pocketing it is trivial and nobody would give you a second look if you tried using it on another machine.