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Valve taking on consoles would be incredible for the space as a whole, but also Linux. Other storefronts would finally have to properly support it too.

You mean you don’t like certain artstyles. Because them games have better graphical fidelity than Cyberpunk, they are just not chasing “realistic” features.

So I’m expected to hold a wireless charger as well? When I can just have a light cable plugged in, generating less heat and for less time? Unless you are buying really low quality cables, they shouldn’t break and unless you are aggressive with it, the cable and the port will last years. When they eventually wear out, the cable is recyclable and depending on your phone, the USB-C port replaceable.

Wireless charging is for toothbrushes.

You can’t use a wireless charger while in bed. Unless it’s magnetic, then it’s also got the bending risk.

I lay in bed all the time with my phone charging, the cable bends, but I’m aware of it, it’s never broken. I’ve had this specific one for 4 years now.

What if I want to charge in a different room? Do I buy another wireless charger? That’s more cost and material again versus just a cable. Do I unplug the charger and take it with me? Cables just make way more sense. Your phone is tethered to something either way, might as well do it the more efficient and green way and plug a cable in.

You most likely have encountered a bug, more than one even, it’s just not been impactful enough for you to care or remember. They have ironed it out a lot since though, so most of the major ones have probably all gone.

I’m glad you can enjoy it though, that’s great! Sounds like you have had a good time.

The video was pretty poorly structured to be honest, should have been longer with better information and they didn’t post their data anywhere to read. I mean they had ~30 seconds just growing plants…

But the point stands, they weren’t testing 1 to 1 on batteries (hard to do anyway). There’s good reasons for why manufacturers havent just cranked it all to 200W charging.

The video isn’t a sudden revelation, we already knew how batteries behave, they’ve been tested in labs under much more strenuous conditions too.

She gets pissed off if you take 2 seconds to plug a phone in? Are you alright brother?

The charging pad might also break and they require cables themselves, plus all the materials to make the charging pad, plus every phone has to support wireless, which is even more materials. I’ve never broken a USB-C cable, that’s a user issue, you are either being way too aggressive with them, buying low quality ones, or both.

The charging pad itself probably requires a USB-C cable itself? It takes much more materials to make them than a cable…

https://www.ifixit.com/News/94409/wireless-charging-trading-efficiency-for-convenience

It’s true, but wireless charging is still inefficient and should be avoided.

This isn’t a fair like-to-like test though. They used iPhones, which use one battery and then for their 120W test they used iQOO 7, which has two batteries that charge in parallel. They aren’t testing the charge rate effects on a single battery, but just how different phones behave.

While it’s an okay test to see how certain models of phones hold up, it’s not a test for longevity of a single battery using fast and and not-as-fast charging.

So the title, as it often is these days on YouTube, is misleading.

Is this because it’s using two-cells though, or is it comparing charging one cell vs multiple.

Wireless charging sucks. It costs significantly more energy to charge the same battery to full.

I’d like to live in that idealistic world you have in your head, but we don’t live in that, humans are selfish by nature, so we have capitalism. Doesn’t mean we cannot control it, keep it fair. One person makes a cool piece of art? Sure, I’ll pay them. You are looking far too deep into it, I’m sorry. You’re going to stress yourself out.

You determine your own worth of something. But thats literally what paying for something or a service is. Balatro is worth its price to me, I can play it for hours now, not touch it an play it for hours in a year, two, whatever. Someone made a nice game, I buy it and play it, it’s about as simple as capitalism gets in games.

Not everything has to have infinite value forever, I will get bored of a game and will never play it again, does that mean I should have never bought it and enjoyed the experience it gave me??? Am I missing your point here or is that just a wild take?

There’s no Battlefield moments is the problem. It’s incredibly soulless and basic.

The gunplay is just awful, no gun has identity, they all just feel so similar. Point and shoot, hope the enemies dies before you do. No skill in it anymore.

The maps are so, so, so bad, they have zero flow and are clearly made to try and support every single gamemode, same problem BF4 had, but at least that game executed on a few.

Teamplay, as you say, is completely gone, they want everyone to feel special at all times rather than them having their moment. They could completely remove classes and it would make no difference to how the game plays.

And Arc… yeah, the falloff is inevitable, that’s the most generic looter/extraction shooter I have ever played.

I would have expected someone to say with Halo 4 rather than Infinite.

I can see that, if the style of humor doesnt click with you, then it’s got a pretty repetitive mission formula which can get boring.

I think GTA 6 is (and will be) very overhyped. I dont see it living up to the previous titles at all.

Most recently Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders.

I think Battlefield 6 is basic enough to capture the stray call of duty crowd, but it’s very dumbed down and not at all a Battlefield game.

And Arc Raiders, as I have said in another thread, is incredibly bland. I think thats hyped and popular because it’s the first real taste of an extraction shooter for consoles.

Not that quickly that you dont get your money’s worth though. Balatro is a good mobile game honestly, for a quick run when you have time to kill, but I wouldnt find myself sat at my PC playing it.