It'd be better, but selling that much land for this bullshit is still unconscionable.

A queue system really undercuts any scalper that would consider the controller a good target. There will of course be people without patience that could payout, but the larger market will just wait until their turn to order comes up. Seems like a bad investment for someone that relies on FOMO to profit.

Worth noting that's not the date you should check back, more of a "by this date" suggestion. Reservations are still being served regularly, so keep an eye out for that email.

They pretty much single-handedly instigated this comm getting a new, actually active mod team and a slew of new rules. Silver linings, I guess.

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has anyone tried this?

Yeah, a little bit ago: https://www.si.edu/...

Are rumble motors not physical machines that wear out with use? Or is there some new tech that I'm unaware of?

"So behind"

They're dealing with exorbitant demand during a time when tech and hardware prices are skyrocketing. They're doing quite well given the circumstances, imo.

Average lifetime for consumer brushless motors seems to be ~10,000 hours, so far from "the heat death of the universe". Regardless, I'm not sure why you're being so dismissive and rude about it.

This would wear out the motors a lot, right? Not that people shouldn't do what they want with their stuff, I would just be worried about wear and tear.

It'd be about $42 million, taking inflation into account. So at least a few more ram sticks.

Because headphones didn't exist before apple invented them...

People are whining and calling this a "disaster" as if Valve should have planned for a global hardware shortage. If anyone wishes they could sell these things as fast as possible, I'm sure it's Valve themselves. Personally, I appreciate the transparency and, while I was disappointed with the poorly thought out first attempt, this process is much better than just waiting for additional launch windows to randomly pop up and hoping to get lucky. The queue system is, imo, the best way to handle high demand items like this. I'm glad they're sticking with it.

I reserved around 12 minutes in and, after saying "September 2026" for a few hours, mine popped up last night. Glad I checked again as I sort of assumed the order would be given in September. So fair warning to others.

Hey dumbass (not OP), it didn't "lie" or "hide it". It doesn't have a mind, let alone the capability of choosing to mislead someone. Stop personifying this shit and maybe you won't trust it to manage crucial infrastructure like that and then suffer the entirely predictable consequences.

The thing with these fashion trends is that there's always a percentage of people that never move on. I'm sure that these aliens can find the guys they're looking for somewhere.

"We're hateful because you want us to not be." is such a dumb, lazy retort. It's not even an argument, just childish "Nu uh, you are" echoing of criticism. It somehow makes their bigotry worse than if they would actually put some effort into defending it.

People are just too fucking dumb. Most can only rationalize that current thing bad = current leader bad = different leader better, and there's no end of grifters taking advantage of that.

"Uncle Tom" means something very specific, not "black man I dislike/disagree with". Using it like that is just racist.

Are you suggesting that's not part of game development?