The slightly less boring answer is an Xbox series x/s controller with an armor x pro or just the armor x strikepack.

The “strikepack” slots into the battery door slot and has a usb-c rechargeable 1300mah battery, four programmable rear buttons, and the ability to function as an xbox, playstation or switch controller.

The pro version also has a gyroscope input for playstation and switch controller modes or can be set to convert onboard gyro to joystick input (with lots of manual settings you can tweak if needed) so you can use gyro to aim or steer in games that don’t support it/xbox.

My only gripe is the usb dongle needs decent line of sight with the controller.

https://shop.bigbigwon.com/products/bigbigwon-armorx-pro-wireless-back-button-for-xbox-series-x-s-controller

I dont care what android is on paper, in practice it shares almost nothing in common with the rest of linux and it isn’t instructive how this could be done with an actually FOSS os.

Yes, basically the scoreboard for civilians murdered by Israel vs Hamas started to make even the zionists feel awkward about the blatant horror apparent from the quantification of the Palestian genocide so they complained to daddy and the US walked over, gave a murderous look to journalists and unplugged the scoreboard.

This was months and months ago and frankly it is disgusting when news outlets cite that number without that tragic context of “ignorance is bliss”.

I was around back then and if you think post 9/11 US wasn’t a conservative hellscape of intolerance and jingoism I don’t know what to tell you?

The reason you don’t see advertisements like this is because the kind of investment entities that control game companies big enough to buy ads in playboy don’t consider it a profitable venture vs marketing on violence which is considered more family friendly than even the mere presence of a naked body in western globalized societies.

This has been true for a long time and as with anything there are exceptions… and conker is one of them… but it was an exception then as it is now.

If you want to talk about the diversity of topics and tones around sexuality that have been explored in modern indie gaming vs what was acceptable in the past well yeah… nowadays indie artists are able to do waaaaay more without being silenced by christian rightwing fundamentalism and its claw like grip on our society. I don’t think that was your point though.

is it going to have splitscreen co-op because that was my favorite part of helldivers

There will be no mercy for those that repeatedly airstrike hospitals, which is exactly why netanyahu is doing this, he wants a generation of enemies to prop up the legitimacy of his shit regime and blatant bigotry.

Also no media organization should ever print the phrase “ordered to evacuate hospital” in this context. This is just a terrorist attack, an airstrike on people that are so vulnerable and helpless that you can laugh in their face and tell them exactly who you are going to murder next with your bombs and it won’t make any difference because they cannot run.

Rot in hell Blinken, you are undeniably complicit in genocide along with Biden and your words on the topic are wasted breath.

May the rest of Blinken’s life be a short and painful one with a brutal terminal illness befitting of a traitor to human rights who was willing to condemn +100,000 innocent people to death because it was good for their career.

Too bad Luigi isn’t a cop, then they might have given him a slap on the wrist and a description of events in the media that read “last night the trigger of Luigi’s self defense weapon caused ignition in the barrel which resulted in a bullet being ejected at high speed. Healthcare provider and loyal family man Brian Thomson was tragically caught in the path of the (*several) bullets. Authorities are investigating the bullets to determine their motive.”

yeah my suggestions are for “bar vibes” not literally being a virtual bar

Not the answers you are looking for but I feel like the vibes you want are best met by games like…

webfishing

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146520/WEBFISHING/

no man’s sky

the nerd.nu pve minecraft server (for shared public spaces made by players that feel real and actually social). Very long running with no lame autoteleport so player made rail, roads and nether roads create emergent highways and gathering spots in a meaningful way that is exceedingly rare for open world multiplayer

https://nerd.nu/

or doing logi jobs in Foxhole

https://store.steampowered.com/app/505460/Foxhole/

Hot Take:

Ulysses > The Odyssey

I also get the feeling the VR market started out a lot like the mobile gaming market in that mba business majors who have zero ability or to desire to make genuinely artistic and compelling experiences choked out any other kind of person being in leadership positions in the industry.

Similar to mobile gaming the rush of business majors who “think” they know how to transform vr gaming when they don’t know the first thing about game development and have never bothered to pursue a creative venture in their life that wasn’t just a thinly veiled scheme to scam other people out of their money has severly stunted the growth of the vr industry indefinitely as it did the mobile gaming market.

The very structure of the largest companies in VR (besides perhaps valve) precludes the possibility of any actual artists and developers with a vision getting into positions of power in these companies and even if they do, they are never actually listened to or you wouldn’t get embarassingly empty visions of VR like “the metaverse”.

VR, like mobile gaming cannot be understood as an out growth of the traditional gaming world, rather VR in particular must be understood as a market constructed by non-experts who didn’t give a shit about learning gaming development or how to create compelling fantasy worlds because the objective was always to be a digital landlord speculating and monetizing on an ownership of large swathes of digital communities that artists showed up and made into actual spaces people desired to be (artists are an unpaid detail though, that kind of fluff is easy, an AI could do it and besides it is fun for them!).

Unfortunately for VR fans I don’t think the industry will take any significant strides until those kinds of people are kicked out of the boadrooms of these companies and I don’t see that happening anytime soon given how long mobile gaming has been a squandered wasteland of casinos that nothing with any vitality or soul can grow in.

Let AAA die.

I don’t give a shit generally about AAA games but the value of having large stable game development studios goes beyond the direct games they create, this is a crucial stepping stone for would be indie game development studio founders detonated and destroyed and mark my words the collapse of stable, consistent employment in the game development industry will play right into a brutal deleveraging of worker’s negotiating power and lead to further consolidation in the industry around AAA studios that have to try less and less hard (and pay their developers less and less) because very few indie studios will be able to weather these manufactured and designed shocks to the system.

This is the same old strategy cut throat robber barons/capitalist oligarchs always use to steal from workers.

Let me repeat myself because this keeps coming up,

It’s a superior replacement to about any other plane

Sure, if you pretend money doesn’t exist? Baseline for getting your money’s worth from spending 1.5 TRILLION more than anybody else on development of a type of airplane is that your airplane should be the best airplane of that type.

That doesn’t prove that money was well spent, it just proves you have way more money than anybody else to throw at things though I guess the confusion makes sense, we 'muricans have such a very hard time telling the difference between those two concepts.

These massive cost overruns aren’t just a single one time strategic failure, like a good modern western tech product the f35 is built to burn money over its entire lifetime by having WAY higher operating costs. Thus the failure is compounded and compounded and as Sun Tzu would point out, the battle has been lost before it even began.

“Maybe you’re actually being anti racist bc you want the US to have worse planes to kill brown children with cx”

hmm 4d chess I like it lol

I guess you have never heard of the concept of “too big to fail”? because you basically just made an argument that pretends that massive, corrupt and ethically dubious corporations don’t routinely employ this strategy as a defensive bulwark against society getting upset about the extreme degree of systematic theft they are doing.

There’s actually not much info on how often other jets break down.

…what?

This is…one of the single biggest metrics people talk about in evaluation of military aircraft development projects?

Why has everyone temporarily lost their critical thinking skills in this thread?

Wait I thought it was patriotic to be casually racist about Iran? Did I do that wrong? Damn I didn’t slip in enough jingoism did I?

I am not insulting Iranians and their capacity to develop weapons, I am in fact ashamed my country overthrew democracy there and yet pretends Iran is just irrationally evil like a stupid disney villain or something. Most of my country (the right, center and center “”“left”“”) isn’t interested in understanding anything beyond a superficial association of Iran with evil.

I am insulting all of you who unreflectively accept these ridiculous framings of war and national security that feed right into the cancerous growth of the military industrial complex.

I also wasn’t making fun of Iranians or being racist, I was pointing out the absurdly unfair matchup in military budgets between the US and Iran makes the comparison between the two and evaluations of the effectiveness of US weapons programs in terms of resources consumed an absolute joke.

…and the third option was a nextgen fighter development aircraft program that didn’t have horrific ballooning costs?

The F-35 would be good if they hadn’t wasted so much time and energy and weight on having a pilot in it. On board pilots are a complete waste.

no, as a manned fighter the f35 is an embarassment of an arms development program independent of any discussion about the effectiveness of future manned vs. unmanned fighters. The program is a historic cost overrun and makes the litoral class of us navy ships look downright functional and frugal in comparison.