You might be interested to know that when connected to a PC and using Steam you can turn off the controller quickly with PS+Triangle.

They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.

https://foundryvtt.com/kb/

Depends on what part of “set up” you’re referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from “here is a packaged Electron based Windows application” to “here are the node.js source files”. All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.

Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that’s going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.

Couple of things I have running on my home server no one has mentioned yet.

FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.

Pihole is probably something you’ve heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven’t it’s a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.

The issue with just using the geometry from the 3D engine/api and rendering it as stereoscopic is that not everything occupies a specific location in space.

Most notable are UIs which are going to vary wildly in exactly how they’re drawn. Also anything that works on screen space or per pixel basis is going to behave in strange ways.

None of it is unsolvable, but it’s definitely nontrivial.

Because names mean nothing Nvidia has also labeled their frame generation as “DLSS”.

Not having a degree doesn’t mean they don’t know math.

Hide behind the mountain of dead bards!

Your example of giving a poor person money which they spend and circulate into their local economy is literally the opposite of “trickle down”.

Yeah, absolutely. There are plenty of RAW ways to allow a bbeg to monologue, at least to some degree.

Of course it’s also entirely within the GM’s power to just tell the players to let it happen, but it definitely feels better when there’s some kind of in game reason why.

By the rules of the game you can’t surprise someone who is aware of your presence, so you’re correct.

That also means you don’t automatically get to interrupt a monologue by blasting the bbeg in the face mid-sentence. You need to roll initiative to see if you are able to act before they can respond.

That all reeks of effort though.

Alright, my bad, though you still haven’t provided a link to any of these.

Also, from what I can see that 8645HS iGPU does not match a PS5 in performance and has exactly the same iGPU as the 8700G. It’s not even close to a PS5’s performance.

…none of the processors you list seem to exist? The only “7800” ryzen is the 7800X3D which retails for more than that by itself, let alone in a complete system, and I highly doubt you mean the A10 7800 which is over a decade old. No AMD CPU or APU that I can find has ever been branded as 8800 or 8900.

The closest and highest end match to any of those numbers, the 8700G, falls well short of a PS5. There’s no way it counts as close unless you’re talking astronomical scales and “within an order of magnitude” is considered “close”. The iGPU on the 8700G being a newer architecture than the RDNA2 in the PS5 doesn’t make up for the fact that the PS5 has three times as many compute units.

I’ll happily eat crow if you can link to one of these alleged $300-$400 PCs.

I think you misunderstand. It was painful for Valve to cut the margin so thin, assuming they kept one at all.

According to Valve’s messaging at least the Deck launched at the lowest price they possibly could manage.

I’d like to see a link to a parts list that provides PS5 level performance for $300 in any form factor.

To your last point, back when the Steam Deck launched they described its price point at the time as “painful” but felt it was necessary. Turns out they made the right call and it was wildly successful, so hopefully they stay the course on “painful” pricing.

Hey. There could also be some Record<string, any>.

Everyone is clowning on the order, but clock faces also traditionally use IIII instead of IV.

I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.

I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.