You mean the one that was released in 2015, and they stopped selling in 2019, then continued to support for at least four more years?

That’s the one?

And we compare that to what? Can I get support on my Xbox 360 wireless controllers still? How about my dual shock controller for a PS3? Google surely still updates the stadia controller, right? They didn’t give up on it less than a year after the stadia service was taken down… Right?

With the exception of maybe 8bitdo or something, their support for that controller was extremely good, and the fact that they made it 10 years ago, and stopped selling it 6 years ago, but only stopped supporting it 2 years ago, that’s pretty good, IMO.

Exactly right. And this is driving my point. There are options. If you don’t like one option, try something else.

Pretty much every controller design has positives and negatives that change depending on who is using the controller. I enjoy the xbox one/series controllers for the most part, and they’re fairly reliable and my usual go to. I also have a dual shock somewhere that I don’t really use, and a stadia controller that was patched to work with anything, which gets more action than the dual shock, but not nearly as much as the Xbox controllers.

I usually play with kb/mouse, so controllers are already pretty rare in my gaming experience, but they make an appearance from time to time.

With these new steam controllers, I might see a good reason to use a controller more frequently… Especially if I can afford the $900+ that the steam machine will probably cost… They said it would be “competitively” priced in relation to PCs, not consoles. So I’m expecting $900+ right now. Time to start saving.

Good luck.

You’re probably right.

I keep applying!

I have yet to get a call…

Well, I meant it as a joke, but if you insist.

Well, that was the point.

You always have to complete your work. Anything less will result in unemployment.

But the employment contract probably doesn’t say how fast you need to complete your work.

If you’re done early, take a break and scroll on your phone for a couple hours, then send in your completed work at the end of the day. No need to tell anyone you’re finished, just go about your day looking busy.

Oh. So you’ve become the enemy.

It’s nice that you outed yourself like that.

There used to be loyalty in business. Then they realized what a mistake that was.

You owe your employer nothing more than what’s legally agreed upon in your employment contract.

If they ask for more, your response without hesitation should be “fuck you, pay me”.

Don’t do anything for these fucks, for free.

This. Right here.

It generally doesn’t pay any better than just scraping by with minimum effort.

Also, it really does pay to be a hard worker, it’s just someone else that is getting paid for your hard work.

As long as we don’t end up going over the waterfall, that should be fine.

I get hate mail if my total time entered is less than 9 whole assed hours.

They want to know when I take a shit for fucks sake. What are they going to do, reprimand me if I take 20 minutes to take a dump?

“What were you doing that entire time?”

“Taking a shit”

“It doesn’t take 20 minutes to take a shit”

“Maybe for you”

…

Welcome to the club. Were you able to afford the fixer upper on your own, or did you need to split the financial burden with another person?

Welcome to the club.

What percentage of your income now goes to your mortgage payment? For me, it’s like 110%… But I have help, so my share is only like 35%

Yeah, the market only cares about the maximum that people will pay for it. You’re not offering the maximum, so you’re not important enough for the market forces to care about.

I’m not either, so… We’re in this boat together. You want to row on the starboard side? Or port?

Neat, go build another one down the river.

I would argue that, as long as valve gets it out the door, they support it. Index owners are still supported and that’s from a headset released in 2019. The oculus rift CV1 released in 2016 and it was killed around 2020 when oculus was purchased by Meta. Four years, and the headset is basically a paperweight for anyone who still owns one. A $600 USD paperweight.

Considering that the connection cable was the first thing to die and in 2020 meta stopped selling those cables, anyone I know who had one, including myself, either stopped using it, or was forced to stop when their cable inevitably broke.

There’s a dozen examples. The og steam controller, the steam link, and more recently the steam deck, which is still going strong.

Yes, they have issues getting ideas out the door, but when they get out the door, they’re supported for a good long while.

These don’t look like “we have an idea to build a thing” that will never make it to market… This looks like “we finally got a delivery date for these finished units and we’re excited about it”

I’m looking forward to it, no matter what. Valve has time and time again proven itself to be more consumer focused than other tech companies. More from them is good IMO.

That’s a big challenge, but a worthwhile one. The reason that Microsoft exploded in the DOS era was because it ran on everything that was “IBM compatible” aka x86. Meanwhile Apple was over there with a competitive product, but you could only run the software on their OS that ran in their hardware. People were able to get cheap third party x86 compatible computers and run MS-DOS (and later Windows), and they were not locked into a specific vendor doing top to bottom hardware/software support.

If they do this right, they’ll be the go to option for a lot of people who generally use their PC primarily for gaming.