u/TwinStickDad

I just booted up Jurassic World Evolution 2 and was struck by how easy it is. Snatch a dino, put it in the pen, drop some rocks and trees in there, print money, repeat. If there's something you can't afford, put the game on high speed and wait. Then you can afford it.

Good Company was kind of the same. Once you design a product and have your production set up, you're just waiting to make enough money to design a new product and do it again.

Software Inc is the same. Once you've got a couple releases under your belt you literally can't spend money fast enough.

Really I'm looking for a game where you are making hard decisions about your resources, time, and focus. Where there are stakes. Does anyone have suggestions?

Bummer

I've gone through about a dozen first alert alarms since I moved into my house four years ago. All brand new, many less than a year old. They are supposed to last for ten years.

They always end up giving false positive alarms and stay that way. One day it's just a single sequence for a few seconds (hopefully during the day) and then a few days later it's going off and won't stop until I disable it.

For reference these are the kind with the built in battery that you can't replace. And it's not kitchen smoke - these are failing all over the house.

So I'm looking for recommendations for smoke detectors that detect smoke and only smoke. Anyone have nice things to say about their smoke detectors?

So when the kids are babies, they cry for everything they want because of course they do they're babies and they don't know any better.

And when they're 12, obviously you tell them that they can't cry and have a fit to get an ice cream cone because that behavior doesn't fly.

So something changes between ages 0 and 12... My question to you all is what, and when, did you do to help your kids express themselves more productively?

Mods please remove if not related enough to Frame, but I think this video is super interesting. He goes into a deep dive on Oculus founding, the 2016-2018 era of AAA VR games, and what happened to Oculus and the VR industry generally since then. He ends the video by talking about the Steam Frame and says what we all know, its massive advantage is that it's not from Meta.

It's great perspective on the kinds of forced corporate decisions that Meta has made, and the kinds of monolithic business decisions that Valve is (hopefully) empowering studios to move beyond by putting PCVR back in the forefront.

This has been posted on other subs but IMO the other VR subs are incredibly pro-Meta biased, so I'm curious to hear what others think.

The best I can do is "Economy" + "Management" which gives me a pretty complete list of business management games, but it also gives me 4x, RTS, and Grand Strategy games (and some automation and colony builders, which may or may not fit into the definition of Tycoon).

What tags are you using to find your business management games, or hunt for good ones on sale?

There has been some... let's say contention around "who gets to post what" and "why did my post get deleted just because it was the fifth time in an hour that someone posted the exact same thing"

Since we are seemingly rather close to an announcement, I'd like to ask the mods to create megathreads for the following:

- Announcement: to celebrate vindication and dissect every word and video frame about the announcement

- Release: For us to post about our inevitable storefront issues, share screenshots of "I got it [reserved / purchased]!" and general jubilation

- Delivery Show-Off: We will inevitably be flooded by posts of people excited to show off their Frame, maybe we need to have a week or two period after deliveries begin where everyone posts their photos to one single thread so that discussion isn't choked out.

I shot the teenage boy checking me out a cautionary gaze, I'll consider that my community service for the day

My wife is so excited for the surprise that she wasn't even speaking to me most of the day yesterday!!

I'm sick of waiting for Frame. Valve messed up big time, apparently totally unaware that a much more immersive headset is already on the market. If you follow the news, you already know what I'm talking about.

That's right, the MUSICOZY Bluetooth Sleep Mask

https://preview.redd.it/ukfjokgfrxzg1.png?width=538&format=png&auto=webp&s=4ad7ed72cff82ee39c3c61e720f5adb6a3546e8c

Let's do a quick side by side

All you fanboys COPING about the Steam Frame like it isn't outclassed in almost every area by a $30 headset. Join me in the new millennium, leave the Steam LAMEBRAIN behind.

I'm thinking black silicone for light sealing but open to suggestions

There were a lot of folks claiming that Valve was killing interest in their products by not releasing them on schedule, or ghosting us after the February delay announcement. But, based on all the new users asking questions that we've already seen 100x over the past few months (I'm not complaining btw) the Frame is even more hotly anticipated than when they announced! Glad to see it.