I'm not sure I want to resist

Valves is positioning itself as a video game company, but this hardware hints that they could become the next apple alternative for devs and nerds of all kinds after some iterations and community work.

Ordering 4. You rock.

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The aesthetic feels like those old school sound systems, which I always enjoyed. The buttons are a reminiscence of this as well. Lighter, and in plastic, but you just know what to do and what happened. No idiotic false positive with tactile craps, or impossible to remember moves to do basic stuff

Also I love the design:

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The little nod to audio tapes is both retro cool and modernist in a way.

The experience is just smooth and makes sense. You slide the power switch, it's ON. You hold it, it's pairing. The sound wheel has a nice click as you precisely adjust the volume just under your thumb. Prev/next is a simple slide you can find blind.

You can't mess it up. Feedback is clear.

Clearly access to culture, weather, alternative scenes presence, ability to make fun parties, possibility to display your political opinion in the street, not having people with guns walking around, surveillance state and social pressure to conform are not part of this ranking parameters.

Indeed, but they didn't play enough with the quirks of the character. If you have an overpowered workalcoholic trained for one purposed since she was born, you can make good stuff. The ending could have been she get bored to death and the gods give her the alternative chronos to play with for ex.

The writing of S2 is not great anyway, especially compared to H1. It's a great game for the gameplay, the atmosphere, the art, and the secondary characters. But characters' dialogues, motivations, and narrative satisfaction are not where they used to be. But it's a spoiled child problem, isn't it?