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Yeah I think she used it, not sure how it works because she’s handling it.

 

Edit, she said yes he got $60 credit also. Thanks!

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Well the wife is back there helping him set it up. I’m in the doghouse as usual so……

Did you use my referral link? Another friend of mine used it on Christmas and got $60 in Oculus Store credit.

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I tried the porn thing. Everything feels too close to the camera and it makes me go cross-eyed and strains my eyes. Anyway, try http://www.vrporn.com for yourself for free videos.

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I’m fully expecting this to be a failboat/paperweight but when you get $300 for Christmas and saving from your birthday, what better thing to do than piss that money away right? He’ll never save enough to upgrade his PC and I’ll be expected to but that ain’t happening. This is going to be a hard lesson in what happens to your “hard earned” money I’m guessing.

This is probably the most common thing posted on the Facebook Oculus group page.

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Does it need a lot of PC power to run or does the oculus handle it?

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Hotdogs horeshoes and handgrenades?

Roblox?

 

So far this is all he has come up with, but whatever.

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If he's a lil fatty he'll play for a week then it'll collect dust on a shelf. It's a hell of a workout dodging bullets and shooting around corners.

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https://www.oculus.com/referrals/link/Mallard1055/

Use that link before 12/31 and you get either $30 or $60 in store credit.

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The Quest 2 is a standalone headset, he does not need a PC to play, but you can plug it into your PC and use it to play PC VR games too.

Games range in price, but there are a lot of sales and they occasionally credit your account $10 or give you 30% off to get you to buy more. I'm not sure I've bought anything at regular price. There is a huge sale going on until Jan 2 on a lot of titles.

I had a referral code that could have got you $60 in credits for games. It may still be going, so if he's serious and going to buy/set up his quest before Jan 2nd let me know.

Let me know if you have other questions. I have had a Quest 2 since last Nov. I'm just a casual gamer though.

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Interesting point I was hearing from a dealership:

 

On the new side, dealers are looking to get and push out whatever allocation they can get from the OEMs, whether it's got chips or not, start/stop or doesn't, console wireless phone disabled, AFM disabled they're going to sell it. Dealer makes $$$$$

 

When the OEM provides a list of vehicles they've sold that don't have chips that now they DO have the chips/components for, the owners bring cars back for warranty work. Dealer makes $$

 

The PROBLEM for the industry is going to be downstream, when used-car dealers are getting these things from normie owners or auctions where the Monroney (window sticker) says "Wireless Phone Charging" and there's a dead space under the console. Does a used buyer find out that wireless charging doesn't work and go back to the used dealer? Is there a lawsuit they can file with GM? Can some dum-dum go after Vroom/Carvana/CarMax for warranty work?

 

That'll be an interesting result of this supply-chain issue...

This will be a disaster for the used market though, as features that typically come on a specific trim level will be missing. GM just got rid of seat heaters on a bunch of cars, so if you had a Blazer built earlier this year you might have it, but if it was built in November or later tough luck. Jeep had air suspensions restricted earlier on the Grand Cherokee, not sure if it's been added back.

Dealers are desperate for cars. My neighbor at my cabin sells Chevy's and throughout the summer they had single digit inventory. She still sold ~26-35 cars per month though. Just like was said earlier, they're sold before they get off the truck.

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Yeah, I guess I'm still holding out hope for a good deal on a leftover '21 truck next summer, but I'm not holding my breath.

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This is something I have been wondering about. I'm assuming the "oldest" new vehicles are typically first in line to get the semiconductors as they come in, no? If it gets to the point where there's a ton of new vehicles that are actually a year (or more) old by the time they are complete, dealers can't realistically expect to sell them at their original MSRP, can they? I mean I guess if demand still outweighs supply they can do whatever they want.

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IMHO, I think inflation is only going to get worse. And interest rates will rise to combat it. So it'll get worse regardless. How the true price of vehicles correlates with the price of everything else going forward, don't know. You have so many different forces at work... inflation, changing interest rates, "chip shortage", people not working, supply chain issues, trouble with China, hundreds of thousands of cars already built waiting for electronics, then a big EV wave is supposedly coming in 2024.

Interest rates should have gone up several years ago, if the economy is actually as healthy as people have been claiming.

There aren't that many people who aren't working. Weekly jobless claims are low and unemployment is below 5%. But there is a shortage of qualified employees in certain areas (like truck drivers) that is driving price increases.

New car prices haven't gone up much in the last year, it's just that demand is larger than supply so incentives have disappeared. The chip shortage has caused this (though a rubber shortage may be here too), as well as reduced some options/features that are available. The reduced supply of new cars has caused used car prices to go up. Though I would argue that GOOD used car prices have been on the rise for a while, even given rise to used car leasing.

I still don't understand (and I don't think anyone does) whether the rise in prices will be permanent or how far they will drop again once supply chain issues relax.

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What is it? For some reason Facebook tells me Page Not Found when I click the link.

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Linky no worky

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IDK, I had to stop driving to work for two weeks last spring because no gas due to colonial pipeline shutdown.

The only pipeline I know of that Biden killed was a Keystone XL, and that wasn't pumping any oil, and even when it was planned to most of it was for export and independent groups had studied and warned that the project would actually increase gas prices for people in the Midwest.

https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/keystone

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looks the fed just blinked at inflation.... "Comments from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell didn't help. Powell told Congress that the Fed no longer thought inflation was "transitory" and he hinted that the Fed could accelerate its plans to cut back on, or taper, bond purchases."

 

then add in analyst from jp morgan chase stating that they can forecast gas to be $5 bucks a gallon due to guess what. not being able to support the needed purchasing demand and move it quick enough. guess who's already killed a pipeline.

 

then add in bidens interior dept recommending raising royalty rates for drilling companies on public lands and more red tape.

 

this is all after the pro-shutdown folks killed off a few hundred thousand small business'.

 

this is going to be an ugly time going forward for cost of goods.

Hinest question, how much oil/gasoline for the US market is moved through any pipeline that has been killed?

The president has very little, to no affect on prices at the pump. The oil companies had excess production last year when everything shut down, so they stopped producing. Now that demand has gone back up they have been slow to ramp production back up. And the oil companies don't give a shit because they're making more profit on it. OPEC also is keeping production low. Oil companies have millions of acres of leases on public land that they aren't even using.

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Nice deflection but again..when trump did the travel ban he was a racist..dem joe does it and not a sound by the media..the socialist in power or any lib on this board

 

 

 

Fur..very scary..lol

Did I agree with Trump's travel ban? No, there were people who went through thorough background checks in order to come to the US to flee violence and war, or for school or jobs, or even simply to visit family who had that all thrown away for an arbitrary reason. Trump took a lot of shit for his ban because his own website called for stopping Muslim immigration, then he banned travel and immigration from Muslim countries with no known direct threat to national security. That's why his ban was questioned from the start. For all the Trump supporters outraged at Biden over Afghanistan, where was that outrage when Trump blocked refugees from Yemen, Syria, or Iraq, trapping them in their countries? What would I have done differently? Thorough background checks of all people traveling here from those countries....which was already being done anyway.

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The travel ban isn't going to matter either. It's a nice thought in order to limit the spread of a new variant, however it's not like this originated in South Africa. It was only found by South Africa because they are doing a lot of testing and sequencing, and now it's already been found in many other places, like UK and Australia, that we're not banning travel from. As it's been from the start, the key should be lots of testing, regardless of where people are traveling from.

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phil..check my post on trump..no did not support trump 100% .. unlike several on this board including you supporting the socialist ideas the dems are putting up

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TDS is real. It has infected many here it seems.

 

Seriously Phil, enough with Trump. He's no longer in office. People who supported him likely never supported HIM, but rather is pretty straight forward approach and more than that, his policies. I'm one of them. He was never "my guy" but his focus on America First and no bullshit approach on many issues was and still is what we need. Everything has rabbit holes so no need to go down one.

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Joe...you are a character:

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-house-burned-wife-214922899.html

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so your issue is with self defense outside the home??

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"Where were the protests for Coffee, where were the riots, the 24/7 news coverage, and the constant hate being channeled through all forms of media? As Coffee doesn’t fit the divisive nature of what the media needs to keep you angry, his case was ignored."

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Remember when everyone got pissed off that I called people snowflakes and dolts?

 

 

 

Mean words hurt. Sometimes. I think. I guess it depends. Someone explain the rules to me. Can I call people names again?

Ashli Babbitt; rioter killed in the act of destroying federal government property that was the last barrier between a crowed that was chanting "hang Mike Pence" and members of congress: HERO and victim. We must have the name of the man who shot her so he can be harassed by the mob.

Protesters killed or shot in the street after potentially feeling threatened by Kyle Rittenhouse brandishing an AR15 near them: scum of the earth, got what they deserved, not victims. Kyle is a hero.

If you think otherwise you are a libtard snowflake. There are no shades of gray here.

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