This sounds like such a cool idea. Makes it super easy for anyone to participate. I hope it takes off

I once bought a three-pack of rubber ducks to the office as a joke and made an expense claim where I explained the concept of rubber duck debugging. Funnily enough, it got approved. I now wonder if I could get the company to pay for a personal blåhaj for every developer :3

I unsubscribed from wishlist discount emails last weekend just to avoid getting my hopes up whenever I got a notification. Just now, I got a notification about an email from Steam, and I was 100% sure it's finally the long-awaited purchase email.

You have sold an item on the Community Market

Oh, come on! The listing for some profile background for 5 cents had been sitting there untouched for a year. What are the chances that someone just happens to buy it this exact week?!

Good thing only smoking bare foot pets are not allowed. I agree with this, non-smoking ones are cool tho!

Why... Why would you carry them like that?!

I've been wanting to replace my Oculus Quest 2 for quite some time but there hasn't really been viable options for PCVR in the recent years if you didn't want to break the bank or support Meta/Facebook. Not saying Frame is cheap by any means but it's cheaper than Bigscreen Beyond, for example. I think that explains some of the fomo.

But if you have 2k disposable, then there are so many better options available than throwing it at a scalper. That's what doesn't make sense to me.

IKR, my wishlist is not that long and games in it don't go on sale often but somehow it seems like half of them decided to have a sale this exact weekend lol

That's the thing, Valve made it so there's no way to guarantee you'll get it before anyone else. A spot in the reservation queue only guarantees that you'll get a Frame from the first production batch, but the order within the queue is randomized and not known. The first orders will start shipping next week, but personally I predict it'll take weeks at minimum before everyone in the queue even gets the option to pay, let alone actually have their orders shipped. So you could pay a scalper 2k and still be the last person in the reservation queue to get the device (or don't get it at all, if the seller turns out to be a scammer...)

It makes a bit more sense if you didn't make it into the reservation queue in the initial lottery and were waitlisted instead. That probably means you won't be getting a Frame from Valve within this year. But I still wouldn't pay double the price just to move from one queue to another.

I understand wanting to get your hands on a Frame as soon as possible, but who in their right mind would pay double the price, especially considering that Valve's own price isn't exactly cheap? And it's even worse that these listings are just for spots in the reservation queue. It could still take weeks or months until the spot turns into a chance to purchase, and there's no way of knowing how long it will take beforehand. So you would be paying 1k extra for nothing basically.

Null. There are articles online about people with this surname and the problems they face in everyday life.

For those who don't know, null means "nothing" or "missing data" in computer systems and databases. Properly coded systems handle it correctly but there are so many badly coded and/or legacy systems that simply crash or behave incorrectly when that surname is entered.

Wow, usually I have the worst luck but somehow I landed in the reservation queue. 256GB, EU.

The main issue with AI scrapers is that there isn’t just one, there are dozens or hundreds of them, all doing the same thing. Most websites would handle being hammered by one or two bots just fine, but crash under the load of dozens of bots constantly sending requests.

On top of that, many of them are very badly (vibe)coded and get stuck in endless loops, requesting the same pages over and over again. At my job we IP-blocked an aggressive data-harvesting bot from our service, and the thing got stuck requesting the same page over and over again every 8 seconds, despite receiving the same error code every time. This continued for weeks.