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Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by balls187 »

ok_dad wrote: post #6
balls187 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the write up, it’s hard to see that this was fun. It seems more like Chris Rock’s joke about driving a car with your feet.

The fun is the sense of accomplishment for doing something difficult or extraordinary. Humans have been doing not-fun things forever for that reason alone sometimes.

> The fun is the sense of accomplishment for doing something difficult or extraordinary.

I think that was the issue--the write up did not go into the details, which makes it seem like what they did was neither difficult nor extraordinary, especially if you factor in that Valve has practically unlimited amount of money to spend, a deep pool of talented employees with nothing better to do, and no deadlines.

Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by balls187 »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #9
ok_dad wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fun is the sense of accomplishment for doing something difficult or extraordinary. Humans have been doing not-fun things forever for that reason alone sometimes.

Something hackers repudely excel at, taking on difficult feats for the heck of it & because we humanity are great & we can.

Valve Software is hardly "hackers." They used a setup from TI, which I had the priveledge of attending this past year at CPA--one of the most stupidest overpriced venues in the US.

This isn't a rag tag band of rebel filmmakers.

Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by a1o »

Honestly looks great. Liked the short videos, the one that shows the orb in After Effects with the cut of what goes into deck screen was also very interesting.

Ages ago I saw a work that was (I think) a piece of art that reused many phones for their screens to show things in sync. I don't remember if they were early Android phones or if it was done before with screens of feature phones. But the work here reminded me of that.

Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by ok_dad »

balls187 wrote: post #11
ok_dad wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fun is the sense of accomplishment for doing something difficult or extraordinary. Humans have been doing not-fun things forever for that reason alone sometimes.

> The fun is the sense of accomplishment for doing something difficult or extraordinary. I think that was the issue--the write up did not go into the details, which makes it seem like what they did was neither difficult nor extraordinary, especially if you factor in that Valve has practically unlimited amount of money to spend, a deep pool of talented employees with nothing better to do, and no deadlines.

Yea the details were lacking but this is a cool project which took someone’s time and creativity. Whether or not it was an accomplishment for them or valve on a grand scale doesn’t matter, you folks don’t have to shit on it because it wasn’t mind blowing. I swear, nothing impresses hacker news commenters, Dropbox included.

Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by numpad0 »

balls187 wrote: post #5
EveryPizza wrote: post #3

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> Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to do this with VFX? Yes but this seems much more fun

From the write up, it’s hard to see that this was fun. It seems more like Chris Rock’s joke about driving a car with your feet.

people are paid assembling cars all the time

Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by Phiwise_ »

Somewhat off-topic, but I've been feeling really burned by my steam deck purchase lately. When it came out, I gave Valve the benefit of the doubt there was some good reason why they weren't providing an OLED option, and bought the highest tier even though money is tight. I figured their commitment to opening the PC platform and quality hardware earned them my trust on that. Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model and take a bath on the used item depreciation to get a worthwhile screen? Buy a second device with pretty much identical performance otherwise? Pay for the screen I should have been able to choose separately and go through the headache of replacing it myself? This is tripping at the finish line, especially since I waited a massive fraction of the time it took them to release this for the inferior version anyway. I get Valve prides themselves on being different than most other technology companies, but innovating on what delivering the best product you can for the money to your customer means is the wrong place to break the mold, especially for a company of Valve's profitability compared to overhead. On so many things, they could do much better at comparatively little dollar cost if they just thought wanting to was important. It's really disappointing how much this has correlated with their success.

Re: Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

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Post by amiantos »

Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

Somewhat off-topic, but I've been feeling really burned by my steam deck purchase lately. When it came out, I gave Valve the benefit of the doubt there was some good reason why they weren't providing an OLED option, and bought the highest tier even though money is tight. I figured their commitment to opening the PC platform and quality hardware earned them my trust on that. Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model…

The original Steam Deck came out Feburary 2022 and the OLED model came out November 2023, nearly two years later.

> This is tripping at the finish line

It sounds like the only person tripping here is you.

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