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4/25, 2020 11:00a - 5:00p Local Time - What better community to hang out with than Icrontic!

• Hang out on Zoom with Icrontic
• Share your shinys and other exciting finds
• Giveaways will happen for prizes like Pokemon Plushies and PokéCoins!
• Pokemaster Digi will be available to answer any questions you have about Pokemon Go!

Incense will last 3 hours so you'll only need 2. There will be a one time purchase Community Day box available for 1,280 PokéCoins. This will get you 30 Ultra Balls, three Super Incubators, and three Incense. Also for the first time ever, an Elite Charged TM will be included in the box. This will allow you to change a Charge Move on one of your Pokemon and not only do you get to choose the move, legacy moves / community day moves will be available! For any of you PvPers, this is the chance to make that uber-mon you missed out on. Who will you use your Elite Charged TM on?

There will also be a special research available for $1 if you want to do some extra stuff. Main highlights are 13,000 Stardust, a Poffin, and a Rocket Radar. Let's go through the adventure together!

I will start up a Zoom 8p/9m/10c/11e am so that East coast folks can start hanging out while they Community Day. I will be available for the length of Central community day and I'll stay on as long as I can to help Mountain and Pacific finish up their days. Evolving an Alakazam during the event and up to 2 hours after 5pm to get the fast move Counter. We'll discuss this and how it will affect Alakazam as a raid team member and in PvP.

Alright Icrontic Community, let's be The Very Best!

All Details here: https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/communityday-april2020/
https://pokemongolive.com/events/community-day/

"For many of us, I don't think it's "grumpiness", it's "it will cost $1000 to play this game""

This is, for the most part, untrue in 2020. The Oculus Rift Quest is all-in-one and costs less than an Xbox and it doesn't need a PC to play at all. With the newly released link cable, you can plug it into your PC and play Rift S quality games while still having the flexibility of play where you want when you want it. I know $400 isn't cheap, but we're far and away from the days of needing $1,200+ worth of upgrades and hardware to be able to play.

VR runs great on mid-tier PC hardware these days. It runs fine on a GeForce 1080, so if you've upgraded or rebuilt your PC in the last four years, you're probably good to go already. As the hardware has improved, the software has also lowered the previously insane high requirements to be able to play VR on your PC.

It also helps that most VR games are priced accordingly. You won't find $60 games - most are around the $15 dollar price point. If a game is more of an hour long experience, you'll typically pay an amount that makes sense for what it is.

"Oh @UPSLynx - I'll bite, tell me what hardware you played it on. I may consider looking like a dork in the comfort of my own home so I know what happens to Alyx"

My current PC is:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/g3y4zY
Not listed - GPU: 1080ti, and my M.2 is an Adata SX8200 XPG series rather than that Samsung.

I built it about 8 months ago, so I'm not really the best person to ask in terms of scalability (I didn't build this for VR, I just wanted to rebuild with new hotness). I'm playing on the Rift S. I opted for the more "premium" experience over the Quest, though looking back I'd probably go Quest instead - Quest has gotten much better software and firmware support than the Rift S, and the freedom of playing remotely would have been nice.

The Rift S / Quest launch was what finally got me over the line and ready to buy. Having the external sensors/cameras is a dealbreaker for me right now. I don't have the space for them currently, and in the case of the Original Rift, I didn't have 4 USB ports free for all of them. Rift S only has one cable to deal with, which splits into Display Port and USB.

Alyx played flawlessly for me on this system, and I haven't had any issues running any other games outside of some early issues that are common with buying day one new hardware. Pretty much any issues I had around launch have been fixed via firmware and software updates. There's still a tiny bit of jank because VR still is very much in its infancy, but I'd say at this point, the VR experience has matured enough to feel like a legitimate gaming platform, rather than the "garage-made hardware for tech demo experiences" it was known for in its early days.

tonight 8 EST