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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why not bring a Steam Deck or Switch along? Or just play on the phone in your pocket? Are people really spending so much time in their cars that it really needs conveniences like that?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm primarily a PC gamer... The only game on my phone is Bloons TD6. Which I open maybe once a month.

But why not use the computer that's literally in front of me rather than settling for the lesser experience?

Note: I should clarify, I don't have a Tesla and don't care for them at all. I just view this feature as probably one of the better ones.

[–] meco03211 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How is bloons td6? I loved 4 and 5. Would be fine tossing some dollars at ninja kiwi if 6 is up to par. I've also seen it in Netflix and confused about how I feel about that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh it's a decent time killer. I don't really do mobile games. I only did this one strictly because of the nostalgia (Original on library computers in high school sort of thing) and because it was on a sale. I haven't regretted the purchase and they don't make the in app purchases super necessary. Overall I'd give it a thumbs up. I don't do any of the multiplayer stuff either.

And I don't know anything about Netflix in regards to td6.. I did see that Mr.Beast did a sponsorship with them...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I have a steam deck, and while its somewhat portable, I wouldn't want to carry one just to use at a charging station, considering the alternative is a controller stashed away in the glovebox. Probably also would want to carry the deck whenever leaving the vehicle too, considering how common it is in certain regions for some tesla models to be broken into and boot emptied out (apparently preventable with a 3d printed shim).

With the crazy powerful GPUs in these cars IMO it's practically free to enable this functionality for the user when the car is stationary, on a screen that is much, much larger and with a nicer sound system compared to any handheld or phone