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Beexcellent Gaming Headset with Mic 2026 Review

Beexcellent Gaming Headset with Mic

$13.99

This is among one of the best purchases I have made on TEMU. I purchased this headset in 2023 when TEMU was still a very new site.

This gaming headset has been around for a while. When researching, I saw videos from 2016 reviewing it. However, gaming headset technology has not changed that much and this is still very much worth the money just for the design alone.

There are many gaming headsets that are now available on online stores. However, not one gaming headset is built the same even if the technology seems to have stayed relatively the same.

What Beexcellent has to offer is being a high-quality gaming headset for a good price. Sometimes one wants to be able immerse in sound while playing a video game or listening to music.

Another great aspect to this headphone it is has a very good microphone. Unlike some cheap models, this is very reasonable for the price.

Aesthetically speaking, this is one of the best gaming headsets that I have purchased online. These headsets light up when you plug them in and the color changes. This is a nice touch which adds some flair to this headset.

One issue is that the headset requires a USB port and is rather clunky to use. However, considering that it is a gaming headset, you are getting a device which trades convenience for quality.

Overall, in a market with so gaming headsets, the Beexcellent headset is one of the best you can buy on a budget. The audio quality isn’t best quality, but this is well worth it as it is very immersive in sounds.

Motorola Edge 2023 Photo Quality Review

I have been using the Motorola Edge 2023 since August 2024 and this camera takes some incredible images.

In comparison to the older cameras that I used to have in the mid 2010s, this camera is much better than those older phones here. I decided to take some pictures in the Northern Virginia area. Specifically, the Tysons Corner area with all the big glass buildings.

The Motorola Edge 2023 is not a high-end phone but the quality of these images show powerful the phone cameras are getting now. When I got my Nikon L810 in 2012, I thought that was an impressive camera. These photographs are showing the improvement in the quality of phone cameras since the mid 2000s. In that previous era, the quality of these cameras was quite limiting and sometimes were seen as potato cameras. Now, these phone cameras are being used to make high quality movies.

While these buildings in Tysons Corner are not the nicest looking buildings, they are futuristic looking buildings that appear well in the camera.

This phone is absolutely worth the money just for the camera alone. The smartphone has long since made the regular cameras unnecessary for most consumers. I still have my Nikon L810 for the uses of taking pictures of objects which are far away but the smartphone is simply more convenient and better to use when you just want to take photos with as little in the way as possible here.

Overall, these photographs are of high quality and well worth a look if you want a cheap smartphone that takes great photos.

Why Style matters more than graphics in Video Games, especially now

There is a general consensus among gamers now, that art style matters more than graphics.

The screenshot above is of a 2001 game known as Empire Earth. It looks rather crude now, but it has a unique style that no other game can replicate.

We have seen this with independent games, which replicate the simpler and colorful graphics of older generations. Photorealism is great in Chatbots if one is attempting to brainstorm how a character appears but there is a place for all sorts of artistic styles. The Japanese have shown this in many of their games. Some games aim for photorealism, but they also show that they want to continue their tradition of having many art styles, especially their homegrown anime. Japanese games often have a reputation for being more stylistic and it’s not surprising that Nintendo did not give up on their original IPs in favor of more mature ideas. They sometimes did have more mature games in their earlier consoles, but this was to compete with Sega and after Sega was beaten, they began to focus on their generally cozy game reputation here.

Style matters more than graphics. I remember that in the 1990s, graphics cards companies had managed to change this idea. Graphics were more important than style as many programmers wanted to showcase the power of their inhouse engines. This was the age of graphics growing every year here. It was truly an exciting age where every game seemed like a foreign country with its own rules.

Now every game seems to have the same GPS navigation and isn’t really interesting here. Unreal Engine is used heavily in many games now, but it is also getting in the way of helping games to distinguish their styles from one another.

It isn’t just in the graphics. It is also in the interfaces also. The interfaces in earlier games were art styles that were peculiar to that one game. Now, too much of it is optimized to be interchangeable between genres and games.

We need to have friction once again. That may make things some what more uncomfortable to use but it will allow for a greater variety of games to made.

The independents are often cited as an example of creativity. However, they cannot carry the industry alone here. They need to work in synergy with middle budget and high budget games. The independents are often works of passion, but they lack the ability to get a product out to the gamers within a reasonable time before they have their attention going to somewhere else.

Style is what companies should be chasing now. We have enough photorealistic games. With generative AI, photorealism is available in a way that surpasses even the best camera.

What we need now is way to encourage the creation of new styles instead of just attempting to outcompete on the issue of photorealistic graphics.