I feel like everything is being priced to where we aren’t meant to have any savings.
The objective is to kill home computing :D (🤮)
Companies want unbounded exponential profits. Now guess where those profits are coming from.
spoiler
It’s from squeezing every cent they can from regular people.
You can jump into backlog of older game titles. Its never late to discover GOG gems.
It is weird to see people obsess over the price of a new release AAA game when the classics tend to be better made, less buggy, have a bigger mod community, and much lower specs.
Go back and play the Halo series. The opening scene of the first game still gives me chills. Play Portal. And then play Portal 2.
Check out some old school RTS titles. Planetary Annihilation is a reworking of the old Total Annihilation game and absolutely stands up.
Go try some indies - Blue Prince or Slay the Spire or Darkest Dungeon.
There’s no reason to spend more than $20 on a game anymore
There is a reason many good old games can’t be easily played on modern hardware.
If you’re not allergic to 5-10 minutes of looking at protondb or other resources to understand how to get the game running, this isn’t a problem.
I’ve not yet found a difficult process for getting old games running. They’ve been around so long that the community has typically documented everything you need to know to get up and running.
I mean… I am used to getting things like modding skyrim on linux, so this is not really a topic needed to preach to me.
But I met countless people who will give up after three repeats of basic installation attempt.
Emulators solve a lot of those problems
Exactly why I added the world “easily”. Those who can and know often overestimate what average person can and know.
You can pay more if you just want the Nintendo or Blizzard official remaster. But all the stuff is accessible
I gave my son $10 to buy some Steam games. And I was so proud that he didn’t spend the $10 on Roblox or anything, but on a few indie games on sale.
Man ive been looking for updated unemployment numbers but this regime never shows the truth anyway.
The newest numbers are yuge, the best numbers everyone says so, it’s incredible, it’s all because of me, because I’m incredible, and if it’s not then it’s Bidens fault, but I’m amazing and Biden isn’t, thank you for paying attention to me
Wait until you’re not able to eat. That’s when real shit happens.
Can we throw feces at the wealthy at some point? We need to find ways to enjoy ourselves without money.
If you can catch one to throw a turd, sure. Seems a bit wasted considering what else you can throw but I can’t say what.
Sick ass ninja stars?!
Dipped in shit
I saw a man in San Francisco flinging excrement like 10-15 years back. This man is us, there is just a time wrinkle.
That man saw what the future had in store for us
Well, I mean, technically if you’re not eating you won’t be experiencing any real shits. Maybe if they’re down to hot dogs, although at that point starvation may seem appealing.
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How do you pirate RAM?
have you tried downloading more RAM
Yeah, that’s the reason I need more hard drives, which are fucking expensive!
I think know where this is going:
“NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE”
Luckily there are loads of good indie games at low prices with low spec requirements
I get slightly bummed about this possible future, but then look at my crazy backlog from over the years and all of the old spare hardware I have kicking around. I could spend years just going back through emulators, let alone the literal thousand Steam titles built up and waiting to be rediscovered. Plus all the fan projects and indie studios that don’t require frame gen as part of their base spec.
We’ll be ok, we just may have to revisit the Old Ways a bit.
This is the reason I didn’t know I was building that Steam backlog all along
Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor’s throne is held by one who could never wield it’s authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?
We’re forgetting food…
More Americans are skipping breakfast because it’s not in the budget anymore
Unemployment max is 1200 a month in my state. Thats nothing.
I think he means the rate of unemployment, not unemployment benefits.
I know, I read it wrong at first too.
picked up a steam deck as a piece of insurance a drew months ago.
it has simply become a darksouls 1 machine.
I love to hate it.
I think consumer devices are slowly going to not exist. It will switch to screens that stream from the data centers.
I don’t think it’ll ever happen fully. There’s waaaaaay too much money in selling even 1980s-tier hardware to individuals after a certain point.
Where there is a demand, there is a market. Life, uh, finds a way.
It will be easier to control terrorists that way.
Thank the Lord! I’m sick of islamic terrorists™ killing me.
Or did you mean it will be easier for them to control the terrorists as in create them!?
Oh. All terrorists. Islamic, atheist, communist, animal rights, voting rights, environmentalist, democrat…
I basically don’t buy games anymore. I started to get the free epic games 2 years ago and this got me like 200 games. I don’t play much but when I want, I try a couple until I find something interesting. Playing Disco Elysium now.
