A decent computer game is just about the best entertainment value you can get. Especially if you avoid the shit tier “AAA” rip off games.

The cost of building a gaming PC has also gone up dramatically.

A whole ps5 is about the current price of just a decent “value” video card. Toss in your ram and storage and you’re looking at three times the price.

Hilarious that this company is now named after a failed product. It would be like if Ford changed it’s name to Pinto.

For every fun thing you get to test there are a dozen miserable little things that you get spend entire days plodding through. And they pay you absolute dick to do it.

I think the best modern civ is either IV or V depending on how much you just want to do a military conquest victory.

ALWAYS play one generation behind with Civ because they don’t actually finish the last game until the new one comes out. Civ 7 will probably be fine, in like a year and a half.

Honestly, one could probably just keep playing Civ 5 without missing much unless there is a specific mechanic in Civ 6 that you enjoy. If you just use it to play risk (i.e. military victories only) Civ IV is probably the best version.

Its REALLY easy to just not buy their shit then.

That’s the fun thing about editing shit after people replied to you. No one has any idea what you changed.

Start your next comment with three question marks if I am correct about everything I said and you consent to have your body experimented on for potential use as the skin of a new line of sex robots.

I want you to think about these two statements that you made:

But there is no situation where companies simply stop taking money.

But the op proposed that PC component vendors stock would drop and therefore no one would build PC parts.

These cannot both be true. PC Component vendors will NOT stop selling parts and customers will NOT stop building PCs because that is leaving money on the table. They will source components from whoever will sell them at whatever price they can get. That is what WILL happen.

Except by the time they do that there are already new Chinese competitors selling those components to their old customers.

Chinese RAM is already out and being tested. How long before they have viable products in the marketplace? Especially considering that they aren’t really competing with anyone at the moment. Do you think people are going to suddenly switch back to spending 4x as much for American RAM once they are already happy with using this new shit?

How long before its processors and video cards?

You don’t get customers back after you exit an industry unless you are offering a competitive price or something that no one else is offering.

I can’t even figure out what “rougelike” is supposed to mean anymore.

Its fun that all the things that requite secure boot and TPM are things I just don’t want anyways.

For something that makes absolutely no sense at all, this makes a lot of sense.

Given that what it “does so far” already required the theft of the sum total of human creativity available online and the sacrifice of the survivability of humanity due to climate change, kinda seems like there isn’t much else to wring out of this.

The problem with this, and most other “ai products” isn’t just that they are immortal attacks in human labor and and intellectual property, they also simply don’t work.

20 years of incremental hardware improvements and a big middle finger to the gaming community will do that.

That was the nintendid resut.

If Linux and Windows smoked a ton of crack and had a deformed baby. Now coming to your desktop.

Looks like someone figured out that most of the cheapo temu handheld emulators are either compatible with (or already run) various flavors of Linux already and decided to cash in on the linux gaming surge.

My $15 R36S also runs linux and didn’t need a kickstarter.

The modular I/O accessories are pretty neat though.

Star citizen is about to cross into a billion dollars in development “costs”. It might genuinely be one of the biggest scams in history.

Sure, if your concept of value is building a computer that costs quite a bit more than a better system a year ago.

Who cares about billions of dollars wasted on the last profitless scheme when there is a whole new profitless scheme to dumb money into? Line goes up!

Right?

They already have a shit ton of filters and stuff to stop you from producing unflattering images of musk or Trump, but making them if children seems like something they don’t really care to stop.

Yes, I deflected to asking you to start making sense. Sorry for that.

You still haven’t explained how the existence of Apple and Firefox mean Google should have prevailed in the lawsuit. Why don’t we start there or are you just interested in dancing around how ignorant you are?

Jesus dude, you should really stick to things you know literally ANYTHING about. Half the search engines you listed are literally using the same engine. I guess Google should have hired you as their attorney.

No. The monopoly ruling that you are referring to IS focused exclusively on search engines. Maybe don’t use evidence that you don’t know fuckall about?

What does the existence of Apple and Firefox have to do with the google search monopoly ruling. Do either of those companies operate a search engine?

I guess I found the 72%.

Apparently they need to teach more business and civics classes in STEM school because 72% of developers don’t know what a monopoly is.

What about the last 20 years of Microsoft make you think that adding value to their products has anything to do with their business model?

Tech companies don’t make new shit anymore and they haven’t done it for a long time. All they do now is steal our shit and sell it back to us. All Microsoft does now is remove existing features and put them behind higher paid tiers.

I think they are testing the waters of just open warfare against indie developers. Microsoft has no interest in platforming their competitors. They start with the adult games because no one is going to defend them. Once the precedent is set, they go after everyone else. They do the same thing with porn as a vehicle to attack free speech.

Isn’t this a Nintendo thing from like the 2000s? Why would you even need to use AI when you could just use a recording of one of your testers doing it or (crazy thought) just using a “skip this” button? This seems like a dumb way to shoe-horn AI into something that doesn’t make sense.

Which is a pretty arbitrary naming convention since the number of pins in a socket doesn’t really tell you anything especially when that naming convention does NOT get applied to the processors that plug into them.

As a person that generally buys either mid-tier stuff or the flagship products from a couple years ago, it got pretty fucking ridiculous to have to figure out which socket made sense for any given intel chip. The apparently arbitrary naming convention didn’t help.

Turning an unplayable ripoff game into something that is maybe worth the steam sale price ten years later isn’t a “labor of love” it’s mitigating legal risk from it’s investors.

BG3 added a ton of content since release, to the point where they even brought in the entire voice cast to record additional dialogue.

I big game machine that gives money to rich people isn’t going to break until there literally isn’t any more money left.

Take a look at countries with people starving in the streets while rich people live in gated compounds. Still think it “has to pop”?

Watch just tells you how greedy and miserly they are.

We used to play a “serial killer” game in Red Dead Redemption. The goal is to kidnap a woman without getting seen by anyone. Its actually a lot harder than you would think because female NPCs are RARELY unescorted in the game. It opens up an element of planning and stealth that you (or at least I) don’t usually use in that game.