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.
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Aw shucks... Anyways, back to playing GunZ, runescape, and KOTOR for a third decade. Woo!
But really, even if you aren't stuck in 200X, there's plenty of good stuff out there that isn't too demanding to run.
Unemployment max is 1200 a month in my state. Thats nothing.
Denuvu has been cracked, but god damn almost all the new games coming out using it also run like dookie on my aging PC (Ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1660 Super, 16GB DDR4). The only recent game that runs flawlessly at a solid 60fps is Pragmata.
Wanna build a new PC, but I ain't gonna pay almost twice what it cost to build what I have to get a rig that isn't even better but more or less the same with some extra features like raytracing or dlss.
Even got Crimson Desert on PS5 because I liked it after pirating it, but it only gets about 40fps on my computer. It doesn't run much better on a base PS5 either... But at least it doesn't look ugly as shit when I go inside a building because I don't have the ability to do raytracing and their entite lighting system relies on it. 🤷♂️
I always just upgrade my PC piecemeal. The biggest component for you to upgrade first would be your GPU. Even a RTX3060 or a RX6600 would be an improvement over what you have there.
If you went with the AMD option and installed bazzite/linux that would be pretty close to the specs for the upcoming steam machine. You would probably benefit from some of the optimizations Valve will inevitably do for their hardware over the next couple years... That is if you don't need Windows for anything.
On your CPU you have a ton of options on the AM4 platform and 16GB of ram is still very usable.
Or just see what the actual steam machine does on pricing. But I'm no longer as optimistic about that given what Valve just did with pricing on the steam deck.
Even without the price bs rn, I wouldn't have expected the Steam Machine to be more than a sidegrade.
The steam machine will be about as powerful as your PS5. It's unfortunate with pricing being where it is.
Denuvo hasn't been cracked. It's just that the first generation of kids less tech literate than their parents are comfortably installing rival rootkits
It's been fully cracked more recently than the initial hypervisor bypass.
Today I finished a book that I picked a while back from a Little Free Library.
This is the reason I didn't know I was building that Steam backlog all along
I think know where this is going:
"NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE"
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.
There are thousands of amazing older games that run on old hardware. Forget AAA and wade into your backlog or pull out some classic from gog or a yard sale.
Don't chase the high end, relax and start a game of CIV 4 or Anno 1404
You mean civ V. Hexagons are the bestagons!
Technically very much a AAA game though, four was the first one published by Take Two and after it came out they bought Firaxis
In the past 2 weeks, I've played Tie Fighter and Dune 2. Glad I had over the minimum 640 KB of RAM for Dune - it's pricey these days but worth it for a smoother experience!
Dune 2 was my favorite game as a kid. I tried to play it again couple of years ago and couldn't. The UI is so clunky and the graphics are pretty bad.
Brother, we’re pulling out paper and pencil to play tic tac toe with the price of electricity these days
I feel like everything is being priced to where we aren't meant to have any savings.
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.
The objective is to kill home computing :D (🤮)
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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 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.
It will be easier to control terrorists that way.
Thank the Lord! I'm sick of islamic terrorists(tm) 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...
Think of all global resources and all economies that slowly leave imperialism behind. Things must get more expensive without wages adjusting to give everybody their fair share.
Unemployment has been flat for over two years straight.
Depends: are you referring to the official US government numbers?
Because I don't know if you've noticed, but the people who have been in charge of that government for the majority of that time are about as reliable as a toddler on crack giving dietary advice.
Besides, starting decades BEFORE that, political strategists started fiddling with the numbers by not counting long term unemployed people who are no longer actively job seeking.
That's a demographic that's gonna be ESPECIALLY big in hopeless times like right now.
In conclusion, it's as likely that REAL unemployment numbers are flat as it is that Donald Trump is going to win the polka dot jersey at the 2026 Tour de France.
So, just vibes then?
There is zero reason to believe the unemployment numbers have been altered by political actors.
All non-government reporting matches the BLS figures. There is an ongoing correction in the tech labor market, healthcare is growing rapidly, hospitality is growing slowly, and manufacturing remains flat.
If you want be in your sads and just dream up some conspiracy, I can’t stop you. But, you should know it’s willfully stupid.
So, just vibes then?
No, verified facts
There is zero reason to believe the unemployment numbers have been altered by political actors.
Other than the FACT that "The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not define people as “unemployed” unless they are actively looking for work.“.
All non-government reporting matches the BLS figures
Because they're reporting based on the same skewed criteria.
There is an ongoing ~~correction~~ massacre in the tech labor market
Fixed it for you.
healthcare profit is growing rapidly,
And again.
and manufacturing remains ~~flat.~~ historically low
And one more 'gain.
If you want be in your sads and just dream up some conspiracy, I can’t stop you
Gee, thanks! Likewise, I can't stop you from pretending that everything is hunky dory and that mass layoffs is a "correction" rather than the deprivation of throngs of blameless workers, but someone should.
But, you should know it’s willfully stupid.
Right back at you.