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I would say it's run by professionals.

Just not the kind of professionals that you would expect to run a government, and certainly not the kind of professionals that should have any kind of business running any kind of modern country, anywhere.

Professional propagandists. Professional con artists. Professional liars.... i'm sure many more people can fill in what i've missed.

this is nearly a whole year away. They'll appeal it and win, even if it has to get to the supreme corrupt judges.

I wasn't one of those people who thought the switch 2 would fail though. I knew it would be a huge commercial success. Just like how every single zelda game that ever comes out will be a huge commercial success, same for pokemon, metroid, mario, and other titles with enormous multigenerational fanbases. They could release the worst game of all time and still get 9 figure revenues out of it from branding alone and reviewers would still slap a 8/10 or 9/10 on the game. At least nintendo generally isn't another EA/sportsball/call of duty style yearly release churn like so many devs though. I'll give them that.

Pokemon still sucks compared to Palworld or any number of other pokeclones that are less commercially successful due to lack of brand recognition. The last metroid game that isn't a remaster was less than ten hours long, which also sucks.

The switch 2 is also the first console release in many years to not have extreme scarcity. It's been less than a year and I can pickup at msrp a switch 2 today at the closest B&M stores to my house. I'm right by a major city and we're usually the last ones to have stock available due to population density. It took years to be able to buy a ps5 at retail without getting very lucky. Not surprised that nintendo has made so many sales.

Will say though I have completely stopped using the switch 1 ever since I picked up a deck in 2023. Monthly active users for Steam have doubled since Jan 2020. https://steamdb.info/app/753/charts/#6y - there are more pc gamers than ever, and we're seeing consoles start to fade away it feels like, like the arcade cabinets before them. I don't think steam will replace nintendo in any way, but I do think there is way more potential for growth on the PC side than the nintendo side.

I'm saying Zelda Breath of the Wild and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I figured it was implied. Those are both goty tier flagship titles for the old switch.

I'm asking if you think donkey kong bananza lives up to those or surpasses those. DKB is a 18 hour game according to how long to beat. Everything else in the running costs less and/or has way more play hours.

Ah cool, so it's better than say either of the Zelda games? since multiple releases this year seem to be on that tier.

I know it has high reviews but I am always doubtful it's more of a hype review especially when people are desperate to justify their $500 hardware+game bundle purchase on top of their $70 20-hour game

I kind of figure death stranding too. It at least has sounded like it deserves to be up there even though it basically just fits in to the "ps5 exclusive" slot.

Blue Prince sounds like it's the Myst of this generation too, but that kind of game just doesn't draw appeal in modern times. Everything i've heard about it points to it being a game that way more people should probably try, but they just haven't. Puzzle games rarely get mass appeal.

For me, I found it to be a beautiful work of art and a heartbreaking story about family.

It's not a mass appeal title that absolutely everyone will love though. The game is not particularly easy and it takes time to develop the story.

Every time you get to the end of an act in Expedition 33 there is so much emotion. If you aren't following the story, don't get emotionally attached to the games you play and the stories of the characters, and aren't patient enough to enjoy it then obviously it won't be for you. That's ok. It's all art. They all mean different things to each one of us.

I'm confident we'll get another hades, another silksong, another death stranding. I'm sure they're all the very best representation of their iterative releases and worthy of the highest of praises too. I don't even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.

I don't know if i'll ever be as impressed by another title as I did by expedition 33. Baldur's Gate 3 amazed me in other ways a couple years ago and it's a huge feat. Before that for me it was Elden Ring, amazing for other reasons.

I haven't started kingdom come deliverance 2 yet, and I never played the first one, so I don't want to say too much. All of the impressions i've heard sound like it is very deserving though. My assumption is that this and Exp33 have been the two GOTY contenders, but we'll see.

Every few years we see some bullshit that causes a massive increase in dram prices.

In modern times the western world has an army of scalpers that are eager to buy up things with limited supply and flip them. News hits that dram is increasing and the scalpers RUN to the digital stores as well as the brick and mortar stores to buy up supply which increases prices (temporarily) until there is too much stock held up in their hands to sell at inflated prices and things start coming down. We've seen this over, and over, and over again with GPUs, new CPU releases... memory is just the next headline for the scalpers to jump on. Even non-scalpers panic buy. These bubbles really aren't lasting like they used to either, but once they go up the retailers exploit it too.

Memory production is not down at all based on what's in the news. There's no disaster this time. HBM production has been getting massive investment because that's the memory used in enterprise ML and has the biggest profit margins. Manufacturers aren't upping non-hbm production because they know if they do they will be left holding the bag - selling 100% of production and just raising prices is quite profitable - and when the temporary bullshit subsides, normal price is still profitable and you never risked anything at all.

Anyway.. Taiwan having stores bundling motherboards with dram is no different than every single store bundling 5090 and 9070xt with the motherboards and other internals that they can't sell, like happened for about six months starting around this time last year in the US... and it happened with the 5950x, 5800x3d, 9800x3d... and so many other new 'hot' hardware releases in recent times.

It sucks to be in the market for a new system right now. GPU prices are kind of plummeting though, and $300 more for ram is about on par with $300 extra for a scalped 9070xt, 5080, or 5070ti.... and still way below a $3000-5000 5090 from almost year ago.

You know I do agree with you.

For some reason the folks here don’t get the flood of “normal people” that have taken over the internet that was really only for techies 20-25 years ago. It was even more pronounced before then.

Back then in many ways the internet was a little bit like lemmy today. There isn’t critical mass with shitloads of idiots, there’s tons of like minded people who think critically and try to do what’s right. Unfortunately Pandora’s box has been opened though, so it’s still not exactly the same.

If you ask me, the windows 95/98/xp era required the same level of patience and technical troubleshooting that Linux requires today. Maybe even more than modern Linux honestly. Windows 8/10/11 have been essentially on rails so much that needing to understand and figure shit out is less needed than ever. The people today on the internet generally are not at all like the people who used to be the majority here.

Yes. Every year the SEO slop article bloat increases.

The trend has been steadily downwards for at least another decade as money making has been the goal above and beyond everything else.

In some ways I think the internet’s era is coming to an end. I don’t even know what the fuck we call it but the slop has taken over. Every website with information has paywalls or the most horrific advertisements we’ve ever seen.

I don’t understand how people even use the internet without ad blockers but many do. Every day all the anti Adblock tech updates and breaks everything unless you fuck with it, and they usually fix it. Feels like any day we’re just a couple of small changes away from BIOS level DRM where no website can be viewed without windows configured with secure boot and some officially sanctioned DRM rootkit. After all, who cares about Linux support when it’s such a small market share? Stuff like chat control feels adjacent to this.

But the Gabe Companion Cube..

My pentium 133 got upgraded to 128MB a few years after I had it. Definitely by 1999. It's a 1995 proc so it's not an unrealistic ram amount within the usable lifetime of the processor.