Honestly, TLOU 2 with 60 fps is reason enough for me. I was waiting for that to drop and figured I’d buy a PS5 then, but now it’s out, and the damn console keeps rising in price and getting less and less available. Cheapest I can find it for right now is $1000, which was $800 a couple months ago.

Yeah that’s fair!

Yeah that’s true.

Yeah that’s a fair point, “buff” is pretty subjective. To me it means something closer to Arnold in Commando rather than say Bruce in Die hard.

Definitely not “meh”, I think the progress is pretty insane for one year actually! Was just weirded out by how the article presented his workout plan.

Well that’s rather unusual I think, because running 10 km is definitely not “out of shape”. When I started hitting the gym in 2009 being out of shape (125 kg at 182 cm), 300 meters was the most I could run for months.

That’s true. I know a few people who spend a ton of time at the gym and watch their diet but can never gain much mass. At least they aren’t getting fat, but I guess there’s two sides to that coin.

Yeah that’s fair. I guess to me “buff” means “huge muscular gym dude”, with emphasis on muscle instead of being slim/fit.

I was at 125 kg when I started though, at 182 cm. But even later when I dropped to 77 kg, yeah, 4.6 km was still my record. I never really aimed for a long distance though, just ran 3 times a week after gym for cardio.

That’s how it was for me. I did treadmill though, so usually it was a 30-60 minute walk followed by a running session. For months most I could run was 300 meters. I was 125kg at the time though and never did any sports, so I guess that’s expected.

I mean yeah, makes sense, but the article didn’t mention any levels or preparation so I found that odd.

Not sure I would call that buff? Seems like he just lost a ton of weight instead.

Man, I’m curious how people find so much time and will. If a game erased dozens of hours of my progress, I would simply not play it again. There are too many other games to play and too many things to do.

I know exactly one other person who prefers ME1 the most of the series, and it’s just so baffling to me. ME2 was significantly better in every possible way for me.

I guess it depends on your location. I’m in Russia, we only had a couple places list GPUs at retail prices, and they didn’t restock at all - every new shipment was backlogged for months (still is) after launch day due to the amount of orders they received. Cards appeared on local analogues to “ebay” daily though, and…

YouTube compression and monitor you view it on matters a ton though. On my 3440x1440 screen DLSS destroys image quality, I never use it unless absolutely required (like Cyberpunk 2077 running at 30 fps on a 3080 without it).

Eh, back in September it took me two months of checking multiple websites every few minutes on my PC and phone daily just to “luck out” with a 3080 that was 30% over retail.

Searching “dualshock 3 launch price” gets me a 2008 cnet article about it as the top result

Lol. I guess I just didn’t need that many controllers back then either - a couple along with the console were enough until the next generation.

So Dualshock 3 increased the price more than twice compared to Dualshock 2?