THIS! The only change to insulin in the last 80 years was the means of production. Instead of farming pigs for it, they found an algae strain that they can use to make it. The cost of production is arguably lower as a result yet the price has climbed steadily for YEARS.

Digital Foundry addressed this idea a few weeks ago and while DLSS certainly sounds exciting, it is not something you can just bake retroactively into all games. The developers would have to specifically update their games to take advantage of DLSS. So just temper your expectations a bit. You aren’t gonna just…

Discord is already kind of unusable. 

Compared to Slack and Discord, Teams doesn’t stack up at all.

Yeah I'll bet you played it to completion... 

Seriously, what is the point of this $h!t? Who watches this stuff?! Are the viewers’ lives so pathetic that they have to “live” vicariously through someone else (who also seems to be nothing)? Why are people watching a dude sleep and shower?!! If you’re gonna waste your life like that, at least plug into the Matrix so…

You don’t seem to understand that not every blockchain is going to use anywhere near the amount of energy that bitcoin uses.

Yeah I greatly prefer PC gaming, but building a gaming rig has been a nightmare for quite some time and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

It hasn’t been this expensive and time-consuming to build a gaming PC for a long, long time. There has never been a better time to make the argument for consoles over…

As someone who was looking to finally replace my my circa-2013 upper-mid-tier gaming PC back in 2019, this is depressingly true.

true, but if you are willing to pay 4x the price, you will get something that performs at least 2x better than an XSX.

The other day I saw someone say “for the price of a modern gaming console I can buy a better PC” and all I can think was “where the fuck is this guy buying his parts and where can I get them?!?!” lol.

I mean... the expense is one reason: you could buy a Series X (assuming you could find one) and a fairly barebones PC for your day-to-day PC use and still not come close to the expense of buying (or building) a PC comparable to a Series X. Not to mention people (like me) who just don’t like PC gaming - I just don’t…

I completely agree with you here. Don’t get me wrong, higher resolution IS nice, but like you said, it’s also, for me, at the very bottom of the list (and I have 4K TVs and PC monitors). Now, if I had a 70" TV or bigger, maybe I’d say otherwise, but that’s not the case.

The switch is already one of the top selling consoles of all time.

Focusing on 4K is a colossal waste. Focus on framerates, more complex simulations, higher player counts, ANYTHING but fucking 4K. Breath of the Wild looks just fine on my 4K set thanks to decent upscaling, and I would be perfectly contented if the next Switch remained a 1080p system.

Those are all old games.

None of those "new games" are actually new though

I’ve waited years to see if this franchise would ever come to PC.  I can wait one more for it to release outside of the EGS.  

I don’t know if the video game audience is the same size as the board game audience. As Outrider mentioned, other well-known board games based on video games were also put on Kickstarter for fundraising.

I think putting these board games on Kickstarter isn’t a bad idea, as it gives the creators insight into how much…

I mean in this instance it’s absolutely neoliberal financial institutions coopting the language of the left when it’s beneficial for them to do so. Nakedly obvious.