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Won't, or can't afford to?
insert small mexican girl
"Why not both?"
Uses AI to insert small Mexican gril... what could go wrong?
I can't tell if this is a madtv skit, or linustechtips cosplaying as a madtv skit.
Must resist temptation to ask wHy NoT bOtH... (for mutually exclusive possibilities)
Especially video games. Honestly as a casual gamer I get it. Games are expensive and they are a gamble. I've bought games in the past and played them for half hour and realized I hate it lol. I rarely buy games now, especially if it's not a franchise I already know and like, because I can't afford the gamble. If I do I buy a physical copy so I can sell it on.
At least with streaming services you can check and know there's a few hours of shows you will definitely watch. It's still tol expensive and I'm cancelling mine but it is less of a gamble than video games.
I know many people are against this logic but you can pirate things as a demo and buy them if you find them good.
Thankfully demos are coming back. At least that's the trend I see with indie titles
Thinking about it a bit more, some AAA publishers also are bringing demos back too
Yeah indies usually have pretty decent demos! I actually haven't even looked at the switch store lately but I don't remember the bigger titles having demos?
And idk where everyone else is but the big games here (Australia) are still what I consider expensive (USD$45 minimum without a sale). Typical price is around USD$60. Even on sale they don't get much below that for the big stuff - zelda, pokemon, Mario, animal crossing, etc. Curious how comparable that is to elsewhere.
Oh I'm just referring to Steam games. I'm a PC gamer just because I don't buy consoles (because they're expensive lol) and Steam just have great discounts compared to PlayStation, Xbox and Switch.
For full priced games, which used to be only $60 USD, now somehow $80-$90 — thanks Nintendo — is far too expensive for me. $45 too. $30 is starting to be okay. Oh and pardon me for not saying where I'm from but my country got cheaper regional pricing on Steam so I just use USD prices like tiers of pricing.
Ah okay yeah, I barely use steam these days. Can't remember the last time I bought anything there, I just occasionally play very old games I already have on there haha.
Yeah i love a few Nintendo classic titles but $$$ 😭 kinda a good thing that I don't like the direction they're taking pokemon because it removes the temptation to upgrade to the switch 2. Not sure I'll bother unless I somehow get free money to throw around haha.
I'm playing them preemtively, once they come down to a couple of dollars I'll totally pay for them for all the time I spent playing them when they were expensive.
True. Just depends on device and how committed people are to doing that lol. As a casual gamer (PC barely ever anymore and Nintendo switch, then I have emulators with a bunch of Nintendo classics) I wouldn't bother. I don't even know how to do that for a Nintendo switch.
So yeah it's an option but in terms of the discussion about Gen z people not shelling out for video games, I think part of the decline has been from casual users who aren't either shelling out $ and aren't interested in enough to pirate 😅 I'm a millennial.
I assume to pirate and transfer to a Nintendo switch (I don't have 2, just the original) there's an initial set up cost?
I tend to stick to the emulator my brother got me with all our 90s(ish) childhood games lol. I don't know if those exist yet for more modern games - or at least not at the cost of the classics!
My steam family polycule has one person that streams games and gets given many, many steam keys. Highly recommend, I have access to a wide selection of mostly queer cozy games.
I mostly buy multiplayer games so we can all play them together. I also buy the dlc for things I really like. Shout-out to Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, which tbh is more of a soundtrack than a game.