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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Fuck that, just play games that don't require a lot of power. Most of the better games made these days are indie games that can run on a potato anyhow and most of the graphically intensive games are shitty "AAA" titles that get released unfinished, run like garbage even on decent machines, and cost waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much.

[–] kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I’m expecting a repeat of the video game crash of ‘83. I expect some of the behemoths of the industry to go belly up, but I expect smaller studios to survive, or even benefit from the bigger players dissolving.

And games have looked super good enough for like 10+ years. If the future of gaming on your own hardware is tiny arm based chips, we’ll be just fine. Even in the current hardware shortage, there are a ton of $200 handhelds that can play a ton of games.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went and bought a DSi and 3DS and jailbroke them, and I've been very happy with them playing games like Hotel Dusk and Star Fox 64. I'll play vintage games on vintage hardware before I do cloud subscription gaming.

[–] christopher@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My DSi was easynto jailbreak too. Loaded up a bunch of nes and snes games on it.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

The screen is so nice too. I've love how the pixels end up looking on the DSi screen.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"You don't own your games and you have to pay us when you want to play what we choose you can play. Thanks for buying into this bullshit idea suckers!"

  • Amazon probably
[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well of course, they want this. Technofuedalism. Its the only way capitalism can grow like a cancer. Fuck them.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

At least the merchantilists knew the world was finite.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't want to play games on your machine. I want to play games on my machine. That I own. In my house.

[–] sneaky@r.nf 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

You have a house? Lucky fucker. 🤌🏼

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m sure that’s what they’re telling shareholders.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No doubt the same shareholders who've 'diversified' and have some stake in componentry being prohibitively expensive too.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So little doubt, I'd wager, that saying otherwise is asinine or marketing or both.

[–] BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

I'd rather just find a new hobby instead of giving more money to these greedy fucks. That includes Google, Nvidia and the rest. Fuck right off with your constant want and need to make everything worse.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah no shit. All the big companies are itching to sell compute back to us rather than let anyone own anything.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

They are all saying they colluded together to make dividends for investors. I wish any system worked for us plebes anymore jfc.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I bought a Luna controller by accident a while ago, figured I’d give it a shot since it was in hand. Returned it in no time, the experience was just bad.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Fuck off, Scamazon. Choke on a bag of dicks and become the fertilizer you're better as.

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

Has he actually used Luna? It's laggy and buggy as all hell.

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They can kiss my behind if they want to do that.

This is why I'd rather pirate or pay for indie games that are good in technical merit.