I remember calling my friends on Skype using my PSP and going “wow, this is the future!”

Go ahead. I’m back to piracy where needed and patient gaming where possible. These clowns played themselves. AAA games are unreasonable nowadays.

Sounds like a nutjob if she’s being vague and unwilling to clarify. You dodged a bullet.

You do make some decent points, but the console has one major aspect that PC simply does not have: convenience. I install a game and I’m playing it. No settings to tweak, no need to make sure my drivers are up to date, no need to make sure other programs I’m running are interfering with the game, none of that. If I get a game for my console I know it absolutely will work, with the exception of a simply shitty game which happens on PC too.

The other thing I wanted to touch on was the cheap games. That’s just as relevant on console nowadays. For example, I’ve been slowly buying the Yakuza games for $10-$15 each. That’s the exact same discounts I’ve seen on Steam.

For backwards compatibility, it depends on your console. Xbox is quite impressive - if you have an Xbox Series X you can play any game ever released for any Xbox all the way back to the original. Just stick in the disc. With PlayStation, it’s just PS4 games that the PS5 is backwards compatible with. Sony needs to do better. And with Nintendo… lol.

Yeah, with a PC you can do other things than gaming. For most of that you can get a cheap laptop. There are definitely edge cases where a powerful PC is needed such as development, CAD, AI, etc. But on average a gaming-spec PC is not necessary. I’m saying that as a developer and systems administrator for the past 14 years.

Along with paying for multiplayer I get access to a large catalog of games as well as additional games every month. Yes they’re inaccessible if I stop paying, but that’s not really a big deal. Even all that aside, I pretty much play single player games anyway.

Also, when a game comes out I know it’ll work. No driver bugs, no messing with settings, no checking minimum and recommended specs, it just works. And it works the same for everyone on the platform. I don’t have any desire to spend a bunch of time tweaking settings to get things just right, only to have the game crash for some esoteric reason or another.

I mean, for the price of a mid range graphics card I can still buy a whole console. GPU prices are ridiculous. Never mind everything else on top of that.

Trying to get Bloodborne running on my steam deck, then setting up the randomizer.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BloodbornePC/comments/1i2l5r5/bloodborne_randomizer_installation_guide_mo2_and/

In which way, do you think? People will write even more code with AI, or people realize it’s a bad idea and stop?

Actually, yeah. I was interested before, but the posts I saw actually sold me on the game.

How dusty is the room you’re in?

Look, if you don’t wanna get flamethrowered, stop being so flammable.

That’s a weird looking Charmander

Tell her I said pspspspspspsps

I would pursue two avenues simultaneously. The first is to get some proof - start recording and see if you can capture the incidents. Evidence is king.

The second, check your place for a carbon monoxide leak. Just to rule out the possibility that this could actually be a delusion brought on by CO inhalation.

Could be useful for RimWorld. Factorio maybe.

Bottom Right Gang for life.

At what point do they slap a M-series chip in there and allow a dual boot into MacOS? Phone and desktop computer all in one with a USB-C dock.

Of course Slay the Spire goes on sale a couple weeks after I buy it. Oh well, only a few dollars.

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If muOS has been updated to support it, muOS all the way.