We can’t even get reliable broadband across the full US yet (Hughesnet still somehow has customers), i don’t see consumer-VDI being especially popular any time soon.

Future proofing and/or “retiring” the computer to home server duty when its time to build again (thats what im telling myself at any rate)

Edit: plus i have heard that DDR5 has issues with more than 2 sticks of RAM. Not sure the specifics though

Same, computer. Same.

Burn them to the ground to expose the hyper-green grass blocks below! (/s… maybe)

Discord always felt way overbuilt to me for a text/voice chat and screen sharing app. Same problem with Teams and others; they aren’t forums, stop trying to make them replace forums.

The number of songs expanded as the game progressed in two, plus you can adjust your playlist to exclude songs if you want. The playlist shuffle in the first one is awful and repetitive, and there weren’t multiple radio stations to choose from or radio hosts (the punk/rock station host is hilarious IMO)

If you’re okay with Ubisoft, Watchdogs 1 & 2 are fun for third person shooters. First one gives you a lot of options to enter combat, you carry all weapons on you (no “weapon loadout” selection really).

Favorite feature of both games is the in-game radio, you can just listen to music and wander around the world

Baldur’s Gate 2

Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc

And the “physical” map to get around with was great

Nah. If they patched it up real good and modernised the graphics, 2 wins that prize. They’d absolutely fuck it up though.

“Flop”, to me, implies some sort of jump. “Metaverse” just kinda rolled off the edge of a cliff immediately, like a dog shitting on a frozen hill.

I love the 600, its an entire weapon wheel on the mouse with precise selection (and, well, MMO’s)

Same, works great for my G600 (somehow still the best MMO mouse, more than a decade after being released)

Its not the first that this has come up, either. IIRC a tsunami massively impacted DDR4 production, i remember the 2x16GB kit that i bought months before had gone up to $500+ USD.

… Rust still exists? As in, the murder-hobo-survival game that was early access like, 10-15 years ago?

Cats are great in assassins creed, i loved how they would just seek out Bayek in Origins and just kinda follow him and get pets

They’ve kinda always been shit to gamers, they just hid it from console gaming; PC gamers frequently got shafted by SOE.

IIRC borderlands 3 was kind of a flop, and i didn’t even know borderlands 4 was a thing till like, a week before release date

IIRC Asus had some issues with literally frying CPUs (scorch marks in the actual socket) with early AM5

Isnt it like, over a decade too late for mojang to complain about a gun mod in minecraft? That ship has long since sailed

Didnt even know a 4th one was in development.

Grain of salt, as i havent played the mystery dungeon games or Colosseum, but Platinum had a great amount of story, and a decent amount of post-game content that wasn’t just min-maxing to win.

Everything post-B2/W2 is just too hand-holdy to me.

Don’t knock the Ranger games either, they were fun adventures.

They also didnt tone it down at all for the 3ds re-master(?) of it.

Frankly ive seen worse in nintendo games, namely the fairy fountains in ocarina of time.

Fair enough, ill still leave it solely for the “definition of insanity” meme origin

Far Cry 2 and far cry 3.

3 for a legendary compelling villain (Vaas)

2 for genuinely immersive in-game UI design and challenging enemy AI.

Something something “sense of pride and accomplishment”

Same. Hoping to not want or need a new gpu for at least 5 years, only reason i bought is because my 2080 TI was starting to go and i was not paying tariffs on top of already inflated GPU prices

Literally never heard of it before today.

Because RGB ecosystem lock-in makes money by making matching peripherals easier.

Origins > Odyssey IMO. Better story, better pacing.

I played odyssey first too.

I havent even had one with grapheneos for a year yet, what the fuck google…

Id like more missions involving going inside ships, below the deck

IO shields are more or less built into the board these days

Now, case fans on the other hand, are surprisingly sharp

All enemies are now composed entirely of a proprietary material, Ubi-sponge. Absorb three times as many hits as the next best brand!

I had to look it up too.

X & Y, Kalos region

Yeah, post gen-6 is where i stopped. It felt like the games were really dumbed down, and they leaned way too hard into 3d graphics.

I got mine on a Thursday FWIW. The employees didn’t even know they had them in stock, they had to pull it out of a case in the back; had to have been an afternoon truck delivery

Also it is goddamned wonderful as a GPU 😍 ive been replaying Far Cry 6 with maxed out… everything. At 4k, and I’ve got roughly 100 FPS stable. Its absolutely gorgeous

I had luck with Microcenter last week (if you have one near you); checked their website at my preferred location and they had 9070 XTs in stock, went after work and I got one.

Tbh chromebooks are amazing as a concept for people like this. Barring proprietary junk like adobe, if they need more than that, they should be able to develop the skills to do basic things in linux without too much difficulty. Likely wont even need to touch any command line stuff.