How is this not a just a symptom of under-regulated capitalism?

I went to 2k 100hz uw from 1080p 144hz. I stopped noticing the increased framerate pretty quickly as the “mouse so smooth” effects wear off fast. But the ultrawide huge fov is a massive plus. I don’t notice the resolution increase at all beyond lower frames and more text on screen in docs.

Laptops 4k is just 1080p with extra battery drain and worse performance.

Fair.

Yes its pointless, most noticable is the low frame rate and lowered graphics to make the game playable. High fps is more noticable and useful. Blind tests confirmed that, even the one ltt did.

2k could be argued is solid but even then the ppi is so dense already it does not really matter.

Edit: then again there is some research showing people preceive fps and ppindifferently so it may be 4k makes sense for some while for others its really overpriced 2k that no pc can run.

You pay ton more money for a screen thats ppi is too dense to matter only to to pay ton more money for a pc to still run it at terrible framerate with lowered settings and fake frames.

4k is a pure scam.

Happy with my used 4070ti super i paid 150 for after trading in my 2080ti. There is nothing to use your gpu on unless youre a kid and haven’t seen the pattern of every aaa game bring literally the same game every year.

And still have your house burn down due to it just being a 2080 that has 9.8 jiggawats pushed into it.

There isn’t a single reason to get any of the 5 series imo, they don’t offer anything. And i say that as a 3d artist for games.

Edit: nevermind i remember some idiots got roped into 4k for gaming and are now paying the price like marketing wanted them to.

Its cause absolute idiots keep preordering digital products at full price.

It also wasn’t up to the obsidian standards we come to expect.

But then again i understand not being able to realise it was not a well written or designed game as a large chunk of people think starfield wasn’t that bad.

Microsoft makes the world worse again. Fuck ms, go linux.

Delta v rings of saturn, ostranauts, quasimorph, loop hero, barony are all loot n chill, even if they can be a bit tense. Altho they might not exactly match your itch. Ill try and remember and check my library.

Grim dawn wasn’t mentioned but im sure youve played it.

That is nice and i dont even like wh40k

Entry can exceed the cost of the console but if you upgrade your existing one, especially using used gpus it is dirt cheap.

Now factor in:

• pc games online stores are cheaper, there are more opportunities for good deals. Usually 5-10 eur off a game.
• you are not an idiot who pays for the internet twice, 80 eur a year. -pc game stores have better deals as console ones usually refuse to let the price down for a looong time since they have no competition
• you are sonys bitch by owning a ps5 and you are not elegible for any refunds. Saving you tons of money since every pc game store lets you refund for any reason within a time window.

and even a pc double the cost of a ps5 will be cheaper very quickly. Consoles are designed to catch people with no long term thinking.

Mini pcs are a thing and they get better every year.

Its not ps5, its ps4 pro pro. They’re the same console and Im tired of pretending otherwise.

Im amazed its selling so well considering its pointless.

i mean switch 1 has all the same games switch 2 does cause all nintendo does is re release the same shit every year like ea sports and all the other aaa slop. Even if they do it with more polish and quality.

on another hand a mini pc is peanuts and they are shockingly powerful.

oh no a japanese video game giant is doing nasty, anti consumer things to maximise profits. Truly terrible and sad that nintendo is forced to be terrible by evil gamers or whatever.

Oh I did not know it was that bad, i just tought they were overpriced, overhyped normie brand that is popular since it has better packaging than ACME

Wait till you discover their main racing wheel is a 25 year old design that they remove features from and raise the price with every re release. Logi is a shit company. There is 0 reason to buy any of their stuff.

Yeah, my old logi from pre 2010 are nice but now jts just low quality overpriced stuff with switched that constantly fail.

I also own two vertical mices, their most expensive ones. They are built like shit and ive had to replace switches multiple times. I moved to protoarc trackball for everything but gaming. I will be replacing my logi with keychron m5 as its “premium material” has completely disintegrated in like 5 years and its just nasty.

Logitech was already overpriced and poor quality.

It doesn’t have to be a competition, we can all accept the fact both are anti-consumer.

Ubi used to have some neat stuff but post far cry 3 it is just the most generic, worst gameplay slop possible. And avarage person just loves repetetive slop.

Hello, is this your first time finding out consoles blatantly lie about 4k since console gamers have no understanding how 4k is impossible to run with the best hardware.

And yet switch 2 can on 10 year old phone hardware.

Why not? Are games worth less now to you than they were a few years ago?

Yes, 100 bucks for mario kart that is basically same game as last mario kart is ridiculous.

Pros: since you can’t import anything anerica will pull itself out of the massive hole it was pre trump, billions of jobs will appear out of thin air and america makes everything from mining titanium/lithium, building toyotas to manufacturing worlds best microchips on their home country, yeehaw! Also no tariffs on russia cause they’re misunderstood and are saviors of the white race.

Cons: Above is only true if you are mentally insane and live in an alternative universe without history.

Same. Benefits of preordering:

• your stupid ass inner monkey is silent for a second.

Benefits of waiting for a sale:

• you know if the game is good or not
• you spend less money
• you have had time to think wether you actually want it
• all the huge bugs and issues are fixed
• guides are available
• any documentation for any issues you might have exists now.
• all the dlcs are out and included in the price

With deck at least you don’t pay to use your own internet, and if a game is too expensive at launch you know it will be down to 50% at a sale in a year or so.

How many players with most switch playtime are actual children the nintendo products are designed for?

Yeah its an ubisoft copy-paste game. It is a bad game cause they don’t make any good games.

But american conservatives are mad that some shitty ass sci fi slop game from a terrible developer is not 100% historically accurate since they want an samurai to be white texan instead of black.

Its called “not having shareholders to maximise profits for”. Everything turns to shit once they go public.

In the great us downfall of 2026, valve might just be the only big company left standing.

The game used to be fun but now its a complete mess with broken balance and everything is nerfed into oblivion leaving no room for anything interesting but getting headshots with the operator who has the best gun. Gone are the days where gadgets mattered.

I don’t see a reinvention without all balance being reset and new people being taken on to oversee balance.

Yes. Blade of grass to orbit.

4070ti super on linux here. It just works but I’m looking at amd cards to lower fan noise.

And then you pick up a steam deck and play games that were originally meant to play on cards the size of steam deck.

Lighting bakes are done on a very small texture and only one texture sheet per asset. For a single 4k PBR texture with alpha (and more mask maps in case you want moss or snow or whatever) you could have around 8x4(plus any extra masks) for 512 or 4x4(plus any extra maps) 1k lightmaps. Not to mention lightmaps are simple 0 to 255 channel rather than 3x255 for rgb. Besides dynamic lights are used whenever performance allows making the savings smaller.