Yeah, the day Gabe leaves is going to be a sad day for gaming, because Steam is probably gonna get real shitty real quick. I’m sure some finance-minded jackasses will do their best to maximize short-term profit and fly the whole ecosystem into the ground at Mach 3.

So, having not played it, is C7 basically just the Civ series’s C&C4 moment?

lol this will definitely not negatively impact quality in any way. No sir.

Unless they’ve come up with some truly novel new architecture that makes training and/or inference MUCH more efficient… why? The generational creep is obviously unsustainable, and using current-style GPUs for ML applications is a recipe for obsolescence for a hardware manufacturer these days.

Huh. My days of refusing to purchase EA products are certainly coming to a middle.

HOLD ON, MY DELL LATITUDE IS ABOUT TO HIT V₁ ON ITS TAKEOFF ROLL, IT’S A BIT NOISY

That’s a rather long way of saying “population be agin’”

Japan’s been going through demographic collapse, and has been for a little bit now. Korea, too, is looking squirrelly with regard to pop age balance.

I love the part of the internet that’s just like “you’re a problem, and we’re gonna engineer around you”

It does what I want it to, and works fine for the games I play on it. I also have a steam deck, as well as a gaming machine of Theseus, and a PS4, amongst numerous other systems for various purposes and uses. I honestly think I’m going to just straight up skip the S2.

Same tbh. My OG switch is still chugging along just fine. No reason to upgrade, really.

Oh wait, so did they actually bait and switch the KS backers? Wouldn’t that be false advertising? And also, wouldn’t that mean they’re in serious trouble with KS, and liable to have a shitload of money removed from their accounts, or at least a lawsuit?

They left off a zero

Woah, do you guys hear that?

It’s the sound of nobody giving a fuck.

I genuinely could not care less, tbh. There’s not been anything I’ve found really groundbreaking in the genre for a very long time.

If we go by oldest part, I’ve got a really good KW seasonic PSU from probably a decade ago that’s still going strong. But pretty much everything else has evolved at one point or another from when that was introduced.

I’m still rolling with a PS4 Pro my buddy gave me when he popped for a PS5. Honestly not feeling like I’m missing out.

It is, however, also fair to point out that I have also built and maintained a Gaming Machine of Theseus for many, many years.

Did you close it tho?

I’m equally cautious and curious… Redemption of Li Wei…?

Nvidia doesn’t really care about the high-end gamer demographic nearly as much as they used to, because it’s no longer their bread and butter. Nvidia’s cash cow at this point is supplying hardware for ML data centers. It’s an order of magnitude more lucrative than serving consumer + enthusiast market.

So my next card is probably gonna be an RX 9070XT.

As someone who has worked in tech their entire career, it’s deeply depressing and infuriating how correct this is.

HELLO I WOULD LIKE TO ORDER A PIZZA
NO
WHY
BECAUSE YOU ARE JOHN MADDEN

This is the silliest pairing lol

lol that’s pretty hilarious tbh

Really doing your best to push me away from your hardware, aren’t you, NVDA?

Yeah, for x86, AMD APU’s are the way to go for mobile, imo

Yeah, doesn’t seem like a smart play to give up your strategic chokehold on one of the most important elements of the modern global economy

I’m playing it on the Switch 1

I guess my point is that I think of the Nintendo dynamic more charitably than I think of independent large game studios making platform exclusive titles just because some business deal was struck, simply because the latter creates the impression of vertical integration when there is in fact none.

I mean, yeah, but at the same time, a Nintendo game being a Nintendo exclusive product doesn’t seem that weird to me. If it was an external studio, sure. But it’s the same company. I agree that it’s annoying, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable tactic if you control the vertical and you actually DO build good hardware and software that play well together, and you want to leverage the multiplicative effect there.

That sounds like a rad concept for a game. I’d be interested in it.

lol ok, but HP is still a bag of dicks

People like to hate EA because it gives them a sense of pride and accomplishment

That really does sound interesting

Fuck I really gotta just pony up and get one don’t I 😂

They’re legit just shipping stuff that failed QC. It’s kinda wild.

Can I have some shoes?

I mean, if you’re copper modding and you’re not masking everything else off with captan, you shouldn’t be copper modding.

Lmao wouldn’t it have been great if they made this argument 20 or so years ago?

I mean… I jumped on a 3080FE several years ago near release time because

• Rona time
• it was an absurd amount of generational uplift - as in, I’m not sure we’ll ever see that sort of gen-over-gen performance gain again