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  • Indeed. I have my TV on a TV desk and behind it there is a huge mess of cables, all kind of hidden.

    On my desk I have:

    • ISP modem,
    • personal router
    • gigalan powered switch
    • VPN server (edgerouter X)
    • Toslink hifi dac
    • passive preamp with IR receiver to control the volume
    • The TV
    • x2 powered monitors (KRK RP6G3).
    • PS5 console
    • One headphone amp that lately I'm not using (Lyr 2) and I think I'll reallocate.
    • A CCWGTV
    • And one HDMI cable coming from the PC.

    I use the desk to organise/hide everything. If I didn't have it this would be a horrible mess.

  • I'm worried about Putin getting old and still in power in charge of the warfare.

  • I recently got a PS5 and I only buy offline games because of this.

    They should release maybe some 20€ annual plan just including online gaming and maybe 500MB of cloud storage for saves.

    But having to pay for this is a disadvantage Vs PC games and having to pay like 74€ per year is even worse.

  • Offtopic (because it has nothing to do with Russia): in Argentina the inflation of the local currency this year reached at least 100% annual.

    But people there use USD fiat for purchasing real estate. And use USD/EUR for saving.

    So even if the local currency is a mess, people moves using foreign currency for important transactions.

  • Yeah and on the living room with a big screen (I got a PS5 recently) I think the PS5 is doing lot of 1440p FSR upscaling.

    And it still looks nice on a 4K TV.

  • I'm never ditching 27" 1440p for a bigger resolution like 4K or ultrawide.

  • If everything goes well (I'm being optimistic)....living on an island and with 2 kids (1 already incoming).

    And hopefully not travelling much for work. Ideally no more than 2 or 3 times per year.

  • I read this post (without knowing the game yet but having it on a wishlist to get in a few months) and can't stop thinking how lucky we were with the quality of Dark Souls, Elden Ring, BB and Sekiro.

  • Milei probably has a small resemblance with DT. Maybe just a small percentage, but that is enough to call him a Full DT by the press in the rest of world. It is just cheap press.

    The guy has a lot of cons and pros. But he is not a DT. He is mainly an economist. Not a businessman.

    Argentina as always is a sinking ship with a lot of holes. Every year there are more holes. They still have not found a party that can close those holes. And there were only 3 big parties.

    Perhaps a new party (like the one from Milei) manages to start closing some of those holes. Perhaps they keep opening holes like the current party. Even if you put the best party ever made, it would take 15-30 years maybe more to recover. You have a lot of adults that never worked (legally) and live from the state. It takes time to educate the new generations letting them know that money is not always a free thing that comes without working. (And you cannot tell them "now you have to find a job" in the short term otherwise the country will go violent. Therefore no matter how far right the party is. It always end up adapting to a situation to control the masses that requires socialism).

    Time will tell about what will happen if the same party (probably was the worst government in the past 30 years) wins the election. But nowadays the country is at worst since I was born. 40% poverty (oficial, real is perhaps higher ), 100+% annual inflation (not even the old 20-30% annual). It is probable that the current government will never leave and will stay on power just like it happens in many other countries, like Venezuela. (While it is still a totally different country, we always compare to Venezuela because the current party always liked Venezuela as a role model to follow).

    I hope not! But with 40+% poverty... soon there will not be enough tax payers to cover the costs but maybe hyperinflation puts a stop to the excess of public spending (printing ARS money) to solve any problem.

  • Argentina has above 100% annual inflation at the moment, right?

  • Yeah so for Pixel 8 you just need a bit more for 120Hz instead of 90Hz.

    A different story is for gaming. But for mobile gaming I'm more a fan of Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch. Devices that have higher TDP.

  • Performance I don't give a shit.

    But efficiency I care a lot especially in a laptop. Much more on the phone.

    Pixel 5 with a 3 year old mid range SoC can run android 14 UI at 90 FPS pretty much fine.

  • I'm glad I opened the video because this game I didn't know looks like a dark souls and now I'm definitely adding it to my wishlist!

    And also it is 4K60 FPS!

  • They moved to WhatsApp long ago.

  • USD It is the second most popular currency in Argentina.

    And the first choice for savings.

    (I'd prefer EUR rather than USD as it's more decentralised).

  • I don't think that switching to USD is the best solution. But at least it should limit the ridiculous amount of money printed. The inflation in Argentina is crazy.

    In Spain if we were the only owners of the Euro we would be printing money to solve absolutely any problem. Generating even more inflation.

  • Some prices are crazy in my opinion.

    I generally buy 2 year old games except in some cases.

    And in the consoles they are even more expensive. Game price could be higher than on PC and then you also need to pay an expensive subscription (because they charge you for a lot more things than just the multiplayer costs) to be allowed to play in multiplayer.

    The player base is also bigger than before. While that needs more post sales support and more infrastructure it is nothing compared to the game.

    I think in short the problem here is just the wrong forecasting when planning the game.