samus12345 @ samus12345 @lemm.ee

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Considering consoles no longer go down in price and are even getting price hikes, not to mention mid-gen refreshes like the PS4 and PS5 Pro, I'd argue they're no less susceptible to "extreme consumerism." PCs do require more effort and research to get what you want at a price that makes sense, that's true, but you don't have to have the latest bleeding edge tech for everything, especially if you're okay with running games at 1080p and 60fps like I am.

The lack of alternative places to buy games for consoles used to be mitigated by the second hand market. Without it, console games are just going to be too damn expensive for me, especially considering they're nothing more than data. There is no reason they should cost this much other than pure greed.

I've always been a console peasant for the convenience of having a dedicated gaming device hooked up to the TV that uses a controller as well as the ability to trade in games when I'm done with them, not to mention consoles are cheaper than comparable PCs. I do have a decent PC, but I find I rarely play through entire games when I have to sit at a desk to do so. With digital games looking like the only game in town in the future and consoles being walled gardens with no other places to buy games for them, that cost advantage will be gone and it will be cheaper in the long run to pay more up front for a PC and get games for less. I got a Steam Deck recently, and it's been a great showcase for how a PC hooked up to the TV using only a controller can work. I had no idea Steam had such a robust system for remapping controllers and have been able to play games with them that would have been a huge hassle before.

If Sony does away with physical games like Nintendo is come the PS6, I'm definitely switching to PC gaming.

Fiat Slug!

They're not necessarily all "Neo-Nazi," but they're definitely Neo-Nazi adjacent.

I agree, but Spider-Man's a bad example. It's easy to stand up to tyrants when you have super powers.

Whatever you do, please don't throw me in the briar patch boredom room!

I got headbutted by a goat when I was a kid. Knocked me right back on my butt. I don't think the noodles would have helped.

Oh, you're talking about Republican voters. They also won't, and will blame DEI, woke, and Democrats for all their problems 'til the day they die.

That's US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and they are.

It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it's written in English.

My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.

I got a Steam Deck recently and hadn't dabbled in Linux since the Raspberry Pi 3 like 7 years ago. It's so much easier with a gui instead of command prompts! And now I see what all the fuss over Proton was about - it's amazing how many Windows games just work!

Damn Washington, ruining our economy!

These ones are real, though:

Like the people this will affect the most can afford a dentist.

And how much did it cost?

The other state is Utah.

The Senate voted for it unanimously in February.

Ahh, that brings me back. I can still remember the startup music.

The DS was my first console I played pirated games on and the Wii was the second, followed by the PSP, 3DS, and Switch. I remember I chose to jailbreak the Wii specifically because of Xenoblade Chronicles not getting a NA release (originally). Come to think of it, I played Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition on my Switch recently. Full circle!