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I mean, you could buy old hardware and find that the newly released game you really wanted to play doesn’t run.

I had planned to skip the 970, but the 1070 “never” came.

Ended up biting the bullet when Just Cause 3 launched and my old AMD GPU was giving me seconds per frame. Sometimes even two digits.

Consoles are more or less static targets and as such the games are optimized for them.

PC will always have cutting edge graphics, but the last couple of console generations haven’t exactly been slouches either. A lot of bang for your buck compared to the GPU market.

It used to be that a mid tier current gen GPU was $300, now it’s $600 for the mid tier last gen.

That’s not adjusted for inflation, just price gouging.

If anything is killing PC gaming that’s the problem. People don’t mind paying extra for a superior experience, especially when it’s a multipurpose machine, but ridiculously expensive GPU’s is tragic.

if it lasts it may lead to the new generations growing up on consoles only due to the price.

On the other hand, Apple really wants to get into the gaming space, so who knows what will happen next?

Chances are if you buy a high-end PC you’ll buy another one (or spend enough on upgrades to cost the same as another one) by the end of the console generation.

And let’s be honest. PC gaming has become ridiculously expensive due to first crypto and now AI.

I paid less for my Xbox Series X in October 2020 than I paid for my 3070Ti - which incidentally still costs more than when I bought it over a year ago.

Console games still cost an arm and a leg, and there’s only a handful of games I actually prefer playing on the couch with a controller, but given the inflated gaming pc prices it’s hard to argue that consoles are “as expensive”.

As a lifelong PC gamer I simply will not pay for online gaming, but Microsoft and Sony will continue to push in that direction as long as people let them.

The definition isn’t the problem. Git isn’t blockchain, never was, never will be. Thank _god Linus

Best suggestion so far.

Most of what you describe is the inverse: Problems for which blockchain is the cause, or at least part of the problem.

That a speculative digital asset with no tangible value could perform better than other objects of investments, including currency, should not be surprising, that’s just group psychology and concerted effort to make people want to invest in intangibles.

Argentinian currency might be tangible, but its valuation isn’t.

No it isn’t. But companies are certainly trying to make it so.

Traveling in the US it can often feel like everyone wants to scam you or take advantage of you if you don’t pay attention.

Heck, even store prices and restaurant prices aren’t the real price.

Store prices are without sales tax/VAT, and restaurants wants you to tip 20% so they can keep not paying their “employees”.

Good FCC.

pats head

Pretty sure the first guy trying to pitch money faced an uphill battle. But at least it was tangible.

People are still looking for problems to which blockchain is the solution.

So far we’ve found none.

My thoughts exactly.

Followed by that moment from the Sonic movie (or trailer at least) - “how are you still alive?”

I have no idea

Sure they could have.

But why would they?

Just because you, clearly, disagree with my opinion doesn’t make it terrible or senseless.

The strength of your conviction, or in which you convey it, isn’t a stand-in for rational arguments and logic based debate.

Firefox never included an ad-blocker by default because an Ad-blocker kinda does the opposite of what the web-browser is supposed to do.

A web browser shall render the web page according to specification. Blocking content hinders this behavior and will even break some websites.

I think most people have forgotten that 15 years ago web browsers had barely started becoming standards compliant, with Opera being the first(?) to pass the Acid2 rendering test in 2006.

For reference: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2006/03/opera-passes-acid2/

A user installing an ad-blocker is perfectly fine, and hopefully the user makes an informed decision of advantages and the possible disadvantages that said ad-blocker might have.

And it’s also fine for fringe browsers like Brave to have a default ad-blocker, but there’s a big difference from that to just putting one in a product that’s used by millions, even though most users would likely be happy with the change.

We don’t even know if it’s coming, but now we’re speculating what titles it will launch titles? Oo

He’s not saying Zoom is a bad product.

Teams and Zoom are great for remote work, and I get how a lot of people love just dialing in to meetings, but there’s definitely a different dynamic to being in the office.

During the pandemic my dev team grew from two people to six. Since it was in waves we got to try being at the office and being at home using remote work only interchangeably.

Especially as a manager I see the benefits of working in the office. Not necessarily every day, but regularly.

Not necessarily from a raw productivity perspective. The office has a lot of apparent drawbacks, but these drawbacks are what triggers the dynamic that makes the office better - at least for me and my team.

I find that the office conversations triggers more ideas and better collaboration.

With my manager hat on I find that it’s easier for me to see if I need to get involved in discussions or let people handle it themselves.

People are different, teams are different, but it’s not black and white.

People love the flexibility of remote work, and some people are certainly better off working “alone” at home than being with the team, but for me it’s all about finding the balance. I don’t want to micromanage anyone, but there’s a reason a lot of people need managers, and that is simply that left to their own devices they will start working on 200 things and not finish anything.

As boring as it is our job is to deliver value to the company.

But on occasion, I will let people run wild with ideas and see where it goes. And then rein them back in when there are deadlines to be met.

Possibly an interesting catch-22 with regards to certain contracts’ requirements.

My thoughts exactly.

13-14 years ago when smart phones were fairly novel people actually left meaningful app reviews.

Today people only bother if they’re discontent or lured into it.