Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor’s throne is held by one who could never wield it’s authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?
You can jump into backlog of older game titles. Its never late to discover GOG gems.
I gave my son $10 to buy some Steam games. And I was so proud that he didn’t spend the $10 on Roblox or anything, but on a few indie games on sale.
It is weird to see people obsess over the price of a new release AAA game when the classics tend to be better made, less buggy, have a bigger mod community, and much lower specs.
Go back and play the Halo series. The opening scene of the first game still gives me chills. Play Portal. And then play Portal 2.
Check out some old school RTS titles. Planetary Annihilation is a reworking of the old Total Annihilation game and absolutely stands up.
Go try some indies - Blue Prince or Slay the Spire or Darkest Dungeon.
There’s no reason to spend more than $20 on a game anymore
There is a reason many good old games can’t be easily played on modern hardware.
If you’re not allergic to 5-10 minutes of looking at protondb or other resources to understand how to get the game running, this isn’t a problem.
I’ve not yet found a difficult process for getting old games running. They’ve been around so long that the community has typically documented everything you need to know to get up and running.
I mean… I am used to getting things like modding skyrim on linux, so this is not really a topic needed to preach to me.
But I met countless people who will give up after three repeats of basic installation attempt.
Emulators solve a lot of those problems
Exactly why I added the world “easily”. Those who can and know often overestimate what average person can and know.
You can pay more if you just want the Nintendo or Blizzard official remaster. But all the stuff is accessible
Man ive been looking for updated unemployment numbers but this regime never shows the truth anyway.
The newest numbers are yuge, the best numbers everyone says so, it’s incredible, it’s all because of me, because I’m incredible, and if it’s not then it’s Bidens fault, but I’m amazing and Biden isn’t, thank you for paying attention to me
Gun prices haven’t risen though
Ammo prices absolutely have
Luckily there are loads of good indie games at low prices with low spec requirements
Wait until you’re not able to eat. That’s when real shit happens.
Well, I mean, technically if you’re not eating you won’t be experiencing any real shits. Maybe if they’re down to hot dogs, although at that point starvation may seem appealing.
Can we throw feces at the wealthy at some point? We need to find ways to enjoy ourselves without money.
I saw a man in San Francisco flinging excrement like 10-15 years back. This man is us, there is just a time wrinkle.
That man saw what the future had in store for us
If you can catch one to throw a turd, sure. Seems a bit wasted considering what else you can throw but I can’t say what.
Sick ass ninja stars?!
Dipped in shit
There are thousands of amazing older games that run on old hardware. Forget AAA and wade into your backlog or pull out some classic from gog or a yard sale.
Don’t chase the high end, relax and start a game of CIV 4 or Anno 1404
In the past 2 weeks, I’ve played Tie Fighter and Dune 2. Glad I had over the minimum 640 KB of RAM for Dune - it’s pricey these days but worth it for a smoother experience!
Dune 2 was my favorite game as a kid. I tried to play it again couple of years ago and couldn’t. The UI is so clunky and the graphics are pretty bad.
Brother, we’re pulling out paper and pencil to play tic tac toe with the price of electricity these days
Bought the Shadowrun trilogy for $10 bucks on GoG. That’s gonna be my next adventure.
New shit can blow me.
Enjoy. The first is a bit clunky but good lore points - the second is where it really takes off
Awesome. I don’t mind clunky so much with CRPGs. Comes with the territory.
You mean civ V. Hexagons are the bestagons!
Technically very much a AAA game though, four was the first one published by Take Two and after it came out they bought Firaxis
We’re forgetting food…
More Americans are skipping breakfast because it’s not in the budget anymore
I feel like everything is being priced to where we aren’t meant to have any savings.
The objective is to kill home computing :D (🤮)
Companies want unbounded exponential profits. Now guess where those profits are coming from.
spoiler
It’s from squeezing every cent they can from regular people.
picked up a steam deck as a piece of insurance a drew months ago.
it has simply become a darksouls 1 machine.
I love to hate it.
I think know where this is going:
“NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE”
🏴☠️
How do you pirate RAM?
have you tried downloading more RAM
Well you say that as a joke, but back in the day this was a real thing. Not exactly downloading, because the internet wasn’t really a thing back then, but using software to gain more ram.
I was a big fan of QEMM myself and had it in the original box with all the manuals and such. I already had a pirated version through the sneakernet, but got the original on sale as well. I still have that box somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
At allowed DOS and other TSRs to be loaded into what’s known as upper memory. This is the memory in between 640KB and 1MB. This area often wasn’t used as it can’t be accessed through regular addressing. Tools that need more memory could often address the space above 1MB and was designed for machines with 2 or 4MB (or more). As most games and other software was limited to 640KB it could be a pain in the ass to manage that memory. Often selectively not loading certain drivers at boot to leave enough memory for the more hungry software.
With QEMM this was no longer an issue, shoving a lot of stuff from below 640kb to above, leaving a lot of memory free all the time.
Later some of this was also implemented directly into DOS (I think MSDOS 5 but also other non MS OSes had this). Although I think by that point high memory was often used (the first little bit above 1M). But by that time most machines had more than 2MB of memory and games and other software often used all of the memory, not limited to 640KB. Software developers often used DOS extenders to act as middlemen where the software can access all of the ram without any complexity needed. The extender could just handle it without any issue and the developer could focus on their software instead of mundane things like memory access.
Note the often wrongly attributed 640KB quote of Bill Gates stems from the era. But he never said it and nobody thought that at the time. It wasn’t even a real DOS limitation, more of an IBM architecture limitation. And that became the defacto standard which made it harder to fix.
Yeah, that’s the reason I need more hard drives, which are fucking expensive!
This is the reason I didn’t know I was building that Steam backlog all along
.> unemployment is increasing
that sucks :(
but unemployment is just companies betting it all on AI right??
. > PC component prices are increasing
glad i dont need to upgrade.
.> game prices are increasing
am happy with my current games,and i dont think indie games prices are rising.Unemployment max is 1200 a month in my state. Thats nothing.
I think he means the rate of unemployment, not unemployment benefits.
I know, I read it wrong at first too.
