I think a lot of it was just getting sick of E33 discussion. I remember when Hundred Line released this year some time after E33 and on Steam forums (which, to be fair, is as bad as most gaming forums), while people were, er, “discussing” the game, plenty of valid complaints were topped off with “just play E33 instead, it’s cheaper and much better” Like, I don’t even disagree, HL was disappointing, but why are you bringing it up, it’s apples and oranges.

It was also the first I heard of E33 personally so it wasn’t a good first impression, even if the devs are sweet and actually gave a shout out to HL.

(As someone who prefers Silksong that game’s community sucks too though, no, I don’t care a game is as expensive as 3 Silksongs)

I need extra warmth bro, it’s actually cold in here.

I also wear underwear under my pyjamas.

Where socks?

Patented Skinner burgers. Old family recipe. For steamed hams.

When an aspect of a game is ass (usually grinding, and I tend to be tolerant), even if I try to engage with it. Or if I’m about to drop the game anyway and cheats means seeing an ending. Last time I did was Megaman ZX, the game was already tedious and expects you to then also do a boss rush with limited ways to recover between fights, so I cheated infinite lives to get it over with.

I really need to play MGS, I bought second hand 1-4 and still didn’t get to it

(Relatively) free healthcare and education probably helps (Poland here). At the same time, the housing crisis means a lot of people need credit for houses, but I don’t follow the system here to know how bad it is for that - barely anyone complains on this topic at least, seems like people who need credit get it.

Is the UK not considered the West? I don’t understand.

He’s claiming this whole credit problem is US only and not the rest of the West.

Once you setup the emulators (which does take me ages sometimes), the only problems I had were Gamecube and Switch emulators not letting me open emulator options in game mode without things getting fucked up.

But she probably won’t care, and I probably needed an extra 30 minutes to get it fixed, which’d be your problem. I grabbed NSO on Switch 2 because the setup was a pain and I am fine with paying ~4€ a month to skip it, but Steam Deck sounds better for you. (And is also just better in general)

Well, it’s SOMEONE ELSE getting bitten, but close enough.

Well, some people just treat it like playing sports. Wanna go play ball? Wanna play CSGO? Hey, this ball/shirt/skin looks fancier! It’s foreign, but understandable to me.

It also seems to be as many people as it was back shooters became a big thing. Out of the few people I know who video game, one only does FPS, one sticks to a few different games (Ultrakill, TF2, Peak to name a few), one either plays co-op with his gf or does Single player, and one mostly plays single player like me. Chatting up random people about games, that ratio seems similiar.

Nah fam he ran out of luck for his lifetime

Why specifically $5M and not say $1M? Building a house should apparently cost you half of that, and I assume the rest is for investing into passive income?

I agree with the other guy, talk is cheap. I probably don’t need a 4k TV or multiple consoles, but I immediately started planning and buying after a raise.

They are anti-developer (though dev opinions differ), but most people aren’t affected by the anti-consumer stuff. The only instances I know are censorship with niche visual novels and case gambling (and things like crashing CSGO economy sound like good things in that regard), unless there’s more I don’t know.

Contrast this to Nintendo just saying throwing lawsuits everywhere, among other things.

Has Epic become profitable yet? I vaguely remember the plan being for it to become profitable later, and that it was living off Fortnite money.

Steam could just charge at most 20% then though, I don’t remember what the thresholds/conditions for different costs like 30% and 18% are.

I can see how banning might be controversial, but I sure wish they’d tax the hell out of them. Make that yacht not a million, but 10 or 100, a billion. Give that tax money to services like healthcare or UBI. I can see unique perks to yachts, if you genuinely want one as a dream I’m not gonna stop you, just commit to that being the dream you want.

In practise I can see how politicans would (or do) just use that money for themselves anyway…

There’s a whole company/llm about doing that whose CEO gave a Ted talk about it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JrIxFZRA

After that, I actually had a pretty wild idea about someone using to replace dead/missing people in chats. Imagine the horror of finding out your friend died months ago, or got kidnapped. Horribly impractical but sounds like a good novel.

I was thinking that they might require a Steam account to order, the same way they stopped scalpers for Steam Deck, but there’d be ways around that.

It’d be hilarious if you needed something like “profile level 10” to order though.

I spent years living with off making about 400€ monthly as a student with a part time job (most of it going to food and housing with family), and now that I have 800€ monthly I find myself immediately overextending with plans. New furniture, console, TV, actual PC instead of a budget laptop. If I didn’t live in a big city I’d consider saving up for a car.

It’s easy to forget almost anything besides a roof, homemade food and healthcare is a luxury. (Or, sadly, even the last one, if you want good healthcare, or live in America)

Booted up E33 and it does pull stable 30 now, but last time I was fighting a boss with pretty cinematic attacks. I didn’t have tearing on though and I’m still not sure if resolution needs to be set to low manually for upscaling, I did it now to be sure like someone suggested. Maybe it was also the constant speeding up and slowing down of attacks that messed with perception. A few UI bugs happen still. Don’t worry, the difficulty is fine.

Reading all this and looking up Steam Boot ups does make me consider my own setup, true, but I’d just at most end up with a stronger and upgradable (and probably pricier) Steam Machine anyway. And if I only upgrade every 4-5 years or so, like I have up to this point, I might be starting from scratch anyways. (Had a gaming laptop around 2010, then budget laptop at 2020 that couldn’t play PS4 games well anyway, then Steam Deck at around 2022)