Yep.

it doesnt mean less wars.

It just means more innocent/civilian suffering.

i mean, its also sears, premium store premium pricing.

I bought FFVII on launch day from Best Buy for 49.99.

Yeah… I really don’t like the changes that the Russian Invasion of Ukraine are making to war.

Cheap Kamikaze drones, unmanned roving gun turrets, etc etc… Removing men on the ground feels like its gonna make it easier to pursue and lust for wars as these technologies continue to advance further and remove the human components.

This is whats wrong with gaming.

idiots being too eager to throw ever increasing amounts of money at companies, to get what they used to get for 50, with zero self awareness that they are the cancer thats killing everything.

Sounds like someone got caught watching step sister porn, and is now throwing the weight of government behind his shame.

Are they better than they were 2 decades ago?

Cause last time I had a netgear router, they screwed up their hardware too… Fucker got so hot that it literally liquefied its plastic shell.

Youtube: “GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!”

Viewers: “Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?”

Youtube: “I KNOW, I’LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!”

Viewers: “JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT”

Youtube: “Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads…”

Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin

Yeah, and you are conveniently skipping over the most relevant part.

Lowest price history for cyberpunk 2077 is 20 bucks. 20 bucks for a 5 year old game is ridiculously overpriced.

Grand Theft Auto never goes under 15 dollars, which is over priced for how old the game is.

I personally wouldnt consider borderlands AAA games, but congratulations, you found the one game that had an actual legitimate sale and age related price drop with Elite: Dangerous, with the base games lowest sale price recorded as 2 bucks. WIth it currently on sale for 5. for a 11 year old game. Which is what the prices should be for an old game, and what all the other games should be doing once they are out of their content window.

Also, you don’t have to be so goddamn dismissive and hostile. I gave an example of my argument. Did you expect me to spend 3 weeks researching so i could produce a scientific paper detailing every game that is over priced?

Brother, this isnt 2004.

AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.

and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.

The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.

a humble bundle subscription pays for itself a dozen times over, too.

don’t blame you. I’m the same way… Linux is hard, once its working, I dont care why anymore, just leave it tf alone and let it work, lol

Fair enough, ironically it was the reverse for me… Couldnt get it to work at all via STL, but that install script worked flawlessly.

But thats the wonder of modern computing… what works for someone will be a disaster for someone else.

you can have MO2 without STL, just fyi

https://github.com/Anon00b/MO2

I’m sure he appreciates you rushing to his defense trying to somehow justify it.

Still, if this TV came out tomorrow and Wendell from Level1techs said “your Linux pc can get 4k, 120hz, HDR FreeSync out of this” and showed it working, $3500 dollars wouldn’t stop me from buying it.

I wish I was this rich to impulse buy something that expensive because a man on the internet said something positive abouti t.

What you say is true but it’s off topic because that’s not the current situation. What we’re actually seeing right now is that parents literally do not want to take their devices away from their kids and they don’t want to supervise their kids. It really is that simple.

So saying its a parental responsibility is off topic, and what we should focus on is… parental responsibility.

The typical under-13 social media user is not a sneaky kid. It’s a family making a decision together.

Yep… Theres an idiot in my family that gave their grandkids unrestricted, flagship phones, with full social media account access, at 7 years old.

And no, they are not too old to understand technology. They perfectly understand technology, the internet, and everything else. They are just stupid.

Its on the grandparents for doing it. its on the parents for not taking the fuckin phones away. and its also on social media companies for being algorithmic predators.

Saying stop ignoring parental responsibility, doesnt mean ignore everyone elses culpability.

Teachers should be legally allowed to posses a metal gauntlet for backhanding idiot parents across the face.

Y’all keep saying democrats as if democrats are one unified party.

its not.

Its 37 parties in a trench coat.

Thats the problem with the democrats. Its basically a Chimera built out of everything thats not-republican, and thats down largely to our two party system of bullshit.