RxBrad
@RxBrad@infosec.pub
The Internet is bad.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
We tipped the delivery driver a few bucks for deliveries.
I’m saying that there weren’t businesses where the entire model was: “Pay 2-3x what this food’s worth in-store, and some rando will deliver it. They may even give you everything you ordered.”
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I was 19 in the '90s.
When nobody paid $20 to have GrubHub deliver their $5 McDonalds order from down the street to their house.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
The thing is… I’m lucky enough to be able to afford all of this. In part, because I avoid terrible-value purchases. When the price of something goes up 40 to 400% percent, I say to myself, “Wow, it’d be really stupid to buy that thing RIGHT NOW.”
Too many people apparently lack that critical judgment, and just have FOMO in its place.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Every Steam Deck has 16GB LPDDR5-6400. I’ll use regular DDR5-6400 as a stand-in. In 2 years, that’s gone from $100 to $300. So, +$200 in memory costs.
The cheapest 1TB M.2-2230 has gone from $70 to $170. So +$100 for the highest-tier OLED. (512GB M.2s are harder to find history on… but they also seem to have gone up about $100.)
So, the RAM & Storage in a Steam Deck now cost another $300. (Yes, I realize the components are probably cheaper for Valve. But it just puts the prices into perspective.)
- Comment on 3 days ago:
People are now conditioned to need INSTANT GRATIFICATION FOR EVERYTHING ALWAYS!
“I want a Steam Deck! I can’t actually afford these new prices! I’m buying it anyways!”
Then retailers see the insane prices people pay for stuff without blinking. Steam Decks sell out after a 40% markup. RAM & SSDs & HDDs sell out at 4x what they sold for a year ago. So the prices never go back down.
And everyone goes full surprised-Pikachu-face when everything is now always goddamn expensive.
Show some fucking restraint for once, people!
Goddamn.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
Micron sailed off into the sunset, flipping the bird at consumers with both hands. Hynix & Samsung are equally quadruple-pricing versus a year ago. All of them are seeing insane, record profits.
Unless a government steps in and does something crazy like declaring RAM a subsidy & setting price controls… this is just the new normal.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
25% plan to buy this year. 40% in the next two years.
RAM prices have quadrupled since this time last year. So if only 25% as many people buy this year than last year, then the line still went up for the RAM companies.
This is a huge windfall for them, and there is absolutely zero reason for them to go back to $75/32GB DDR5 kits.
Shame that nobody is capable of restraint…
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 1 month ago:
Park candy is the fancy stuff.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 months ago:
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers.
The 3.5" floppy version for PC.
In a box, off the shelf at Kmart.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 2 months ago:
Squeenix is also big on that whole Playtron “crypto gaming OS”. They come right up on the homepage.
No surprises here.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It could quite simply be that Sony already knew Bluepoint was on the chopping block when they made the request.
So they just brushed them off with a deflecting “nah, FromSoft doesn’t want to do that” response.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 1 year ago:
People raging about videogames being woke
VERSUS
People raging about people raging about videogames being woke.
…FIGHT!!!
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 year ago:
You see the screenshot.
Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position…
Get in the comments, and FIGHT!
- Comment on GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date 1 year ago:
A year after consoles.
Rockstar knows how to get that double dip more than anyone else.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 year ago:
Rented a house over the holidays that had a Samsung Smart TV.
The UI is mind-bogglingly bad and slow.
The remote is also absolutely terrible and unintuitive. The keys that feel like they should be the arrow keys… aren’t. So even simple navigation through menus is painful.
- Comment on ‘Major incident’: China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations 1 year ago:
Breaking: U.S. official response to non-stop blatant state sponsored Russia/China cyberterrorism
- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 1 year ago:
So brave.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 year ago:
From the actual lawsuit documents (emphasis is mine):
Valve’s monopolization and attempted monopolization have the purpose and effect of fixing and inflating prices in the relevant market.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 year ago:
That would seem to be price fixing by its very definition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing
manufacturers and retailers may conspire to sell at a common “retail” price; set a common minimum sales price, where sellers agree not to discount the sales price below the agreed-to minimum price
And the question is irrelevant. Other companies can still benefit from external price fixing.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 year ago:
Steam itself seemingly isn’t trying to have a monopoly.
But damned if there isn’t a massive, very-loud Internet contingent that desperately wants them to have that monopoly.
If your immediate trigger reaction is seething anger when someone says, “I got a good deal on a game from Epic”… maybe that’s not healthy. The “Lord Gaben” meme isn’t meant to be taken 100% literally.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 year ago:
Look at all those downvotes from people who took offense to this comment, and WANT Steam to have a monopoly.
Yes, corporations bad. But don’t forget: Steam is a corporation, too.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 1 year ago:
Good thing Sony doesn’t even have launcher. But hey, we’re still all mad. Because internet.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 1 year ago:
PC gamers only care about account linking when it’s Sony.
- Comment on Sockpuppet network impersonating Americans and Canadians amplifies pro-Israel narratives on X 1 year ago:
If you don’t trust…
- The Associated Presss (citing US Intelligence),
- CNN (citing Microsoft), and
- NPR (citing “an Israeli watchdog group” – okay, I’ll give you this one),
…then who do you trust?
It almost sounds like you’re brushing off any media report as “a mouthpiece”, and only believing random anonymous posts on the Internet.
- Comment on Sockpuppet network impersonating Americans and Canadians amplifies pro-Israel narratives on X 1 year ago:
- Comment on Sockpuppet network impersonating Americans and Canadians amplifies pro-Israel narratives on X 1 year ago:
Isn’t it common knowledge that there is an Iranian state-sposored social media campaign doing the exact same thing for the other side?
Social Media is the best thing that has ever happened for Iran, Russia, & China in terms of expanding the reach of propaganda.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 1 year ago:
Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.
Then yoink all of that money.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 year ago:
That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.
- Comment on Failing Manufacturers Are Pushing the Narrative That Consoles Are Dying, Says Ex-Xbox Exec 1 year ago:
60fps PS5 games were only ever 60fps because they were really just PS4 games running on faster hardware.
Now that we’re finally getting games that aren’t cross-gen with the 10-year-old PS4, we’re back to 30fps-ville.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 1 year ago:
Consoles are $500 gaming machines, generally capable of about 30fps in games. It’s no different for Microsoft or Sony.
And Nintendo… Well, Nintendo is Nintendo.
The bean counters have decided that people don’t want to spend more than that on videogame consoles. If you want more fps, luckily everything gets a PC port nowadays; and your almost-certainly-more-than-$500 rig can handle that.
It is what it is.
