Critical_Thinker
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- Comment on Anon appreciates Chris Sawyer 1 week ago:
I figured cloud streaming was an attempt to rent gaming PCs to people who couldn’t afford an up front purchase but could reliably come up with $30-$100/mo or some shit. They wanted to sell even non-gamers on the idea that for a very tiny upfront purchase of a thin client - or even just installing an app - would get them a console or desktop like experience.
Lack of consumer demand is the only reason why it isn’t being pushed anymore. They made a solid effort but streaming comes with loads of limitations. It’s hard to mod. It’s hard to get your saves and port them around. You never actually own anything. Probably the biggest thing of all is that you need a solid ISP just to try and play, then you throw in the fact that all these plebs are using wireless for everything and their wifi is hot garbage or they’re on DSL because they’re poor and live in the sticks and it’s effectively unplayable. You can forget about game streaming while traveling or on a cellular connection too, or even while at a hotel.
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 1 month ago:
Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.
I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.
Once Disney dropped subscription sharing… I started downloading their shit too.
Now i’m left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I’m this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it’s cheap.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 1 month ago:
how the fuck have we not yet solved phone audio quality and consistency problems.
Blame apple
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 1 month ago:
That’s not what the image shows though. It’s comparing a kids 8oz hot chocolate to a short 8oz hot chocolate which have different prices despite being the same items.
I have seen a few posts going around about how there are short term loans like affirm being used for coffee shops but the image here just isn’t at all related.
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 2 months ago:
on behalf of Israel
Not exactly a good argument to discredit them saying it is not a nazi salute. An organization working on behalf of israel is unlikely to support nazi behaviors, no?
I’m not making any claims about the ADL beyond having some serious doubt that they would go along with nazi-ism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Just need an LCARS theme.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 2 months ago:
All ya’ll drawl an appall.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 2 months ago:
Sir, you’re an officer of the law. You can’t help but be who you are. It’s ok to own it.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 2 months ago:
I’m so fucking sick of the neg culture that pretends to be politically correct. There’s malicious sexism and loads of assholes out there for sure but some feel emboldened to attack anyone they construe to be saying what they think is wrong regardless of context.
Someone will always be offended by absolutely fucking everything. They can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 months ago:
Those genres aren’t really known for having brutal performance requirements. You have to play the bleeding edge stuff that adds prototype graphics postprocessing in their ultra or optional settings.
When you compare non RT performance the frame delta is tiny. When you compare RT it’s a lot bigger. I think most of the RT implementations are very flawed today and that it’s largely snake oil so far, but some people are obsessed.
I will say you can probably undervolt / underclock / power throttle that 4090 and get great frames per watt.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 months ago:
The 4090 basically never went for MSRP until Q4 2024… and now it’s OOS everywhere.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 months ago:
The far cry benchmark is the most telling. Looks like it’s around a 15% uplift based on that.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 2 months ago:
This is one of those open and shut FMLA violations that even shitty companies can’t get away with though and they know it.
The lady will be canned one way or another once they get back to the office because they violated some bullshit policy about how you can’t talk to the press or some bullshit. Will probably take a couple months and involve a PIP for “poor performance”
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 months ago:
Trust him, he always tells the truth.
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Spotify is an evil company. They’ve started adding fake songs in to pay themselves instead of paying royalties to real artists.
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 2 months ago:
Ouch. That’s 68k of house repairs in 3 years, or 1888/month for 3 years. For that i’m guessing you could come close to renting a 2BR… but then you’d lose the ubermortgage rate of 2021. 500k @ 7.5% here means i’m on the hook for 5kish per month before food/car/gas/internet/clothes expenses. (includes hoa/taxes/utilities/pmi and other escrow expenses.)
I throw away about 3300 on interest only per month because my wife forced us to buy and money is tighter than ever, but I still have an emergency fund.
I will say i’ve never put anything on credit unless cash is in the bank already. 20-30%+ interest is something you just can’t climb out from under easily. That being said I have no idea how i’m going to afford a ~15-20k replacement hvac system once my ~20 year old one dies, could be tomorrow, could be in 1-3 years - who is to say? Definitely on the hook for a water heater next year. Dishwasher is ready to go but i’d handwash.
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 2 months ago:
What stopped you from saving up a few hundred bucks?
Just curious. Everyone’s situation is different. Most of us who came from nothing had to make a lot of hard choices to get to a point where money was enough that a few hundred dollar purchase had no material impact on our lives.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 2 months ago:
It’s one of my biggest fears, but I guess there’s always piracy especially for old games.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 3 months ago:
Reddit is a place to promote product. This isn’t product. Give it time and big lemmy servers will turn into reddit, but for now we get to enjoy a safe space.