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- Comment on 1 day ago:
It all depends on what you’re looking for. I’ve put hundreds of hours into games and gotten way less than $1/hr, and I’ve also had a great experience paying significantly more.
So I don’t see games in terms of $/hr, especially these days when I’m more limited by time than money. Instead, I look for unique experiences with cost being a much lower factor. Generally speaking, I spend much less than $1/hr since I buy a lot of older games, but I’ve spent far more ($5-10/hr) on particularly interesting games.
But yeah, generally speaking, I’m willing to pay more for indies than AAA titles because indie games are more likely to offer that unique experience.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Why? Look at how many people here say they want Steam OS, and Lemmy skews heavy toward Linux users. This is that, but OOTB.
I don’t think it’ll sell anywhere near as well as the Steam Deck, but it’s also a less exciting form factor. I do think it’ll sell a fair number of units though.
The cheapest equivalent prebuilt I can find with similar specs (RX 7600 is slightly better than the Steam Machine) is $850, and a DIY build is more like $900 (lots of corners cut), so there’s probably not much margin on the prebuilt. Valve is probably saving some cash with their custom CPU, and they’re probably shipping it with a Steam Controller, hence the $800 target. If component prices rise significantly before launch, I could see $1k.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
- Yeah, I’m guessing $800-1000, and they’ll probably throw in a Steam Controller. That’s about how much a comparable PC would cost
- I’ve been debating it, but it needs to be something my 5yo can use.
- And that’s Valve’s target market here, those unwilling to DIY.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Get ready to riot because there’s no way it’s that cheap. My money is on $800-1000.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That’s a rip off, it’ll be more like 1/4 troy ounce, if that
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Eh, I don’t particularly enjoy building PCs, but I do it because it’s cheaper, esp. for upgrades. I’m really not the target market for this.
That said, this is the right product for a lot of people. Many don’t want to mess with their gaming system, they want it to just work. That’s why consoles are popular, and the Steam Machine being a bit more expensive than a console and get access to Steam’s catalog is very attractive to a lot of people, especially if it otherwise works like a console.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Yeah, I’ve been guessing $800-1000. That’s a decent deal on a prebuilt with this performance.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I used Linux for regular desktop stuff before I installed Steam on it. Steam got me back into gaming.
- Comment on Anon is looking for a girlfriend 6 days ago:
And we Americans trash talk France. I don’t know why though, they’ve been nothing but helpful, what with the Revolutionary War and the Louisiana purchase.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 6 days ago:
Headlander was surprisingly fun. Probably not my favorite, but certainly up there.
- Comment on We have one at home 6 days ago:
I miss them. But I guess I’m in the minority on that one.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
Altitude change.
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 1 week ago:
Um, nobody said he was? He does get to be on the money, which is pretty Chad.
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 1 week ago:
What’s one more?
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
Most of them, sure, I’m talking about the ones who actually believe it.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
The topic is puddles/lakes, not rivers.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
I’m just saying that’s the general level of proof they have. They ignore important effects and focus purely on observations. Basically, the only way to really disprove them is to take them to space, and that’s obviously not happening.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
Your body needs some salt, and it sweats out salt. So it needs to be replaced.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
aliens
Eh, I think the alien ones are interesting. We know the government is hiding something, we just don’t know what, and if it was aliens, this is how I’d expect them to act. But it could also be a number of other things, and the evidence is usually quickly discredited by experts.
A better example would be something like Sasquatch.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
Well it does. Here’s the logic, with proof by negation:
- Earth is round (assertion to disprove)
- Water flows around round objects
- Water doesn’t flow on the earth, it stays put, therefore the earth is not round
That’s as far as it goes.
- Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM? 1 week ago:
There’s a Linux gaming community, that’s probably where you’d get a better answer.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 week ago:
I like their first party games, not so much their published games. They should stick to what they do best.
- Comment on Anon can't wait 1 week ago:
My impression is that wealth and income are becoming more and more unequal
Both are true, people are making more and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. So everyone is getting richer, with the rich are getting richer faster.
Ithink it’s keeping up with the Joneses. The sources I have listed above show the following:
- income is increasing
- personal savings is going down
Assuming inflation statistics are accurate, that means people are spending on different things than they did in the past.
Here’s an interesting source, and a table from that page:
Basically, people are reducing savings instead of switching to cheaper products, reducing consumption, or delaying purchases. It’s not a huge change, but it’s a steady trend.
So I’m guessing people are seeing less value in savings than they did previously.
The studies I’ve looked at aren’t super granular, and the changes in housing and medical care don’t seem to tell the whole story.
Since renting is more expensive than buying a home in the long run
That’s true if you just look at dollar amounts, but if you include the opportunity cost of the down payment, if that money is invested in stocks, the rent vs buy math works out to be more of a wash. This obviously varies by area with some being very renter friendly and others being very homeowner friendly, but on average it’s pretty close.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
Yup, I might try the Jellyfin thing as well. I currently use an app on the TV, but it’s flaky and the TV keeps losing network randomly. Newer TVs at adding ads, so I’ll need an alternative.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
High end would be the high end of the market components, right? So RTX 5090 ($2k+) or RX 9070 ($700+). High end CPU would be Ryzen 7 9800X3D for $400. Add a motherboard and copious RAM and you’re looking at $2k+ for all AMD, $3-5k for Nvidia.
Mid tier would be somewhere in the middle, so cut those numbers in half ($1-1.5k). Low end is what you can get away with, so cut the mod tier in half again, though going below $700 would be hard for anything but the most casual of games.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
Console manufacturers haven’t sold at a loss in a long time.
They tend to at first launch. This article says it took 6 months for the PS4 and a bit longer for the PS5 to stop selling at a loss. It’s no longer the whole product lifecycle, but they are still sold at a loss at least at the start. I think that implies that hardware sales aren’t a major profit center.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
Worked for Goose Goose Duck!
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
Sure, if you eat it.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
Nah, it’ll probably be $800-1k. It’s basically a 7600 CPU + RX7600 GPU or whatever, and it’s not really upgradeable. So somewhere between the Series S and X in performance, and not subsidized by game sales.
- Comment on Anon can't wait 1 week ago:
I have a very different take on why UBI is worth considering.
the way it goes currently means sooner or later there will be more people without jobs than with jobs
I don’t think this is necessarily true. This type of FUD has come up with pretty much every major technological shift. This article goes over that, and here are some examples:
- Industrial Age - Luddites vs Looms - worried weaving machines would kill jobs
- Printing Press - ended scribes
- Ford’s assembly lines - kill craftsmanship
In each case, the fears were largely unfounded, but they seemed very prescient at the time.
I don’t recommend UBI because I’m worried AI or some other technological advance will kill jobs, I recommend UBI because I think it empowers workers, encourages entrepreneurship, and simplifies social safety nets (less work to get the benefits you need).
if we don’t want the guillotines to come up (we are well on the way to that, since it becomes more and more mainstream to openly talk about stuff like that)
Is it though? I mostly see it on forums like this one that heavily tilt to young people on one end of the political spectrum. I think it has more to do with influencers and echo chambers than an actual shift in public perception. By all metrics, the average person is doing better today than at any other time in history (real (inflation adjusted) median personal income is at an all time high). The problem, IMO, is perception. People think they’re worse off because of social media (people only post the highlights), influencers (survivorship bias), and comparing themselves to their parents (further along in their career).
The one area that’s troubling is average age of first-time home-owners, which has become about 40 (source):
I think the critical factor here isn’t necessarily home prices, but personal savings rates declining. People just aren’t saving as much any more, meaning they’re spending a greater share of their income, so it’ll take longer to make a down payment on a home. And with inflation-adjusted household incomes steadily increasing over time, I think the simple answer is that people are spending more of their money on short-term wants.
I don’t think guillotines will fix this issue, people need a better relationship w/ social media (which for many people, will be no relationship at all) and a greater focus on planning for the future. It all starts with building good habits while young, as in, when your income is so small that your savings doesn’t really matter in the long term.
I get it, life is hard and people want easy solutions. But most of the time, there are no easy solutions, and any solution proposed as easy is an outright lie. Instead of focusing on society-level “solutions,” instead focus on how to improve your own life as it is. That’s largely what therapists offer, they don’t wave a magic wand and make your problems disappear, they reframe your problems into things you can manage, and that is empowering.
