We can vote for change we are just too stupid. Dems scream “vote for me,abortion”, and gop of screams “vote for me, guns” and the people are like “hurr-durr, okay but we probably should do something about housing and economic inequality and healthcare and college costs, but nope, I’ll vote for someone with no plan to fix the country but they will “protect” abortion/guns”

The operations that are needed to calculate (or rather guess) the keys required to mine new blocks on the blockchain are best run on graphics cards, hence the demand created by crypto, and the price hikes that came with it.

I’m not sure why that is the case though, maybe someone can explain how a GPU is better suited for the job than a CPU. I think it somehow has to do with CPUs focusing on parallelization and energy efficiency in recent years, while GPUs are more like raw power work horses.

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Basic as making omelettes. Lol

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Just hit 4 years on the "killer" i9 box I built in 2019. Still stable, still fast. There just doesn't seem to be an upgrade need.

It's an older gen so it can be bought used. It's super good.

I bought a ps4 for 399.00 in 2014 and played flawlessly until 2020 when I got a ps5.

I’ve paid on average around 3.25 a month for online access plus 3 games per month with PSPlus. You can now get over 900 games with your subscription for a few dollars per month with their expanded service.

The only time you spend 70.00 is when a game launches. After a few weeks games drop usually around 15-25% and if you are a PS Plus member you usually get an additional 10% of sale prices.

I got Cyberpunk steel book edition for 5.99, Dying Light 2 for 25.00, Dead Cells with season pass for around 9.00, Tiny Tina WonderLands for 15.99, Witcher 3 Season Pass for 5.99. Games go on sale at insanely cheap prices every other week on the ps store. If you have disk version you can get launch titles days after launch for 1/2 from people selling after they beat the game. On average I’m spending 2.99 to 25.00 for games in Sony’s ecosystem.

Since the consoles are all alike dev’s can get some absolutely insane looking games running on such cheap hardware. The graphics they pulled off on a shitty Jaguar cpu unit from 2013 was mind blowing. Sony pulled off voodoo magic running VR as good as they had on the PS4 with that cpu. While a console will never match hardware that launches 3 years after its launch its dam close.

Then if I’m online I rarely come across people running hacks, aimbots, etc.

I’ve switched over to playing on my ps5 PSVR2 almost 100% online/single just how great it is and how convenient it can be.

I get not everyone likes consoles but this generation has been a massive leap. Great cpu, gpu, SSD all for 399/499, absolutely outstanding.

The CPU’s in consoles are closer to 3700x.

The ps5 is an outstanding console(same with SeriesS and X). I have great VR, play outstanding titles from ps1 to Ps5, fantastic controller.

It works all the time without any tinkering and it takes 15 seconds from sitting down to turning TV on, Ps5, to be in game playing.

Can play games from 120, 60, 45, 30 fps.

It is basically like a mid tier pC running something similar to a rtx 2070.

I play online all kinds of games, single player, etc.

Definitely something to consider. Outstanding generation of consoles.

PS4 was not sold at a loss, and the ps5 disk version became profitable a few months after being sold.

We don't want it

Consoles play on medium settings (at best) to get 1440p-1800p upscaled to 4K and utilize dynamic resolution to achieve that performance.

When you consider most new games have DLSS or FSR 2.1 then 3060 achives same performance or even better than consoles at same settings.

Plus she already had psu, case and accessories. So that is only 150$ more for 3060 PC and around 300$ more for 3060Ti.

Additionaly if you look at used market you can get 60ti for 300$ or 3080 for 600$ regularly in good condition with warranty left.

The difference is easily made back up across the years with not paying for online, cheaper games, more indie titles and you can upgrade your GPU over time.

While for consoles you have to buy brand new one every time new gen is out and prices of games and subscription for consoels are ever increasing.

She have psu and case from old PC and accessories. Don't get it why she cannot use those and that is why my recommendstion did not have those.

No way, sherlock. She said she wanted a budget PC. At the moment those are her best options.

Maybe California can lead the nation on this one too

Sorry, just chiming in here…

Can someone explain to me how graphics cards have anything to do with crypto? Wouldn’t RAM and CPU make the most sense?

it's a constitutional republic, not a democracy

If you have an Xbox: There is a game pass for Windows, which you can access with your same Microsoft account that’s tied to the Xbox. Tons of PC exclusive games on there, my go-to when I’m in a gaming rut is AoE 2

Corporatism is bipartisan. The sooner people realise that the better.

After reading so much about crazy scalper GPU prices in the past few years I’ve just gotten used to the idea that I can’t afford a new one so I’m more psychologically equipped to just stick with what I’ve got until it dies. I can’t be the only one who feels like that.

It's an incremental change that was made. This is the beginning and not the end. The framework is setup now and the interference by industry lobbyists is a great story to build the movement. It's not about one bill or one person. Everyone needs to become a repair advocate. It's a movement of people creating change and it has to keep growing.

Because everything that goes with the CPU has become 2-4x the cost of the CPU and unless you can dump serious cash there's very little benefit to people who already game on rigs that do just fine at 1080p. Prices need to come back down to earth, but good luck explaining that to wall street.

ABOLISH LOBBYISTS

I appreciate all the work you do for the movement.