Can't wait for late 2024/early 2025 when the next gen of cards comes out and is somehow even more expensive. Oh, maybe they'll use even more wattage and take up even more space in my case, too! Can't wait for that.

Using ultra-enthusiast hardware as an excuse not to make anything run well is strangling PC gaming.

That said, I haven't bought a PC game from those studios in a decade, so carry on. I'll be over here playing fifty roguelites and loving it :P

What does banning have to do with being Far Right?

It might be authoritarian, but neither side of the political spectrum has exclusivity with that notion.

Lots of companies put themselves out of business for short term profit. But that’s not the case here.

Casual and entry level PC gamers have moved to laptops and used gear from crypto and one of those is temporary. Hell, Intel is entering the market from the bottom!

But also the top end of the market expanded as people found a new way to show off. Just like cars and TVs and houses etc. There’s no issue here. Different, not worse.

Actually, my bet would be on a non US based AI. Baidu in China is a competitor but there are less obvious choices. Hyundai recently bought robotics firm Boston Dynamics but that is just one piece of their broad based AI R&D efforts. The point is there are dozens of well funded AI efforts doing top tier cutting edge work. Any one of them could create the next “game changer”.

The man is a liberal, but because he supports free speech and exposing government manipulation of civilian industries suddenly hes Far Right. Not a moderate, not a centrist, not a moderate conservative. Nope Far Right like everyone else who doesn't agree with the current talking points de jour.

I got into the pc hardware scene late 2016. Back then (even though it was only 7 years ago lol) things were a lot more affordable. 10 series was just coming out and was fairly priced for the big performance leap it was. Technology has advanced today and I understand that thing’s naturally get more expensive to research and develop but the top end gpu now costs 1,600 and the best of the time then which was the 1080ti cost 700 dollars. Things have gotten way out of wack. Several of my older pc building buddies have put a new rig on hold and are using a ps5 or Xbox because they’re affordable for good performance and a comparable pc is something like 1k usd. What sucks about all of this is that things will only get worse …. Not better.

Agreed. I finally upgraded because a few games I wanted to play wouldn't run on mubGTX970. But I note sims like X-Plane 12 and I think MSFS have the 970 as recommended. So it varies.

I have yet to see a game requiring rtx30+.

Ya, I think we are likely to see AAA PC Gaming give more way to consoles in that light. The consoles themselves are cheaper and easier to optimize for.

I think if you look at those examples actually the opposite is true. Apple is normally not the first-entrant into a market but is often the more successful later-entrant. But that doesn’t take away from the success of the early movers.

The iPod was not the first MP3 player, but it is the most memorable. Blackberry was around for years and Android existed as an OS years before iOS. Google was also first to tablets and wearables. There were/are many alternative Bluetooth headphones before AirPods.

These are all successful products by any measure. Android is on tons of devices. Bose and Sony (and many others!) make great audio devices. Apple just did it better for a lot of people.

Tesla workers are paid about the same as UAW workers are. Could be a bit less in some cases, could be more in others. Paying someone slightly less is not mistreatment. Is it surprising that companies that have grown fat selling gasoline powered cars with huge subsidies for decades can pay more than a start up?
As far as disagreements between the management and the worker - do you really think Ford and GM have never been sued for mistreatment by any employees? Any company with 100,000+ workers will have instances of management mistreating workers. That's an unavoidable part of organizations run by humans.
Going by that criteria, there aren't many car companies you could buy from from in good conscience. And any idea that the Big 3 in the US are good companies just because they are unionized doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

“Culture”? It was and still is an echo chamber most of the time for either side. There was no “culture”.

Rivaling Google is chasing a bar that gets lower every day.

Which subreddit, specifically, have been banned for political reasons?

Is every article a vitriolic argument now? Are we blaming people for not spending their money correctly?

Hilarious that this guy finds the horror of Elon shaking things up, but all the meetings with government Alphabet entities is perfectly fine. FBI tells them to suppress an actual factual story? Perfectly fine. Elon cut costs then evil bad man.

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How many people were regularly using smart phones prior to the iphone?

How many people were regularly using tablets prior to the ipad?

How many people were regularly using mp3 players prior to the iPod?

How many people were regularly using smart watches prior to the apple watch?

My point was, apple is great at finding a killer app or building a version of a product in a space where the average person either doesn't see a reason to enter the market or can't afford to

Pretty sure Elon buying it out actually constitutes "meaningful tech oversight" over a "culture [of] the inside."

No one would have been hankering for it, and Elon would never have threatened and them gotten forced to follow through with, a purchase if it hadn't been failing its own oversight and failing to stay neutral on public debates to begin with.

Well Trump's gone now, and Elon is sticking around. So yes, the guy you can kick out is the better option than the guy who just has implicit power forever.

Yes, like mobile phones, wearables, wireless headphones. Absolutely terrible.

Although, recent Apple products don’t actually use SSDs, for instance. They use raw flash storage. They also use LPDDR ram which has to be soldered or otherwise packaged to work.

Ahh copy. Thanks for the explanation :)

I’m running a 1080ti and can play whatever I want.

This article is a bit off imo. Any computer can run almost any game these days. Sure you can go overboard with your spending it it’s completely unnecessary. An i5-2500k and a 970 will probably play 99% of future 2023 releases just fine.

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