• lost_faith@lemmy.ca
    34·
    3 months ago

    If cloud gaming is all that’s available, read books, go for walks, hang out with friends instead. Do what we did before the internet. Do not let them win, stop using it.

    I said the same for Amazon (personally ordered 1 item from Amazon, received maybe 5 items from Amazon as gifts, I otherwise do not use them but I am 1 insignificant point well outside the graph) and expect the same results

    • SippyCup@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      Certain hobbies just aren’t supported locally anymore. And if they are they’re at ridiculously inflated prices. I always check nearby first but 90% of the time I end up ordering online. Half the time when I do, the place I order from charges 10-15 dollars for shipping, or redirects to Amazon to complete the order anyway.

      I put a lot of work in to not using Amazon, and frequently find myself with little else in the way of choice. I fucking hate it.

      • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
        3·
        3 months ago

        I feel you there. I have said this from the beginning but everyone said I was overreacting and here we are, and they are in it up to their eyeballs. Even my gf orders a ton from there, thankfully I have few needs and am a bad capitalist

  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 months ago

    Remember, things got this shitty because most people were fine with Big Tech gradually making things shittier. I look back and realize I’ve been waiting for the One Enormous Dealbreaker for over a decade, but consumers keep moving the red line.

  • Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 months ago

    For everyone being all fatalistic and the whole ‘there is nothing you can do’ approach. Vote with your wallet. No money for them means no power for them.

    We are the customer, not their bitch. If they don’t provide value, they receive none in return. They go broke and someone else will provide the service we all want.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

    My biggest regret is going with 32 of instead of 64GB of DDR5, when I built a new Ryzen 7000 PC in 2022 to replace my aging 4th gen i5.

    But what I don’t regret is ignoring everyone telling me not to do all sorts of unspeakable things to snag a $1600 4090 at launch, especially given that it was never sold that cheaply ever again. It’s a beast of a card and I’ll easily get a decade of gaming out of it. Saw 4090s going for over $3K used on eBay lately, so yeah I’m happy with making what was a dumb decision at the time.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I also regret going with 64GB 3200 instead of 128GB 3600, which I thought I would just save up for.

      GPUs were already hardly available.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 months ago

      Unfortunately, 4090 is already going into the obsolescence by power cable fire hazard territory. Keep your eye on it as it ages.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        It’s been over 3 years now and I haven’t had a single issue. I made sure to plug in the 12VHPR cable all the way and avoid bending it. I also made sure to buy a top tier PCIe 5 PSU.

        The issue was vastly blown out of proportion. Don’t be an idiot and you have nothing to worry about.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          As a fellow owner, that’s what they want us to think. Feel safe, but then out of nowhere your house burns down and then you have to buy a new card.

          • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
            3·
            3 months ago

            There’s a couple of nice safeguards you can buy for your 12VHPWR connection now. There’s even load balancers. I just wouldn’t leave my PC on and unattended with one of the new cards.

  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Steam is cool and all but I think I’m going to go with GOG a lot more going forward.

    And I’ll never stop buying discs for consoles

  • kamen@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    IMO the only thing the cloud is useful for in this context is maintaining and syncing saves. Other than that I want my games running locally, thank you.

  • End-Stage-Ligma@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    Imagine paying some rando to rent their computer. You can totally trust them, right? They’re not in the Epstein files, right?

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    61·
    3 months ago

    I tried cloud gaming briefly and gave up immediately.

    Fuck having to wait in a queue to play your games.

    I spent more time trying to figure out how to stream from my own gaming PC (to my TV) and it couldn’t do it. How can you make a device that can stream games from a random PC but not one in the same room? Ah purposeful design to prevent that. Fuckers.

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    Any noticeable latency and I won’t even give something a chance to try it. Needing to send my inputs over the internet, wait for them to get processed, and then have the video output streamed back to my local setup means even a small amount of latency. 40ms (which is what I expect for my connection in online gaming servers) would kill the experience of many games, especially rhythm games or other high-reflex games like the entire fighting game genre. Some stuff like Turn Based RPGs could possibly benefit from cloud gaming for users with underperforming hardware, but that’s it. Strong No Thanks F*** Off from me when it comes to cloud gaming.