I don’t see why it would only be Chinese immigrants doing it.

It’s all over the place.

It’s all fun and games until you’re left with a bunch of crap you can’t sell, or it turns out you were shipping dangerous products and now you’re on the hook for it.

Enjoy your 5% profits though.

I think Alyx is as close as you’re getting to that.

Elon turned it into his own personal Nazi blog where people can’t block him.

The first is a bit rough. It got a remake with Black Mesa which used to be free, but I don’t think it is any more.

I’d honestly just start with 2. It’s a better game all round. You can always go back and play Black Mesa later if you like it.

If you have a VR headset and a decent rig, Half Life Alyx is well worth it. I’d definitely play HL2 plus Episodes 1 and 2 before heading into that one.

I do wonder how much higher that would be if GPUs targeting 4K were £299 rather than £999.

Although some of it is down to monitors being on desks right in front of you and 4K not really being needed. It would also be interesting to for Valve to weight the results by hours spent gaming that month (and amount they actually spend on games), rather than just counting hardware numbers.

Maybe not monitors, but certainly they are standard for TVs (which are now just monitors with Android TV and a tuner built in).

An the issue for PC gamers is that Nvidia has spent the last few years convincing devs to shovel DLSS into everything, rather than a generic upscaling solution that other vendors could just drop their own algorithms into, meaning there’s a ton of games that won’t upscale nicely on anything else.

I just don’t get whey they’re so desperate to cripple the low end cards.

Like I’m sure the low RAM and speed is fine at 1080p, but my brother in Christ it is 2024. 4K displays have been standard for a decade. I’m not sure when PC gamers went from “behold thine might from thou potato boxes” to “I guess I’ll play at 1080p with upscaling if I can have a nice reflection”.

1. Yes.

2. They would fight back, buy all our media sources, and buy our governments to make sure 1 didn’t happen.

I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!

–Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

Can’t eat the rich if you can’t reach the rich.

Watch out be like everything else in wow and be used for one expansion and then forgotten about.

Thank fuck. Can we have cheaper graphics cards again please?

I’m sure a RTX 4090 is very impressive, but it’s not £1800 impressive.

Last time I thought about static I wondered why colour TV didn’t show colour static.

Turns out the colour signal was on very specific frequencies, and if it wasn’t present, it would assume it was a black and white signal and turn off the colour circuit.

Well they only need to do the first part of that.

I think they’re more likely to have been scrapped than other old tech.

They’re bulky, and mine was too heavy to get out in the attic. I still have my ZX Spectrum and Amiga, but the CRT needed for lightgun games is long gone.

It’s slightly less impressive when you realise they could have built a massive slide instead and got mostly the same result.

Guess it’s better than a massive diesel truck though.

This is what game launchers looked like in my day.

If I wanted a different game I’d put in a different tape!

It’s probably the inbuilt browser component that seems to be in everything these days.

Chrome pulled support for Win 7 and 8 ages ago, so anything that relies on an up to date browser is sure to follow.

Gee, I wonder why it’s all AI generated horseshit from press releases these days.

The writing was on the wall when Jeff Gerstmann was fired over a bad review back in 2007. The whole game journalism industry has been on life support since then, and realistically been shafted ever since we went from purchased magazines to online.

Even then magazines would find themselves without timely review copies if they were not sympathetic to the need for good reviews.