You pay money just to waste time completing meaningless objectives and build no valuable skill. Everything about it, from the waste of human life, to the absolute degenerate freaks partaking, is a downside.
>start up my chinkshit mini-pc >connected to a TV I got from Goodwill for $20 >open Steam >connect my old PS4 controller >runs modern games at 60FPS when I tone down the graphics
There is value in getting good at something difficult, even a video game tbh. Learning how to learn and skillbuild is a value you can use in every facet of life outside of whatever environment you learned in. I spent a lot of time playing rhythm games when I was younger, but I don't regret it because it taugh me how to push past self doubt and gitgud. If you can get that through other places, great, but it doesn't matter if that just happens to be what catches your interest. Just don't play mindless gacha slop.
maybe 20 years ago, but a substantial number of people never have to work a day in their lives because playing video games pays the bills, whether or not you respect them for it
There are also several entire countries where working has become optional. Even if you do frick all you'll still have a house, food, meds, education, electronics etc.
There are also several entire countries where working has become optional. Even if you do frick all you'll still have a house, food, meds, education, electronics etc.
>a SUBSTANTIAL number of people never have to work because playing video games pays the bills >SEVERAL ENTIRE countries where working has become optional
What's there to make? We've solved scarcity, people have lived over a decade doing nothing but jerking off to anime and playing vidya. How long is it gonna take to not make it?
I'm not talking luxury space communism here, just that you no longer have to do anything to have food, water, shelter, healthcare, games
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>you no longer have to do anything to have food, water, shelter, healthcare, games
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Welcome to Finland. Not only do we give anyone the freedom to choose whether they want to work or not, we also do that for innumerable migrants flooding into the country, becoming the whole world's social welfare office.
>You pay money just to waste time completing meaningless objectives and build no valuable skill
That sounds just like life in general. Nothing you do will eventually change anything in this universe
Skills don't have value by themselves if you don't have the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. What are we supposed to do? Use our skills to work 80 hours a week until we die while executives leach off us the whole time?
>You pay money just to waste time completing meaningless objectives and build no valuable skill
That sounds just like life in general. Nothing you do will eventually change anything in this universe
Based.
Skills don't have value by themselves if you don't have the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. What are we supposed to do? Use our skills to work 80 hours a week until we die while executives leach off us the whole time?
the financial cost. it also becomes an addiction for some. one inherent downside is some users could have faster hardware and lower latency which would give them an advantage. that depends on how the game is programmed. it's a better alternative to being parked in front of a TV passively watching content.
PC games are never finished on release and you have to wait years for the patches. Rockstar have said The PC is a nightmare to optimise for so thsts why GTA 6 is going to be released years after the consoles. All the AAA devs have this problem now
Somehow a random hillbilly with a computer was able to optimize their GTA Online loadtimes to 1/10th of what it was in mere moments where Rockstar deemed it impossible. They were doing some really, really dumb recursive shit.
it wasnt anything recursive. it was just a regular gotcha with C strings and inefficient algorithms
https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
entry cost and obsessing over textures / frames, as well as badly optimized versions or ports.
i used to just play ps1 games in all of their dog shit glory however they shipped and now if i cant hit an unwavering 165 frames on high settings the game is unplayable, if i'd even play it anyways - most of the time buying a pc game is testing your hardware with it for 45 minutes with your eyes barely ever leaving the settings menu or frame counter and never touching it again
i find it can be tedious at times but i prefer that over having no control at all over my system. awhile ago i moved interstate and had sold my pc beforehand. for whatever reason i bought a ps5/4k oled and i thought it was terrible.
whatever downsides there are to pc gaming they really dont compare to how bad console players have it. PS5 games scale awfully and the games that actually run at 4k do so by halving the frames, and mouse and keyboard support may as well be non existent because of terrible input lag and the polling rate feeling so low. even a similarly specced pc using shitty fsr upscaling looks and feels night and day better at 4k.
When you start to get older, gaming in general starts to get boring.
The cycle that many people follow is: > Play games at consoles since the childhood. > Gets a gaming PC, probably used from someone that upgraded. > Buy and/or pirate many games. > 1 year and 5 months later, you start to get bored and busy with other things (college, work, compile gentoo, becoming a femboy, whatever). > You start to play only few games, usually emulators, games from your childhood and/or crackhead games (Rimworld, Factorio, Slay The Spire, Project Zomboid, Civ V, Dwarf Fortress, Terraria, CK III and many others).
Everything that happens between each topic of this cycle after you buying a PC is basically suffering with badly optimized games (Hi Fallout 4), becoming obsessive with testing your hardware and spending money on Steam Sales for games that you will never open and, of course, in your energy bill.
Don't get me wrong, PC is the only modern gaming platform that I don't hate so much, and depending of what you want play, can be cheaper than buying a console + games, if you don't know what you want, it will be a nightmare.
At same time, I don't want to buy the newest consoles because they somehow got worse. I miss when consoles was dumbed-down devices that had: > Optional/Or no connection to internet. > Physical media. > Jailbreaks. > Local multiplayer.
tldr: PC gaming will make you angry, but maybe is the sanest choice nowadays, you just need to buy hardware and games that fits in your necessities to don't spend money in something that you make you angry.
PC gaming is great, but if your primary goal is to play video games, consoles are better because they aren't expensive. PC is not a good platform for video games because how expensive it is to make a PC that can play video games. If you have a good PC that can play video games like me, more power to you, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't a computer guy.
>PC is not a good platform for video games because how expensive it is to make a PC that can play video games.
You can play older games on a cheap weak-ass PC
games are what got me into computers. i knew how to load King's Quest in MS DOS when poor kids were still struggling to learn shapes. My dad was a winner and we had a 386 that cost like 5000 dollars adjusted for inflation
frick poor people, frick losers, frick macgays
You pay money just to waste time completing meaningless objectives and build no valuable skill. Everything about it, from the waste of human life, to the absolute degenerate freaks partaking, is a downside.
Skill issue
fpbp
not to mention the thousands of dollars you have to spend on "gaming" equipment
>I NEED a 4090
>Because... I JUST NEED IT OKAY?!
>start up my chinkshit mini-pc
>connected to a TV I got from Goodwill for $20
>open Steam
>connect my old PS4 controller
>runs modern games at 60FPS when I tone down the graphics
There is value in getting good at something difficult, even a video game tbh. Learning how to learn and skillbuild is a value you can use in every facet of life outside of whatever environment you learned in. I spent a lot of time playing rhythm games when I was younger, but I don't regret it because it taugh me how to push past self doubt and gitgud. If you can get that through other places, great, but it doesn't matter if that just happens to be what catches your interest. Just don't play mindless gacha slop.
maybe 20 years ago, but a substantial number of people never have to work a day in their lives because playing video games pays the bills, whether or not you respect them for it
There are also several entire countries where working has become optional. Even if you do frick all you'll still have a house, food, meds, education, electronics etc.
>a SUBSTANTIAL number of people never have to work because playing video games pays the bills
>SEVERAL ENTIRE countries where working has become optional
What's there to make? We've solved scarcity, people have lived over a decade doing nothing but jerking off to anime and playing vidya. How long is it gonna take to not make it?
>We've solved scarcity
I'm not talking luxury space communism here, just that you no longer have to do anything to have food, water, shelter, healthcare, games
>you no longer have to do anything to have food, water, shelter, healthcare, games
Welcome to Finland. Not only do we give anyone the freedom to choose whether they want to work or not, we also do that for innumerable migrants flooding into the country, becoming the whole world's social welfare office.
where do i sign in
They could be scandi, even if you just have ADHD you can get government handouts for life in those countries
>substantial
in no way does anyone who passed 2nd grade math think this number is """substantial""" compared to the number of people wasting time.
>You pay money just to waste time completing meaningless objectives and build no valuable skill
That sounds just like life in general. Nothing you do will eventually change anything in this universe
Skills don't have value by themselves if you don't have the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. What are we supposed to do? Use our skills to work 80 hours a week until we die while executives leach off us the whole time?
Plot twist: became a game developer and then a back end developer, all started from gaming
People who don't play vidya are fricking weird.
Living itself is a waste.
Based.
Yes, get back to work, goy.
>no fun allowed
No downsides besides MAYBE entry cost but the entry cost is exaggerated because people think to get a gaming PC you must get the biggest best parts
transsexuality
the financial cost. it also becomes an addiction for some. one inherent downside is some users could have faster hardware and lower latency which would give them an advantage. that depends on how the game is programmed. it's a better alternative to being parked in front of a TV passively watching content.
Practically any hobby will be more expensive than playing videogames. Hop on over to >>>Ganker for a second and be glad you live on this side
You get to play video games.
A fate I would never wish upon my worst enemy.
Might take over your life if you're not careful, like all other forms of carefree fun
no good games made after 2020. the PC game of 2023 was a nintendo game for fricks sake
Dude hasn't touched memegate3 I see
PC games are never finished on release and you have to wait years for the patches. Rockstar have said The PC is a nightmare to optimise for so thsts why GTA 6 is going to be released years after the consoles. All the AAA devs have this problem now
Somehow a random hillbilly with a computer was able to optimize their GTA Online loadtimes to 1/10th of what it was in mere moments where Rockstar deemed it impossible. They were doing some really, really dumb recursive shit.
it wasnt anything recursive. it was just a regular gotcha with C strings and inefficient algorithms
https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
you'll waste the best years of your life pressing plastic buttons while staring into space.
gaming should be for old men who are waiting to die and because they arent physically capable of anything else
go play the game of Life you moron
>>go play the game of Life you moron
Why should I? It's even worse than the grindiest of MMOs
>life is nothing but going to work
yeah, its not for you. best get back to that squarepushing
Hemorrhoids
My autism is smoothed by factorio.
Nothing else matters.
entry cost and obsessing over textures / frames, as well as badly optimized versions or ports.
i used to just play ps1 games in all of their dog shit glory however they shipped and now if i cant hit an unwavering 165 frames on high settings the game is unplayable, if i'd even play it anyways - most of the time buying a pc game is testing your hardware with it for 45 minutes with your eyes barely ever leaving the settings menu or frame counter and never touching it again
dont fall for the meme. get a console.
Less sex is one I can think of. Using my gaming PC to get a zoomer gaming girlfriend that isn’t hideous is probably an uphill battle.
i find it can be tedious at times but i prefer that over having no control at all over my system. awhile ago i moved interstate and had sold my pc beforehand. for whatever reason i bought a ps5/4k oled and i thought it was terrible.
whatever downsides there are to pc gaming they really dont compare to how bad console players have it. PS5 games scale awfully and the games that actually run at 4k do so by halving the frames, and mouse and keyboard support may as well be non existent because of terrible input lag and the polling rate feeling so low. even a similarly specced pc using shitty fsr upscaling looks and feels night and day better at 4k.
When you start to get older, gaming in general starts to get boring.
The cycle that many people follow is:
> Play games at consoles since the childhood.
> Gets a gaming PC, probably used from someone that upgraded.
> Buy and/or pirate many games.
> 1 year and 5 months later, you start to get bored and busy with other things (college, work, compile gentoo, becoming a femboy, whatever).
> You start to play only few games, usually emulators, games from your childhood and/or crackhead games (Rimworld, Factorio, Slay The Spire, Project Zomboid, Civ V, Dwarf Fortress, Terraria, CK III and many others).
Everything that happens between each topic of this cycle after you buying a PC is basically suffering with badly optimized games (Hi Fallout 4), becoming obsessive with testing your hardware and spending money on Steam Sales for games that you will never open and, of course, in your energy bill.
Don't get me wrong, PC is the only modern gaming platform that I don't hate so much, and depending of what you want play, can be cheaper than buying a console + games, if you don't know what you want, it will be a nightmare.
At same time, I don't want to buy the newest consoles because they somehow got worse. I miss when consoles was dumbed-down devices that had:
> Optional/Or no connection to internet.
> Physical media.
> Jailbreaks.
> Local multiplayer.
tldr: PC gaming will make you angry, but maybe is the sanest choice nowadays, you just need to buy hardware and games that fits in your necessities to don't spend money in something that you make you angry.
PC gaming is great, but if your primary goal is to play video games, consoles are better because they aren't expensive. PC is not a good platform for video games because how expensive it is to make a PC that can play video games. If you have a good PC that can play video games like me, more power to you, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't a computer guy.
>PC is not a good platform for video games because how expensive it is to make a PC that can play video games.
You can play older games on a cheap weak-ass PC
of course. i mean for modern games though, cheap PC's can not play AAA shit, but a 500 dollar console can
but if you already have a PC, you can just throw in a $500 graphics card into it and in most cases it should play better than consoles
>but if you already have a PC, you can just throw in a $500 graphics card into it
Yeah, but most 'normal' PC's have a 500w psu or less
games are what got me into computers. i knew how to load King's Quest in MS DOS when poor kids were still struggling to learn shapes. My dad was a winner and we had a 386 that cost like 5000 dollars adjusted for inflation
frick poor people, frick losers, frick macgays
If you have time to waste and the money doesn't matter then none.
Addiction if you are not careful you can lose your social life without even noticing.
Gambling addition with loot boxes
Waste of money on equipment, constant upgrades and PC parts could be expensive depending on your economic situation
>What are the downsides of PC gaming?
All you ever do boils down to changing a few bytes in memory of your PC.
makes your room hot in the summer