I’d rather play only board games and TRRPGs for the rest of my days.
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.
Sorry, to busy going to my local game shop and buying Xbox 360 games. So many games to play
RG35xx Pro, Usenet for ROMS
Also, myrient for ROMs and ISOs. Jdownloader works great with it.
Thanks I’ll give those a go!
Can run on a tiny computer, all your games and saved on local disk, compatible with retro achievements org, save state hotkeys, use basically any USB controller, etc. I use it more than any modern console I’ve bought in years.
If I cant own it, then I cant steal it.
Yar har.
If there is no ownership then there is no stealing/pirating by sailing the high seas.
Something to be said about ttrpgs and board games with friends and family. Corpos can’t sequester that into a rental only model.
cough Dnd Beyond coughcough*
Fortunately they still sell the books and fortunately if you wanted to sail the 7 seas…
Despite Hasbro’s best efforts with its pet lifestyle brand lol.
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
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.
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
read books, go for walks, hang out with friends instead
Still time to learn.
You of today can’t help being illiterate today, but you can make it so you don’t stay illiterate. Unless you’re like blind or something, in which case get rekt by us deaf folks
Okay people are going to hate me for this, but I like cloud gaming when I have it. Play a couple of games I’d never buy and move on with my life. No download times, etc.
If it’s a game I want I’ll buy it to keep if it does ever go offline or I chose to end my gamepass subscription.
Frankly the only thing that keeps me from using it more is the ridiculous price of game pass these days. It’s basically moved me away from Xbox/Microsoft entirely. And that’s why after this Xbox one dies I’m not buying from them again.
But without the price gouging, I really like cloud gaming. Truthfully I haven’t come across many games that you can’t buy a copy for. Some smaller games are digital only and of course the dlc, but this is a decade old issue unrelated to cloud gaming
Yup, streaming your games is great for the environment too…oh, wait, no it’s not. Just ignore that part.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Guilting me for enjoying a game in my off time is not productive. I also wouldn’t do the same to you. That’s ridiculous.
I could go to work, eat, sleep, and nothing else. I could carry a single hand crank lantern room to room, and it wouldn’t even come close to mitigating the damage done by exxon just this year alone.
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.
I don’t think it’s just the ignorance of consumers. Big tech knows a lot about how to activate our endorphine centers. Things seem to be great and then gradually enshittify. It’s a bit like the metaphor of the frog in hot water.
Oh, most definitely. They have teams of people with degrees in psychology for this exact purpose.
I’ll never know that feeling
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
I wonder what percentage of disc-based games for this console generation are unplayable without at least a one-time Internet-connected update.
11%-49% depending on platform and qualifiers https://www.doesitplay.org/
Buy your games on GOG and own them forever. You can also buy a cheap, slow as hell external drive and backup your installer files, too. You can still buy games on Steam since most of them don’t have DRM. For now, Steam is also great, but a decade from now they could enshittify.
If you only do console gaming, buy physical cartridges and discs as much as possible. You’ll keep most of the game and can play whenever you want. An example of being able to play “most” of the game applies to games with legacy activation servers, such as Splinter Cell Blacklist and Watch Dogs 1. Most of the game is playable, but anything that requires a connection to that activation servers no longer works.
Finally, scour Craigslist, flea markets, and yard sales to buy old game consoles from before this DRM mess. All those old games still work great. If you buy Wii U, 3DS, and Switch 1, make sure to boot your console and every single game at least once every few years. Yes, every single one of your games. Due to NAND volatility, this will protect your games and console (Wii U) from NAND failure and increase longevity.
Edit: removed Nintendo DS from the list I provided. Nintendo DS does not use NAND; rather, the DS uses mask ROMs which does not have the limitation of NAND volatility.
Wii U, DS, 3DS, and Switch 1
Pretty sure this didn’t apply to DS
Confirmed, my comment above is inaccurate as the Nintendo DS game cartridges do not use NAND; rather, Nintendo DS cartridges use mask ROMs.
Edited my comment above to remove that misinformation. Learned about this stuff years ago and I must have lumped DS into the mix.
And gamers will still pay for them, apparently.
