PC gaming itself will hardly change, because AMD cards work just fucking fine. They’ve only ever been a little bit behind on the high end. They’ve routinely been the better value for money, and offered a much lower low end. If they don’t have to keep chasing the incomparable advantages Nvidia pulls out of their ass, maybe they can finally get serious about heterogenous compute.

Or hey, maybe Nvidia ditching us would mean AMD finds the testicular fortitude to clone CUDA already, so we can end this farce of proprietary computation for your own god-damn code. Making any PC component single-vendor should’ve seen Nvidia chopped in half, long before this stupid bubble.

Meanwhile:

Cloud gaming isn’t real.

Anywhere after 1977, the idea that consumers would buy half a computer and phone in to a mainframe was a joke. The up-front savings were negligible and difference in capabilities did not matter. All you missed out on were your dungeon-crawlers being multiplayer, and mainframe operators kept trying to delete those programs anyway. Once home internet became commonplace even that difference vanished.

As desktop prices rose and video encoding sped up, people kept selling the idea you’ll buy a dumb screen and pay to play games somewhere else. You could even use your phone! Well… nowadays your phone can run Unreal 5. And a PS5 costs as much as my dirt-cheap eMachines from the AOL era, before inflation. That console will do raytracing, except games don’t use it much, because it doesn’t actually look better than how hard we’ve cheated with rasterization. So what the fuck is a datacenter going to offer, with 50ms of lag and compression artifacts? Who expects it’s going to be cheaper, as we all juggle five subscriptions for streaming video?

Supertramp: what if being kinda sad sounded fucking incredible?

For the children in the audience.

Yes: What if a guitar could have an orgasm?

Slayer: what if we took Christian mythology seriously enough to make them all very angry?

peperony and chease

Oh my god, he’s doing the Dunkey “strand-type game” joke. We’re only a few steps removed from him re-recording the Lasagna Cat monologue.

I think the majority of Lemmy users are American or expect American news to dominate. The thing you’re complaining about only happens because of that.

Given that everyone’s first assumption is that it’s about the US Supreme Court, obviously no. You have to meet people where they are.

Even for domestic US news, the same shit happens for state versus federal governments. Sometimes on websites that namedrop cities and politicians but don’t bother mentioning what fucking state they’re in.

As if misleading headlines are the audience’s fault.

Well, figuratively.

“What if we redid the skeezy camera that nearly killed the Xbone, but pointed it at your children? We expect to sell one billion units.”

Yeah good luck with that.

Folks, they train on Disney movies. Intellectual property is not a factor.

“Ice Weasel. Love is the everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

Mozilla has been kinda stupid since the browser was also called Mozilla.

Nooo don’t you know this is fundamentally different from manually photoshopping the same joke?!

Confused, full of cheese, unsure of the day of the week

Coming Spring 2034.

Iteration is innovation.

Even combining existing ideas can explore and refine a genre.

That mushroom was load-bearing!