GrindingGears @ GrindingGears @lemmy.ca

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You'll find low rent trailer trash breed like spider monkeys. There's lots of decent folks in Alberta, just massively outnumbered by hillbilly, Dodge Ram driving, grade 6 dropouts. Won't somebuddah just THINK about mah oil, etc. etc.

It'll be like the Turkish tylenol, all Bayer or whoever makes Moderna will need to do is buy the UCP a Game 7 suite, and it'll be monnnneey in the bank. And we'll be paying 110 to probably shoot saline into our arms, knowing the accountability track record this government has.

Good luck Mitchy! A fresh start is in everyone's best interests here. It's going to light a fire under his ass too.

I showed my son that chase the other day, and lol he was like why is everyone driving so slow, is that because they are old cars?

If you could happen to fall into a 5800x or a 5800x3d for a decent price (getting harder to find I'm sure), I'd skip the upgrades and AM5. It doesn't look like it's going to go the distance like AM4 did, there's already AM6 talk going on for 2027. There's very little real world actual advantage to AM5 vs 4, it's just largely more anti-consumer behaviour and marketing from PC chipmakers.

Maybe to their inventory department too, because let's be frank, that's what AMDs downfall really will be. Every product launch for them is now a faux launch, because no one can get their hands on the hardware. It's not quite as bad for the processors, but their GPUs? Forgeddaboutit.

That last one is especially horrifying. You don't own games when you cloud game, you simply lease them. We all know what that's done for the preservation of games. Not to mention encouraging the massive amounts of shovel ware that we get flooded with.

Problem is preordering has been normalized, as has releasing games in pre-alpha state.

It's just kind of unnecessary. Gaming in 1440p on something the size of your average computer monitor, hell even just good ol' 1080 HD, is more than sufficient. I mean 1080 to 4k sure there's a difference, but 1440p it's a lot harder to tell. Nobody cares about your mud puddle reflections cranking along in a game at 120 fps. At least not the normies.

Putting on my dinosaur hat for a second, I spent the first decade of my life gaming in 8/16 bit and 4 color CGA, and I've probably spent the last thirty years and god only knows how much money trying to replicate those experiences.

Not to mention the cards have gotten huge and you just about need a nuclear reactor to power them. Melting cables and all.

Those cards were like what though, $199?

Fuck those guys too honestly. AMD is fueling this bullshit just as much as Nvidia.

The PC industry has turned into a scuzzy hellscape for average joes that just want to have decent options at realistic prices. They don't even care about gaming anymore, it's about YouTube and BitcoinBruhzz now.

I've still got a still pretty decent setup (5800x3d 4070ti), but it's the last stand for this guy I'm afraid. Looking over the past decade or so, I've honestly had better gaming experiences on consoles for mere fractions of the price of a PC build. Mods and PC master race nonsense aside. Sure you don't need a subscription for online PC playing (I rarely play online), but you can barely get a processor for what a PS5 costs anymore. Let alone a video card, which is upwards of a lot of people's take home pay for a month, the way things are going.

Would a blowout sale there be called a Fingerbang!?

I moved here more than a decade ago, and this place made me and my family very fortunate. I'm not even really totally anti-conservative either, but Jesus Christ are these people something else. The population is something else too, it's like everyone's brainwashed into believing they are the best thing that's ever happened to Alberta. When it's the exact opposite.

What's that 1m going to do? It's just like the police force asking for endless funds. Do some god damn enforcement. Don't want people getting hit? Maybe start cracking down on the very obvious issue of people that can't drive for shit as well. Maybe before spending $1m, maybe take a look up in the NE at what's going on in some of these licensing bureaus.

Another 1m, give me a break.

It's D, but it could in theory be E too.

Or one that outright commits treason

I dunno, it's a two way street IMO. You make valid points for sure. I just don't see how its going to be positive for us when we have a government that's just so hostile towards any sort of public serving service. All they want is corrupt privatization

They are so cool. I just about bought that red and white one a few years ago, it reminded me of my Dad's old early 80s Seca a little bit, just had that kind of retro look to it. In hindsight I shoulda just bought the damn thing.