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.

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

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.

Can’t be nagged about Windows 11 if you never switched to SecureBoot.

Meanwhile Final Fantasy XIV is doing a collaboration with hair dye.

I mean it didn’t take a genius to figure it out.

Guiltier than a Russian standing next to a pot of polonium tea.

I’d be amazed if he does any of it tbh. Last time he just spent most of it playing golf, and sticking his goofy-ass signature on anything they stick in front of him.

The last thing they want to do is actually deal with the boogeyman issues. If they did that they’ll have nothing to campaign on next time.

Most of this will be spent lining their own pockets.

Block the lot.

We don’t need US far right propaganda.

We have our own.

They don’t seem to go quite as dim as the full colour ones though.

That’s right though. Each day you get an increasing number of an item plus all the items from the previous days again.

Enjoy your birds.

Makes sense. They need to save some GPUs for the poor crypto farmers and AI speculators.

I mean, Nintendo have often been fairly good with back compatibility.

If the architecture and form factor of physical media isn’t really changing, there’s not a lot of need to block older games from running.

They’re already on ARM, and there’s not much better for mobile gaming and GPUs have been fairly similar for a long time now.

The more interesting question is: will the Switch games get a performance boost on Switch 2? And it’s probably going to depend on the game. I’d imagine they’ll test a lot of the more popular titles, and anything with issues just gets it disabled until the developer patches it. It’d be nice to play TotK at a decent frame rate. Impressive as it is, it certainly chugs.

Amusing as that is, I’m pretty sure it’s happened in every war since time began, and will continue to happen until we’re back at sticks and stones.

Intel’s long term prospects rely on China invading Taiwan.

Some are clearly designed for just that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Firewall-Appliance-4xUSB2-0-OPNsense-Ethernet/dp/B0CB3M6M16?th=1

Do you honestly think that people who use Windows do it for no reason?

We’re not just using a browser over here. We have thousands of games we’d like to continue running, as well as thousands of dollars of business software. PC gaming is buggy enough as it is, without throwing one of a million distros of Linux into the mix.

“None of my stuff works but I least I don’t have to use WinBloWz$$$”