If you’re looking for a steep discount on the most mediocre Mario Kart released to date, they’re ending the bundle soon so get on that.
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I am curious what the plan is for the New Initiative is when all of this hardware becomes too expensive for anyone to own. Are they all going to swap over to subscription streaming that runs on your phones?
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This or maybe a rental or financing model. Or just gambling, the way America in particular is going.
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Christ that’s what they want. Customers owning things is bad for giant companies.
Dang you got it…
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gacha games that run on your toaster
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All those data centers aren’t just for AI…
Everything will be on the cloud. You’ll own nothing and be happy.
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Honestly the only two things that don’t run well on my 10+ year old desktop are Arc Raiders and VR Chat. VR Chat is really the only reason I want to upgrade aside from it being 10 years old. Given the huge back catalog of games that already look ok and run fine on older hardware, and the vast wasteland of contemporary AAA games requiring new hardware, what even is the point?
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I would never play my phone games on a toaster
they need to look as beautiful and run as smoothly as my real games
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you know shit is bad when gamers know what’s up
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Vince Zampella fucking died in a car crash on Angels Crest highway.
single car crash. Angels Crest is kind of a twisty road people take sports cars on to have fun. probably lost control.
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Angels Crest is the shortest route to the cheapest and nearest ski mountain where people with fancier cars like to tailgate my Prius and draw attention to its relatively limited acceleration
RIP
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this was also the immediate thing i thought of
Im sad someone called Walled Haven Roblox and not Super Deformed
Also Im 5 days late on the Outfoxies announcement so this is your reminder to get official Outfoxies
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yeah I saw a similar video from some Gamer Dude with many subscribers that I’ve never heard of before because he’s the kind of shit I would never watch. it was a video about ram prices, ostensibly, but by the end this guy was ready to burn the entire system down. same reaction, if these kind of people have had enough of everything….
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Sounds like an article I saw last night.
Different segments of American society aren’t necessarily against AI for just the reasons I am. But they have their own different reasons. For a huge cross section of Americans, AI is the thing the bosses are going to use to lay you off. It’s the early 21st century version of offshoring. And quite a few of the Americans who see it through that prism are Trumpers. If it’s not laying you off, it’s jacking up your utility rates so they can run the data crunching plantations that are going to take your job. When I first thought about this I wondered: are the billionaires damaging the brand of AI? Or is AI damaging the brand of the billionaires? But for the centi-billionaires who are staking everything on AI I’m not sure it matters. We’re already seeing signs that 2026 Republicans are going to try to sic an angry public on the tech boys, blaming them for jacking up electricity prices or layoffs tied to AI….
I don’t think the tech boys have much sense that politics shifts both ways, that what happened in the winter of 2024/25 wasn’t permanent. Indeed, it didn’t last through 2025. Do they know what it’s like to be holding the bag for a significant amount of main force political backlash? And not just worrying about Democrats being in power but having Republicans trying to stay in office trying to shift the ire in their direction? ….
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things were always going to move to the cloud because centralizing the hardware and parceling it out to consumers who only need a phone or a cheap dumb terminal or set-top box means you can actually reach all the untapped populations while still taking buyers whom live in countries with higher GDP or with means for a ride because Nvidia was already the only game in town while AMD’s efforts are just them doubledipping from the embedded team doing console APUs and Intel is (for dedicated GPUs) literally at a market share percentage that can be expressed as “rounding error”
I’d also posit that most people would gladly cast out their heatboxes if the alternative is 90-95% of the way there, which will likely slingshot back when suddenly everyone decides they should segregate their content to their control (see: streaming platforms, gaming storefronts)
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lmao
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