I picked up an RX6600 like 4 months ago for my partner to play Monster Hunter Wilds. It was $300 CAD (So, $220) and plays everything on the market at medium settings, 60fps.

It’s a lower mid range card that does what we expect in the price range. It was also a sale price, but we got it.

I’m not denying that prices are, in general, higher, particularly if you’re looking for traditional mid range options or even high end cards, but budget options exist.

0% homelessness in China btw.

Which is like the US declaring homelessness a federal crime, imprisoning everyone who lives on the streets, and calling homelessness a solved problem.

I agree. The war in Ukraine can only truly be resolved by removing it’s root causes. Remove Putin, and the war ends.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Canada a “socialist regime”

God, I fucking wish.

Okay, this is a cute way to push Linux and all, but Windows 10 reaching end of service really doesn’t mean we have to give up using it. We could easily have years before the end of support causes compatibility issues for the average home user.

I believe we (as in, people) all have a responsibility to hold each other accountable. But we can also only do so much, and inserting yourself into a toxic community founded for the sole goal of normalizing that toxicity in some misguided attempt to reform such people is beyond what any one person can be expected to engage with.

I explicitly stay away from such groups. I call it out in person, and politely check my friends when they say something that they might not realize is harmful, exactly the same way I expect them to check me, but that’s just it. That kind of discourse isn’t welcome in these groups because they were created with one explicit purpose: to justify and normalize the absolute shittiest behavioursof the most sexiest of male culture.

She’s right, it isn’t a small amount of men. But it’s a supermajority in certain circles, and a tiny, neglible minority in others. She, unfortunately, exposed herself to the worst of men enmasse. We should instead go to those latter circles, and avoid/ostracize those former circles, until they realize if their only goal is sex, they’ll have to figure out how to be a decent person first. And men, choose to be better.

Feel free to degrade me.

Are you okay?

Male’s haven’t been actively repressed as a result of their gender for thousands of years. Simply switching the genders does not work because they’re not equitible terms. Systematically speaking, they come from different backgrounds and expectations.

I take your point that “female” as a durogatory term is relative to the context it’s used in. But we can’t pretend we’ve lived in a world of equal opportunity that treats men and women, males and females, equally in trying to make that point.

confounds the world

No it fucking doesn’t. The rest of the world is not confused or shocked to see this.

Don’t let American media convince you this was a fucking surprise.

Convinience. I’m a gamer first and foremost, and more of a hardware person than a software person at that. I have a friend who games on Linux and I’ve seen the fights he sometimes goes through to make things run. Sometimes it’s great, and it’s awesome, and others… Well, we’ll lose a night or two before finally getting in, or deciding it ultimately won’t work.

I know there are distros to ease these problems, improve capatibility, etc., but when compared to Win10, which I am comfortable on and understand, it’s just easier to stick.

That said, I have my limits, and a forced Microsoft account is a hard no-go for me.

As an aside, if you have any distros that you think would allieviate/solve my issues, feel free to link.

We might be on the last version of Windows that I am willing to run.

To be fair, if you look at it from the perspective of a narcissist who has never been told “no” his entire life, it makes perfect sense.

Many Steam games are actually DRM free. You can just copy the game folder onto a flash drive, sometimes modify a single file, and then run it from the flash drive in any PC.

You should still buy from GOG first imo, but I wouldn’t entirely count out Steam.

I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.

I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn’t work, and I’ve been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.

Hey man, uncalled for.

Don’t go after good hydration like that.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such blatantly and unapologetically racist government policy in my life time.

Don’t get me wrong, we’ve come close, but this genuinely might just take the cake.

Because as long as they get clicks, they don’t care, and anything with “Gaza” or “Palestine” in it will generate those clicks. Plus, running such stories is substantially less likely to result in someone lighting a fire underneath them then the other stuff they should be covering.

I’ve also heard some “running it offline avoids all the Chinese biasing and spying” anecdotes. Though I haven’t seen any first hand evidence of this. Needs testing, imo.

Great position to take as someone who isn’t in the targeted minority. Immigrants and transexuals don’t have the option of just waiting it out. And we shouldn’t sit by and watch them suffer.

Seriously, read a Holocaust memoir or something. “Night” is quite good (just read it with my grade 11s), and really puts the “it won’t be that bad” rhetoric into perpsective.