This is the reason I didn’t know I was building that Steam backlog all along
I get slightly bummed about this possible future, but then look at my crazy backlog from over the years and all of the old spare hardware I have kicking around. I could spend years just going back through emulators, let alone the literal thousand Steam titles built up and waiting to be rediscovered. Plus all the fan projects and indie studios that don’t require frame gen as part of their base spec.
We’ll be ok, we just may have to revisit the Old Ways a bit.
I think know where this is going:
“NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE”
There are thousands of amazing older games that run on old hardware. Forget AAA and wade into your backlog or pull out some classic from gog or a yard sale.
Don’t chase the high end, relax and start a game of CIV 4 or Anno 1404
In the past 2 weeks, I’ve played Tie Fighter and Dune 2. Glad I had over the minimum 640 KB of RAM for Dune - it’s pricey these days but worth it for a smoother experience!
Brother, we’re pulling out paper and pencil to play tic tac toe with the price of electricity these days
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How do you pirate RAM?
have you tried downloading more RAM
Yeah, that’s the reason I need more hard drives, which are fucking expensive!
I feel like everything is being priced to where we aren’t meant to have any savings.
The objective is to kill home computing :D (🤮)
I think consumer devices are slowly going to not exist. It will switch to screens that stream from the data centers.
I don’t think it’ll ever happen fully. There’s waaaaaay too much money in selling even 1980s-tier hardware to individuals after a certain point.
It will be easier to control terrorists that way.
Thank the Lord! I’m sick of islamic terrorists™ killing me.
Or did you mean it will be easier for them to control the terrorists as in create them!?
Oh. All terrorists. Islamic, atheist, communist, animal rights, voting rights, environmentalist, democrat…
Think of all global resources and all economies that slowly leave imperialism behind. Things must get more expensive without wages adjusting to give everybody their fair share.
Unemployment has been flat for over two years straight.
Depends: are you referring to the official US government numbers?
Because I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the people who have been in charge of that government for the majority of that time are about as reliable as a toddler on crack giving dietary advice.
Besides, starting decades BEFORE that, political strategists started fiddling with the numbers by not counting long term unemployed people who are no longer actively job seeking.
That’s a demographic that’s gonna be ESPECIALLY big in hopeless times like right now.
In conclusion, it’s as likely that REAL unemployment numbers are flat as it is that Donald Trump is going to win the polka dot jersey at the 2026 Tour de France.
So, just vibes then?
There is zero reason to believe the unemployment numbers have been altered by political actors.
All non-government reporting matches the BLS figures. There is an ongoing correction in the tech labor market, healthcare is growing rapidly, hospitality is growing slowly, and manufacturing remains flat.
If you want be in your sads and just dream up some conspiracy, I can’t stop you. But, you should know it’s willfully stupid.
So, just vibes then?
No, verified facts
There is zero reason to believe the unemployment numbers have been altered by political actors.
Other than the FACT that "The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not define people as “unemployed” unless they are actively looking for work.“.
All non-government reporting matches the BLS figures
Because they’re reporting based on the same skewed criteria.
There is an ongoing
correctionmassacre in the tech labor marketFixed it for you.
healthcare profit is growing rapidly,
And again.
and manufacturing remains
flat.historically lowAnd one more 'gain.
If you want be in your sads and just dream up some conspiracy, I can’t stop you
Gee, thanks! Likewise, I can’t stop you from pretending that everything is hunky dory and that mass layoffs is a “correction” rather than the deprivation of throngs of blameless workers, but someone should.
But, you should know it’s willfully stupid.
Right back at you.
