You know? Of I were a trump fan, this would be actually really funny and edgy.

Oink

O->K

Kink.

Oink->Kink

Don’t worry, It took me a second, too. Perspective is everything.

Jfc. That can’t be real. If that’s real, we are much further into Idiocracy than I previously thought.

Age verification in a porn database is odd to me, from a privacy point of view AND a massive undertaking for the porn company. And then there’s the puritan culture of wanting to block teenagers from watching porn? Seems a very anti-French thing to me, but I’m also pretty ignorant of actual French culture. I assumed French culture would be like, once you have the urges, you’ll go seeking, and if you need to look at the internet in the safety of your own bedroom, is better than unexpected pregnancies to satisfy urges.

What’s the deal with all of this, anyway? What are the arguments here?

Authoritarians have embraced internet culture somehow.

I’m curious how they got Gen Z so curtailed.

How do you know it’s just boys? Seems an odd assumption, considering the nature of omission of information with this.

IDE was fine.

Molex, however, can go fuck itself to eternity.

MYYYYYYYYYYYY promoting drug use??!! :D

I’ve tried. The bioavailability of nutrients in meat fits my adhd, lifestyle, and finances better. Without meat, I’m… even more useless than I normally am.

I don’t know why, but this hits the hardest.

Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend’s dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.

I am so sad. I really liked what kbin was trying to do.

Holy shit kbin is still around??

Hey sometimes it’s easier to send stuff that way. I’m not lazy, you’re old.

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Lol you’re cute.

Also, it’s a fascinating novel perspective you’ve presented, in that our caring about fps and small details is a learned obsessive behavior. I’d love to hear more about how you think that works and came to be.

I think the technology (including things like TAA), may…sigh get better. Or it’ll find its proper place in the medium or stack because people will learn how to properly use it or work with it, and efficiently.

Like in our other conversation about Minecraft clouds. Mayybe, over time (melodramatic reluctant pain) even things like TAA will find a place. Gamers will have discussed and aired their complaints, devs will also then take notice and then try new things, and standards and conventions will settle, HOPEFULLY in a direction that’s pleasing to everybody involved.

I’ve seen it before, it’ll likely happen again. Just gotta keep talking about it and keeping the community aware and active with constructive conversations and criticisms. Also we need a new Total Biscuit.

Ah I found it. Interesting that it’s a partial/combo, but no thanks. I’ll absolutely try it, but I feel like I may have already seen stuff TAA partials that and it’s now just a smeary top-half of my camera/screen.

I’ve seen so many games use TAA and I stg, every time, I wish I could turn it off but a lot of newer games you either outright can’t, it’s totally locked to any advanced graphics, or you can turn it off but a ton of stuff totally breaks, like foliage… Which is such a bizarre and frustrating problem.

Because investors realized that gaming is lucrative and leads society. You think it’s a coincidence that Valve created basically the first successful digital distribution platforms and now every entertainment medium followed their model? Do you think microprocessors need to be that good on phones for Web browsing? AI compute hardware came from gaming gpu technology. The software originally made for and tested on games.

But, like music publishers trying to push the newest and latest and greatest music on us, only to have you realize that “oh yeah, 80s music actually kicks ass” and “oh fuck, 50s music WAS neat” or if you have or when you do “holy shit classical is actually amazing and lasted for literally hundreds of years whereas current pop music is constantly only like 2 years old”…

…Like music in that way, old games don’t just magically become irrelevant and bad, despite what pop culture may try to tell us. Compatibility may be the biggest issue, but a lot of old games are legitimately better than newer ones (a lot of old games were bad too). It’s all the social and technical evolution of the medium, and once you start being able to look at it that way - once that perspective and vibe catches on a bit more - I think gaming will be healthier.

Don’t spend 700 bucks. The game will still be there. Wait. Play fun things now that you can, and if when it’s economically playable for you it’s still fun, then it’ll still be fun. There are far too many games right now to even seriously consider fomo for anything but the MOST socially important games, and those are few and far between, and usually very easy to run.

You’re doing fine.

Don’t look at how much 5090s cost in like Australia or some other countries.

Gonna eat some guac and wash it down with some pool water.