I feel like everything is being priced to where we aren't meant to have any savings.

You can jump into backlog of older game titles. Its never late to discover GOG gems.

🏴‍☠️

Wait until you're not able to eat. That's when real shit happens.

I think know where this is going:

"NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE"

Luckily there are loads of good indie games at low prices with low spec requirements

This is the reason I didn't know I was building that Steam backlog all along

Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor's throne is held by one who could never wield it's authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?

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.

We're forgetting food...

Unemployment max is 1200 a month in my state. Thats nothing.

I think consumer devices are slowly going to not exist. It will switch to screens that stream from the data centers.

picked up a steam deck as a piece of insurance a drew months ago.

it has simply become a darksouls 1 machine.

I love to hate it.

I basically don't buy games anymore. I started to get the free epic games 2 years ago and this got me like 200 games. I don't play much but when I want, I try a couple until I find something interesting. Playing Disco Elysium now.

Aw shucks... Anyways, back to playing GunZ, runescape, and KOTOR for a third decade. Woo!

But really, even if you aren't stuck in 200X, there's plenty of good stuff out there that isn't too demanding to run.

Gun prices haven't risen though

Is there a lemmy equiv for patientgamers?

Today I finished a book that I picked a while back from a Little Free Library.

Denuvu has been cracked, but god damn almost all the new games coming out using it also run like dookie on my aging PC (Ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1660 Super, 16GB DDR4). The only recent game that runs flawlessly at a solid 60fps is Pragmata.

Wanna build a new PC, but I ain't gonna pay almost twice what it cost to build what I have to get a rig that isn't even better but more or less the same with some extra features like raytracing or dlss.

Even got Crimson Desert on PS5 because I liked it after pirating it, but it only gets about 40fps on my computer. It doesn't run much better on a base PS5 either... But at least it doesn't look ugly as shit when I go inside a building because I don't have the ability to do raytracing and their entite lighting system relies on it. 🤷‍♂️

Remember gamers! What goes up, always comes down sooner or later. Keep the faith 🙏🏻

.> unemployment is increasing
that sucks :(
but unemployment is just companies betting it all on AI right??
. > PC component prices are increasing
glad i dont need to upgrade.
.> game prices are increasing
am happy with my current games,and i dont think indie games prices are rising.