It means people get to enjoy more indie games with good designs, instead of having FOMO for cool graphics without substance.
What about Radeon cards, or consoles?
The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
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It’s not really about censorship though, it’s about having control over a rent economy where there is no ownership. It provides maximum profit potential
Different entities have different goals but are cooperating in making this happen so they each get what they want. Global corporations get guaranteed income streams from most of the population while governments and ideological groups get control over the flow of communication between people to ensure correct think.
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I work in gamedev, historically AAA gamedev. If you think that the programmers are unmotivated (lazy) or incompetent; you’re wrong on both counts. The amount of care and talent is unmatched in my professional career, and they are often working from incomplete (and changing) specifications towards a fixed deadline across multiple hardware targets. The issue is that games have such high expectations that they didn’t ha…
Most gamers don't have the faintest clue regarding how much work and effort a game requires these days to meet even the minimum expectations they have.
That's bullshit. I don't care about graphics, I play lots of indie games, some of them are made by a single person. There are free game engines, so basically all one needs for a successful game is just a good idea for the game.
And a friend of mine still mostly plays the goddamn Ultima Online, the game that was released 28 years ago.
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There is definitely a part of me which feels like with the increasing ram prices and similar. Its hard for people to have a home lab. To me what also feels is that there becomes more friction in an already really competitive and high-friction business of creating cloud. With increasing ram prices which I (from my knowledge) would only decrease in 2027-2028 or when this bubble pops, It would be extremely expensive for…
Feel the same way here. Can't help but get the vibe that big tech wants to lock consumers out, eliminate the ability to have personal computing/self-hosted computing. Maybe in tandem with governments, not sure, but it's certainly appetizing to them from a profit perspective. The end goal is the elimination of personal ownership over any tech. They want us to have to rent everything.
Honestly its not the fact that they want us to rent everything but rather that effectively an AI tax is happening on us general public (or even hobbyists) where the price of hardware/ram is increasing because of AI demands.
I don't exactly think that they did it on purpose to chokehold the supply but it sure damn happened and that doesn't change the fact that prices of hardware might / (already?) increase
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There are still some pain points with Linux distros: With some, an upgrade can leave you unable to boot into a graphical login screen. This can also happen if you leave a Linux installation, like Manjaro, alone for a year and then do an update.
manjaro is arch under the hood and arch is supposed to be updated fairly frequently.
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I always chuckle when I see an entitled online rant from a gamer. Nothing against them, it's just humorous. In this one, we have hard-nosed defense of free market principles in the first part worthy of Reagan himself, followed by a Marxist appeal for someone (who?) to "make hardware available at an affordable price!".
...what exactly about "make hardware available at an affordable price" is "Marxist"?
The appeal for some un-named power to intervene and force Nvidia to provide gamers with cheap gaming PC hardware
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Yeah they want a return to TV era where censors curtail content Everyone will own a presentation layer device. Anyone who can only afford the 1GB model can only get SNES quality visuals. Snow Crash and Neuromancer have displaced the Bible as cognitive framework for tech rich. Am working on an app that generates and syncs keys 1:1 over local BT and then syncs them again to home PC (if desired). The idea being cut out…
It’s not really about censorship though, it’s about having control over a rent economy where there is no ownership. It provides maximum profit potential
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Most gamers don't have the faintest clue regarding how much work and effort a game requires these days to meet even the minimum expectations they have.
That's bullshit. I don't care about graphics, I play lots of indie games, some of them are made by a single person. There are free game engines, so basically all one needs for a successful game is just a good idea for the game. And a friend of mine still mostly plays the goddamn Ultima Online, the game that was released 28 years ago.
and if a new game
came out today that looked and played the same as Ultima online… What would you (and the rest of gamers) think about it?
Your expectations of that game are set appropriately. Same with a lot of Indy games, the expectation can be that its in early access for a decade+. You would never accept that from, say, Ubisoft.
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They're not targeting high-end PCs. They're targeting current generation consoles, specifically the PS5 + 1080p. It just turns out that when you take those system requirements and put them on a PC—especially a PC with a 1440p or 2160p ultrawide—it turns out to mean pretty top of the line stuff. Particularly if as a PC gamer you expect to run it at 90fps and not the 30-40 that is typical for consoles.
1440p and 2160p is a total waste of pixels, when 1080p is already at the level of human visual acuity. You can argue that 1440p is a genuine (slight) improvement for super crisp text, but not for a game. HDR and more ray tracing/path tracing, etc. are more sensible ways of pushing quality higher.
You are absolutely wrong on this subject. Importantly, what matters is PPI, not resolution. 1080P would look like crap in a movie theater or on a 55" TV, for example, while it'll look amazing on a 7" monitor.
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I want a local gaming machine that I control. Not a locked ecosystem console or a streaming service with lag! I think if nvidia leaves the market for AI, why wouldn’t AMD and intel, with the memory cartel. So DIY market is gone. That kills lots of companies and creators that rely on the gaming market. It’s a doom spiral for a lot of the industry. If gaming is just PlayStation and switch and iGPUs there is a lot less…
Interesting. Does nvidia offer control? Last time I checked they arbitrarily updated their drivers to degrade unwelcome use case ( in that case, for crypto ). It sounds to me like the opposite of that. Separately, do you think they won't try to ingratiate themselves to gamers again once AI market changes? Do you not think they are part of the cartel anyway ( and the DIY market exists despite that )? How? One use case…
As a parent I very much agree about the streamers tbh.
Firmly in old-guy “this content should not exist” camp