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If you've got an SSD, and can use some form of DLSS or FSR (provided that Starfield supports these or Intel's XESS) you'll probably be able to run it. Especially if you tweak the settings. I think it's the 1060 / 580 generation's that's going to have issues. I finally upgraded from a 1060 to a Radeon 6600 because I was finally encountering games it couldn't run at medium.

I think you're right. Both about games, and tv / movies. Look how it turned out for Ubisoft when they turned every game into Assassin's Creed / The Division. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint ironically being a break point that showed that this strategy leads to player exhaustion, burnout, and failure. Kevin Feige ironically said something like, "Chocolate ice cream is tasty, but if you only give people chocolate ice cream every day, they'll get sick of it and want something else. Which is why we have to keep mixing things up and giving people something new if we don't want them to get tired of it."

...and he didn't even take his own advice. Well, not in the long run anyways. And we see how it's slowly failing as of late.

I'm not really sure what Xbox is thinking nowadays. Raising the Price of the Xbox AND Game Pass, when the PS5 is still kicking their ass. Buying out expensive game studios only to publish flops like Redfall. Now they're wasting time and money trying to get into a merger with Activision Blizzard, which has a good chance of failing, and they possibly could've spent that time and money doing something less controversial and more productive instead...

...at this point, I have to wonder if the Xbox brand has much of a future in the actual console space.

Counterpoint: at least it's not Windows 11. I don't care if it's prettier if it's less functional and more buggy. Plus, I hear it steals design cues and features from KDE, although it seems that stealing commonplace features from Linux Desktop Environments is think that's been ongoing, if I remember correctly.

Yep, I agree. It'll be a slow decline, but I think we'll see one. It's kind of like a boss being hit by a bunch of DOT's. Seems fine at first, won't keel over right away, but as time passes, the amount of health loss will get more and more catastrophic until it becomes overwhelming.

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Other people have made good points, but one I've noticed is that there's no advertising or profit motive (so far) and there's also no leadership that encourages dark patterns like increasing negative engagement through encouraging stuff like doomscrolling or starting or continuing arguments.

I'm on Kbin, and I like how by default all the notifications are turned off. So people aren't automatically told to respond to every little thing they participate in. If they really care, they have to manually go back on check on things they wrote about or were engaged in. Makes it less likely that people will argue endlessly, lowering the quality of posts and replies, and derailing them with long subthreads of off topic discussions or arguments.

Well, not a fair comparison, because the guy on the left is a time traveler who is poor in the FUTURE where inflation is so rampant, that yes: pants do cost $2,500. But think about this: minimum wage is $1,500 an hour after the "Fight for Fifteen Hundred" labor movement took off.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised. This is how they are, especially during times of stress, like war. Culture could probably get better if not for their leadership, but I doubt we'll see it improve until Putin and the people backing him get purged.

Yeah, I agree. What comes to my mind first is "Which person did they nominate as PC Hitler?" or "Are they gonna joke about console Jews now?"

Logitech usually has something good, like the G502 series. I heard decent stuff about Steelseries, but haven't reid them. I bought Roccat Kone a while back because they supported Linux drivers and it lasted a long time and was surprisingly good. It too eventually broke though, just like any gaming mouse.

Ah you said it, the Linux version of mentioning "Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker"

No, I'm sorry, the GNU / Linux version, I mean.