A similar PC capable of 4k60 is more than double the price of the ps5 pro.

I think that would depend on what you consider as “capable of 4K60”, because the PS5 Pro will almost certainly be far less capable of that than a build that’s double the price, especially since games that are already CPU-bound aren’t going to get much better framerates if at all

Yeah, I really don’t think an RX 6600 build would outperform the PS5 Pro at all, that doesn’t line up with what I’ve heard at all

From what I’ve heard, an RX 7700 XT build might be pretty close though, and a basic build with one of those and a 5600 would be not that much more than a PS5 Pro, which does definitely go to show how crap the PS5 Pro price is (especially since that CPU is probably better than the one in the PS5 Pro)

The regular PS5 isn’t going anywhere, and you still won’t be able to build an equivalent PC for near the same price as that, but the Pro is so much more expensive for relatively little gain that the price gap for that is pretty small, and on PC you’d get a better CPU too

This costs nearly $1000 here in Canada (more after the disc drive and stand and tax), Sony’s gone fuckin’ nuts with the price on this thing

The literal only argument here is just “I don’t have to use a bunch of Google tabs anymore because ChatGPT can lie to me all in one place!!” lmao

Like, the only way this works is if ChatGPT is literally always correct at all times (which will never be the case fundamentally), because otherwise it’s even worse than the existing process of just using Google because it’s just another step before you end up needing to do that anyway

This isn’t even one of those “oh in the made-up future where ChatGPT is magically perfect, this will be useful, therefore we should support AI-bros right now so we can get there” types of things, this is just assuming that ChatGPT in its current form is somehow a good research tool which is just about the opposite of the case

Not sure you’re going to find a CoD that isn’t American propaganda, even the WWII ones have propaganda as other people pointed out

Advanced Warfare has you end up fighting a genocidal megacorporation superpower run by an American (though you end up fighting alongside the US Army against it)

Infinite Warfare has you play as American but you’re at least not fighting an existing enemy group, you’re fighting against cartoonishly evil space fascists lol

Also, avoid Call of Duty WWII (the 2017 one), that one doesn’t even have a Soviet campaign lol, it’s rather hilarious how much that one goes straight to “America won WWII” when the older CoDs were pretty good about not doing that

I’ve played too much CoD so I can go on a lot about these games lol

I use mine all the time, I love this thing even with its quirks

One of my favorite things about it is that it brings the full power of Steam Input (the input remapping system made for the Steam Controller and available for other controllers) to a handheld, I’m already a Steam Input diehard who plays as many games as possible with a controller so this is the best handheld for me, I’ve played a lot of games on here that normally use keyboard and mouse controls

Been really enjoying Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers lately (the newly-released sequel to SRB2 Kart), really love how its new mechanics set it apart from other kart racers and make it feel more distinctly “Sonic”, and the tracks are so great looking, I can’t believe there’s still the Doom engine underneath all this

Also just feels a lot more like a complete game of its own as opposed to a mod of another game, with its new full menu UI and its focus on singleplayer content (SRB2 Kart didn’t even have any other than basic time trials)

Me irl

Person who fills up propane tanks

It really sucks how often pirates have to resort to emulating inferior Switch versions because the PC versions have uncracked Denuvo

This is true but also it’s always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games

It does very much bug me though how, unsurprisingly, there’s plenty of people on reddit and Twitter acting like piracy is the only reason one would use Yuzu, as if it isn’t such a huge value to be able to run games you paid for at a more playable framerate and better resolution than Nintendo’s outdated hardware

Like, hell, Tears of the Kingdom having such awful performance drops on official hardware even compared to BotW is basically the big reason I haven’t bothered picking it up

Not really sure who would continue developing it though, it would have to be someone who already knows enough to do so but isn’t currently contributing, because the current developers almost certainly wouldn’t risk continuing to do so if they lose

(who btw farms montages in low rated btb games)

Typical, so many of the people who complain about the existence of SBMM in games are people who want to be able to constantly stomp players who are worse than them (when people complain about “not wanting to sweat all the time”, this is pretty much guaranteed to be the actual reason)

While I don’t doubt that Halo and CoD have flawed matchmaking, people usually use those to say that SBMM as a whole is a bad thing, or even that it’s “ruining gaming”, when it exists for good reasons and benefits a lot of games

You rarely see people complain about it in fighting games for example, usually when people do it’s because the developers of a given game have designed an original system that does a bad job at actually matching skill, when a typical Elo-style system would’ve worked far better

Yes, each airbag vest costs money to produce, that’s why you pay for them, and why it’s shit that this company is charging an ongoing subscription that actively disables them when you miss a payment, because the vests they’ve already sent out don’t cost them any money to maintain

And yes, each copy of a backported security update doesn’t cost meaningful amounts of money, but you’re not paying for just a copy of one update, you’re paying for an ongoing service that provides constant backports of security updates for loads of packages (and if you’re a personal user, as other people mentioned, you don’t even have to pay for that!), those backports are not free to maintain, companies charging for extended support that is nothing new, especially when they’re long term support distros targeting enterprise

This comparison makes no sense, a motorcycle airbag vest doesn’t require any effort on the company’s part to keep working, but backporting security fixes absolutely does

This isn’t a counterpoint though?? That doesn’t really have anything to do with SBMM, and if anything seems like it supports its existence because this way you get matched with other players in that kind of situation, instead of being thrown into unbalanced matches against the people who have loads of time to spend practicing

Like, I’m not really sure what this has to do with my comment at all and I’m just really confused

You asked how SBMM is good, so I’m gonna write way too much to answer why I think that

SBMM is important for games with matchmaking because competitive games are generally both more fun and more fair when players are matched with other players around their current skill level, people generally don’t like when a game is just rigged from the start and they can’t contribute anything because of it

It’s pretty bad for people learning and improving too to not have it, because it’s a lot harder to learn from a loss if you just get blown out immediately by someone so far above your level, as opposed to someone closer to your skill level where it’s easier to tell what they’re doing differently compared to you

It’s also a weird complaint to say that the game “punishes” you for sub-optimal behavior and playing casually, because what really happens is that you maybe lose a few matches before the game realizes you’re playing worse and puts you around that level, meanwhile if you don’t have SBMM you will always have a pretty good chance of being matched against someone trying as hard as they can to win and optimizing their gameplay and equipment (this has been a common complaint about Destiny when they have removed SBMM in PvP in multiple instances, because it lead to it being basically impossible to play casually because basically every game is full of pubstompers)

If CoD’s implementation doesn’t work like I described, then that’s a CoD problem, not an SBMM problem, there are loads of games with SBMM where people are generally happy with it (like Splatoon, or most fighting games)

It’s also worth pointing out that despite a lot of people thinking SBMM in CoD is some recent thing, it’s actually been a thing for most of its existence, same with early Halo

And as far as being casual and “chilling out and having fun” goes, you also have to keep in mind that you don’t actually know how seriously your opponents are playing at any given moment, it could very well be the case that they’re also not taking it too seriously and just seem like they’re “tryhards” because they happen to be a lot better, a problem that’s improved by SBMM rather than made worse because you’re ideally (as in, in games that do it well, not as sure about CoD) less likely to go against people like that if you’re not actually on their level

I’m currently on break from them, I can enjoy them (if they never made me really happy, I wouldn’t play them), but they can also be bad for my mental health so for now I’ve been avoiding playing online, I still play some of the games but just against bots

I’d like to return to them eventually though, I really enjoy the process of learning and improving and adapting that doesn’t exist the same way in singleplayer games

Feeling bad because of losing is certainly a big part of it, but I think another big problem often comes down to the mechanics these games have been putting in to cause addiction, like battle passes which are everywhere these days (even Splatoon, which is one of the biggest reasons I’ve grown to really dislike 3 even though I love this series)

Edit: Though, can’t forget that another reason I fell off of Splatoon 3 in particular is because they ruined the rank system in this game, designing it to be grindy and require far more games to make actual progress regardless of skill, and distancing it so far from the skill ratings which are the actual good ranking system, there’s a reason so many people switch to X Battles (the mode that directly uses those skill ratings) the moment they hit S+ instead of continuing to waste time grinding

Especially since they now have everyone rank down each season, forcing everyone to grind all over again for no good reason even if their skill hasn’t actually changed

Splatoon 2’s system was a lot more directly related to the SBMM than one might assume, and it was significantly better for it, you wouldn’t be forced to stick around in a rank you couldn’t handle and if you were truly too good for your current rank then you could move out of it pretty quickly, the whole “skipping ranks” thing happened if your matchmaking rating was higher than normal for that rank

in Minecraft

But comrade… MINECRAFT is one of those games that doesn’t have pausing…! 😨 (In Bedrock anyway, Java Edition is thankfully safe)