Oh please, plenty of games push my top tier hardware to its limits!

It’s just that they do it by not bothering to optimize their software.

Exactly, the small form factor is a huge draw. I’ve built as-small-as-possible cheap gaming PCs before and never gotten close to this size.

I currently use one with no video card that just streams my main PC, but the streaming sucks.

When I was a kid I had a hard time slanting my cursive writing. My teacher told me to just slant the paper, so I kept turning it more and more until it was fully sideways, still writing upright because I adjusted to the angle. After days of this my teacher cried “Just write angled letters!” and I went “Oh!” and was able to do it perfectly from then on.

Anyway I guess my point is different stuff works for different people.

I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.

Not everyone, certainly, but some people do have a choice, and willingly choose the commute.

I knew a guy in Alaska who drove three hours one way to work every morning because he didn’t like having neighbors. I’m not sure why he cared about his home situation so much when he was only there to sleep, but here we are.

I always have a really powerful modern specs PC, but since I try to pick games that maximize fun and don’t try to squeeze 50hrs out of a 20hr game like AAA titles, I pretty much never challenge my system.

For some reason everything stresses when I sit on the steam window, though. Maybe a quirk of linux?

Everyone I know IRL hates cars and driving in rush hour, and all of them live at least 30 minutes away from work. I don’t think they properly weigh their options when choosing a place.

I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy like the guy you replied to, but it’s generally considered correct to include 0 on graphs like this to show proper scale. If I had submitted a paper with this graph in grad school, all of my reviewers would have kicked it back.

I played it a few weeks after launch on a high end pc and it was so unacceptably buggy I had to stop playing after ten hours or so. I think you might have gotten lucky.

That said, the game as it currently stands is one of my favorites of all time. I felt a noticeable lack when it was over. I’d buy their next game even if the reviews were awful.

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I haven’t run into one at all yet. Either proton got better before I switched, or I’m lucky.

That’s rough, buddy.

“Be not afraid.”

Every time someone sends me a link to a Technology Connections video, I open it and think “Yeah right, I’m not watching an hour long video about humidifiers! I am curious about his conclusion so I’ll skip to the end.” Then, suddenly, it’s an hour later.

Also someone sent me a two hour long video on exploiting goomba behavior in Super Mario 64 for glitches, and for some reason I watched that whole thing. Why?!

I was prepared to go through hell when I switched recently, since Windows was making me so mad. Everyone told me my graphics card wouldn’t work, gaming would be hard, etc. Then Mint just worked. 🤷

I did have to troubleshoot why my speakers were muted on startup, but it was worth it. Oh, and volume up defaults to 5% instead of the standard 2%, that took some fixing. Games just work, though.

My mom kept the fridge stocked with sodas when I was a kid, mostly because I had friends over often and she wanted them to feel welcome. I usually drank soda because it was convenient; quick, cold, no dishes. Over years I downed thousands of sodas. It didn’t even occur to me that I didn’t even like it that much.

Now I drink so much water. I’ll have a soda a few times a year, but if I’m thirsty water is king. I feel like a kid who got caught smoking forced to smoke a whole pack.

Maybe he’s punching the dye out of his hair, like in Scott Pilgrim.

I can’t even imagine telling someone to smile. Sociopath behavior.

One of my teachers enthusiastically told me about the new particle they discovered “morons” in elementary school. I had supreme trust in adults, and he didn’t let on that he was joking, and I hadn’t really heard “moron” much, so I believed him. I went home and excitedly told my mom about it, and she has held it over me for decades. Told absolutely everyone who has ever known me.