@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ yeah, I don't imagine I'll get a Series X or anything beyond it. My one reason to get one (Sonic Unleashed playable in 60 FPS) has been obsoleted by that PC build those folks developed

@The_T @onfy @vaporeon_ unleashed recompiled is so good

@aescling @onfy @vaporeon_ I'll play it soon! In my Stream series of play all the Sonics I'm... currently stuck on 3D Blast. But ever so close to Adventure, and when I get there it'll really take off.

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ it's too hard to justify new consoles simply for the price... even if you don't have a good enough pc to play the newest big games that matters so much less now

@onfy @The_T @aescling Yeah, even if I saved up for a Nintendo Switch... Games cost a lot of money, too... New Pokémon Snap, Let's Go Eevee, whatever that Mario game was, Pokémon with Gigantamax, Pokémon with Quaxly, and so on...

@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ yeah; and at this point, having a decent PC is slightly more achievable, and so much more worth the money than a console is. PC releases of games are basically universal and you'll never have to worry about a console upgrade making older games harder to play. On PC, 360-era games still work just fine (as long as they did on PC originally.)

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ while the industry is admittedly doing everything they can to make getting a new pc impossible, fortunately you can still buy an old optiplex and just pirate every game

@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ yeah. I feel like we've also hit a hardware level where games don't... need newer hardware.

Also helps that I have so little interest in the latest top of the line games...

@The_T @onfy @vaporeon_ the diffurence between NES and PS3 vs PS3 and PS5 Pro or whatever silly name they have to the PS5 2

@The_T @onfy @vaporeon_ my point being, the diminishing returns are very obvious

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ i've mentioned it before but in 2021 i built a new pretty strong pc expecting there would be new games coming out that need the hardware... and ended up being puzzlingly disappointed
it's still good that i bought it but i could've just as well just gotten a few hundred dollars of replacement parts for my old pc and kept using it for the next decade

@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ yeah, when I built my PC, I was specifically targeting "being able to play new-ish games while also streaming and having no issues"

(I forget what year this was but probably circa 2021-2023 or so)

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ iirc you have a 2000 series ryzen... i have a 3100, having gotten a bx500 (was that what it was called) board expecting to upgrade to a 4000 5000 series processor... which never happened anyway
come to think, isn't intel a BDS target?

@onfy @The_T @aescling It is! Another reason not to buy new computers...

@vaporeon_ @The_T @aescling better just keep using an amiga

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ anyway, at least upgrading from 3100 to 5800 or something will be a pretty good upgrade in 50 years

@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ yeah, 2700X. And yeah, thinking now it might have been 2001. My grasp of time is poor.

@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ (fwiw)

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ you have a better gpu

@onfy @aescling @vaporeon_ oh, just realized: I did upgrade the GPU later, that wasn't the one from when I first built it

I sent that one to another friend in hopes of helping their rig stream better games, but unfortunately they were bottlenecked elsewhere

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ when i bought the computer i reused my old card, an rx 550! a very silly pairing, but functional

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ soon after i managed to snatch the 5600 for a rather good price, it might've even cost less than the 550 did

@The_T @onfy @aescling Absurdly large amount of RAM

@vaporeon_ @onfy @aescling yeah you've complained about that plenty but honestly I think it helps

@vaporeon_ @The_T @aescling 2x my ram

@onfy @vaporeon_ @aescling I do think if you could get free space/time from your mum you could stream online games with us from your home.

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling she's pretty much always home these days since she's unemployed and she (justly) likes to bitch about a certain person

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling and the resultant shouting makes a crappy stream

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling she can also hear me both when she's downstairs and in her bedroom, and my talking prevents her sleeping which she complains about
i can be watching a video and it doesn't keep her awake, only my own voice does

@onfy @vaporeon_ @aescling sounds like a her problem

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling this house is admittedly small and shit

@onfy @vaporeon_ @aescling yeah; I think you just need to, assert your independence more and make her know you need free time sometimes

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling she doesn't really have anywhere to go. she went to a con today but told me she came home early because it was "boring"

@The_T @onfy @aescling I don't think parents generally listen to their children about that sort of thing

@vaporeon_ @The_T @aescling i definitely am not allowed to talk back on pretty much anything anymore

@vaporeon_ @The_T @aescling honestly surprising she let me stick my antenna in her bedroom, though i had to make it invisible

@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ 3100 was out in 2021 but you could definitely buy a 2000 series cpu too then. it was an intentional choice for me to buy the 3100

@onfy @The_T @vaporeon_ yes

@The_T @onfy @vaporeon_ it sucks that Nintendo sucks because i only care about their new games lol

@aescling @The_T @onfy That game with the Ditto looks fun...