If you don’t trust…

• The Associated Presss (citing US Intelligence),
• CNN (citing Microsoft), and
• NPR (citing “an Israeli watchdog group” – okay, I’ll give you this one),

…then who do you trust?

It almost sounds like you’re brushing off any media report as “a mouthpiece”, and only believing random anonymous posts on the Internet.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-war-protests-iran-foreign-influence-95e0a161119ed0e060332feda95b4e4f

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/iran-nfluence-campaign-microsoft-report/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204755129/video-game-clips-and-old-videos-are-flooding-social-media-about-israel-and-gaza

Isn’t it common knowledge that there is an Iranian state-sposored social media campaign doing the exact same thing for the other side?

Social Media is the best thing that has ever happened for Iran, Russia, & China in terms of expanding the reach of propaganda.

My daily trickplay task finished in 1 minute after the update. So apparently not.

I Don’t Believe You dot gif.

“Fuck you… Unless I really like you. But extra fuck you if you run a non-PC gaming platform.”

I mean, why give GabeN our email addresses then?

You see, there’s the thing. Sony is not requiring any sort of launcher. It’s an account.

“But mah privacy!”

Again, no launcher. What exactly are they going to track? That you’re playing their game?

You really think GTA6 won’t have a single player component? And that it won’t require a Rockstar account/launcher?

Ok, cool.

Let’s revisit this when Rockstar gets universal adoration for GTA6, which will absolutely require a Rockstar account & launcher.

So that’s who that tool is that’s trying to convince me I need to hate another game every time I rot my brain on TikTok.

I don’t know how many times I’ve told that app I’m not interested in how much he hates Star Wars Outlaws.

Not only do you need an account with those other publishers, but you often need an entirely separate launcher.

This Sony thing is simply creating an account.

This is all just console wars bullshit. It’s stupid when it was Nintendo vs. Sega. It’s stupid when it’s Sony vs. Microsoft. And it’s stupid when it’s PC vs Console.

Grow the fuck up, you emotionally-stunted fucking manchildren.

Did they still find a way to blame their Western developers since they shed them all?

I’m legitimately worried about next gen, since Sony is doing the same thing with their pricing as GPU manufacturers.

That thing being, the increase in price is >/= the actual increase in performance. The PS5 Pro is a 75% price increase over the similarly disc-driveless $399 PS5 (hardware which is almost a half-decade old now).

For me, entirely the opposite.

I just bought the Lossless Scaling app on Steam for my RTX 3070. That shit is magic on the 144Hz 4K TV that my gaming PC is connected to. I play games exclusively with a gamepad, so I notice absolutely zero input latency.

I have fully drunk the frame gen Kool-Aid.

The PS5 Pro is a decent value compared to a PC. It’s just not an amazing value like the original PS5 was in 2020.

Take PCPP’s Entry Level AMD Gaming Build. Upgrade it to a 2TB NVME and a RX 6800 GPU. That’s $830. ⁨ https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/NtFfrH/entry-level-amd-gaming-build⁩

That’s pretty similar specs to the PS5 Pro (with a better Zen 3 CPU, but minus a gamepad).

There seems to be a TikTok campaign where certain people desperately want players to hate this game. I keep seeing this same skinny wispy-bearded dude over & over shitting on the game.

I keep seeing the videos, and what I watch just makes me say “It honestly doesn’t look bad to me.”

It’s funny, because as much as people here hate corporations and monopolies, they would seemingly kill their own mother if it meant Steam would be the only seller of PC games.

EDIT: As demonstrated by these angry downvote reactions…

Free To Play in 3… 2…

Unfortunately, on every launch, AMD looks at Nvidia’s price gouging and says, “Yeah that pricing looks good for us, too.”

“It’s only the 10th most played game on Steam. DeAD gAMe!!”