Rayman Legends is absolutely incredible. We just started our (I’d estimate) 13th run. That game is flawless and timeless.

Maybe 007 has a smartphone that runs fully emulated inside the game with 12 GB of RAM.

The thing is, I’m a sucker for history and Assassins Creed just gives me something. I know I shouldn’t, but I’m fairly sure I’m gonna get the latest one next time its price hits an all-time low. What I can’t forgive them is that Rayman Legends didn’t get a successor. All things considered though, there is not a single series other than AC that would make me give any money to Ubisoft anymore. They probably should just die already.

I was gonna call this bullshit, but then I remembered that a buddy of mine sold me his GTX 770 for a good price. He got himself the new GTX 970 so he would be ready for the upcoming release.

I mean, it doesn’t feel great giving my money to Bethesda, but at 3.99 for the base game, I’m gonna risk it. I have all of the previous games (well, maybe not Fallout Tactics? Not sure.) and will take a look at 76. If I absolutely hate it, I can probably get my four moneys back from Steam.

Also, about Valheim: I will look at the game and may purchase a copy, but it seems to be entirely different from Fallout. I’m not choosing my games by gameplay mechanics (I don’t know if they’re similar), but setting and world. That’s where Fallout is pretty special.

I remember there being mods for it. The loading screens are somehow tied to the capped framerate (yeah, really), which you can remove.

I’m gonna trust you and buy the base game now.

I have Libre Wolf installed on my Linux machines, but never used it so far. Can you use it with a Mozilla account to sync bookmarks and passwords across devices? I send browser tabs from my Android phone to my desktop machine sometimes, that would be a QoL feature I’d be reluctant to give up.

Right. Attempted to check it out when I was still rocking my Vega 56, the game refused to start.

Also, fuck Bloom. It’s bad enough that my eyes are starting to do it at night, I absolutely don’t want that in video games.

I used to discover artists on Pandora. That site was great.

My bank doesn’t.

I’m not entirely sold, but it looks kinda promising. I am big into co-op games.

Revolut effectively blocked me for using custom ROMs on my phones. Fuck them.

My previous card was a Vega 56, which cost me 399 €. I was lucky to get one during launch week, at MSRP despite the mining craze back then. It was a fantastic card in retrospect and lasted me more than 7 years with my 1440p/70 monitor.

I now own a 1440p/144 monitor, so my target framerate at the same resolution is a bit higher than it used to be, but I’m happy with somewhere consistently between 60 and 90 fps. The replacement for my Vega 56 is a 7900 XT (didn’t wanna wait for the 9070 XT earlier this year), which still is not a proper 4K card if you’re after High or Ultra settings. It does 1440p very well, but it absolutely is not a huge leap in technology compared to Vega. I got it for 600 € open box, regular price (after two years on the market mind you) was more like 700-750 € even right before the new gen dropped. I know everything’s gotten more expensive between 2017 and 2025, but an 80 % price increase for a card with a smaller die size and regular GDDR memory is insane. After all, both Vega 56 and 9070 XT are pretty much comparable in their market position when they were introduced.

I’ve ditched AAA gaming as a hobby before for several years, until the announcement of Fallout 4 made me build a new, potent system. If the “been there, done that” feeling returns when I play new releases in the future, I’m not sure I can find motivation to pick that hobby up again further down the road. Ever increasing hardware cost and capitalist enshittification of the games industry might kill it for good as far as I’m concerned.

Even at MSRP and 0% markup, those cards are too expensive. A mid-range GPU shouldn’t cost as much as (or more than) CPU, mainboard and RAM of a good, but affordable system combined.

What?

laughs and cries in 7900 XT with 20 GB, but FSR 3

I’ve crossposted it for ya.

If you play games that weren’t released after 2022, sure.