>>739729076Comparatively slightly better than console
>>739729076Most men can't do long hair well and this guy definitely not.
No more useless than your shit thread
>>739729076PC grifters have cuckolded you for years saying that Steam is LE BEST. Time to wake up.
It's so good that you need to have mentally ill parasocial attachments to corporations from your childhood to still not understand its supremacy
>>739729076>play any game I want>for free>with any controller I want
>>739729191You haven't convinced me to pay 900 dollars for a crappy console with no games on it. Keep trying though, I'll wait.
>>739729076I've been playing PC games for years and no one has been able to answer the question of why would you want a world where every 5-6 years your vidya collection becomes completely useless.
If you don't already have a rig, don't bother investing in the ecosystem because it won't exist in a few years.If you do have a rig, take good care of it because it will be your last.
the future will be all micro PCs or niche handhelds like the deck. desktops are on their way out
>>739729675Good. Why the fuck do we still have to deal with bulky ass computers? It's 2026, the future is supposed to be sleek and practical
>>739729620Lol the ai meme Will burst and take America with it
>>739729732Because of UE5
>>739729675>The atx standard that everyone in the industry benefits from will just stop existing because some retard doesn't like it
>>739729191It is for white people who have to buy games.>>739729128>slightlyNo. If I play on console, it has to be an exclusive. I could multitask and play almost anything on my PC, plugged to a TV with a controller. Changing games how I want.
>"Gamers" Nexus>looks inside>political commentary
>>739729076I made a new PC build recently. I only transferred my DDR5 32gb sticks and m.2 SSD. Really happy with my Chill 9950x3D over my hot i5 13600k.
>>739730023>We should ignore reality because I'm a zoomer retard!
>>739729076It's rough upgrading but it's still probably a lot better than it was years ago. Graphics have long hit the point of diminishing returns and decent hardware from within the last 6 years can run games well, the only problem lately has been optimization issues. Hardware power efficiency hasn't improved a lot in general but you don't really need to use the highest settings because the games still look good on low-medium settings and anything higher is in diminishing returns territory. My GPU from 2014 can run a LOT of games. Computers are easily customizable and you can use your PC as a console and play games on TV by connecting it to a computer and connecting a controller to it. The AI bubble will burst and that might bring a flood of second-hand hardware to the market on top of getting the hardware companies to cater more to gamers again.>>739729675I like how small the Gabecube is
>>739729076Still the best option, just can't play any new AAA games because you literally never had a window to buy parts at MSRP since November 2019. In related news, I can't believe I wasted 80 hours playing SMTVV on the vanilla story when the vengeance story is way fucking better.
>>739729076Just played Eternal Castle. It was fun.>>739729675If you think the WEF is going to let you play video games you're delusional. Any totalitarian state that has such control would not want their workers doing things other than working, and resting. >>739730078It's not even commentary on the intersection of politics, and gaming. It's just regular TDS stuff.
Mid range hardware is more than good enough even for 4k gaming. There's zero reasons not to have a gaming pc if you're serious about gaming.
What is a good AMD GPU better than a 3060ti? Jewvidea is dogshit on linux
>>739729176trannies ruined long hair
>>739730325both the 9070 and the 9070xt mog every Nvidia GPU in existence in terms of value
>>7397303259060xt 16GB probably. but personally i would just bite the bullet and go with the 9070xt instead
>>739730325>Using Linux lol lmao
>>739729076>have PC>play gamecube, ps2, nes, snes, genesis games all day>be console cuck>play latest AAA slop after getting my updates>be consoomer collecting fag>dont have time to play games
>>739730384Your idea of value must be warped if you seriously think this.
The best part about playing on console is how I can kick back on the couch and play on the tv with a controller. PC vegans will never know this joy.
>>739730608it's true
>>739730629I play on PC and do exactly that.
>>739730686>lemme just hook up all the adapters
>>739730678Cost per frame when ignoring cutting edge tech like DLSS just because AMD sucks at it doesn't make it better. Sorry.
>>739730725are console niggers really this retarded?
>>739729176At the most if you have thick hair that naturallygrows into swooped bangs and are thin, you can pull off hair that goes down to your eyes in the front and back of your neck in the back.And that at the most, anything less and you need to cut that shit shorter.
>>739730763>hold on, guys>i almost have a gamepad hooked up
>>739730730cutting edge tech? like detaching yourself from microsoft's jeetware? yeah, AMD is better at that
>>739730629lmao, i play on couch with wireless m+kb and headset, use a ps5 or switch pro controller when i want. i feel bad for adults in current year still just stuck with one console.
>>739730725My controller is always plugged in and ready to play.
>>739730861+5 izzat has been added to your account, pranjurshtarvi
>>739730903idk wtf you just typed, please type english for us americans
>complete customization>no paying to use your internet>almost ever video game to ever exist for free>also capable of playing all other media to every exist for free. music, tv, film, books etc >internet browser (ps5 has no browser) how is this even a question
>>739730851Nobody wants to use shitty FSR when DLSS exists. A 5070 is automatically better value than a 9070 at the same price.
Switch 2 is yet again becoming the best value per dollar. I honestly didn't expect things to go this way with the steam deck but here we are.
>>739730056>the face of a man who can speak Bing Chilling
>>739730947>us americans>shilling gay ben 4 u saar>>739730970>can't connect to tv>have to use gamepad>worse performance because you don't have the PS5 SSD
>>739729076shill niggas like this are the reason pc shit is so gay now, can't ever trust someone that can't give an opinion without injecting an ad into a video
>>739729076>that hairlength/hairline ratio>that chin/chin/neck ratio >computers>video gamesi feel so seen, i feel so represented for the first time in my life
>>739729076I can't play Ocarina of Time Randomizer on my Switch, so not useless at all.
>>739730972Why do you care more about upscaling gimmicks when you could finally own your computer with Linux? high time preference?
>>739731069Linux is for people with no friends. Anti cheat support is non existent.
>>739729076I still like PC gaming. I plan on getting a new PC around 2030. Hopefully pricing will be better by then, but that's not why I'm waiting that long. I already have a PC and it's only 3-4 years old. So, I wanna get about 8 years out of it. Besides, I prefer getting a new PC during the middle of a console generation and I expect the PS6/Helix to launch by the end of 2027. I'll be grabbing the PS6 console then along with maybe a new display. My PS5 is currently using a 15 year old 1080p/60hz monitor. So, it'll be time for an upgrade there as well.
>>739731004>can't connect to tvwhat?
>>739731004didn't realize there were poorfags on this level of cope because they can't afford an $800 gpu
>>739731140brother literally every anticheat even the chinese ones work, only ones who doesn't are cancer like fortnite and league of legends
>>739730023It's forced to be you stupid fucking faggot.It's capitalism, it's Jenson Hong Kong Buffet making sure AI bubble grows bigger. It's anti consumer garbage and to have a guy talk about why things are getting worse is gonna touch on big corporations, government (not just usa), and production.
>>739731140But the games you play with friends work?People with no friends are the ones that get addicted to compslop and don't mind their computer being violated
>>739729076My nephew sold his car to buy a PC, and scooters every instead.
>>739729808*a few billionaire retards.
>>739729176>>739730773https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5xDL4TEqykkeep shaming, mother nature will keep smiling back at Steve
emulators are literally 99% perfect atm"pc" gaming is completeeverything else from this moment onwards is just fluff
better to get one PC even though it's more expensive compared to multiple consoles and paying for online which adds up while also being cucked and not allowed to use emulators or use your expensive GPU for AI stuff
>>739731443Whose dream is fucking ending AI slop is now more expensive than actually hiring people and we're still months away from the massive rape reality check as openAI has to show everyone their books and how much money they've wasted, triggering a wave of austerity and making it niche
>>739729903Most Steamies are Chinese/Russian lel
>>739731580>AI slop is now more expensive than actually hiring peopleUsing maybe a few cents of electricity, my GPU can pump out something I used to have to pay a furry artist hundreds of dollars for.
>>739729076I still have my 3900X with 32GB ram and 2070Super pc that I built during Covid. Still plenty usable and I see no reason to upgrade. Hopefully, devs will learn the art of optimization.
>>739729557>I've been playing PC games for years and no one has been able to answer the question of why would you want a world where every 5-6 years your vidya collection becomes completely useless.That hasn't been true since 8 gen consoles the PS4/XB1 had digital libraries like Steam
>>739731726Cool, that shit is worthless and not what all those corpos care about Not to mention you literally can't make money off gen ai slop
>>739731580I don't know whether I should laugh or cry at your ignorance.
>>739730135>Redditchungus dialogue is le goodYikes
>>739731880https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/nvidia-vp-says-it-costs-more-to-use-ai-than-to-hire-humansAnd it's only got big to get more expensive as the ai austerity kicks intick tock
>>739729076Try harder.
I don't watch grifters to know what you're trying to offtopic post about.
>>739731481The lion maintains his pride against male pattern baldness
>>739732025Has literal nothing to do with tech companies conspiring to end PC ownership.Are you in the right thread?
>>739729732you build it, put it under a desk for 7-10 years and never look at it. big bulky, that sounds like a good case you only need to buy once for multiple builds.
>>739732129RetardIf AI becomes unprofitable then the consumer market will naturally bounce back, there's no other way it can be squeezed Or are you just guessing that some billionaires can tell those hardware manufacturers to pass up trillions?
>>739732025I don't even necessarily disagree with you but posting that article just makes you look like an idiot.>basing the headline on a quote but leaves out key context ("For my team")>cites a productivity study on 2023-era models
>>739732230They don't NEED consumers now. Educate yourself.https://youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8?t=761
>>739729128It's a lot better I'd say. Consoles still feel like a ball and chain even if you can't see the actual chain anymore.
>>739731219I don't know, chief. A constant brought up selling point of PCfags is how they can play every game for free by pirating it. I think that people that can't afford games can't afford a very expensive machine also
>>739730023the techtuber to wannabe political activist pipeline is real
>>739732279The part you cited is literally about the fucking AI that's only held up by delirious speculation and not actual need to make money Again, once AI austerity kicks in and they need to operate as businesses it's over
>>739732436Radicalism is part of the gig economy now. When money is tight morality becomes a spook.
>>739731481The blackpill community is funny as shit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia1DADr6JCY
>>739729128infinitely better you mean
Why do Millenials always grow their hair disgustingly long and not clean it?
>>739732448You need to wake up and smell the roses. When in the (hopefully) decades you've been alive has shit like this recovered or improved? Even IF the AI bubble bursts, they're just going to use those data centers to transition fully to cloud based services. Multiple industries are trending towards subscriptions, and the PC market is no different.
>>739729347>pay 900 dollars for a crappy console with no games on it.You mean the steaming pile of shit deck? Or maybe the steaming pile of shit machine?
>>739732448They don't need to do shit, fucktard. They now live on government contracts, taxpayers money and military contracts.Just keep pay taxes. Surely you will be able to afford your own house. Surely you will be able to afford your own car. Surely you will be able to afford your own PC.I'll say it again since you're such a troglodyte: they don't need to have a successful business. The economy is a meme. They're too big to fail now. The government will bail them, as always. You will pay the price. As always. You won't do shit, as always.They stopped pretending like capitalism is a thing. It doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did.
>>739729675The future will be paying a subscription to stream your games and other programs from the cloud
>>739732737>Inb4 let it rot becomes the mainstayHave fun propping up a shrinking taxbase on the backs of people who no longer exist.
>Built a new PC a year ago>now comfortably sitting at 64gb of DDR5 and an additional 64GB of DDR4 I can sell off for easy money.Besides that I'm genuinely glad I switched to PC a decade ago. Shit's comfy.
>>739729076I mean you have a few pcs anyway for reading email and whatnot, might as well play games on it.
>>739730539>keking about Lmaooooo exdee
>>739732846Nigga you won't be able to do shit about it. You will either die for Israel, die for Ukraine, compete to Indians by literally working for the food or die from starvation. Maybe your rose tinted glasses will fall off and you will finally learn what real world is like.
>>739732928>compete to Indianslmao esl retard
>>739732076Pretty much, also it is curable>>739732568Yeah but hair isnt really blackpill its just something we've had to deal with for millenia, and for millenia we were rocking it like any other mammal (men have always been the flashier, lionesque sex)Steve Nexus' hair doesnt look bad because its bad (its not, its beautiful hair), it looks bad because hes a fat fuck that doesnt exercise
>>739731726Your furslop isn't replacing any jobs. Real models that are even somewhat useful for any real usecase cost a lot more to run, and the ai corpos also need to pay back the cost of training and building and maintaining massive data centers. So far they've been subsidized by shareholders, but that money will stop flowing in soon. When that happens and everyone figures out that running a model with junior level skills costs almost as much as hiring a senior, everyone will drop AI and start hiring people instead.
>>739733194Shareholders like the government with literally infinite money lol
>>739733194nta but lmao
>ram is still nightmarishly expensiveI am buying 128 gb when it goes back to normal in two years
>>739731864There are AI slop patreons making more in a month than what you make in a year.
>>739733313>when it goes back to normal in two yearsLOOOOOOOOOOOL
>>739731726>>739732025>Gold digging shovel seller says digging with your own hands is more expensive.
>>739732928>goyboy going all outThey will not grant you salvation for your service
>>739733258That's with subsidized AI prices, which I touched on in my post. It's not this cheap in reality.It's also 3 years old data from the peak of the hypecycle before everyone realized it's actually just slop.
>>739733608You're no different from him, unless you don't pay taxes you have no business saying a thing.
>>739733102>it looks bad because hes a fat fuck that doesnt exerciseIf he wasn't a hippie he'd wash it on occasion
>>739733258Nta but porn artists have same amount of commissions like before. Turns out people get tired of same generic AI girl poses with mutated fingers after a while. AI took over all the odd jobs that were cheap to begin with, like banner ads, indie book covers and other ad slop nobody pays attention to. Used to be freelancers got hired to do those for like 60-80 bucks (in cash to dodge taxes) in 1-2 days so if big AI model subscriptions get pricier than 15-20 dollars a month, its cheaper to just hire a freelancer again.
>>739729076>fat tech jewsus/g/ay is down the hall and to the right
>>739733669>It's also 3 years old data from the peak of the hypecycle before everyone realized it's actually just slop.I dunno you seem to be coping a bit too hard. 2022-2023 was AI at its worse and it was still raping jobs.>>739733845>Nta but porn artists have same amount of commissions like before.Are you looking at overall figures or just a few anecdotes? >Turns out people get tired of same generic AI girl poses with mutated fingers Still living in 2023, grim.
>>739733313Nobody tell him.
>>739733313Welcome to the New Normal. Soon you will be buying bread in a wheelbarrow like the Wiemars of old.
>>739733313>when it goes back to normal
>>739733925>2022-2023 was AI at its worseThat was when the AI bullshit started and everyone was hyped and thought it could actually do shit. It wasn't until 2024-2025 that people started realizing it's just slop and is useless at best or detrimental at worst when it generates something wrong.
>>739734067>>739733996>>739733931>>739733537If it goes down I want you presenting your starfish like 3P.
>>739733925>AI still fucks up the fingers>AI shills get around the problem with 3D plugins or putting AI filter on top of already existing footage.>Retards think AI has improved.Try do a clean prompt with any current model and they still fuck up the fingers. If you have to workaround a problem, the problem didn't get fixed.
Feels good to have my mini itx PC with 96gb of ram and it only cost me about a grand in 2025Console worker drones can't experience this freedom
>>739730135Prices normalized in 2023-2024. I upgraded then and got a 3070 for $150. Not a god tier card, but it'll last me a long time and was a hell of a deal.Thank you ex-miner. I showed up and he cut $50 off the listed price. Nice dude. Only issue I've had is the fans making noise between like 64%-71% fan speed. I just set a curve to skip it and you don't hear shit until the card is returning to idle temps, and even then it's not for more than a second.
>>739734089Just like it "went down" after crypto? Or how it "went down" after covid?All of the memory manufacturers have quit consumer markets.The computer component market is down ranging from 40% to 70% in revenue. Most companies aren't going to make it through this year. This isn't "downsizing" this is "It's fucking dead Tim".
>>739729076It's the same it has been for the last 30+ years. The best way to game if you're willing to put down the money. You can play the latest AAA slop for much cheaper if you're willing to tolerate console graphics and framerates.The great thing about PC gaming is that you can actually buy a cheap used toaster that's cheaper than a console to play just about any game worth playing because there are no artificial limitations.
>>739731004>can't connect to tv
>>739729076Managing better at playing just about anything when compared to consoles
>>739734069Are you the like one of those homo furfaggots on Twitter? AI arguably got more popular as the years passed. So many people use chatgpt casually now.>>739734121>>AI still fucks up the fingersPic related is some random gen I saved and was genned purely with prompt. I don't know why you're being intentionally retarded but it's clear you only get your news from Twitter.
>>739734153Is it a zotac?
>>739734191>Just like it "went down" after crypto?yeah it did. 32 gb pack was around $56Are you pretending it was cheap like this for most of 2024 and 2025 before jul.or are we pretending shit like camelcamel and keepa are suddendly lying when showing graphs?
>>739734191It did go down then, yes. But the situation today is different for the exact reason you specified. No reason to pretend like prices didn't drop a few years ago.
>>739734342>32 gb pack was around $56Of dogshit ram with shit timings and shit frequency. Once the prices plateau'd, they remained as they had been. Only hard drive prices relaxed because of lowered demand.>>739734348GPU's never went down in practice.
>>739734296lmao thanks for proving me right you dumb brown fuck.
>>739729191Now that consoles are themselves becoming more expensive, along with being underpowered with not many exclusive games, you console posters don't have a leg to stand on and you know it. The cost of a ps5 was RAISED multiple times 5 years after it came out. Ridiculously bogus.
>>739734421Here's another one. I'm not even brown btw, but I can tell you're poor just from your seethe.
>>739734406Yes they did. I bought a new GPU back in 2022 after the market stabilized.
>>739734463>Disjointed index finger>Hidden 5th finger between nameless and little finger.Yeah you're simply too retarded to have this discussion, I'm sorry. You keep proving what I said right all the time, AI still fucks up the fingers without help from 3D models or just putting AI filter on top of already drawn image.
>>739734596Didn't read your impotent seethe but here are examples from actual artists messing up hands despite having hours to revise it.
>tfw it takes longer for anon to write his seething response than waiting for a vid genHurry up man you just repeat the same thing anyways.
>>739734628>Stores an image of real artist mistakes.>"Thats why AI always fucking up fingers is fine."You're the one making collabs of real artist mistakes when people point out your precious AI is still terrible. So who is the one seething?
>>739732312Pirates are the fucking vegans of pc vydia. Obnoxious attention whores who are always preaching and trying to recruit you into their little cult. Mostly made irrelevant too with steam and its endless sales, free to play models and cheap streaming services PC is the penultimate platform simply because it allows you to do everything. Work, entertainment, archieving etc. While being highly customizable. Console have and always will be for the more tech illiterate and lazy. Declining too, looking at market share as mobiles gopple their target audience up
>>739734769Oh this retard is making up arguments in his mind now lmao. I'm just pointing that artists fuck up hands pretty consistently or just use methods to avoid drawing them altogether but all you do is just seethe over shit that hasn't been an issue since 2023. You have no real arguments.
>>739729076If you don't have a PC now then you're locked out. Get an old-ass jailbroken console instead. Have an aging one and NEED to upgrade? Ha ha....
>>739734596Nigger that Bea pic is better than what 99% of human artists are capable of, and it was made in a matter of seconds by a guy who likely knows little to nothing about art. This level of cope is unreasonable.
>>739729076pc gaming is ok, the hardware market is quite bad but you'll still find like a million games you can play even on not so great hardware
>>739734823>>739734829Go back to your DALL-E thread with your 3 other brown schizos.
uh oh another anon joined in. it's going to take this guy more than 8 minutes to make the same exact seething response now lmao.
>>739734890You should lower your estrogen dose
>>739734890>still stuck on dall-eGoes to show you're really stuck in 2023 lmao. Why are gross furfaggots like this? I'm not even remotely brown too.
>>739734903>AI still fucks up fingers!>"NOOO no it doesn't, heres an example where it fucks up fingers.">Well real artists make mistakes too, that makes AI mistakes okay! K-k-keep seething!
>>739732448I like the saying>spend all of this time, effort, resources and money trying to reinvent the secretaryWhen is openAI going to the gallows. This stupid LLM hysteria has pumped most worth stock prices too into stupid territory. There is almost nothing to buy right now and even persian gulf oil crisis is getting overshadowed by the rampant AI speculation
>>739729745We'll just fall back on military weapons sales.
I just checked and the ram kit I bought last year is now five times more expensive. I guess on the bright side devs are incentivized to be more considerate of hardware requirements right?
>>739734976Why do retards like this just make up arguments in their mind? Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it was drawn by an actual artist just so I can make the point more clear but lmao.
>>739730839Bro you're coping and arguing in bad faith and you know it. Just hold the L with dignity and grace. Being humbled doesn't have to be a bad thing. It can be a great learning experience. God bless. Truly.
>>739734191Who are these companies going to sell RAM to when the tech bros stop building new datacenters?
>>739729076reminder, you can still play old great games, given many 2026 games are slop (mixtape)go play deus ex.
>>739729076PC gaming is fucking amazing if you are into all sorts of genres and you're not just looking at AAA games exclusively. There's so many games releasing constantly that I'm literally playing a new game every couple of days, and I get 90% of them for free by pirating.Meanwhile between PS4/PS5 over the last 13 years, there's maybe like 3-4 worthwhile games to play, and Switch 2 is also in a fucking dire state, although a bit better since it has only been out for a year.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_4-only_gameshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_gameshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nintendo_Switch_2-only_gamesI genuinely do not understand how people can play on consoles. There's unironically NO GAMES. Are they all just completely fine with playing buying 1 game per year and then for the rest of the year they're either playing F2P live service games or not playing at all?
>>739735031>I guess on the bright side devs are incentivized to be more considerate of hardware requirementsIf only
the real question is: what the fuck are these AI datacenters doing? 99.99% aren't making any useful models. what is the hardware DOING?
>>739735037>Why do retards like this just make up arguments in their mind?>>739734121>Try do a clean prompt with any current model and they still fuck up the fingers. >>739734296>Pic related is some random gen I saved and was genned purely with prompt.I said try to do a clean prompt and it fucks up the fingers. You did a clean prompt and it fucked up the fingers and now you're crying that real artists sometimes make mistakes too so its fine when AI keeps fucking up the fingers. Now you're pretending we never talked about AI fucking up the fingers. Its easy to tell that your hands are brown because you keep moving goalposts every single time you're proven wrong.
>>739735195They are making funny cat and dog vids that train other LLMs to make more funny sog and cat gifs
>>739735229I'm not reading your post since it took longer than 4 minutes which is how long it takes you to copy paste the same seethe response but keep on making up arguments in your mind that sounds real while I enjoy freedom.
>>739729076If you play old games then PC is still the undisputed king. High end PCs are expensive, but low end PCs can be had for literally free. Even the $0 literal dumpster finds can run Crysis now, so you've got plenty of games to play.
>>739735291>I'm not reading your post since it took longer than 4 minutes
>i-is that, a fucked up hand????>AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ARTIST MAN SAVE ME AI AI AI AI AI
>>739729745The US govt is definitely going to bailout the AI companies. The US is in an AI arms race with China, the technology will be considered necessary for national security
>>739729675I agree that desktops are on their way out and micro PCs, handhelds and standalone VR headsets are the future, but they are complemented by local rack-mounted infrastructure and servers that you own.
>>739735195Useful models? There won't be any useful models for the people. They're built exclusively for 24/7 surveillance of every single person for Palantir, Mossad, CIA, FBI, NSA, DEA, ATF, DIA, ICE, CBP, IRS, FCC, SEC, FTC, and so on.
>>739729076For me it’s just why bother? I have a midrange computer and a ps5 pro and it’s the same thing if you buy games. If you have a 5070ti or better you do get much better visuals and frame rate, but aside from mods and emulation it’s the same shit. I don’t want to spend $4k or more to get the extra fidelity
Top end is disgusting and obviously not worth it at allHowever PC as a platform will always be better than consoles, that's for sure. A cheap laptop still has access to decades of games you just don't on modern consoles. A good half of indie commercial games are only released on PC and there's a lot more free ones. If you're not looking at the AA/AAA segment of games chances are you already have a machine that can do a lot. Also you can have basically any system you want and you're not tied to Microsoft, but even -if- you choose to stay on W11, you're enjoying a lot more freedom by a good margin than what I would call cuckboxes.DIY is just fucking dead though. It's not just Gamers Nexus covering this or whatever. Prices are not going to go down to a point where people are interested in buying anything but low end bullshit again and only a few lunatics are going to put together $3k builds. Also the Steam machine is double dead, it's gonna be a royal disaster.
>>739735370>The US govt is definitely going to bailout the AI companies. The US is in an AI arms race with China, the technology will be considered necessary for national securityGonna make the roaring 20s and the 08 housing crash look like a joke desu.
>>739735370>says donnie, after slipping the bag of cash jensen gave him under the tableThe "AI" race of generating generic slop. Only reason there even is a so called race is bevause chinks >are obsessed with saving face >can't innovate for shitSo they always just try to ape what burgers and west in general are doing. No matter how stupid. Reminder they also were investing hard into the metaverse bullshit, before it flopped hard, and during the wuhan flu made zero covid policy their official signature. Zero covid. For a pop of 1.4 billion. That is where the changs welded inside their apartment vids came from Both of these events, and many, MANY more, have now been memory holed hard by the censorship>inb4 muh military industrial compexAside from the reality that MIC is a dwarf compared to the tech bro industrial complex, even for fucking ukranians the best use case they have found for AI is a more advanced image recognition software. Shit that has existed on cruise missiles and satelllites since the 80s. Even then they have to have operators give the final kill confirm so the ai bot does not waste the drone on some random cow in a pasture
>>739735195Cross referencing material across the board to build up user profiles that can be tracked and manipulated in real time. Social credit scores will become a reality in your lifetime.
>>739735370The US is going to have another financial crisis on par with the subprime mortgage crisis if GTA IV with DLSS 5 gets some bad memes on Twitter, they're even going to have to bail out the same companies.
>consoletards are making Nexus le PC bad XD threads because they legit don't know their consoleshit made of PC partsCan't wait to see the price and hardware of the next gem consoles.
>>739735370>The US is in an AI arms race with China,Chinese models aren't any better. The real challenge chinese models introduce to the AI bubble is how easy it is to make a cheap bootleg of these AI models without not that much of a quality dive. Thats putting pressure on the investors when they're banking on future being 1-2 big monopoly AI models and nothing else while its quite easy to just flood the market with cheap copies.That one chinese company that advertised their ultra-realistic AI streamer girls turned out to use 10 3D modelers, 1 motion cap actress and 1 separate voice actress for the "AI model", so it was just a Vtuber agency putting little AI filter on top of a 3D model so they can call it "AI" for investors. Its a scam where 3D animators larp as robots for clueless people with a lot of money.
>Only reason there even is a so called race is bevause chinks>chinks did this!Amazing.
>>739729076>How bad or useless is PC Gaming in 2026?From 1-10? I'd say 7, but only because of the prices, otherwise it's fine and will be fine.>No online cost>Cheaper Games + Keys & Bundles>Piracy>Emulation up to Switch 1 / Ps4.>Mods / Fan GamesAnd you can use your shit for everything. Workstation, Office, AI, Multitasking, Programming, Emails, Multimedia and so on. I don't think current consoles are worth it, except the Switch 2 as complementary device, because it has true exclusives, until we have a Switch 2 Emu.
>>739730629are console niggers really this retarded?
>>739729076seems fine to me, I PC gamed all day yesterday and I'm going to do it again todaylooking forward to the new monitor tech being unveiled at computex soon
>>739731023>pc is le bad because of this e-celebuh-huh.
>>739736054>chink AI companies making their own workers train the models before throwing them out to the dogs>Inb4 Taiping Rebellion 2.0. Not like AI can claim the Mandate of Heaven without some spook level antics involved.
>>739736054China just wants to sell cheap shit and steal your data and patents etc to devalue your shit so they can sell theirs. It's not that complicated. They've adopted and proliferated open source AI models in hopes that people will buy and run their own homebrew agents which will drive hardware sales.
>>739736186China has the biggest trade surplus in the world and they achieve that by exploiting their workforce that has artificially low pay wages. So the ex-"World factory" was a world factory because of cheap sweatshop workers, not because of robot arms. Why get an expensive robot arm that has to be maintained by expensive engineer when you can just hire 20 rural workers for 1 Snickers bar a month?
>>739736241China is the promised land of cheap bootlegs, so it makes sense they use AI a lot since AI or LLM is just a bootlegging machine.
>>739736263>Why get an expensive robot arm that has to be maintained by expensive engineer when you can just hire 20 rural workers for 1 Snickers bar a month?Because you can feed a chain gang of 50 coolies warlord era style on a bowl of barely cooked rice. Snigger bars are for the whip masters when the line charts see a 25% increase in growth.
the good news is if you have a PC you can pirate anything under the sun. even denuvo stuff with the hypervisor bypass. but only if it's a good game (dont torrent a shit game, it's a waste of time)
>Cries about get black listed by AMD because he didn't get his test samples>When no one else theirs either>Is probably blacklisted for real nowKWAB
>>739731152>I plan on getting a new PC around 2030this is...this is just sad. Who needs to plan four years ahead to buy a desktop computer, which you should always have up-to-date anyway.
>>739731245>Forced to beHardware Unboxed is still making benchmarking videos and little else
>>739736994Not really. Just stop being a retard and buying lower end shit especially a xx50 garbage. I had my old PC for 8 years before upgrading because of AI.
>>739736994>Who needs to plan four years ahead to buy a desktop computer, which you should always have up-to-date anyway.The kind of man who uses his items to their absolute limits until they physically fall apart. Not everyone was brought up on the cult of consumption.
>>739737001True, and linuscucktips is pumping out vids about random shit.Digital foundry is still making vids about games, including retro games and hardware.None of these channels benefit from seeing hardware become unaffordable but it hasn't turned their channels into doom and gloom shit. At some point watching GN's ragebait vids feels like mental masturbation except there's no climax, only rage and depression.
>>739738192>linustroontipsHe was bleeding staff at one point because the jewish antics were becoming terminal. He was already a shill but the current state of Leafland has shifted him into maximum overdrive.
>>739731152>I prefer getting a new PC during the middle of a console generationSame>>739736994>Who needs to plan four years ahead to buy a desktop computerI think the other anons take is valid. If you own a decent computer, (I mean more performance than a Ps5/Pro) there really is no reason to upgrade in this console Gen, if you are just a gamer. Also the Switch 2 just came out and devs are putting their games on much weaker Hardware. You will be able to play everything.If you have a decent PC, just wait.
>>739729076It's good, pc gaming has a bunch of for ever games that are not on console. Those games doesn't require the latest components. Games like rimworld, factorio, satisfactory, dwarf fortress, siralim, dominion, ... If you can get into those games, you don't need much.
>>739736263All of those happened isn't it? China is just final destination.
>>739729076Unironically considering a laptop. Im sick and tired of repairing my pc
>>739729128Consoles are trash and yes my almost 3000 pc is better than console trash e-waste
>>739740126What are you doing to your PC that makes you have to repair it so much? Mine is almost six years old and the only thing I've had to do is switch out my RAM when it died.
once ps6 reaches fidelity with dlss 4.5. pc gaming will unironically die.devs don't want their shit to get pirated and buyers don't want to spend 500 dollars on ram
I built my PC eight years ago. It still runs the newest games on medium-low settings. They run at 60 fps and look alright. Considering how long it's lasted, I think that's pretty good value. That's not to mention other advantages which make the value proposition completely unbeatable
>>739731580Honestly the only thing holding it back is credit card companies being fags about anything NSFW.
>>739729076Still the best possible gaming experience but way more expensive than before all this bullshit.
>>739735086The government
>>739740246>devs will just give up on the majority of their salessnoys really just love shitting out shit like this, don't they?no, the reality is that the snoybox will be expensive as shit and will face a very slow adoption
>>739741184DELETE THIS
>>739734281
Consoles are not as bad as fringe negative opinions here make them out to be.PCs are much, much better than the fringe negative opinions make them out to be.New games all around are degrading in quality which affects both.
>>739729076>infinitely powerful hardware>games look and run worse than they did in 2005Basically I just use my machine as a super emulator and play the occasionally well optimized indie on steam
>>739729076Very useless
>>739739951>China is just final destination.Apple, Samsung and Toyota switched their factories to Thailand instead. Chink labor is becoming too expensive compared to thai workers and regulations in general are less stricter in Southeast Asia.
>>739729076Its pretty much what you make of it and what you are looking for, if you wanna just emulate and play actually good older/classic games its the best platform, if you wanna just play AAA modern goyslop trash then just get a console
how do you take care of long hair? just condition and brush a few times per week?
>>739733313>when it goes back to normalIt's so cute when goyim think prices will go down
>>739743127Only if you're a woman, unless you are a chiseled greek god you are better off just keeping it short and trimming/making your beard look good instead
>>739741184Reminder people would rather spend double the price on a worse PC rather than get a PS5 these days. Besides the Switch, consoles are dying.
>>739744701it's not really double, all you need is a 9060xt 8gb to really match the proyou can just put that in any optiplex or whatever that has an 8 pin
>>739745013Yea I know but I'm just making a point that no one really wants to buy a console over a PC these days.
>>739729076Linus destroyed this clown
>>739736994>you should always have up-to-dateIMUSTCONSOOOOOOOOOM
>>739734089Why do you think inflation happens?Prices never go back down, however wages might increase if things are bad enough.
>>739740126Don't do it. You may hate repairing PCs, but repairing a laptop or trying to get it to be repaired will straight up make you want to kill yourself.
>>739729128Shader compilation kills PC gaming and emulation on portables in 2026.Just playing some recomps and that shit stutters too, because it has to compile shaders on the go.Stick to games on premade hardware. It's always better.
>>739729076PC still has all the games
About as useless as it gets
AI and Nigreedia killed PC gayming with RAM shortagesThat's why Steve has gone full drama and anti-AI queen, Linus only does generic tech meme videos and the rest of the PC space are venturing outward that doesn't involve PCs at allOnly millionaires and billionaires are building PCs right now
>>739729076I hate this fat faggot like you wouldn't believe>>739729176Extremely correct. He'd be a lot more tolerable if he cut his hair and wasn't constantly swooshing it around like a grade school girl.
I can play any game I want, at any time I want, for as long as I want, however I want. And when I don't feel like playing, I can do whatever else I want, like movies, books, music, drawing, coding, 3D modeling etc.My computer is constantly ready for any tasks at a moment's notice and I am not bound by arbitrary costs of operation, systems and sub-par hardware. I used to be a console player up until PS2. When our household got its first family computer, I was immediately hooked, and when I eventually got my own PC, I've never looked back.
>>739746385ughhhh based
