I have no idea how it is for your country specifically, but for the US pcpartpicker.com is pretty amazing for price checking stuff. I know it works for a lot of other countries as well.

$869, $899, $979.

That price is from some random reseller that’s out of their mind.

7900xtx costs 1.6k$ rn

…where? Is that CAD or AUD? I can’t find many on sale, but I just found a 7900 xtx for $999, and the XTX’s MSRP is $999.

Fair enough. I’m not necessarily advocating for people to buy AMD cards, just that realistically the price is pretty irrelevant for a lot of people buying GPUs. They’re going to read AMD and bow out.

I’m also very interested in how Intel shapes up, though.

Realistically people just won’t be buying them because “AMD drivers bad” or “I’ve always had Nvidia”

Yeah, the only source I can find for something like this is aside from dense academic papers I’m not qualified to read is https://www.swedishmatch.com/Snus-and-health/Research-on-snus/Cancer/

Which is… uh, not exactly a reliably source on the topic since they’re a Swedish company that makes Snus. And they don’t even mention that Sweden has removed the warnings.

That part of the page was added by some anonymous user- it just lists an IP, not a username- on October 9th. So I’m gonna go with not believing this one unless a Swedish person pops up to confirm.

I’m intrigued. My socks weren’t blown off or anything, but it looks interesting enough to keep an eye out for more info.

I thought Dauntless was mildly entertaining, but too shallow to have any kind of lasting power. Maybe I should try Monster Hunter again. I felt like the intro/tutorial just. kept. going. and eventually just gave up.

Is Rise a terrible place to start? It’s on gamepass, World isn’t anymore.

It was DUI that resulted in a death, so idk if I’d say that actually makes him crazy.

I’m just looking at the PCGamer article- I don’t have a Statista account and I’m guessing the only source for that is the PCGamer article anyways because the numbers are the exact same.

There’s ~46,000 response that reported income there, and 22217 of them reported making less than $10,000. Another 9179 said less than $25000. I don’t think this is going to be indicative of gamers in general based off of just that.

Across the board the most common reasons were ‘demo game’, which would likely end up resulting in a sale anyways, and ‘can’t afford’ which would likely not result in a sale regardless of the ability to pirate.

But you’re right that I could absolutely see an exec reading that article, looking at a chart and losing his mind.

1 third of PC gamers openly admit to pirating instead of buying.

Source? My sample size is small, but out of my entire group(maybe 11 people) exactly one pirates PC games. I’d be shocked if 1/3 of gamers in general were pirating stuff with any kind of regularity.

If you’re including pirating console games to play via emulation that number jumps drastically, though.

That would be entirely too easily bypassed. Also, afaik, it’s kinda what Denuvo does when it’s offline. You can take a file from a legitimate install- I don’t know how/which one- and put it in a pirated copy and Denuvo will work fine… for two days. Then the little certificate or w.e. expires, and you’ve gotta get another one.

That’s interesting, I really like the fishy taste. If it’s overpowering it can be unpleasant, but in reasonably amounts it’s tasty.

(this is an expensive hobby just FYI)

Yeah custom keyboards get absurdly expensive very quickly.

Yeah, I don’t like Linus all that much but I do enjoy LTT’s content overall. He tends to drastically and publicly overreact to literally any criticism, and then the rest of the team gets involved and he walks it back. Whether they legitimately change his mind or just convince him he’s gotta look like he’s changed his mind I have no clue.

My favorite instances of Linus are when he’s an absolute idiot on the WAN show and we just get to see Luke’s reaction live. The hard-r thing was absolutely hilarious.

In 2022 he tweeted this.

That might be what you’re remembering, but he’s definitely addressed his views on piracy during the WAN show several times as well.

Edit: someone else posted the full context elsewhere in the thread. I’d link to that comment, but idk how on lemmy so here: https://archive.ph/VavFc

No. The owner of the media has already been paid in both of those scenarios. It makes zero difference to them whether you’re watching the ads.

Adblocking, on the other hand, is actively hurting the owner of the media because they get paid based on how many ads they can serve. If you block the ad, it isn’t served, and they don’t get paid.

Personally, I definitely think it’s piracy. I also still do it.

I actually like it a lot ngl.

From the side it looks like the bastard son of a Frogfoot, the backside looks like they stole the tail rudders from an F-18 and strapped them on something F-14 adjacent.

The front is very A-10, just with the engines in a different orientation.

Installed, I love all the themes! Thanks!

I’m really enjoying it quite a lot- I first played around a20, and then I picked it up again recently.

It isn’t a perfect game, but it’s a pretty decent experience that’s very unique.

I don’t think it’s worth $45. That seems a bit excessive. $20 or maybe even $30? Sure.

With that said, I haven’t followed the game’s development at all really. I could see a bunch of broken promises causing some completely understandable frustration with the devs.