Why play expensive games when you can get addicted to Balatro
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The cure is one of the jokers. Just keep playing Balatro, you're close to finding a way to quit.
With how much Factorio I've played, I'm down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I'm nowhere close to done.
I've played like 50 hours of Factorio in 2 weeks, then it started feeling like a job. Not in a sense that it was a chore, but in a sense that I literally do this kind of automation and optimization at my job, and I enjoy the process.
I don't get the Balatro addiction stuff. It's a good game, but after you've played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, "number go up" but it's like people have never played a video game before. There's so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don't easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it's just something wrong with me.
What makes you continue playing Balatro after you've "figured it out?"
For me it's 2 things :
- Making a deck that works so well that it crushes everything. -Getting shit cards and making it works.
The first one gets me hooked, the second one keeps me going. It takes a long time to figure it out, as you put it.
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Sadly, the young'uns can no longer play the 18+ restricted card game that's explicitly got zero gambling in it. They'll have to get addicted to real gambling in EA sports games
What’s funny is that a new GPU alone will set ya back that amount already. I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch for 1k
I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch
why tho
Bethesda games aren't gonna run themselves
Bethesda games aren't gonna run ~~themselves~~
Did Starfield become a good game?
Personally, I didn't like it. I think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they've built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).
Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn't understand why we use sci-fi, and why it's tropes are interesting. it's to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it's flaws and ways to fix them.
Starfield is the least critical writing I've ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it's just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don't try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn't an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can't change anything and no one wants to either.
Starfield doesn't understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you're still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there's almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0, and I generally love Bethesda games and the sci-fi genre (although, as mentioned above, I think this is part of why I don't like it).
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For the pixel art.
Not OP but my GPU is a decade old, would be nice to have the latest for once.
You might be better off with a 4000 series, unless you got a new motherboard that won't be bottlenecked much by the pcie version jump.
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Why?? Just get something a few years old, it'll do the same thing anyway
Used graphics card prices aren't that much better than new.
The 4090 still has a VRAM advantage over the 5080 so it's probably going to continue to hold it's value pretty well. Especially since there's a massive voice in pricing between the $1k 5080 and the $2k 5090.
Unless the 24gb ARC GPU comes out (or AI crashes) I see the 4090 just not depreciating a substantial amount. And that's the only option that would compare to the 5080 since AMD isn't even trying to make high end.
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I was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
Just to game though?
I don't see how a gaming only pc has $3800 of non-gpu costs. There has to be a threadripper equivalent cpu and/or a shit ton of storage/ram on there.
Motherboards aren't cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I'm looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I'm looking at at least $1200 for that.
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you're willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower. I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
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Me going back to hollow knight, celeste, modded minecraft, and dead cells instead of buying new games
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Me with a:
Ryzen 5 5800x, RTX 4060 TI, and 32GB RAM.
Plays: Factorio and Minecraft 😂
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Balatro got me like...
this failing isn't on you though. AAA games is not what it used to be, I feel like between 2008 to 2014 game companies have all progressed and transitioned into something they didn't use to be.
my $4k gaming PC at this point is a glorified FFXIV machine although, I do plan to play other things soon.
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Pixelated grass is always greener
Me with me $3000 AI laptop.
Copilot shit on Windows Console programs on Linux
Me but just playing free to play games. lol
I can't give up the AAA quality. Hell I want a more powerful GPU just to push it
everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.
Noita, Streets of Rogue, and Dwarf Fortress are some of favorite games.
I haven't played it, but Animal Well looks great.
It's not a pixel game, but because it has Sims 1 graphics, I think Project Zomboid should get a special mention.
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Me upgrading my computer to kick ass just so I can play Old School Runescape
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1000$ PC? No shit you need to play 2D indie games!
Normally me too, but then there's always one game I want 60fps that I'm like wait I thought I maxed out my build pretty decently for my budget and it's like, you can play on ultra sure but there will be so many 5 fps hiccups
Me modding the 2D pixel art game with ultra HD textures, shaders, reflections, realistic physics engine, ray tracing.
Terraria
Your uh... $1000 gaming PC? Isn't that pretty much all it can play? (assuming the game is released today)
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Yep. Hexcells Infinite hasn't overtaxed my RTX 3080 yet. That may have been a slight waste of money.
I love my 3080 running LA noire.
I'm OK with 2D but draw the line at pixel-art. Pun not intended.
I'm happy with my legion go, it can handle most aaa games pretty well. And if I want to upgrade later on, I'll get an eGpu. Modular gaming system ftw
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DCSS in the browser requires top of the line graphics cards.
Compensate by running an electron app alongside it.
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