Exactly.

This is why I’m happy I work for a Family owned company. They know some years revenue just won’t be bigger and that’s ok. I’ve only seen like one wave of “layoffs” and even then most of the people that left just took an early retirement deal coz they were going to retire that year anyways, so that basically fixed the re organization that needed to happen

It isn’t my cup of tea, what bothers me is the EXTREME overhype. It’s not normal.

Literally EVERY social media I have has posts of people analyzing frame by frame of a stupid trailer, like… Wtf.

I get people being excited, but it’s a trailer, it’s not the next coming of Jesus

Because the game isn’t even out and the people are treating it like the next coming of Jesus.

Their games are “Fine”, but for some reason people just go absolutely nuts over the same bland mindless gameplay from 13 years ago.

How is it mediocre?

Am I the only one who absolutely hates GTA?

It’s bland as fuck and somehow people go and fucking play the same shitty mechanic game for hundreds of hours for 13 years, not even mentioning the fact that they buy it 3 fucking times.

It’s not even out and I already absolutely hate this game and how everyone is hyping it to be next coming of Jesus when it’s going to be EXACTLY the same as the other ones with crappy storyline and a basic af gameplay

Who is this “4chan”?

I agree, people make it out like we’re giving human rights to unconscious AI… I’m just saying thanks because I’m polite to anyone and anything easy as that

No worries! If you have any questions on the smart pro just let me know, it’s the only one of those devices that I have

If you look for stores with good reviews and good sales numbers you’re 90% sure you’ll get what you paid for. There are some other sellers for these types of devices like LITNXT, and you can even find them on Amazon (usually more expensive).

If you want anything like PS2 or gamecube prepare to pay $150+ for a device, and most likely it will be an android based device like the retroid pocket devices

Most of these ambernic/Miyoo/powkiddy/Trimui Linux devices are aimed to play up to PSP, and some PSP games will run poorly, they’re using older cheaper chips, so they’re honestly weak devices.

IMO, best case is buying one of these devices for psp and below, and a steam deck or other handheld PC for PSP onwards… And PC gaming obviously.

I have an ROG Ally, and PS2, gamecube and WiiU runs great, but it feels like overkill for GBA and PS1 for example, so, for older emulation I just use this $60 device

I recently got a Trimui Smart Pro, if you’re looking for horizontal devices, it’s also worth a look

Confort and battery life.

I love my ROG Ally, it’s amazing for a bunch of games, but I honestly don’t find it comfortable to play GBA or PS1 games for example, and the battery life is like 4 hours tops.

I recently got a Trimui Smart Pro and been playing GBA games on and off in between work meetings or when I go out. It fits on my pocket alongside my phone and the battery lasts like 6 hours depending on the system.

Different uses cases, and for $50 it’s honestly not a hard sell

The pump works without software obviously, but iCue let’s you change the speed of the pump.

Sound levels of the headset refers to the equalizer profiles.

FSR Frame gen ISN’T AFMF, which is great on older games capped at 60fps where you can easily get 120fps and it honestly feels fine.

and of course I know steamOS is just a distro, but they actually fine tuned stuff for gaming, and like I said, if you’re only gaming, sure SteamOS/Bazzite or whatever might just work. But if you use your computer for basically anything else, most people will still have issues.

All of what you described is just EXTRA work people need to know just to play games. The reality is that most “solutions” are always workarounds or alternatives. Most people prefer NATIVE first party support.

I would, except there’s always some software or some feature missing. And there’s always the FOSS app that “might” meet “some” aspects of what native software does but it’s almost always never “native” support.

Sure, I know I can play MOST games on Linux, but I know for a fact they’ll launch on windows.

Or things like, sure, I know that my corsair Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB, but what about controlling the pump in my AIO? Or the sound levels on ny headset? Or the DPI in my mouse?

Then you have things like drivers. I’m not using any Nvidia GPUs right now, but the nvidia support for Linux is atrocious and you lose access to things like RTX-HDR and RTX Voice, and hell, even in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2.

Then the software, not only does things like Adobe or Office just don’t exist, the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that’s worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum, hell, even the Google office suite is being adopted faster… Ah, but if the software is available there’s still a chance it doesn’t work because it’s missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and… Sigh

All in all, it’s just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it’s ok, and for laptops I’d think is mostly ok, great even. But I know I could deal with Linux, and I don’t want to troubleshoot a whole PC to play a game when I already spend the whole day dealing with solving issues or servers or services on my job.

I’m rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that “could” work nicely.

Feeling glad I bought my lifetime license like two years ago

Hadn’t thought of it that way, but you’re completely right, same as Black Flag tbh

I honestly enjoyed the setting of Origins and the “new take” on combat, since it was before anything they could basically do whatever they wanted so it kinda worked , but that’s the only one I enjoyed after revelations

Man, I dunno, but anything after AC Origins hast felt so bad and soulless… I’m probably not buying this, specially since anything after AC3 just stopped the “modern day” storyline and now is just incoherent plot lines that really amount to nothing… Dunno, not a fan of it

They recently sued a tiny convenience store in Costa Rica because it was called “Super Mario”, because in Costa Rica, any moderately large store is a “Super”, and the owner happened to be named “Mario” so… You can figure it out.

Anyways, Nintendo lost that lawsuit

I don’t think that “game-wise” people had issues with it, the formula clearly works, but the performance is fucking atrocious for how it looks like…

I don’t recall tbh, I played it ages ago lol