So maybe leave someone’s age out of it next time. You’ll be old before you know it… unless you cross paths with the wrong hombre

Gen X, and I think it’s pretty damn funny, but let me guess, you’ve never caught a blue belly trout in your life? Huh?

Nvidia 1080ti and Ryzen 5 5600x is a pretty solid pairing that will run you a little over half your budget. I had the very same setup until about 2 years ago. You ought to be able to run anything pre~2021 on max settings without any issue, and pretty much anything afterwards with medium-high graphics (YMMV).

The GPU will be your bottle neck here but is about the most cost effective option. Consider upgrading it if possible

That’s wonderful to hear. I guess you could say I’m a big Dick enjoyer now

Sort of. One of the MCs goes to pull a light cord and realizes that it’s a switch and that the bathroom has never had a light cord, giving them the idea that the reflex must have come from some repressed memories of a past life. Dick puts a lot of stock in Freudian psychology in the setup chapters.

You’re right about monopolies, which is more than most Valve defenders are whenever the argument comes up. I’ve commented on this before, so I’ll just repost my thoughts:

“Monopoly” is neither illegal nor immoral. It’s a de facto label given based on observation. A “good” company can still be a monopoly.

Steam distributes ~75% of all PC games. It took me less than 30 seconds to find that that was the same market share needed to indict USMC in 1954. This is what happens when you hahave an entire (multiple?) generations who have grown up with gutted anti-trust policies.

ETA from my other comment ITT but worth reiterating:

ETA: Monopolies are generally allowed to exist in the US until they start either harming customers or engaging in flagrant anticompetitive measures. Without either of these, there is no victim class to sue. The Sherman Act makes it much easier to litigate instances of “harming customers.”

There are tons of existing private monopolies in the market today that are allowed to exist just because no one’s sued for harm. The Govt. doesn’t just go around trust busting without cause.

The glass bottle industry is dominated by Owens, which has a ~85% market share but is allowed to continue because they’re ostensibly the best for the economy. Glass bottles are cheap to buy and no one’s really eager to start a competing plant. If either of those changed then trust busting might begin, but that doesn’t mean they’re not already a monopoly.

You can argue what kind of monopoly that Steam is, but the idea that it’s not is completely unfounded in reality.

On hurting competition, there is room to debate. Over the past couple years, Valve has been under some serious scrutiny for their [benign] monopoly and whether or not it stifles competition. Courts in the UK have certainly seen enough support for this claim to allow a £656m class-action lawsuit to go-ahead.. In the US, a new lawsuit was recently filed alleging that Microsoft and Valve have been in collusion for decades and that Steam’s no-tolerance price parity rules stifle competition and ruin any chance of smaller stores from making profit on margin.

It’s one of the few things I can sympathize with him on. I would much rather see a national billionaire tax crackdown than an expansion of our shitty, loophole ridden state system we have now

I agree and am with you in believing that too many people see them with rose colored glasses.

Some truth nukes 💣:

• Steam is a storefront that is very good for consumers and that has a [benign] monopoly according to almost every metric.

• They exclusively sell licenses, not ownership, of games.

• Their pioneering and aggressive defense/proliferation of “loot crate” gambling mechanics has been one of the worst in gaming, ever.

• Valve as a game developer is functionally dead. Their brand image is built on 4 IPs from two decades ago.

• Gabe Newell has credibly been cited as being 99% hands-off with the daily operations at Valve for years, and if you do love Valve/Steam for what they do, it’s an insult to the actual staff to credit their work to some CEO.

An very interesting list given how upfront Lovecraft himself was in citing his inspirations and how storied his “canon” successors were.

Blackwood’s The Willows?

du Mapassant The Horla???

Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia???

Sony did it to Bungie, buying them for the complete wrong reason and asking them to catch lightening in a bottle 15 12 10 5 4 more times

Bush won before the rise of Fox News???

I was in Kyoto like two months ago and would’ve bought every one of these, even at that price

Honestly? Not very

It gets worse when you realize that Bayer is a direct continuation of IG FARBEN, producer of Zyklon B

You’ve got to understand that a foundry is probably the most extreme form of “worked inside,” right? I don’t think its the lack of aircon making you toasty lol

Disagree, as long as the temps are the same. Sun exposure/UV will sap all the energy out of you and outside work is usually going to be more physically strenuous than whatever you’re doing inside

Physical buyers seem to be way more in the minority tbh

Love that fascist architect. I have his glasses as a bottle opener

I dont think OOP has either lol

Where’s this one in the screenshot?

There’s like 6 of them