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Solution: Don’t buy a PS6. Fuck Sony.
Okay, but how will I get the Most Cutting Of Cutting Edge Graphis with Ray Dicking And Light Emulsifying and Video To Smell Technology?!
Everything that isn’t on 64k resolution video is basically unplayable.
A classic
Indeed but I still hate when people refer to things from the 2010s as classic/retro/vintage.
I hate when people refer to things from before 1750s as classic.
Don’t forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your “copy” of a digital game
Pre-orders used to be to make sure you have a copy available to purchase on release day. Now there’s no point in that since there’s effectively an infinite stock since it’s a digital product. Now it’s just to get a sub-par DLC outfit that doesn’t look good with anything.
The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
You can buy the premium subscription to ensure that feature remains disabled.
5 bucks per joystick calibration. 8 for both.
The left comes misaligned out of the box, the right drifts after two weeks.
It’s 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
Check your caps.
how does one get started replacing capacitors? what are good practice devices
Check forums if the hardware you have is prone to issues. Some manufacturer years are worse then others because of the Capacitor Plague, but any capacitor can dry out, leak out or otherwise wear out. If a cap leaks, it can damage the traces on the board. Best practice is to replace before that happens. There are kits online for diy repairs and shops that will do it if you can’t solder.
Intersting reading, thanks
Luckily the ones that tend to go are the large electrolytic capacitors (the cylindrical ones that typically stand perpendicular to and proud of the board) which are also the easiest to desolder. They also have their ratings printed right on the side to make it nice and easy to source replacements. Just note the polarity denoted by the stripe on the side before you take the old one off, because your board may or may not be marked underneath with which way around it goes!
I cut my teeth doing it on Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 motherboards when I was a kid, using a $10 Radio Shack single temperature soldering iron and quite possibly the world’s most awful technique, but I got away with it nearly 100% of the time.
(not the person you asked) tbh, we have an awesome local video game store that does repairs. I’d ask them. They replaced the laser on my partner’s PS2 when it stopped reading discs.
Or, check ifixit.com and see if there’s a walkthrough for your device.
You’re also old enough to schedule your first colonoscopy.
Everyone is old enough to schedule one if you make up a convincing enough reason. I just had my 3rd one this year!
I tried! Turns out I get to wait until I’m 45. Having a great-aunt and great-grandma with colon cancer isn’t enough. The great aunt died in her 30s of colon cancer, iirc.
The SWAT team comes to your house and smashes them all.
Or, you could take control of your life back from the corpos by any means necessary.
That’s a very nice way to console yourself.
PC only, bro. No consoles for us.
It’s ok, you can only run it for ten minutes anyway before your power is cut for datacentre usage
Don’t forget fucking Secure Boot! Locked me out of one of my favorite games, Battlefield 1, all in the name of “anti-cheat”!
Fuck that noise
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Can’t wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol
Steam has been fine with this for years.
After YEARS of architecture.
Let’s not pretend they did it right in the first 10 years.
Didn’t Silksong crash those servers less than a year ago from everyone downloading it? You think GTA 6 will be LESS popular?
If people buy GTA 6 without a disk, particularly after Sony just deleted people’s purchased movies without a refund, then they deserve whatever fate awaits them.
$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.
Literally, the $80 is the most unrealistic thing in that post.
Nah, owning a PlayStation
It’s been 90$ for a long time in Canada and being bumped to 120$ ish, its painful
Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
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Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, “iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha” - player that bought fifa every year for the full price
people never change
People do change. But they have to start from somewhere.
You can convince a 20 year old on a budget not to buy a PS6 by showing them a PC rig at 1/4 the cost with a better catalog. But you’re not going to convince an 8 year old who wants parents to buy it because a guy in a TMNT costume did a TikTok dance telling him to buy it. That’s just 8 year olds for you.
player that bought fifa every year for the full price
There are folks with more disposable income than sense. And $80/year to get the players you’re familiar with on the roster, when you’ve got a decent job and a couple of roommates to play with, simply isn’t a big deal. At the same time, you get older and you have less free time and suddenly you’re not playing soccer video games anymore because you don’t recognize the players. And then maybe you end up going back to the old FIFA titles because you’re nostalgic for your youth.
But this idea that people just mechanically buy all new FIFA titles forever really neglects how people get old and stop playing the games at all. And the industry has to bring in new younger people with billions of dollars in saturation advertisement if they want to keep churning out titles.
I don’t understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.
It’s 2060
All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down
But Linux still exists! In adapting, it’s now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media
Players can simulate operating a “grocery store”, something that used to exist back before the States collapsed
legally-required to verify your identity
UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.
As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what’s on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal. Possession of physical computer storage media that is not permanently connected to the internet will be grounds for arrest and reeducation.
such physical media will be made illegal
not quite the same, but in Hungary you had* to pay an extra tax on writeable CDs because it was assumed that you’re buying them for piracy 🫠 iirc the tax went to support the music and film industry
(* maybe still have to, but I haven’t lived there in more than a decade)
US kind of had that in the '90s. CDRs designated as music disc’s cost extra because we were all criminal scum pirating non-stop. However, if it was a data disc, there was no surcharge.
There was no difference between the two except the packaging.
No one is forcing you to buy the next Play Station. There are plenty of better options you can choose from.
Yeah, the PS5 is my last console. I don’t get why you’re getting downvoted.
No one is forcing you to…
You act like other manufacturers won’t follow suit in an attempt to squeeze more money out of consumers in the hunt for ever increasing profits.
If you want physical disks just pirate and make them yourself. You’ll save lots of money and won’t have to support these shitty companies making such a decision.
All I’m trying to say is you have options and don’t have to let them make you believe you dont. I don’t like them doing this either but I don’t get a say just like you.
Thats not really possible at this point with the triple A games. Not unless you copy them to physical dedicated SSDs. The games are so unoptimised and bloated these days, you are forced to believe that a digital download is the solution - unless you use a bunch of bluray disks, but thats just annoying.
PCs and GOG are right there. The high seas also tend to solve all off Steam’s issues pretty quick.
Of course it will happen, but still no one is forcing you. It’s up to you to decide how much you can tolerate. At one point you have to decide that it’s enough and you wont buy anymore and if it means you can’t participate in that hobby then yes you wont participate in it and find a new hobby.
The meme is accurate, but it still is a luxury product and quitting it is always an option.
I’ve quit multiple things just because the price rose over some predetermined limit.
