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[TheDR]

General, on 03 October 2023 - 16:17, said:

TheDR, on 03 October 2023 - 12:54, said:

There was a fire in the apple factory?

Because the car factory unions require every union member to receive an apple every day for fear of pervasive doctors.

[Kaido]

Boo!

[General]

TheDR, on 03 October 2023 - 17:05, said:

Because the car factory unions require every union member to receive an apple every day for fear of pervasive doctors.

Understandable, have a nice day.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

I was saying boo-urns.

[TheDR]

Sure.

[TheDR]

Can we start again, or is it too late?

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

How about a custom bike?

[Destiny]

Crazy Mod

[General]

Bob, on 03 October 2023 - 22:29, said:

How about a custom bike?

Lets see the car first and then we can talk about it.

[CJ]

TheDR, on 03 October 2023 - 07:51, said:

Chyros, on 02 October 2023 - 22:44, said:

Bob, on 02 October 2023 - 22:39, said:

While Macs certainly have their issues, they're certainly not cheaply made crap. The stability of my work Macbook Pro doesn't even come to close to literally any windows device I've ever had.

Let's say cheaply made compared to the prices they're asking. It's especially bad when you consider their peripherals.

Also, aluminium isn't as great as you may think.

There was that story about the MacBook user who closed their laptop with a grain of rice inside and it killed it.

If you think that's bad... There's this company which, like a lot of companies, has asset tags put on all on the company provided to users. Except they used 3d stickers with a bump.
Long story short, they sent out over 100 units with the stickers next to the trackpad on MBPs and all of them arrived with broken screens lol.

[TheDR]

Ha!

They must have known that would be a problem. They should have at least made people aware.

Edited by TheDR, 04 October 2023 - 07:09.

[Chyros]

gonna have to buy a new computer soon Oo .

[General]

Perhaps you should buy a console instead?

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Indeed. I believe Chyros mentioned something about controllers being a superior input method or something, so it only makes sense.

[TheDR]

Chyros, on 04 October 2023 - 08:32, said:

gonna have to buy a new computer soon Oo .

You should get a good one.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

You could get a Mac.

[Destiny]

bumpy

[Chyros]

General, on 04 October 2023 - 08:41, said:

Perhaps you should buy a console instead?

>.>

Bob, on 04 October 2023 - 09:43, said:

Indeed. I believe Chyros mentioned something about controllers being a superior input method or something, so it only makes sense.

<.<

I genuinely believe that consoles are the main reason that the gaming industry's standards have fallen so low. It infects many games, even otherwise good ones, to their very core, it's painful to see.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Yes, consoles are the problem, not shitty publishers trying to maximise profits.

[General]

Bob, on 04 October 2023 - 13:44, said:

Yes, consoles are the problem, not shitty publishers ceos trying to maximise profits.

Fix'd

It is all about work ethic. It is natural for them to want and try to milk as much money from a title as possible. But it should be done in a way that also respect the players.

Capcom does it greatly. Just check all the reviews about RE 2-3 and 4 remakes. And how amazing Monster Hunter World is (no, it is because you suck, not the game )

[Destiny]

i sux at playing MHW

[General]

Most people do

[TheDR]

Back in my day...

[General]

People actually delievered the cars they promised to deliver?

[Chyros]

Bob, on 04 October 2023 - 13:44, said:

Yes, consoles are the problem, not shitty publishers trying to maximise profits.

Shitty publishers trying to maximise profits don't ruin the industry with their kiddie standards, crappy control schemes, and substandard performance. We wouldn't need to lower the standards of games if developers didn't have to cater to console players and controllers, which simply perform inadequately for many types of games.

It's the same thing with mobile games, which are also dragging down the standards of games, but at least mobile games tend to have the decency to stay on mobile and not act like they're real games, i.e. on par with PC. The adjustments and compromises we've had to make in order to make games playable and runnable on consoles has been holding back game development for decades, and dragging games down in the process. The damage consoles have wreaked on the FPS genre alone is almost inconceivable, and the genre visibly still hasn't recovered from it to this day. The RTS genre has been all but wiped out by the march of consoles, and all because controllers are so crappy.

The damage is perhaps not so visible when you largely play on console, but from the perspective of a hardcore PC player, especially in games with cross-platform play, it's unbelievable. I've been playing video games for over 30 years and it's shameful to see what's happened to the industry.

You could argue that shitty publishers try to maximise profits by also selling on consoles, but if you took away consoles, that would fix the problem, whereas it wouldn't if you took away the publishers.