AskewLord

No.

I have no idea what anyone is on about here. Games are cheap and consoles are cheap, crazy cheap when you calculate for inflation.

If you go back in time w/ inflation, they were vastly more expensive. In the 90s and 2000s I ways paying 40-80 dollars a game, in today’s money that’s 100-200 bucks. Today when I buy a game I’m paying like 10-30 dollars in 2026 money. I bought a PS1 in 1996 for $250, in today’s money that… $500. Same price as a PS5… which is what I paid for a PS5 two years ago.

I just think the lot of you are whiny and entitled, you all seem to think you should have a brand new console for $100 and AAA games should be $20 on new release. If you wait a year after release they usually go on sale for 20-30 bucks anyway. But why pay for anything when you can just pirate everything?

Then you rant about how PC gaming is so cheap, but yesterday people were talking about how the gaming PCs they wanted were now 3000-4000 dollars…. that’s 6-8x what a PS5 costs. I have never seen this magical $1000 or less gaming PCs people talk about on here. I work in IT and a base level office PC is $1200-1500, and the last gaming PC I helped someone build was over $2000 for a very low/mid spec build. I gave up PC gaming 15 years ago because graphics cards were more than price of an whole gaming console, and my budget for a PC was always under $1000, so graphic cards were not even an option.

I have a ps5 and a switch 2 and they are both amazing machines and the games great and worth every penny. PS4 was probably the greatest console I ever owned in terms of the quality of games and how little they cost.

i stopped being a pc gamer about 9 years ago and have no desire to become one ever again.

I have my NES from 1990.

We had a Sega Master System, I don’t know what happened to it.

No, not since they became available in 4K/HD versions for cheap on newer consoles.

Only time I would break it out is if the game wasn’t available in a modern platform. the QoL enhancements are just… such a time saver.

the OG load times and play mechanics that were used to just pad everything out… just suck balls to deal with today. There is nothing ‘retro cool’ about having to sit through a FF7 summon sequence 10 times in a boss fight and having it be an extra 10 minutes. Thank god for the FF feature on my PS5 version of the game.

When I was 12 years old and it was 1997, yeah it was fine because we didn’t know any better and time wasn’t valuable.

No.

I miss the internet from pre 2012 though, back when most interest use was in front of a PC.

mobile users destroyed the internet.

you don’t.

you live your own life your way and hope they follow by example. but you can’t convince other people’s to change their ways unless you want to become an abusive controlling person.

it’s the same as the old one.

it’s boring and it sucks after about 15minutes

‘just be yourself’

as if you could be someone else.

but this advice is then always followed by ‘fake it until you make it’ nonsense.

it’s basically a way for ‘advice givers’ to not give advice but feel like they have done so. and then throw up their hands and be a dick when the advice receiver asks for something more specific.

buy repairable products

whatever you want it to be buddy.