My girlfriend discovered my cat loves to play rocket ship. Doobie hops into her box and looks at one of us expectantly, we then have to pick up the box and swing it around while spinning. She LOVES IT. She grabs on to the holes in the box and holds on for dear life. No distress, when we set the box down she slow blinks at us and stays in the box.

Cat tax:

I remember calling my friends on Skype using my PSP and going “wow, this is the future!”

You do make some decent points, but the console has one major aspect that PC simply does not have: convenience. I install a game and I’m playing it. No settings to tweak, no need to make sure my drivers are up to date, no need to make sure other programs I’m running are interfering with the game, none of that. If I get a game for my console I know it absolutely will work, with the exception of a simply shitty game which happens on PC too.

The other thing I wanted to touch on was the cheap games. That’s just as relevant on console nowadays. For example, I’ve been slowly buying the Yakuza games for $10-$15 each. That’s the exact same discounts I’ve seen on Steam.

For backwards compatibility, it depends on your console. Xbox is quite impressive - if you have an Xbox Series X you can play any game ever released for any Xbox all the way back to the original. Just stick in the disc. With PlayStation, it’s just PS4 games that the PS5 is backwards compatible with. Sony needs to do better. And with Nintendo… lol.

Yeah, with a PC you can do other things than gaming. For most of that you can get a cheap laptop. There are definitely edge cases where a powerful PC is needed such as development, CAD, AI, etc. But on average a gaming-spec PC is not necessary. I’m saying that as a developer and systems administrator for the past 14 years.

Along with paying for multiplayer I get access to a large catalog of games as well as additional games every month. Yes they’re inaccessible if I stop paying, but that’s not really a big deal. Even all that aside, I pretty much play single player games anyway.

Also, when a game comes out I know it’ll work. No driver bugs, no messing with settings, no checking minimum and recommended specs, it just works. And it works the same for everyone on the platform. I don’t have any desire to spend a bunch of time tweaking settings to get things just right, only to have the game crash for some esoteric reason or another.

I mean, for the price of a mid range graphics card I can still buy a whole console. GPU prices are ridiculous. Never mind everything else on top of that.

Trying to get Bloodborne running on my steam deck, then setting up the randomizer.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BloodbornePC/comments/1i2l5r5/bloodborne_randomizer_installation_guide_mo2_and/

The Machine?

With a side of ‘); DROP TABLE Orders; —

It’s fucked up that Russia is doing shit like this. That said,

he was wearing a short top covering his chest, black leather shorts above the knee, on which there were several chain-shaped ornaments, and fishnet tights

That is pretty gay. Doesn’t at all deserve persecution, but certainly fits the bill.

For those of us who have ages in the double digits… who and what?