Honestly, this all just starts making library card a hecking steal in comparison and they even have games nowadays! I have a museum card that let's me visit over 200 museums for free in my country.

I can imagine PC gaming being cheaper if your tastes run a bit left field, like if you primarily emulate, play older games, indie games or a specific genre such as visual novels. But then you're clearly outside of the "gamer" culture and it's also clear that even this isn't going to be cheaper than being really into music, film, TV, podcasts or books. And you're likely using the machine to do work, pay the bills etc. which kind of ruins relaxation. Different things and places, different moods, at least for me.

yeah they were the top result for "herbivore sticker" and I was like, "yep that's exactly what I was going for".

Those are adorable! They rule.

I feel like purchasing a predator branded laptop would put me waaay on this side of the subversion spectrum

that said I could totally get behind using these stickers

just post

Your bytes are good and valuable.

Yeahhh, tbh people who argue that PC gaming is cheaper... They're hella wrong?? I'd never be able to justify this just for gaming -- this is also going to be a pretty nice workstation for machine learning, 3D modelling, etc. I can;t imagine it filling the same area as hangin out on the couch with friends playing Nintendo

Subversion is our most effective weapon of resistance, comrade.

i'd rather just complain about it o:

ya not sure why i made that comment tbh

just add cute decals on top of it

TBH what reallys grinds my gears is just how much money you need to spend to be an Apex Gamer and I suspect lots of other ills in the culture directly flow from this. It doesn't help for how many of the loud mouthed gamers the hobby is financed by someone else, like parents. Music, books and movies are so ultra affordable in comparison. (I wonder if the problems in comics culture derive from similar constraints. It's a kind of a bulky media and expensive for the amount of time you spend and piracy is less convenient.)

To really play the newest and the hypest games The Real Way (according to Gamers), you need a solid PC and peripherals. This is the reason why I dropped out of the gaming mainstream when I was 13. I had such old computers (that were full of pirated garbage not installed by me) to work with as a teen it was impossible to keep up with the Culture. And I had no TV and thus no desire to get a console either, but that seems to make you a second class citizen in gaming anyways.

The second thing might be that for many, a laptop/desktop is a tool for work. If I want to relax at home, I sure as hell won't be keen on sitting in a work chair and lighting up a work machine. So a person would probably get a TV before a computer screen for gaming. It just becomes a matter of degrees of formality, really. I don't want wear white tie at home and honestly having a dedicated place for a gaming PC, peripherals and a chair would feel kind of same.

A lot gamer culture is centered around people whose hobby is financed by someone else. You can see it in "git gud" discussions. Playing difficult games for the challenge would be more appealing if the skill practice was subvented by my parents as it was as a kid.

Yeah a long screed, but bytes are cheap so no matter!

more like the cult of buying the exact same mouse every 2 years cause they break for no reason!!

there is a line of gaming laptops that I might have seriously considered for purchase except it has big red letters across the front "PREDATOR" and I'm like "I don't want people to think I'm a predator, that is not a good look."

that's good but i find the toenail golem more amusing

theres the persona penis monster

damn, good haul. you're two keyboards cool

Update for you: I got two keyboards (Razer green switches and Cherry MX browns) PLUS a 1080p60hz IPS monitor for $15!!! I have to clean out gamer scum from the keyboards but very very good deal for me.

I'll probably pick up a better monitor Eventually, it's one of those things I'm def willing to wait for a deal on. Tbh I'm pretty happy to have a tenkey, I can get back into Blender now 8)

SUPERHOT, Grow Home, and Mark of the Ninja! I'm sorry apparently I never play AAA games ever, or short games either, this is all I got.

THO IF GAMES THAT ARE LIKE METROID ARE ALLOWABLE: HOLLOW KNIGHT PLAY HOLLOW KNIGHT IT'S SO GOOD HOLLOW KNIGHT IS SO GOOD(long tho)

for a monitor where you're up close to it it makes a big difference

God I'd never want 8K

1080p is plenty for me but 1440p sounds.... Nice

It's so cool and definitely a bigger deal than 8K or whatever the fuck

Oh shit that's exactly what I was thinking of!!

I remember in like... 2010 my internet friends were building gaming PCs and I was like "hey it'd be cool if there was an extra 'brightness' channel per pixel or something like that" and they were like "that's stupid and impossible"

YEAH

WHO'S STUPID AND IMPOSSIBLE NOW, 2010 HIGHSCHOOL KIDS???

The viewing angles on TN monitors are better than they used to be, and it doesn't matter as much cause you're going to be able to control what angle you're looking at it pretty well. The tradeoffs are worth it for the lower costs and higher frame rates I feel, though you can get a nice 60hz IPS for not too much.

The HDR you're thinking of is a different kind of thing to like, the display technology. That HDR hasn't really come to monitors yet, but I have an HDR TV and it's extremely cool. The difference is in the backlighting, in a conventional LCD screen it's just one uniform lamp, in an HDR screen there's multiple lights that light different parts of the screen differently (or if you're talking about an OLED screen, each individual pixel has its own brightness). Content with HDR data will be able to tell the display how bright each pixel should be, so you can get dark or bright areas with fine detail. Even for content that doesn't have HDR data, a good HDR screen will be able to make it look good basically by guessing how bright or dark part of the screen should be.

It's worth mentioning that a lot of TVs have HDR labels but like don't really do much with the data, you kinda have to read reviews to know if it's any good at it. My TV is a midrange kind of thing, it doesn't have a ton of dimming zones so sometimes there's halos around things (you can notice this with like, white lines on a black background) but wow I still love the effect. The purpose of a display is to throw light around and HDR just does it better.

Sorry to uhh, kinda geek out lol. There really isn't an HDR monitor worth getting at the moment, but it's something to keep an eye out for in the future.

Oh I'm confused -- I always understood HDR to be some post processing to bring a wide range of light values to the 0-255 scale we all know. But from what I read now, HDR monitors just have great contrast ratios and 30 bit color?

Anyways, I still feel iffy about TN. I love the viewing angles I'm familiar with for IPS.

Honestly I am going to second Holly, it fits the description to the tee.