"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

I am inevitable, if I must I will kill the dead gay Internet deader. I will take this as far as it can possibly go.

We run this Internet.
 
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Truly happy to see some many people considering physical media. Specifically optical media. Been into it for decades and we are really at a point where the home consumer for very little investment can archive efficiently.

Those M-Discs are a fabulous option and will certainly withstand the test of time. 1000 years is quite the boast, but I would settle for a few hundred at a lower cost.

Verbatim has been the name in archival for a long time. Their HTL inorganic manufactured discs are by all accounts the golden standard. So much so they no longer produce a LTH or anything but inorganic for the optical medium, or so they have stated publicly.

There was a decent debate earlier this year over at r/DataHoarder here. Where a (((YouTuber))) used the conversation for a article over at Medium. Where at least he explains in more detail the key differences and provides a few new to market options for the optical media enthusiast.

You can always check the Disc ID & Media Type ID here.
 
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Super Dilator Duel 3D said:
jersh is right about consoles. they provide zero benefits over a pc nowadays and have a ton of drawbacks.
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Counterpoint - it seems like most games from big companies are developed on console first and then ported to PC. PC is a second class citizen for certain developers, which is intensely frustrating if you buy a game on sale because it's a couple of years old, it crashes at startup and you find untouched launch day threads about that exact issue, with no fix ever released.

This "console first, then PC" development style combined with the SoC style computing modern consoles do means devs have to optimize for a system with higher latency due to the separation of components. One of the most egregious examples is Jedi: Fallen Order. It uses Unreal Engine, which apparently has a nasty habit of slowing down anytime stuff is loaded into memory. This is a known issue and is easily optimized. You can get away with a lot on console though, and lazy dev practices abound. Fallen Order constantly loads T posing models in the player view area. Cutscene coming up? For a single frame, you see a flash of the T posing actors, a tiny "brake tap" during loading, but since RAM and Storage are so close, loading is basically instant. GPU is likewise low latency and even uses the same RAM as CPU, depending on the SoC.

PCs are way more broken up than that, so loading a model from storage, to RAM, then to GPU RAM can take a lot longer. That means you get shittier framerate as the shortcuts the dev took to make the game are more apparent. T posing models stare blankly at you, as if to imply you won't do anything but accept the shit-smeared jeetcode and you'll like it. You turn the camera in game, see an enemy about to attack you, and press the parry button. Except fuckin OOPS game had to load some shit so it freeze frames the enemy mid-attack, throwing off the timing for parries, dodges, heals...computers that have perfectly powerful, functional configurations can't run games they should be able to, and the devs never fix it, and the companies never give a shit about PC gamers because they made dat console money and are off to the races for the next game anyway.

Paying $400 bucks for a PS5 is a pretty small price to pay for a guarantee that your games are going to actually play. I get the feeling the PS5 Pro being so expensive is because they are trying to cram enough extra performance to make VR run better. Just buy a regular PS5 if you want to play regular games, PS5 pro likely won't run those same games that much better, so they had to focus on shit like "wow look how much more clear the AI upscaled version of the game is!" nigga I already play at 1080p, not 4k, so that shit means nothing to me.

Paying $800 for a PS5 Pro is fucking retarded when the PS5 does the same job, with the same games.
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
Physical is the only way to own a game
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I’ve never understood this argument. A disk is the storage media for the perpetual license. You don’t own the disk. You own the data on the disk. That’s not copyright fagging. Put that shit somewhere safe. You bought that shit, if you have to torrent it later, do it, it’s morally yours

You want to know where my copy of Stalker from 2007 is safest? On my hard drive, nice and snug. Put it there nigga. Mount an ISO why are you spinning a piece of plastic 700 times a minute and calling it secure.

Disk guy in 2024 is like a dude with a flintstones car feeling safe and sound that the Jews can’t cut his breaks. I mean I guess he’s right at least but sheesh just buy a Buhonka or Hilux or an old Jeep.
 
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One thing I thought was interesting about the Concord game was that it actually had a physical disc.

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but of course

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Evidently, I was one of the retards who purchased Fallout 76, and despite being a physical release, it has a cardboard disc inside the case. I loved the gameplay of Fallout 4 and knew 76 was just an extension of 4, but what really made me purchase Fallout 76 was Bethesda promising to release it as an offline game within one year of it's release. Instead of an offline release, we got that subscription instead at the one year anniversary. Isn't modern gaming great? Are you all excited for Elder Scrolls VI?

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The video of Styxhammer666 groping the girl on his livestream literally made my spine and back tense up watching it. Like I felt myself physically recoil watching it from the cringe. I can watch people get their head crushed into pieces, cops being stabbed to death, people burning alive and I do not have the same visceral reaction I just got watching that. This is not a joke post I'm dead serious.
 
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Just how anonymous is gumroad compared to patreon?
Null said:
because ai and ml have quintupled the demand for gfx cards? is this a trick question?
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Even when crypto went to shit and before AI demand ramped up prices didn't go down, there are only 2 players in town now and gamers have made it clear they'll pay out the ass for an extra 1 fps and less pixelated titties rather than stick with their old GPU until prices go down.
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but what really made me purchase Fallout 76 was Bethesda promising to release it as an offline game within one year of it's release.
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Any attempts at making an offline mod? because I couldn't find any on nexus.
 
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Fields Of Rye said:
I’ve never understood this argument. A disk is the storage media for the perpetual license. You don’t own the disk. You own the data on the disk. That’s not copyright fagging. Put that shit somewhere safe. You bought that shit, if you have to torrent it later, do it, it’s morally yours

You want to know where my copy of Stalker from 2007 is safest? On my hard drive, nice and snug. Put it there nigga. Mount an ISO why are you spinning a piece of plastic 700 times a minute and calling it secure.

Disk guy in 2024 is like a dude with a flintstones car feeling safe and sound that the Jews can’t cut his breaks. I mean I guess he’s right at least but sheesh just buy a Buhonka or Hilux or an old Jeep.
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I can resell my physical copy of Metroid Prime Collection for a very pretty penny. Your copy of Stalker is worth less than the hard drive it's stored on, not to mention the ebay auction would be taken down immediately

If you can't sell it, you don't own it. Steam has eroded this right into nothingness for the sake of convenience and PC gamers ate it up all up like niggercattle. Meanwhile when first Sony (PSP Go) and MS (original Xbone) tried that shit they paid a heavy price for it. On the flipside the PS4 won because of that "this is how you share a PS4 game" video.

However, they waited a couple of years for more consoomers to lap it up and here we are with physical being the less prevalent option, and people arguing that discs are for grandpas. Fuck it then. While i find the steamdeck nice, it's lack of physical media makes it a no go for me. If Nintendo eshews carts in Switch 2, that'll be the end for me.
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
you can't sell it, you don't own it. Steam has eroded this right into nothingness for the sake of convenience and PC gamers ate it up all up like niggercattle
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My dude you are reliant on a literal box designed to milk as much money out of you as possible, you spend more money per month paying Xbox for the right to use your internet than you would reselling games

Imagine never installing a mod, never trying before you buy, having no right to use your own internet, and still turning to someone whose games are completely free of any DRM, on any device, and asking him if he’d like to be free, because you have no control over your actual files

Literally just learn to pirate nigga god damn
 
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My Xbox has a disk drive because it’s a fucking glorified blue ray player because all Blu-ray players are universally shit.

Never bought an Xbox physical game and only bought a few digital ones on deep discount.

If they delete my $5 copy of bonerlands I will mourn it for the appropriate time period (fifty five fucking years, who the fuck does Gates think he is).
 
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