BudgieMania

The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.

Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don’t know about that chief

Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went “sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro”

It sure is fascinating how surges in the usage of pirate platforms tend to coincide with eras of worsening value proposition in entertainment. We should really get some top notch analysts on this to get an explanation.

because every additional layer of abstraction disrupts communication with the Machine Spirit even further

Bored with driving your car with a wheel and pedals? Change the default handling device in your vehicle

The peeps that got a 6800XT at a good price at the proper time committed the heist of the century

Its dominance was really established with the glorious LinuxCon WorldWide 2021

Some more conclusions as we get more data from other users:

• On some 6 and 7 Series AMD cards, it works just fine
  
  

• Few Nvidia Cards also have this issue
  
  

• Xbox seems not affected
  
  

Hhhhmmmm so it’s not so much AMD specific as it is something that happens under conditions that are more likely to happen under AMD I guess. Interesting.

Oooh I like their new summary charts thing, it really helps to see where it stands at a glance.

It’s unfortunate that the “meta” is still buying a 6800XT if you can find it cheap, I had hoped that the 7800XT would slot half a step above that, but what can you do.

I mean… The 7800XT doesn’t look horrible (well, compared to current context, I don’t wanna lose perspective that midrange prices overall have gotten a bit out of hand). But that’s on paper and it’s first party paper so it might as well be toilet paper.

With that said, if the claims materialize, I might be in the market for it, in part because of the blatant upsell pricing of both cards which make it very hard to not be willing to stretch those 50 extra bucks for the 7800.

I just wish that AMD had taken the chance to be hyper aggressive in their pricing instead of just timidly undercutting NVIDIA’s prices just a tad but these past 2 generations have made it obvious that they don’t intend to do so. They both better pray that Intel doesn’t have a magic rabbit inside their hat because they are leaving the GPU market ripe for penetration.

oh shit my brother may die of starvation in front of his computer when this releases

exactly! you command the 5 ton murdermachine Mr Carman, fucking act like it jeez

I’m so utterly socially incompetent that I pretend I wasn’t intending to cross and just keep going down my side of the street just to avoid this kind of interaction

Nice! RE3HD was a great job so no doubt this will be excellent too

If they’re gonna make you work they have to compensate you for your time you know what I mean