>>23289 >have to spend $5000 unless you want to play on lowest settings at 10fps >have to upgrade every 2 years because modern games run like shit. so $5000 every 3-4 years unless you like playing games on lowest settings at 10fps These are true only if you want to play the new FIFA, NBA and whatnot every year. >can't even last 10 years without requiring a billion patches to work, let alone centuries or millenia like other arts I was just playing a game released in 2001. I'm not the one doing the patches so I don't care, but you have a point. >most of the gayming "community" are shills and people who don't even play games Fair point, but it didn't use to be like this. >one-directional hobby. can only consoom. very expensive and hard to produce. It's not expensive, but it can be hard depending on what you want to make. This is true for most hobbies however. >have to play for 10+ hours a day if you want to beat a game in less than a year Have you tried getting gud?

>>23270 >Most of them will channel that sort of attitude in relationships I read a book called The Anxious Generation that framed it more generally, that men tend to show aggression physically and women tend to show aggression relationally. Video games taking over men's life ended up making them isolate and have no outlets for traditional physical aggression. Social media made women double down and become hyper aggressive relationally. It's all very eerie how well it lines up with the "rat utopia" experiment. Just like how rat utopia gave the rats everything they ever wanted, I think video games give men everything they ever wanted and social media gives women everything they ever wanted. The result is that the males withdraw and become solitary and meek and the females get really aggressive and angry.

>>18834 >Very different from how movie buffs or bookworms are perceived by someone who's not that involved. Not to play devil's advocate, but it's hard not to when you see turbonormie gamers looking like zombies and living like sloths (ie. leaving snacks and energy drinks all around their rooms uncleaned). Books appear much more productive. Movie buffs were viewed just as pathetic back when it was a newer phenomenon.

>>23293 >medium settings >1440p lmao what's even the point? the entire point of modern games is to look at shiny graphics. they serve no other purpose. if your target isn't 4K 60fps max settings it's pointless to play modern games $500 gets you what I said: 720p 10fps lowest settings >>23303 >These are true only if you want to play the new FIFA, NBA and whatnot every year. that's every unoptimized modern game >Have you tried getting gud? modern games are not difficult, they are just bloated with useless dumb shit. if you want to actually complete a game it will take a very long time. I wish games never went past SNES length.

thing with video games is that modern ones are designed to exploit a bunch of retards through the dopamine treadmill and an ever anxious state of FOMO. no pausing, face the screen, do the abstract low-effort dance for your dopamine, that's a good goy :) you eventually learn any worthwhile game runs on 2015 laptop hardware. good games are cognitive workouts and it's sad people forget that fact, just like retards only think in extremes so it's being a goypig hooked up on the latest intravenous KFC fent drip while a thousand poledancing VR trannies flash through your eyes each second or believing juden peterson and getting a low income job where spics spit on your face and laugh about it to le support a decaying society or trusting other grifters and turning into a faggot pedo for a bunch of rich people you faggots are all massively fucking dumb. I used to think imageboards weren't for the so easily exploited

>>23309 Videogames are a man's outlet for aggression. We just substitute virtual violence for real-world violence. It's a big reason why violent crime tends to be lower among gaming populations, because when we're pissed we have an outlet: we go game and try to wreck some opponents in-game for a while. >>23343 >lmao what's even the point? the entire point of modern games is to look at shiny graphics. they serve no other purpose. if your target isn't 4K 60fps max settings it's pointless to play modern games I rest my case: You waste shittons of money. You go for the 4K HD monitor which is totally unnecessary and much more expensive and then you crank your games up to 4K HD resolution which makes them run like ass because they have to render literally nine times as many pixels as my monitor so you downgrade the graphics quality (which leaves overall picture quality considerably worse off than a lower resolution with better graphics settings) and still get shit framerates while you probably bought an overpriced graphics card too (the kind that has you pay 150-200% the price for a 5-15% increase in performance) if you didn't just get one of those shitty gaming laptops (when laptops are always a worse and more expensive option for gaming) and then you cry that unless you spend $5000 every 2 years your computer games will run like ass. >$500 gets you what I said: 720p 10fps lowest settings That's completely fucking wrong. $500 gets you a setup that's maybe two generations behind that runs the latest games at 30+FPS on at least medium graphics when you know what you're doing and aren't using a retarded 4K HD gaming resolution, especially if you are good at overclocking shit (as in many cases with careful purchasing you can get at least 40% more performance with plain air cooling). At 720p I can do 50+ fps with at least medium graphics with a $300 computer on running on used, dated parts, because the screen is only rendering exactly 1/36th as many pixels as your 4K HD screen. That's a shitton of graphical processing saved. Anon, I have news for you: You aren't nearly as good with computers as you think you are. You are just dogshit at building computers and squeezing performance out of them, so you waste a ton of cash for subpar results and then you cry that everything is too expensive. That's on you for being a retard constantly buying the new shit instead of doing your homework and figuring out what's actually smart.

>>23289 truthnuke

These same women usually have no issue with binging an entire netflix series in a day or spending all their free time watching TV/movies. Video games are still considered by normie women to be the male nerd loser hobby and it gives them the ick. It also makes men happy, which they hate, because men are supposed to be slave cattle who should always be working and doing something productive.

>>18832 i don't think most people really care. you have been demoralized by 4chan

>>23417 >You go for the 4K HD monitor which is totally unnecessary and much more expensive and then you crank your games up to 4K HD resolution which makes them run like ass it's 2025. 4K should've been the standard if not for retarded soydevs who don't optimize their games >which leaves overall picture quality considerably worse off than a lower resolution with better graphics settings no it doesn't. lower resolutions make the game look blurier and hurts the eyes. higher resolution means a sharper image, and in the case of 4K, hardly any need for anti-aliasing. >and still get shit framerates while you probably bought an overpriced graphics card too what card isn't overpriced these days? >runs the latest games at 30+FPS on at least medium graphics when you know what you're doing and aren't using a retarded 4K HD gaming resolution 30fps is enough all of a sudden? and who wants to play at 720p these days? even 1080p is becoming old, and yet these modern games can't run on anything anymore >Videogames are a man's outlet for aggression there are much better outlets that actually let you create as well as consoom, and not just consoom. a hobby where you can only consoom is unhealthy

>>23523 >it's 2025. 4K should've been the standard if not for retarded soydevs who don't optimize their games Oh boy, the [current year] argument. While there is a lot of truth to devs being fucking trash at optimizing their games, you really do not seem to pay attention how much of an enormous fucking difference it makes to force your PC to render 9x as many pixels when it comes to how good of a GPU you will need to run the latest games. 4K HD resolution is a giant killer of graphical performance and once you downgrade graphics settings you've lost more in visual quality than those pixels were gaining you. >what card isn't overpriced these days? So, if you want 60+ FPS on 4K, you're looking at spending about $500 (can go as low as $420 or as high as $600). Anything beyond that $600 is likely overspend. If you just want 60+ FPS on 1440p, you really only need to spend about $230. This card: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rx6600-cld-8g-amd-radeon-rx-6600-8gb-gddr6/p/N82E16814930066 will generally do the trick and Newegg is selling it for $220 atm and $160 refurbished. Learning how to shop for value can do great things for your computer parts budget. >30fps is enough all of a sudden? and who wants to play at 720p these days? even 1080p is becoming old, and yet these modern games can't run on anything anymore 30 is min fps and 720p lets you game the latest and greatest on high graphics settings on a ridiculously cheap budget. Some of these decisions are financial, you know. The entire point here is gaming on a budget. >>Videogames are a man's outlet for aggression >there are much better outlets that actually let you create as well as consoom, and not just consoom. a hobby where you can only consoom is unhealthy Nigger what the fuck violent release of an activity that creates things are you thinking of? The closest thing I can think of is chopping wood. This is about channeling anger and the urge to do violence into an outlet that gives you release without actually hurting someone or something.

>>18835 'Partner' and 'significant other' are the pozzed terms. Spouse is a good word.

>>23564 All three of them are pozzed because they neutralize gender. Call her a wife or a girlfriend. Call him a husband or a boyfriend. Anything else is trying to hide their gender out of shame.

>>23563 >you really do not seem to pay attention how much of an enormous fucking difference it makes to force your PC to render 9x as many pixels when it comes to how good of a GPU you will need to run the latest games OK? but aren't we in 2025? 1080p became standard around the mid-2010s, and modern GPUs have to be dozens of times more powerful than a 2015 GPU right? 4K uses 4x more processing power than 1080p, and the 5XXX series is much more powerful (like 20x?) than the 1XXX, so at this point a midrange GPU should've handled 4K fine but modern soydevs and useless shit like gay tracing won't let that happen. a sharper resolution is always better because lower resolutions end up looking blurrier unless you have a screen below 25". max graphical settings are nice but not when it's blurry. I did try 720p gaming on my 1080p monitor and it doesn't look nice. 1080p is starting to get old and 1440p literally just exists as a cope resolution because the industry took too long to get to 4K. the transtition from 480i to 720p took around 3-4 years. by the late 00s EVERYTHING was 720p/768p and PS3/360 games were HD/close to HD since the start. 4K has been in the market since 2013 and not even CLOSE to being standard yet unless you count upscaling or checkboard shit. in fact, we're going backwards with games having fake frames and fake resolutions to cope with terribly optimized games keep in mind, for anything outside of gayming, 4K is very easy to drive nowadays. my laptop with an iGPU works great with a 4K screen even doing video rendering. 4K has a huge advantage in that you can put a lot more crap on the screen (at 100% scale at least) and it being much sharper to the point you don't need AA or need little of it. yes it uses much more resourced, but 720p/768p needed more than 480i/p and yet we did that. > Anything beyond that $600 is likely overspend ok, but for how many years? will it become obsolete for 4K60 after 2 years since modern games are dveloped by soydevs? >The entire point here is gaming on a budget. might as well play SNES games. playing modern games, whose sole purpse is shiny graphics because they have nothing else to offer, on lower settings is pointless. >Nigger what the fuck violent release of an activity that creates things are you thinking of how did everyone else in history do it? nobody else was glued to a screen for 12 hours a day. you can relieve stress in many ways, such as drawing or playing an instrument or writing somehing.

>>23578 >OK? but aren't we in 2025? 1080p became standard around the mid-2010s, and modern GPUs have to be dozens of times more powerful than a 2015 GPU right? 4K uses 4x more processing power than 1080p, and the 5XXX series is much more powerful (like 20x?) than the 1XXX, so at this point a midrange GPU should've handled 4K fine but modern soydevs and useless shit like gay tracing won't let that happen. a sharper resolution is always better because lower resolutions end up looking blurrier unless you have a screen below 25". max graphical settings are nice but not when it's blurry. I did try 720p gaming on my 1080p monitor and it doesn't look nice. 1080p is starting to get old and 1440p literally just exists as a cope resolution because the industry took too long to get to 4K. Blurriness is not a result of low resolutions being shit. That's a result of LED monitors being trash at imitating lower screen resolutions. There's a world of difference between native 720p and trying to make your 1080p pretend it's a 720p. The former looks decent enough. The latter looks like eye cancer. Multiple screen resolutions looking sharp worked with CRT tech but we're on LED now so you always get blurriness when you try to make the screen do a lower resolution. >the transtition from 480i to 720p took around 3-4 years. by the late 00s EVERYTHING was 720p/768p and PS3/360 games were HD/close to HD since the start. There comes a point where the resolution is detailed enough for any gaming purposes that you don't really have the same need for a higher resolution. And we really didn't go from 480i to 720p as you so fancifully imagine. We went from 640x480 (480i) to 800x600 to 1024x768 to 1280x1024 to 1440x1080 to 1600x1200. In the 90s and early 2000s we were already topping at 1600x1200 usually (There were crazy CRT monitors that did shit like 2560x2048 - and these were normal size monitors - but they were super rare.) and the norm before the transition to 1280x720 (720p) had been 1280x1024, so the late 2000s transition was actually a fucking downgrade (especially if you, like me, used 1600x1200 resolutions) but hey, it was a flat screen and manufacturers were increasingly not giving you a choice. I actually stuck with my old CRT for a long-ass time because it was better than most flat screens. The flatscreen transition was actually a downgrade for a long time. And in some respects LEDs are still worse at picture quality than CRTs. >4K has been in the market since 2013 and not even CLOSE to being standard yet No shit. Making 4K game graphics look good made for some very intense requirements for GPUs from back then (you'd have to downgrade for performance), 4K TV streaming was virtually nonexistent (if you even had the internet speeds for that shit, which you probably didn't), and most movies weren't made for 4K either. So you could get a 4K screen and almost everything would be lower resolution so you got to enjoy glorious blur because LEDs do not do lower resolutions well but at least the higher native resolution screens tend to be a bit better at blur. >unless you count upscaling or checkboard shit. in fact, we're going backwards with games having fake frames and fake resolutions to cope with terribly optimized games Yes, that is cancer. You should disable that whenever possible and generally avoid games that do that shit. >keep in mind, for anything outside of gayming, 4K is very easy to drive nowadays. my laptop with an iGPU works great with a 4K screen even doing video rendering. 4K has a huge advantage in that you can put a lot more crap on the screen (at 100% scale at least) and it being much sharper to the point you don't need AA or need little of it. yes it uses much more resourced, but 720p/768p needed more than 480i/p and yet we did that. Yes, but we're talking about gaming here. >ok, but for how many years? will it become obsolete for 4K60 after 2 years since modern games are dveloped by soydevs? Are you retarded? 4K60 is just 4K resolution doing 60 FPS. Most videos are lower than 60 FPS so it's mentioned for that. But what I mentioned was already the gaming budget for 60+ FPS gaming. >might as well play SNES games. playing modern games, whose sole purpse is shiny graphics because they have nothing else to offer, on lower settings is pointless. There's no point in playing games whose sole purpose is shiny graphics. Save yourself the expensive graphics card and go watch someone else play it on youtube or something if you desire a game simply because it is fun to look at but not to play. The video comes fully pre-rendered and you even get to fast forward past the boring bits this way. You build a gaming rig to play games that are actually fun. >how did everyone else in history do it? nobody else was glued to a screen for 12 hours a day. you can relieve stress in many ways, such as drawing or playing an instrument or writing somehing. Sure, there are other ways of working off stress, but when it comes to the urge to do violence there tends to be greater catharsis from gaming. And historically the amount of violence men inflicted was higher.

>>18837 >white woman. *Mudsharks >>18850 What if the people around me are indoctrinated cocksuckers whose addictions are ten times worse? >Jockcucks get excited over their niggerball lame tournaments <Or just happen to be gambling addicts >Gen xisters still hang out to bars at a dangerous schedule, asking to get killed by their local drunkard or junkie >Fucking boomers obsessed with their retarded stale capeshit/funneh movies that everyone including their grannies have watched <Shitskins, they lack a frontal lobe and prone to repeat the same mistakes from the previously said points >>20454 >Vid3 numale Definitely raised by his neglectful parents who never wanted him in the first place and just gave him plastic crap just to fuck off.

>>23633 Just to explain why you get blurriness: LEDs do not actually do multiple resolutions, unlike CRTs. When you make a LED monitor pretend to be a lower resolution monitor, it just does some basic as fuck godawful image stretch scaling to show a low resolution display on what is actually a higher resolution screen and that's why it looks like ass. That's all it can do. CRTs can actually do multiple resolutions, which is why they don't look like ass when they do multiple resolutions. So for LED monitors, you need native resolution for it to not look like shit. A lot of it's down to the ratio of scaling from your old resolution to the new one. If you are demanding a 1280x720 resolution out of a 2560x1440 monitor then because your monitor has a precise 1:2 pixel ratio from your requested screen resolution to the actual monitor resolution, you will get a completely perfect, non-blurry display since it can just use 2x2 pixels for every 1x1 pixel on the 720p. But if you want 1280x720 out of a 1920x1080, then your monitor has 1.5x the pixels of the resolution it's pretending to be. You can't actually halve a pixel (though you can try to play around a little with subpixel rendering, but that's more a CRT thing and I'm not sure these algorithms do that), so now you're smearing 1.5 pixels across 2 pixels (which also has to accomodate other surrounding pixels that get smeared into it) and so all the 720p pixels have to get smeared across 1080p pixels from the way it tries to stretch the image to make it fit and everything looks blurred as fuck because it is just blurring it to try to make it fit. Some ratios handle this better than others. a 1:1.5 ratio is still not as bad as something like a 1:1.6 ratio for the math to cleanly divide pixels across. The higher resolution monitors just benefit from the fact that at higher resolutions it has more native pixels per pixel of a low target resolution so maybe instead of a 1:1.5 ratio you could get a 1:3 ratio if you're lucky (that's a whole number per pixel, so perfect pixel scaling, hurray) or 1:2.2 or whatever the fuck. And that's the story of why LED monitors are frequently trash at imitating lower resolutions. Yes, if your resolution is high enough, it's way better for picture quality to have some black bars around the borders so you can go from 1:2.2 to 1:2 and achieve pixel-perfect scaling again. CRTs don't actually have a prebuilt number of pixels on the monitor. They just draw the entire screen resolution on the fly with electron guns, so you can push the monitor's screen resolution a bit above and especially below rated specs and still have it always draw 1 pixel per pixel you are asking for, which is why CRTs are crisper at doing other resolutions, because it is actually generating the asked-for screen resolution (but this does affect your monitor's refresh rate - you get higher refresh rates at lower resolutions and lower refresh rates at higher resolutions but a good monitor will handle high resolutions fine). Now you know.

>>23289 FOMO retard

>>23289 A lot of hobbies will waste lots of money if you go into them as a retard.Not like it matters, this guys probably back at 4cucks

>>20481 Be buff Be black Shirtless morning routine tiktok time Take BDSM mouth tape off, flex Pour $20 sparkling water into bowl Blow bubbles Swish water in mouth, spit back into bowl Blow bubbles Flex Twerk Ice bath Flex Splash more $20 water on your face

>>24388 Dude's just not as tech-literate as he thinks he is. And this is why it's important: you end up wasting so much money on unnecessary shit if you get careless. I can build a gaming rig for 1/10th his budget in a pinch and 1/5th if I want to make it a good one. And that's far from the only purchasing decision you'll fuck up if you don't learn the details. The same shit applies to buying a good car, good furniture, and a whole host of household appliances. You're pissing away so much money if you aren't careful only to have to buy new shit before you know it. May as well also mention this for the laptop-buyers out there: Most laptop manufacturers have two lines: the business line and the consumer line. Always buy the business line if you can, because that shit is built to last, unlike the consumer line, which is built to break down in around 5 years.

>>18832 Pay the eternal boomer no mind. It took them centuries to quit whining that reading books was childish and addictive, too. They are forever terrified of whatever happens to be the new media of the day because they are crybabies who have nothing more than ad hominems and name-calling to denounce whatever happens to not be what they did as kids. "Maturity", "adult", "childish", etc. are all nonsense terms with no meaning, there is neither logic nor reason behind them, they are the equivalent of feminist shaming language or calling someone racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. tl;dr the eternal boomer is always wrong. Just ignore them.

>>18832 >>18834 >>18836 >>18875 >>18987 >>20044 >>21847 >>21878 >>23363 post her butt hole

>>18982 Third option: larper

>>18832 bookworms may gain some respect for being perceived as smart but they definitely aren't gaining any points in the woman department

>>23237 I see plenty if social media addiction coverage in the media, don't know what you're on about incel.

>>18868 This is /vb/. It's practically the designated board for this kind of tangential shit.

>>25641 People don't buy 5000 dollar computers because they need them to play video games. They buy them to show off. It's a weird flex. Same goes for cars, etc.

>>27227 Speak for yourself. I asked a youtuber to build my PC for me with the absolute best possible parts because I wanted to future proof for a while. I had to spend almost $9k but it was worth it. Not only for gaming but also for the bloated hardware requirements software needs today. I edit media, videos and shit like that all the time so it was a beneficial purchase in my case. I still feel like a cheap whore for giving this much money to nvidia for a 5090 but I have the money to spend

>>27227 No, some of them do build it just because they want a powerful computer. Even 20 years ago people were making computers that cost multiple thousands of dollars. But man does the ability to spend your money wisely make a huge difference. Sometimes the store is jacking up prices, sometimes the model of graphics card, CPU, etc. is just poor value. Sometimes that upgrade you're salivating over isn't the one that will materially change how well your PC works for what you intend to be doing with it. >>27230 Nigger my PC cost around $1000 12 years ago and with a single graphics card upgrade it still runs the latest games well, because I made sure that when I built my PC it was built to last and could OC well if need be (but I still haven't really needed to). This is a gaming rig too.

>>18832 A man will put aside games for a good woman, but when the woman is unpleasant, it's only obvious he'll be gaming more heavily, because gaming is more pleasant than dealing with her bullshit, which is why it pisses these kinds of women off, because an unpleasant woman cannot handle a man setting aside blocks of time where she cannot task, interrupt, or otherwise annoy her man for her personal validation. She can blame the videogames but these marriages were headed for divorce for other reasons. If a guy needs to game as his escapism from you, consider that maybe you are the problem, rather than some kind of videogame addiction epidemic where all your BFs just want to game heavily when you're around. It's very obvious woman #1 is passive-aggressive as shit and the kind of woman that sucks the joy out of life if you have to continuously deal with her.

>>18832 Why is the woman filming her man instead of looking after her baby so he can play his vidya in peace. Women these days

>>18874 Women almost universally having the exact same, cookie cutter, casual garbage taste in videogames is probably the most infuriating aspect of gayming becoming mainstream I can think of. It's the reason casual games became so successful, and why mobileshit exploded as an industry segment, and directly led to AAA devs prioritizing inclusivity and gay shit over making a good game (see Bioware). I am not convinced women like videogames for the sake of playing them, they like games for the sake of telling other people they play games.

>>20481 I wish Jordan Peterson OD'd. >>23289 Retarded nigger alert.

>>29541 >he never had to toil in the coal mines for 17 hours just to start up his win 95 shitbox bolted to the back of ultra low-income section 8 housing >all so he could boot up the Epic Steam launcher and submit a blood test, vocal match, and retinal scan for authentication >for the privilege of voting through 200 suggested games in his company-recommended queue, turning down 5 promotional offers to refinance his most recent purchase of a 32kb jpeg download, and being allowed to look at the library of past games his week-long purchase license has expired for >just to boot up Breakout for three government-sanctioned minutes while enduring a lethal shock to the clavicle that grows in strength with each gamepad input >before passing out on piss-stained sheets, watching the Nestlézon drones pulsing through the sky to bomb the neighboring residential block for the third time this cycle and falling asleep to the screams of his ultra double un-good neighbors being blasted apart limb from limb (they voted for cleaner drinking water in last month's housing survey) Yeah yeah, nice bait dude. I bet you're posting from your cozy X-POD 360k right now in one of those ivory towers above the second layer of toxic smog too, aren't you?

This reminds me of when Christfags used to post on /b/ lmao