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Kolanaki, do gaming w GeForce Now adding ads for free users.
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by allowing you to game on a GeForce PC for free

Are they implying that soon they’re gonna charge you a subscription just to have one of their fuckin’ graphics cards?

Poopfeast420,
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No? I really hope this isn't a serious question, because I can't imagine how you'd come to this conclusion, if you read the full sentence.

helenslunch,
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No they’re not

beefcat,
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This is about GeForce Now, their streaming service.

ares35, do piracy w songs are unsorted in album, how should i fix this?
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

'looks right to me', says mr. markdown.

Getallen,

Yeah bro every song is the first so they dont feel left our

Jasontheguitarist, do piracy w songs are unsorted in album, how should i fix this?

Musicbrainz Picard will tag them automatically. Drag the files into the left pane, click cluster, then click lookup. If a match is found everything will move over the right pane, if it looks right click save.

MarioSpeedWagon, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...

To each their own but I disliked both of those games. The only ps exclusive I’m interested in at all is Spider-Man and it will come to pc eventually. Probably just going to get a pc when the ps6 comes around.

forgotaboutlaye, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...

The PS4 is an amazing value for the number of fantastic exclusives that it has, even though that number is dropping. You can still play Uncharted 1-3, TLOU2, and Ghost of Tsushima just to name a few.

ADHDefy, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...
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I feel this. Spider-Man 2 is coming out in October for PS5 and it'll probably be at least a year or two until we get it on PC.

I have ADHD and Spider-Man is one of my hyperfixations/special interests, so it is going to be painful for a bit there. lol

termus,
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I bought a PS4 specifically for the first Spider-Man game. Played the crap out of it and the DLCs. I really haven’t touched it since. I honestly never thought they would bring their games to PC. Not going to get me this time!

Toribor,
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Spiderman is what got me to purchase a PS4. I’ve rebought almost everything on PC though so I think I learned my lesson this time (still waiting on Bloodborne and Ghost of Tsushima 😞).

Faydaikin, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Not really my type of games, so… They can keep 'em.

Although I am quite against all that exclusivity silliness.

verysoft,

They are more watching than playing. All coming to pc anyway now, so could grab them super cheap eventually anyway if you really wanted.

Faydaikin,
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I do have a firm policy regarding games that are and were exclusives. I don’t buy them even if they eventually come to my neck of the woods.

If they didn’t want my money then, they aren’t getting a dime now. Pretty simple.

But as I said, neither game really had any interest to begin with. So there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have picked them up anyway.

verysoft,

Yeah, was more the point of why even buy consoles at this point if you really enjoy gaming. Consoles are great for quick plug and play sure, but with just minimal setup you can have a much better machine that pays for itself in the long run due to the cheaper games and lack of forced online subscriptions.

I agree, I don't think any exclusives are good enough to justify buying a specific console.

evilviper,

I think you are vastly minimizing the “plug and play” aspect of consoles and that the common person has a machine that can run games with a “minimal setup”. While PC gaming has plenty of benefits: I think you’re downplaying how much time, money, and energy you have to waste to PC game.

Steps to play on a console: 1) Turn on the system, 2a) Maybe if you’re unlucky and a new patch comes out the same day you want to resume playing you have to patch the game, 2b) Play game (possibly even resume playing where you left off so you’re literally instantly back into the game). Time-to-play: Maybe 20 seconds? (granted a little longer on last-gen, but also this gen you can be back in a game literally within 5 seconds).

Steps to play on a pc: 1) Turn on pc, 2) Turn on (or launch) steam/egs/gog/etc, 3) hope game was updated, 4) hope drivers are updated, 5a) launch game, 5b) maybe sign into another 3rd party launcher, 6) load fully into the game, 7) play game. Time-to-play: 1-5 minutes depending on if the computer is fully off or just in sleep. Possibly much, much longer.

But WAIT, maybe the game isn’t running great so you have to alt+tab out and make sure you didn’t leave something running in the background, or your 100+ tabs in chrome/ff/etc are hogging all the ram and needs to be closed; maybe new drivers came out that you need to download/install to get the game running right, maybe the new drivers made the game worse and you have to revert them. Maybe the controller you wanted to play the game on disconnected or otherwise malfunctioned and now you have to restart the game the get it to pick up the controller. Maybe the DRM on the game has hitched up and you’re locked out of the game. Maybe you get a windows update that closes the game for you so it can helpfully install whatever new updates are available for you. etc etc.

TehPers,

I can’t say my experience playing PC games comes even close to that.

  1. My PC is already on - it’s a multipurpose machine, so I was already using it for something else.
  2. Steam opens on startup, no need to open it.
  3. Steam auto-updates the game in the background. No need to wait.
  4. I don’t think I’ve ever needed to update a driver to play a game. Also, regularly updating most drivers is actually not recommended, and you should only really be updating them if something’s broken. Graphics card drivers you might want to update now and then, but even then it’s rare that a graphics card driver makes a game suddenly playable. This seems comparable to firmware updates for consoles, although the last two consoles I used were a Switch and I think a PS3 so my memory’s a bit hazy there.
  5. Yes, third party launchers are obnoxious. It still only takes maybe 10 seconds at most to get most games opened though, from my experience. Not all games use third party launchers either, but sadly a lot of the bigger games do.
  6. Being able to continue easily where you left off does seem like a benefit consoles have. It’d be interesting to see that on PC, although I have yet to find a need for it since you can save practically anywhere in most games anyway, with the exception of cutscenes and tutorials I guess.

It takes me maybe 10-20 seconds to get most games that I play open on my machine, excluding the obnoxious splash screens games have when you open them which is the reason I think #6 might be a compelling argument. With the splash screens, it’s easily 2-3 minutes because more than half of that is sitting there staring at some stupid brand logos.

Of course, I already have a PC for other reasons, and the PC’s hardware is more than capable of playing games (moreso than most consumer gaming consoles at least, if not all), so I’ve never really felt like there was much reason to get a console, with the exception of a Switch since it’s a handheld. There’s already an enormous catalogue of games to play on PC, so it’s not like I’m missing out on much. Also, I might be a bit unique in that I’m using my PC all the time anyway. For someone who doesn’t use a PC very much, I could see a console being more appealing due to it being a dedicated gaming device.

Zagaroth,
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Bingo, you’ve described my experience exactly. My computer is almost never off.

BartsBigBugBag,

That’s wasteful.

Zagaroth,
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If it wasn’t usually running something and was idling, it would be more so. But generally speaking, I have something occupying it.

TexMexBazooka, do gaming w GeForce Now adding ads for free users.

giggles in 7900 xtx

makingStuffForFun, do gaming w GeForce Now adding ads for free users.
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I can get a free gforce? And I have to watch ads in exchange? No? So there’s no free users.

Coki91,
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You can get it, and you have to watch no ads, as of right now, it’s been 4 years running like that im sincerely apalled this is breaking in now, I would have thought the current form to be unsubtainable long ago but i’ve been playing on the free tier 2 years by now

makingStuffForFun,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh, so it’s a streaming gaming service? Where you don’t need a gforce card?

Coki91,
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Correct, so long your device supports streaming video like Youtube, you may use it.

Ranslite, do piracy w songs are unsorted in album, how should i fix this?
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Edit ID3 Tag with the correct Tracknumbers.

404CameranotFound, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...

PlayStation exclusives are basically movies with gameplay sprinkled in instead of the other way around. Makes it boring for me

mistermc101, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...

the whole horizon series is mid at best, I’m craving a ghost of Tsushima port and tlou 2

elscallr,
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Zero Dawn was a lot of fun but it's the only Horizon title I've played.

lnxtx, do cyberbezpieczenstwo w 2024-01-17 12:00 - Parlamentarny Zespół: Niejasności wokół problemów z pojazdami Impuls
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AltF4, do piracy w songs are unsorted in album, how should i fix this?

MP3tag is a great app for fixing ID tags on audio files. You can pull info from online databases, add album art, add tags based on file names, or rename files based on tags. www.mp3tag.de/en/

user224,

I’d also recommend Kid3: kid3.kde.org

stappern, do gaming w The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West...

I have an hacked PS4 so I can play all those.

Not really worth it

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