Oh boy. Thanks for the context, by the way! I did not know that about the history of PC gaming.

I did learn cursive, but I have been playing games on laptops since I was little too and was never told I had to learn PC building. And to be completely honest, although knowledge is good, I am very uninterested in doing that especially since I have an object that serves my needs.

I have the perspective to realize that I have been on the “other side” of the WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE SATISFIED, LEARN MORE AND CHANGE TO BE LIKE US side, although I’m exaggerating because I don’t actually push others to take on my decisions. I don’t spam the uninterested to come to Linux, but I do want people who get their needs adequately served by Windows to jump to Linux anyways because I want to see Windows 11, with even more forced telemetry and shoved-in AI and things just made worse, fail. Even though that would actually be more work for satisfied Windows users.

But I would not downvote a happy Windows user for not wanting to switch, and that kind of behavior is frowned upon, is it just more acceptable to be outwardly disapproving to those who do not know about GPUs and are satisfied with what they have with zero desire to upgrade? I don’t have Sufficient Gamer Cred and am being shown the “not a Real Gamer” door? I think my comment was civil and polite so I really don’t understand the disapproval. If it is just “not a Real Gamer” I’ll let it roll off my back, though I did think the Gaming community on Lemmy was better than that… I would understand the reaction if I rolled up to c/GPUs with “I don’t care about this :)” and got downvoted. Is Gaming secretly kind of also c/GPUs and I just did not know that?

Okay I literally just realized it is probably because I hopped on a thread about GPUs and do not know about the topic being posted about. Whoops. Sorry.

Thank you for explaining!

Thank you for explaining! I am not sure why people are reacting badly to my statement, is knowledge of GPUs something every gamer is expected to have and I am violating the social contract by being clueless?

I’ll absolutely punish your eyeballs with just some stuff on steam that will leave these two games looking absolutely mainstream.

Genuinely curious since that sounds interesting. What games are these?

I’ll be honest, I have never paid attention to GPUs and I don’t understand what your comment is trying to say or (this feels selfish to say) how it applies to me and my comment. Is this intended to mostly be a reply to me, or something to help others reading the thread?

Feels like this and Little Library might have really similar audiences, even if Little Library leans more life sim, having farming and fishing despite those not being something you would associate with running a library. Books are cool. Little me read them all the time, now I read on my phone.

Makes me appreciate reviews that are able to give pros and cons to the game, and the ones that are able to say an opinion between “best game ever” and “absolute trash”. Which I still often see on the Steam reviews, usually voted as one of the Most Helpful!

Artstyle reminds me of Minecraft. Wonder if there were any tycoon game mods made for it…

Here you will not meet complex mechanic.

Oof, the typo…

The huge amount of demos I have been downloading lately is your fault (facetious)

I’m having a good time on a laptop with no fancy graphics card and have no desire to buy one.

I also do not look for super high graphical fidelity, play mostly indies instead of AAA, and am like 5 years behind the industry, mostly buying old gems on sale, so my tastes probably enable this strategy as much as anything else.

I am back in for exercise reasons. I’m enjoying Dynamax as far as I can go being just one person—mostly because I live near two Dynamax spots and nothing else, and never played a mainline game with Dynamaxing so I do not know how different or how much of a betrayal it is from the mainline version of the mechanic. Curious to hear how it is greedy (honest question, not an aggressive “prove you’re right!!! because they are not!!11!1!”).

Yes, but not sure where this question is coming from.

Kind of frustrating that I am asking nice discussion questions, provide a little direction on what answers could be or an answer myself, and do not get too much engagement, but I do see lots of upvotes on just… images. I am here for discussion, not a duplicate of Pixiv.

Interesting read, mostly accessible for someone who has not and will never play Balatro. (Roguelikes just are not my thing, and for an irrational reason I cannot pin down, card games are a really quick turnoff.)

I can see myself just watching the hamsters run around on the road. Cute. Adds to my mental list of city builders with animals.

• Against the Storm (various animals, roguelike, not playing this myself because of that and its darker atmosphere)
• Timberborn (beavers)
• Whiskerwood (mice, oppressed by cats)