grrr i cant enjoy my zelda

Ah… the gaming industry: They are selling luxury goods. And their attitude towards customers is – in my opinion – Kafkaesque… in whatever way I look at it.
Having decided to leave PC gaming behind about the year 2003, my knowledge about required hardware for gaming is a little bit outdated. Now talking about emulation rather than direct PC gaming complicates the matter. Generally emulation introduces a HUGE overhead and requires the emulating device to be A LOT more powerful than what it wants to emulate.

The Switch as a hybrid between handheld and TV console had to make compromises in terms of hardware power, so it is (obviously) within the range of powerful PCs by now. My feeling tells me it requires a pretty beefy computer (CPU, GPU). Going into the upper class of CPU+GPU… boy that gets expensive. A big graphics card alone can easily reach four digit €€€€ price.

I bought this years ago (never do gaming on PC) and it will have to suffice for another 4 or 5 years. Most powerful GPU I ever bought… since some non-graphics applications can make use of GPU for acceleration… honestly, most of the time it is almost idle.


There is however a cheaper alternative. An almost unheard-of-insider-tip. Really freaky: How about buying a Nintendo Switch for playing Switch games?

KleinesSinchen said:

There is however a cheaper alternative. An almost unheard-of-insider-tip. Really freaky: How about buying a Nintendo Switch for playing Switch games?

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I don't have money for a used 3DS OR EVEN PIZZA TOWER ON STEAM, you expect me to buy a 300$ switch (200$ if im buying the lite version which, ewww) AND spend 70$ for tears of the kingdom???

also yes i sometimes stop thinking about what i have and i don't have and appreciate life...

...ONLY TO COME BACK TO IT AND SUFFER ONCE MORE.

I have to blather away with that topic. It won't hurt if you actually read it.

EpikJimmer said:

I don't have money for a used 3DS OR EVEN PIZZA TOWER ON STEAM, you expect me to buy a 300$ switch (200$ if im buying the lite version which, ewww) AND spend 70$ for tears of the kingdom???

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I don't expect you to do anything. Just optimizing.

Goal: Playing a brand new game.
Limiting factor: Money.
Since earning money and having enough left for luxury goods is hard, it is more likely to sooner be able to afford the cheaper thing (Switch) than the more expensive thing (top class PC).
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EpikJimmer said:

also yes i sometimes stop thinking about what i have and i don't have and appreciate life...

...ONLY TO COME BACK TO IT AND SUFFER ONCE MORE.

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Our (capitalist) world is centered around this. Many (if not most) people never break free from that vicious cycle. And if they did, our economy build around eternal+exponential growth would collapse (It will at some point nevertheless since exponential growth can't work with finite resources → one single planet).
Some people (advertisers) have the one job in our society to make you, me and everybody else unhappy with what they have. They have the job to infect us with desires, with envy with destructive feelings… while the temporary remedy is obtaining something, which will be superseded by the next product a moment later. In my opinion blocking ads on the internet (and trying to avoid advertising elsewhere as good as possible) is self-defense in order to keep mental stability.

Indeed even attempting to break free is hard beyond any description. Not being satisfied with what we have is part of human nature – and it is a very productive trait. This trait is what made us build the advantages, comforts and conveniences (high tech society) – just compare our lifestyle to the era before powerful engines and transport machines.
Nevertheless any trait, even a good one like aiming for the better, can and will become negative when going extreme (just look what we are doing to our planet).

We have one other trait, which could be our savior: Intelligence. With our ability to abstract and think about circumstances, with the ability to create fictive chains of causality in our brains, we are theoretically able to restrain parts of ourselves from becoming counterproductive. Granted, I have low expectancy regarding the majority, but no reason to not try yourself.

If you suffer from not having something, use your intelligence to tell yourself again and again that this isn't productive (unless you are in archaic desperation/survival mode not having food/water – then try everything to satisfy your needs). Read some good books. Although not the answer to everything, it is an important puzzle piece getting distance from the modern, ever increasing and accelerating world.

A Translation of Faust I said:

Wagner
[…]
One's sated soon if on the woods and fields he look;
I'll never envy any bird his wing.
How differently the joys of spirit bring
Us on from page to page, from book to book!
Then winter nights become so sweet and fair,
A blessed life warms up our every limb;
And ah! if one unrolls a parchment really rare,
The whole of Heaven descends on him.
Faust
By one impulse alone are you impressed.
Oh, never learn to know the other!
Two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast;
And each is fain to leave its brother.
The one, fast clinging, to the world adheres
With clutching organs, in love's sturdy lust;
The other strongly lifts itself from dust
To yonder high, ancestral spheres.
Oh, are there spirits hovering near,

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Faust is an excellent starting point – he is suffering from the very same: The urge for more.
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We all know this feeling → Desperately wanting to have something and not being able to get it.
I'm myself standing in front of a pile of broken glass (hope this metaphor works in the English language) myself right now. There is much more I want to have than some random video game (granted, I have enough of them for life anyway and am unable to play them for the most, so the seemingly(!) insatiable urge for more finally fell silent at some point) and I can't have it. I will experience hell on earth moving to concrete desert very soon. I just want to continue living in a green village, but I can't have it due to the selfishness and evilness of other people. Losing what you have and took for granted can be even harder than not having something in the first place.

woahhhhh that's the biggest post i've ever seen on this forum.

KleinesSinchen said:

If you suffer from not having something, use your intelligence to tell yourself again and again that this isn't productive

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Intelligence? HA. What even is that? Some kind of new band?

don't worry i know what's right what's wrong what's bullshit (have you SEEN american beauty?), but damn it i grew up always getting the new THING. Like, oh, the dsi came out, even though i have a DS lite? YES. Oh, what's that? The dsi doesn't have flipnote studio preinstalled and you have to DOWNLOAD it like any sane person would? Nahhhh, buy a dsi xl instead? OH THE 2DS EXISTS (we all know how that one turned out).

Now I barely bought a headset for like 8$. I'm trying to ignore it but damn it my intrusive thoughts like fucking me over every day.

KleinesSinchen said:

I just want to continue living in a green village, but I can't have it due to the selfishness and evilness of other people. Losing what you have and took for granted can be even harder than not having something in the first place.

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i can kiiinda relate to that (not really but kinda)(ok maybe not). I used to live on a really nice house for my whole life and the neighborhood was really nice. It had a sense of greenery, it was peaceful and, most importantly, it was nice! Now i'm stuck in these narrow streets with the only view i can have being the houses on the other side, literally no light comes into the house except in specific spots. Also, my old house had like 3-4 floors and it was actually ours. Now we have to pay rent for a very meh appartment. Granted, i got used to this whole thing and besides, i'm in the same city, just different neighborhood so that's definetely good but idk man.

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