- HATEFISH ( @HATEFISH@midwest.social ) 16•3 months ago
Things are worse that’s for sure. I don’t care if that sounds hipster ish or gatekeepy, the vc bros finding another hobby to infect has not been good overall.
- steal_your_face ( @steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months ago
How could more people playing PC games be worse? Even if they’re VC bros or normies or whatever I’m having trouble seeing a downside.
- Nik282000 ( @nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 15•3 months ago
PC gaming has been a thing since PCs began. Good devs will make good games, shit devs will make a 14th version of CoD. There is no vendor lock-in, no platform restrictions, compile your game and ship it. If it’s good people will buy it.
edit: a letter
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) 12•3 months ago
I find the article bizarre. Nearly every single guy I know has or had a gaming PC. Some lucky bastards got them when they were 10 years old or younger, while I got mine way in my teens (poor family). As a comp-sci grad it was nigh 100% who had one, and working in tech there were definitely lots of them (and board games + DnD were quite popular).
Either I lived in a bubble or the article is uniquely describing the North American experience. Nobody ever told me to my face they found it weird to leave a party to watch eSports or play a few rounds of whatever MMO was around at the time.
Reading that it’s now “mainstream” just doesn’t fit my experience. It was already popular before my time.
- Jako301 ( @Jako301@feddit.de ) 13•3 months ago
You are definetly in a bubble, even if its a pretty big one. Owning a pc is pretty much a prerequisite for going into comp-science or working in IT.
Out of all the 30 odd people I know of at my workplace, one other apart from me has a gaming pc, and two others have consoles. The rest doesn’t play any games at all.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 9•3 months ago
I am 39. I have lived in California my whole life and I barely know anyone with their own PC other than myself. Gaming in general wasn’t even as mainstream as it is now, let alone PC gaming.
When I read about the PC scene I Europe during the 90’s, it makes me jealous I was born American because yeah; it wasn’t very common here. I’m not even sure how common it is now. Most people I meet who even play games are 15-20 years younger than me.
- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•3 months ago
Nothing. Let the boring people enjoy their boring games made by soulless corporations. Just leave the indie scene alone :)
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 4•3 months ago
Become hipsters, play Majong and Solitaire exclusively, absolutely overrun Twitch with it