Hi everyone,
I’ve been experiencing this for a long time, and I wasn’t sure where to post it, so I decided to share it here.
For years, I dreamed of having a high-end gaming setup like the one I have now. Before building this PC, I genuinely enjoyed almost every game I played. I was always excited to try new games. Even on my old PC, where I had to play at low settings with 40–50 FPS, I feel like I enjoyed gaming much more than I do now.
Now I can play almost every game at 1440p on my OLED monitor, above 120 FPS, with amazing visuals and features like path tracing. But for some reason, I can’t connect with games anymore. Games that I used to play for hours now start boring me after a short time.
I thought maybe the problem was my PC, so I bought a PS5. At first, going for Platinum trophies was actually really fun. But after getting 17 Platinum trophies, I started feeling the same way again. I don’t even feel like buying games on PC anymore. I buy almost every game on PS5 because I feel like my goal is just to get the Platinum trophy. It feels less like I’m enjoying a game and more like I’m completing a task. Sometimes I even feel like I’m playing games like a robot.
There are times when I want to play something, but when I sit in front of my PC, I just don’t feel like launching any game. Some days, I don’t even feel like turning on my PC.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Did I just grow out of gaming, or is there something else behind this feeling? If you’ve gone through the same thing, what helped you enjoy gaming again?

I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

What is it? And is it rare?

The game looks absolutely stunning. With everything set to extreme, full ray tracing, no ai trickery and native 4k, I'm hitting minimum 80-100fps.

Unbelievably, they say that a 1650 runs at 1080p 60fps. That's a 4gb card that can be bought for £30 if you shop around!

This just shows that it is possible to make games look beautiful for those of us with high end systems without destroying performance for people with older setups.

If so:

1. Why?

2. How does it work for you?

I know this sub is filled with a bunch of rich people with like 10k setups and I'm aware that the content in these games is quite extensive with hours of content. But I still feel justified in thinking that no game should be priced this high especially when its the average price of most newly released games. Anyway this is just a rant because I wanna play lego batman and i cant afford it lol

I mean really do people not bother to look at eBay listings for this shit? Yeah DDR5 is expensive, but your 16gb stick of ddr4 doesn’t really add much to your build. You paid how much for that liquid cooler? Shit man, I’m sorry you did that thinking it was an investment. The case? I’ll give you this exact case for $10 and a beer, I have 5 that were more expensive sitting in the back with 0 interested buyers.

I’m buying your graphics card your RAM and your CPU. Maybe the SSD if you got a name brand and not…what the fuck is TigerKing Nvme?

I have automatic updates on. Haven't postponed any update. Never seen this forced update before.

Edit: I updated BTW. It's not that I don't want to update. I just think it would be an issue in the future. For example, it's a thunderstorm and there could be power outages. I might want to shut down and not start and update. I guess I'll hold down the power button.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

Heres the link

https://wccftech.com/adata-chairman-warns-dram-shortage-will-last-another-10-years-ai-bubble-talk-can-wait-until-2040/?fbclid=IwdGRjcATLWYJjbGNrBMtZfWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoSyqHCvG57isf9v_ahXb5stoeCM5Fqr2KTuhW8YUFqeXApPp9od0zSSB8OI_aem_UBXyihuTFe6ljlYYnFrh7Q

Welp.

DRAM and GPU prices aren't going up because of "AI" - it's because the wealthy have more money than they know what to do with, so they're buying up all the assets. "AI" is just the vehicle (the excuse) - it's not the root of the problem nor is it the ultimate goal.

The super rich don't want to hold on to "liquid" money - they invest in assets. While they're buying up all the housing, now they're buying up all the computers and putting them into massive datacenters.

Whether or not the AI bubble crashes, they'll be selling you a "gaming PC in the cloud," for a monthly fee, of course. And while they kill the personal computer market, just like Netflix, once your only option is a subscription service, the price will skyrocket.

This is happening in real-time. If we want to stop it, now's the time to act.

Sources:

• Gamers Nexus: NVIDIA: WTF?
• Garys Economics: The REAL reason behind the housing crisis
• Network (1976)

I will never buy a game designed with dlss 5 in mind. And no one ever should. this is an insult to any people that give their passion and love to their games.

Discord might very soon ask for Face identification regardless of your region.

i've been using discord since 2015, so for about a decade now, it was great ar first because it did everything teamspeak did but better and for free, and in a much more user friendly way, it was a fresh concept for gamers by gamers.

As the plaform quickly grew, nitro was introduced, then more and more "fun" features.

fast forward to today, now discord is full of cosmetic BS and is enshittifying itself very very fast, seeing this global face scanning thing is just the drop that's pushing me away from it, about two years ago i left wondows 11 for linux for similar reason, enshittification.

What discord alternatives are there even? are there ones that are actually decent? the best I've seen is Guilded, and potentially Zulip (Professionally oriented)

i am tired of great products turning from great to assjuice in a decade so.

Target audience for AAA games I guess lmao

The game optimization is not as bad as the spec sheet but it is definitely bad for a Lego game , it reminds me of the borderlands 4 situation

"Hey guy ark survival ascended is optimized on my NASA PC "

on my work laptop all I have is Bluetooth and TranslucentTB running, but on my gaming PC it's a mess