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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Getting the etsy witches to put a hit out on Sam Altman

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

sam altman is just a useful puppet from the self-proclaimed anti-christ. has since largely fled to argentina, and you notice immediate reduction in influence in vance and altman.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why everyone is so upset about the price.

It's a gaming computer with steam on it.

It's significantly less than a gaming rig with similar specs that you can custom build.

It's a really good product for the price.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 54 minutes ago

A PS5 pro blows this out of the water for a lower price. This thing has less performance than a base PS5.

Valve targeted a price/performance point that did not exist anymore. They advertised 4k/60FPS, you're just not getting that with this box. They ended up targeting 1080p. As component prices got more expensive they ended up compromising on performance to keep the cost somewhat manageable, but ended up in a very unfavorable part of the price/performance curve. That's why it's so underwhelming to people.

You can build an equivalent or more powerful pc for slightly less than this. But if you're willing to shell out a couple hundred more, you get a multiple of the performance this thing offers. It's outcompeted on both price and performance.

I was quite hyped to get one of these but I'm not shelling out that money for what you get right now. I'd rather spend a little bit more to get something that will actually last and stay relevant for a few more years.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” — Mario Savio, 1964

[–] bfaliszek@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago

I appreciate that nobody used the weapon of our enemy to make this.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago

Get me a piece of paper and a pencil. We can play hangman or X's and O's, and not have to shell out hugely gross amounts of our hard earned cash. Everyone should start carrying a paperback novel and a deck of cards in their back pocket again. How about now tech bros? Can you cheat us now? Soon you will not be able to afford all of that hair product you use.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I guess I would buy this if I was a huge gamer, but I game on my pc and it's fine.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Why? You can buy an Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 for like $1,300 with a 2 year warranty. A QHD oled 240hz screen, 32gig ram, 1tb ssd with room for a second, 275HX, 5070ti. And it's a laptop so you can just unplug it and do whatever wherever in one unit.

I know they're going for the super compact convenient thing but that's a hell of a premium for what they're selling.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not the lmao part

In performance, it's just a mid-tier 6600XT-6700 equivalent.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Even a 6600XT is so overkill I have a RX 580 with a DDR3-era processor, and most games run at over 60 FPS, hell Elite Dangerous run fine at 80-85 FPS

I really struggle to understand why that much compute is needed for gaming It just comes as wasteful for me

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Even a 6600XT is so overkill

I game on a 1440p ultrawide monitor at my desk, and a 4k TV (though I don't actually game at 4k). I upgraded from a 6700XT to a RX 9070 after Expedition 33 ran like shit and couldn't run constant 60 fps on high settings even when dropped to 1080p with FSR. A 6600XT is hardly overkill.

Also, it's hardly wasteful when my 9070 performs better, yet runs cooler and actually has a lower tdp / wattage than the 6700 XT did.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I blame the competitive gamers that barely understand what theyre doing. I seen guys complaining about their frame rates dropping below 120 on a 2k display.

Maybe, something higher than 120 provides an advantage to players with extreme reactive skills in the most intense close quarter first-person combat, but there otherwise wouldnt be a reason to sustain anything above 120. I dont think there are any monitors that refresh above 120.

Imagine bottlenecking 200+ frames a second, at 2k resolution, through a 60 hertz monitor. What a waste of gpu.

[–] umfk@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I dont think there are any monitors that refresh above 120.

I'm sorry what are you talking about? I have a 240Hz monitor and you can easily buy one with over 500Hz. And 240 feels so much smoother than 120, even in story heavy games.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, wtf. I have a cheap (or was cheap at the time) LG 1440p ultrawide, nothing fancy, and it can do up to 165 Hz.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I see. I hope you’ve optimized your gpu, otherwise you could be burning out that thing for no good reason. The science behind how much visual information the brain can process is ongoing. I guess the consensus is that humans can process as much as 200 frames a second with some suggesting that a person could reach 1000 frames a second. That last one sounds ridiculous to me.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It's funny you blame competitive gamers who don't understand what they're doing, yet don't seem to know how any of this works.

Higher refresh rates reduce frame timing, reducing both visual and input latency. It's why a game at 30 fps often "feels" laggy compared to one at 60 or 120 fps. Even if you can't see the increased frame rate you can certainly feel input latency. It's also why "fake frames" from things like optiscaler or FSR/DLSS don't help when already at low frame rates, they actually increase latency, which is already bad when your frame times are higher.

I'm not into competitive gaming at all, btw, just sensitive to (and annoyed by) input lag.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Try something AAA made in this decade, on a monitor made in this decade. Valve also isn't marketing this as a retro console.

They said 60fps at 4k.

They lied.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Okay, Triple-A. What is one advantage or genuine improvement that Triple A has done on gaming in general that isn't just "yet another change to make things more realistic"? Asset streaming, huge worlds, hell the Nintendo 64 can do it.

We have so much computing power available on your mom's Dell Pavilion she uses at work that is just not even used to its full potential, just for the sake of "number go big" because Nvidia or AMD or Intel needs to sell more chips.

My computer has a Xeon E3-1220 V3 with 16 GB of RAM I do Gamedev, work development (with Rust AND C++ cross-compiling to both Windows and Linux), embedded development (ESP32), 3D modelling on Blender and more. Its Firefox with multiple tabs + YouTube running for music, VS Code, and whatever toolchains/compilers I need, on a dual monitor setup (fair its only dual 1366x768 but still two framebuffers) And I really need to push the computer through hell to make it stutter.

Why the fuck does gaming needs that much compute? What the hell are the devs doing that a fucking 6600 XT, which is a absolute behemoth with 2048 Cores and 8 fucking Gigs of memory struggles with?

Hell, I've made a fucking Dreamcast, which is a console from 2001 have 1:1 Parity with a fucking Linux game I made using Raylib with a full blown 3D 6DOF(6 Directions of Freedom) Flight racing game, loading and generating 3D geometry and calculating physics on the fly in runtime And that fucking thing predates the whole concept of graphics pipelines and shaders, it only has a PVR.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You don't have to sell me, I agree with you. I use a 3600 and a 6600XT and I play indies mostly.

...but that's not what the mainstream wants. They still want their giant blockbuster AAA pretty games and they'll pay for it. They'll have to lmao.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

*FSR enabled

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

I wanna know what's happening with all those finished wafers they bought.

If they aren't being made into memory modules I think someone should go to jail.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love how it's more expensive in Europe

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

How much more once you add tax? EU prices have tax factored in already.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So it costs $1050 which converts to 922€, so about 100€ more expensive.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The point is that in Europe sticker price always includes tax, you pay the exact amount there, while reputedly in the US it does not work that way.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah and also considering they gotta ship it from the US to the Netherlands warehouse which prolly isn’t free either

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is it made in the US though? It seems kinda silly to ship the parts from predominantly China to the US back to Europe.

Especially since IIRC the US PC market is smaller that that of Europe.

And also, tariffs.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

Honestly no clue. But I just checked my steam controller and it says „assembled in China“ so I guess not, but it still has to be shipped

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

I mean, if a fatwa halves the price, I'm happy to issue two!

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