I will ask if she wants a drink, then request she makes me one too when she says yes.

I never offered to make it, only asked if she WANTED one.

I will then go make her a drink of course, and I’m not sure she’s ever found it funny, but I’m amused.

You can’t conflate one thing, by definition it requires more than one. That’s enbarrassing.

It’s all about getting the consistency right

Even in petrol cars automatic transmissions are more common than manual for new cars now. Automatic has just become better and better, and there’s just very little reason to have a manual these days.

100%

What an insane point to make. If you’re a car person then of course you’ll admire others’ cars, even if you’re not, they’re often great bits of design and good fun in the right setting.

It’s only stupid if you then go out and try to get something to compete with it for more than you can afford to spend. I have no idea what the poster you replied to is talking about.

Yes on par is stretching the truth very thinly for sure (today at least), the gap is closing though and eventually I expect phones will be running AAA games too. It will take some more large developments in phones before it’s realistically possible but I can totally see phones being “dockable” becoming the form in future, and I expect mobile gaming will have some big changes if that does happen.

There’s that lack of comprehension I’ve grown to love you for xD

Quoting things I haven’t said seems a bit weird too bud…

You’re very welcome, although not actually an insult, again I’m just making the point as I see it. This one being that you appear to be an actual child.

I consider failure to make a coherent point an actual failure, so thanks for that :) x

You claimed it was lightyears behind to be fair, nobody said it’d be an equal to today’s gaming rigs but the gap has certainly closed a bit.

Current phones are more powerful than a switch already, which is releasing AAA games that people are buying so some people are perfectly happy playing a game with moderate gfx and performance. I can absolutely see AAA games being designed for phones in the future and docking in a similar way.

I think the last time I heard anyone say this sincerely was in school.

Your lack of comprehension is making a little more sense. Thanks mate :) x

Yes that, but one that can be lifted up and taken with you in your pocket:) x

Read my response again mate, the irony of telling me to read better is kinda delicious xD

My guy, you responded to that comment. And you need me to repeat myself? Just read better.

No, I didn’t respond to that comment, I responded to the comment where you confidently and incorrectly stated that PoV wasn’t relevant :) x

I was making my point in the context of the thread mate. I.e. Will PCs dominate gaming in future? If your only point was that computers are more powerful than mobiles why not make that your response to my first comment? I thought this was a discussion about whether PCs will continue to be as relevant in gaming as they are today, and I don’t think they will.

I guess my point isnt that your original point is wrong, it’s more that it’s not particularly relevant in this instance. And the PoV of the user is far more important (as evidenced by all those switch only gamers).

LOL their entire point was that PCs were popular because “everyone has one”.

Who’s entire point was that…? Because I just read every parent comment to this and it’s not mentioned once, the only point I’m making is that I expect the majority of gaming to be done on mobile in the eventual future.

The world’s best phone will be “outstripped” by a basic desktop costing half the price. Always. Simple physics.

This may be true today, but as PCs become only specialist equipment those basic machines will get rarer and rarer. It also doesn’t matter if the smartphone is capable of playing AAA games at a comparable quality.

Slightly amused by the point you make about mobile/switch revenues… How is it that you can argue the PCs win vs switch because they earn more money, then in the next breath ignore the fact that mobile does that against all other gaming combined?

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I’m not trying to defend anyone bud I’m just making the points as I see them. How does my comment go against their argument though? PCs have been getting phased out for decades and that’ll continue.

Of course PCs will always be more powerful, but mobiles only need to be powerful ENOUGH (just like the very successful Switch console). I’m saying that eventually both mobiles and PCs will be powerful enough to play games at a quality most will accept, and only the hardcore will feel the need to get the absolute top tier experience, just like audiophiles do already.

Board games once outperformed the entire video games market too, things do change though.

Perfectly happy to admit the worlds best PC will always outstrip the worlds best phone, just like the world best earbuds will never outperform the world’s best speakers, but that’s not relevant to my point at all :) x

I’m not talking about the next 5 or 10 years either mate, I’m talking about 20 or 50 years, assuming society still exists.

And FYI, mobile gaming outstrips PC gaming by revenue already (PC and console combined in fact), you can expect to see it grow (whether for the right or wrong reasons) down the years as the tech allows for more actual “true gaming” options on phones that can be exploited by the corps.

No it sure doesn’t.

It really does…

Phones have already replaced PCs for lots of people. 20 years ago almost every household had a desktop but 95% of what was completed on it can now be achieved with a phone, to the extent that plenty of houses don’t even bother with a computer any more.

Eventually the technology gets to a point where it can fill that slot for gaming too, it’ll never replace all of it and specialist equipment will always exist obviously. Most people don’t need to be at the peak of tech though (or even near it) and we already see lots of gaming households who just play switch, which is far below modern capabilities of games.

A phone doesn’t need to be competitive with modern PCs to become a strong option for gaming, the overall technology just needs to get far enough that most don’t notice the improvements you get from specialist equipment like gaming rigs.

It’s the gaming equivalent of earbuds vs a proper sound system. People will always exist that are enthusiasts and can hear the difference, but most of us are happy with a convenient pair of buds to listen to music and podcasts with.

Why would it need to stay that way though? Once a phone has similar processing power there’s no reason you couldn’t hook it up to any screen and Bluetooth a controller.

We’re a few decades from that if I had to guess (based on very little, I’m not an expert at all), but seems totally plausible to me.

I imagine chess players laughed in a similar way when pong came out.

What is a tablespoon in the US then? In the UK a tablespoon is probably not that much more common than a ladle, it’s much bigger than anything you’d use to eat with and generally is used as a serving spoon or a measurement when cooking/baking.

Our “common” spoon which is mouth sized is called a dessert spoon.

Surely you understand why people would judge that decision as dickish then right? You understand that if everyone had the same mentality it’d be chaos? That it’s basically a “well, I got mine!” attitude?

Any of these things? X

No? I didn’t think so. Ah well.

If you live off the grid and support yourself completely then more power to you. Doesn’t sound like that’s the case though and you can’t simply decide to not pay tax because you disagree with SOME decisions the government makes. I’m not even from the US but I don’t like many decisions my government makes. I still pay tax though because it’s going to plenty of things I use and letting others pay my share is dickish behaviour. Me not agreeing with the military strategy or distribution of funds to healthcare is a separate issue and if you want to campaign to change that (or similar) that’s exactly what you should do (and again, more power to you).