We all have a choice to not partake. But extremely few people are willing to give up the comfort and conveniences of modern civilization.

Fidelity creep is also a thing. Unless you’re going for a deliberately retro look, you need high detail assets and lots of them on screen at once. Otherwise you’ll never hear the end of “gaem bad cuz PS2 grafix lol.”

Environment textures are huge. Main character textures are huge. And you’re not loading just one file, you’re loading multiple files per model. The diffuse map, the specular map, the reflection map, the normal map, the subsurface scattering map for any organic models. And gods help you if your character model has interchangeable parts, because you’ll be loading the whole set of textures for every element of those as well. These things add up very quickly.

And you still need space in the RAM for your code and physics and worldsim calculations, animations, everything going on under the hood. So I dunno, 16 doesn’t sound outlandish these days.

The OS takes its chunk of RAM. And I’d imagine most people don’t close all unnecessary background processes when launching a game. So they’ll have Steam and Epic and Discord and the management software for their RGB (multiple, if the individual components are mismatched) and their browser with like 30 tabs open in the background. Under these circumstances, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that 8GB of RAM is gone even before the game is launched.

Let people enjoy things and set your games difficulty setting to where you have the most fun, now sit down.

So install the mod and set your difficulty where you like it, while the rest of us don’t need to deal with any of that git gud shit.

Not everything needs to be a soulslike.

What about the Covid period? Kinda hard to have a school shooting when kids aren’t going to school, I’d imagine.

My local PC hardware store offers assembly and setup services for ~20€. Includes installing and updating the OS and drivers, as well as stress testing to verify that the components perform as expected. More places should offer that option, really. Especially if they also sell pre-built PCs that are assembled in-house.

“Respect” is commonly used in two wildly different ways. To some, it means being treated as an authority. To others, it means being treated as a person. Then there’s the absolute shitstains who say “If you won’t respect me, then I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me as an authority, I won’t treat you as a person.”

Being treated as a person is given. Being treated as an authority is earned. And if you on’t do anything to prove you’re capable of being an authority, you don’t deserve to be treated as such.

Russian crew launches are done for an indefinite period. It’s entirely possible that Baikonur is just out of commission. If the pad is even capable of launching in its current condition, doing so would likely cause even more damage. So while the pad itself isn’t exactly destroyed, its capability for crewed launches certainly is. Until repairs are made.

That they also won’t use on R&D. Or healthcare. Or housing. Or feeding people. Those things aren’t shit for a lack of resources to fund them, they’re shit for a lack of interest in funding them.