now, required qualifier… if i didn’t have a decent computer right now i would be hating this. additional qualifier, when CNN was blatantly defying all reason for some ridiculous hubris that would validate human beings as a species if they successfully kept broadcasting through the end of the world with this corny, eerie goodbye to the world, a promise which is still bond i believe… if you look hard enough you should be able to find it on the interwebs. not so much for the real thousand points of light in the souls of black folk that george h.w. bush stole and repurposed as one of his personal political platforms, sheesh… but back off that tangent… if defcon one wasn’t a serious factor in the narrative that drives cold war and the cold war itself didn’t loom so tall over our extinction when we were in grade school this might not be such an issue for gene z’ers if we wanted to play salty about it… yet here’s little timothy throwing caution to the wind and enjoying those huge maps that still kinda qualify as future technology when we picked up our latest p.c. and played it… because we lived it… it might be something that the average patriot would feel comfortable with his kids playing at, or not. let me clarify with my little cute wikipedia defcon chart.
paraphrasing drake, observe the speed with which both sides go from zero to 100 when the walls start closing in. i’ll just leave that one to your discretion. oh, and if your wondering where i got a functioning work keyboard thats capable of snip editing a webpage you can get one from the original manufacturers of pocket protector status symbols logitech. if you get it through that link i get a few dollars, i agree… why would you want to. however, back on topic, provided your computer is fairly new, as p.c. game clients for the most part work so all of their games are backwards and forwards compatible and play more efficiently on newer hardware, i know i overuse this stupid phrase, but the industry is as we speak is concocting your magic medicine. activision has consolidated its stable of cash cow call of duty games into one concise, aesthetically pleasing, blizzard launcher that makes you actually want and wish you had the hardware to run that next seventy dollar grenade. fun fact, the u.s. military does still as we speak, just for shits and giggles have their own free video game available on steam (excuse the profanity.) it’s called america’s army but they probably decided that they are not in the business of making video games even though i do believe it runs on the unreal graphical engine and we all know it’s not going to be triple A but rolling with unreal it’s hard to miss. i’m pretty sure they get kickbacks from the whales and sharks that occupy the sphere of your favorite military game, plus diablo… i mean, who doesn’t want to be a damned weak heretic, ya know? plus i would have to think that epic is quietly doing their thing with their client, which quietly exists as one of the few, if not the only place you can procure the remasters of the crysis trilogy… they have to be with the real pièce de résistance of the trio (you damned right i looked that up i ain’t haitian.) not a fall from grace but a reiteration that is held back by it’s reliance on novelty and stupid decisions like the game being a daytime op to show off their, future technology, impossible to render at the time, shaders. the franchise can either be purchased separately or as a bundle and the games are all still great. plus, the highest graphical setting is “but can it run crysis,” and if, like most of us, you have a 1080p monitor and a modest rtx card… you can. like i said, when phil spencer announced that the xbox series x was going to be pretty much bar none compatible with every previous xbox release and the audience creamed themselves… the p.c. lover’s apathetic eye rolling was probably plenty palpable. the question you have to ask yourself as a p.c. user… because the market is slowly creeping back is. do i have room in my budget for a 1500$ pleasure purchase because, if you can afford it or not, you know the drill.
peace,
the ummi