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Last time used mining cards were selling at 20-30% of msrp so just wait till prices go down to the bottom. Pandemic is over, nobody wants/can play games instead
by alexklarjr 4y ago
Last time used mining cards were selling at 20-30% of msrp so just wait till prices go down to the bottom. Pandemic is over, nobody wants/can play games instead of life anymore.
- unethical_ban 4y agoI can't tell if you're being facetious or if you think no one games anymore.
- copperx 4y agoOP is probably excluding children and teenagers.
- ShamelessC 4y agoAnd adults born in the past 30-40 years?
- zagrebian 4y agoPeople have played games because life sucks even before the pandemic.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoIf your attitude towards life is that it sucks so I'll play computer games instead, it sounds like a negative feedback loop :)
- netmare 4y agoWell, negative feedback loops are generally more useful than positive ones. At least in electronics...
- turbonaut 4y agoI’m not sure if I’m reading it correctly, but if the reader has the inference / bias that playing games makes life suck, that would be a positive feedback loop (albeit with negative effects). Negative feedback loops are self correcting. So if games make life better it would indeed be one.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agodepends! maybe a negative feedback loop that keeps the equilibrium on the negative side I don't think control theory is equipped to deal with the nuisances of the human psyche x)
- yardie 4y agoI volunteer as a coach and we’re facing an enrollment drop due to the pandemic being over. When schools were closed we were considered one of the safer sports due to social distancing. Now, we’re losing kids to indoor online gaming and contact sports.
- happyopossum 4y agoWhat sport do you coach?
- yardie 4y agoYouth sailing. We had kids flying in from all over the world to learn and compete. Other youth sports such as basketball, soccer, football were effectively shutdown.
- Kon-Peki 4y agoThat’s crazy! Is it an intense competitive program? Our kids are doing youth sailing again this summer (have been doing it for years) and they are missing some weeks because it is completely full. The program here is very chill and fun, but the kids are still expected to be sailing properly. Racing focused classes are available if desired. The highlight of the summer was when SailGP was in town and they decided to get a closer look during the practice sessions. They got so close to the boats going 50+ knots that the course organizers went out to yell at them to get away.
- yardie 4y agoLast summer when options were limited we had kids flying in for our summer programs. It’s not intense but you will qualify to join a school or club team in the fall. This summer because of pent up travel demand for the last 2 years even our locals have decided to travel for summer. Some weeks are fully booked some are dramatically less. Have you looked at SailGP Inspire? I’m hoping to have a few compete in their programs in the next few years.
- tehjoker 4y agoIt's not actually over, but if your hobby is getting COVID over and over until your immune system blows out you do you.
- thorncorona 4y agoIt's endemic at this point. 2 years in we have vaccines, treatments, and the virus itself has evolved. Anecdotally over the last couple months most of the people I know have caught it and recovered a week later.
- bcatanzaro 4y agoAll of us are going to need a lot of therapy to deal with the PTSD from this pandemic. It's very difficult to know how to weigh small but measurable risks. Meanwhile the unseen risks of years of lockdowns will reverberate through generations.
- tehjoker 4y ago
- pinewurst 4y agoThe main difference is China has a government that will happily reap your organs while you are still alive if you disobey.
- addicted 4y agoThe funny thing about all these “risks of lockdown” is that the country facing the biggest post pandemic mental health crises, etc., is the US. A country which never even had a real lockdown and even if we consider the US’s “well, don’t eat meals indoors in restaurants for a few months” fake lockdowns to be the same as say European “you can’t meet people outside your household for months” lockdowns, European countries just had much longer lockdowns. Yet European countries are not exhibiting all these negative effects of the lockdowns the U.S. is. Crime, suicides, traffic violence, none of those surged in comparable European countries the way it did in the U.S.
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- Jowsey 4y ago> nobody wants/can play games instead of life anymore. Steam alone is still peaking at 25,000,000 concurrent logged-in users https://steamdb.info/graph/ https://steamdb.info/graph/
- lmm 4y agoRight, and how does that number compare to 6 months or a year ago?
- wolfgang42 4y agoIf I’m reading the “Lifetime concurrent users on Steam” chart on https://steamdb.info/app/753/graphs/ https://steamdb.info/app/753/graphs/ correctly, it’s a slight increase: today 28.0M, 6mo ago 27.9M, 1y ago 25.2M
- schroeding 4y agoJup, Covid caused it to jump from 19 million pre-pandemic to 24 million on april 2020. But since then, the numbers increased until march 2022, where it peaked at 29 million and, after a short decline by a million until may 2022, currently stays at 28 million.
- juki 4y agoNotice that if you look at the all-time stats, the decline in the summer happens every year, so it probably doesn't have anything to do with covid.
- lamontcg 4y agoWait until the recession really hits.
- patrulek 4y ago> Pandemic is over Are you sure? Gov started telling us (in Poland) that it will come back after summer, so pandemic card is still on the table.