Of course gamers are entitled, they're the ones spending the money. You don't get to milk them without giving them a compelling product in return - and like you said, there's plenty to choose from so the bar is high.

Having cultural exchange at the university level is a long-standing and generally successful strategy to unify the world. I think people just didn't expect China to be quite so ungrateful about it. As for competition - I don't think the people running academia feel personally affected by it.

Plenty of good non-AAA games around though. All my favorite games cost under 25€.

Playstation games in the 80s? You have your timelines mixed up.

Try shopping on Steam, games are so cheap there I end up buying more than I can play.

Neither or both depending on your definition, they're just normal computers with steam installed. And by normal I mean thinkpad for laptops and custom built for desktops without any gaudy RGB gamer nonsense.

They failed? I didn't even notice since I've never had sound, ethernet, wifi, bluetooth or brightness and volume controls not work because of drivers on linux.

Ranked league, sponsored teams, contest with actual real world money to be made etc. are absolute cancer that ruin everything, including traditional sports and video games.

The LLMs are explicitly given the option and explained in a wink wink nudge nudge kind of way that they're free to hack the enemy AI and we're supposed to be shocked that they sometimes do it? What moral code is even being broken here, "thou shalt not modify a video game"? Excuse my lack of outrage...

Too bad they want people to use iCloud instead, and why would anybody do THAT if the machines came with sufficient storage space?

AMD chickened out of releasing their product once already, can nvidia troll them into doing it again?

More VRAM for local AI stuff is the only reason I'd upgrade my GPU right now. I'm not interested unless it has 24 GB or more, and the price is reasonable enough.

4070 came out 2 years ago so your statement doesn't make sense even if you ignore the bit where people do, in fact, skip generations.

Another limit is when you criticize people with power to shut you up. Do you really think political incumbents are more interested in the truth than in maintaining their power?

No it doesn't, the stated reason for removing US fact checkers is that they're so politically biased and wrong so much of the time that community notes would likely do a better job of actually checking facts. I'm not on facebook or in the US so I can't confirm if this true or not but I don't find it an absolutely incredible claim.