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      You can buy them new for somewhat reasonable prices. What people should really look at is used 1080ti’s on ebay. They’re going for less than $150 and still play plenty of games perfectly fine. It’s the budget PC gaming deal of the century.

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        it probably the best performance per dollar u can get but a lot of modern games are unplayable on it.

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          Lot of those games are also hot garbage. Baldur’s Gate 3 may be the only standout title of late where you don’t have to qualify what you like about it.

          I think the recent layoffs in the industry also portend things hitting a wall; games aren’t going to push limits as much as they used to. Combine that with the Steam Deck-likes becoming popular. Those could easily become the new baseline standard performance that games will target. If so, a 1080ti could be a very good card for a long time to come.

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          You can still look for used ones locally either through hardwareswap or fb marketplace (unfortunately thats the best secondhand marketplace atm). Other options include liquidation companies, sometimes universities also have a big market (from both staff and students)

          Its been pretty rough still though, good luck on your search

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              Yea lots of the secondhand tech market exists purely in the US. The market outside of there and a couple other countries (uk, ca, de) dont really exist afaik

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      Meanwhile I dont think I have played more than 30minutes on my ps5 this year and its june, and I have definitely not played any minutes on the 1080 sitting in my PC…

      Oh fuck scratch that I may have played about 2 hours of Dune Spice Wars

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        How are you finding dune? I watched a few let’s plays of the demo and it looked interesting…

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          Honestly, I don’t have an opinion on it, it didnt capture me like old world did last year, so probably not as good or I am just preferring more slow, thought out turn based stuff.

          But mostly I am just kinda over gaming as a whole, I realized it’s mostly cheap dopamine chasing for me and I don’t really enjoy it.

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            Crack cocain is 10000x’s more rewarding and less of a come down when you realize you only spent 1/10th of the price of a console or gaming pc.