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Welcome to Dear Omar, a weekly Debugger column from tech expert Omar L. Gallaga answering all the gadget and technology questions you were afraid to ask.
Sometime around mid-December, parts of my family abandoned their game consoles and went very, very PC.
It’s not that we don’t love our game consoles: I’m finally getting around to building out island homes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch with my daughters. My brother Pablo scored a PlayStation 5 against all odds before the holidays were in full swing. Mario Kart Live was on some of our wishlists.
But several nights a week since then, my brother, his fiancée, and some of our friends and family have been getting online and playing PC games together, such as the old zombie-shooting classic Left 4 Dead 2 or a more recent scary squad game GTFO. After the holidays, Red Dead Online was on sale for $5 and we all jumped in on it. Now, we’ve spent dozens of hours completing bounty hunting missions, purchasing ugly ponchos, and getting mauled by bears in our pursuit of big-game meats to cook. As we’ve…
