Kind of an interesting aspect of the nexus, PS console exclusives on Xbox via the back door.

For me steam deck has killed any notion of getting a gaming laptop. Decent spec laptop (7yr old though) which I rarely need to take anywhere, gaming desktop 5700/3070 and steam deck if I want to game. Though I’m not much into multiplayer. Tbh even at home I find myself on the deck more than the desktop for gaming these days.

Which is frankly ridiculous for the price of a switch. I can feel a switch 2 in my future because someone gave my kids a switch lite and there’s a few games they’ll get more out of on a big screen, but I will resent it.

I was too damn patient and missed the end of the steam sale this week FFS.

It almost certainly will be, but so is everything else.

I’m also assuming consistency is going to be an issue. Will characters look the same at the start of a sequence as the end? Or from load to load?

Is there scarcity somewhere? Priced out completely, but they’re available.

Yeah, well, fuck you for being a reasonable person.

It’s not beyond the realms of belief that they do, such are the ways of corpo accounting. OS dept could be billing OneDrive dept for the ads to subsidise the OS dev.

Only gamers get that joke

Why is anyone even buying this paste? Artic and Thermal Grizzly are both well under £10 for a syringe.

Ah man, I used to buy whole magazine because of the shovelware CDs on the front. Countless hours were spent installing credit card validators and odd scientific calculators.

Surprisingly, they found that the rate of change in the labor market’s makeup in the wake of AI closely matches the pace when computers and the internet were first taking off. In other words, AI doesn’t appear to be more disruptive than those two technologies

Possibly two of the most disruptive technologies in the last 100 years. Who writes this shit?

Yeah, it’s too expensive.

What are we seeing as the positive?

Yeah, £15 was pushing it, I don’t play as much as I’d like, big benefit was cloud gaming facilitating couch co-op, but at the minute it’s mostly my kids playing Minecraft, cheaper just to buy that.

I’m not pro Nintendo by any stretch, however in this particular case the guy seems to have been intent on speedrunning stupid any %. Ignored a cease and desist and then decided he’d defend himself in court. I sympathise to a point, but if a notoriously litigious games company asks you to stop, probably stop.

My first thought on hearing frame is server. I’m likely way off the mark (to the point I don’t actually think it’s what they’re doing) but it could be the basis for a cloud gaming setup for steam. Would extend the deck life and allow them to optimise settings for proton locally.

Until you want to update drivers and you can’t remember how the hell you installed it the last time.

For what it’s worth I don’t think they particularly want the role either but until someone destroys the duopoly they have it’s the way it’s going to be.

Go listen to the first season of the Hot Money podcast, it’ll explain it in much better detail than I’ll remember. Essentially VISA and MasterCard don’t like the reputational damage of being associated with certain types of porn. It’s not a hill they’re willing to die on. If you want your app to accept online payment you’ve got to be in line with what they find acceptable.

If you’re offline only, they can’t afaik. In the case of online I’m lead to believe each individual cart is signed with a unique certificate so they can tell if that cart has been used in more than one console. If there’s two instances of the same thing online at the same time it must be pirated.

In terms of reversal - I’ll work from the premise we agree that it’s unacceptable a customer loses access to a device they purchased and own because the company doesn’t like it. But let’s say it happens, how much hassle is it going to be to undo it? The console is bricked so it’s presumably not running/able to go online? Do I need access to a PC to fix it? Do I need to send it off to Nintendo? Go to a game store?

Fwiw I like tinkering with consoles and devices - not necessarily because of piracy, I just like running weird software on them or making them do things they weren’t meant to. It’s not a common use case, but it’s valid enough. Why should Nintendo control that.

Which is fine until the piracy detection system has a false positive and you lose your Switch. Or you buy a second hand copy of a game the original owner made a copy of and continues to use and your switch gets bricked. I understand you’re in the EU, but this kind of nonsense would definitely put me off a system that’s already inordinately expensive.

For a WD Red? Get that shingled magnetic shit out of my NAS.

I upgraded to a 5700X from a 3600 this year to take advantage of some sales, no regrets. Wish I had the spare cash for a 9070XT, maybe next gen.

Lol I didn’t bother setting up citron on my deck literally this week because I looked at a couple of videos online and the FPS seemed sub par. I’d no idea the original switch was worse 😂 does this hold true across the board? It might save me setting up some kind of sunshine/moonlight contraption for a bit.

I’ve got a helmet like that, only works on women though…

Yeah, in hindsight, if I were a billionaire I’d be in my garage with some nice machine tools making stuff or coding for fun or any number of things I enjoy more than business.

Think I’d be the other way. All meetings before noon and then give me the afternoon to do shit I enjoy.

Arm are RISC processors, I’m lead to believe x86-64 might even be something similar under the microcode.

Isn’t the whole point of RISC that its more power efficient?

It does harken back to the original HL mod scene though - some high quality stuff came out of that (and valve picked up the Devs too)

Thinking back, HL had a ridiculous quantity of high quality mods and TCs back in the day. Hell, Valve have even allowed HL to be remade and sold on steam.

Wish I could find mine FFS.

It’s just arch isn’t it?

Gears 3

I’m not saying you you should or shouldn’t, but if you did, I’ve heard it’s possible to access a backup of the original even if you don’t have an original disc.

Just to fully expound on what you’re saying, it was a rootkit, literally malware.

It’s just a scam though isn’t it? 💣💣💣

I bloody hope so, I added it to the list of games I’ve purchased on steam but never played last week