I blame faulty condoms for RFK Jr

Are you concerned that Valve runs away with your money?

So there is a network and backbone to it

Yes, it’s a permissionless P2P network.

And you need to do something more than “I give this person a bitcoins for my game”

Signing and sending transaction is exactly it. Transaction says that you send your bitcoins to an address controlled by the other person.

especially when working through a separate storefront. Both to ensure that the person receives their game and you receive their currency.

Crypto doesn’t ensure you get the product. Like with real cash, other party might just run away with money

Well, you take their address, sign a message with your private key saying .001 bitcoin goes there and propagate it over the network. But in very simple terms yep, bitcoins magically land on their address. Whole thing sustains itself on economic incentives and cryptography, without any central authority

As long as merchant doesn’t need to convert from crypto to regular currency, no third party is involved in the transaction, it’s a direct P2P system - in other words - perfect digital cash

Cryptocurrencies themselves are automated, self sustaining systems - no regulation applies at that level at all. In reality crypto “payment processors” provide services of instant exchange to regular currencies, and aren’t even mandatory (but they’re very convenient).

So regulation applies, but only to optional middleman that perform conversion and send regular currency to the merchant

Use crypto wherever you can.

Sixteen kilobytes on the 5200. Sixty-four on the XEGS

Actually, RAM was the most limiting factor back then. Everyone wanted more, so Atari delivered

If these were EU corporations, they’d be sued into oblivion by consumer protection agencies

Good luck finding anything that works globally. Crypto payments are only alternative - Thankfully PayPal seems to be planning going crypto processor itself

The bulk transactions go through international wire transfer system which is sort of P2P, and can’t be easily controlled like Visa/Master Card

They should’ve implemented crypto payments long time ago. Now they reap what they sow

I have no obligation to follow your moral compass - which is nothing more than your opinion. The only common denominator binding both of us, is codified law.

Sir: If it’s illegal, please notify the authorities. If it’s not illegal, then I’ll have to politely ask you to fuck off.

This is we can’t have nice things.

I have really high hopes about SteamOS for PC. Not because linux, but because Linux + good support

Almost everyone cancelled the pride month events. Turns out they don’t sell

Just don’t play them. You’re not going to convince millions of players that lootboxes = bad so they shouldn’t play the games they love. But you can just play games from companies that respect their customers.

Concord!

In Skull and Bones they couldn’t even replicate the experience from their own previous IP, and then advertised is as AAAA game. It’s a disgrace - they deserve to burn.

Necktie - it fits the hat

The game awards is just an advertising show

Then it should be called “The Advertising Show” instead

Game Awards lost any credibility at this point. Black Myth Wukong truly deserved the grand prize. I played the game and I believe it, both the concurrent steam players and sales numbers confirm it as well

Everyone liked that

Except that one grumpy guy complaining about being shot

$2k, jfc.

They’ll sell hundreds of thousands of them anyway. Neither price nor power consumption matter anymore

We both know, 5060 will be like $300 or even more

Expect minimum requirements = 5070ti,

5090 recommended for 60 fps with DLSS

I imagine would be awful. Would two kernels have to run on the same machine?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but afaik, applications talk through APIs. It shouldn’t matter if app runs x86 and kernel is ARM

Not necessarily. Steam Deck SoC is CPU+GPU out of which latter is probably the bigger part. Also, on the chip there are all the memory, USB, Pcie, audio and other controllers.

Adding 4 arm cores definetly wouldn’t double the chip size

I don’t know - you’d need at least 4 arm cores, and 4 x86. Current deck uses just 4 x86, so squeezing in more would require waiting for some fabrication improvement to keep power draw and cost sane

Its gonna be ARM based

Doubtful. Emulation of x86 code is just too slow. I’d rather expect hybrid SoC, with both ARM cores and x86. System and dedicated games can run natively on ARM, while legacy software may utilize x86

In the context of the morbid obesity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTdqryVOZg

Harsh, but 100% accurate. Obesity hellishly shortens your life.

Wasn’t sweet baby, like, racist and discriminatory?

self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions

He’s harsh, but his opinions are rarely dogshit. He has followers, who value them

Inmean that being right makes him a valuable addition to the general community. This is the reason he has a massive following in the first place

Surprised it took this long

Thing is, he’s usually right

They’ll own nothing and will be happy!

Whatever. Tencent will either buy them now, or after bankruptcy

True, they ended P2P networking and proper encryption. It was pretty obvious in the context of Prysm scandal

Please Microsoft couldn’t even maintain Skype dominance after they bought it.