probably started more around the switch. it takes microsoft forever to invent copy something.

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i haven’t touched it since like before xp came out… never had it installed on anything past 98 or win2k here.

i’ll play the other side here for a minute.

multiple rants about a shipping screw.

rants about the slow laptop sodimm ram, then they went online and compared prices of different speeds of desktop dimms instead. this, after they nitpicked the web site’s specs down to the millimeter.

everything they did was ‘as shipped’. they didn’t update windows, they didn’t update bios, they didn’t update drivers…

my guess is this system was built back before bios and microcode updates were available to fix the problems of 13/14th gen silicon drawing too much power, and the lower power envelope was the only corrective action available at the time.

i would like to see an honest follow-up on a fully updated and patched system.

i went a couple years, pretty steady. now it’s whenever i remember–and it’s not been that often. only one during the winter deals.

absolutely loved Oni, still one of my favorites ever.

These primarily cover throwing an object in a specific direction to either summon a battle character or to capture a creature in the field - mechanics Palworld shared with Pokémon at launch.

sounds like a mechanic found in a number of video games.

backdoors for the ‘good’ (lol) guys today, become backdoors for the bad guys and everybody else tomorrow.

very glad that Intel has stayed in the market

for now, anyway. nobody knows if the discrete gpu division will survive the leadership shakeup and new ceo (when they find one)

not just substituting lower-end…

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that was something like price didn’t include tax, monitor, or shipping (an outrageous amount for that, too). imagine having four years left on your glorious 850mhz celeron system with 64mb ram when winxp comes out.

basically pay for the whole pc the first year, but you don’t own it. yup. several sites have run articles on it.

warframe used to be. but it’s near-impossible now to start & get through even the first major ‘holyshit’ moment without having it at least partially spoiled before hand.

the expected increase in prices next year is hastening that timeline in the u.s.

World of Warcraft’s monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

of course it is. it’s a microsoft property now.

or, take a different spin.

“Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League season three debuts to over 200 Steam players!”

the boeing 686™ series processors, new from intel.

they’re probably still making ‘enough’ money off the addons and dlc for the current one (which itself is now free-to-play), that they don’t have to remake it again to resell remade addons and extras again…yet.

‘optimizations’ and fixes targeting specific games that nvidia does are in the drivers themselves.

what geforce experience does is mess with game config files–and it really isn’t that great at it, either.

gfe is basically just a data gathering and marketing tool. i’ve never seen a point or purpose for the user. it benefits them far more than you, and can mess up your own game settings.

leave it uninstalled.