I see, it’s unfortunate that it requires dedicated hardware, but I guess it makes sense when the main competitor already has that.

Is it? I haven’t used an Nvidia GPU since the GTX series, but my understanding was that DLSS was very effective. Meanwhile, the artifacting on FSR bothers the crap out of me.

When AMD was talking about RDNA4 one or two months ago, there were rumors that it would be for the new Steam Deck, and Valve claimed that it wasn’t, and that it was still a long way out.

As long as it costs less than traditional electric heating, it should be fine.

It would not. All work puts out an equal amount of heat for the amount of power drawn. A 1500 Watt electric heater will put out 1500 Watts of heat, and a 1500 Watt computer puts out 1500 Watts of heat, but only if it’s putting in enough computing work.

That computing work might be worth something if you’re lucky, which is where the actual savings are. OP ended up saving much more money from heating less than from earning any crypto.

I strongly suspect that some money changed hands for Valve to present this angle to consumers

Maybe? It’s certainly a reasonable expectation. I mean I agree it’s probably not something that people actively seek out in general, but they have all kinds of sales based on themes that people don’t necessarily think to look for either. As a gamer from Quebec, I don’t actively search for games made in Quebec, but it’s nice to be able to look at a collection like this and know that they’re all made locally without having to make an active search for that. It’s a factor that’s generally not advertised very explicitly.

These sales are pretty regular. I see them at least yearly, it’s not a political context-dependent sale on Steam’s part.

Quebec also has a pretty big gaming presence, with Ubisoft, Behaviour, Eidos, EA, WB, Bethesda, and many others big players having studios in Montreal.

PS4 and PS5 games are much easier to port to PC since those consoles are essentially PC hardware.

Older games need to be rebuilt for completely different hardware, so it’s actually a lot more work. Not to say it wouldn’t be nice, but it’s not as easy and may not be worth the money, and there is less interest for a lot of that stuff.

“Old PS5 games”
PS5 is a 4 year old console

Unicorns by definition have one horn, while rhinoceroses have two. So clearly there’s something else wrong there.

My understanding is that leaves don’t “go back.” Once a leaf starts yellowing, the best case scenario is that you have a yellow leaf. You can correct deficiencies or overdoses for future leaves, and prevent existing leaves from turning, but you can’t fix the ones that have already changed.

I got it a couple years after release, out of a sense of nostalgia for the NES game.

It was bad. It really didn’t have much going for it. It did so much wrong and so little right.

Musk is trying to start another financial institution under the X brand to handle everyone’s money. The CFPB is the one agency that’s likely to prevent it from screwing over anyone dealing with it.

As has been said before, the only reason to shut down the bureau responsible for preventing scams is if you want to scam people yourself.

I mean the microphone is active, so it’s listening, but it’s not recording/saving/processing anything until it hears the trigger phrase.

The truth is they really don’t need to. They track you in so many other ways that actually recording you would be pointless AND risky. While most people don’t quite grasp digital privacy and Google can get away with a lot because of it, they do understand actual eavesdropping and probably wouldn’t stand all their private moments being recorded.

Your phone listens for the phrase “Hey Google” and uses little processing power to do so. If it was listening to everything and processing that information, your battery would die incredibly fast. We’re talking charging your phone multiple times a day even if you weren’t using it for anything else.

As someone else mentioned in another commend, being near Spanish speakers’ phones, Bluetooth/Wifi tracking are what Google is using to track you. They search Google in Spanish, Google can tell you spend time with them, Google thinks you speak Spanish.

The voice acting in The Great Circle was great. It definitely sounded like Indiana Jones even if it didn’t always sound exactly like Harrison Ford all the time.

If you need to clean your stove around/under the burners, the top part of your stove probably lifts up for that exact purpose.

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It’s hard to convince people that they’ve been had by a bunch of morons.

I felt it was the other way around. 2016 was simple and effective. Eternal just kept throwing shit at you, especially at higher difficulties. I kept hoping the big battles would end so I could move on, but more monsters kept coming. And then they threw the Marauders at you which just didn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the game because of how you have to fight them.