deliriousdreams

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. I would have been interested in donating canned goods for charity, but not like this. This is a terrible idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't use my PS5 to surf the web. I know you can use it to watch movies and stuff, but I don't use it for that either.

  At best, it depends on what kind of user most of the console owners are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was able to overclock it to a crazy level. Played all kinds of games on it between me and my roommate. It was finiky using big picture mode (I ended up buying a dedicated mouse and keyboard for it to use on a lapboard at the time), but BPM gave me trouble with controllers, refusing to quit to desktop, and hanging on launching games occasionally.

  A lot of Dell's BS software went the way of the dodo bird as soon as I could get rid of it for similar reasons. The update to windows 10 I also seem to remember giving me trouble. MS didn't consider it supported hardware. But it all worked out and now that thing is my media center PC. It's still running after all this time, which is crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who owned the Alienware one with windows 8 (and upgrades it to windows 10, and a 2TB SSD), I'm glad to find anyone else who actually bought one, especially the steam OS variant, and has expert with it, rather than regurgitating what articles say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a point where tires were expensive but they lasted a long time because so few people had cars and they didn't drive them often. So two brothers who owned a tire company were trying to figure out how to sell more tires to the few people who owned cars.

  The answer was to get them to wear their tires out faster by providing a list of places they could visit that would warrant the expense of wearing down their tires.

  So the stat rating was more of a "this place is worth a visit/road trip system. And they published this list and it caught on and then restaurants wanted to get Michelin stars for the notariety and the essentially free press.