mnemonicmonkeys
@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Soup 1 day ago:
If the “broth” in this case is ranch, that’s just a midwest salad
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 2 days ago:
Idk, The Elder Scrolls’ fandom debates a lot too. There’s still people fighting over whether the Stormcloaks or the Empire were right in Skyrim, or whether Morrowind or Oblivion are the best in the series
- Comment on Shut up science!! 2 days ago:
In that order?
- Comment on Gravity! 3 days ago:
Technically, this isn’t even a case of religion going crazy. The flat Earth conspiracy actually started out in the German Nazi party and were eventually pushed out because even the Nazis thought they were too crazy.
Notice how many of them mention a vague “they” as the ones maintaining the conspiracy. That’s them referring to Jewish people. While this is notmal for most conspiracy theories, few directly originated from the Nazis.
If you want more detail, there’s a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards explaining it. I definitely recommend giving them a listen
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 2 weeks ago:
We whipped up a batch of improvised napalm with a bunch of kerosene and a styrofoam cooler
Kerosene doesn’t dissolve styrofoam. You’re thinking of gasoline.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 2 weeks ago:
Of course it’s JJBA
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like a Steam Deck is a perfect fit for you then. May your frames be high and your lag minimal
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 weeks ago:
Before you go in on a Steam Deck I want to give a head’s up:
While I like my Steam Deck, it does have limits. If you primarily want to play 2D indie games, it’s absolutely perfect. You get great framerate, and the battery lasts 3-4 hours or sometimes even more.
But if you want to play 3D games from the last 10-15 years, you’re going to need to compromise. Much of the time you won’t be able to get 60fps, and the battery life drops off quick. And if you want to dock it and run it on your TV you’re still going to have some performance tradeoffs due to the Steam Deck being built for 800p gaming
If you still have a powerful tower PC but want to play newer 3D games from your living room on a TV, you could run an application called Sunshine on it, allowing you to stream to a Steam Deck via Moonlight at high bitrate (4k 60fps with relatively low latency) and the Steam Deck is good for that because it has more power to encode/decode the stream than most alternatives.
Or you could wait for the Steam Machine to release. It won’t be as powerful as a PS5, but I’m expecting it to be a good value compared to most PC’s
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
On the one hand, i get it. It will be for enthusiasts only if that’s the case.
Note that I haven’t said anything about what the price will be, just that Valve has stated that it won’t be a loss leader.
I’ve seen rumors that the Bill Of Materials plus Valve’s usual overhead would still result in a system valued at $500, though I haven’t seen the source and am very skeptical of it.
On the other side, XBox is allegedly targeting $1200 on their standardized custom gaming PC, which I doubt would be worth the price, especially with it running Windows.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
Deck isn’t selling millions and it’s doing just fine.
I don’t have have an issue with the rest of your comment but this quote is factually wrong. The Deck actually has sold multiple millions of units.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
Built-in GPU and VRAM with the CPU, RAM and cooling optional.
I don’t think that’d be a wise idea. After watching Valve interviews, it’s clear that they designed the entire system around a specific max TDP. Apparently they figured out the TDP, picked a fan to move it, then designed the rest of the cooling system based on that.
If you start swapping out different CPU’s that’ll change the TDP and very quickly become a problem. Plus, the CPU is soldered to the board. Having a socket to allow for swapping would require a redesign of the cooling to account for the increased height
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
And honestly, we probably should have expected this from the leaked benchmarks. It was already showing hits of using a separate 7600
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
To be a loss leader doesn’t the need to lead to something?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
I agree we don’t know if they’re loss leaders yet.
Please actually read the body of the post. Valve has already said in an interview that they won’t be loss leaders
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
Regardless of the price (and whether or not I even buy one), I think it’s healthy to have another “big” player in the console market.
Tbh, I think it’d be healthier if the console market finally died and Playstation and Nintendo migrate to PC. Closed off ecosystems are anti-consumer
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- Comment on good bones 3 weeks ago:
Rabbits have been recorded scavenging carcasses for protein
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 3 weeks ago:
As an American. The cause is racism.
No, really. HOA’s were originally created to keep black people out of white neighborhoods after government-backed segregation was made illegal.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 3 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t get all the love for the show. It was the stereotypical sitcom that was super generic and not all that funny. I was always completely bored by it.
And the salamander didn’t say anything bad about it. It said there’s better shows. Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
This is the second desktop PC they’ve released, no?
No. They have never designed a desktop before. The original Steam Machine was mainly a branding program for system integrators coupled with the release of the original Steam OS.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
You can mod that out really easily
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
No long campaigns in VR.
I recently watched a video where some dude had the VR treadmill and used it for Skyrim VR 2hrs per day for months
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
Though I wonder if making a docked Deck be on equal footing with the Machine would have been a better use of R&D.
No, it would not. Buulding a Steam Deck that’s 6x more powerful (the claimed comparison for the Steam Machine) is NOT possible with today’s technology. For anyone.
The Steam Deck has to be hand portable and get somewhat decent battery life. That leaves little little space for a cooling solution. You cannot beat thermodynamics.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
You can see that each face is about the size an adult male’s hand, so it’s about 6" per edge
- Comment on green salad fingers 4 weeks ago:
Don’t start the dress argument again
- Comment on Edible Wood 4 weeks ago:
And snortable!
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 5 weeks ago:
I’ve installed on a separate SSD.
Thankfully that should prevent most issues of Windows fucking up dual-booting
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I.e. Gamepass
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Hosting servers isn’t free.
And it’s game devs that pay for the multiplayer server upkeep, not the storefronts.
And I highly doubt that any money spent on XBox Live or PSN subscriptions was ever sent their way.
This is just flimsy defense for greed
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
And when you quicksave in games, you’ll nees to wait 5 minutes for OneDrive to connect to Windows servers to sync up the save before you can continue playing