The active timesinks atm are:

- EVE Online
- Elite: Dangerous / Odyssey (playing this game franchise since 1984...)
- Shakes & Fidgets
- V-Rising, with my wife
- Empyrion Galactic Survival
- Subsistence, with my family in my homecountry

On hold but played occasionally:

- Seven Days To Die (native)
- Valheim (native)
- Vampire Survivors
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 (native)

The backlog is just too long. I hope I can live enough to play half the titles I'm curious about.

Most of them in 4K because, you know, age-walled Deck wouldn't go easy on my eyes! ;)

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Bah, you mentioned Sensible. Not impressed. If you said Kick Off, however... I still have nightmares at how easily ref Screech would distribute reds, as if they were flyers for a charity lottery.

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Quoting: redman

Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm thinking of buying one for a server or something. [...]

Nvidia is not going anywhere... They rule in the AI and Data science world with CUDA, AMD is second class for say that has something. Perhaps Intel and AMD can take the gamer market and the low cost market, but where the big bucks are expended will be on these A 100 [External Link]

Just my humble opinion!

Glad someone mentioned it.

Nvidia is printing money in the tensor core field. They absolutely dominate the HPC/Top500 rankings and on their homepage "AI" is far more prominent than Games. If you check it right now, besides the GTC announcements, all "Solutions" dropdown and "For You" dropdown should suggest what nV is concentrated on.

At this point in time, their gaming products are just a side-effect of their main focus, not the other way around.

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As a tech enthusiast, I always fell in the early adopter trap(s). Age may have given me some wisdom, however. I'll keep my 1080Ti, tyvm.

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Lightning-using spiders. Mistlands are covered in cobweb, and the last boss (Yagluth) gives you resistance to lightning, so it makes sense to have the next foes using that element.

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Quoting: PublicNuisancemy course of action is still a Power9 system long term.

In April the P10s scale out will be in GA.

They're insane - fastest CPU money can buy.

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Agree with everything here, but just want to chime in wrt Launchers.

They are often necessary evils, especially when you consider that most of the games with Launchers have their own user ID/TOS/auths/profiles and their settings.

Think of the Launchers as that library that binds together your SteamID and the Developer/Publisher user ID.

Could we get rid of it and move the auth logic within the game proper and un-decouple (or re-merge) the two userbase linking? Of course. Would I hold my breath waiting for the SH to change this convenient (for them!) behavior? Hardly so.

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I don't know about you all, but the idea of a piece of (fine?) consumer hardware that comes with full support for Linux and "you're on your own, fix it yourself" on Windows gives such a sweeeeeeeet taste of revenge.

First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then they must wait for audio drivers to be released to run Windows on the Deck.

What an incredible 31 years journey has been!

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Sad? A bit - I enjoyed their ports, and I'm grateful they made them. Like Aspyr.

Surprised? Not in the least. If we think Proton *can* be an industry changer, some change in the side industries is inevitable.

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I still have Muon around for package management on my KDE system. Discover is nice, don't get me wrong, but it's not as flexible as good old Muon.

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