Quoting: eggroleAdd to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions.

So like being transgender (nonbinary), these people want me imprisoned or dead for that reason alone. They think suicidal ideation among us is a big joke. They think because they are cis and I am not I should be a in prison for the rest of my life or a corpse. Yes, they are nazis this is what the nazis did. And of course, electing a guy who talks like a nazi because trans people exist does also make them at the very least complicit in nazism and accepting of it. Oh sure, debating someone else's right to life is just an opinion to you because it doesn't directly affect you. Given the rest of that comment I can already see the "is life in prison really that extreme, you're still alive" yes it is extremist. I should not be in prison for existing and using a goddamn bathroom.

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The AG makes a bad argument and fills it with two very stupid things. First is that valve needs to do more to verify age even on accounts that buy games which already in needs a form of payment that requires you to be 18 anyway at least in the Midwest in USA. That helps no one and does nothing, if that is to stop kids from gambling then all it does it try to enter more adults into these mass surveillance databases and that can go to hell.
Second is the Jack Thompson tired, brutally beaten, dead horse of "video games cause real world violence" which like what is the strategy here? Sin tax on video games with "too much violence"? I have no idea what else you could have or maybe the Japanese video game censorship of adding a mosaic to anything that is "too violent". Odd and bad idea right from the start. To me, that gives me the impression that this is not in good faith and then sprinkling in some "video games and their platforms need to be part of our mass surveillance network" makes that seems more clear to me.

Valve follows up a sloppy argument with an equally sloppy argument, garbage in garbage out. Mentioning trading cards only further proves that USA needs that law that China has where they require the odds for things like that and lootboxes to be shown to the user such as printing the odds on the card booster packs and boxes. It also follows into the argument of "if they're doing it then I should be allowed to do it too" which is just bad reasoning. The cards you get are used to play the actual game whereas the skins from say CS2 are basically only used to cash in and maybe pay for a steam game. They don't really do anything and could easily be removed without changing game balance or core mechanics unless valve would like to claim that lootboxes are a core component of counter strike. If lootboxes aren't going to go away then yes, they should be showing the odds of them and maybe should require a steam account that has made at least one purchase to verify age.

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Per the Wikipedia page on PRS

In 2008, PRS for Music began a concerted drive to make commercial premises pay for annual "performance" licences. In one case it told a 61-year-old mechanic that he would have to pay £150 to play his radio while he worked by himself. It also targeted a bakery that played a radio in a private room at the back of the shop,a woman who used a classical radio to calm her horses and community centres that allowed children to sing carols in public.

and

In October 2009, PRS for Music apologised to a 56-year-old shelf-stacker at a village in Clackmannanshire for pursuing her for singing to herself while stacking shelves. PRS for Music initially told her that she would be prosecuted and fined thousands of pounds if she continued to sing without a "live performance" licence. However PRS for Music subsequently acknowledged its mistake.

Seems like a very vomit inducing group of people and their lawyers. They think I should pay them if I play a CD or tape in my own home while doing basic chores. Nothing is really ownership or having a proper license to use it for myself unless they get a cut.

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Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner? You're in for a rough time as its use becomes the norm.

I absolutely will. If they use that garbage on something, I will just skip it. I can basically play any game up to the PS2 emulated on a PC (many PS3 Xbox 360 games too) not including the countless games already ported that run natively or though proton that don't use the buzzletters at all. I can always play something else because there will always be a market for games without AI trash in it.

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Not really interested in these with the deck being the deck also that 1000usd price tag on the highest tier model is a large step over the highest priced oled deck. I am curious to see how they perform when gamersnexus benchmarks and stress tests them, and ifixit tearing it down and giving it a repairability score.

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no mention of hotswappable switches kinda sucks, I do like that they're trying to do something with the keyboard and qmk support for it is a plus

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The apology is so sincere you can tell by how they decided to not proofread anything and forgot how to spell "inconvenience". I bet the playerbase really felt that.

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Why not put high quality assets as a free DLC.

100% this. Monster Hunter Wilds which has uhh a number of problems even does this and with the "high quality texture pack" its 135GBs instead of 65GBs without it. Not all users want it or can even use it as MHWilds specifically wants 16GB minimum video memory to use that texture pack.

Pirates "repack" games to remove additional voiceovers and let you download the languages you want seperately or even encode videos again just to cut down on game size (eg. 4k prerender to 1440p or 1080p), and it would be great to see publishers take note and do the same. Saves on disk space, saves on bandwidth.

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I find it interesting there's just a $50 gap between the two. Which means .... why does the regular 9070 even exist? If you're spending that kind of money, the difference is negligible and you get a much better card.

This is one of those weird things about AMD's pricing that is easy to miss. They initially do something like this in terms of pricing kind of like the 6000-series cards and then they change pricing after a couple weeks or couple months. When that change happens the stack will probably look more like a 100usd difference between those two cards which would make more sense.
That likely price change would make far more sense to have both of these cards flank nvidia's 5070 pricing. Which I think they may wait on that before saying anything about a 9060xt to see if they change the pricing a bit to better place that card and additional RDNA 4 cards. AMD's gpu side of things can be pretty odd sometimes and this is one of those ways, at least its a better move than price == nvidia - 50usd

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More people play counter strike and that has linux compatibility, either that means CS2's anti-cheat is magic or somebody here isn't telling the whole story. A chart with unlabled axies is really funny and so is the end of the chart, uh oh looks like cheating went back up. Now if only they removed windows support then they could see a whole 100% cheating reduction.

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