Feel the Bern!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Hamishwaiting for my Longhorn to calve.

So is this some kind of retro computing talk about the masochistic experience of deliberately using Windows 8.*? :D

Longhorn was the codename for Vista.

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As for the topic of gaming, I've been playing absolutely nothing recently.

Ehhhh, I lose track of the specific versions of Windows and just which ones are the unusually rancid ones . . . I knew it was an even number . . .
One of the perks of not using it.

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Quoting: Hamishwaiting for my Longhorn to calve.

So is this some kind of retro computing talk about the masochistic experience of deliberately using Windows 8.*? :D

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I've been playing Radiis. It's quite fascinating. In a way it feels like a board game, but you couldn't possibly do it without a computer. Definitely not very much like anything I've ever played before.

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Quoting: MaathLooks like its other name is "Zelda Maker."

Since I was a kid I've always wanted to make video games. Too bad I'm not an artist. No matter how easy these engines make creating a game, the art assets will probably always be the major hurdle. Sure there's sites like opengameart.org, but that can get you only so far.

You've also got Kenney Assets [External Link].

Kenney's stuff is super cartoony, and if you're anything like me and just HATE cartoon art, his stuff won't help much either. I am otherwise in the same boat. I got a few decades of coding experience, but I suck at art. The closest thing I have found to a universally usable starter set for RPGs is https://opengameart.org/content/dungeon-crawl-32x32-tiles [External Link]

I think it's not an unusual situation. For instance, I've noticed that visuals is where a lot of open source games come up short.

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Quoting: CreakI understand that and you're completely correct, but if you buy a CPU now, I'd say it is for a few years. By the time, these benchmarks will probably change (because of the reasons I listed).

But if you plan to change your CPU every year, I agree this would be the best choice..

I'm not sure people will get rid of a hungry main process. But fortunately, with Ryzen 3000, the question should be mood. (Is that correct? The question is not important anymore.)

You're very close. "moot"

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktDude, what are you even talking about? XD

Since you're typing in English, I assume you understand English, so you're going to have to be a bit more specific as to what you're confused about.

Everything.

VR isn't that expensive anymore. SteamVR is a standard. And then you start talking about communism.

For some of us it is expensive. I certainly couldn't afford it.

It's been on the market for several years now. You could have saved up some money. And I assume you have a gaming PC. How much did you spend on this? And of course it's going to get cheaper. Technology always does.

Y'know, people with money talking to people without money like they know shit is exactly what gets people talking about Communism.

What makes you think I have money? And we're talking about GAMING here. This is such a first world problem.

If you airily say to someone who says they can't afford something, that they can afford it, that's because compared to them you have money (and perhaps fewer responsibilities). And are clueless about the distinction.

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Quoting: Mountain ManLocal and physical access tends to decrease the effectiveness of and defeat many security measures. For that matter, if someone has physical access to your machine, they could simply walk off with it and crack it at their leisure.

If you got decent encryption, not within billion years with the whole energy of the sun.

Yesyes, encryption works. And if what someone is trying to do is access your data, that's fine. Won't stop ransomware though, they can just encrypt your encrypted data. Or hijacking your machine to help a botnet or whatever. If someone's got physical access, they can do pretty much anything except access encrypted data, and I still don't see how a chip having security features is gonna stop them.

(For that matter, cracking encrypted data they might not be able to do in a few days or even in a practical length of time, but it won't take any billion years; they just wait 10-20 years for quantum computing to mature a bit)

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I don't really like Intel, but this doesn't really worry me. I mean,

they would need some sort of physical and local access

Why are we even expecting any kind of compute-y thing to be secure when someone has physical and local access? That was never a thing when I was young, and I'm fairly convinced that if we think it's a thing now it's mainly wishful thinking.

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Hmmm . . . but when will they update their updates of updates?

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