Quoting: slaapliedjeBut at least one thing remains the same... non-ASUS motherboards sucked in the past and they still kind of suck :P

I have 2 Asus mobos here that beg to differ. Both stopped working right after their 1 year warranty expired... Meanwhile, I also have mobos from other manufacturers (like Gigabyte) that still going strong after a 10 year period.

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You said twin stick but the footage looks like it was made with mouse and keyboard in mind. I was burned before by this, but since it has a demo, I will give it a try before buying it.

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Is your PC okay? We are in a very unfortunate time to buy new parts.

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I started in this type of game not by playing Worms, but a old opensource game called Atomic Tanks, available in your favorite distro repositories. It is a nice distraction when you are bored at work and card games don't give you any kick.

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Quoting: fagnerlnWould be nice if the dock had a more powerful GPU (eGPU?) that the deck switches to it when it's docked.

Gaming performance would be bottlenecked by the quadcore CPU. Youtube Channel ETA Prime kept their promise of testing a external GPU via the m.2 slot. While there were gains in most games, it is clear that the CPU cannot keep up with something much more powerful than the iGPU.

This actually demonstrates that the components of the Steam Deck APU were carefully chosen, to make the best use of its 15W power limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEGY6aY8lM [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOooh, I recently watched some builds where people put it under a mechanical keyboard for a look back at the wedge computers of old! And I thought "I want one!" and now they do this....

For a while I'm lusting for something like that. I almost got a Raspberry Pi 400, but held back because I would hate had to tipe on a keyboard layout other than the one I'm accustomed to (Brazilian ABNT2).

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I wished they made available a easier difficulty for those games. I managed to finish it twice, but comes a time it gets old dying over and over again just to see the "real ending", so I ditched it. After playing this and Cyber Shadow back to back, I got burned out of games with masochistic levels of difficulty.

The older I get, less patience I have with excessive difficulty in games. Not going to buy new DLCs for this one or any other game of this type from now forward. Life is too short to expand on games like this. Which is too bad, because it is a good game.

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Offline mode for AAA titles is pretty much dead by now, since publishers want to milk anything with the label "game" in it. Is simply out of GOG hands. If they want to survive, they had to bend over for the publishers demands or not have a game to sell.

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Quoting: GuestCan't say Intel is my favorite company but I definitely welcome more competition into the GPU space.

Me too. OTOH, I'm not too happy with them buying TSMC production. Not only that immediately creates a stupid bottleneck for Intel GPUs, but it actually undermine AMD's capability of making their stuff there too, because there is no way AMD can mach Intel's financial war chest on negotiations for TSMC production, thus making sure AMD will never pull a 7nm jump ahead of Intel again.

People may call BS on that, but to me it looks like the Athlon 64 all over again.

TSMC is Taiwan Semiconductor, based, of course, in Taiwan. The article seems to say that Intel is buying Tower Semiconductor, based in Israel (which should also get them a majority stake in TPSCo, based in Japan). If I am mistaken or have missed something, please feel free to correct me.

AFAIK, Intel's discrete GPUs (at least initially) will come from TSMC. Also, they are giving a truckload of money for a big chunk of TSMC's future advanced node production. The only other one is Apple. Both can keep AMD out of the bleeding edge for a couple years, enough to break AMD's growth on key markets like laptops and server CPUs.

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Quoting: GuestCan't say Intel is my favorite company but I definitely welcome more competition into the GPU space.

Me too. OTOH, I'm not too happy with them buying TSMC production. Not only that immediately creates a stupid bottleneck for Intel GPUs, but it actually undermine AMD's capability of making their stuff there too, because there is no way AMD can mach Intel's financial war chest on negotiations for TSMC production, thus making sure AMD will never pull a 7nm jump ahead of Intel again.

People may call BS on that, but to me it looks like the Athlon 64 all over again.

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