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Quoting: TermyI thought we were over this bullshit?

It seems not to be as extreme as last shortage during RDNA 2 release, but it's not day one availability by far either. What is causing it? Cryptocurrency rush seems to be over, so miners aren't buying all cards. May be general demand fell and they also reduced production below the demand now?

This would be my guest. And more and more thoughts about a recession, or just not enough disposable income for video cards this time around? Maybe everyone is just playing on a Steam Deck and stopped chasing those extra 10 frames per second...

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Here's what I want to know... what are people needing 4080/4090s for? 8k gaming? VR? My 3080 doesn't generally have any issues running anything. hell, my 2080 doesn't either...

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Quoting: mphuZThis is for SteamOS, not for Deckard.

And what flavour of Linux do you think Deckard will run in standalone mode?

As long as you can hook into it and dream of electric sheep!

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTI love the magnet on my dbrand killswitch though. Also put my additional sd card on there via magnets.

Just finished switching my delta fan for the better one this weekend (had it used together with killswitch for months now). I don't feel any difference though. If it just breaks the fan in the long term, I'm good with that tradeoff for overall convenience

I agree with you 100%. I haven't checked to see which fan I have, but I haven't noticed any change in speed or heat when the kickstand is on vs off. I absolutely love the case, the plastic cover for travel, and the magnetic kickstand; I am totally fine with the increased risk of heat or wear/ tear. It's too bad there's not more information about the percentage of circulating steam decks with the affected fan, as I'm pretty happy with my current accessories with magnets via dbrand and would love to see more. I guess we'll see what the mechanical attachment feels like soon.

You can also check your steamdecks components on the steam store directly without opening it. It's pretty neat

Link? That is way cool.

Absolutely is!

https://store.steampowered.com/account/hardwareused [External Link]

Click on the Deck to find out more.

Whoa! It has all my Steam Controllers too! And Index. Doesn't have my Steam Links though (granted one is still in the box)

It doesn't have my Index though (granted it's still in the store)...

Hahaha

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Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: GuestAlthough I was never interested on Harry Potter, I'm split on the issue of boycotting writers that are racists or biggots. Cuz if you follow that rule, that some ppl call it "cancel culture" you have to wipe out the majority of recent and not so recent writers and artists sadly.
I guess that if a new lord of the rings games is released I would personally buy it. I'm my book the first book we should start burning is the bible and other religious books, that's the number one problem causing more wars and injustice more than anything else. Since that won't happen ever.. I will pretend JK Rowling or Tolkien are normal persons and carry on .

It isn't just about not reading a book because the author is or was a bigot. JKR actively campaigns for harmful policies, so giving her money to spend on making your and your pals' life worse is... not great. She also uses the popularity of her works to prop up her platform, regardless of whether the stories on their own are bad. We are talking about someone that had previously won a human rights award for writing beloved children's books, and then had it withdrawn for her bigoted campaigning.

It is quite different from discussing long dead authors, or even living authors that express some bigoted opinions in their private lives or in an interview but don't use the works to advertise a platform of hate and ignorance.

It also doesn't mean everyone's positive feelings and personal experiences with the fiction are invalid and you must hate it or else. Nor that the works must be forgotten and never read again. But knowing these problems is important, so it must be discussed, and it is more than understandable that people whose lives are made meaningfully less safe by the author will have strong negative feelings about it. It doesn't make them book burners or anything like that.

look your comment seems very reasonable and logic, but lets call things how they are. Within the "cancel culture" there is ppl actively calling out to burn books or precious works of art. That's why I said I had split opinions about this because I don't like radical approaches in neither ends. This problem should be handled other way like having proper anti discrimination laws, JK Rowling should not be allowed to say such things. She should be fined. Her books are not the issue. It's a "free peach" issue, free speech is not about targeting and promoting hatred against minorities, here she crossed a line. She should be fined and legally muzzled.

I would like to see actual quotes from her that spreads hatred toward minorities. As far as I have seen, she has crossed no such line. That line is literally if she had incited violence toward anyone, and as far as I am aware, she never has.
As far as I have seen, she basically has defended her position as being a woman. Which is perfectly her right. I think she has also stated that men who try to be women are still not women. An opinion she also has the right to state.
Start censoring opinions you don't like and you start getting into some scary territory.

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I had a hard time liking it. It does have great character, but I guess I just got the 'oh, I have played this for 10 years already, I will go do something else.' Vibe from it. It always felt like it was just on the cusp of being fun. Though maybe that is because I got lost after a while.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: CZiNTrPT

Quoting: Bazirker

Quoting: CZiNTrPTI love the magnet on my dbrand killswitch though. Also put my additional sd card on there via magnets.

Just finished switching my delta fan for the better one this weekend (had it used together with killswitch for months now). I don't feel any difference though. If it just breaks the fan in the long term, I'm good with that tradeoff for overall convenience

I agree with you 100%. I haven't checked to see which fan I have, but I haven't noticed any change in speed or heat when the kickstand is on vs off. I absolutely love the case, the plastic cover for travel, and the magnetic kickstand; I am totally fine with the increased risk of heat or wear/ tear. It's too bad there's not more information about the percentage of circulating steam decks with the affected fan, as I'm pretty happy with my current accessories with magnets via dbrand and would love to see more. I guess we'll see what the mechanical attachment feels like soon.

You can also check your steamdecks components on the steam store directly without opening it. It's pretty neat

Link? That is way cool.

Absolutely is!

https://store.steampowered.com/account/hardwareused [External Link]

Click on the Deck to find out more.

Whoa! It has all my Steam Controllers too! And Index. Doesn't have my Steam Links though (granted one is still in the box)

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Quoting: GuestAlthough I was never interested on Harry Potter, I'm split on the issue of boycotting writers that are racists or biggots. Cuz if you follow that rule, that some ppl call it "cancel culture" you have to wipe out the majority of recent and not so recent writers and artists sadly.
I guess that if a new lord of the rings games is released I would personally buy it. I'm my book the first book we should start burning is the bible and other religious books, that's the number one problem causing more wars and injustice more than anything else. Since that won't happen ever.. I will pretend JK Rowling or Tolkien are normal persons and carry on .

Ha, pretty much. 1) the writer being a jerk doesn't mean they don't write amazing stories. 2) So many people have been calling Tolkien racists, when in fact what it comes down to is if you cry racist at everything... you're likely racist.

Having said that, I'm interested in reading the books, kind of want to know what the gah gah is all about. I grew up with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and Dragonlance, etc. As an adult though, I'd like to go back and read Fritz Leiber, and others that I missed. Absolutely love Conan. I can imagine JK Rowling got kind of tired of the idea that only kids were reading her books, so 'upped the game' so to speak with the later ones.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSide note; I have seen recently posts from native American ancestors who point out the tribes were constantly killing each other off. The colonizers simply sped up the process. Not sure why Colonization is any more violent and 'ick' as any other strategy game. They all include a virtual mass of casualties.

Nobody said that Col was more violent than other games. But it has a particularly dark and cruel time as background an it should be pointed out, that these aspects aren't reflected accurate within the game, as there was no such intention in the first place.

I have absolut no problem in violance within a fictional setting, kill as many fictional Guards as you wish. But if someone can get the impression that it is simulated history, the devs should point out the limitations of a medium like a video game.

It's also problematic because of the overall situation. If Native Americans are always pictured as an obstacle to white settlers,in books, movies and games, like here, one can learn that this is the truth. It's not the fault of a single source, but emerges from the overall depiction.

So are you suggesting we should have more books, movies, games, etc that are from the native american's perspective? I can agree with that (I swear I saw an open world game where you played an Apache or something). Can you play them in Colonization? Kind of thought you could in the original game, I've never tried FreeCOL.

For what it's worth, Assassin's Creed games have always been set in an historical context. Interestingly the first group of them were against random murdering (the premise, in case you haven't played them) is that you are some descendant of a bloodline of assassin's, that is being used by a corporation to inhabit the memory of an assassin of the past via something like a Iron Long / VR set up (the Animus). So you're supposed to be just seeing the memories to gather information about lost artifacts. So in the original games if you did something 'outside of the memory' (like killing innocents) then you'll 'lose sync' with the memory and 'die' (it kicks you out of the Animus).

Later games seem to have done away with this and made it more like Grand Theft Auto, where if you randomly slay people, you'll get bounty hunters after you.

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Quoting: KlaasI only like the first four books. The rest is rather ridiculous since she thinks that randomly executing characters and a racist teacher employing physical torture on a child equals mature story.

Huh, I've never read the books. Recently bought the movie pack in 4k... and got about 2.5 movies into it and then paused for a while. Not that they aren't watchable (pretty sure I've seen up to 5 at one point), I just have more things to do that I'd rather spend my time on... Eventually I'll get to all of them.

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