While talking to Liam about this particular thing behind the scenes I got inspired to do a bit of a tutorial series on recording, video editing, streaming etc. If anyone has any interest in seeing something like that and possibly ideas for topics to cover I'd appreciate feedback on that sort of an idea.

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Quoting: tmtvl4GB RAM with a 4GB swap partition will get you a long way, especially if you using something a bit more lightweight like Xfce, MATE, or (heavenly glory) LXQt.

It's not like everyone plays Xonotic at Ultra quality.

You might be able to do basic stuff with 4GB but if you have a browser running while you are gaming and maybe if you add just a couple more random background processes like VOIP you'll start to get starved for memory. It's also worth keeping in mind that the iGPU will share main system memory, so that gaming load will also eat your RAM in a way that a dGPU might not. And I don't think it will make any sense to go for the dGPU and not upgrade the RAM at the same time. :P

Basically, 4GB will be enough for light workloads but if you are only going to do that you are probably better served by a cheaper laptop. I suppose you could buy this with 4GB of RAM and upgrade it yourself but I'm not sure if you'd get any real benefit from that.

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Quoting: Kels"Nor" sounds like "Nord", Skyrim confirmed!

I have a more sound Skyrim theory. Above it was mentioned the picture would be from a bus on route 68 which seems to end at Russell Square. Looking at people named Russell in the voice acting industry I found Stephen Russell who voiced some dude in Skyrim. Bam, confirmed.

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Quoting: WorMzyHas Samsai escaped again?

At a summer cottage at the moment, so that would be a "yes". Going to be back by next Friday though.

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Quoting: razing32Really feel sorry I missed the live stream. This would have been awesome in real time.

Well, the best moments are in the video. What isn't on the video was mainly just me dying over and over again and eventually succeeding.

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This is a fantastic piece of research right here. Mad respect for the guest writer!

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Quoting: natewardawgIt looks like this was fixed within the last few hours. :) Can anyone else confirm this?

Can confirm. Feral titles now launch without using the compat libs.

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Quoting: DolusThe streaming itself is functionally DRM. Not to get all Stallmanist about the matter, but if you're running things from the cloud, and it's not your cloud, it's basically an unbreakable form of DRM.

You need to have access to those games before you can play them with Parsec, so I just don't see the point you are trying to make. You could download a bunch of GOG games onto the cloud PC and your DRM-free access to those games doesn't just disappear. Plus, regarding the "your cloud" thing I quote the following from this very article:

Since you can run your own server for Parsec...

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Quoting: DolusUh... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "game streaming" basically the most potent form of DRM that currently exists? I can't really get behind this.

Except that what you get is a Windows environment where you can install your games (presumably from any and all sources). So there's no more DRM there than when you play games on your own rig.

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"Threadripper" sounds super badass, I gotta say.

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