Haiku's historical lowest price is $13 ... and it's been on my wishlist for a while so I went ahead and got the bundle despite not being super excited about anything else. There's 5 games I didn't own so basically I paid $13 for Haiku and 0.40 cents each for the other 5 games. So if I never play them it's not too bad of a loss. XD

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Good to know. I've never played a R&C game because I got out sony consoles before I ever played one.

Quoting: kaktuspalmeWhat I wonder more is that they can port it at all, as this game was a showcase for the fast SSD in the PS5 and the direct GPU access to the SSD. Either they have loading screens sometimes which the PS5 doesn't have or they can put all the needed Texturesin the VRAM somehow.

Besides that, fantastic Game, I played it already on PS5.

On a steam deck it's going to be running at lower resolution which will mean much smaller textures in VRAM + level steaming in systems like unreal can be pretty good at keeping loading time down or non-existent. There's been massive open world games with no or low loading time on PCs for over a decade now. Really just doing it with raw power by using an NVMe drive as scratch VRAM is actually a pretty lazy and unimpressive way to do loadscreen free gaming, IMO. AAA studios should strive for better programing than relying on raw power, but at the same time since it was console exclusive originally I couldn't fault them for going the lazy route since it worked on the only required hardware. Which in theory that's the benefit to console exclusive games, rather than having to optimize for tons of different possibilities you just have to make sure it works on one piece of hardware and your done.

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Quoting: iiariInteresting post, thank you for sharing. Out of curiosity, also relative to benchmarks vs real life, do you ever really notice any usability differences between AMD and Intel from a desktop/laptop day-to-day standpoint? Or are all of these CPU arguments online basically fights over spreadsheets of benchmarks?

Quite a lot actually. My wife and I are both artists. And over the years I have noticed extreme difference between the two on a daily basis. Especially with the Ryzen 3600 and 5600 vs the Intel 7700 and 8700. Though even my 7800 vs her 12700 hasn't been smooth but not nearly as bad as the 3600 that was a bad AMD time for me.

Some of the things that happened to me that never happened on my wife's computer: [sometimes we switch computers to work on each other's projects, we also use the same video cards, I even tried swapping our video card / ram in some cases just to make sure they weren't the issue.]

Daily things I've come up on my AMD systems that are not on my wives Intel:
- Interface lag and responsiveness on big heavy programs.
- I'd have more frequent crashes on heavy work loads in different programs, sometimes I'd just have to save my project and finish it on my wife's system.
- My system boot time is way slower
- My system wakes from sleep time is way slower.
- The 3600 got bogged down way faster than her 7700k when doing massive web browsing which was surprising since web browsers are multicore and the 3600 has almost twice the raw power of the 7700, from the 5600 onward it was able to handle all my web browsing so now there's no difference there.
- Gaming wise up until my 7800 her system always felt smoother despite the frame rate either being the same or better on my system. There was just weird lag/hiccups in my games that weren't in hers and didn't count as frame drops.

As for the rarer other person who asked some of the issues I've had with AMD v Intel:

Unique AMD issues I've had:
- RAM not being able to XMP for 3 bios updates... than being able to handle it's XMP settings just fine.
- Ethernet chipset failure, for some reason it's massively more common on my AMD systems.
- Slow wake and boot times even after a ton of tweaking.
- NVMe slot failures due to bios issues that took YEARS for AMD to fix.
- Other weird hard drive slowdown caused by the bios/chipset. An example of one from a couple years ago is that I could take the same drives and get 30% better real-world data transfer on Intel systems up until a bios update finally fixed the issue.
- Weird system lag and hiccups caused by different AMD bios generations. There was a recent one that affected windows 11 where you had to disable fTPM to avoid rather annoying issues while gaming. Thankfully fTPM is only needed to install windows 11 and not actually run it. XD
- and many more...

Overall I have spent many hours fussing with my AMD systems where as for my wives Intel's they just work, and when there are major issues there are prompt updates not updates 6 months to 3 years later... like I've experienced with AMD.

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As someone who uses a lot of AMD desktop CPUs, and then precedes to build computers for his wife, family, and friends with Intel CPUs because they tend to be vastly more stable. I tend to always recommend Intel for people who care about stability. At this point I think I keep buying AMD CPUs out of some morbid sense of masochism, and misguided hope that they'll get better like all the hype, buzz, and benchmarks get you excited to believe.

It would be nice if benchmarks and tech site reviews actually meant anything in the real world, but from my experience using systems side by side for entire years at a time, they usually don't and are more often than not a poor representation of (at least my) real world experience with hardware.

Though I actually think it might be the motherboards/chipset more than the CPUs. AMD motherboards even when I'm spending a small fortune on "the best" of them seem to be the root cause of almost all their most annoying issues. Whereas even relatively cheap Intel motherboards tend to last a long time, and have very few bios and chipset driver related issues. They also tend to get more updates and fixes issues faster.

Of course since picking your CPU also decides your motherboard/chipset options it's one in the same from a decision making stand point. You just rarely hear people talk about why they went with x CPU because x motherboard/chipset is better. It's pretty much always the other way around, because the CPU has all the big numbers to brag about.

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Quoting: GuestDo a youtube search for Roblox most evil company in the world. The video is eye-opening. I have blocked the game in our house and talked with my son about it. It is popular because it exploits and addicts kids and digital laws havent caught up to this practice yet to protect them.

I'd say https://www.manticoregames.com/ [External Link] is the closest thing coming up that could complete with Roblox since it's basically the same idea, but build ontop of Unreal Engine.

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Quoting: EikeThe only real in windows progress does not come from Microsoft, but from AMD, NVIDIA and Valve as they keep the gaming on windows alive, and that's about the only thing that keeps windows into households, and with the big amount of lobbying and "I know that OS" keeps it in the offices.

[P/S This is not a rant towards you, just a rant in general to let off some steam.]

And all the other third party software makers. Windows desktop user space software as a whole is vastly more polished, flexible, varied, and accessible than Linux. Every time I try and convert someone to Linux there is 1 to 100 windows programs they use that have no equal on Linux and having to run a ton of things under wine does not leave a good impression.

Linux as a desktop system is an ecosystem of barely functional reinvented tires. 30 programs that do the same thing, and yet someone manage to do it worse than all the windows options that do the same thing, despite having a "better" OS to work with.

In every other sector it's great, but for the actual desktop experience it's a splintered, fragmented mess that may one day focus itself into something different, but honestly I think we have a better chance that macOS will just take over the desktop world. If Apple would ever make officially support hackintosh builds and sell macOS directly I have little doubt it would skyrocket in popularity. The only thing that saves us from that fate is Apple's own greed.

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Call of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

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As someone who likes both TTS and Tabletop Playground this is pretty exciting news. Tabletop Playground is overall developed into a better game then TTS but because it's still paid software it doesn't attract the content creators that TTS does since few people want to pay again for the same thing but with less content.

Hopefully TTC price tag of free will attract content creators since that's really the core to what makes these kind of games long term viable.

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Just a comment on the bottom comment in the article:

Having both a switch and a SteamDeck, I personally spend vastly more time on my switch still, because docked the joycons are way better for my shoulders, and it's too much of a pain to configure joycons for the steamdeck for each game.

But I love my steamdeck because I can literally hand my entire library of steam games to friends and family to play, especially as the vast majority do not have desktop computers that could run most PC games.

So my steamdeck gets tons of use, just not by me personally.

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Quoting: ShinyaOsen

Quoting: PixelDrop

Quoting: PixelDropStill seems like it has a ways to go. Trying to move my PolyMC setups over to Prism has just an endless mess of errors for everything except my rarely used Vanilla instance and my super lightly modded hardcore instance.

Everything with a lot of mods is a nightmare of errors thus far. Which is confusing because it's the same version of Minecraft, same mod launcher version, same mod versions, and same java version.

Tried something kind of stupid and it fixed all my issues.

I took my PolyMC folder and copied everything in it.
Pasted it all in the Prism folder, chooshing not to override anything eg skip all conflicts which was 90% of the files, and now everything works with no errors.

So I'm guessing the current prism release is missing an important dependency file, seeing as nothing was overridden but clearly there was something Poly had in the folder that Prism needed to work properly but didn't come with.

Everything worked for me just copying the instance folder and setting the ram usage correctly. That's all they say to do https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/getting-started/migrating-multimc/ [External Link]

Tried that, didn't work.
Then I tried a fresh install and reset of everything except copying the mods over, didn't work.
Then I tried re-downloading fresh copies of all the mods for one instance and it didn't work.
There is clearly something missing, now a PS on this one I have windows on my steam deck and am using the windows version and not the Linux version.

Because of the parental control issues / family view not working properly on the steamdeck I've opt to dual boot where I use Windows for kids stuff and steamOS purely for things that are not kid friendly.

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