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nothingcorporate, in The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price

YSK isthereanydeal.com lets you create a waitlist, set a price you’re willing to pay for each game, and notifies you when its on sale for ≤ that amount.

YoLaTengo,

It’s great that you can also set which stores to filter from, I have set so it’ll only show me deals from Steam and sites with Steam keys.

bioemerl, in US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day'

As it fucking should be, this is like the third time they have tried to redesign the chip to get around export restrictions

baconisaveg,

And yet all of the good, open source LLM work is coming out of China. But hey, maybe this will spur some ROCm development so AMD cards don’t suck so fucking hard in that space.

bioemerl,

AMD is also subject to export restrictions.

baconisaveg,

I liked your original comment before the edit, it’s true. AMD only has consumer grade hardware, which is the main reason the majority of the AI projects don’t support it. Code written for CUDA can work on a A100 just as well as a 3090, there’s no money in developing software to run on someone’s 4 year old gaming PC.

bioemerl,

AMD makes a few Mi999 cards that support pytorch with ROCM and are subject to the export ban.

baconisaveg,

Not sure how I missed the MI250 series, but thanks.

fruitycoder,

Right? It’s really unfortunate that so many of the Chinese people that make awesome stuff get limited because CCP has garnered so much distrust that they won’t use AI to advance their surveillance and authoritarian control systems both domestically and abroad.

I mean it was also a shame how much the actions of the NSA weakend trust in West as well.

youRFate, in Hades II - Reveal Trailer

That trailer was released almost a year ago…

alessandro,
@alessandro@lemmy.ca avatar

My bad, I saw the one video from PCGamer and though it was a new think, and since the PCGamer video gave nothing, I just took the official link thinking was the actual new thing.

tacosanonymous, in No matter how many times they've declared PC gaming dead over the last 30 years, it's kept on kicking

I feel like the only “they” that’s ever said this was people making and selling consoles. It’s propaganda and articles like this do more to propagate it than combat it. Stop it.

I_Has_A_Hat,

That and companies like EA where a big chunk of their income comes from various sports games that they half ass a remake of every year. PC gamers don’t touch those, but there’s a large number of people with consoles who only use it for things like FIFA and will continue to dutifully buy the new ones and spend dumb amounts of money to unlock their favorite players.

alessandro,
@alessandro@lemmy.ca avatar

If I recall correctly, Tim Sweeny said you needed a +900$ for a PC to equal the power of a 500$ PS5. Which wasn’t true even when he said it… and it was time when the ps5 just launched and covid-19 era chip shortage hit the gpu market the most (the ps5 is a SoC with unified ram and underpowered CPU, you could buy the usual second hand Optiplex for ~50$ and spend the remaining 450$ for a GPU/PSU that surclassed PS5)

kadu, in BioShock creator calls canned FPS “the best game we never got to make”
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

Well… The thing about something that was never actually made in the real world is that in your mind it can indeed be the best thing ever.

Just like the book I’ve never written, and the super efficient electric motor I never built.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Maybe I should actually get to work on that perpetual motion machine I thought of… 🤔

Naaaahhh…

scifu,

Magnets pushing and pulling each other perpetually. I was a genius 6 year old who discovered magnets.

CosmicSploogeDrizzle, in PC graphics cards to get more expensive again "thanks" to AI boom
@CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks, I hate it

ono, in Lenovo Reportedly Working on Its Own Steam Deck Rival

One of the Steam Deck’s great benefits is that it offers an easy way to be free of Windows. Unless this thing does that as well as the Deck, I’m not interested.

spudwart, in E3 Is Permanently Canceled

I swear reality forked in 2020 and this is the bad ending timeline.

SpaceNoodle,

10 January 2016

Kalothar,

28th May 2016

soviettaters,

That’s the real date. The harbinger of doom.

Numpty,

🦍 😢

thantik, in Counter-Strike 2 players warned not to play CS2 as huge exploit could leak your IP

It sounds like the person who posted this believes you can run code on people’s machines simply by having their IP address rather than there actually being any kind of exploitable code-running capability. Leaking your IP isn’t really a big deal, as you’re constantly leaking your IP any time you connect to anything anyways, and if CS:2 uses any kind of peer-to-peer to lower latency or make the game more responsive, you could have grabbed those ips with a simple netstat (for windows users) command anyhow.

cm0002,

Right, the worst that can happen is a DDoS, you can take down a residential connection really easily. Those little consumer grade routers cannot handle much lmao

thantik,

And since most residential IPs are short-lived DHCP leases, instead of permanent IPs, a simple router reset will usually get you a new IP and you’re good at that point.

ClydapusGotwald, in Blizzard allegedly surveyed Diablo 4 players about a $100 expansion

100$ expansion probably going to throw another 100$ collectors edition with no game also. People need to just stop buying blizzard games at this point. They aren’t the same company and never will be. Get the nostalgia glasses off.

DebatableRaccoon, in kids would rather have subscriptions and in-game currency [children of the ages 10-17, with 59% of girls and 86% of boys plan to ask for video game gifts for the holidays (not actual videogames]

Well yeah. 1. They’ve now been raised on this shit and 2. They haven’t been raised to understand the value of money.

Sharpiemarker,

I’m with you on both points. Kids don’t know anything lol.

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Kids know what they’re taught.

Sharpiemarker,

Right but depending on their environment, may not be much.

ILikeBoobies,
  1. Look at the state of new releases

It’s much better use of money to invest in a game they like than it is to buy a new one

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

It’s also easier for kids who may pay for this stuff with their allowance. Telling them to save up $60 for a game is a harder sell for companies than just having them pay $10-$20 now on either in-game currency or a monthly subscription.

HubertManne, in Steam Deck gets a new competitor — Ayaneo Slide RGB keyboard handheld gaming PC launches on IndieGogo from $699
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

it says steam deck competitor but I don't see any info on os its using

DerisionConsulting,

Windows 11. That OS that just got told they had to allow users to turn off ads (but only in Europe).

If you go into the “news” link, then go to the indigogo link, then get mad because they are putting all info into mages instead of text, then accept that they made that awful no-text choice, then scroll down almost all the way to the bottom, you’ll find the spec-sheet.

HubertManne,
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

Thanks. I spent a good amount of time looking for it but when a few control effs on various pages did not work I have up. To bad as this was tempting if it was linux. I mean guess could reinstall but I would like to know all the steam os and drivers worked fine out of box like the steamdeck.

SatyrSack,

then get mad because they are putting all info into mages instead of text

This is what all emails from them look like. Literally zero information unless you load the images.

1000068548

DerisionConsulting,

This just screams “scam” to me.

ruckblack, in DayZ inexplicably achieves its highest player count, over ten years after releasing

The standalone was such a disappointment on release that it basically killed the game entirely. I have so many amazing memories with the Arma 2 mod. I’m glad people are still having fun with it

bogdugg,
@bogdugg@sh.itjust.works avatar

It really feels like there’s a game there that’s never been fully realized but would be super successful if somebody figured out how to do it right.

ruckblack, (edited )

It totally always felt like that, and I was so excited for the standalone because I thought THAT would be it! And then they released a buggy mess that was in early access for like 7 years, and I, as well as many others, lost interest.

I do wonder if we could get the magic back, but I also wonder if the time has passed. DayZ was around before the battle royale explosion, and kinda led to it. It also came at a time when zombie survival media like The Walking Dead was at the height of its popularity.

I’m worried that any attempt at a similar game would just turn into a KOS deathmatch no matter what. The magic of DayZ was in the interactions you’d have with strangers, and roleplaying a bit.

weew, in EA CEO Says Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Deal Is Great For Gaming

Funny thing is that Activision-Blizzard was so bad that many people figured a Microsoft takeover probably couldn’t make it worse…

ryathal,

If nothing else the toxic management probably goes away.

mindbleach,

Yeah, Microsoft lacks the competence and loyalty for a cover-up.

UntouchedWagons, in Watch out AMD: Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

I want to believe.

Nevrome,
@Nevrome@lemmy.ca avatar

I do too.

Brand new AM5 low-to-mid range complete gaming build for under 700$? Count me in.

Caligvla,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Between Nvidia being a bunch of greedy shits and AMD being incompetent and uncompetitive as always we really need this.

cheery_coffee,

AMD just needs to release one more GPGPU spec that doesn’t do as much as CUDA and then NVIDIA will have to be the market to them.

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