And Trump and the Republicans are the useful idiots.

Guess this goes on my patient gamer list.

Given this history that FSR 4 was proven to have been able to be supported in RDNA 3 and 2 via a unintentional commit by AMD and the intrepid open source community implemented FSR 4 on these cards giving them much improved visual quality with a minor loss in frame rate and that this rumour is coming from a reliable source that has a history of being correct with their leaks, I’m inclined to distrust this corporation and start sharpening my tines.

And don’t get me started on how AMD has dropped linux support, another competitive advantage, and we’re relying on open source coders to give us FSR 4 capability while Nvidia, the current god father of fucking over gamers, has been increasing linux driver support.

But hey, we all have our opinions based on our observations.

I’m going to get downvoted but honestly I’m not 100% against some form of digital ID. I don’t think these half baked, unthought through state laws and patchwork state systems are anyway way to go about it though and they certainly do not have enough safeguards in their laws to limit surveillance which I’m sure there are those who crafted the laws to intentionally leave that out and they certainly didn’t have any inkling of cybersecurity in mind when they proposed these laws.

I mean we in the modern age already have a crap ton of digital ID’s flying around using our NFC enabled devices and 2FA systems commercially and we mostly don’t blink a single eye on these systems and generally regard them as a safer alternative now. And let’s not pretend that these corporations aren’t tracking the living heck out of us already with this.

Don’t do loot boxes then.

As for more user info, that I can agree with up to a point and I certainly don’t trust a corporation, even Valve to do the correct thing and protect additional PII.

Valid point. Still I think that there’s a notable difference between the physical vs digital aspects though that makes digital much worse.

There’s seems to be more effort involved with cards because they’re physical, more ritual maybe of going to the store to pick up a pack of cards or having to wait for the delivery giving it that cool down time vs digital where access is instant gratification and gambling dopamine hit.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that those companies that have tried physical loot boxes haven’t faired well either and haven’t taken off like their digital counterparts. Maybe it’s that mix of seeing physical items vs value and waiting for the next hit kind of dampens the gambling addition effect.

And then there’s the whole money into currency with the whole 1000 gems for 99 bucks to buy a 950 gem item psychological predation that you don’t have in physical collectibles, at least not that I’m aware of.

I guess overall I find the digital loot box just on another level of predatory, exploitation of addiction much worse than physical collectibles.

But hey I’m all for regulating physical items for gambling too. It would be interesting to see a actual study on them like they’ve done with loot boxes.

Valve I think are the most “ethical” implementations of loot boxes that just straight up charges cash.

Yeah, looks like the 9070xt will be the last AMD card I’ll be buying.

What a slap in the face to those who buy their GPU’s and giving away the only competitive advantage they had over Nvidia.

On the physical side, popular products used in this way include baseball cards, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu. In the game space, digital packs similar to our boxes date back to 2004 and are in widespread use.

I think that video game loot boxes are very much different when you’re hiring psychologist to maximize fomo and extra currency to make kids spend more with 100 gems short of your next purchase.

But if they want we can outlaw baseball cards and Pokemon too. I’m good with that.

What is she going to bring to the table here? How to grift off a dead husband you didn’t love, abandon your children to grift, and be the side chick of a guy who fucks couches?

https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/will-escort-ships-us-moves-to-secure-strait-of-hormuz-amid-iran-strikes-article-13853345.html

And

https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-turns-down-strait-of-hormuz-escort-requests-because-of-high-risk

US propaganda promises made, Us propaganda promises broken in record time.

Let’s not minimize the US Republicans culpability here. They bear just as much responsibility for all of this.

It’s not about sales, it’s about how many units they had to get through customs.

Yup. We don’t pay nearly a high enough premium and volume for these guys.

We’re back into the 80’s PC days.

So I already own this whole series and I cannot say I’m a fan of it.

The puzzles are all to often moon logic, which okay I can deal with it in today market but the story and the main protagonist just absolutely ruined the game for me, especially with the subsequent sequels.

There’s a lot of things that I don’t like about Arizona but the abolishment of moving to and from DST has been such a great thing to have.

Fifty dollar less than Nvidia with objectively worse features, it’s clearly a winning strategy.

What happens when you have a DoD run by a DUI hire.

Because that was the beginning of the adventure game era where there was no concept of game design and ensuring that the games made logical sense, hence the birth of “moon logic”, thanks Roberta. These games were also made to be obtuse because games were very expensive back then and making obscure logic was an incentive to make things more “worth” it, often intending to make the game last months of play time to solve their “logic” puzzles and you had to be in tune with the game designer to get them.

Not to mention that due to intention or lack of game design, these games were notorious for allowing you to put yourself into a unwinnable state with no way to correct it, things like Space Quest with the alien kiss of death that won’t trigger until the very end of the game or that Kings Quest game where you had one shot to throw a boot at a cat or you’d be dead man walking.

Not being able to finish these games wasn’t even unusual back then without the help of friends or BBS. Heck I had games adventure games I bought from that era that I never finished until the got re-released on Steam.

I guess we’ll see how that goes come September timeframe.