as a person who works in that industry pretty much. the only people buying singles are people who do it internally else its sold on bulk because the money gets split between the ecycler and the company who originally owns the product.

outside of having less processing to deal with per order, a company buying things in bulk is less critical about the condition of a product than an individual end user.

i mean of course youre going to have a conclusion like that polling exclusively mobile game players. For example had they polled female MMO players (there are a lot), the results would likely be far different.

in a comment that was removed from the post, this data was in a decompilaion of steamvr binaries. which implies potentially vr related

i dont know source though. take with grain of salt

https://i.imgur.com/z9Bq2hb.png

the director himself is usually the one who comes out and explains it and whats happening behind the scenes. Hence when they address it, he will be talking as himself as rather the team in official blogposts. Theyve been litigious against mods early in the year so youd be hard pressed to think they want it there.

generally speaking, most mmo companies have a similar clause and they take mods on a case by case basis. FF14 is the only one that constantly reminds people Moddings Bad Mkay, don’t do it, and actually acts (bans) on it.

FF14 devs have historically been anti modding, arguably the most anti mod stance of all the major mmos, so i dont know why theyre complaining now.

they do so pretty publicly as well

its partly windows, and partly 8 core AMD CCDs that handhelds dont need.

Lenovo was given a holy ball (Z2 go cpu, basically 4c/8t zen 3 cpu and 12 rdna 2 cu cores (as apposed to the zen 2 and 8 cu rdna2 the steam deck has) and if they priced it at 600 tops and go down from there. it would be extremely competitive.

lenovo is basically like nah, 750$ it is. and i think its the reverse (starts at 600 and goes up)

i tell people that roblox is a kid friendly garys mod clone

black friday died when it became a normie holiday for sales. part of the reason why black friday worked before hand was that buyers are 100% aware of the product theyre buying and how much it is valued. anythings a “sale” if you’re selling it to an audience that doesn’t know what it was normally priced.

to be fair, the drive in question is a NAS drive, which is not a backup drive by its intended default usecase, unless you slapped it in a nas thats stored as a cloud storage in an offsite location.

its just a matter of people understanding that data redundancy is not a backup, just a level of data safeguard, as it only partially covers some of the forms of data loss and not all of them (e.g not immune to physical methods of data loss like fires, floods and stuff)

not too suprised, given the game runs fairly poorly on the base PS4, and I believe with Natlan, they made the decision to increase the quality of certain elements of the game, and its not going to get any lighter.

well technically speaking a while back they closed their redwood city California location and everyone there was functionally fired.

would you prefer the platform police it and run into the problem that the google play store/ios app store has about vote manipulation? and purging several reviews (whether legitamate or not)

i mean with the review in question its a red flag given the playtime is shown.

steam at least give you some tools to consider if a review is legit. one is the users play time (which is public), another is other reviews theyve made. another is if theyve gotten the key for free.

id imagine part of the deal on getting first dibs on xbox full screen mode is that they werent allowed to officially support Steam OS. Lenovo is on the opposite end of the relationship where they had a legion go s run with steam os, but was not invited to use xbox full screen.

welcome to the tech world, where trying to cozy with competition can lead to blacklists.

take for example, there are oems who used to make Nvidia gpus, tried to do a side AMD hustle and got blacklisted by Nvidia (e.g XFX), and Nvidia has not so many good relationships with some of its old partners (EVGA, Apple)

SteamOS exists because of Valves fear of the chance that Microsoft would blacklist or strongarm the platform into a more appstore like experience.

big tech companies hold a lot of fucking power

Lenovo likely doesnt want to blatently get on Microsofts bad side. Basically skirting business to business relationships.

for example if down the line the xbox full screen mode is decent, you probably dont want to be glazing your opposition.

the mininum is dictated by the rest of the components and decision to limit future upgrades down the line.

after you are aware of what cpu you are using

amd and intel sub 250 cpus usually 150w or less

amd high end and alderlake(12gen, and arrowlake), peaks at 250w

intel raptor lake (13-14th gen) 300w

hedt cpus like threadripper fall under a similar class.

peak 5060ti is just under 200w alone.

add an arbitrary 50w to cover rest of components.

how i see it, pcgamer sometimes has high effort posts like this and other times has some really low effort posts, sometimes almost cyclical as they often use the same image pool over several topics (e.g its a meme that anything witcher related, pcgamer will use geralt in a tub as a header image)

because of the less serious posts, it kinda blots out the more serious ones.

if you have a garage, design a method to basically ensure your garage door is closed without you needing to go back to check.

of course if you trust yourself with never making that mistake.

last thing you want to feel is if you remembered to close the door or not and youre already far off

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