Maybe they shouldn’t over-hire by tens of thousands

Or maybe they hired people with different roles. The article says they want to reduce the management structure. Microsoft probably didn’t hire 100k managers these last couple of years.

Hopefully more price increases in regions that don’t have these tarrifs. Can’t have the US pay too much.

They’re also hiring much more than they’re laying off. They gained like 84k employees in the last 5-6 years (includes like 25k layoffs).

The bonus was also basically all stocks, so if the company does well, he gets more money. If it fails he gets less.

That one at the Illios Well? I know that one and have played it a few times in the past.

These past couple of days, I’ve been always queuing flex and I got 5x DPS in 60+ games, including one in the final 10s of a loss, where I didn’t even make it to the point.

It doesn’t really bother me, I like Tank and Support, and since Blizzard added a bunch of them when OW2 came out, so there’s still a lot to try and learn.

Decided to give Overwatch 2 a shot, until the new Doom is out.

First time playing OW in a couple of years, just doing normal 5v5 Quick Play, and it’s been fun. Mostly Tank and Support, but occasionally the Matchmaking Algorithm graces me with a DPS game. Current favorite heroes: Hazard and Orisa for Tank, Brigitte and Juno for Healer, and Venture for DPS.

After I’m done with Doom, I’ll take a look at Stadium, the new game mode that was added to OW recently.

No cosmetics pretty much disqualifies almost every game, because all of them have it, even old games.

In my comment before, I probably wouldn’t describe cosmetics as a grind. You just unlock stuff on the side, as a bonus, since most of it is random. It’s not like you’re going to play a thousand games of Ursa in Dota to unlock some rare skin.

What do you want? Lots of games fit that description.

In some shooters, you basically only grind for cosmetics, like Overwatch, Marvel Rivals or Counter-Strike. Dota 2 is a Moba and also only has cosmetic unlocks, I think.

Maybe Minecraft or Terraria? I don’t think you really grind in these games, but you do very similar stuff all the time.

That’s the last two generations. Still doesn’t change that Extreme Overclockers don’t care about that, and have OCd them to 9GHz.

Didn’t think Fandom had it in them. Very nice move, although my time watching or listening to GB are probably over.

If you pay 1.3k for a motherboard, you’re into Extreme OC (or extremely dumb), and probably don’t really care that they’re worse than AMD for gaming or whatever. At 7.5GHz the only thing you’re running is probably CPU-Z to validate your score.

I don’t think so. They deny it, so who knows. There’s also the exploit allegations, that were mentioned in this thread, but there’s just no source for anything.

This got rejected from Steam in January and the C&D was in March, but in between that Valve updated their Source SDK to add all TF2 source code, so it’s not like they’re completely anti-mod.

As usual, Valve doesn’t communicate with anyone, so who knows what’s going on there.

People are saying the reason is that they used/worked with leaked CS:GO code, which Valve doesn’t like, but the devs deny it.

I know you said allegedly, but the article explicitly says that a policy like that doesn’t exist, and the only thing that would happen (if the game is cheaper somewhere else) is that the game wouldn’t be advertised during a sale.

When pushed on official policy in his deposition, DJ Powers claims that the ‘if else’ is normally this: “If we get to a situation where a partner is telling us that the price needs to be lower on other platforms than it is on Steam, then we will typically choose not to run curated marketing during times where that game is being discounted.”

He also notes that suggesting a game can’t be on the store at all - if not at parity - is “not our typical process”. Which is semi-believable, because a) it’s not in the contract and b) nobody at Valve has time to check and enforce that. But has it happened before, multiple times? Sure. And Wolfire’s lawyers will use that in the case.

No, because it’s a 600W card and 8-pin are only rated for 150W each.

Even with 4x 8-pin it’s not 100%, because those can also melt.

I have an LG 38GN950-B, 1600p Ultrawide, IPS, 144Hz, and really like it.

For productivity, I think Ultrawide is great. WFH on this is really nice.

For gaming, it’s kinda hit-and-miss. Many games just don’t support UW, so you’re stuck with black bars or have to mess around with mods, fixes or tools. While not a dealbreaker, when I upgrade in a couple of years, I’ll probably just go back to 16:9, because of that.

IPS glow is there, but not really noticeable. I’m usually in a well-lit room, so that cancels out any glow I could notice out anyway, so it doesn’t really matter.

Germany is weird with the Wolfenstein games

Not anymore. You can buy the non-german Wolfenstein games for a while now (since 2019).

I think I remember that around the release of This War of Mine and Wolfenstein 2, there were some more discussions about just flat out banning Nazi symbols in video games, and treating them as art.

Porn and Hentai games are still pretty much all blocked on Steam, and some gory stuff, which I don’t get. You can’t buy Dying Light (but you can buy the DLC) on Steam or GOG, but Doom, where you’re ripping apart demons, is ok.

I checked, and the stuff about modding is true (you can read the EULA directly on the Steam Store page), however the Skyrim Anniversary EULA says you can only use editors or tools by Bethesda or Zenimax to make mods (if I read that correctly). I don’t think anyone really cares in Skyrim, and I don’t think anybody will care with Oblivion

I finished DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal. Eternal is definitely the better of the two for me, maybe even my favorite in the whole series.

Eternal’s campaign was pretty easy this time, since I actually used all of the tools the game gives you. Some of the Master Levels were harder though, especially Taras Nabad. Two fights in that level took me an hour each on Ultra-Violence.

Now I’ll play the DLC for the first time.

I would really like some image quality comparisons, between these cards, when you have to turn down textures.

GPU reviews of course test on the highest settings, so you can see how much performance the cards have, but when the 8GB model craps out in Cyberpunk with Psycho settings or whatever, what are you missing out on with Medium or Low textures. Or are the textures just terrible (not Cyberpunk specifically), and it doesn’t even really matter.