Yeah, but they’ve proven cheating pays off. Without it, they would have fallen behind AMD back in 2004 instead of after Zen was released.

Denuvo blames its low reputation on anyone who has experienced its product

Buy from GOG, download and archive the installers yourself.

I thought Golden rabbit was only because it was the year of the rabbit when it was released

Sounds like you just need to play an RTS game.

Yeah, geekbench has long been known to favor iPhones. Even compared to other mobile SoCs like Qualcomm or MediaTek, it’s… uh… “optimized” for what Apple chips are designed around.

Using it on a desktop for benchmarking is… Even more useless.

On top of that:

1. The single core number obviously only uses one big core, of which Apple’s chip only has 2.

2. The score only reflects the maximum burst speed (it’s not expected to sustain that kind of performance for more than 10 seconds. Even using both big cores simultaneously would cut that score short due to overheating.

3. Desktop cpu has 16 cores that are all identical, and is expected to sustain those workloads indefinitely. Servers and supercomputers run these things 24/7.

4. The desktop cpu is on an older node as well, inherently less power efficient.

It’s a bit like saying, “for 10 seconds, I can run as fast as the world’s fastest marathon runner TEAM!”. Neat factoid but still incomparable.

It was a fun game, I enjoyed it. Didn’t realize games needed to be accurate treatises on revolutionary political theory to be good.

or they get around it by not making it a “login” bonus but “do this really quick and easy daily quest” bonus.

Or maybe the fist bit of starcraft before you get into combat.

plays zerg hmmm what did that mean?

is it really a city builder? Or more of a PvE RTS?

I think someone also recreated the entire SC1 campaign as custom SC2 maps

I only remember Syndicate from Bullfrog

Blizzard. Without Activision.

Excellent. I’m really just looking for the next StarCraft that won’t be made by Blizzard-Activision

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

Nebula: pay $300 once, lifetime access. They had it up for a week on a trial run a while ago, and they decided to bring it back for now.

curiosity stream: I think I found a deal on Stack Social, + coupon, that worked out to $180. The basic 1080p format only. Again, pay once, lifetime access.

The payoff time for Nebula is around 8 years (not counting possible price increases in the future), so you’ll have to have faith that they’ll last that long. I hope they do though. Curiositystream is obviously less. Then again, the immediate cash infusion they get from this can also help them survive/expand faster.

I just bought the lifetime option.

Anyways both Nebula and Curiositystream have lifetime subscriptions available right now… 90% of my YouTube viewing is from creators on those sites anyway

it’ll hit business servers first… speed and power draw = profits. Even if they cost 1000x more than SSDs, the power savings and speed alone could pay for itself in a datacenter.

The power draw and nonvolatility could mean it can replace SSDs and hard drives entirely. Just store everything in RAM.