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Hey guys,
I'm not sure if this will help, but I had the same issue myself, and managed to figure it out. The problem that I had created for RTX Voice was that I had disabled the NVIDIA RTX Voice speakers under the Playback tab of the Windows Sound Control Panel. At the time, I did it because I thought there was no use to having the RTX Voice speakers there, but disabling it is what prevents the application starting up in the first place. To solve this, I had to launch up RTX Voice, and as it was starting up, located the RTX Voice Speakers under Playback and quickly enabled them before it spewed the error, and that seemed to have fixed the problem.

Once again, my situation for the error is quite specific, so if you have not by chance disabled any RTX Voice Playback or Recording in the Sound Control Panel, then I am afraid this solution might not work for you. Check it anyways, perhaps it might've been disabled automatically for some reason, but this was the issue I encountered and the solution I managed to find.

Ridge Racer 1 and 2 are both well worth picking up imo. Fun arcadey goodness, and a surprising amount of content for handheld racing games of the era. Also great soundtracks.
 
The LocoRoco games are worth checking out too. And the two God of War games (Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta) are pretty great.

Ridge Racer 1 and 2 are both well worth picking up imo. Fun arcadey goodness, and a surprising amount of content for handheld racing games of the era. Also great soundtracks.
 
The LocoRoco games are worth checking out too. And the two God of War games (Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta) are pretty great.

All GTA games are awesome, although be aware of CTW being topdown, while I enjoyed it too, it's not like the others, so if someone didn't start GTA until they went 3D I could see them not necessarily digging it. But if you enjoyed GTA2, you should find it worth your while.
I also remember the Syphon Filter games being a blast and I don't usually even prefer stealth, although disclaimer here that I played them literally over a decade ago. Dang, it's been a minute.
Burnout Dominator was also a blast.
There's a ton of good games for the device.

My favorite PSP games are:
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Crysis Core - Final Fantasy VII
Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble
Tomb Raider: Legend
Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Way of The Samurai 2 (Japanese)
Midnight Club: LA Remix
God Eater Burst
 
The quality of those games is in parity with AAA PC/Console games from back in the day which is pretty good!

PSP was an exceptional console in terms of how different were the games released on it. My personal benefits are the Silent Hill games (both of them), Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command, and Killzone: Liberation. It is also a great PS1 emulator console, I've beat many PS1 games on PSP.
As for the inexpensive but great games - try Gran Turismo, it came with PSPs for free, so there are millions of copies of that one out there.

Hey everyone,

Regarding War Thunder, we reached out to Gaijin Entertainment regarding some of the issues brought up in this thread.

The first of the complaints to address is about them running a campaign on the Donetsk People's Republic YouTube channel. This was something that was brought to Gaijin's attention almost immediately, and in the article that was written about it, this was addressed and they made sure to point out that those videos had been pulled from the DPR YouTube channel.

The other complaints, unfortunately, are true of most massively-multiplayer competitive games, especially free ones. Whenever we get offers for these free-to-play games, we have a few team members play the game, or reach out to individuals we know that play in order to secure feedback. And the feedback around War Thunder has been mostly positive; we know it won't be for everyone, but up until now we've felt comfortable promoting it. Diablo: Immortal, RAID Shadow Legends on the other hand, are examples of games that failed this test, and are examples of games we don't want to promote.

I'm reluctant to publish other members' stats, but you are indeed #1 for reports filed in 2022, with 531.

The LTT Forum is now 10 years old! What started out as an experiment hosted in Linus's garage has now become a thriving community of tech enthusiasts, with some pretty impressive numbers, thanks in no small part to all of you!
 
The forum has come a long way from the incredibly unstable VBulletin 5 beta that we started out with in 2013, and I hope you will agree that it looks far better today than it did back then:

 
The forum exists because of its awesome community. As a small way of giving back, we're going to give away some 1 year Gold Contributor memberships, which give you Floatplane access, based on recent activity on the forum. The giveaway criteria are:
5 will be randomly assigned to the authors of posts made in the past 3 months (so your chance of winning is proportional to the number of posts you have made in the past 3 months), to give something back to everyone that makes this community awesome. Posts removed by a moderator, and posts in Test Posts, do not qualify. 10 will be randomly assigned to members who joined the forum in or before 2015 and have made at least one post on the forum in the past 3 months, to thank our most loyal members. 5 will be given to the members with the most posts that were marked as the best answer in the past 3 months, to say thanks to the members that give the most back to the community. Posts where a member marked their own post as best answer are excluded. Winners will be drawn later this week, and notified via PM by me. The full list of winners will be published here once all winners have accepted their prize.
 
All winners have now been contacted and received their prize
 
Ts&Cs:
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Only a thousand? Jeez I got ripped off.

Only a thousand? Jeez I got ripped off.

Howdy, y'all - hope this is a good place for a first post hello! Been enjoying LTT content since around the first of the year. I'm a 63-year-old gay man who lives with his parents! 40-year-old virgin ain't got nothin' on me. How many times have you heard this: I don't live with my parents! My parents live with me! I've finally stopped saying that. I'm back in the old town, in the old house. Things are fine.

oh, no. I live near one.

I live is a very small town thats very.... not acepting. 
theres a very gay, very brave guy at my school thats worn a skirt several times. 
He got shit for it constantly, but he did it several times again. I idolise that bravery

I feel like it's much harder on guys to act feminine or feel like you'd be happier as a woman without just coming out a trans.
Women can act or look slightly masculine and we just get referred to as tomboys, the trans discussion rarely ever comes up in those cases. I would refer to myself as maybe tomboy-lite, I was always one of "the boys" in school, but never once has anyone asked me "maybe you're trans" even all the way up to today, is a strange double standard you guys get to deal with 😞

This
im Lucky enough to have accepting friends and live within 30 minutes of a very accepting town, and I was already planning to go into town with someone and get some fem clothes (yay my first skirt!) and I might wear them around that town a bit (depending on how brave I am)
but I’m lucky. Most people don’t have that privilege to be able to do that.

Canada is the first country to provide census data on transgender and non-binary people
 
Funny enough, Statistic Canada has a Reddit account and post information from time to time.
 
 

Apple claims the Mac Studio with M1 Ultra is the most powerful computer you can buy for $4,000. Does that put AMD, Intel, and Nvidia on notice – Or is Apple making claims they can’t back up?
 
 
Buy an Apple Mac Studio M1 Max: https://geni.us/c9DL
Buy an Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: https://geni.us/DFJvaa
Buy an Apple Studio Display: https://geni.us/3ho7o
Buy an Apple Magic Keyboard: https://geni.us/8ezY
Buy an Apple Magic Mouse: https://geni.us/h04VhmR
Buy an Apple MacBook Pro 14” M1 Pro: https://geni.us/S8vIu
Buy an Intel Core i9-12900K: https://geni.us/516f8Q
Buy a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090: https://geni.us/eZkB

Just because it's not for you, doesn't make it a bad product.
There are tons of people that use notebooks like these. I use notebooks, however I prefer to just get the $1 ones from the dollar store since they're not notes I'd keep. This is not the same for everyone. Some people like to keep journals, in which case these make perfect sense.
 
There are probably more people that would want something not made of real leather, than those that would want real leather. Especially in the LTT audience.

Banned for having a username I always read as covfefe

Only a thousand? Jeez I got ripped off.

Only a thousand? Jeez I got ripped off.