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People shouldnt be surprised by this, they are owned by Sony and they have a history of this sort of thing. 

LTTs being aiming at the teen segment for ages now, it works, they have way more time then working adults. You might not like it anymore but it might be worth asking yourselves if you have just grown out of the types of jokes they make. 

Gonna be very annoyed if this ends up destroying LTT, very poor reaction by Linus. Expected better in all honesty. He clearly saw red and didnt think about the implications of his answer.

I've got to the point where I just want the EGS store to fail, I am worried that other companies could see it as the standard and mimic it, anyone with a whole lot of money can just brute force their way into making all sorts of titles exclusive to their subpar platform that I dont want to be a part of. Its great that they have given away a lot but I cant see people staying on their platform, nothing motivates me to come back to it apart from exclusives and quite a large number of people will just wait for a year. EGS just seems like a money pit, once fortnite dries up I cant imagine they will want to keep a failing product losing hundreds of millions a year. Sure Unreal engine will keep them profiting overall but this just isnt sustainable. Its only a matter of time before the bean counters kick the doors down and start asking questions about how they are gonna turn this around. 

Honestly whats going to make this profitable aside from free give aways, exclusives and the sales dotted over the year. 

In the past year their main competition has smashed its all time login record and ingame record and likely sold the most games it ever has. With rumors of gamepass coming to it how can egs match that. It just seems like a failed project to me. 

Wonder how long before this comes to the UK as well, im fully expecting that I'll have to ditch my P30 Pro sadly. Hope this comes to the enterprise side as well, getting sims for our wireless emergency kits uses up time which could be saved when a site is hard down. If we just need to edit a config to get it to work that would be fantastic.

Honestly I'm not surprised its Ericsson I'm not sure who else put up a decent effort to get the contract

I got my new motherboard this morning and got really nostalgic all of a sudden, the pc I built back in 2014 impacted my life massively, I wont go into details but if you knew me from my old news days on this forum then you will remember how amazing it all was. 

A lot has changed since I used to be so immersed in tech but I wanted to go back and look at my old parts vs my new parts starting with my motherboard. 

So this is the first pc part I got, the Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H

The most insane deal, it was £70, brand new, the person that bought it got a amd cpu and messed up and panic sold it so cheap, this board was way out of my budget at the time but at £70 it was a massive steal and at that point I was honestly awe struck but how beautiful I thought it was, it was my first step into computers, the first part of my journey. The picture was taken with a Nikon D80 with a fixed 35mm if I remember correctly, unfortunately that camera was stolen.

And now we have the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro taken with a huawei p30 pro(if its blurry its gyazo being crap just click the picture for higher res)

Its the future, it looks as different as a motherboard can be, I remember back in 2013 if your motherboard had a fan on the southbridge then you would have had to send insane amounts, the kinda stuff linustech was barely even touching back then. 

I'd love to go really indepth which I can for my old board but I dont know much about my new one aside from the ports it has. 

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On a side note I do miss this community but I dont have the time to come back, I remember posting news like crazy, being on the wan show every week, talking with linus and slick about the crazy stuff I had written, then being approached by some outlets to write for them. it was crazy stuff, maybe one day I will come back. Heres to many more years of faffing around with PCs, im glad this forum is still going as strong as ever. 

1 hour ago, Taf the Ghost said:

As a note, EGS actually isn't really paying anyone upfront cash. (Which is part of why the fact companies signed on is sort of funny.) What they do is offer a Minimum Sales Floor. Epic is only on the hook for sales short falls. So EGS isn't even actually doing a Forward-type deal and no money is directly going for the exclusivity deals. Though I've yet to see any info on when EGS would need to pay out any shortfalls. (I'd assume at the end of the exclusivity deal.) 

 

For all intents and purposes, EGS is actually lowballing publishers but they are assuring a return (at some specific point). If you aren't on Unreal, it makes sense to publish to more than just EGS, or if you're a really small indie dev team and you're having to swing loans to stay afloat. (I.e. you don't have a business model that works but you're looking to hop on the next Hot Startup Train.)

I dont think this is true at least in one case, my mate backed phoenix point and based off the dividend they must have gotten up front cash. Not sure if thats with all epic deals, im sure they are all slightly different.

Seems like a pretty cool project, wish I had the patience to do stuff like that, i just cant be asked lol. That being said the t300 i use has a lot already. 

im up for buying a next gen console but not going to completely switch to console gaming again, its just so expensive to do that, games are more expensive and ps+ is a thing. 

Damn people here really dont like Huawei, honestly it just seems like the AI messed up, seems like a fringe case to me.

I think its one to ignore, in two or three months the next Honor phone will come out and if its anything like the trend the Honor 10 set last year it will cannibalise Huawei's lower end products. 

steamspy reports last light has sold between 0-20000 sales. 2.5 that is 50k. Honestly not that impressive. 

2 hours ago, Shimejii said:

Someone was on a site that they shouldnt have been, or they opened up the wrong set of emails. Gotta teach everyone about internet safety. There is very minimal chances this came from a direct attack vector, and injected into their systems, but it can be a possibility.

2 hours ago, Mihle said:

I think its more likely that someone opened the wrong email than going to the wrong website.

We have had a massive increase in dodgy emails coming through this year, based off what other people are saying on r/sysadmin it seems this is happening in many places. Seems like it was only a matter of time, people are just unfortunately quite unwilling to learn 

5 hours ago, chaozbandit said:

 

This week in 1 billion poly models.....

Honestly I dont even know why they are doing this, its not like their cameras are bad. Its like a straight A student cheating whats the point. 

397 can sod off with their pricing imo they are going too far, yeah its accurate and likely fun but the models are pathetic and the sounds are questionable, the shaders on sebring at catastrophic. 

11 hours ago, chaozbandit said:

Re-uploaded at 3x the bitrate to see if it makes the difference, because the file size on my end is more than manageable.

 

 

Also it appears IER is back and is bringing the Oreca 03 to AC, which is great because if their TUSC mod is anything to go by this will end up being quite high quality once completed.

 

http://www.iersimulations.com/p13c-home.html

 

 

 

 

 

IER is basing it on the HPD ARX 03a not the oreca 03

1 hour ago, chaozbandit said:

 

What more could you want than the 911 and the vantage??

 

 

to save money, im below minimum wage thanks to being an intern, the price of the game is over a days wage

Honestly im gonna wait until its a deep sale, trouble I have is ill think its great, play 10 hours and never touch it again, happened with dirt rally, happened with dirt 4, wrc 7, gravel, doki doki literature club and vrally 4 I just sadly get bored of rally a bit too quickly to be interested, perhaps ill be a bit more hyped if there are some nice dlc cars especially for the rgt class. 

2 hours ago, DesolationGod said:

Epic store can afford to operate on a 12% margin because of the billions in fortnite dollars rolling in... once that stops or diminishes, we will see what changes, the fact the payment fees are being passed on to consumers kinda hints they are operating at a slim profit, which for companies that the store is their main source of income simply is not reasonable. They are just going to pass the cost on to us whereas steam and every other digital goods store eats the cost.   As for GOG, honestly ive never bought games from their store, for me its just easier/more convenient to have it all on steam or origin(for EA games).

Epic also has a lot fewer features to cater for, there is a lot of stuff steam has to deal with, all the reviews, all the screenshots, artwork, pictures, mods, curators, leaderboards, forums etc etc . All that takes up space and bandwidth. Epic simply have less to pay for at the moment. 

1 minute ago, yian88 said:

Epic Games dirty strategy is going to put all except steam/origin/ubisoft/battlenet out of business, discord games, GOG not a chance they will be gone by next year if Epic pursues their goals aggressively, EPIC have done the worst possible for PC gaming making even more exclusive deals, i will never buy anything from them and they wont be offering any sales or region prices or ability to buy keys from other "illegal" cd key stores.

The fact that UE4 games are free for their store makes it even worse, because Epic store will never be available for linux/mac only windows, we were going in the right direction with steam and proton and now shit Epic move ruins everything, fk em.

Out of all of those discord and GOG are likely most at risk. Steam, Origin & Uplay will be fine, steam has the brute force of the vast majority of pc games on it, origin has the steady stream from access and EA games are popular, uplay can survive off its own games as well and I expect them to got subscription based in the future as well. 

Sadly at the moment I dont think epic is going to fail, they have too much funds to unless people are very patient which I doubt very highly they will continue the brute force tactic, this being said I dont have the best history at predicting the future, I hope Epic fail however I dont think they will, there are too many people that dont give a crap that about having 50 launchers. 

13 minutes ago, kuddlesworth9419 said:

This sounds like a downgrade to me.

Well its cheaper then the eos r at least here in the uk so it seems about right 

5000mah is utterly insane.

32 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

I can actually see a use case for this when it comes to small wearables, where you can plop them on a phone for a few minutes to get a few more go out of these wearables. 

 

Of course, the phone would need a large battery so it doesn't inhibit its ability to stay running for a day at least 

if tis 4000mah or higher then I think it will not be an issue, my mate has the huawei Mate 20 pro and the battery life can go two days even with pretty heavy usage, hes the type of person that just leaves everything on and maxs out the brightness even in the dark so I was certainly very impressed. I think this sort of feature could become very popular. Since huawei already supports this with their phone and wireless buds we would probably use that as a reference to see what this samsung product will be like. 

4 hours ago, nick name said:

Last time I checked -- Dell sells a ton of shit.  Their site also occasionally offers some awesome Dell credits when purchasing things like a TV.  

Honestly that "X OEM sells shit" circlejerk is pretty annoying. There are two ends where everyone is crap, the cheap side and the gaming side. Cheap stuff requires cutting corners, gaming stuff has always been overdesigned or has a large mark up. 

The stuff in the middle is fantastic in my experience, the xps laptops are outstanding, their non alienware gaming laptops are priced pretty competitively and are very easy to repair and or upgrade. 

At the end this is my personal experience, I set up a lot of dell business laptops, ive dealt with their whole range and I can say the same for HP.

The quality of OEM products(mainly laptops) has drastically improved in the past ten years, cheap stuff not as much as corners have to be cut if they want any profit at all but people use some crap £300 laptop and expect it to match the quality of something from apple which is very wishful thinking. 

Yeah desktops are way more expensive then making it yourself but its not a surprise, DIY is always cheaper(well with intel prices these days im not sure anymore).

Im not sure if quality control and customer service is worse in the US and Canada, ive seen a lot of videos which justifiably make OEM seem horrible but here in the UK they seem so much better in every way. For example the loose or disconnected cables shown in many videos last year, ive dealt with hundreds of desktops from various OEMs and never seen that before from bottom of the barrel £250 rubbish to £6000 CAD machines.  

Its just one guys opinion though, I think its certainly not as bad as it used to be.