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I’d eat ramen for a month for that, that’s freaking nice. I’ve been running an older 1080p 240hz Dell monitor for a few years, it’s great. I have had such good luck with Dell monitors over the years I probably wouldn’t buy anything else.

I have replaced my own disposal and I wouldn’t try to give a flat price for it. Too many variables, especially on an older house where the drain trap might be installed in an unconventional way, or the electrical hookup is funky. Rolling a diagnostic fee into labor is really common, if for no other reason than it sweetens the deal with a perceived discount at time of the work being completed.

LightScribe is cool tech, I didn't realize it took that long to put the image onto a disc. I think a few of my old drives support LightScribe, I should try it out sometime.

You're too far gone into the void dude, and not listening to important things like, 'game developers should not be required to release multiplayer code for old games as they may continue to use parts of it in the future.' If you put money into digital items there's a huge risk you will lose them in the future, but they're not your property and you're not owed a refund for digital subscriptions or items under any laws that exist or likely will exist, because companies are not going to zero-out their finances when they stop supporting a game. I'm out.

Yeah, a lot of people want a lot of things that are not attainable. Questioning whether I 'understand' some completely unattainable utopia where game developers just hand you your subscription money back and refund you for stuff you willingly bought in-game, is honestly wild; You seemingly do not understand that developers don't have and should not have a responsibility to give you money back that they used for operating/payroll/marketing costs, nor do they have any compulsion to release the code to run servers when they deprecate an old game, especially when they may be using aspects of that programming in future titles. I used to play on Quake III servers back in the day, and I even ran my own Minecraft server a few years back for some of my friends and family, I'm aware that private servers for certain games have existed. That doesn't mean every game is built that way or could run on consumer hardware, something like an MMORPG is going to be very expensive to upkeep, just one example like GTA V doesn't describe all online games.

So my question is; With you understanding some of the server-side costs and complexities, why do you think some random enthusiasts are going to float those costs for a game?

I've never been "robbed by a game publisher". If I purchase a subscription for a game I know my interaction with that game is what I'm paying for, and I don't buy in-game assets with real money. I fully realize entertainment costs money, and if I'm paying even the fairly high subscription cost of World of Warcraft at $15 a month or whatever it is, per-hour my entertainment costs $1 or less; That's a win for me.

$100 a month as a small piece of a huge server colocation, it's an exercise in scaling. The server they're leasing for $100 a month isn't going to run an online game with 20k players on it, that takes a whole room full of them. Companies like Blizzard or EA make this happen by scaling, if a game loses popularity even with subscriptions there's a point where the operating costs don't make sense.

I could probably go through this and answer these directly, but you're way far off-base and impassioned to points that are not realistic. Bottom line: You do not own any game assets, ever. It's nothing like a bank holding your money, and it's not like repair parts for a physical electronic device you can hold in your hand; With a few exceptions in an in-game market, once you buy something in a game for real money it becomes intrinsically valuable but none of it has a real-world value, nor is any of it deeded/titled to you. Companies don't have to run servers forever for any game, if you spend a bunch of money on a game subscription or items then you've paid upkeep and to purchase servers, pay employees, and marketing costs; Once that money stream goes away the company isn't going to dump money down a hole to keep an old game server running, support for everything ends sometime. And the DRM is copy-protection and anti-cheat, but it's there because of piracy, so blame them for making software companies put things in nightmare-mode for everyone else. These are all just facts, and there's no legal standing for anything you're striving for in this discussion; Don't pay for in-game purchases or get into subscription-based software if you want to keep your money, it's that simple.

Probably, my only concern would be that there are some A320 boards that have 5000 series support, but they have a lot fewer features and I/O than other chipsets. The price difference between a budget A320 and a better A520 is not much, and while the A520 may not have VRM heatsinks it would be significantly better.

No company would willfully make a product that they have to support indefinitely. While that would be a boon for gamers, it's untenable and unreasonable. There's an argument to be made about how nice it would be if they released the code to other people that wanted to keep them up, but if the game isn't being sold, or a subscription isn't being paid for upkeep, that infrastructure is just a massive money-sink so no one is going to take it on anyway. The EULA you agree to says that in-game items are not your property, and it doesn't technically reside on hardware you own anyway if it's online-only. Those microtransactions are what pay the bills, any online game or 'cheap upfront' game with microtransactions has a profit model based on those microtransactions running the servers. As far as online-connected single-player games, that is almost always for DRM purposes, so if you want to blame someone for that point it at software pirates; They've made companies protect their income stream by putting DRM into games. It sucks but piracy hurts businesses, and they're finding ways to deal with it. Even VHS tapes had copy-protection on them, for decades media creators have taken great strides to limit piracy. Also, safety recalls are completely different, it is an inconvenience that a video game goes offline but it won't cause a safety problem like a PSU or battery failing spectacularly.

By design, any AM4 motherboard should run any AM4 chip the BIOS supports. Really though, the difference in cost between a board with and without VRM heatsinks is typically small. What board are you looking at that doesn't have the heatsinks on it?

It's so funny to me just how far vehicle performance has come in the last few decades. I remember back in about 2003 driving an LT1 C4 Corvette for the first time, and being absolutely shocked at what 300hp felt like; It was like a rocket ship compared to anything else I'd driven at the time. That was a vehicle Road & Track tested when new at 5.7 second 0-60mph, and a 14~ish second 1/4 mile; A new V6 Camry will do that, with similar braking and skidpad performance as well.

Jay’s video is illuminating; EK pre-paying for content and basically ghosting creators is crazy stuff. EK clearly mismanages funds. Edit: To be clear it’s much worse that they are currently not paying invoices and employees they owe, though that is a much more common scenario. They’re seemingly unreliable in all aspects of business relations.

Hopefully there will be a toggle, most laptops don’t support AV1 and will get their batteries roasted if they cannot use more common decoding as an option.

Sounds like having many dozens of bespoke designs for custom supplier GPUs and high-end motherboards, things that will be low-volume sales, yet EK has to have larger production runs of each SKU made to keep production costs down, is an unsustainable practice.

I have been really happy watching Mac Address; It’s not just well-produced like I expect from Linus Media content, Jonathan is a great host and doesn’t pull punches when a product or service has issues and problems. Objective, Apple-centric content is quite difficult to find on the internet.

CoD has really not been all that interesting to me the last several years, I happily get World at War going from time to time as I think it’s the newest one I truly enjoy. Gran Turismo is a great series, but the licensing rigmarole got obnoxious at a certain level and I stopped bothering with them. WoW consumed a large part of my life for a few years, I free-played it last year and it didn’t take a hold so I didn’t subscribe again.

My late-2008-vintage, head-bunting, household deity. His favorite activities include lording over everyone, reminding us he deserves cheese, and weighting-down laps for extended periods of time. He had to go get his vaccinations this last weekend, and has finally forgiven me.

That compute figure for graphics is roughly equivalent to a 7700 XT, so either that console is going to be hella expensive, or that’s an incredibly optimistic guess by whoever is making that claim. The 7700 XT is also 245w by itself, so the cooling solution would need to be huge.

That’s weird, I can attest that Yamaha service manuals and Honda service manuals have a listed torque for almost every fastener. Is this a factory manual or a 3rd party? I have had some 3rd party manuals over the years that left a lot to be desired in the case of those torque values. A Bentley manual for a VW I had years ago said things like, ‘adjust the bearing retainer nut until a minimal amount of play can be felt using a flat-blade screwdriver as a lever’. It would be less sketchy if that were not the instructions for the rear axle hub retainer hardware… On the other end of the spectrum, many of the fasteners with listed torque values were torque-to-yield and single use. Go VW!

The 4790k is such a legendary chip, an absolute unit. I used one in my workstation for years and it was a champ, a needed sizable ram upgrade and wanting to move to an NVMe-native platform got me into an 11600k, but aside from those things I probably would have been on that 4790k until Win 10 support ended.

A lot of brisket really is overrated, but good brisket is on another level. Also, the ends are the best part as far as I’m concerned and quite a bit drier than the middle, I tend to ask for the ends when I have the option.

I’m stating my experience of where I live and what I drive, you have no bearing on it. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your experiences alone. You claiming it’s my ignorance is laughable, when you’re acting like because my situation is different from yours that I’m lying or unknowledgeable. You’re getting ignored just like the other person, because like them you seemingly cannot grasp there are people that exist in a different environment than you do, so there’s no need to continue the discussion on my end.

Whatever car you drive that the mirror goes out of adjustment all the time, and wherever you live that mirrors are frequently ripped-off of cars, both suck. These things don’t represent everyone’s experience, so stop claiming everyone else is wrong because your scenario is terrible; It has nothing to do with anyone else sticking their head in the sand. Just like the other person I was arguing with, I’ll repeat this again: Your situation/laws you have to follow/experiences are not representative of everyone’s on the entire planet, so don’t say other people are wrong when it’s actually you that doesn’t understand the differences between different locations. Also, you saying ‘just Google it and see the results’ is just pushing a confirmation bias.