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My work just ordered me an MSI GS65, and while I'm pretty pumped, I've heard a lot that it (and the other thin-and-light gaming laptops with 8th-gen intel CPUs) get really hot under load and: 1)Throttle super hard, and 2) regularly hit 95-100C in internal temperatures, which has some...

We do definitely need an apprenticing system, at least as an alternative. A lot of EU countries have apprenticing/trade school tracks that are part of the school system where students can go into technical/process-based fields based on their schoolwork and then if the career path is right, enter...

I remember an old TV special before the wrinkle revolution that was entirely about how doctors helped a woman regain use of her vocal chords and a classical violinist regain the use of his left-hand by applying a series of small botox injections to the applicable muscles that were spasming. I...

It worries me a bit that the blowback will eventually kill blockchain, which has genuinely interesting applications that are being completely overshadowed by the gold rush.

This is actually the thing about cryptomining that annoys me the most. It's not even that I can't buy a new GPU now, it's that the used market is going to be literal pieces of trash for years. Not only will buying the things be worthless, but non-miners who are trying to sell their old cards on...

Their annual profit on that farm is $7M? That...is kind of nothing, considering that CryptoCompare doesn't include the churn cost of replacing GPUs that burn out because they're not built to sustain the heat-loads form 100% usage 24/7, that building's share of employee salaries, and the property...

Man, they must be pissed that Bitcoin mining has switched to ASICs in order to be profitable at all.

The level of play in OWL has been ridiculous overall, but that was ridiculous even for OWL (so far). (Go, X!)

Anyone watching OWL? I was wondering if we needed a separate thread or just keep everything in the catch-all thread.

I am trying, for work reasons, to get a more complete picture of what normal folks actually use to stream. I'm talking to some people who have gotten it into their heads that the individual streaming market (not the pros) is the same kind of wild west of technology that the enterprise streaming...

Interesting. I've guessing OBS simply has superior/more stable encoding capabilities that the FB Live web interface, since from what I understand, OBS would need to use the same network protocol to stream on FB Live at all. Huh. Funnily enough, had I bet on anyone using two PCs to stream...

I thought about putting this in tech or gaming, but figured this might get more answers here. I am trying to get a sense of what people actually use in terms of hardware/software-wise for *capture* and publishing of livestreams (as opposed to what platform you're livestreaming to). The world...

Jesus, Thunt's blog post from last Friday.

I will also point out that if you have a iPhone 6S that was manufactured 2 years ago (basically in the holiday launch window), there is a good chance that you are eligible for a free battery replacement. Based on specific batch serial numbers. Check that first before you take advantage of this...

Eh, only if the stock price doesn't re-bound. This has happened before.

A word of warning that are my only critiques (and very mild, at that): the controls are very limited and punch-out-paper-bag feeling, like stripped-down, less precise Dark Souls, but it fits with the atmosphere they’re going far. Furthermore, the overall game gets real railroady, particularly...

I love Hellblade and the studio development philosophy that went into it is exactly what we need to see more of. What's better, is that while Ninja Theory is technically independent, their model for Hellblade is one that AAA-class devs could actually do - let the game be funded from the...

That's part of it, but it's also how so much of the US/EU PC game sales market comes from Steam event sales. AAA devs/pubs don't like relying on Steam because Steam user culture is heavily weighted towards holding on for the sales, and while smart people at devs/pubs know that people who buy at...

They also sold in aggregate far fewer cartridges in 1985, which also sold in the US at $70. This extra profit that you're thinking the game industry is keeping instead of giving back to the consumer really isn't there, except in the sense that the lower cost of discs and then full digital helped...

That's not really on the publishers, that's more that a ton of console gamers still prefer to buy into the trade-in economy.