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As far as I can remember it was the Soviets that tried this, but because they practiced this with their own tanks, in battle they would run to the Soviet tanks instead (and blow up there). But I can’t vouch for how true the story is.

If they are indistinguishable from strong players there’s no real harm, if they are they can be banned.

Okay but if it just looks like a good player, then what’s the problem exactly? It’d just be the same as encountering a high-level player at that point, no? And if it isn’t, then it should be detectable still.

No, you’re just violating the law twice that way: once for claiming it doesn’t violate the law, and once for false advertising.

No.

They’re rare generally. C&Ds for torrenting in many countries are practically non-existent, unless you’re a big uploader.

About 1:20, and the text above even missed the fundamentalist/reformer step: https://youtu.be/ANNX_XiuA78

To get feedback? For fun?

It’s unlikely to be a hardware issue if Windows works fine for them.

It makes total sense if you ignore the epidemiological and genetic evidence that it came from the seafood market and instead hallucinate a ton of non-existing evidence it came from the lab.

There’s no evidence to support the lab-leak theory at this time.

No, they offer an AI free version but otherwise are definitely into AI.

But China is reducing emissions, what are you on about? China has a disproportionate amount of the world’s production capacity, if it reduced that it’d have massive worldwide economic ramifications (meaning other countries wouldn’t have the money to reduce emissions either).

They did not go for an ITX build but an mTX build. Ultimately you only lost HDMI CEC and some of the gazillion antennas in the Steam Machine, but that did not seem to matter that much. It’s a cheaper build, but not one using problematically cheap parts imo.

It also wouldn’t cost much to get slightly better parts to fix the shortcomings of their version. You’d go over the budget, but end up with a pc nearly twice as powerful. That’s what I was referring to with the odd price/performance ratio the Steam Machine sits in.

If your requirements are that it has to be ITX and it has to have HDMI CEC, then the Steam Machine is likely the best option. But if you just want to couch game and don’t mind clicking a button first before you pick up a controller, it’s just a really expensive cube.

That’s the thing, I do care about all of that. But it’s still a very expensive deal for what you get. That’s why I was very interested in it, but the price/performance scared me off.

The only thing hard to match right now is the small form factor. But honestly, that’s not the primary selling point of this thing that most gamers care about when they’re happily purchasing consoles or pcs several times the size.

Everything else it offers is matchable or handily exceeded with a pc build you put together (or let someone put together for you). Just today LTT put out a budget build video that doesn’t do anything complex to reach essentially double the Steam Machine’s performance, for the same price. If you want to fix the minor things they compromised on you end up maybe paying 100/200 more. Sure it’s a tiny bit more expensive, but when you get twice the performance out of it it’s an easy deal to make. Especially given that it means you’ll make the build last much longer, and it’s more easily upgradable making it much cheaper in the long run. And you still get all the benefits that you mentioned that the Steam Machine offers (especially if you install SteamOS on it, which ended up running better than on the Gabecube as it showed an apparent bug with quick-resume).

The comparison to consoles makes the Steam Machine a bad deal for those who just want a console-like experience. For those who care more about PC gaming, it’s a bad deal due to the bad spot it sits in in the price/performance curve. This narrows the target audience to a very small sliver of gamers, who then need to be willing to shell out that much money on an already dated system that will be harder to upgrade in the future.

You don’t really get enough performance for the AAA games, and there’s cheaper out there if you’re just an indie enthusiast. Given the pretty overwhelmingly dismissive response from the community, I doubt this thing is going to sell very well.

Fable/Mythos was already shown to not be that much better at vulnerability finding than previous models. If anything this is basically saying that security at the NSA really isn’t up to par.

A PS5 pro blows this out of the water for a lower price. This thing has less performance than a base PS5.

Valve targeted a price/performance point that did not exist anymore. They advertised 4k/60FPS, you’re just not getting that with this box. They ended up targeting 1080p. As component prices got more expensive they ended up compromising on performance to keep the cost somewhat manageable, but ended up in a very unfavorable part of the price/performance curve. That’s why it’s so underwhelming to people.

You can build an equivalent or more powerful pc for slightly less than this. But if you’re willing to shell out a couple hundred more, you get a multiple of the performance this thing offers. It’s outcompeted on both price and performance.

I was quite hyped to get one of these but I’m not shelling out that money for what you get right now. I’d rather spend a little bit more to get something that will actually last and stay relevant for a few more years.

it worked as great as flatpacks

Depending on your experience with flatpaks that’s not exactly a rousing endorsement :P

I generally like the idea but often ran into issues that only the flatpak versions of applications would run into (stuttering/performance/permission issues mostly in my case). Most of the stuff I have is still a flatpak, but I do occasionally need to use appimages instead.

It is.

Girls are made fun of for everything.

Oh so boys don’t get made fun of for everything?

That’s not what was said at all, those are 2 different things.

Nah I always disable it first thing I do. I always disliked it for being slow as shit, but ever since I saw it actively silently delete recently written files because syncing to OneDrive wasn’t possible because it was out of space I’ve come to deem it malware.

I guess breaking OneDrive is what made it faster?