$100 says they’re just going to make it require adb.

That was 2023, and one of very few things made not to specifically promote their hardware or as a cheap spinoff of existing IP. And define “actively maintaining”, because general bug fixes for decade old multi-player games and managing item marketplaces doesn’t require much manpower.

Going further back there’s Aperture Desk Job which was a tech demo for the Steam Deck in 2022. Then an extended cut version of Artifact originally meant as a sequel in 2021, which is a Dota 2 card game, but still remains unfinished, so effectively abandoned. Then Half Life: Alyx in 2020 which 90% of gamers can’t play because it’s VR only, and clearly made to further promote their VR hardware. Dota Warlords in 2020 which was originally a community game mode. The original Artifact in 2018, which had abandoned iOS and Android ports. The Lab in 2016 which was made to promote the launch of the HTC Vive. A zombie CS spinoff in 2014, Dota 2 in 2013, CS:Go in 2012, Portal 2 in 2011, and Left 4 Dead 2 in 2009.

If you remove the spinoff and niche stuff from the list you get game releases in 2023, 2020 (arguable since it’s VR only and thus inherently niche), 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009.

That’s a pretty big gap of not much for the last decade game-wise. Its been previously documented and published that Valve has issues getting games developed because of the flat organization structure. Articles like this.

Which is also one of the reasons so few new things get done, and why they (until now) haven’t been able to count to 3.

To get anything done you either have to be able to do it entirely by yourself which is unlikely, or get enough others organized and on board to make it happen.

The numbers just show that they are 8x as efficient. I only referenced Facebook because they’re the next closest company for comparison.

I never said they were worse than Facebook. That’s your assumption, reading what you want, not what’s actually being said.

Notably Epic charges less than 30% (something like 12% IIRC) to try to get more of that market. They even give away games. But their app is still inferior so it gets less use.

That’s because they make an insane amount of money by taking 30% of every sale on their platform, which nearly everyone uses because they’re a near monopoly and the alternatives are terrible. Around $3.5 Million per employee, nearly 5x the next highest company, which is Facebook at around $780,000 per employee.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valves-reported-profit-per-head-from-steam-commissions-is-out-there-and-at-usd3-5-million-per-employee-it-makes-apple-and-facebook-look-like-a-lemonade-stand/

While the main cooling system is important, the thermal interface material they pick is also a big deal with systems intended to not be user serviced and with long lasting lifetimes like consoles… It honestly depends a lot on what TIM they decided to go with. Traditional thermal pastes are cheap but almost always dry out after just a few years causing much higher temps. Liquid metal is great, but more expensive and you must design it right, vertical orientation can cause leakage if not properly designed (some laptops end up having issues because of this). Phase change material is probably the optimal middle ground for ease of installation, and simplified design.

It will definitely burst, and might take out some fairly large companies with it. Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst. One or two companies will end up with the IP all of them are “building” and it will fizzle into the background of daily use just like the previous assistants like Alexa, Cortana, etc. have.

Our dishwasher has a bright ass white LED when it’s done and clean. As long as you don’t open the door it’s lit up like the Lighthouse of Alexandria. If you’re opening the door, you need to just empty it. Even with that we have a magnet that says “Hella Clean” on one side and “Dirty AF” on the other, makes people actually want to swap it around since it’s not just a basic boring ass dirty/clean sign.

You forgot the already failed War on Drugs being targeted towards US inner cities with the enthusiastic help of the Democrats. Deregulation of several base industries to maximize profits. The curtailing of union power supported by both major parties.

It’s not even necessarily counterfeit, like a fake product made to look like the original, but they’ll run the same exact factory overtime to produce extra product beyond the contracted number, and that will be sold on the grey market. Or they’ll take the QC failures, fix them enough for a B-grade product and sell that.

Black Flag was a mediocre Assassin’s Creed game, at best. It was a phenomenal pirate game

I mean… God literally commits genocide multiple times, and that’s just from the stories that they chose to actually include. Satan/Lucifer mostly tempts people to do things they want to do anyway.

Seems pretty cut and dry honestly.

Lucifer’s crime was daring to question his father.

After being cast out he was put in charge of overseeing those that were deemed by that same father to be bad after death.

Seems to be a common link there, and it’s not Lucifer.

I bet that he has something like Bandcamp though. Most of these| AI “artists” don’t even bother to set anything like that up.

That was almost certainly to help settle bar arguments before they became bar fights.

To be fair, those are the exception to the general rule that licensed games suck.

And the LEGO games are sort of cheating. They have no right to be as good as they are.

No, the 2nd Amendment. Clearly. The one where they ignore the first half of the ONLY sentence:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,”

Where they only care about the second half:
“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Except a very small portion of a specific amendment, taken out of context.

CPM is nearly useless because it doesn’t tell you what type of radiation… But for couple generic references, background radiation is usually about 60 cpm, and an international flight can be about 800 cpm.

So again, cpm is a useless metric without other context. It’s just the raw number of “hits” on the detector from any source it detects. Some particles are basically harmless, others not so much.