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ErrEff posted:Nvidia made some attempts to stamp out bitcoin mining with their 3060 cards by limiting the hash rate - and the very first release drivers shipped with it in February. I'm wondering why Nvidia would even devote resources to stopping mining on their cards? I'd think that they would be happy that their product is insanely in demand. Obviously it's good that they want to stop it, but why?
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This is first time I'm hearing about nft and I can't believe people bought into something even more stupid than bitcoins.
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MMF Freeway posted:I'm wondering why Nvidia would even devote resources to stopping mining on their cards? I'd think that they would be happy that their product is insanely in demand. Obviously it's good that they want to stop it, but why? They are attempting to gouge miners by rebadging last-generation Turing chips as ~crypto accelerators~ and selling them at a premium https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/ For that play to work they need to make the current generation Ampere cards less appealing for miners
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MMF Freeway posted:I'm wondering why Nvidia would even devote resources to stopping mining on their cards? I'd think that they would be happy that their product is insanely in demand. Obviously it's good that they want to stop it, but why? It will cause long-term damage to the entire market if the only people able to buy your high-end hardware for years on end are bitcoiners and people able and willing to drop $3,000+ on systems that went for half or a third of that before.
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repiv posted:They are attempting to gouge miners by rebadging last-generation Turing chips as ~crypto accelerators~ and selling them at a premium I'm fine with Nvidia gouging bitcoiners. They deserve to be seperated from as much money as possible.
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MMF Freeway posted:I'm wondering why Nvidia would even devote resources to stopping mining on their cards? I'd think that they would be happy that their product is insanely in demand. Obviously it's good that they want to stop it, but why? They have a dedicated line of mining cards (and the usual manufacturing partners are involved that make the traditional gaming line cards), there was speculation they'd be trying to push those more. But of course they short answer is that yes, they don't really care because they and their partners sell through all stock almost immediately. Speaking of which, people are smuggling GPUs now: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-smugglers-300-nvidia-cmp-30hx-gpus quote:The story seems like it came out of a movie. The Chinese authorities detected a suspicious fishing boat anchored just outside the Hong Kong International Airport. The sea smugglers were loading boxes from the fishing boat to a speedboat at 2 am. When their cover was blown, the shady men hopped on the speedboat and sped away towards mainland waters. A high-speed boat chase ensued (insert Bourne chase music), but the astute gang got away. However, the officers managed to detain the owner of the fishing boat.
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Apr 6, 2021 22:42
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Det_no posted:The new fad are ~NFT~ or non-fungible tokens, which are magical images which include a one-of-a-kind digital signature and a trail that can be traced back to the creator in order to provide authenticity. Remember nyancat? The poptart cat flying through space leaving behind a rainbow? A special, remastered edition of that gif from the original creator sold for 590,000 dollars. Someone owns the only "original" copy of that, now. It's like saying you have an original van Gogh on your wall except it's a gif on your computer and just like a painting anyone could clone it or download it anytime you host it anywhere so it's purely for bragging rights. Oh and it has a massive carbon footprint because making your unique jpg is just like making shitcoins. Humanity has failed as a species lol
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Apr 6, 2021 23:51
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Make sure to buy your NBA Top Shot NFTs!
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Apr 6, 2021 23:56
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Behold, my original artwork of Sonic The Hedgehog being sad about having been transformed into a toilet and having to eat poop. Currently valued at 3.6 million dollars.
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I, too, have paused my Humble Choice for this month. Kingdom Two Crowns, here I come!
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Checking out Astroneer again because of this newest update and holy poo poo this game has changed so much since I last played. There's quests and rewards for those quests, I got a Battery as a quest reward like 4 minutes into a new game and those things used to be a pain in the rear end to get (at first). They added a goddamn compass that shows waypoints on it and stuff. I might have to get back into this again.
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Oh poo poo, those additions sound great. Might have to fire it up again.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Make sure to buy your NBA Top Shot NFTs! Oh cool, with the money I'm saving from pausing this month's humble bundle, I can instead get 3 *squints* ... gifs?
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the race the sun guys are making a starfox kinda game i know a lot of people dont like procgen stuff but it looks neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRt5UooNldk https://store.steampowered.com/app/1303400/Whisker_Squadron/
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So, uh, is there a thread or something where I can find goons willing to set up some Paypal to Steam wallet exchanges? My regional store doesn't take Paypal but I think I can be sent digital gift cards through Steam. Main reason is that any purchases I make through credit card are 64% more expensive than the listed price due to Argentina being Argentina.
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Azran posted:So, uh, is there a thread or something where I can find goons willing to set up some Paypal to Steam wallet exchanges? My regional store doesn't take Paypal but I think I can be sent digital gift cards through Steam. Main reason is that any purchases I make through credit card are 64% more expensive than the listed price due to Argentina being Argentina. Have you looked into paying for purchases in convenience stores? Steams offers that in Mexico. The Mercadopago app lets you buy Steam wallet cards directly from the company too.
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Azran posted:So, uh, is there a thread or something where I can find goons willing to set up some Paypal to Steam wallet exchanges? My regional store doesn't take Paypal but I think I can be sent digital gift cards through Steam. Main reason is that any purchases I make through credit card are 64% more expensive than the listed price due to Argentina being Argentina. But paypal also gets hit with the taxes, doesn't it? Not quite sure what the advantage would be here; from everything I've seen most of our prices are still below what other regions get, even considering the loving double tax whammy.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:It will cause long-term damage to the entire market if the only people able to buy your high-end hardware for years on end are bitcoiners and people able and willing to drop $3,000+ on systems that went for half or a third of that before. It's also bad for the games industry because that means a lot of people won't be able ot play newer games because they can't get a card that can play newer games. Anyways, bitcoin is only for buying hard drugs and child porn.
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And extortion. Don't forget the extortion.
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ultrafilter posted:And extortion. Don't forget the extortion. Or hiring hell's angels to kill people who you don't like.
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Edmond Dantes posted:But paypal also gets hit with the taxes, doesn't it? Not quite sure what the advantage would be here; from everything I've seen most of our prices are still below what other regions get, even considering the loving double tax whammy. As in, when you send other people money? I'm... not sure actually. It's been a while since I've sent money to other people.  Oh well, it was worth a try.Det_no posted:Have you looked into paying for purchases in convenience stores? Steams offers that in Mexico. The Mercadopago app lets you buy Steam wallet cards directly from the company too. Used to be an option, but after the craziness that went down here in late 2019, that got axed (you used to be able to pay through Rapipago/Pagofacil).
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Azran posted:As in, when you send other people money? I'm... not sure actually. It's been a while since I've sent money to other people. Yeah, I'm pretty sure anything that gets charged from outside the country onto your credit card gets hit with both taxes even if the charge is in pesos (a la Netflix). If you find a way to avoid them do let me know.
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MMF Freeway posted:I'm wondering why Nvidia would even devote resources to stopping mining on their cards? I'd think that they would be happy that their product is insanely in demand. Obviously it's good that they want to stop it, but why? Well for one it’s destroying the planet. The energy used to mine bitcoins surpasses the annual energy usage of entire countries. Annually, it now uses more than Argentina as of a few months ago. Bitcoin is also responsible for somewhere around 40 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually. That’s more than Denmark, New Zealand, and plenty of other countries. In short, it’s dumb as hell.
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Seriously, check out the trailer on this adventure game https://store.steampowered.com/app/924750/Harold_Halibut/
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Goddamn that is a look. I don't think I'm all that into adventure games anymore but that might have to be an exception.
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 Hey so, if you're one of the still saddened by the recent monthly being bad, and so no new games are getting added to your account today, or just one of HUGE Overfall fans because it was being talking about for pages and pages here a few days ago, well apparently Fanatical are sending out emails for replacements, I got mine, so check 'em.
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ZearothK posted:Seriously, check out the trailer on this adventure game https://store.steampowered.com/app/924750/Harold_Halibut/ Ah, I remember that game's kickstarter. I'm glad its actually coming out.
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queeb posted:holy poo poo, that looks really cool The "making of" video after the trailer made me all giddy. I love that stuff.
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Apr 7, 2021 03:35
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It's very cool that photogrammetry now allows people to just plug physical objects into games. What isn't so cool is that Epic bought the scanning software that the devs used to make that game.
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ZearothK posted:Seriously, check out the trailer on this adventure game https://store.steampowered.com/app/924750/Harold_Halibut/ 
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ErrEff posted:It's very cool that photogrammetry now allows people to just plug physical objects into games. we need a cool brutally mocking name for Epic like Micro$haft so everyone understands it is bad imho
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ErrEff posted:It's very cool that photogrammetry now allows people to just plug physical objects into games.
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Speaking of Bioshock, I started replaying Prey (2017) yesterday and it still rules. The early game is much easier when you realise how vertical the rooms are right at the start. Gonna kill everyone on the station this time around.
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sebmojo posted:we need a cool brutally mocking name for Epic like Micro$haft so everyone understands it is bad imho Eh-pic. Meh-pic. Epics or it didn't happen. ZearothK posted:Seriously, check out the trailer on this adventure game https://store.steampowered.com/app/924750/Harold_Halibut/ I don't know how I already had it on ignore, but that trailer is real neat. Added to wishlist.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure anything that gets charged from outside the country onto your credit card gets hit with both taxes even if the charge is in pesos (a la Netflix). PayPal doesn’t charge taxes on a person to person transfer but if it’s out of the country they do charge a fee (something like 2.99) for the currency conversion.
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MarcusSA posted:PayPal doesn’t charge taxes on a person to person transfer but if it’s out of the country they do charge a fee (something like 2.99) for the currency conversion.
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Is this actually worth installing Skyrim for: https://store.steampowered.com/app/976620/Enderal_Forgotten_Stories_Special_Edition/ I like Gothic and Underworld and Stalker and poo poo that I can really dig into. Does it actually have deeper systems/exploration or is it basically a Bethesda repaint?
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