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It's been a while, but, as I understand it, it depends on the Merchant Category Code. High risk codes like liquor, gambling, and nudie bars have more strict verification requirements than shipping services and fast food. I would expect a cheating site filled with bots to be particularly...

It's rare when I walk away from a game with some amazing story development that sticks with me. It's also rare when I walk away from a game with some amazing gameplay moment that sticks with me. The best games manage to do both without being overbearing in either.

I think it's the original. Artist's site here. (possibly unsafe for work)

FWIW, YouTube's bandwidth costs are a fraction what it would cost us mere mortals thanks to Google's peering setups. It's not unlike Standard Oil being able to sustain selling under cost for long enough to kill regional competition.

That's basically all I can do. While I now wish my previous Gigabyte purchases were with someone else, I'll avoid them from now on. I see quite a few complaints and similar stories from other people, too, so if I had bothered to research ahead of time I might have been better informed...

Wow, they're really squirting these out quickly, aren't they?

If you still have a CRT TV laying around, $120 or so gets you an Everdrive N8: a flash cart that will accept a microSD card loaded with ROMs and emulate original cartridge hardware on a real machine. A small investment of around $275 for the whole set up including a good-condition console with...

I think Nintendo is just being diplomatic and cutting bait. The Classic has been hacked wide open and can be modified to run the entire back catalog of ROMs. Their security engineers are still years behind the curve and not only had no clue how to lock it down at launch but have no idea how to...

Congrats. Looks like you actually got service from Gigabyte. They took twice as long and didn't fix a thing on my board.

I haven't checked non-Steam stores in a while, are there any deals to be had? Last time I checked for an older console game, Amazon had new copies for $20 while the Xbox store still had it for $60. I'm pretty sure peace-of-mind for a game isn't worth $40. Although, I guess I could buy the...

The same way the Chinese knock every else off. Just do it and "catch me if you can."

Woke up this morning to my rig off. So much for the fifth thing I tried to do to keep it from automatically restarting and installing updates. But, whatever. Turned it on, BSOD. Reboot... BSOD. Safe mode... BSOD. Boot off DVD, system restore, "system restore has encountered a problem". Thanks...

I always thought Dante's Inferno was closer to God of War than it was to Bayonetta, although they all share common mechanisms. Still, I had a hard time keeping that EA publicity stunt of fake Christian protests out of mind.

There's open world and then there's "open world". Something like Elder Scrolls is awesome in an open world. Sometimes I'll just pick a direction and walk, being able to stumble upon a burned down shack or a camp is really immersive. And if you don't want to deal with it, you've got...

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Nah, they'll have plenty of titles. 85% shovelware, though. :D

I was having problems with my Gigabyte board and picked up a used one of these off ebay, in the hopes I could figure out if it was my CPU that was dead or the MB. Turns out, my CPU can clock higher on this old, cheap MSI board than it ever did on the Gigabyte Designare. Slot spacing isn't ideal...

My issue with rebrands is that they are explicitly created to suggest to the uneducated that it's newer (and worth more $$$) than otherwise. Now, sure, "a fool and his money", but it strikes me as excessively predatory to the casual crowd: folks buying prebuilt systems, a gift for the kids...

Hey look at that Although, I suspect that the real reason is that yields are good enough that there's no reason not to leave money on the table for the full ROP chips. The US site doesn't have the Xp page linked, but it's right here.

You're not going to really get the full speed of the memory on the Gigabyte board. It uses multipliers beyond 3200 that gets the clock rate up but the actual bandwidth decreases which defeats the purpose. Not only that, at top memory speed, it disables two memory channels. Tech Report also had...

Identical. No sticker, no note in the box saying what was done. Picked up both a used motherboard (MSI SLI X99 Plus, not too shabby) and a used CPU (Xeon E5-2603 v3: shabby) to rule out CPU issues. The Gigabyte board didn't POST with the i7-6850 I have nor the Xeon. The MSI board booted fine...

Got a motherboard that won't post. Worked fine for 8 months, hey, bad hardware can happen. Filled out the RMA process, shipped off my board (at my expense). They held on to it for a month and shipped it back. Still broken. No signs of rework of any kind: flux residue, fingerprints, nothing...

I wonder if that means a Titan X Ti is on the way.

From my perspective, it's pretty new. They replaced or fixed (didn't keep track of the serial numbers) a Game Boy Advance SP for me for a single dead pixel. Didn't have to play the return/exchange/restock game. It's unfortunate they've turned it around with the 3DS, possibly even earlier. I...

These color CRT videos are older but are more detailed than How It's Made:

Maybe they're winding up for a Titan X Pascal 2?

Check out https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimization-notice: Simply put, if you're writing a game (or anything, really) for PC, using the Intel compiler will give much better performing code on Intel chips. They make this statement, by the way, under protest. Intel was caught many...

$699 theoretical price or $699 scalped stock on ebay?

11GB of RAM? That's a weird number.

Whatever gets people to take their health seriously and get moving I can 100% get behind. The more options and encouragement the better. Combined with diet, I lost 80 pounds playing DDR 15 years ago. It was the only physical exercise I was willing to put myself through. Because at the time this...

Diamonds schiamonds, that base looks right out of a sci-fi movie set. Probably shakes like crazy when fists hit the table, but I can't deny that I think it looks boss.

I dropped the resolution on New Retro Arcade to get higher SS on my 1080 and it helped a lot for that use case. Admittedly, most VR apps don't let you tweak resolution, though.

Sounds like a challenge. Wasn't there some very spy-craft style research into extracting encryption keys by analyzing the power consumption and RF noise emitted from a CPU?

Only if people buy in to it. Consoles are a lot less compelling today than 15 or 20 years ago. There aren't too many platform locked must-play games anymore, especially since software is much more portable these days and accountants don't want to leave any market share on the table. Bribes, er...

Woo, look at that l33t hacker code of... HTML?

They should release a 1080 Osmium or something just so people can complain they never released a 1080 Titanium

Weird, the sniper stations and anti-aircraft guns aren't on the model.

That's too bad, I'd like to enjoy higher resolution encodes but living in the boonies means there's no way I can stream 4K (or even 1080p for that matter) comfortably. Release date + 2 weeks is the usual release date around here for download titles. :) Meanwhile hard drives are hitting, what...

That's the exact model I've had until very recently. Only "recent" because I started hitting power draw limits on it (complete with alarm!) with my new rig, which (perhaps not smartly) is on the same circuit as my NAS. Used the tradeup to a BR1500G and fairly happy with it. I love how easy...

I enjoy that you consider it "nitpicking" when you can't really argue against it.