And damn near every single Google effort into the games space has failed except for android games, which ride on the enormous platform install. Their latest effort was a joke - stadia was DOA.
I respect valve because they've provided indie game devs with the same distribution AAA studios get, they've never asked for exclusivity and did tons of uncompensated VR pioneering (remember Abrash and co were Valve before Oculus) and never once tried to 'own' vr. And they're a private company, so that means the decisions - and investments - they've made worked out enough to free them of a board dicking shit up.
Keep going, Valve. I don't like everything they do, but overall they're a gem in value added.
paying their union dues, which keep going up because the defense of their fellow cop's actions are expensive... if they get caught and lose qualified immunity.
There might be a ton of awesome cops in my town, but the SPOG - seattle police officer's guild - is constructed to defend the worst and maximize the force's overtime grift. So fuck.
It won't, but it will sustain profits, and that's what terrifies me: we're gonna watch the world burn so some rich bastards get an even better return instead of doing something to save our species. sorry about your future kids, profit margins and people wanting to roll coal seemed more important at the time.
video games are basically software that turns electricity into heat.
your reply in no way addresses this fundamental point.
The entire market is growing year over year, requiring more power each generation. Do the math, it’s pretty easy.
ditto. even if we only worry about the heat generated, and not the power sourced (assuming your 100% renewable which is not realistic today) - we still have a problem.
550 cord is a lifesaver.