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Video Games General

Malcolmo said:
In other news, if you happen to be in California, Colorado, Oregon, Hawaii, Vermont and Washington and you want a high powered gaming pc then it sucks to be you because they're banned for the lowly peasants. Consoles, industrial computers and the like all get through entirely exempt. In other words the things that use most energy are entirely unaffected.
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Consoles use way less energy than high powered gaming systems.
 
Malcolmo said:
In other news, if you happen to be in California, Colorado, Oregon, Hawaii, Vermont and Washington and you want a high powered gaming pc then it sucks to be you because they're banned for the lowly peasants. Consoles, industrial computers and the like all get through entirely exempt. In other words the things that use most energy are entirely unaffected.
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Is there a better source than some rando on Twitter?
 
Malcolmo said:
Would that be what saved them or would it be any under the table deals?
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It probably is. Notably, the reason for this is that it's part of a pre-existing energy conservation bill that was passed a few years ago, but only comes into effect this December. I would not be surprised if it's simply a case where the bill simply says something to the effect of "Any appliance or consumer electronic with a power draw of more than X is banned" where X is more than most high spec gaming PCs, but less than most consols.

Rakdos92 said:
Seeing as California has Sony and Microsoft XBOX, that question is a sucker's bet.
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Hilariously enough, this bill is still going to screw the two of them over on this. Remember, game development, even if it's intended for consoles, are still done on PCs, and as the twitter chain that was originally linked in this thread points out, this bill is going to make it nearly impossible for development studios based in those states from actually getting ahold of the equipment they need to make games. As such this is almost certantly going to fuck over all of Sony and Microsoft's devs.
 
SwiftRosenthal said:
Is there a better source than some rando on Twitter?
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Do you want the law text itself (use ctrl f and write computer it's towards the end), the dell website outright stating that they can't deliver products to those states anymore or a games journalist who'll say pretty much what just got said there.
searcher8 said:
It probably is. Notably, the reason for this is that it's part of a pre-existing energy conservation bill that was passed a few years ago, but only comes into effect this December. I would not be surprised if it's simply a case where the bill simply says something to the effect of "Any appliance or consumer electronic with a power draw of more than X is banned" where X is more than most high spec gaming PCs, but less than most consols.
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The thing to keep in mind is that the people who make these laws tend to have lobbyists giving them strong incentives to write them in such a way that their own products won't get targeted and in all likelihood come with an exemption for their work on development (while in all likelihood ensuring anyone new has to jump through hoops to get the same allowance). Never mind the fact that hitting pcs wouldn't actually be as notable as hitting consoles (if their study is trustworthy anyway which is always hit or miss).
 
Good grief, with California rolling out a UBI, things are going to be interesting in the Chinese sense...
 
For those panicking or making the mods get their banhammers ready, JayTwoCents has a simple message: calm your tits.



The basic thing is, this has been planned for since 2016 with input from Intel and other manufactuers, and even the body in charge has yet to update their website. So people are freaking out over outdated info that has been rolled out haphazardly. Also, gamers are not the target, it's mainly aimed at power hogs that disable all of the power saving/sleep functions in Windows and run their computers 24/7/365 with crap tier power supplies. As for the DIY market, the only hassle will just be sourcing parts at a decent price, the sort of thing we have been dealing with for the past year and a half. So the key thing is calm down and wait for the legalese to finish shaking out.
 
Sounds to me this is an issue of news companies resorting to the classic clickbait to generate traffic. And nothing generates it more and faster than misinformation that sparks outrage.
 
Raven1138 said:
For those panicking or making the mods get their banhammers ready, JayTwoCents has a simple message: calm your tits.



The basic thing is, this has been planned for since 2016 with input from Intel and other manufactuers, and even the body in charge has yet to update their website. So people are freaking out over outdated info that has been rolled out haphazardly. Also, gamers are not the target, it's mainly aimed at power hogs that disable all of the power saving/sleep functions in Windows and run their computers 24/7/365 with crap tier power supplies. As for the DIY market, the only hassle will just be sourcing parts at a decent price, the sort of thing we have been dealing with for the past year and a half. So the key thing is calm down and wait for the legalese to finish shaking out.
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Oh hey, look at that. Posting a fucking moron and actually believing him. He needs to die already.
 
Rakdos92 said:
I take it you have been dealing with his statememts before?
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Far too fucking often. Fucking idiot blamed a video game for GPUs dying. A video game.

All while conflating computer shut downs(which can be cause by any number of things including unstable OCs or a weak power supply) with GPUs getting bricked.

All that to avoid blaming Nvidia or EVGA.

Dude never knows anything. Ever.
 
It's fucking hilarious how many people are complaining that the Peninsula of Power has been removed from the pixel remake of Final Fantasy considering they made it so it is a lot easier to level up.

For those who may not be aware, the Peninsula of Power has been in the game since the original Final Fantasy on the NES and is a section of the overworld where due to a bug or something enemies from much later in the game will appear allowing you to level grind fairly early in the game.
 
AllyDoodle said:
It's fucking hilarious how many people are complaining that the Peninsula of Power has been removed from the pixel remake of Final Fantasy considering they made it so it is a lot easier to level up.

For those who may not be aware, the Peninsula of Power has been in the game since the original Final Fantasy on the NES and is a section of the overworld where due to a bug or something enemies from much later in the game will appear allowing you to level grind fairly early in the game.
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How do you avoid getting nuked by these late-game enemies?
 
Back in the original NES version, Final Fantasy's overworld was divided into squares made up of multiple movement tiles. Each square had a set of enemy encounters associated with it, and generally, the squares matched up with the terrain rather well.

But there was one square that extended onto another, earlier, area. This was the Peninsula of Power, an area of four tiles where later game enemies were findable earlier than planned. Later versions of FF1 refined how encounter tables were assigned, so the Peninsula of Power shouldn't happen in them... except the devs would deliberately change those four tiles to have the "proper" encounters, to replicate the Peninsula error.

But apparently now that's changing. And the changes to exp gain rate tells me the new devs are aware of the Peninsula, but either didn't like it... or some higher up(s) didn't like it and wanted it changed.
 
Funny story. Got back into playing Terraria recently. First task: get the Zenith. I was missing the Enchanted Sword, Seedler, and Meowmere. And copper shortsword but that's hardly difficult. Enchanted Sword was easy, of course, got it from the first sword shrine I found- it wasn't implemented last I played.

Seedler took... way too many Plantera kills. Not to mention hunting the bastard down. Ugh.

Then I started trying to get the Meowmere. 11.99% drop chance from the Moon Lord.

Killed the Moon Lord more than twenty times. No dice. Checked the forums to see if it was bugged. Nope. Gave up, bitched out, got an All Items world and grabbed the stupid Nyanblade. Finally, finally crafted the Zenith.

A Legendary Zenith. On crafting.

What even is my luck?
 
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