Guess you may view the game access as permanent then again the current monetary system may not be either.
As long as people trust the Steam items they are very different from any other currency though, you can exchange them for real money (on Steam in your Steam wallet but on the side say with Paypal) and you could get other games or whatever with the money.
Supposedly Steam has said before you'd be able to download your games even if they went bust or whatever, I don't know if that's worth anything but for single player games maybe that's a better deal than for fiat currency.
Steam has pretty decent security and they try to make it safe and as-long as they know what's right I guess they can revert the actions, something which is harder to do if you're robbed IRL.
I lost my bicycle. I haven't lost my Steam items. The bicycle was worth more and easier to take.
All the things you mentioned get you sex in return for them.
Yeah, I guess sex-appeal is what you're buying and CS:GO skins maybe do a poor job there. Maybe it make some people excited but... Guess "I've got $5000 in CS:GO skins!" may not even impress on a girl. CS:GO-girls?.. then again all they will want to have is free skins anyway.
The day I attach my self esteem to something that isn't real
It is real. It's "just information" but so is your bank account balance. I assume you may care somewhat about the later at-least..
Also I'm not convinced those people lack self-esteem otherwise. I don't care for it really but I guess I could had bought some cheap skins because I've put 300+ hours into the game and if I ran around with â5 in skins and would lose â1 if I sold them would that really mattered if I thought it was cool to run around with them / see something different / know some others would pick it up and see that "hey that's aliquis gun!"
It's not the end of the world.
that isn't real is the day I seriously start to reexamine my life
Did a tailored suit, jacket and a hair-cut counted here or not?
I don't really believe in fancy clothes or make-up either.
Swedish TV saw this show about how black in America developed a method where they dressed up smart to get into less trouble. Dress like a banker vs lose pants and shorts and like you are "from the hood" and maybe people will treat you differently. I guess that effect is LESS in CS:GO but what do I know. Some people are like "look at this person! He can't play but he's got a knife!" - as if that meant anything, you don't get a knife for skills you get it for spending money.
I guess if nothing else how you dress may be expressing what group you belong to and how you want to be seen and the same may be true for the game. Do you want to be seen as someone heavily invested in CS:GO or who fancy the AWP or what not? Like the guy who always use the UMP-45? The person who prefer the desert eagle, knows how to use it and have the stats on it to confirm it for everyone else?
Whatever. One don't need to get the skins, they have NO game effect whatsoever in CS:GO, they just look different.
In Payday 2 however the skins CHANGE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE WEAPON!!! THEY HAVE ABILITIES!! In many claimed to be "free to play" titles you have to pay to unlock all heroes/traits/capabilities/.. and that affect what you can do in the game and likely how well you perform, maybe you'd view it as more real if one at-least get access to more heroes by paying because then it granted actual additional game content but I'd see it as a kinda unfair advantage and would rather prefer everyone had equal possibilities no matter how much they had spent into the game.
What about all the brands? Have you never worn any clothes from a cloth-brand which is more expensive because it's that brand rather than because the clothes are so fucking awesome in quality or cut? What about shining Apple logotypes? Maybe you feel more comfortable spending more money on a eau de toilette which wear the Armani or Boss brand than Wanker-SteveÂs (ok, I admit that would be an awesome brand to wear, "Wanker-Steve's secret pussy-magnet juice" (Then again if he had such a good product why would he be a wanker? I don't know! It's a secret, maybe it could be mentioned on the bottle? Maybe he was a wanker before he came up with the recipe?)
Sure it may be somewhat more fun to drive a Nissan GT-R or Lamborghini or what not but how often do you have the usage for it? Is it really worth it?
Sure from a physical / rarity stand-point there's a reason why say old whiskey or wine or what not would be worth more money but what if it actually kinda taste just the same to you but you know it's more exclusive?
What about a fake vs a real ring which look the same and considering that even the real ring isn't really worth so much?
What about shaving your pubes and then not get laid anyway. Was it worth it? Complete waste?
How does someone say to someone else with a straight face: "I can't go out tonight dude, gotta save money for that bomb-ass Karambit skin."
"I gotta save for my fiancees ring"? "I need to get a new suit"? "I need to get a haircut"? "I want bigger boobs"?
Sports car, useless ring, Karambit skin. What's the difference really?
How long it lasts?
Diamonds are forever, a skin only is worth something for a decade and a sports car?.. The damn haircut is kinda wasted in two months anyway?
Shave your hair once and get a setup of skins for your most used weapons in CS:GO instead? Maybe that feel more worth it than having specific hair-piece for two months for some?
Heck, here in Sweden it's supposedly cool to order champagne just to have it poured into the sink to show that you can afford it..
If you own it others see you running around with it.
Knifes don't drop when you die so opposite of the ranged weapons where you drop them and someone else can pick them up and then run around with your super-cool skin being informed it's yours and in the case of StatTrak enabled how StatTrak isn't enabled because the skin/weapon knows it's not held by the correct owner.. but if it was a different weapon that's what would happen. The knife is yours only but as soon as people die in the game they become spectators and may follow any player including you and you move fastest with the knife and they have animations where the player juggle them and as such people can see that "hey this person have a $1000+ knife!!"
You can't copy that. You can't run around with whatever skin showing towards others without paying for it. If you want it you've got to pay.
It's nothing weirder than getting a more than adequate car (I guess), fancy clothes, jewelry, do donations, get a hair cut, wear make-up, smell good and so on. You totally don't need to do that and some may consider it "a waste of money" but people will view you differently / maybe it's important for you too look good and having fancy skins are no different.
Just view it as the CS:GO-players ring or whatever.
Also beyond what I said before about paying for keys to open cases which rarely give out knives: Even if you get a knife they have virtual wear of their skins so to say with more complete/full skins normally being worth more than the worn ones. On top of that people may decorate their skins with stickers, stickers cost money too but some are more rare and some have signatures from e-sport players at specific events and so on. A few of the skins also have "StatTrak" capability which mean that they have a counter on the skin which shows how many times the current owner have killed someone with that skin.
All in all it make some knives even more rare or rather completely exclusive and for a $1000+ knife it's likely a rather unique piece.
The knife skins are extremely rare and cost money to get (you have to open cases of skins using keys which are over â2 and it takes a lot of attempts to be lucky enough to get a knife skin, that make it rare and cost actual money to get) and you can resell your items though on Steam Valve keeps 15% of the value.
I don't think Chrome is slow. Firefox is slower (I have 54 000+ bookmarks and lots of tabs open so your benchmark experience may be different), Edge is complete crap and new Opera I don't use because it's not complete.
I don't get why this article separates Edge from IE because it's still just more of the same crap. It could had been better - it's not. It's slow as fuck if you open some tabs and if you open some more tabs it won't even let you see or change to the newly opened tabs to the right for some reason. Excellent! Complete garbage.
Some people from Opera has made this: https://vivaldi.com/ Maybe that's the best one?
I will pay for a modern, fast, memory efficient ad blocking browser. It literally needs to have literally 2 features on top of "rendering shit correctly". Ad blocking. Tabs. While I'm not the sharpest tool in the toolshed Might I suggest ad blocking not be written in Javascript. Make it part of core functionality.
It's comparing consoles to consoles and handhelds to handhelds in two separate charts.
Oh, if so it's alright, I thought it all looked like it was on the same image. I don't think I watched (cared for) any percentages, just colored staples and number of millions.
The 3DS has around 5 years on the market, while the PS4 has just under two and a half.
That's irrelevant, everything else seem to be drawn to scale but PS4 and 3DS are the same size even though the numbers are completely different on them. I don't give a rats ass about how each of them has been around, that's not what the chart are supposed to show.
the PS4 looks far more successful than the 3DS.
I don't give a fuck, the chart is lying.
The historic comparator to beat is the PS2
It's not part of this chart about how well current gen dedicated gaming gear sell though. There likely is completely different charts for how well the PS2 sold such and such time after release but this isn't that chart and it has nothing to do with this chart.
because the hardware was actually leagues ahead of pc's at the time. By allot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "Retail availability NA November 15, 2001[2] JP February 22, 2002 AUS March 14, 2002 EU March 14, 2002" "CPU Custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III "Coppermine-based" processor" "Memory 64 MB of DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz" "Graphics 233 MHz nVidia NV2A"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "The second version, codenamed Coppermine (Intel product code: 80526), was released on October 25, 1999, running at 500, 533, 550, 600, 650, 667, 700, and 733 MHz. From December 1999 to May 2000, Intel released Pentium IIIs running at speeds of 750, 800, 850, 866, 900, 933 and 1000 MHz (1 GHz)."
So no, it had the graphics performance of the then high-end Geforce 3 Ti500 graphics card and a two year old Pentium III processor and 64 MB of RAM which was quite little.
So what you really... http://www.gamespot.com/articl... "by Sam Parker on April 23, 2001" "The GeForce3 was initially expected to cost $500 to $550, but its new suggested price is $399" http://www.gamespot.com/articl... "The Xbox will be launched in North America on November 8, 2001, with a retail price of $299"... really got was a computer like complete gaming console which at most cost as much as only the graphics card in it would had cost separately.
It wasn't ahead of the PC, it "was a PC", but it was a cheap PC.
In the actual article it says she want to do theater..
Also if you know the radius can't you just put down a compass (weird name in English) along the edge and draw a part of a circle inside the circle and then put it down somewhere else and repeat that and see where they meet?
Isn't the third line only needed to not put the center along the edge of the circle rather than the middle?
Or if you have a straight angle with 45 degrees marked onto it hold that towards the circle and mark out the 45 degrees and then hold it onto some other place on the circle and mark it out again?
If you don't know the radius or have the square thingy but have the compass you can draw two circles from the edge of the circle and then draw a line which passes those two to get a straight line passing through the middle of the circle, repeat once more and you're done?
To mark a line the length of a radii without the compass is just cumbersome. To measure out the point with compasses or whatever surely has been done before?
As for the evidence.. I'll leave that up to someone else =P
There already is this in GarryÂs mod where you can watch movies together in a virtual theater: https://youtu.be/gceedIPSAjc?t... So nothing new really.
If you got a PC and want this SSD you'll have it, if you don't you won't. Free choice.
Guess an alternative head-line would be: "Future Macbook buyers will be forced to buy ridiculously expensive SSD-drive" alternative "Finally! Now you can get an Intel Octane drive with your Macbook too!" Or "Why the fuck aren't the latest and greatest Macbooks equipped with.."
Of course it's likely user-exchangeable in this case even in a Mac but you get the point...
Read how the Earth was cooling off back in 1977 in the PEER-REVIEWED, PUBLISHED paper from, errrr, NOAA: Global Temperature Variation, Surface - 100mb : an Update into 1977 Anyone who says there wasn't a global cooling scare back then is a fucking liar.
How to cure global warming denying in the US: - God is clearly trying to tell us something here.
(As for the consequences don't ask me, I'm not a scientist.)
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Steam as well as allowing them to have their own store and builtin DRM. They are just playing with their own platform.
The companies are idiots if they think I want my games on tens of platforms.
(I'm ok with the occasional Origin/Uplay bundle but I totally wouldn't get the game there if I could have it for the same price on Steam.)
Just fix fucking sleep on my machine, it worked before, why doesn't it work in Windows 10?
ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe.
HD6950.
DS4Windows.
Geforce Experience for Nvidia Shield controller.
Guess you may view the game access as permanent then again the current monetary system may not be either.
As long as people trust the Steam items they are very different from any other currency though, you can exchange them for real money (on Steam in your Steam wallet but on the side say with Paypal) and you could get other games or whatever with the money.
Supposedly Steam has said before you'd be able to download your games even if they went bust or whatever, I don't know if that's worth anything but for single player games maybe that's a better deal than for fiat currency.
Steam has pretty decent security and they try to make it safe and as-long as they know what's right I guess they can revert the actions, something which is harder to do if you're robbed IRL.
I lost my bicycle. I haven't lost my Steam items. The bicycle was worth more and easier to take.
All the things you mentioned get you sex in return for them.
Yeah, I guess sex-appeal is what you're buying and CS:GO skins maybe do a poor job there. Maybe it make some people excited but ... .. then again all they will want to have is free skins anyway.
Guess "I've got $5000 in CS:GO skins!" may not even impress on a girl. CS:GO-girls?
Vivaldi is just another skin on Chrome.. just like modern opera. In otherwords 100% pointless....
It has other features & user-interface than Opera and Chrome. It use the same renderer but that's good I guess because Chrome is good.
The day I attach my self esteem to something that isn't real
It is real. It's "just information" but so is your bank account balance. I assume you may care somewhat about the later at-least..
Also I'm not convinced those people lack self-esteem otherwise. I don't care for it really but I guess I could had bought some cheap skins because I've put 300+ hours into the game and if I ran around with â5 in skins and would lose â1 if I sold them would that really mattered if I thought it was cool to run around with them / see something different / know some others would pick it up and see that "hey that's aliquis gun!"
It's not the end of the world.
that isn't real is the day I seriously start to reexamine my life
Did a tailored suit, jacket and a hair-cut counted here or not?
I don't really believe in fancy clothes or make-up either.
Swedish TV saw this show about how black in America developed a method where they dressed up smart to get into less trouble. Dress like a banker vs lose pants and shorts and like you are "from the hood" and maybe people will treat you differently. I guess that effect is LESS in CS:GO but what do I know. Some people are like "look at this person! He can't play but he's got a knife!" - as if that meant anything, you don't get a knife for skills you get it for spending money.
I guess if nothing else how you dress may be expressing what group you belong to and how you want to be seen and the same may be true for the game. Do you want to be seen as someone heavily invested in CS:GO or who fancy the AWP or what not? Like the guy who always use the UMP-45? The person who prefer the desert eagle, knows how to use it and have the stats on it to confirm it for everyone else?
Whatever. One don't need to get the skins, they have NO game effect whatsoever in CS:GO, they just look different.
In Payday 2 however the skins CHANGE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE WEAPON!!! THEY HAVE ABILITIES!!
In many claimed to be "free to play" titles you have to pay to unlock all heroes/traits/capabilities/.. and that affect what you can do in the game and likely how well you perform, maybe you'd view it as more real if one at-least get access to more heroes by paying because then it granted actual additional game content but I'd see it as a kinda unfair advantage and would rather prefer everyone had equal possibilities no matter how much they had spent into the game.
It's ok to play with the standard skins and not have any special ones.
What about all the brands?
Have you never worn any clothes from a cloth-brand which is more expensive because it's that brand rather than because the clothes are so fucking awesome in quality or cut?
What about shining Apple logotypes?
Maybe you feel more comfortable spending more money on a eau de toilette which wear the Armani or Boss brand than Wanker-SteveÂs (ok, I admit that would be an awesome brand to wear, "Wanker-Steve's secret pussy-magnet juice" (Then again if he had such a good product why would he be a wanker? I don't know! It's a secret, maybe it could be mentioned on the bottle? Maybe he was a wanker before he came up with the recipe?)
Sure it may be somewhat more fun to drive a Nissan GT-R or Lamborghini or what not but how often do you have the usage for it? Is it really worth it?
Sure from a physical / rarity stand-point there's a reason why say old whiskey or wine or what not would be worth more money but what if it actually kinda taste just the same to you but you know it's more exclusive?
What about a fake vs a real ring which look the same and considering that even the real ring isn't really worth so much?
What about shaving your pubes and then not get laid anyway. Was it worth it? Complete waste?
How does someone say to someone else with a straight face: "I can't go out tonight dude, gotta save money for that bomb-ass Karambit skin."
"I gotta save for my fiancees ring"? "I need to get a new suit"? "I need to get a haircut"? "I want bigger boobs"?
Sports car, useless ring, Karambit skin. What's the difference really?
How long it lasts?
Diamonds are forever, a skin only is worth something for a decade and a sports car? .. The damn haircut is kinda wasted in two months anyway?
Shave your hair once and get a setup of skins for your most used weapons in CS:GO instead? Maybe that feel more worth it than having specific hair-piece for two months for some?
Heck, here in Sweden it's supposedly cool to order champagne just to have it poured into the sink to show that you can afford it ..
If you own it others see you running around with it.
Knifes don't drop when you die so opposite of the ranged weapons where you drop them and someone else can pick them up and then run around with your super-cool skin being informed it's yours and in the case of StatTrak enabled how StatTrak isn't enabled because the skin/weapon knows it's not held by the correct owner .. but if it was a different weapon that's what would happen.
The knife is yours only but as soon as people die in the game they become spectators and may follow any player including you and you move fastest with the knife and they have animations where the player juggle them and as such people can see that "hey this person have a $1000+ knife!!"
You can't copy that. You can't run around with whatever skin showing towards others without paying for it. If you want it you've got to pay.
It's nothing weirder than getting a more than adequate car (I guess), fancy clothes, jewelry, do donations, get a hair cut, wear make-up, smell good and so on.
You totally don't need to do that and some may consider it "a waste of money" but people will view you differently / maybe it's important for you too look good and having fancy skins are no different.
Just view it as the CS:GO-players ring or whatever.
Also beyond what I said before about paying for keys to open cases which rarely give out knives:
Even if you get a knife they have virtual wear of their skins so to say with more complete/full skins normally being worth more than the worn ones.
On top of that people may decorate their skins with stickers, stickers cost money too but some are more rare and some have signatures from e-sport players at specific events and so on.
A few of the skins also have "StatTrak" capability which mean that they have a counter on the skin which shows how many times the current owner have killed someone with that skin.
All in all it make some knives even more rare or rather completely exclusive and for a $1000+ knife it's likely a rather unique piece.
The knife skins are extremely rare and cost money to get (you have to open cases of skins using keys which are over â2 and it takes a lot of attempts to be lucky enough to get a knife skin, that make it rare and cost actual money to get) and you can resell your items though on Steam Valve keeps 15% of the value.
I don't think Chrome is slow. Firefox is slower (I have 54 000+ bookmarks and lots of tabs open so your benchmark experience may be different), Edge is complete crap and new Opera I don't use because it's not complete.
I don't get why this article separates Edge from IE because it's still just more of the same crap. It could had been better - it's not. It's slow as fuck if you open some tabs and if you open some more tabs it won't even let you see or change to the newly opened tabs to the right for some reason. Excellent! Complete garbage.
Some people from Opera has made this:
https://vivaldi.com/
Maybe that's the best one?
I will pay for a modern, fast, memory efficient ad blocking browser. It literally needs to have literally 2 features on top of "rendering shit correctly". Ad blocking. Tabs. While I'm not the sharpest tool in the toolshed Might I suggest ad blocking not be written in Javascript. Make it part of core functionality.
You don't need to.
https://vivaldi.com/
You're welcome.
It's comparing consoles to consoles and handhelds to handhelds in two separate charts.
Oh, if so it's alright, I thought it all looked like it was on the same image.
I don't think I watched (cared for) any percentages, just colored staples and number of millions.
The 3DS has around 5 years on the market, while the PS4 has just under two and a half.
That's irrelevant, everything else seem to be drawn to scale but PS4 and 3DS are the same size even though the numbers are completely different on them. I don't give a rats ass about how each of them has been around, that's not what the chart are supposed to show.
the PS4 looks far more successful than the 3DS.
I don't give a fuck, the chart is lying.
The historic comparator to beat is the PS2
It's not part of this chart about how well current gen dedicated gaming gear sell though. There likely is completely different charts for how well the PS2 sold such and such time after release but this isn't that chart and it has nothing to do with this chart.
because the hardware was actually leagues ahead of pc's at the time. By allot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Retail availability
NA November 15, 2001[2]
JP February 22, 2002
AUS March 14, 2002
EU March 14, 2002"
"CPU Custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III "Coppermine-based" processor"
"Memory 64 MB of DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz"
"Graphics 233 MHz nVidia NV2A"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The second version, codenamed Coppermine (Intel product code: 80526), was released on October 25, 1999, running at 500, 533, 550, 600, 650, 667, 700, and 733 MHz. From December 1999 to May 2000, Intel released Pentium IIIs running at speeds of 750, 800, 850, 866, 900, 933 and 1000 MHz (1 GHz)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Performance is similar to the GeForce 3 Ti500 desktop GPU"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The GeForce 3 (NV20) is the third generation of NVIDIA's GeForce graphics processing units. Introduced in March 2001"
So no, it had the graphics performance of the then high-end Geforce 3 Ti500 graphics card and a two year old Pentium III processor and 64 MB of RAM which was quite little.
So what you really ... ... really got was a computer like complete gaming console which at most cost as much as only the graphics card in it would had cost separately.
http://www.gamespot.com/articl...
"by Sam Parker on April 23, 2001"
"The GeForce3 was initially expected to cost $500 to $550, but its new suggested price is $399"
http://www.gamespot.com/articl...
"The Xbox will be launched in North America on November 8, 2001, with a retail price of $299"
It wasn't ahead of the PC, it "was a PC", but it was a cheap PC.
In case anyone's interested, VGChartz has recent sales figures for consoles and games. The PS4 is well ahead of XBox One and Wii U.
3DS outselling the Playstation 4 with 30 million units or over 50% but both staples are equally high ..
The problem with matriactic negroid communist flight is that it never would just result in crap.
In the actual article it says she want to do theater ..
Also if you know the radius can't you just put down a compass (weird name in English) along the edge and draw a part of a circle inside the circle and then put it down somewhere else and repeat that and see where they meet?
Isn't the third line only needed to not put the center along the edge of the circle rather than the middle?
Or if you have a straight angle with 45 degrees marked onto it hold that towards the circle and mark out the 45 degrees and then hold it onto some other place on the circle and mark it out again?
If you don't know the radius or have the square thingy but have the compass you can draw two circles from the edge of the circle and then draw a line which passes those two to get a straight line passing through the middle of the circle, repeat once more and you're done?
To mark a line the length of a radii without the compass is just cumbersome. To measure out the point with compasses or whatever surely has been done before?
As for the evidence .. I'll leave that up to someone else =P
Then again imagine twitch and streaming like this..
Per game cinemas with larger rooms and all the people showing who watch for more public viewed content?
And co-op gaming / just showing your game for friends / whatever as previously said.
I assumed 2D.
There already is this in GarryÂs mod where you can watch movies together in a virtual theater:
https://youtu.be/gceedIPSAjc?t...
So nothing new really.
If you got a PC and want this SSD you'll have it, if you don't you won't. Free choice.
Guess an alternative head-line would be: .."
"Future Macbook buyers will be forced to buy ridiculously expensive SSD-drive"
alternative
"Finally! Now you can get an Intel Octane drive with your Macbook too!"
Or
"Why the fuck aren't the latest and greatest Macbooks equipped with
Of course it's likely user-exchangeable in this case even in a Mac but you get the point...
Is it 3D printed in space ?
Where else?
Read how the Earth was cooling off back in 1977 in the PEER-REVIEWED, PUBLISHED paper from, errrr, NOAA:
Global Temperature Variation, Surface - 100mb : an Update into 1977
Anyone who says there wasn't a global cooling scare back then is a fucking liar.
How to cure global warming denying in the US:
- God is clearly trying to tell us something here.
(As for the consequences don't ask me, I'm not a scientist.)