Because that is fucking stupid and like claiming your smartphone is the equal of a modern desktop because it has a CPU and RAM in it? Consoles, like desktops, have more powerful chips designed to give the best performance within reason, while handhelds are strictly limited by very low power limitations and use chips designed for mobile...now guess what the Switch is? Lets see, strictly limited by power...check, uses chips designed for mobile devices...check.
Yeah sorry to burst your bubble but the Switch is a handheld, if you wanted to be more specific its no different than several gaming tablets like the Nvidia Shield.
And the Wii U was a tablet...remember? Gimmicks worked for the original Wii but the casuals have moved to smartphones...now why would I want this when I can get hundreds of thousands of games on my smartphone and I have to carry my phone anyway?
This is what has killed most mobile devices, the simple fact that you are gonna carry your phone anyway so why not just use that? Its not convenient to have to lug around another device when you already have a high res screen and an appstore that gives you all the games you can want for 99c or less.
Just like an SJW, all you can do is insult and cry...should I call you a wahmbulance? You mad bro? I provide the federal statutes, what do YOU provide? Oh yeah "wah his reality is breaking "my truth" he isn't respecting my political narrative,
waah!"
Protip...Congress likes to name bills the OPPOSITE of what they actually do. All this changes does is revert things to the way they were in the long ago time of...2015 while removing ISPs from the same regs that were used to justify the AT&T wiretaps. All those "ZOMFG they are gonna kill the nets!" FUD? Yeah there are already multiple federal laws preventing that already on the books.
But hey don't listen to me or anybody else's opinion on the subject why don't you actually read the bill? Raise your hands how many of you actually read the bill you are screaming to save versus how many of you are just parroting what you heard some talking head say? the same talking heads that I might remind you said HRC wasn't a crook while she smashed her phones with a hammer to destroy evidence and bought the DNC and the superdelegates to make sure Bernie couldn't win, said there was WMDs in Iraq despite there being ample evidence that wasn't the case, and again sang the praises of PATRIOT? Think for yourself people, don't just believe what you are told!
If that is all that is required then all those handhelds sold by Aliexpress are all consoles, in fact NOTHING is really a portable, as damned near every handheld has had the ability to plug into a TV and has had for several years. Hell the sub $20 PSP knock offs (I picked up my mine for $2 from an eCig store and sorry they sold out) all come with a little 1/8 into RCA adapter so you can plug those into TVs...you gonna sit here and argue that all of those are consoles too?
But how many of those are old shit you can get in the bargain bin on the PC and other consoles like Skyrim and Shovel Knight? Everyone seems to forget that the Wii U got third party titles the first year of its release as well, but they were all older titles and graphically inferior compared to what everybody else got.
The Nintendo fanboys can scream and mod me down but this is EXACTLY how the Wii U started, with inferior ports with lower graphics and a handful of first party titles. The first year you can't really judge as that is when the hardcore Nintendo fans are buying, all those that have every version of Mario going back to Mario Bros on the NES, the first year of Wii U really wasn't bad either and if the press hadn't shit on it out of the gate? It might have done even better...but that doesn't equal having legs.
Lets see how this thing does in year 2 when the other 2 and PC are getting much better graphics than its capable of generating, lets see how it does when the regular players figure out that top titles everyone wants like Cuphead won't be coming to Switch and lets see how those sales are this time next year when they realize they will almost never get the big titles at launch or even within a year of launch. Personally I wanted to like the Switch, I really did, but when you've had 2 consoles in a row with effectively zero third party support? You don't do shit that will make it really really hard for those third party devs to support you. Everyone else has gone X86, Nintendo went ARM and the ARM fanboys can scream and get in line to mod me down but ARM on its best day just cannot compete with X86 and this means a dev can write code and have it run on everyone BUT the Switch...now why are they gonna sink all that money to port to Switch when they can just stick with X86 and have everyone else covered?
You obviously haven't been paying attention. in case you haven't heard Google has put a full on SJW as president of YouTube who went so far as to give exclusive interviews to the Young Turks (you know, the ones that deny the Armenian genocide because it doesn't fit their political narrative?) and while not doing shit about the "kill all the whites and jews" far left channels like BAMN or even doing shit about the rampant pedo invasion they've had for FOUR FRICKING YEARS now what they HAVE done is rush to demonitize anyone whose views are farther right than Trigglypuff, going so far as to set up blacklists of anyone whose political views don't follow the narrative. Popular YouTuber Razorfist showed everyone it was indeed a blacklist when he uploaded a 5 minute video of him pointing to a blank wall and going "blah blah blah" and it was demonitized in less than 10 minutes.
Never forget YouTube is MAKING MONEY off of these people, they are able to sell spots based on traffic and its these YouTubers that are driving the traffic. Steven Crowder alone gets more views than CNN but gets instantly demonitized despite his vids being more tame than Seinfeld while the jihad and pedo channels? Yeah never demonitized. The faster YouTube is replaced by a company that cares about the free market more than politics? The better.
Yeah they could do that OR...just spitballing here...they could fix their buggy ass code that allows cheating in the first place and call it a day...how about that?
Let us be honest here okay? The kid is pointing out the house is on fire, removing the kid? Not gonna put out the fire. If your game is easily exploitable by cheat tools then you have MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS than some 14 year old kid because how do you think the fricking kid found it? Think he coded that shit?
Until they patch the code you should consider every player a cheater because its obvious these dumbasses have NO fricking clue who is cheating or who is not. after all if they did they could just slap a permaban on every cheating fucknuts and that would be that right?
Does anybody else find it fucking hilarious when the left claims "But but but Trump is corrupt!" while Shillary was allowed to literally buy the DNC which in turn allowed her to buy the superdelegates which made the democratic primary about as fair as a game of three card monty run by a street hustler in a NYC back alley?
Say what you want but at least people in the Rep primaries had a CHOICE and chose to vote for Trump, we now know that 100% of the people could have voted for Bernie and he still would have lost, the entire Dem primary was as fixed as pro wrestling before the first vote was even cast.
Wow the misogynist POS here is you, thinking that woman cannot have control of her own body and enjoy her sexuality without being somehow "exploited". Maybe you should try not thinking of women as property and instead as actual human beings with their own desires and the ability to think for themselves, what a sexist tool you are.
Try PaleMoon, they have just released a new update that cuts a lot of the old Mozilla cruft out while keeping all the extensions, and they are contacting extension devs to get as many as possible supporting PaleMoon and those that don't the community is releasing PaleMoon versions of those extensions. Looking both ABP and NoScript are in the PM extension repo, and I have to say the new PM is quite nice.
So while I'm happy for the few FF users that are left that its gotten a speed boost honestly with systems as fast as they are today I cannot tell the difference between browsers without taking out a stopwatch and having all my extensions and a stable UI is more important to me than a few milliseconds of speed and PM has both.
You've never heard of VMs? Because in this day and age that excuse is bullshit as you can trivially run a VM of every OS from BeOS to Windows 10 so you can run any old program you please no matter what OS it was coded for.
Dude if you had given her a 100% free education she still would have done it because for a couple of hours a day she earns more than most of us can make in a couple of weeks which means when she starts her business she won't have to deal with banks or investors, quite smart on her part and unlike actual prostitution 100% safe and totally on her terms.
Actually its so camsluts can make buttloads, pun intended, of money. I once knew a girl who made quite a bit of money with one of those remote vibrators, customers to her cam show could pay a set amount and control the vibrator for X number of minutes. Needless to say she is getting her higher education paid by horny old men and will not only leave college debt free but with have a nice nest egg to start her own business.
I've been using AMD exclusively for years, both at the shop and at home, and have had zero issues. You simply follow the exact same rules you follow with Nvidia or any other hardware maker and always stay one or two driver releases behind and you will always have nice stable drivers that are hassle free.
And the games I play certainly aren't "big titles" unless you consider a bunch of indie titles like Van Helsing and Victor Vran along with War Thunder which I'm currently getting over 90 FPS while recording all my gameplay at 1080P with ReLive, which considering I only have an R9 280 and FX-8320e and have all the settings cranked to the max? Is pretty impressive for their software IMHO.
It would have to be Bale, after all his Batman could simply sneak into NK and grab fat boy and haul him out of there by balloon to the Haig for trial;-)
Lets take the Sony Xperia XZ Premium then...its retailing at $879, which for half that price you'd have a PC that would bitchslap it into next week. Sorry Charlie but your mobile monsters simply cost too damned much to make, the BOM is too high to make them competitive as desktop replacements, not when you can get a damned nice PC that will last several years AND can be upgraded.
Mark my words, high end mobile is a bubble that is ready to pop any moment. Money gets even a little bit tight? They are gonna find spending that kind of cash every other year for the latest toy is an expense they can easily afford to lose, especially since even $50 phones these days have quad cores with 1.5Gb of RAM and 16GB of storage.
PCs have become like washers and dryers, they last a long time for what you spend while mobile is where PCs were in the 90s during the MHz race...we all know how that ended didn't we? The race ended when they hit the thermal wall and PCs went from being replaced every other year to maybe twice a decade if that, hell I have business customers who are quite happy with their Phenom I X4s and C2Qs, even gamers have no problem gaming on 5 year old CPUs these days. The same is gonna happen to mobile and I'm betting its sooner rather than later as more and more figure out all this extra power equals shittier and shittier battery life, just as the MHz race ended with the thermal wall the mobile race will end with the battery wall.
The USA is an oligarchy where the president and congress are nothing but a little puppet show to keep the clueless peasants entertained and bickering, the real power is in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the bigwigs at the Pentagon. Nothing the peasants do or say will have any effect on that, elect Trump or Sanders or Batman, it won't matter as they quickly come and go while the same power brokers remain.
Read Butler's "War Is A Racket"and you will see that nothing has changed in the near century since his book was written, simply change the name of the countries involved and the corps calling for the wars and it could have been written in 2017.
Its not just mobile, if your home service has a data cap? Might want to check your data usage and then download a bunch of Windows Updates and see what happens because at least on the ISPs in my area? Windows Updates don't count against your cap, Linux and Mac updates do.
Exactly, that is why I like War Thunder as the vehicles they have as premiums really don't affect gameplay but they are simply cool to have so many buy them. They also have events all the time where you complete tasks (kill X number of planes or tanks, win X number of battles, etc) and you can have a premium for free. Hell in just the past 6 weeks I've gotten 4 premium planes and a premium tank without any real hard work, I just put in the time and voila! Free gear.
But when the gear starts giving you a huge advantage? Yeah that is when a game can fuck right off.I've seen that kind of shit enough times to know where that story ends, it becomes a game of wallet roulette where who wins is decided by who is willing to throw the most cash on the table, fuck that.
That is why I think the future is gonna be indie and small devs,I've been playing more games made by smaller dev houses like Victor Vran and Van Helsing and unlike the large houses they actually give you reasons to buy without fucking anybody with PTW BS, instead they offer free updates, new classes, and other perks to those that have bought the game so your value goes up as time goes on.
And you can tell when a company is leaning purchases to the PTW crowd or not. Lets take the online game I play, War Thunder, for example....do they have premium vehicles? Yes they do, they follow a formula of lend lease/captured, experimental designs that never made full production, and prototypes...do those vehicles give you an advantage in game? NO THEY DO NOT, in fact they are often WORSE than the planes you get for free, for example the XP-50 premium has less ammo, worse in a dive, and has worse handling than the P-47-D25 or F4U1 that are at its same battle ranking and free.
So I would argue that is the right way to get people to spend money,collectors will buy to be different or just to collect, but when you start rigging the game for the collectors is when you can watch the playerbase just dry up and blow away like a fart in the breeze.
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Because that is fucking stupid and like claiming your smartphone is the equal of a modern desktop because it has a CPU and RAM in it? Consoles, like desktops, have more powerful chips designed to give the best performance within reason, while handhelds are strictly limited by very low power limitations and use chips designed for mobile...now guess what the Switch is? Lets see, strictly limited by power...check, uses chips designed for mobile devices...check.
Yeah sorry to burst your bubble but the Switch is a handheld, if you wanted to be more specific its no different than several gaming tablets like the Nvidia Shield.
And the Wii U was a tablet...remember? Gimmicks worked for the original Wii but the casuals have moved to smartphones...now why would I want this when I can get hundreds of thousands of games on my smartphone and I have to carry my phone anyway?
This is what has killed most mobile devices, the simple fact that you are gonna carry your phone anyway so why not just use that? Its not convenient to have to lug around another device when you already have a high res screen and an appstore that gives you all the games you can want for 99c or less.
Just like an SJW, all you can do is insult and cry...should I call you a wahmbulance? You mad bro? I provide the federal statutes, what do YOU provide? Oh yeah "wah his reality is breaking "my truth" he isn't respecting my political narrative, waah!"
Maybe this is more to your liking?
Protip...Congress likes to name bills the OPPOSITE of what they actually do. All this changes does is revert things to the way they were in the long ago time of...2015 while removing ISPs from the same regs that were used to justify the AT&T wiretaps. All those "ZOMFG they are gonna kill the nets!" FUD? Yeah there are already multiple federal laws preventing that already on the books.
But hey don't listen to me or anybody else's opinion on the subject why don't you actually read the bill? Raise your hands how many of you actually read the bill you are screaming to save versus how many of you are just parroting what you heard some talking head say? the same talking heads that I might remind you said HRC wasn't a crook while she smashed her phones with a hammer to destroy evidence and bought the DNC and the superdelegates to make sure Bernie couldn't win, said there was WMDs in Iraq despite there being ample evidence that wasn't the case, and again sang the praises of PATRIOT? Think for yourself people, don't just believe what you are told!
If that is all that is required then all those handhelds sold by Aliexpress are all consoles, in fact NOTHING is really a portable, as damned near every handheld has had the ability to plug into a TV and has had for several years. Hell the sub $20 PSP knock offs (I picked up my mine for $2 from an eCig store and sorry they sold out) all come with a little 1/8 into RCA adapter so you can plug those into TVs...you gonna sit here and argue that all of those are consoles too?
But how many of those are old shit you can get in the bargain bin on the PC and other consoles like Skyrim and Shovel Knight? Everyone seems to forget that the Wii U got third party titles the first year of its release as well, but they were all older titles and graphically inferior compared to what everybody else got.
The Nintendo fanboys can scream and mod me down but this is EXACTLY how the Wii U started, with inferior ports with lower graphics and a handful of first party titles. The first year you can't really judge as that is when the hardcore Nintendo fans are buying, all those that have every version of Mario going back to Mario Bros on the NES, the first year of Wii U really wasn't bad either and if the press hadn't shit on it out of the gate? It might have done even better...but that doesn't equal having legs.
Lets see how this thing does in year 2 when the other 2 and PC are getting much better graphics than its capable of generating, lets see how it does when the regular players figure out that top titles everyone wants like Cuphead won't be coming to Switch and lets see how those sales are this time next year when they realize they will almost never get the big titles at launch or even within a year of launch. Personally I wanted to like the Switch, I really did, but when you've had 2 consoles in a row with effectively zero third party support? You don't do shit that will make it really really hard for those third party devs to support you. Everyone else has gone X86, Nintendo went ARM and the ARM fanboys can scream and get in line to mod me down but ARM on its best day just cannot compete with X86 and this means a dev can write code and have it run on everyone BUT the Switch...now why are they gonna sink all that money to port to Switch when they can just stick with X86 and have everyone else covered?
You obviously haven't been paying attention. in case you haven't heard Google has put a full on SJW as president of YouTube who went so far as to give exclusive interviews to the Young Turks (you know, the ones that deny the Armenian genocide because it doesn't fit their political narrative?) and while not doing shit about the "kill all the whites and jews" far left channels like BAMN or even doing shit about the rampant pedo invasion they've had for FOUR FRICKING YEARS now what they HAVE done is rush to demonitize anyone whose views are farther right than Trigglypuff, going so far as to set up blacklists of anyone whose political views don't follow the narrative. Popular YouTuber Razorfist showed everyone it was indeed a blacklist when he uploaded a 5 minute video of him pointing to a blank wall and going "blah blah blah" and it was demonitized in less than 10 minutes.
Never forget YouTube is MAKING MONEY off of these people, they are able to sell spots based on traffic and its these YouTubers that are driving the traffic. Steven Crowder alone gets more views than CNN but gets instantly demonitized despite his vids being more tame than Seinfeld while the jihad and pedo channels? Yeah never demonitized. The faster YouTube is replaced by a company that cares about the free market more than politics? The better.
Yeah they could do that OR...just spitballing here...they could fix their buggy ass code that allows cheating in the first place and call it a day...how about that?
Let us be honest here okay? The kid is pointing out the house is on fire, removing the kid? Not gonna put out the fire. If your game is easily exploitable by cheat tools then you have MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS than some 14 year old kid because how do you think the fricking kid found it? Think he coded that shit?
Until they patch the code you should consider every player a cheater because its obvious these dumbasses have NO fricking clue who is cheating or who is not. after all if they did they could just slap a permaban on every cheating fucknuts and that would be that right?
Does anybody else find it fucking hilarious when the left claims "But but but Trump is corrupt!" while Shillary was allowed to literally buy the DNC which in turn allowed her to buy the superdelegates which made the democratic primary about as fair as a game of three card monty run by a street hustler in a NYC back alley?
Say what you want but at least people in the Rep primaries had a CHOICE and chose to vote for Trump, we now know that 100% of the people could have voted for Bernie and he still would have lost, the entire Dem primary was as fixed as pro wrestling before the first vote was even cast.
So just like the CIA has been doing to the American people for decades to the point the mainstream news in the US is about as trustworthy as Pravda? Got it.
Wow the misogynist POS here is you, thinking that woman cannot have control of her own body and enjoy her sexuality without being somehow "exploited". Maybe you should try not thinking of women as property and instead as actual human beings with their own desires and the ability to think for themselves, what a sexist tool you are.
Try PaleMoon, they have just released a new update that cuts a lot of the old Mozilla cruft out while keeping all the extensions, and they are contacting extension devs to get as many as possible supporting PaleMoon and those that don't the community is releasing PaleMoon versions of those extensions. Looking both ABP and NoScript are in the PM extension repo, and I have to say the new PM is quite nice.
So while I'm happy for the few FF users that are left that its gotten a speed boost honestly with systems as fast as they are today I cannot tell the difference between browsers without taking out a stopwatch and having all my extensions and a stable UI is more important to me than a few milliseconds of speed and PM has both.
You've never heard of VMs? Because in this day and age that excuse is bullshit as you can trivially run a VM of every OS from BeOS to Windows 10 so you can run any old program you please no matter what OS it was coded for.
Dude if you had given her a 100% free education she still would have done it because for a couple of hours a day she earns more than most of us can make in a couple of weeks which means when she starts her business she won't have to deal with banks or investors, quite smart on her part and unlike actual prostitution 100% safe and totally on her terms.
LOL Intel? The company that keeps using iGPUs that are proprietary and have absolutely zero support? That Intel?
Actually its so camsluts can make buttloads, pun intended, of money. I once knew a girl who made quite a bit of money with one of those remote vibrators, customers to her cam show could pay a set amount and control the vibrator for X number of minutes. Needless to say she is getting her higher education paid by horny old men and will not only leave college debt free but with have a nice nest egg to start her own business.
I've been using AMD exclusively for years, both at the shop and at home, and have had zero issues. You simply follow the exact same rules you follow with Nvidia or any other hardware maker and always stay one or two driver releases behind and you will always have nice stable drivers that are hassle free.
And the games I play certainly aren't "big titles" unless you consider a bunch of indie titles like Van Helsing and Victor Vran along with War Thunder which I'm currently getting over 90 FPS while recording all my gameplay at 1080P with ReLive, which considering I only have an R9 280 and FX-8320e and have all the settings cranked to the max? Is pretty impressive for their software IMHO.
I seem to remember a Michael Crichton movie that explored that idea, didn't work out so well for the actors.
It would have to be Bale, after all his Batman could simply sneak into NK and grab fat boy and haul him out of there by balloon to the Haig for trial ;-)
Lets take the Sony Xperia XZ Premium then...its retailing at $879, which for half that price you'd have a PC that would bitchslap it into next week. Sorry Charlie but your mobile monsters simply cost too damned much to make, the BOM is too high to make them competitive as desktop replacements, not when you can get a damned nice PC that will last several years AND can be upgraded.
Mark my words, high end mobile is a bubble that is ready to pop any moment. Money gets even a little bit tight? They are gonna find spending that kind of cash every other year for the latest toy is an expense they can easily afford to lose, especially since even $50 phones these days have quad cores with 1.5Gb of RAM and 16GB of storage.
PCs have become like washers and dryers, they last a long time for what you spend while mobile is where PCs were in the 90s during the MHz race...we all know how that ended didn't we? The race ended when they hit the thermal wall and PCs went from being replaced every other year to maybe twice a decade if that, hell I have business customers who are quite happy with their Phenom I X4s and C2Qs, even gamers have no problem gaming on 5 year old CPUs these days. The same is gonna happen to mobile and I'm betting its sooner rather than later as more and more figure out all this extra power equals shittier and shittier battery life, just as the MHz race ended with the thermal wall the mobile race will end with the battery wall.
The USA is an oligarchy where the president and congress are nothing but a little puppet show to keep the clueless peasants entertained and bickering, the real power is in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the bigwigs at the Pentagon. Nothing the peasants do or say will have any effect on that, elect Trump or Sanders or Batman, it won't matter as they quickly come and go while the same power brokers remain.
Read Butler's "War Is A Racket"and you will see that nothing has changed in the near century since his book was written, simply change the name of the countries involved and the corps calling for the wars and it could have been written in 2017.
Its not just mobile, if your home service has a data cap? Might want to check your data usage and then download a bunch of Windows Updates and see what happens because at least on the ISPs in my area? Windows Updates don't count against your cap, Linux and Mac updates do.
Exactly, that is why I like War Thunder as the vehicles they have as premiums really don't affect gameplay but they are simply cool to have so many buy them. They also have events all the time where you complete tasks (kill X number of planes or tanks, win X number of battles, etc) and you can have a premium for free. Hell in just the past 6 weeks I've gotten 4 premium planes and a premium tank without any real hard work, I just put in the time and voila! Free gear.
But when the gear starts giving you a huge advantage? Yeah that is when a game can fuck right off .I've seen that kind of shit enough times to know where that story ends, it becomes a game of wallet roulette where who wins is decided by who is willing to throw the most cash on the table, fuck that.
That is why I think the future is gonna be indie and small devs,I've been playing more games made by smaller dev houses like Victor Vran and Van Helsing and unlike the large houses they actually give you reasons to buy without fucking anybody with PTW BS, instead they offer free updates, new classes, and other perks to those that have bought the game so your value goes up as time goes on.
And you can tell when a company is leaning purchases to the PTW crowd or not. Lets take the online game I play, War Thunder, for example....do they have premium vehicles? Yes they do, they follow a formula of lend lease/captured, experimental designs that never made full production, and prototypes...do those vehicles give you an advantage in game? NO THEY DO NOT, in fact they are often WORSE than the planes you get for free, for example the XP-50 premium has less ammo, worse in a dive, and has worse handling than the P-47-D25 or F4U1 that are at its same battle ranking and free.
So I would argue that is the right way to get people to spend money,collectors will buy to be different or just to collect, but when you start rigging the game for the collectors is when you can watch the playerbase just dry up and blow away like a fart in the breeze.
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