The three app stores that are baked into devices (excluding Amazon)

Apple: The exclusive club that allows business transactions on its premises but don't piss off the owners or you're out on your ear. Google Play: The we accept anyone club where people come to hang out and do a bit of business. Pick pockets and thieves go unnoticed but are thrown out upon discovery. Windows store: The wild west, lawless, don't trust anyone. A marshall/law bringer comes to town every-so-often, throws out a few trouble makers, doesn't finish cleaning up the place before leaving again.

@JaredBusch said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

@DustinB3403 said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

@scottalanmiller said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

@DustinB3403 said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

They focus on game dev, not hardware dev.

That's debatable.

true.

IMO, they fail to do enough with their IP. But their RPG games tend to be well developed solid titles.

This new Zelda game is supposed to be fantastic. I wasn't a big fan of Skyward Sword or Twilight Princess so I'm not sure I would really like this one.

@scottalanmiller said in HTC Rolling Out Virtual Reality Advertising:

Not necessarily a bad thing, it could cause prices to come down and volume to go up.

Almost at dream level...
Youtube Video

@Mike-Davis said in Online Deals for Cyber Monday on Gaming PCs:

I'm not a gamer at all so bear with me. Do all games get loaded in to RAM where it doesn't matter that these machines don't have SSDs? In the CAD world, it made machines 30% faster to put a SSD in them.

No but portions do. SSD will reduce load time between scenes but not affect gameplay.

@DustinB3403 said in Steam Autumn Sale is On:

I considered getting Civ V pack for the $13, but meh.... is it worth it...?

I have an embarrassingly large number of hours logged. I'm not sure how it compares to my Civ IV hours since I played that mostly pre-Steam. The game itself is good, but where it really shines is with mods.

Can we have a post for Black Friday deals? All deals on one place?

@nadnerB said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

@scottalanmiller said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

@thwr said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

Update or pay-again?

Update. Owners of the full original game on Steam prior to the 26th found the new addition added to their libraries on Wednesday morning. No action or cost involved.

IF and only if you bought the game and ALL the DLC.
Otherwise, pay again.

That's what would make it an update.... if you don't already own what is being updated, it would be a give away 😉 Update implies that you own the original.

@coliver said in Nintendo Switch Announced:

To really shake up the market Nintendo needs to look at putting their backlog to mobile and PC. That would take Nintendo from a distant fourth in the hardware business to a serious competitor in the software business.

Problem is... tons of their games are actually terrible and only sold because there was no competition. Of those that were okay, the majority rely on hardware gimmicks not available on phones or PCs. So porting the games is very, very hard. Anything since the Wii or DS era and you are seriously hampered in getting those games to another platform. Older stuff like GBA and GameCube you can port pretty easily.

So even series that people liked, it would be a struggle to get the full series ported. And everything would need to be totally revamped or it would showcase how poor the graphics were in the originals.

@dafyre said in Windows Server 2016 - Discrete GPU:

I never quite gleaned from the article whether it was you could only pass 1 VM per GPU, or if you could do GPU sharing and let multiple VMs use the same GPU?

I haven't read the entire thing, so I may be mistaken. They were talking about two different modes of GPU pass through. One mode where you have 1GPU to 1VM, and another one where you can share 1GPU with many VM.

@nadnerB said in Home lab and gaming machine:

Righto, after a bit more research, the i7 is probably what you're looking for.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-E3-1240V5-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6700K#differences

aaaannnndddd I just noticed that you'd placed the order for it. lol. I'm a bit slow on the uptake today

np

Shoot em up weekend sale...

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/shmup/

@Grey said in Steam summer sale 2016: June 23 - July 4:

@scottalanmiller 😞 I was laid off a couple weeks ago so no new games until I get a new source of income. I hope you got some good ones that I can play with you later in co-op, maybe Portal 2, for example?

I do have Portal 2 but have never played it. Without a mouse I can't finish Portal 1 😞

@thwr said in GOG summer sale 2016:

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's the last day of the GOG summer sale 2016. Better hurry up 😉

I have totally exhausted their games list for this sale round 🙂 I managed to get way more than enough points for all of the freebie games, too.

@Nic said in GOG Connect Has Released: Connect GOG to Steam:

@scottalanmiller no, on Steam. But you'd figure more than a dozen would match up.

Oh okay. I'm like 1,400 on Steam and 300 on GOG and only maybe a dozen matched up.