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The new FOCUS GX units are ATX 3.0 certified and PCIe 5.0 compliant to power the latest cutting-edge systems, helping to improve overall system performance and long-term reliability, while providing the most stable power necessary at the highest levels of performance. With the included top-quality PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR VGA cable, these units can safely power the latest modern graphics cards, such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series.

 

Filip Pierściński, the lead scene programmer at CD Projekt Red, has been posting some compelling information regarding technical improvements lined up for the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077. Update 2.0 and the major Phantom Liberty DLC campaign are due to launch on September 26—a whole bunch of new features, characters, missions and stories are promised, although the pay-for-pack nets you the majority of upcoming intriguing goodies.

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"Before release CP2077 v2.0 and PL please check conditions of your cooling systems in PC. We use all [that] you have, so workload on CPU 90% on 8 core is expected. To save your time please run Cinebench or similar and check (the) stability of your systems."

 

Our Chants of Sennaar review - a brilliant game about cracking languages.

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Chants is a game about climbing the Tower of Babel and making sense of the various peoples you meet as you work your way higher. It's an adventure game, generally sort of isometric, with pointing and clicking and the solving of those nested puzzles. All quite traditional, written down like that. But I needed to remind myself that this is the actual genre from time to time, because the game often feels nothing like it. It feels like a revelation, actually, like games have worked out how to do something elegant, impossible, and empowering.

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Sega has announced a release date for Football Manager 2024, which will debut on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and on smartphones from 6th November.

Announcement Trailer

 

... a backlash from PC players has resulted in an influx of negative reviews. Now, according to Steam 250, it ranks just behind Overwatch 2 in the list of worst reviewed games on Steam.

Much of that backlash is due to this PC version being based on the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, instead of PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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For instance, the game's website celebrates features like ProPLAY that "directly translates NBA footage into NBA 2K24 gameplay", as well as personalised career mode The W. These are only available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

 

Huntington Beach police are searching for a motorist they believe intentionally struck bicyclists in three separate incidents that occurred in less than an hour Sunday evening. Two riders were injured, and the third was killed.

All three incidents happened in Huntington Beach in an area bordered by Heil Avenue, Edwards Street, Warner Avenue and Springdale Street.

Police are searching for the unidentified driver of a black Toyota four-door sedan that sustained front passenger-side bumper damage, according to witness reports.

“We believe that the incidents are related because the three locations are close in proximity and also based on the victims’ and witnesses’ statements,” said Jessica Cuchilla, a Huntington Beach police spokesperson. “They all described a similar vehicle.”

 

In a conversation with Mike Solan, the head of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, Seattle Police Department officer and SPOG vice president Daniel Auderer minimized the killing of 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula by police officer Kevin Dave and joked that she had “limited value” as a “regular person” who was only 26 years old.

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In fact, as we reported exclusively, Dave was driving 74 miles an hour in a 25 mile per hour zone and struck Kandula while she was attempting to cross the street in a marked and well-lighted crosswalk.

 

The Mississippi Free Press asked a court on Monday to hold that Mississippi House Republican Caucus meetings must be open to the public under the Open Meetings Act. Last year, the full Mississippi Ethics Commission rejected the Mississippi Free Press’ argument and declared that the Legislature is not a “public body” under the law after its director, Tom Hood, recommended that the panel affirm this publication’s request.

The House Republican Caucus, whose members constitute a majority of the lower chamber, meet behind closed doors, and outgoing House Speaker Philip Gunn had long used the secret meetings to set the agenda for the House and deliberate on legislative priorities. The meetings have often left not only the press and the public but other lawmakers in the dark about major legislative maneuvers until the day they happen.

 

Alabama has filed an emergency appeal in its congressional map case, a week after a three-judge panel struck down on the matter.

In a filing submitted on Monday, Alabama state officials asked the Supreme Court to freeze the lower court’s ruling by October 1st. State officials also noted that the ruling can be put on hold as late as October 3rd, when a lower court’s proceedings are scheduled to select court-drawn alternatives of the congressional map.

The filing comes hours after a three-judge panel denied the state’s request to pause their decision on its congressional map.

 

Researchers are experimenting with robots to help speed up the restoration of coral reefs.
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Their researchers have been training an artificial intelligence to control collaborative robots (cobots), which work closely alongside humans.

"Some of these processes in coral propagation are just repetitive pick and place tasks, and they're ideally suited to robotic automation," says Ms Foster

A robotic arm can graft or glue coral fragments to the seed plugs. Another places them in the base, using vision systems to make decisions about how to grab it.

"Every piece of coral is different, even within the same species, so the robots need to recognise coral fragments and how to handle them," says Nic Carey, senior principal research scientist at Autodesk.

"So far, they're very good at handling the variability in coral shapes."

 

A US citizen trapped in Turkey's third deepest cave for more than a week has been pulled to safety, rescuers say.

More than 150 people were involved in efforts to save caver Mark Dickey after he developed stomach problems in the Morca Cave on 2 September.

Organisers say it was one of the largest and most complicated underground rescues ever mounted.

The lowest point of the Morca Cave, in a remote part of the south, reaches nearly 1.3km (0.8 miles) below ground.

 

YouTube Music may soon be available directly on the HomePod and the HomePod mini through Siri integration, according to code hidden in the YouTube Music app that was discovered by software miner @aaronp613.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed.

After the very first reveal of it being an open-world game, I was hoping for a lot more exploration, world building, and other tasks. While I appreciated some of the fight mechanics, they definitely had worn thin by the end of the game.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

No slowness here. I occasionally get 50x errors with posting, and rarely when doing other things. The other day I submitted the same content multiple times because it gave me a 50x error, but it accepted the submit then gave me the 50x. So i had to go back and delete the other threads it created.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (29 children)

Why waste your time on lemmy/kbin or the fediverse? Reddit/X/Threads are free-as-in-beer so you don't pay for them, there's more content, and you don't pay for them. You can skip all of the ads with adblockers and have a great time.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (31 children)

You sure about that?

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was never a processor issue. It was a few motherboards with buggy bioses (Asus and Gigabyte I believe) that would overvolt in a few instances and it has been patched since april or may.

You can see a bit of the details here if you care: GamersNexus

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's a terrible example, and generally not much of your post is true. Most people aren't actively paying for the ACA through taxes, only the richest 20% of americans (>281k /year) src, and in fact it saved many Americans money even without pre-existing conditions. Plus the ACA has saved many lives.

The cost and concessions made to pass it are more a reflection of how awful capitalism and the american healthcare system are. Those companies were always going to make record profits regardless of whether the ACA passed or not, just like many other companies, and you always foot the bill for the uninsured/underinsured anyway through other methods like ER visits and cascading illness through inability to pay for services. You also pay for them when they have medical emergencies and file for bankruptcy and when they become homeless because of medical issues or the payment of medical goods and services.

Also remember, many democrats were pushing for single-payer which would've skirted most of this by expanding medicare and forcing insurance companies to compete.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (33 children)

Given that the US has almost zero privacy legislation, the politics of the owner/maker often hints at decisions that eventually make it into the software. Many of the reasons to avoid chrome and chromium are similar to this, though not about a specific person but about the values that google holds in fucking over standards. We see this reflected in some of the decisions of say social media platforms (even "free-as-in-beer" ones) and many companies.

In many cases, you're still giving them money and/or power to continue fucking up open standards.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gamescon (Pre-show) is kicking off at 19:30 CEST, 1:30PM EDT, and 10:30AM PDT. Full night kicks off 30 minutes after.

Here's a few more links to stream:

thegameawards youtube stream - Link
RockPaperShotgun Liveblog - Link

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed on the 100% part, but this absolutely isn't specific to political parties. They both love giving corporate handouts with no strings attached. I suspect this has more to do with campaign donations than anything else. It's the same with defense spending where we regularly just can't account for millions of dollars.

Even with the PPP, which was fully bipartisan, they claimed to have strings and then just forgave 10 million of them, even though we know many workers never saw the money intended for them. Slightly different situation, but similar things happened with rural internet initatives in the 90s as well

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What are the odds that there's no accountability for any company taking this money?

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fanatical has it on sale for 58$ / 83$ (USD - Steam) right now with a coupon. See the code on the page or use Fanatical17

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe, but I suspect it'll get it in an early patch. All this Nvidia/AMD Title stuff feels like those timed-exclusive deals for consoles.

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