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Comment Re:I prefer Warframe (Score 1) 93

They had to cut down on graphics on PS4 and XBONE. And obviously remove hardware physx. PS4 is about as good as PC on medium settings.

You video shows early gameplay with no fancy elemental effects or visually impressive skills in play and the in-game trailer. A pretty bad comparison even if you choose to ignore the whole "youtube video compression makes comparing graphical fidelity impossible".

Comment Re:Why not a comparison to Defiance? (Score 1) 93

If you're into PvE, Warframe is your game. The only PvP content in the game (conclave) is utterly barren because all skills and weapons are balanced for PvE. As a result you have things like full invulnerability to all damage for a long time on Valkyr frame, invisibility on Loki and weapons that basically one shot other players when they crit.

Since abilities and weapons, when maxed out, are designed for clearing entire rooms worth of enemies that have health pool that in end game is hundreds of times more than that of even tankiest warframes (think WoW raiding), PvP is inherently broken.

Comment Re:Helium? (Score 1) 296

I do trust SMART for old age/wear and tear problems. I also have 2x100GB seagate 7200.7s from 2000 that are still running, as well as several 1GB 7200.12s.

They're been through a lot more than funny looks, like having my entire PC tower fall on its side accidentally while they were working and other similar things. They still work fine.

SMART is generally designed to track certain kinds of issues. Quick breakdown of controller logic isn't one of them, and state of bearings on the write head isn't one either. But wear and tear aspects of it, like temperature increase from helium escaping the drive? Absolutely.

Comment Re:I prefer Warframe (Score 1) 93

Warframe is coming out on XBONE as well afaik.

Though it's a bit closer to third person shooter version of diablo than MMO. But honestly, if you want a proper warframe with all the pretty graphics, you have to have a decent PC with nvidia card in it. Harware physx particles for skill effects are pretty.

Comment Re:Not just Reno (Score 2) 444

In terms of net emissions at the exhaust? Beneficial. You don't have full load on the turbine, which means that you need to burn less coal until the plant has to pick up the load.

Problem rises from the sum of all things, not just the fact that renewables need nearly 100% spinning reserve backing them up because of their inherent unreliability. In example I list, the problem lies in the method of financing renewables, which basically ignores their real cost, both in terms of real CO2 emissions cost of having them in the grid as well as real costs of keeping them in the grid.

But to be fair, that sort of slack was always needed for novel technologies to be implemented. The problem is that we're simply nowhere near where we need to be on wind power and solar power in terms of longevity of parts for wind and relative efficiency for solar for them to be truly meaningful.

But it's also true that if we don't build them at all, we're not going to progress. This part of environmentalist argument is factually correct. The problem is the extrapolation of this argument into absurd levels, which is what is happening in Germany.

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