It’s to make development easier.

With ray-tracing it becomes much easier to light environments in game. You don’t have to have devs adding artificial light sources or painting environments as of they’re lit.

https://youtu.be/zrTDKcnSH94&t=11s

Time for everyone to start burner Open Street Maps accounts!

Guns can have multiple uses.

The American Revolutionary War literally started over the attempted seizure of guns by a government that feared its subjects could use them in an uprising.

Assassination. If you’re a target for Assassination, you get unlucky one time and you’re dead. If you’re an insurgency, you get to try as many times as it takes.

Guillotines are another option.

She’s gonna have some Hillary-like issues, in that the GOP has spent a decade demonizing her already.

Obama hit them hard because they didn’t see him coming. He went from a relative unknown (on the national stage) to the Presidency in about 12 seconds, and they had been prepping for a fight against Hillary even then.

That’s because it’s a console.

Yes. The Steam Deck.

A dedicated piece of hardware with limited upgradablity designed and sold by the company that runs the marketplace/launcher/operating system that can’t run all games because of its OS, but performs beyond its specs because developers are designing products with is exact, known specifications in mind.

How is the deck not a console?

Just install one of 300 distributions of an unfamiliar operating system not designed specificallyfor you use case along with drivers for all the hardware (that you also have to learn about), learn to use the OS to the point you can actually use it, install custom software so you can install games, then hope the games work or don’t get updated with anti-cheat software that keeps you from playing.

Or just buy the “plays games” machine and play the games.

Because you can buy a consol3, plig it into the back of your TV, and be confident that it will work. You don’t have to worry about system requirements, storefronts, launchers, driver updates fucking you up, etc.

Power Cable, HDMI cable, and connect to wifi - that’s it.

I’ve been PC gaming since the mid-80s, and even I sometimes just want to sit on the couch, push the Xbox button on my controller, and get going. Is it lazy? Yes. But I work 2 jobs and get to be lazy when I get home.

Yes. They cost more than some cables. But we aren’t talking about wiring a stereo.

A new nuclear unit (4 billion-ish) costs about as much as 2,000 miles of transmission-grade cable (about 2 million per mile). Considering that there’s about 30 cables on a tower run, you’re looking at around 65 miles’ worth of cable for the cost of a nuclear unit.

And that’s just the cost of the wire. No towers, no conduit, no substations, no land acquisition (aerial easement and underground are very different things), no labor.

You really don’t understand how expensive underground cables are. You know those big, huge steel transmission towers that you see lined up, hundreds in a row?

Those towers costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars each. And the reason they’re used is because that’s way cheaper than underground.

Shit - just the cable is a couple million per mile per cable.