Oh man, I worked at a hotel during overnight shift a few years ago, and the head desk lady would go apeshit if I turned the front lobby TV to CNN. She would throw the most childish fit you could imagine, it was so fun to poke at her. Every morning, even after she told me never to change the TV again, I’d change it. She’d hide the remote, I’d bring my own. She tried taping over the IR sensor, so I’d manually change it with the buttons on the side.

She died of cancer a few years after the hotel was turned into a nursing home.

I use the kit-built one of these: https://www.tvbgone.com/shop/ – They gave a bunch of them away at the end of a makefaire I was a part of years ago.

TV panels have lower PPI than monitors.

It looks grainy because it’s a damn TV and not a monitor. You’re not going to be able to tell the difference AT THE DISTANCE that you’re supposed to be using them at. Larger monitors are meant to be used from a farther distance away. TVs are meant to be used from across the room.

You’re that guy with his retina plastered on the glass of his smartphone going “I CAN SEE THE PIXELS!”

Lossless Scaling (on Steam) has also shown HUGE promise from a 2-GPU standpoint as well. I’ve seen some impressive results from people piping their NVidia cards, into an Intel GPU (on-die or discreet) and using a dedicated GPU for the upscaling as well.

The team behind PoE isn’t expecting the game to be 24/7 grindfest that you never stop playing. They want it to be Patch Release -> 2 months of players interested -> Falloff -> Patch Release.

They said they are fine with this, and expect other people to play other games.

I’m starting to have a sneaking suspicion that putting 24G of VRAM on a card isn’t happening because they don’t want people using AI models locally. The moment you can expect the modern gamers computer to have that kind of local computing power - is the moment they stop getting to slurp up all of your data.

Unfortunately I’m not a part of a research team so I don’t think I’ll be granted access - but I’d love to sift through this privately. My mother and I have a good history of digging stuff up in our local communities through public records that nobody else ever seems to find, so it would be awesome to gain access to this and sift through it.

“Hundreds of rounds per minute”…like this is scary somehow? You can already fire this manually. You’d need to do just over 3 shots per second, which is pretty easy for the average person. (Not that you’d want to - just hearing this hurts my wallet) All the forced reset does is force the trigger forward so it can latch again vs being able to hold the trigger down and need to wait for you to fully lift your finger back up.

Shills like CPUBencharkshmark who are at the top of google results.

Wonderful, biking on a road with no shoulder, around barely visible curves. Good luck!

No company in the history of electronics has ever been in the habit of remotely bricking devices, get real.

And yes, I’ve read it - ON TOP of that, I’m familiar with these types of clauses in a real world basis. Let me tell you, you’re off in lala land with your interpretation.

No, Bricking would be rendering the firmware useless. It has a definition and this is not it. Rendering the Switch unable to play games, does not make it a brick. Definitions matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)

A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage

Banning you from using their online service, does not make the Switch a brick, as the firmware still functions as intended.

So now, you’re arguing over a “What if” – AND you’re getting definitions completely wrong, resulting in the spread of misinformation.

You don’t know what form will be taken when this happens. They haven’t used it yet. I could say in a EULA that I have the right to destroy earth, doesn’t make it true. Certain things are unenforceable, and you don’t know what route or method Nintendo is going to use that this clause is supposedly protecting.

The EULA is a “we CAN do this”. It doesn’t dictate what form it will take, how they approach it, etc. Until someone breaks this clause, we won’t know how it’s approached, or even if it’s enforced, or how.

If they allow local games and all that’s lost is the online service, then we don’t know this for sure - it’s all speculation. We’re all arguing over a bunch of “what ifs”.

Context matters here, they are specifically talking about Nintendo Account Services - and they have to include the device, because disabling nintendo account services could render the device “unusable”. They are not about to flash your firmware out from under you and brick the device.

There are digital license versions from what I understand, and then there are full-fat versions. Unless something has changed.

That STILL doesn’t make the “they’ll brick your switch!” thing true. If the hardware can be hacked, then it’s still usable.

“Bricked” has a very special, specific meaning - generally that the lowest level firmware is completely unworkable, and you cannot use the system at all - no screen, no buttons, no lights, nothing.

If you can fire the thing up, and it log into a network, and then tell you that you’ve been banned from Nintendo Online and refuse certain functionality – You’ve been banned, not bricked.

It has to do with their online services; not the switch itself.

There’s nothing in here about bricking your console if you mod it.

This is clearly them saying they’ll ban your switch from Nintendo Online services if they notice something fishy. If your Switch requires online services for something, that something may not work any longer.

I’ve never met a person in my life who thinks lizards are disgusting. They need to eat bugs constantly, which makes them better than spiders - some of which can go a year without eating - and they’re cute with their little mating rituals. Geckos too.

Based.