Valve's Steam 'Dummer' Sale is Bizzare!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,317 words · ~6 min read
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you know what that's enough no more tech news there's been too much
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tech news already i'm done i'm out come on
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one more okay one more tech news yes if there was
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any lingering doubt about the legitimacy of the leaks concerning NVIDIA's rtx
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super line of graphics cards they're probably gone now listings for evga's
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versions of the GeForce rtx 2060 super
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and 2070 super hit amazon this morning
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and were documented in fairly great detail the listings mentioned a launch
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of july 9th which is consistent with information previously leaked by
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videocards.com and yesterday video cards posted a photo
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of a stock 2070 super then today they
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detailed the spec changes we might see including slight boosts in clock speed
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memory and memory speed according to these leaks the official announcement
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for the super line will happen on july 2nd with availability on the 9th those
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dates are placed basically perfectly to disrupt AMD's launch of the Radeon rx
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5700 series on july the 7th although
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still further leaks point to AMD
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fleshing out their own lineup with an rx 5800 and 5900 later in the year
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here's what i want to know why can't NVIDIA just let AMD have a nice launch
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party for once they're kind of like that friend that makes your birthday all
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about them yeah yeah speaking of hardware launches valve has just
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officially launched their index vr headset reviews seem to be saying that
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the index provides what might be the best vr experience yet with 1440 by 1600
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pixels per eye and a 120 hertz refresh
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rate furthermore the finger tracking knuckles controller also enables new
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unique gameplay the only problem is that there aren't a ton of games that make
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use of the new controllers and a complete kit with the headset base
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stations and controllers costs 1
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000 us dollars that is more than double the price of the 399 oculus rift s and
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to make matters worse gabe newell made a joke about half-life 3 at the index
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launch party and you know what gabe
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that's not funny i know that's not funny anymore i'm upset i'm well i i would
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love to check out the index but they wouldn't send me one they just didn't
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even reply to my message so maybe later speaking of people being
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upset at valve the company has responded to fan and developer complaints about
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the mini game baked into the steam summer sale
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you see this year's sale came with a mini game called grand prix players are
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supposed to pick one of five teams boosting its score by buying games and
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completing in-game quests random members
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of the top three teams then get a chance to win one of the top games on their
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wish list now the problem though is that the instructions weren't
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super clear and many players ended up deleting games off their wish list in
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order to prioritize more expensive ones that led developers to complain about
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huge decreases in wish list numbers which are really important for game
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visibility on the store furthermore players were also confused about how the
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team boosting mechanic worked not that it ended up mattering because everybody
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just joined team corgi anyway so valve has tweaked some features and
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told players that they can just move their most wanted game to the top of
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their wish list with no deletions required but it's unclear at this time
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whether or not the sale can be salvaged because let's face it corgis would never
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beat a hair in a race the whole thing was completely unrealistic from the get-go legs are too
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short now it's time for the brick quicks brought to you by display regular
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posters are cool but if you roll them up wrong just one time luke skywalker is
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going to have a weird bent face forever well disc blades are magnet mounted
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metal prints that are durable and look way cooler than a piece of paper anyway
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display it has over 260 thousand artwork spanning many influences and styles and
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they feature an easy magnetic mounting system with no power tools or holes in
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the wall required plus display plants 10 trees for every display purchased
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they're good people in fact they're so good they'll let you use discount code
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LTT at checkout we're going to have that linked below to get 15 off so check out
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display down below brick quicks ever heard of him
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me neither you can't stop the leaks my friends this time we got a glimpse at
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the upcoming ryzen 3900x on geekbench
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where it almost matched the Intel core i9 9900k in
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single threaded performance if i'm Intel i am like shaking in my
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boots and i don't even wear boots furthermore it beat Intel's top
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mainstream chip by 27 in the multi-threaded test
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we also got some ryzen 3700x benchmarks showing that chip beating the 9900k in
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multi-threaded performance so like here's the thing even if NVIDIA manages
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to rain on AMD's Radeon launch parade
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ryzen should bring a smile back to dr seuss face and doesn't she deserve it
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she works so hard revolutionary and visionary designer
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joni ive is leaving apple after almost 30 years he was the right-hand man of
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steve jobs and was instrumental in creating the sleek minimalist look that
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apple products are known for but don't worry he's not going far he's
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creating his own design company what was it called love something love oh i don't
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know i can't make love no that's probably not it and he's going to have
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apple as his first client so hopefully we'll still be able to make fun of those
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apple launch videos by doing a british accent on a white background for years
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to come and there's more leaks by the way
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photos have popped up of samsung's upcoming galaxy note 10 plus so i guess
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note 10 pro is not gonna be the moniker okay that's fine the phone features a
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nearly bezel-less design with a singular hole punch camera at the top
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and the note 10 plus is expected to be the first samsung phone to drop the
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headphone jack teaching us yet again
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that lesson about why we cannot trust our heroes luke skywalker failed and
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this is basically the same thing hackers broke into the russian search giant
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yandex late last year in an attempt to spy on users and they were reportedly
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sponsored by a western nation specifically a member of the five eyes
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alliance so that's the us britain australia new zealand and
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canada you know if you ask me it was probably
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the kiwis yeah they their island is small but they can be very fierce never
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cross a kiwi that's what i say and the pentagon has apparently developed a
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device that can identify people from 200 meters away by detecting their unique
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cardiac signature or heartbeat with an
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infrared laser well yep i think it's time to just cancel facial recognition
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research because this is like just way way easier
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guys who are you pew who are you pew pew i know who i am and it's time to cancel
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this episode because it's over thanks for watching guys and hey if you need
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more tech news i want you to know that i'm going to be right back here on
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monday just kidding i'm taking monday off but it'll be someone yeah
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it's going to be riley oh poor riley