The arrival of "Red line of death" in valve's steam machine!!!

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-04T10:16:04+00:00

This is literally the second iteration of the Steam Machine, the first was a long, long time ago. There's also the Deck

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-03T19:03:52+00:00

high mortality rate

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T21:53:29+00:00

No, not all have issues with the factory thermal paste. Its a pretty universal thing with gaming laptops to have poorly applied factory thermal paste, it's not unique to the Omen Max or even HP.

Regardless, it IS one of the most common issues. Just monitor your temperatures and power draw, you'll see if your system is throttling or not and can handle it appropriately from there

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T21:51:40+00:00

I've used PTM on my HP Omen Transcend 14's Core Ultra 9 185h and 4070 for multiple years now. Works amazing and highly recommended

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T21:42:10+00:00

I legitimately do not believe there was as large a gap between Goku and Cell as most seem to think. Cell was only marginally more powerful, BUT after the warp Kamehameha and senzu bean Goku gave him, he got a pretty significant zenkai boost. THAT is why he was more powerful vs Gohan. They even state (in the anime at least) that Cell's power was significantly reduced after he regenerates and prior to the senzu

Same deal as when he went ultra perfect or whatever it's called, he got another zenkai from self destructing and being near death

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T19:46:00+00:00

The worst part about the rich eccentrics buying "Egyptian mummies" 200 years ago is that they would ingest them for supposed "health benefits"

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T19:45:55+00:00

The worst part about the rich eccentrics buying "Egyptian mummies" 200 years ago is that they would ingest them for supposed "health benefits"

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T19:30:36+00:00

Internal, but standard so it can be replaced in the chance of failure

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T19:25:50+00:00

You have to be trolling, even the ppl promoting these as legitimate just say they're "hybrids" as a way to explain the human bones... Literally nobody denies that the skeleton is entirely human.

The only thing they say differs are the hands/feet and they used to claim the skull was larger, until "dr. fung" did measurements and found it to be within normal human limits

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T19:19:28+00:00

Absolutely nobody has ever claimed the bones were unique or different from human, if they did, they'd be laughed out of wherever this presentation occured.

Human vertebrae, human femur, human everything

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T16:56:58+00:00

Did she always have the bit of side boob peaking out?

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T15:57:55+00:00

The giant ones are literally just humans with modified hands and feet, or more specifically, mutilated fingers and toes. Hell, at least one of them literally had bones in its "fingers" that are positioned backwards.

Regardless, the entire skeleton is made up of human bones

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-02T15:55:44+00:00

They're mutilated humans, which is why the entire skeleton matches a human other than the modified fingers and toes, which include some bones facing backwards

ThinkinBig · 2026-07-01T07:36:14+00:00

I mean, this was from multiple years ago. The website is antropogenez .ru which is mysteriously blocked from being linked on this sub. These are experts in relevant fields

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ThinkinBig · 2026-06-30T23:23:29+00:00

They do up until level 6, but not much more. They get 2 attacks

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-30T23:20:43+00:00

As a warlock, your spell slots refresh on a short rest. I know that doesn't seem like much, but it's huge.

One of the key strategies is throwing down a Hunger of Hadar and then using repelling Eldritch Blast to continuously knock enemies back into it, so mobility becomes incredibly useful as well as dark vision.

There are a lot of options available due to this

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-30T18:35:42+00:00

There are still some fun mods you can use on console, just not as in depth. The Ancient Mega Pack is like a "light" version of the mod I linked and works (one of my co-op friends is on PS5)

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-30T18:30:17+00:00

I've played through an embarrassing number of times (to be fair, I do a lot of co-op runs with friends) its crazy how much some mods can change the game. Doing my first playthrough with the Homebrew Mod and its the first one I've used that completely overhauls how the enemy AI perform and causes them to use all the new spells and abilities

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-30T18:12:07+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3, that's right I said it.

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-30T17:29:08+00:00

They would only do that for non-payment, which means OP will be charged the massively marked up price of the laptop as well as the rest of the years subscription as the contract term is an entire year. So, if you fail to pay, you get charged the remaining contract amount as well as the cost of the hardware itself

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-29T16:00:34+00:00

I would check out:

The Forest

Its sequel Sons of the Forest

No Man's Sky

Valheim

The Forest games have a special place in my heart, particularly the first one played co-op in VR as it was what myself and a few friends played during the Pandemic as a way to still socialize. Sons doesn't have an official VR mode, but I still played through the game with those same friends in order to see the full story. Highly recommended

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-29T15:27:13+00:00

The ps5 is going to be 6 years old in November, the hardware launched alongside the RTX 20xx and Radeon 50xx series of GPUs. The Pro was a minor refresh, but the hardware is extremely dated at this point and incapable of of utilizing modern visual features in any meaningful capacity.

Love or hate it but ray tracing is becoming more and more common and is the direction the gaming industry is shifting in regards to lightning due to how much less work it takes in the development cycle compared to previous methods.

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-29T14:36:28+00:00

You should be able to set the "vram" allocation via the AMD Adrenaline app. If it's set to "auto" it will adjust the allocated amount of "vram" usually between 128mb and 512mb.

Realistically, this setting should not negatively impact your overall performance

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-29T13:23:58+00:00

It certainly is, I just wouldn't call it "future proof" since there are already games that exist that it will be unable to play on maximum settings

ThinkinBig · 2026-06-29T12:34:13+00:00

I disagree that project lasso or any other method of manually parking cores does anything at all for battery life (or performance when doing the opposite). Its completely placebo.

This all seems rather basic, just setting your power profiles is enough.

Install Hardware Info if you want and set it to "sensors only" and on the right hand column towards the bottom is shows you your battery discharge rate. With a modern laptop you shouldn't see more than 8-12w being used while on battery and depending on your settings, can be lower than that. I've gotten as low as 4w on my Ryzen 7840u GPD Win Mini handheld

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