New fear dropped: Amazon scammer seems to have delidded an $889 AMD chip, transplanted it on old Intel chip, and got it through return inspection

New fear dropped: Amazon scammer seems to have delidded an $889 AMD chip, transplanted it on old Intel chip, and got it through return inspection

watercooling from r/watercooling/comments/1x724mr/two_different_versions_of_amd_9950x3d2_dual I’ve never been stung by Amazon, but I’ve heard enough stories for it to be a worry. Amazon can take returns and list them again as new products if they pass inspection, which can open the door for scammers if something slips through inspection. And it’s tales of this happening with expensive components that…

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A24 is making a movie based on The Backrooms, the 2019 creepypasta that now forms the basis for every other game on Steam

If it wasn’t already clear, we’ve formally arrived in the age of the meme movie. The Minecraft Movie was basically a sequence of memes strung together, and Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet film. Now, omnipresent creepypasta The Backrooms is also getting an adaptation for the silver screen. The film, which is based specifically…

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Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X: We Touched It

A quick peek into the future In the land of video cards, Nvidia’s GTX Titan is generally considered the king. The original gangster came out in February 2013, followed by the Titan Black a year later, each sporting an unprecedented 6GB of RAM, 7 billion transisters, and more shader processors than you could shake a…

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Path of Exile 2 director isn’t worried about ARPG competition, in part thanks to seasons: ‘So long as people are willing to come back and play our game for a month four times a year, then I’m good’

When Path of Exile first emerged on the ARPG scene, it was like an oasis in the desert. Diablo 2 had long reigned as the genre go-to and Diablo 3 was still shaking off the worst aspects of its notoriously rocky launch. Over 10 years later, it’s a very different story: Diablo 4 got a…

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Steam’s gonna start listing ‘adjustable difficulty,’ ‘save anytime,’ and other accessibility features right on a game’s store page soon

It feels like videogames are getting better at realising that, you know, a whole load of different people play videogames these days. Pretty much any modern release will run you through a set of accessibility options the first time you launch it, and those options usually seem pretty expansive, at least to me. But I…

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