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    Physical Steam gift cards discontinued

    Sweden actually had to pass pro-cash laws to correct that blunder, other governments are not about to make the same mistake. Laundering is a huge problem and one that Valve don't want to be part of. I can't blame them. Cashless is nothing more than "everything is easier online", you can blame...
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    Physical Steam gift cards discontinued

    Lol, we've been using electronic bank transfers and automated payroll since the 1960s. You really think there is some 'Big Brother' plan in place? If there were, it would have been fully executed decades ago. In fact, governments are doing the opposite. They are passing laws to protect physical...
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    Physical Steam gift cards discontinued

    The only reason to use paper money to buy virtual money is laundering.
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    Physical Steam gift cards discontinued

    I genuinely fail to see the problem. You can not *USE* the cards for any offline purpose, so why even bother to sell the credits as a physical card?
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    Physical Steam gift cards discontinued

    If you'd ever worked somewhere that sells these, you'd agree with Steam on this point. Old people (legit old, not like in their 50s, I'm talking 80s and 90s) would tell you to your face that the $300 of steam cards were for personal use and nobody it asking them to buy them.
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    The Meme Box

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    Gaming Do you avoid old games that are only playable in 30fps or less?

    Low fps has never been a problem. *inconsistent* fps is where the problem is. I've played games as low as 7fps and couldn't care less.
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    2026 is the Year of AI

    Here is my contribution to the slop...
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    Evercade cartridge reader to USB

    Less risky?
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    2026 is the Year of AI

    What's to say that 'real' intelligence isn't just a lookup table based on collected data? It sure seems that way most of the time.
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    2026 is the Year of AI

    I just ported a game I was working on over a few months in my spare time, to a completely different system using AI in a couple of days (also spare time). It really is becoming the world that coders envisioned back in the 1950's. "computer I want a program to do x,y,x" instead of...
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    The US is now at war with Iran

    The "anti-war" president has committed military action eight times in under a year and a half. He needs America to be at war so he can declare a state of emergency and halt presidential elections.
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