Mr. Sparkle? lol

This is why hybrid coolers exist — they're a perfect compromise between huge-ass noisy heatsink/fan units that block access to the entire upper half of your computer, and full-on liquid cooling setups that are far more costly and risky than they're worth. For under $100, you can get a decent hybrid unit and replace…

"naturally assigned gender"? being of a given sex does NOT dictate one's behavior. Gender roles are bullshit we invented, full stop.

yeah, upon further consideration, there's really nothing that makes this any better than homophobia. Nonsensical hatred all around.

For some reason, when you said "asexual" it didn't register that you were referring to asexuality in *humans*. I immediately think of the biological term whenever I hear that — that is, species that reproduce asexually, which are more vulnerable to environmental threats due to lack of genetic diversity. My mistake,…

I find your disgust for those not adherent to gender roles absolutely mind-boggling. You are actually pro gender roles? The root cause of many of our gender-related issues? Absolutely baffling.

More like, too bad asexuals are at a disadvantage genetically. Sex has more than one purpose — genetic diversification is the biggest one =x

To be fair, there are only so many ways you can really design a VR HMD, though they may all operate slightly differently — the Vive seems to have the highest-resolution display, but I'd wager that Oculus has done the most work with latency-reduction and low-persistence. Each device may have different things going for…

I'm speaking mainly in terms of the companies that will back the standard and implement it in their hardware. Oculus' SDK is not open source (as far as I'm aware) nor is it standardized, so other companies can't really implement it without being subject to e.g. breaking changes. Might even be some legal bullshit…

Currently, OSVR seems to be the one with the best chance of getting full industry backing. They've got Sixense and Leap Motion (among others) behind them already, and seem to be taking the best approach (open-source, platform-first).

These are just...bad. What's up with putting a cheongsam-looking-thing on Mai? =/

because this is the Shield Portable:

I'm getting ahead of myself here.

This was the article author's mistake. NVidia is claiming they're the first Android TV console to market — that's "Android-TV console", not "android TV-console". As in, the first console running the Android TV OS.

All of the Shield products have GameStream. You just need an NVidia 600-series or newer to use it.

Yep. There are three shield devices right now: Shield Portable (clamshell handheld), Shield Tablet, and now this shield tv thing. The tablet and this TV thing both use their wireless controllers (which would presumably work with the Portable too, but why?).

hah, good stuff. Nevermind that Intel isn't mentioned anywhere...

also I think you're mistaken about one thing; NVidia already owns the PC market, so there's not really anywhere for them to go there. This is just them continuing their expansion into other territories.

Except that one of the most important aspects of the Shield is streaming games from your PC.

"Mods are fucking garbage. Open-source stuff is great if you happen to be an 18-year-old who is WAY TOO OLD to be playing Minecraft. For an 8-year-old, I just want the mods THERE. In the game already. This shouldn't be fucking rocket science."