I’d advise you to read more on how Chinese government and spin dictatorships work. There’s a really good book written by Treisman and Guriev

It’s not really a country you’d choose over US even despite all it’s massive (cough healthcare and consumer protections cough) flaws

“Anymore” as if it ever was. Even USSR never claimed to be a communist country

P.S. They claimed to be a socialist, then “developed” socialist country that’s “on the path of building communism”.

So, it’s the same idea, but not necessarily related to money? Understandable.

Wait, by “dedicated PC room” did you mean like an office room?

If so, for me it’s a matter of how private I want it to be or wether or not I want to separate it from other tasks.

Personally, I’d rather separate work than gaming from my daily life. Like kitchen, I like my kitchen connected to the living room, so I can spend time with others while cooking. Whereas with work I kinda need to concentrate, so everything else would be too distracting.

Most certainly don’t. After all, it’s a luxury having a separate room specifically for your PC and other technical appliances.

However, you’ve said it yourself that it does keep things quiet. Not to mention that this way you could also connect a custom loop to your heating and make the components run cool with the heat coming off of it being put to good use. At this point you might as well make a server.

The downsides, beside the cost, are that you won’t see your creation. PC is something you put your soul into, picking all of the parts, making them all fit together the way you want them to, and if you spend time making it look pretty, it may as well serve as a decoration on your desk.

Not to mention that it’s simply easier to just put it beside your monitor, and to troubleshoot it if something happens.

I’m missing one key detail here.

What are your criteria for a mechanic being predatory?

Heed to my long explanation of what I would consider predatory or not:

In my opinion, a predatory mechanic is one that is set to make you spend more money by means of obfuscation.

So, obstacles to progression, purchases with no affirmation, currency obscuring and etc.

In this way, for example, if an item can only be bought with non-tradable premium currency, the currency is predatory. However, if the currency is tradable then it isn’t predatory because it’s main purpose lies in trading and not obfuscation.

Same way gacha is also a predatory mechanic, gambling is predatory, and loot boxes. Because you don’t explicitly know what you’re getting and how much it costs you to get the thing you want.

Therefore to me a free battlepass cannot be considered predatory, as it’s main purpose is to increase level of player engagement.

I would agree, however, that making BP permanent would make it a much nicer feature. As in, you can work towards completing previous BPs you’ve missed. Otherwise it’s kinda meh. I don’t particularly like them anyways, it’s a pretty lazy way of achieving that goal.

Warframe’s “BP” system is the most non-intrusive out of all games with BP that I’ve played.

I was disappointed when saw it initially as well. But on closer inspection, it is completely free, you’re not being locked to playing on a certain week to get the missions done and, what I recently found out after years of not playing the game, is that old rewards return to BP on low levels.

This essentially makes it very easy to catch up should you choose to.

About player interactions, toxicity happens, but it happens in every online game. You can’t really expect an MMO game to not have player interactions.

I too am a little anxious when dealing with people I don’t know, but it really is not that big of a deal. If you’re actually having problems with it, consider seeking advice from a specialist.

Having an auction house, although is nice from a convenience point of view, could be going against the design of the game. A bazaar type of trading has it’s own charms, and some people may prefer it. Either one is fine with me, personally.

Most of what you’ve listed don’t sound like problems with the game itself, but rather the game being just not for you. And it is normal.

And trust me, there are quite a few problems with warframe, especially for newer players. Like the story not being explicit, you being thrown into the game with no real set goal, game mechanics not being explained properly and so on, which makes you have wiki open on the side to play the game without issues.

If we’re being completely honest, all of those are in rotation and although some items cannot be grinded for during that time, it can still be traded for, so it is not an issue.

Dailies and weeklies are here to keep you engaged. They provide some rewards, but I wouldn’t call them mandatory to progression. They’re more of a side-bonus.

Personally, whenever I’m bored of warframe I just leave. After a while new quests appear, new guns and all of the other stuff to work toward.

The best part is that whenever you return you’re pretty much at the same place as you left it off.

Hence I personally see no rush in getting all of the stuff I want. I’ve been playing this game on and off since 2013 and have yet to experience fomo with it, because of the things listed above.

Destiny, for example, is much much worse. Especially after they decided that it’s a good idea to vault planets and remove quests. Made me leave the game, I just can’t deal with it and have life stuff to do. Mind you, D2 is easily one of my most most favourite games.

Same with gacha games like Genshin or Honkai 3rd. It’s exhausting.

Didn’t have that experience with Warframe.

Since my lemmy crashes when trying to edit the post, I’ll leave an update as a comment.

For now I’ve limited wattage supplied to CPU, which solved the issue.

So, basically, there are only 3 options which could be the cause.

1. Wrong automatic motherboard settings. Which seems to be the most likely option.

2. PSU protection gets wrongly triggered. That would be unusual, this particular model should be reliable.

3. Faulty CPU. This is even less likely due to the way they’re manifactured.

I would actually love to hear you elaborate on that.

In what way sociologists work harder than economists?

I’d argue that when it comes to science, you can’t study economics without studying sociology and politics. Because then you will be lacking context. Wouldn’t that mean more research?

In fact, how do you define “hard work”?

I’m acually curious, it’s an interesting topic.

It isn’t a difficult science from a learner’s PoV.

It is, however, difficult in a sense of trying to figure out why in the world what happened happened, and most importantly, making it possible to do again.

That’s because not only can you not experiment, you only gather data from observations, but once you share the product of your studies the reality changes in reacton to it.

In same Physics the object of your studies doesn’t simultaniously study you.

Math gets involved to get a result that is somewhat reproducable. But even then since we can’t factor everything we use degrees of probability/certainty.

Theoretically speaking if we managed to fully understand human behaviour then we coult predict the outcome of everything. As you can imagine, we’re nowhere close to being able to do that.

Back to original post, yes, economics is closer to psychology than it is to physics. At least for the fact that we study human behaviour, but on a different scale. So sociology and political science are the closest, then psychology, next all of biological sciences, and chemistry, physics and everything related come last pretty much.

Math doesn’t fit anywhere here, since it’s a tool for measuring reality and not a study of reality itself.

The thing about hoops is that they do prevent a lot of things.

Not all of them, but a lot.

“Ah, that’s too much to bother” is surprisingly a good deterrent.

A lot, actually

In Russia change org was one of very few channels to bring change into politics.

For some reason our politicians actually listened to those. So it was a very useful tool.

Unfortunately, I don’t have much idea how effective it is since Feb of 2022. Imagine our gov as an armodillo. It has a sturdy shell, so it is very hard to get good changes through it’s head. Now that armodillo closed up in a ball, it lives in it’s own bubble, its being fed by it’s own lies. Nothing good can come out of that head. And it doesn’t.

Am a finance student from Russia.

12% is fine. It’s a temporary measure to keep the currency at bay. It’s not great, don’t get me wrong, I’d much rather it was at 4-5% as it was in 2020, but it’s appropriate given what’s happenning with the country.

In comparison, on February 2022 it was 20%, which in simple terms saved the banking system from collapsing, our Cenral Bank is one of not that many agencies that are at least compitent.

It does slow down the economic growth, but trust me, there are way bigger problems than expensive credit when it comes to economic growth. Short-term everything is quite well, but long-term if nothing changes? Oh boy, oh boy.

Just a couple years ago Meduza was a very prominent news outlet in Russia.

There weren’t that many and they weren’t allowed on TV, but you could always see their presence on the Internet.

Since adoption of a law about foreign agents in 2017 many if not most of such news outlets were deemed as “foreign agents” and faced problems with funding. And yet persisted.

2022 was the breaking point. In February all of the remaining oppositional news started to get blocked. One by one.

By 2023 all of them ceased operation as Russian media and migrated abroad due to de facto being outlawed.

Taking control over media is how Putin started his presidency. This is what came out of it.

If there is nobody to speak, then there’s nobody who’ll listen.

Could be, there are newer versions that I didn’t bother upgrading to (namely the security patch after a big loophole was found)

If that’s the case, mobo swap will be solving it regardless then. Will be updating the post if I find the root of it.

Did that, it’s in the post. 85C max out of every core under full load. That’s without fans ramping up.

Stock temp is also normal, 40-45C.

Plastic cover’s off, thermal paste is sufficient. Fans are properly connected, they are facing the right way (at least I hope they are, w/e, will be finding that out soon anyway)

I did swap the fan with the CPU. Current one is Thermaright PA 120.

I am a bit concerned about VRM temps, however. It could be that they give in under extended load. I wonder if undervolting puts an additional strain on those, but why would it if all I do is lessen CPU voltage? (Am new to undervolting, BSOD happens even at stock settings, though)

I’ll try that when swapping mobos.

Yes, the cooling is enough. I did say 85C was absolute max out of every core. And that’s without fans ramping up much.

Motherboard swap is something I wanted to do regardless. Especially since I have a good use for the old one.

I will try different RAM later on. Although it wasn’t causing issues with 5600g.