Well, here I am finally. Good mid morning everyone and welcome to another weekend. It was 102 yesterday. That's plenty warm. That heat isn't helping the efforts to fight the local Washburn fire, though it has slowed a lot since last weekend when I posted a fairly low quality image I took from my front porch of the smoke plume. At that point it was ~200 acres. As of about three hours ago now, it's ~4800 acres, but it's clear that progress is being made because I don't even see the smoke plume now. Containment is at 37% from that same update, which is good news because the last time I saw an update that number was 17%. Anyway, I'm glad progress is being made, that there have been no sequoias lost, and that for once there was some proper land management that had taken place to keep that fire from going bananas.
Okay let's look at some WRUP things.
A cyberattack was confirmed to have hit Bandai Namco that compromised a bunch of internal company data. I won't try and disseminate this myself, just click here to read the statement from Bandai and see some details from Beleepingcomputer.
Gamers Nexus very recently did a big story on the fall of Artesian Builds. This was a system builder like Ibuypower or DigitalStorm etc. Artesian had two locations and through poor management, infighting and more the company as a whole suffered until it died. Customers who placed orders never had them filled, and most of those customers won't ever see a refund on the thousands of dollars they spent. It's an interesting story to learn about but I do really feel for those who affected by the outcome. Here's the video story link from GN
More from GN shows us some hands on impressions of Intel's new GPU's the A380 and A750. The A380 is a decidedly unimpressive video card with only eight lanes of PCIE4 and the performance roughly lining up with a 1050ti. But this is marketed as an entry level card for 1080p and it's priced around $130 to $150 US. The A750, shown in a separate video though not with review charts, does come with engineer presentation and so far from what I've seen around the interwebs is comparable to a 3060. Not exactly mind bending new hardware but it's really good to see another line of competition hit the market. Not to mention once Intel shows it can actually make GPU's then they can focus on making higher end hardware to compete at high levels.
That's it from me this time. Stay cool everyone. happy weekend.
What's on the agenda?
Greywolfe: more chicory painting. and just exploring random games that i've never played. [might try a few things: "the forgotten city," "backbone," and some "wonder boy: dragon's trap." i'm not sure which of those i'll end up settling on.]
Scroo: Might be a busy weekend for me. Had some moderately tense medical issues in the immediate family in the last couple of days. So I'm just around to help as needed. I've been playing the OG Diablo a lot. It's aged and a little clunky but still a tons a fun.
AJ: It's going to be another fantastic retro weekend for me as I recently went by a (somewhat) nearby Half Price Books and found a copy of Advance Wars (1) for the GBA. I also aquired a complete boxed copy of Super Monaco GP for the Genesis from ebay.