Arlen Sure, it’s probably safe to say that if you spend day on the couch playing a video game, you’ll use about as much energy as you would if you just watched TV. They’re both sedentary activities, after all. But it gets tricky: Your body can reacts to physical input and visual stimuli different. Casual menu … Read more
Maybe you’ve packed a USB stick full of old-school games. You probably began with some modest 8-bit ones and felt virtuous. Next came bigger GameCube or PS1 ones. By the time you got into the 16-bit stuff, the drive was stuffed to the gills. It’s because cartridge images is basically text files. Disc images are … Read more
Incorrectly adjusting the render resolution multiplier will muck up your virtual world. You’ll crank up your GPU fans and your settings with one slider, but what does it do? It draws X number of pixels per eye from your graphics card. Most folks considers it to be a straightforward quality dial. But instead, it’s a … Read more
The problem with most PC builds is that component selection happen before you verify whether or not your components will physically fit. The reason for this is simple. Marketing numbers don’t show whether a giant graphics card will fit over a front radiator. You are essentially trying to stuff a suitcase while looking at label … Read more
The VR trap is that you put on the headset because they promised you presence. But then you sit down in a room with all these coffee table. It’s like “I’m supposed to be standing somewhere vast and digital, and here my poor real body is sharing space with this flimsy bookshelf.” And what happens … Read more
Strap on that virtual reality headset and explore this digital world. The image is blurry. You tighten the strap, hoping for clarity, but the blur persists. It is still blurry, it is frustrating. All you wanted to do was play. Why? More often than not it’s never because of the headset hardware itself. It’s almost … Read more
Staring at a screen too long does make your neck stiff. But it’s not always about how long; its also about the angle of your gaze. The way most people place their monitor are convenient (or instinctive) rather than based off the physical fact of how your spine works with your eyes: they plug the … Read more
You’re not alone: there’s a certain type of panic that sets in when your internet begins to buffer at home mid-competitive match. It doesn’t help that your router probably isn’t actualy the problem, either. This is what happens when your gaming rig upstairs start fighting for bandwidth with all the other devices in your home. … Read more
So you drop some coin on a high end pair of headphones, connect ’em to your desktop amp, and… meh. It sounds flat. The bass is muddy. The detail is smeared. The image feels underwater. Volume knob? It is turned down to thirty percent. Volume’s just right, so what gives? Typicaly this means that the … Read more
The thing with coolant purchases that confuses many people is the amount. Do I get one liter? What do I do with the other half liter? Wait…do I need distilled water or not? Do I have enough to fill my custom loop? What happens when I open the box of coolant? How will it all … Read more
When you drop a gigantic 480 millimeter radiator into your case’s front, it can makes you think: “Engineering won!” Your loop look complicated, with glowing reservoirs and snaking pipes. Then you run some stress tests, and learn that sheer surface area doesn’t always mean thermodynamic success. Coolant temps rise and fans engages, as you discover … Read more
Four hands remain. A number acts as a blind. A number dares you to try. The deck is thin. Jokers that adds flat numbers and exponentially multiply. The board shows a flush, yet to make that flush requires burning your best cards. That’s when arithmetic replaces intuition. Understanding the Math Behind Your Score That’s when … Read more