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In the sense that they can cut off supply it is easy to make demands, sure. Not easy to get them fulfilled though. Radeon wouldn't even be close to 1% of ASUS/ GB/ MSI/ (ASRock)'s overall business. We saw how much sway AMD had back in the Geforce Partnership Program days, ie none. They'd just stop making the cards outright. Even the AMD specific brands generally have a sibling company making nVidia and other products. AMD can't really even make their own cards to sell- AMD branded reference cards were actually made by Sapphire, not AMD (same as their CPU coolers were made by a third party). Overall, a bit like Musk threatening to cut off Starlink to people; except this 'Starlink' is a lot smaller, less important and there's an alternative. MSRP is fundamentally designed around having a cheap reference card design. Otherwise you end up with, say, Pulse and Nitro+ cards both being MSRP despite one obviously being more expensive to make. It is equally fundamentally the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price. The current problems aren't controllable by a company as large in the video card space as nVidia, so they certainly aren't by AMD. AMD did what they could when they sold their own cards- at MSRP, and with as good a scalper prevention set up as you could manage.

Steve also said in that video that certain MSRP cards just don't make money, or at least they didn't for EVGA, and that was before inflation and TSMC's monopoly on modern process nodes. It really does stand to reason that AMD doesn't have the clout to do that beyond an initial launch window or with subsidies they probably don't want to afford. Still hoping - probably beyond reason - that Intel can get their heads unstuck from their asses and make their new nodes work. Would be a lot better if someone else than the silly Tangerine in Chief would be at he helm. Not to drag politics into the tech forum, but TSMC is sitting on a powder keg and we have no idea when it will go off. They understandably also said that the newest nodes will remain in Taiwan, which makes sense. It's the one thing stopping Winnie Pooh from bringing them home into the Reich. The Tangerine, meanwhile, doesn't get that setting up tariffs is not going to make factories and fabrication plants appear magically. Not for steel or aluminum or car assembly, and even less so for bleeding edge chips production. We already had a taste of what happens when TSMC stops producing microprocessors for a while, and it was not pretty, and for all their faults, Sleepy Joe and the Democrats at least realized that. Granted, I don't exactly know how effective the Chips Act subsidy was, but The Tangerine and his cronies look at the situation and say: "This is fine, companies should bring their production plants back to America because they have to, not because they're being paid for it!" As it stands, we better hope China doesn't catch up with modern process nodes before someone with a little more strategic foresight is back at the helm in the US, assuming that is at all possible once the Tangerine's done ruining the country. I am somewhat baffled that for all his tech bro advisors, no one seems to have told him yet how much hangs in the balance of his good friend Winnie playing nice.

Hey all, just to update here - We are working on pushing this patch live very soon, we are just waiting for final word on certification and then we should be good to go. Thanks for understanding and apologies for the long timeline on this one, we just wanted to be extra sure we got all the platforms in line and gave plenty of time for folks to get eyes on the beta. Will update soon!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9dp5rr2x9o Tomorrow is a big day for a possible end to the Ukraine conflict The US and Ukraine will be meeting in Saudi Arabia and this will be a significant meeting on the way forward " Soon after the White House row, Zelensky expressed regret about the incident and tried to repair relations with the US - the country's biggest military supplier. Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, later said that Trump had received a letter from Zelensky that included an "apology" and "sense of gratitude Witkoff said that in Saudi Arabia the US team wanted to discuss a "framework" for peace to try to end the Russia-Ukraine war. A major minerals deal - derailed because of the row - is also reported to be back on the agenda in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine has offered to grant the US access to its rare earth mineral reserves in exchange for US security guarantees. "

But asphalt stays the same. It smells of Maureen and trouble.

Musk wants to take on 8th dan black belt judo master Vladimir Putin in a physical contest? That should be fun. More likely though, Musk would be slipped a neurotoxin.

Played Full Throttle Remastered, forgot how short it is, I cleared the game in under 2 hours. Amazing I remember the solutions to the puzzles even after 30 years, good to see I retain the important stuff. The Remastered audio sounds worse in some aspects, the art is bit eh, Maureen looks a little worse. At least they nerfed the wall puzzle

I don't think so. Would be an ok solution for me.

I think the part I liked the most about Nosferatu is how much it looked and felt like Bloodborne. There is even one scene where music plays that for the first few seconds sounds almost 1:1 like taken from the game. Also that carriage ride is 100% Bloodborne, which actually makes sense, since it was very much inspired by the original movie, so there's that.