I remember for Destiny 1 there was a figure of roughly 1 billion thrown around. That figure included like 8 years of server costs and future development costs for expansions, which ended up also including Destiny 2. Probably a similar situation for other games nearing that total.

The best source I could find on this was IGN and they claim a $100 million budget for BG3.

The US has been selling weapons to Saudi Arabia for a long time and hasn’t stopped even with the genocide in Yemen starting in 2014. There are 3 Presidents that are complicit in this, so he isn’t really joining the genocide just ramping up US involvement.

PCIe scaling isn’t really significant. With a 4090 you lose 2% going to 3.0 instead of 4.0 at 1440p per techpowerup https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-pci-express-scaling/28.html

He is using and instead of nvidia and linux instead of windows but his card is so much slower that the drop should be a lot less

From some other benches people have posted, ultra settings at 1440p he should be averaging 180 fps then even if he is using 3.0 x4 due to lane splitting from ssds which is roughly equivalent to pcie 1.1 x16 then it’s probably still not the main culprit

Ominous

I haven’t gotten one

Phantom Spirit from Thermalright performs a bit better and costs roughly the same as the peerless assassin

Given the climate impact of farming meat its probably for the best that they can’t be farmed as easily. And yeah, I’d expect most species on Earth reached a peak before I was born and won’t recover for at least decades after I’m dead, if ever.

I’ve seen bison burgers on the menu at a few local restaurants

You might be able to use the release candidate linux kernel to benchmark it? Would be kinda irrelevant for windows people that will be using full release software

Intel has specific hardware for XESS on their GPUs which is why other GPUs running XESS have to use the DP4a path instead of XMX

Would you say it’s a monument?