A Steam Deck prototype shows up on eBay, Microsoft remade Quake II with AI, emulating ray tracing on older AMD GPUs, open-source PhysX, and another blogger takes a crack at Linux gaming.



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TIMESTAMPS



00:00 Intro

01:07 Skipping the last boss

04:13 Megaman 11 is hard?

04:45 Buying a new Ferrari

05:50 Working on getting an OPi Neo

09:29 Problems with Zomboid

11:38 $2999 Steam Deck Prototype

15:12 Most expensive nostalgia purchase?

17:52 Ninja Ming

21:12 Hollow Survivors

24:26 Microsoft AI Quake 2

28:02 Age of Empires LAN server

29:25 Internet required LAN play

32:01 Emulating RT for older AMD GPUs

36:41 NVIDIA 16GB 5060 Ti for $400

39:33 What is your dream GPU?

42:51 NVIDIA open-source PhysX

45:50 Blogger tries Linux gaming

01:02:47 Sweet delicious thumbs