Nerds Amalgamated

NVIDIA Cypto, Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, Pokemon Legends Arceus & Firestarter Reboot

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There's nothing funny about NVIDIA's ridiculous CMP cryptocurrency mining cards, from taking chips away from gamers to being single use electronics. Hopefully this goes better than anyone outside NVIDIA thinks it will, but we'll have to see. Maybe AMD will keep their cards competitive and keep out of trouble so we have one consumer neutral producer to buy from. NASA's Perseverance Mars Lander touched down recently and is sending out awesome high quality videos of the landing and some interesting rocks. Percy really likes rocks. Game Freak have announced a new Pokemon remaster and an experimental open world game. Nobody cares about the remasters, but Arceus Legends looks amazing. But can Game Freak pull it off? Probably not. Stephen King's Firestarter is getting a new movie focusing on emotion. Not a bad thing, but it'll have Zac Efron, so the most horrific thing will be his singing. This week DJ returned to Tsushima, Professor advanced his Kardeshev level and Dev-i-boy got his funk on. NVIDIA Cypto Mining - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/ The Landing of Perseverance - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-19/nasa-rover-perseverance-lands-on-mars/13170902 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-23/mars-perseverance-rover-nasa-releases-high-res-images-video/13178646 New Pokemon Game : Pokemon Legends Arceus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIA8FKhwl0 Firestarter Reboot - https://comicbook.com/movies/news/firestarter-reboot-stephen-king-keith-thomas-tease-details-updat/ Nerdful things DJ - Ghost of Tsushima - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Tsushima Rating: 4/5 Professor - Dyson Sphere Program - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/ Rating: 4.5/5 Dev-i-boy - FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN' - https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin Rating: 5/5 Other topics discussed Elderly patients show no adverse reactions after being given incorrect dose of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-25/coronavirus-queensland-covid-vaccine-dosage-error-aged-care/13188724 COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine incorrectly administered to two patients at Brisbane aged care home - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-24/coronavirus-queensland-covid-vaccine-rollout-aged-care-brisbane/13179280 Ethereum (a decentralized, open-source blockchain featuring smart contract functionality. Ether (ETH) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. It is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, after Bitcoin.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum Titanic (a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking at the time one of the deadliest of a single ship and the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship to date.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic Nvidia says its cryptocurrency mining limiter 'cannot be hacked' - https://www.pcgamer.com/au/nvidia-ethereum-mining-limiter-cannot-be-hacked/ What Is Binning? A Basic Definition - https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/glossary-binning-definition,5892.html ATI Technologies (a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies GeForce RTX 3060 Prices - https://www.pccasegear.com/category/193_2154/graphics-cards/geforce-rtx-3060 I Sawed This Boat In Half - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moNRC9mgmjg Linus Tech Tips - Nvidia Said We Couldn't Game On This Crypto Mining Card… - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4 Linus Tech Tips - NVIDIA pretends to care about gamers. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfIibTBaoMM The Simpsons – Buying a New PC - https://www.youtube.com/watch...