By upgrading the PS+ version of FF7R Part 1 with the PS5 enhancements chances that I'll buy the PC version have further sunken.

Maybe in a few years the whole package in a Steam sale. Then I'll try all the lewd mod that I can find.

https://zzyzxphile.com/eng/products/revelation_audio_ssd/

Too bad it doesn't fit in my PS5.

What in the tits is an Audio SSD?

Oh, I read about it two days ago while checking past news and, by the looks of it, it's a scam.

I read about it on Guru3d: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/unusual-and-very-weird-this-nvme-ssd-specifically-designed-for-audiophiles.html

The best part, for me, is that it's a 1TB drive that only offers 333GB of actual space...

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The global version of steam has now been banned in China, with the chinese specific version releasing this was only a matter of time.

The Chinese version of steam only had 53 games when it launched in February this year, apparently it has 68 games now.

Considering China is the 2nd biggest country for steam with reportedly a quarter of it's active userbase coming from the country this could be very damaging for Steam, if a quarter of their users can now only access 1% of their product.

Maybe there are ways to get around the block but I don't know how many of the "more than 30 million" active users will be willing to do that.

It just means that Valve is going to have to work on keeping the games flowing through on China's end, or the devs to translate faster.

I'm not really phased by it all that much, mostly because I was never fond of seeing Steam forums being crammed full of Russian/Chinese language only threads, with some broken English Chinese threads, demanding for each dev to make a Chinese translation, which got old real fast. 

I do wish for Steam to either have a built in translator (like Google does for Chrome), or for the languages to be separated, because boy do I hate looking for guides in Steam forums and finding that one obscure game that I wanna fix, only for the guide topics to all be in Russian. 

Also, if Steam global is blocked in China, what about EGS?. Actually, come to think of it, what about all the other clients out there? (I've heard next to nothing about the other PC clients in China, news or forums). 

So you don't want to see that a Russian/Chinese/Japanese guide exists, which could solve your problem?

I prefer to see the guides in other languages. With copy/paste and deepl.com I have a English version in seconds:

Jizz Beards year end selection of PC components

I am going to post the "best" product that I think belong in various categories for this year. As this is my opinion, you can disagree of course.

GPUs:
Best overall GPU company: Nvidia
Best overall GPU highend: 3080
Worst overall GPU highend: 3070 Ti
Best overall GPU mid-ranged: 3060 Ti
Worst overall GPU mid-ranged: 6600XT

CPUs:
Best CPU for gaming: 12900k
Best CPU for workstation: 5950x
Best value CPU: 11400
Best mid-ranged CPU: 12600k

Best third party component manufacturer: Asus
Worst third party component manufacturer: Gigabyte

Best high end computer case: Fractal Design Torrent
Best budget computer case: Corsair 4000d Airflow

Best SSD: Western Digital SN850 - Runner Up: Samsung 980 Pro
Worst SSD: I would say XPG but many companies are starting to have a trend of replacing components of existing SSDs that cause them to be slower.

Best computer fan: Noctua NF-A12x25

Best 32 inch 4k monitor: Asus PG32UQ
Best 32 inch 4k monitor for it's price: Gigabyte M32U **HDMI 2.1 has a bandwidth limitation unless you have DSC capable device**
Best value 4k monitor: Gigabyte M28U **HDMI 2.1 has a bandwidth limitation unless you have DSC capable device**

Best PC game: Guardians of the Galaxy **I wouldn't play it if you have an Ultrawide monitor**
Worst PC game: Grand Theft Auto Trilogy

Overall it's been an interesting year but next year is gonna be one heck of a year! We are starting off with Nvidia's GPU refresh, AMD's GPU and CPU refresh and of course, Intel finally showing off their GPUs. We also have God of War and Uncharted coming along in January and Elden Ring in February. Mid next year, we will have Zen 4 and Raptor lake to look forward to as well as LG's 42 inch OLED and a line up for Mini-LED monitors. And of course, PCI-E 5.0 SSDs. And to close out the year, we will have Lovelace vs RDNA 3. Whether or not we can buy anything remains to be scene, heck whether or not any of those components will have reasonable prices remains to be seen. But least on paper, it will be one hell of a year.