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Your motherboard will change everything to the lowest common denominator, underutilizing anything you stick in that's better than what you have, possibly with a bit of instability mixed in. But it will likely only do this if you fiddle a bit manually in the BIOS. It may not even recognize the new RAM if you just plug it in and boot up. Check your motherboard manual.

Are any of the games in the current Humble Bundle good? I wasn't a fan of usually-fruitless grind in Borderlands, or the...I guess Pillars of Eternity didn't feel like I could do anything?

I'm not feeling it with that bundle. Buy at the Cat Quest level, maybe.

5 of the 20 projects that got the most funding on Kickstarter were board games. Only 2 are video games. Board games may be a niche hobby, but Kickstarter projects is a big part of that hobby because of all the models and doodads that need to be made, and knowing how many of those you'll need to make before selling the game is useful information.

Also, the funding goal for the crowdfunding campaign was literally $1. If Gearbox/Blackbird was expecting to fully fund the game through crowdfunding, they'd probably have put in a dollar amount that had been budgeted in some capacity.

It's a preorder system. An interest free loan. A few board games from big publishers have done this too with the $1 goal. It was not looked upon with respect.

Here's one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFJeDWdO-Wg

You have to pay for the ATM and Vending Machine, which are not exactly cosmetic.

my purchase decision hinges on two factors: preorder top tier bonus needs to come with 'all future expansion too', because this sounds like just a cashgrab to fuck with their free dlc commitment and dlc + multiplayer means you'll be hostage of future packs to play with other people, plus first rate mod support, none of the curse/ckan/download shit out of forums shenanigans.

Only small devs tend to offer future expansions/patches for free. At the higher price point they'll have a day 0 pass for $30+. Modders will go all in, forcing mod users to buy everything, even the cosmetics. We've seen this time and time and time again.

Kerbal Space Program is 75% off for the base game on Steam. 65% off the complete edition. Likely going along with the announcement of the sequel.

For an entirely digital product, DRM makes for exclusivity no matter what the hardware is. You're stuck to particular digital stores that carry the product, much like consoles. If nobody ports it to another store then you're stuck. If nobody makes it for Mac or Linux, you're stuck. If it's DRM-free, you're less stuck but still limited to a particular OS, completely independent of hardware. We can go into how some software only works on x64 or x86 chipsets if you like, but let's not. I'm not defending exclusivity, just pointing out that it is exclusive in much the same way as consoles.

Carry on.