WaltSee wrote on Nov 24, 2023, 15:41:
All of this translates to the EU's intention to create EU games under the sanction of the EUC, which spells censorship and government manipulation, via government lawyers, of game content. They are already doing that (EUC) in other areas of the Internet right now--or attempting it, I should say. I cannot respect any forum which gives the government the right to censor posts that simply state opinions the government may oppose. Glad it doesn't affect me! Liberal governments wherever they exist have become obsessed with controlling what people think and say on the Internet, if possible. It's because they cannot control it that they wish to implement control. It's understood that all governments disguise their dictatorial bents with grandiose terms --like "protecting the culture"--and so on. All dictatorships begin with benevolent goals and statements, and by the time the populace wakes up to where things are really going, it is often too late to change things.

As far as the EU/EUC's desire to express the richness of European culture, which I value myself as an American beneficiary of much of those cultures, look at what the EU is doing with illegal immigration--that has run so wild that many European states are seeing their historical cultures eroded and even destroyed. Looking on the bright side, perhaps this is a last-gasp effort of Europeans to preserve what is so great and memorable in their cultures against the rabid erosion of those values by foreign influx, such as militant Islam--which seeks to dominate and control these cultures, completely. Will be interesting to see how things develop.

As a European, I have really no idea where you get most of your information from, but let's just say that I think that you are exaggerating the issues and the above is something I would expect to hear from a Wilders or Le Pen during election times. Are there issues, of course, but overall it is not as bad as you describe, but sadly it seems there is no room anymore for the middle ground, just extreme left or extreme right.

He created his stories about Gerald and the World he lived in, it got some success in Poland but it was not till witcher 1 that there became some demand for the books in English. By the time witcher 3 came out this demand increased so much that a lot more translations came out and he actually became famous. He did not get the best deal for the witcher games, probably because he did not see the potential and probably did not have a very good manager. But I am sure he compensated that with netflix.

Anyways I can see how he can be a grumpy old man as he did not become famous for his books but for what someone else did with them and everywhere he goes people either talk about the games or about the Gerald that the game created not the Gerald from his books.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Nov 23, 2023, 12:50:

WannaLogAlready wrote on Nov 23, 2023, 12:44:
Got it ! Won't play ever !

You won't miss much, to be honest. It's kind of a letdown after the first one and the bugs in it are/were Bethesda worthy.

Did not have any bugs and enjoyed it very very much, like the first one the story is quite good, having played the first one help.

I really can't pinpoint it, but dragon's dogma has fascinated me sooo very much, 100% on PS3, 100% on PS4, 100% on PC, so looking forward to it once again.

They probably think, if we launch enough satellites we block the sun and stop global warming

I loved this, but to be honest another expansion this late, I finished it and don't really want to go back

It is always interesting how headlines set a tone.
Most are simply positive, the digital trend one is intriguing as in ooh what worst parts? And thus jumps out from the bunch

Xero wrote on Oct 23, 2023, 12:56:
Musk will be the future of trying to take over everything to have full control of people's thoughts and ideas. No more, no less than a dictator would. I'm shocked he helped UA briefly with the Starlink deal, but I believe that was a smokescreen. I think deep down, he rather be lined up with the likes of Putin, Xi and Kim, lol.

Well the starlink deal is about money, sure it cost him in the beginning but he will get his money in the long run as its Ukrainians only alternative.

As for the other part, he made sure Ukrainian can't use starlink for drones where it will help them the most so is helps Russia too

Desalus wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 17:38:
It's difficult to get excited when this is the fourth iteration of this failed concept. Dust 514 wasn't that good and the next two iterations weren't even released. What are the chances it gets canned for the fourth time?

If I remember correctly, dust 514 was PS3 only

Xero wrote on Sep 12, 2023, 22:45:
I remember installing Steam just for Half Life 2. Hated having to do it and here we are.

This, and the weird part is that it feels much longer ago (half life 2) then 20 years

Intriguing and fun idea

Then of you go help in your neighbours basement

If the traffic light goes green between 6am and 7am and there was a fullmoon while a red car passed then we might walk away from this deal....... or not.....

Sigh

Verno wrote on Mar 24, 2023, 15:23:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 24, 2023, 15:12:
My point is that if you secure your own side, it won't matter what YouTube does. It should be blindingly obvious that you can not, and should not, trust any corporation to give more than a cursory glance at user security if user security is not their core business.

There were multiple points of failure on the LMG side, any one of which could have prevented this from the outset. Well before YouTube got involved.

I have no expectations of Linus to do any of these things because he's basically "a guy who is good at computers" running a 100 million dollar company and has been through numerous debacles already. The hope is that he hires someone competent and stops farting around personally in their infrastructure.

And then he manages to make money out of these debacles as it becomes big news every where and his followers see the videos he makes of what happend as transparent and great and what not. It's a win:win for him in the end

Being European, not British, is have never seen anyone here use anything else then d/m/y.
So not sure where in Europe the y/m/d is used?

Attack of the Mutant Camels good times.

That is a name that always brings a smile to my face.
I think I still got the vcr tape 'merak' somewhere, he always made fun stuff

It was free to get on ps plus for a month last year, that explains the high jump for 2022

bstar wrote on Jan 5, 2023, 01:22:
Amazing! These guys came out of nowhere, love these overnight success stories.

I so hope that was a joke

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 30, 2022, 15:14:

Pr()ZaC wrote on Dec 30, 2022, 14:59:

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 30, 2022, 14:00:
How long does it take for the caffeine to kick in.
I saw 1998 and thought "wow, these graphics are damn good for anything from 1998" and how the heck did they deliver a 22 gigabyte game to customers in 1998, 20,000 floppies?

With Zip disks!

That brings back memories.
A friend's wife was continually losing zip disks and her computer guy could not figure it out.
I was aware of the Click of Death .. and ZING - easiest customer steal ever. https://www.grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm
https://www.grc.com/tip/codfaq2.htm

48kb, these days a tool like that would be several mb in download and requiring frame works of this and that installed.