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1. Holding a gun to your head doesn't mean I'm going to shoot you, so you should be comfortable with it! 2. There is no such thing as "poor choice of words" when it comes to EULAs and TOS-es. You can be damn sure that every word has been carefully weighed by an army of lawyers to maximize...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4268783/adobe-users-revolt-updated-terms Welcome to 1984, sorry I mean 2024. Forget you'll own nothing you pay for, you no longer even own what you create.

It's the swiss cheese model. You need multiple levels of failure to actually have a serious problem.

So they are compared to numbers that we don't actually see. I get it now.

Those can get you on a brand new patched OS as well.

What are those percentages on the graph, where do they come from? They make zero sense.

That describes perfectly why I take issue with games pass and any game subscription service. You are always on the lookout for games to make it worth it. It is a version of the sunken cost fallacy (combined with fomo if your subscription is for a specific time only). You are pressured to play...

We can inherit a bank account, I'm sure we can figure out inheriting a steam account.

I'm pretty sure it is illegal to prevent inheritance of an account. Valve just hasn't found out yet.

One game that gave me a lasting impression was Flight Unlimited in 1995. It was the first flight sim that used real aerial imagery as ground textures, technically giving the game photo realistic graphics. It was extremely impressive for 1995. Of course today even google earth has better "graphics"

1983 - ????? I've been struggling to find anything memorable released this year, so I'm throwing in the towel. No point in choosing a game just for the sake of it. I can't for the world think of a memorable 1983 game while there are half a dozen games for 1984.

Not all games are memorable, but memorable games have been around since the mid 90s.

The last was Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Considering it is far longer than some complete games I think it counts as its own thing, despite being an expansion and not a stand alone game. That said newer impressions always feel stronger, but only time will tell how lasting they are. I can...

Back in the day games often got updated versions during their run, to fix bugs (so much for the myth that games used to be bug free) so maybe the early releases were indeed 1981 and later ones were 1982.

I can't even figure out what is going on here. Seems like 18 minutes of glitches to me :D BTW the video literally starts with ©1981

Lemans - 1982 Lemans is one of the original games released with the C64, published by Commodore. It is a very simple top down driving game, where the goal is to overtake as many cars and as fast as possible without crashing. The game gets gradually harder with traffic getting more and more...

They are not AI optimists, they are techbros. Huge difference. I think AI has great potential but techbro driven companies like google, ms, etc. are trying to put the square AI into round holes.

LOL, that's no bug. Yeah, the images reappearing was a bug technically, the real issue is the fact that they didn't delete them in the first place. And frankly it frightens me that you aren't concerned about this at all.

You don't have to remember when you played them just that you played them and it was exceptional. You can look up when it came out.

Technically it should be the original launch, but I'm certainly not going to hold anyone accountable for getting it wrong. Unlike those two guys back there, who immediately ignored the one thing I asked :D

4080 stock - 6410 / 64.1 FPS (score just seems to be FPS multiplied by 100) On first run it hung on starting UI for me as well, and online validation does not work. Also this has to be the shortest / lamest benchmark they put out yet. 1 test, 60 seconds, it's not even enough for the GPU fan to...

I'm going on a journey to choose a game of the year for each year going back all the way to 1981. The task seems simple at first, but it is harder than you think. There were many years when there were multiple great games and choosing between them is a near impossibility. And worse there were...

Except you can't just restore these snapshots, they are for datamining purposes only.

I don't think anyone is assuming there is no OFF switch. However it will certainly be strictly opt out, and we all know it is hard to opt out of something you don't know about. I also wouldn't trust MS for the OFF option to do what is expected. Off might just mean you don't get the benefits (for...

All DP has a cable length problem. So far no matter what brand of DP cable I bought none worked at high res / refresh rate. The only cables that consistently work are the ones supplied with the monitors. That are coincidentally 1.2m.

I never finished the first one in less than 20, and by finish I mean all the exploration and optional content, including bring down the sky. That reminds me why I quit LE, I lost hours of progress because for some reason it didn't autosave, and so I rage quit and never went back to it. This...

It takes roughly 30 hours / game. 3 may be longer with all the DLC including Omega and Citadel, those add a ton of time. I don't think I replayed it with after DLCs.were out.

Where does it say that power draw didn't increase? It only says they used the stock cooler. Which doesn't mean power draw was the same. Even simple OC increases power draw. What you are saying is impossible.

I think people were rightfully expecting support until at least the EOL, but considering how popular 10 still is maybe even beyond that. I don't think there is so much difference that they'd need a completely separate driver. If it is an oem only product it would make sense, as they aren't...

I vaguely recall trying that, but I don't remember what happens.

Games are complex interconnected systems, if one aspect of it is bad it drags down the entire experience. You can't just ignore the bad part and focus on the good only. And that's just another form of saying "enjoy it for what it is". What if it is a turd, then I enjoy it for being a turd?

Even if that's true two wrongs does not make a who cares. Just because Google is doing shit on Android doesn't mean we should be happy for MS to do it on Windows. As I've mentioned before a PC has much more personal stuff on it than a phone. I don't even mind signing in to an online account in...

That was definitely true for gaming keys, but some discount key sellers have moved to direct buying from publishers / developers. But I've never seen that for applications.

I only have a google operating system on a phone. If you are not comparing an OS to another OS, then what are you comparing?

I'm not sure what do you mean. If it costs $3 or $5 to get a license in brazil why would anyone pay $40 in the same region? I don't even know where the $40 came from that's a very steep price for second hand oem licenses. It has been around $5-10 for the longest time for the PRO versions, even...

You keep insisting it is the same, but really it is not. I use brave browser on android and google never suggested I need to fix my phone by replacing it with chrome.

MS was paid for that license, that they choose to resell it rather than use it should not make it illegal. I know it is against TOS, but that's a piece of toilet paper as far as I'm concerned. MS should not be able to prevent you from selling it if you never activated it.

I believe MS's problem is running ahead like headless chicken without understanding or even wanting to understand what their users want. I'm using 365 enterprise and the experience changes all the time. You can't reliably use a service or software if it is in a constant state of flux. With some...

Especially because only one solution was accepted by the game, I was stuck on a level because I found a "wrong" solution, that worked equally well as the intended one.

I fear it will be just more of the same as the first game. A tedious walking sim occasionally interrupted by somehow even more tedious repetitive combat sequences. The game was less than 10 hours long but it felt like 100+. At best a 7/10, more likely to be a 5 or 6. Which is not to say it...