I remember Cyberpunk 2077 sucking me into its world, I sometimes walked slowly through the streets taking in sights and sounds.

I had that all the time as a kid, Monkey Island, Betrayal at Krondor, you name it. For children, like you said, everything is new and a fantastic experience, give it enough years and it becomes not stale, but normal.

Now, many years later it has become rare. But when it happens it's awesome again.

That's also my reason for not being excited over GTA 6. It will never live up to feeling of 3, Vice City or San Andreas, even 4. Those times are over for me. 5 was fun, but nothing special anymore.

Zum ersten Mal seit etwa zwei Jahren hat mir das nun nochmal einen Blick auf Reddit gewährt da sie ja Verbindungen mit VPN komplett blocken wenn man kein Konto hat.

Und es hat mich ganz schnell an den Untergang des Cheezburger-Networks erinnert. Das war auch extrem unterhaltsam und driftete dann schrittweise in die Belanglosigkeit ab.

Ich hab mir ein paar der alten Subreddits angesehen, und neun von zehn Posts sind Shitposts. Oder lesen sich wie Texte einer KI.

Dann lieber hier, ist zwar weniger los, aber mehr Substanz.

Danke für den Einblick, jetzt bin ich hundertprozentig sicher die richtige Entscheidung getroffen zu haben.

Vielleicht? Ich hab anfangs verschiedene Server immer wieder Mal durchprobiert, und immer kam die "Howdy Partner"-Meldung und die Aufforderung mich einzuloggen oder ein Konto zu erstellen "um die Community zu schützen"

Inzwischen habe ich Reddit aus allem rausgeblockt damit sie mir nicht ihre nutzlosen Links in die Suchmaschinen einfügen.

Aber egal welchen Grund es hat, heute hab ich gesehen wie nutzlos Reddit geworden ist.

DRM platforms are DRM platforms. Epic, Steam, Uplay and what not - at least I don't care.

I wish Steam would remove all DRM. The big companies would not dare to oppose them with Steam's near 100 percent PC market share.

I don't think they would leave. They would not risk loosing their sales on the biggest platform on PC. Was it EA or Ubisoft that tried to only release on their own platform? Their sales plummeted, and not long after they crawled back.

I just don't want to pay 60 bucks for something I could loose in an instant (account hack, company goes out of business etc).It's pure anti consumer.

What's the point? They don't offer the installers, you need the client to install the games.

"Support for all games cannot last forever."

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Again and again and again... Sigh... Sadly I'm sure many of the comission will just believe that shit...

But then again, the big companies are obviously scared, that's a good sign at least.

Laughs in GOG installers and good old physical media

It's funny. Before this crackdown none of my co-workers used adblockers. To install an add-on was too much hassle. They just watched the ads.

Now suddenly they became interested after hearing about them again, and almost all are running Firefox with ublock origin now.

YouTube should have just kept quiet, I don't believe they are better off now more than before.

In Germany the streets are far too often a fight for survival. I miss the Netherlands, driving there, bike or car, was so much more relaxing.

But, you know, Germans and their cars...

And everyone is afraid of immigration. It's bizarre.

In the 80s there was a plan to roll out fiber optic throughout the country. But media mogul Leo Kirch lobbied for normal cable connections because he wanted his cable network TV to take off. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, his buddy, of course did what he was asked to.

So that today we could have fiber nationwide, but thanks to lobbying we don't. Thanks to Helmut Kohl and Leo Kirch.

Thank god! I hope that's the last time we see Orban for a very very long time!!

I'm still sometimes amazed of our modern technology while my little ones more or less ignore it. But when I showed them a telefone with a dial and a cable and told them that I could not move it around they would not believe me at first.

Like the man in the comic said, "uncanny".

I'm tired of calling it protest votes. The last idiot in a cave should have heard by now that they are literally Nazis. People who voted for them are Nazis. Which gives me the creeps as a citizen of Germany.

But on the national issues thing I'm full on your side.

It's unstoppable. But it could go faster...

I mean, why is China investing so heavily into renewables? Not because they want to do good for the planet and from the goodness of their hearts. It's the cheapest energy source there is, and it could not give less fucks about some global crisis.

So please, EU, put the pedal to the metal.

The same farmers will protest in 10 years when their harvests will be destroyed constantly by heatwaves and draughts. "We had no idea..."

I got the game for free, and I've been playing it since every three months for a few days, just driving around. I bought the sequel, but it sucked.

I never used the multiplayer component, I treated it like a single player game. And now it's going to vanish? This whole world? They can't be serious. This isn't a multiplayer only title, it's single player with an optional mp stacked upon it. At least put an offline patch out... Assholes!

But that's the crux with only buying licenses. Or games with always online requirements. I hope fans find a way to crack the online code!!

If you are a European Citizen, sign it. It takes a minute of your time. Not more.

Still need a Microsoft account, but that gives many people one more year of breathing space. And who knows, maybe in this year the ridiculous hardware requirements for 11 might fall as well?

I still can't believe millions of functioning hardware will be destroyed for this shit.

And no, the average computer user won't switch to Linux, no. Sadly, but it is what it is.