Heh, it is funny, but since I came late to the party (started playing Destiny earlier this year, and haven’t progressed past level 15 as of yet) I am really enjoying it. It feels beautifully executed, the gunplay is really nice for a console shooter and it just seems well made. The only thing I am missing is a…

you’re forgetting something else: Most car companies anywhere in the world can’t survive on their local market alone. They have all become global players, and environmental regulations aren’t going to become less strict anywhere else in the world.
Take Germany, where most Diesel cars are not allowed in large cities…

The german translation holds up well too, the only sad thing is that we’re missing the “evil dschörmän äkzent” of the bad guys since - well - everybody talks like them ^^

Iirc they had to change to clear ones, some kind of EU-wide regulation. At the same time the french stopped tinting their headlights yellow, maybe it had something to do with that. Historic cars may still keep them I think, but all newer vehicles have to have clear ones.
Fun fact: I had US indicators on my Volvo 850,…

Are the licenses from Poets Of The Fall expiring? They made such a great tune for the game, can’t imagine it without

There are always shady outlets here which will send your car back on the road for another two years... for a fee.
The tests can not only be done by the TÜV, but also by other outlets (DEKRA, GTÜ etc... there are several regional organizations, but not all of them are allowed to test everything, p.ex. LPG installations…

Why is an eleven year old playing a game that is rated 18+ anyway? That’s some parenting gone wrong right there I’d say.

Indestructible? The Dualshock 3 is one of the MOST FRAGILE controllers ever built.
We went through dozens of them at our local company, we had a PS3 in our lounge, and the plastic around the analog sticks would frequently break and splinter from the guys playing Fifa all day. On average, a controller survived about 3…

not really, not for everyone. I browsed through the catalogue of available games, and I found lots more that I would want to play on the Xbox compared to the PS4. Add in backwards compatibility (even more games you might have missed during the 360 area) as well as a much more robust interface (very nice for watching…

nah, personally think the One is better. At least sales are more frequent and good games come cheaper, either through Gold / deals with Gold, or through online resellers. Plus, the console can be had dead cheap - just bought another for 100€ used including controller, the Forza limited blue edition could be had for…

The highway scene is full of continuity errors though, that makes it always unwatchable once you notice that stuff.
They should’ve stopped after the first movie.

Correct. A Laptop without a trackpoint is a no-buy.
That is also the opinion of our 18 year old apprentice at our company.

The trackpoint means that you don’t have to move your fingers away from the keyboard to do stuff. If you are programming or doing heavy keyboard-intensive tasks it is a godsend.

If you only use the…

German Autobahn, on the few parts that are still unrestricted.
Government is going crazy here too, they are re-finishing the northern part of the A7, and where it was before two bumpy lanes per side, but unrestricted, it is now three wide, flat lanes per side, but restricted to 75mph. Bonkers. At night there is next…

ah, ok, that makes sense. Though you should have better acceleration and more fun on twisty roads then ;)

say what? I own a NB with the 110hp engine and a NA with the 90hp engine, and both feel very much at home at 160-170km/h (99-105mph), the NA on 175/14 inch and the NB on 195/15.
I also have 215/15 for the NA but they make the car too twitchy, it follows every dip in the road with those.
In my Volvo 850R, 140mph is a…

diesel-electric subs slower? The battlegroup cannot move faster than its slowest members, if they have/need tenders, then... good luck. Also, the sub can lie in waiting for the group, fire while submerged, then dive off undetected. The days where a sub had to surface for air every few hours are long gone.

There is no need to buy any of the ships. Absolutely none.
You can buy everything ingame with ingame money when the title comes out.
“Buying” a ship right now is only sending money to the devs as a pledge with no guarantees for any outcome because you belive in the direction they are taking this game.
Anyway, in my…

Now that you mention it, most of the shooting I’ve heard of anywhere in Germany were about rivalries between the Bandidos and the Hells Angels. Banning those two has lead to different problems though. Where the police formerly had informants inside those groups and could gather information, banning them from their…

Never mind that yellow thingy, give me the Volvo wheels sitting in front left of it :) Those seem to be some rare 17 inch alloys from the first V70R, they’re not the Titan from the 850 T-5R and not the Volans from the 850R but also seem a bit different from the Satellite, though that might be the angle.

how the fuck does a young kid actually get access to any kind of weapon?
Sorry, but I don’t want to live and raise kids in a society where this is seen as something unsurprising. Fortunately, it isn’t normal over here, most people here have never held or fired a gun in their whole life.