I never took part in extreme grinding, didn’t rush to be “first” to kill something, therefore I cannot say anything about that aspect.
The ganking - well I play on a PvE server now for several years, don’t miss that.
The rest - I absolutely loathe how much simplified the game has become. Not having to think for yourself…

Yes, there were people powerleveling back then too, mapping out the fastest path to 60. plus, you could get “pulled” by bigger chars: you hit enemies way above your level, others killed them for you, you got all the loot and xp.

The thing with the “endgame” was that it took me almost a year to get to it on a filled PvP server. Especially leveling up in the level 40-50 zones got you constantly killed by rogues of the enemy faction.
Generelly progress was much, much slower in classic than it is now, and the only people complaining about a lack…

I actually like little Clappy. He has gone through a lot throughout all the Borderlands games, considering that he is quite sane I think (also compared to Tina p.ex.).

Just google for “poker night 2 key” - there are lots of resellers that still have steam keys. Just because a game is gone from the store doesn’t mean it cannot be activated and downloaded anymore :)
Blur has been gone from the steam store for ages, yet a friend recently got hold of a steam key for it and was able to…

Don’t forget that there was a second, even better Poker Night game. It had Max (Sam’n’Max), Ash (Evil Dead), Cl4P-TP (Borderlands) and Brock Samson (Venture Brothers) and - most importantly - Glados as the host!
It is one of the very few games in my library where I actively went achievement hunting ^^

There was a bacsic “knowledge” at the company I worked at concerning gaming on the web, a tablet, and a smartphone:
Players play for more than an hour on the web, mostly half an hour to an hour on a tablet (on the couch, in bed), and mostly 15-30 minutes on a smartphone (commute).
This game seems to follow that formula…

If you think that you will gain any actual prestige through the car you buy, I can only pity you. And if you want/need it to pick up girls, I have to pity you more, because the women that are attracted to expensive car badges and the “prestige” you mentioned earlier are often shallow as a puddle after a light rain.
You…

I actually found the Phaeton to be quite a reliable car from the reports I could gather. It is mostly convenience stuff that fails, or people are complaining why there are small rust spots on chromed parts of the exterior after 10 years and stuff like that.
With a car carrying a pricetag like this the expectations are…

You can get the Phaeton with the Diesel V10 (or was ist also a W10?) 5 Litre-engine.
And quite cheap too, since it doesn’t conform to modern Diesel emission standards, it is now banned from driving into most larger german city centres.

Everybody who says that this car is too expensive: Drive one. The solutions VW came…

couldn’t agree more with your last sentence. Here in Germany, when game studios grow larger and the workforce is thinking about organizing themselves, i.e. voting for a so-called “Betriebsrat” (not even joining a union), the usual response from management is “you know, we can just shut the whole thing down tomorrow if…

I think there is another thing that should be considered: The social media game is probably changing too fast for some people.
A few years ago, when the Internet was hot and trending instead of a common commodity, you could basically do what you want. It was a land with few laws, and everyone cracked (bad) jokes like…

I said “if you rely on them”. You apparently have some common sense left, some people don’t. They do not know how to safely reverse a car without a cam, especially if it is a SUV or pickup truck.

If you rely on technologic gadgets such as these you cannot drive a car which doesn’t have them. Same with ESP, to a certain extent with ABS, hill hold assists, electronic parking brakes, parking assistants, lane hold assistants etc...
When you have to drive a car that doesn’t have these, you will be mostly lost and a…

In the “good old times” cars had larger windows and were more built in a way that actually allowed you to look out of them.
If you need any kind of camera in a Volvo Estate built before the year 2000, then you should really reconsider driving yourself.
Watch your surroundings, look where you’re going, remember where you…

If you need a backup cam, then either your car is too big or you are the problem.
I cannot envision any situation with a normal car that would need a backup camera. Stop buying those gas-guzzling SUVs and lifted trucks, then you can actually see the terror in the eyes of the people you run over.

Thanks to your…

Two Toyota Sera in attendance? Damn! And the green one looks nice!

I say nice price as a German.
You will not find a Panda in this state anywhere anymore in this country for this money, period.
They’ve all been abused to death since they were cheap first cars for learners and treated as such: driven to the max, overtaking anything that was slower than their 130km/h topspeed (145km/h…

The Vector W8 also has an outboard shifter, although it is an Automatic.

Have you ever worked on a game and had to license stuff to use it in your project? I gather from your answers that this is not the case.
I have, and it is really not that simple as you paint it.
Concerning mods you are wrong, as long as they do not distribute anything that might be user outside of the original game, it…