The world has changed.
Where in the previous generations, the number of full price games attached to any console as a median was about 6 or 7 (meaning that was the number of games sold for every sold console, throughout the lifecycle of a system), it forced the companies to quickly evolve their hardware to put out…

wasn’t the wood standard back then for the W124 in that model year?
Also, most people ordered it with the automatic, manual shifter in a W124 was for the really, really poor people.
I also doubt it has central locking. The optional fire extinguisher in front of the seat is also missing.
There are almost no options…

The thing is: The base models are rarely preserved. In most cases, it is the full-blown special editions that get pampered and conserved. That’s why a friend of me bought a first model year Golf 2, 1 Liter engine, Radio Alpha without a cassette deck, manual windows, no power steering etc... but only 90.000km and NO…

Considering the controller: As far as I know no - you can’t buy a console without one. But you don’t need to buy several of them to play new/current games on that console, you can use the ones you already have. PS4 controllers did also work well on the PC, is that also true for the PS5 controller ? (had no chance of…

108mph - so it is as fast as my Volkswagen T4 Caravelle which has a 102hp TDI engine, about the same fuel economy, and it is much more streamlined than my high-sitting rig. Which, although it is the short wheelbase version, has unfolding sleeping for two / large bench which sits four, a composting toilet, swivel seats…

I do not agree with you, Sony has during the past generations of consoles on countless occasions paid shitloads of money to have games as a console exclusive or timed exclusive, often with additional deals like ingame items being only available for Sony customers as a bonus. And they were shelling out big $$$ to do…

Probably because they started doing that a generation before Microsoft even put out their first console. In the PS1 days, they already acquired and later consumed Psygnosis, afaik Polyphony Digital also is owned by Sony.
Microsoft bought Rare during the first Xbox timeframe and then... for a while didn’t know what to…

We have talked about the speed of Sonys SSD in detail a lot of times. It is faster in a specific scenario, loading a certain size of chunks, but not so many that its buffers and compression engine in the controller are overloaded. In that one scenario, it reaches its peak performance. Otherwise, it is just as fast as…

try getting an unmolested lhd RX7-FD. For a price of less than 60.000€. Impossible nowadays.

What do you think is garbage about that? They work very well here (Bose).
You just have to distinguish between headphones and headsets here.
The headphone profile is just for listening to music, it gets you nice and crisp quality (if you have contemporary Bluetooth hardware that supports it), but it introduces lag into…

to be fair, the 5.1 thing could be something that has to do with your graphics card HDMI output. Not all of them adhere to the general specs, and also some cables do not follow the specs and sometimes thwart your plans... ask me how I know...
That said, I have my media PC hooked up to my receiver, and it sends 5.1, 7.1…

I can tell you how that works: Mostly very well. These apps are run in emulation containers, that’s the way most programs will run these days - inside their own secluded memory, only able to interact with other programs through narrow defined ports. Think of Docker containers, or virtual machines (if you need more…

Windows 8 onwards basically changed the way I use the OS. I do not click-click-click-click through the start menu, instead I move my mouse over the search field, type the first three letters of the program I want and start it from the search results. Much faster imho, works great. For programs that I use regularly, I…

I remember the Alienware M11x. Had the first generation, and at the time, it was a killer gaming machine in such a small form factor. But it wasn’t until its third version, with revised CPU and GPU, that it was really capable of playing more than the old version of Counter-Strike in such a compact form factor. It…

The Miev’s name is spoken like “Mief” in German, which is our word for “unpleasant smell”. Like “Deine Füße miefen” - “your feet are smelly”. :D
Soooo, it is a car that has been banned from broader market acceptance by its name alone here ^^

What Porsche tax? A 996 is much cheaper to run than a contemporary BMW 3-series with a large engine.
The tires alone are cheaper, the brakes also are not really expensive (less than 400€ for Brembo all around including pads - parts only of course, but they are not that hard to swap).

There is an excellent book from…

NP, but throw that horrible aftermarket air filter out of there. Change all filters, use Mobil1 5W50, and the car will live a long and happy life.
It has a manual, for that reason the price is good. A facelift would be better (for the glovebox alone - this one has none), but comes with other oddities and quirks. Body pa…

Seems like you should acclimate to higher temperatures then.
The rule of thumb for schools here is that it has to be over 86F during more than 4 school hours to deem it too hot for kids to attend.
For the senior years, there is no such exception, they have to attend anyways.
Very few people have A/C here because of the…

yet we are playing games over the internet that have previously been constrained to being played on the same console, p.ex. fighting games, and it works.
We now even emulate older consoles which didn’t have this ability and the second player joins in from somewhere around the world, and that works, too.
Plus: Steam lets…

I don’t know what you mean, I can still game pretty damn fine on my PC with an almost 7 year old Xeon CPU and a four year old graphics card. Running most games in FullHD with maximum or near max details. No problem running Cyberpunk 2077 or Star Citizen here.
CPU is a Xeon E1650V3, cost me 100€ shipped. GPU is a…