you realize that it can take quite a while to produce new content, right? Especially at the quality level gamers these days are expecting. We are far from the days wher 1-2 people could produce a game in half a year. Look at the credits for Forza Horizon, there are over 1000 people divided over more than a dozen…

that’s not true though. Microsoft games division has always been quite a nice place for developers to be. Less pressure than under other ownership, and a somewhat stringent (guidelines, not that much frat bullshit), yet relaxed athmosphere (also because of the guidelines which don’t let every shit fly).
Their problem…

it has a browser, but it is hidden away and you cannot enter URLs easily. You can open it by opening up the help manual, which opens in... a browser. Or you can link your twitter account, which when opened also opens in a browser. That is also the only way to “enter” custom URLs, you can put them on your feed and open…

exclusive to what? Basically all systems under the sun that can run an unrestricted browser and allow bluetooth devices will be able to use Xbox Cloud Streaming through Gamepass. Could actually turn out as a win-win for Sony, they can keep their exclusives, but people who previously would’ve bought an Xbox can now…

I tried it on mobile. Latency was so negligible that I was able to play Forza Horizon on my Android smartphone. And with faster load times than on Xbox.
Theoretically, you can use the browser variant to play all of their games on Playstation, too. That is, if sony makes some moves to update their browsers (they even…

looked more like Knight Rider to me, seems he found the turbo boost button :D

German here. Fuel costs are a bit different. Assuming about 40mpg for the petrol car, and prices of 1.35€/litre (normal here as an average over the past years, currently rather at 1.65€/litre), we come to an amount of 117450€ for 1.5million kilometers the car has driven.

electricity-wise: Well, supercharger use was…

Not really. Think back to the early 90s - before Windows, you had to know how to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to arrange your drivers so they used the least amount of memory possible. With some sound cards you couldn’t play certain cd-rom games - not enough free dos mem left after the drivers loaded (Strike…

well, it’s a bit of all of that I guess. Concerning China, and most asian countries around them, they have a century-old habit of using face masks when they themselves catch a cold so they do not contaminate other people when they have to be close around them (p.ex. on public transport, or in cities). Which works…

Well, you could’ve shut down far more than we did. In Austria, people were caming and isolating themselves out of their free will on the premises of essential infrastructure like power plants, so that those can be kept running in case of a larger outbreak.

Also, all those idiots that refuse to wear masks... come on, I…

See, and I am of the thought that anything that we CAN do without too much effort should be done.
When the pandemic started, we should’ve stopped all holiday travels for everyone for a year at least, stopped all unneccessary border traffic and checked those that had to travel every time they did.
Also, drastically…

No, the reporting isn’t up to par - I give you that.
But especially the results of long covid symptoms - which you can get even with an asymptomatic infection, i.e. without knowing that you contracted Covid in the first place, are all over the place.
According to recent studies from the UK, about 1.8% of all kids…

at least in the past you could easily install Windows on a Mac. If it was a Macbook, you’d lose some battery life, but performance in 3D games was 2-3 times what you’d get before if you used the Mac specific version of the same game on the same hardware. Experienced this primarily with WoW and lots of other titles.
That…

The S is actually more powerful than the original Xbox One.
It has slightly more power (1.4 vs 1.31 tflops) due to a higher GPU frequency, and it can play back 4K BluRays thanks to its newer HDMI output. Apart from that, they are quite similar (the S also draws less power and has an internal power brick).
The One X has…

The One started slow, hampered by the memory limitations the early kinect restrictions enforced. Once they lifted those, some multiplatform games looked as good as or even better than on PS4, showing those two were not so far apart power-wise as it looked at the start of their generation.
Even the original one is…

The copyright question was put and answered on the Twitchcon Europe panel discussions in Berlin. Unfortunately only in German, but they had lawyers on hand, explaining a lot of stuff.

The gist is: It is even illegal to stream games without expressive written consent from the publisher. Some developers say they are fine…

What, really? That’s sad :( The update to Multivan2 was a really good one, the rails not only allowed for swift removal of the seats, but also enabled you to attach other stuff there like a self-built kitchen unit for “camping lite”.

I know not of a single jurisdiction in the EU that does stuff like this.
Certainly not Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland. Been to most of these countries, have co-workers from the other ones, and everywhere you have a rich cultrure of…

Sadly, you missed out on the best engine: The 2.5TDI with 102hp. Enough power to propel it to 170km/h, yet able to reach an average consumption of 8l/100km (29mpg).
And remember, it can haul a lot, too. The empty car weighs about 1.8-2 tons (depending on configuration), but maximum weight is 2.85 tons. Which can be…

The text above sounds a lot like paid advertising. Why are the large/known/expensive brands excluded? Things like the Logitech x Herman Miller Embody, Recaro EXO, Thermaltake E700 or the superb Backforce One Plus (made by Interstuhl) would all rank higher on the list (especially the Backforce in its plus variant, one…

The text above sounds a lot like paid advertising. Why are the large/known/expensive brands excluded? Things like…