Not terrible per se - but not the best for sporty driving. Good for cruising, and using it as an all-day car (picking up groceries, commuting). Also, surprisingly not terrible on fuel economy.

I have a 996 facelift with Tiptronic. Fine car for traffic jams (since the clutch on the 996 is kinda heavy, although shifting itself can be done with a flick of the pinky), but if you really want an engaging feel while driving, it is the wrong kind of transmission. Especially since it has these long pauses between…

It is Mezger, without a T.
That said: An auto is fine for a Carrera or Cabriolet which you use to cruise along. Still gives you driving fun in the corners, but is more forgiving in a traffic jam.
Manual is the way to go for fun driving at speed though, and this is what this car was made for. So the Tiptronic alone is…

you mean like Sony did since the Playstation 1 times when they bought Psygnosis? That was the first grand acquisition of an established game studio by a console manufacturer that I remember.
They continued that trend afterwards, buying up everything left and right, like Guerilla Games (purchased in 2005) and Naughty…

You are talking about “private servers” on the Bedrock edition, which are hosted by MS.
With the Java version, you can download the server software, and host a server anywhere though. You can even set a flag to allow clients to connect that are not Mojang verified, i.e. clients that do not use a Mojang/MS account.…

really? It is just a FPS with a community that is at best toxic, and at worst dangerous, chaotic, vile and hateful.
If you say: Yeah, that is essentially Sony - let them have it.
COD is not essential to anything. If the franchise was gone in an instant, nothing of value would be lost.

I am wondering if this is a GDPR violation in the EU.
If I run my private server, on my private machine, and talk with people about private stuff in chat - and somebody feels annoyed by someone else and reports her/him, what would this system send to Mojang? Only chat snippets that concern this person? The whole…

Favourite mundane car? Opel Astra G. No matter if it is the hatchback or the station wagon, that car is the epitome of “good enough”. A a 1.7CDTI Diesel with 80hp, it can reach 170km/h, and at the same time drive with less than 4L/100km of Diesel (thats more than 58mpg). We tested this with two passengers and the AC…

You can fit a lot of stuff, getting it in there though... sometimes you need to load it into a different ship with a ramp, then fly that ship up to the higher up bays of the cat and drive off of one and onto another. A few patches back, this sometimes resulted in one of the ships doing interesting backflips :D

I think…

The cat is a very, very nice ship. Had it as a loaner, was quite hard getting a Nova in every bay, but when you open up the bay doors and “give broadside” to a target, it is instantly worth the effort :D 

Not ironic at all. With NMS, I am in a huge game world and have contact to quite a lot of players (iirc, they are also instancing, so there is a limited number of players in the same region as you at any given time).
But when playing with friends, no matter if they are here using the same line, or if they are at home,…

As someone who has been a backer from the start - with zero expectations (had loads of kickstarters who never finished anything and blew through all of the money), I am positively surprised by Star Citizen.
For once, they kept people in the loop with constant news via video, webpage updates, forums etc... If you…

oh, that’s easy: Back in the days, when you couldn’t simulate as much as they do now, you either had a lot of error margins built into everything - also machinery - or you expected parts to fail.
Example: At the end of the 60s/early 70s small Opel cars in Germany had an expectant clutch life of about 30.000km. Yes, a…

and then we wonder why cars from these times do not last. The Golf Mk.3 was infamous for its rust problems p.ex.
Jose Ignacio Lopez was also famous for this cost-cutting. Under his guide, Opel was saving on quality on all fronts - machines that were made to assemble the engine heads should have had their tools to…

Piech ist still famous for the time he was head of VW. Back then, companies who wanted to become suppliers for VW, had to present their offers in person. All who wanted to produce certain parts were called in at the same time, so you saw exactly who else from the industry was about to compete with you and - knowing…

What issues have been shown that have any practical consequence?
Also, I was talking about some Gen4 drives even being slower than Gen3 when having the same amount of lines - not in linear read/writes, but in random - and those are more important, because a game streaming data will constantly read small files over and…

eh, an MG5 estate electric car with enough range for long commutes and beyond is about 35.000€ new, including VAT. That’s not that expensive, compared to other cars on the market. And there are far cheaper alternatives, Renault Zoe p.ex, which is absolutely enough for smaller commutes, shopping etc.
The Zoe gets even…

The problem is that now you are reaping what generations before you have sown: The active dismantling of previously functioning public transport (look up how many US cities had tram lines a few decades ago and how small they were back then, and how few have them now) has led to this crisis of sorts.
The US has it…

Having lived on the french border for some years: Yes, they certainly enforce speaking french. Policemen who stop you will - as soon as they see that you are German and hear you talking to other people in German or English - mock and ridicule you in their own language, even though most of them in the border region are…

From a practical standpoint and having tested SSDs from old SATA SSDs up to PCIe Gen4 in my machine I can tell you, that above a certain speed there is no discernible difference with current games, even on high-end rigs.
Also, this mostly affects linear throughput. Linear reads at max speed are almost nonexistant in a…