The thing is: I never hated this game. I loved it from day one, hour one. I never felt that my expectations hadn’t been met. Then again, I do not like the Witcher games at all. None of them, and I tried to play them all when they were relased (because the books are ok-ish), and again later on when they got upgrades…

See, that’s why in Germany the headlight setting is checked at least every 2 years when your car needs a TÜV inspection.
Actually, a non-working headlight adjustment can lead to an automatic failure. Same as blind headlight covers or similar stuff.
Also the reason, why non-approved lights or bulbs are an automatic fail…

There are more things in the game, kind of “easter eggs” directed against Ukraine. Cans with pig meat in Ukraine colors:

Right, earlier Porsche models also had something similar. But maybe that was a design of the times, the 928 airbag wheel also looks similar.
Or several manufacturers bought their wheels from one supplier, after all there are not that many manufacturers of steering wheels.

There is actually a four-spoke wheel on early 996/986 that looks a lot like that Ford wheel.
That said, I like the interior of the 996 much more than the angular hack job they did with the 997 and the following models. Where it looks very much as if the designed the interior with a ruler and a triangle.
After a long…

Nintendo themselves maybe, but we got a few deals here where we could get 3 switch games for 99€ (including tax that is) at large electronics retailers.
Got myself Mario Kart, Zelda BOTW and Animal Crossing like that.

40" waistline seems quite the norm to me tbh. For women this is classified as “Large” in my country, bordering on XL. Same for men.
So... excluding the majority? Not so much. Some quite tall people, who also have the body proportions to go with their height, might have a problem here.
But then again, it depends on the…

And they all will be gone as soon as you stop your subscription.
Modern gaming in a nutshell indeed.
No boxes on the shelf to remind you of past playthroughs. No manuals, artbooks, or gimmicks. Just - gone.
A nightmare for preservationists, like most of online gaming.

^^ basically yes. You are allowed in most EU states to sleep in your car parked in a valid parking spot for one night to regain your ability to drive safely (to prevent accidents because you are too tired to reach your destination). But you have to get up in the morning and make way, not cook breakfast first in your…

In some countries, anything that doesn’t extend beyond the borders of the car, p.ex. a roof tent that when opened pops straight up, is not considered camping. but still luggage. So it is a possibility to get a nights sleep in places where camping is not allowed.
(you would be allowed to sleep in your car/van at the…

That is really the price for which you can get the unit. If you can install it yourself (which can be almost plug&play if you already had a PCM), that’s it.
For a professional retrofit, coming from a lower line stereo, add another 500-700$.

My bad, I was flummoxed by the “early 2000s” - the new models are from 2005 onwards which is not that early anymore.

You have the wrong images. Those are from MY 2005-onward cars. The devices for older cars (Boxster 986, 911 996) were already available for quite some time (since 2020):

The Renault Espace F1.
Put a V10 formula one engine inside a Renault family van, just “because we can”.
Apart from that, the Porsche B32 - a VW T3 with a Porsche 911 boxer engine inside. That was an official thing, they made a bit more than a dozen of those.

I get his statement from a certain point of view. In previous years, game companies would release games when the devs liked them, they released what they wanted to make and liked to play.
Nowadays, you have the feeling that every game has to go through a committee first before being released, be probed for possible…

As much as it pains me to say it, you are right on so many points.
Take DSA (Das Schwarze Auge / The Dark Eye, formerly Realms of Arkania in countries outside Germany). It was a thing since the 80s, originally sold by one of the largest board game companies out there, then later by Fantasy Productions (who also ran…

Yup. Got a Xeon on my old X99 mainboard, it allows for 768GB of RAM. And with it not needing fast memory at all, getting some ECC DDR4 server sticks is not that expensive.
And that is a 7 year old CPU, mind you.

Hah. Nice that this problem will solve itself in Europe, because the maximum weight most people with driving licenses here may commandeer is 2.8 tons fully loaded.
That leads to absurd stuff like 2.4 ton vehicles that - after 5 average adults have boarded them at 80kg each (which is the EU norm passenger iirc) may not…

I wanted to ask if you played Rally Chamionship 2000, but then I looked it up again, and I saw that there was only a PSX1 port of it called Mobil1 Rally Championship - and it lacked in the graphics department and apparently sensation of speed/driving, compared to the PC version.
It had not very detailed looking…

But the typical COD player is a reflection of the apparent working conditions at Blizztivision, and so they don’t want the “socialist snowflakes” to “take away their game from them”.

Seriously, what you read online just makes your head hurt. Then watch a video of a COD console tournament, and how the teams act, and…

Funny. I remember the Commodore Amiga having a voice synthesizer built in (think it was even written in BASIC). I remember when Microsoft added “Microsoft Sam” as a text-to-speech tool. I remember FR-030 Candytron, a Demo by FarbRausch in 64kb wich packed not only nice visuals, but also a voice synthesizer (and…