Steam refunds are easy and convenient. I wouldn't personally bother doing that just to post a "protest review" either, but it's definitely possible to do without losing any money.

No, that's incorrect. None of the previous games required it, except for multiplayer. For example you could play the Ghost of Tsushima campaign just fine without an account. This one seems to be entirely singleplayer and yet requires an account for no reason.

By and large I support them, including the ones doing more "direct" action. However, not every group calling themselves "environmental" are automatically getting my support. Some are choosing the wrong targets (e.g. Nuclear power, GMOs), others the wrong means (pouring sauces over art is just weird and not related to the environment). Greenpeace in particular is often quite misguided in their positions and actions IMO.

He went to Japan, married and became a rice farmer. You can visit his grave in Shingo, Aomori Prefecture.

Honestly, I've heard or read very little about Iraq after the war, so I have no idea what happened there since then. Unfortunately I think the country is still mostly being associated with war and crisis here in Germany. I think it's a very interesting place especially for its ancient history though. Some of the first highly developed civilizations arose there. Would love to visit places like Ur, Babylon or Nineveh one day.

The UN was created after WW2 to prevent another world war and have a diplomatic channel between all countries that is always open. It's far from perfect, but it's definitely better than what we had before.

Removing a country from the UN for doing horrible things would defeat the UN's entire purpose.

I use Organic Maps regularly and I'd love to get rid of Google Maps eventually, but they don't really fulfill the same purpose to me. It's awesome for hiking (which Google Maps is useless for) but meh for Navigation and almost useless for finding information about shops, restaurants etc in an area.

Only thing I can think of are maybe the catching mechanics (which are straight out of Legends: Arceus). No idea if these would be considered unique enough to be patentable, guess we'll find out.

Doch, gibt es z.b. auf Amazon und habe die auch schon im lokalen Supermarkt als Angebot gesehen.

Crazy, that tactic sounds straight out of a science fiction novel - 80s science-fiction, given it's pagers, but still... I really wonder how they pulled it off. Did the IDF design the explosive pagers in the first place or did they find some insane hardware/software flaw that allowed that kind of remote explosion?

I frequently wear a flatcap.

Schritt 1 wäre konsistent für die eigenen Prinzipien einzustehen und nicht zu versuchen, mit reaktionär-populistischem Handeln die AfD Wähler abzuholen. Das Handeln der Bundesregierung seit der Attacke in Solingen mit Grenzschließungen usw ist mehr als enttäuschend. Habe lange auch gute Aspekte in der Ampelregierung gesehen aber seit den letzten Wochen bin ich auch nur noch enttäuscht und desillusioniert.

Great bundle, but not worth it for me as I already own 5 of those games. I highly recommend Ragnarock and Pistol Whip. Spin Rhythm XD is great as well, but only really in 2D as the VR mode is very meh.

Interesting map, but at least for Germany, it's quite an odd mix of current-day cultural regions, historic cultural regions from various times and historic administrative regions. It's really all over the place. I'm not sure the person who made this has any proper definition on what makes up a "historical region".

so… I take the multiplayer parts are going to be going away soon-ish, as offline mode is incoming and 1€ pricetag atm? Is this a last squeeze for the game?

Maybe, but it's worth noting that Ubi gave away the Crew 1 for free back in 2016, 7 years before it shut down. So I wouldn't necessarily take this sale as an indication of a shutdown coming soon (though it definitely could happen).

FWIW, they've announced they'll add an offline mode to this game. Personally I liked this game less that The Crew 1 when I played it during a free weekend though.

Als ID.3-Fahrer kann ich sagen, dass VWs Elektroautos toll sein könnten wenn sie bessere Software und Bedienung hätten. Das Auto ist sehr wendig und fährt sich sehr gut, aber ich bekomme die Krise sobald ich irgendwas an den Bedienfeldern die nur aus Touchflächen und Touchscreen bestehen einstellen muss. Die Versorgung mit Updates ist extrem langsam und schon 2 mal musste ich für Updates das Auto mehrere Tage lang an den Autohändler zurückgeben. Andere Hersteller haben inzwischen größtenteils gemerkt dass physische Bedienelemente besser und sicherer sind, aber VW nicht. Deshalb wird das nächste Auto eher ein Koreaner.

My unpopular internet opinion is that RoP Season 1 was actually pretty good, so if they stay on that path with season 2 I have little to complain about.

"An unsettling number of folks break into song" is a weird criticism for a Tolkien-based series. If anything, that was something the LOTR movies lacked.

I've been playing the new Guild Wars 2 expansion "Janthir Wilds". Very enjoyable, with a nice setting and soundtrack.

I've bought Spin Rhythm XD on the recent Steam Sale. Quite a nice rhythm game, with excellent native Steam Deck support.

I've also been giving Deadlock a go. So far hasn't really clicked for me though. Doesn't help that I'm not a big MOBA player, the only one I've enjoyed so far is Heroes of the Storm.

I don't actually know, but in my mind the audience most likely to watch those cruel "pranks" and find them funny are kids or teenagers themselves.

I'd love to get another singleplayer game as well, but I've accepted that Valve is just unpredictable. I'm sure they haven't given up on Singleplayer and we'll get another singleplayer game... at some point. Their previous game was the fantastic Half-life Alyx after all.

Also games and console collecting for me. Just not fun with today's prices. I guess on the upside my collection is now worth way more than what I paid for it. Not that I'm planning to sell.

Meh, it's a monocultural wood farm not some kind of untouched nature reserve. Tesla also has to replant trees in a different location. Lots of legitimate things to criticize about Tesla, but this is barely worth mentioning.

Sometimes it's okay to just disagree. With a topic like AI, the effectiveness of arguments against it will vary heavily depending on one's subjective opinion on things like intellectual property, what is and isn't art, how we should deal with emerging technologies etc.

Only if they already have the correct password.

In Star Trek SNW's crossover episode with Lower Decks (cartoon), Boimler's first comment when he meets the crew from SNW is that they look "very realistic"

Reading the full statement, it sounds to me like there was more to it than just the game's development coming to an end. It sounds like it might have been a very sudden decision by the publisher, with possible negative consequences for the development team.

In principle I agree though, there is no issue with a game just being finished at some point, especially a single player one. But I also don't mind continued updates and/or DLC.

Electric vehicles are less likely to catch fire than combustion engine vehicles, by far. EV fires are harder to extinguish however.

Reddit not being the entire internet doesn't mean that every bit of information on reddit is also available elsewhere.

Obscure old reddit posts saved my ass so many times when coming across random tech problems. So while I understand why people delete their accounts, from a personal point of view I appreciate when people leave them up.

It was something on Windows 3.1 or DOS, but I can't say for sure which game it was. I played a lot of Microman, so it might have been that.

That is very much not their official website. Looks pretty sketchy in fact, with that "GTA V Download APK" link on the bottom.

It's a common term in the UK, meaning a holiday where banks are closed, including religious holidays. So what most people know as just a regular holiday.

what if, by giving the lesser evil more energy and making them a greater evil, you give them the ability to put you in prison camps when the original greater evil could not?

You haven't explained how that is supposed to work though. Why couldn't the greater evil do this, what's stopping them? And you truly think that every political party has the very same goals underneath? Let's take an extreme example: Germany 1932. You think if the SPD (social democrats) had won the election instead of the NSDAP, it would have been just as bad? You think they would have also slaughtered all the Jews and started WW2, because they were secretly just as evil? That doesn't sound reasonable or realistic to me. There's more to politics than whether a party is capitalist or socialist. Nuances exist.

How far capitalists and the state are willing to go is as far as they think they can get away with.

I don't agree with this, but going along with it for the sake of the argument: By letting the greater evil get into power, you are showing them that they can get away with way more than if it were the lesser.

So let's say you didn't vote for the lesser evil and the greater evil has narrowly won. The greater evil takes away your right to vote and puts you into a prison camp. What have you gained, a sense of moral superiority? Was that worth it?

It'll likely be like 2020, you can play offline but it'll be a much less detailed version of the planet. They pretty much have to use streaming for the high-detail environments, as nobody would have the disk space for it otherwise.

As little as possible. The only things I always take with me are my phone and my keys. I generally look at the weather report and only take an umbrella with me if there's a chance of rain. I only take my wallet if I'm going somewhere where I might buy something etc.

Best thing I've ever had with fries was the pepper sauce they have at some "Frituurs" in Belgium. Can't really get that here in Germany unfortunately.