Whenever I was reading threads on Reddit (usually when there was yet another free weekend that was supposed to lure outsiders like myself to blow their cash on SC), there were those fanboys who would write stuff like “No no, they’re right on track and the game is already more than we were hoping for. You haters just don’t get it”.

I always used to wonder whether they actually believed that, when the game was at least five years overdue already and Chris Roberts just kept milking those poor suckers.

Beer diplomacy.

I still chuckle when I think about my buddy getting himself the new GTX 970 so his rig would be ready for the upcoming release of Star Citizen.

Not really. But they profited from the outcome of the Opium Wars, a weak China. That’s why the German emperor leased Qingdao for 99 years in 1898.

I hate to pull the “You Yanks still have it cheap” card, but I just did the math for my car, assuming 10,000 km (6k miles) annually and a generous 8 liters (29 mpg?) fuel consumption. At current gas prices (2€ per liter), that’s slightly under 800 Euros per year that the state collects at the pump (gas tax, CO2 surcharge, VAT adding up to at least half the price of gas). In addition, 135 € per year flat tax to have the car registered.

That said, the idea that you have to pay a penalty tax for driving a EV while the brodozers don’t is, well… idiotic.

Wowser.

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German webshop with prices including 19 % sales tax.

https://www.alternate.de/Alle-Fernseher/Gaming-TV?t=30843&s=price_asc

At a quick glance, I believe the category includes screens with at least 100 Hz refresh rate. Plenty of options between 500 and 1000 EUR.

They used to be, but I’ve been browsing them recently and there is a decent selection that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. They have VRR as well, which is the one feature that I’d like to have for couch gaming.

A gaming rig that can run 4K/120?

No one asked for that console, that’s right.

Neither the first nor the second game caused me any issues with crashes. Are you sure there isn’t some underlying hardware problem or an unstable OC of some sort?

NL rules, dude.

Published December 2025…

Habe you noticed how expensive SSDs have become? I’d say a RAID system is off the table for the time being.

Ah, I always thought it was the opposite of “bland”. Thank you.

What is “rich” as an adjective to describe flavour about?

Drop by drop into the dipstick tube?

Oh my God…

So the “A” means it’s the original recipe. If they had introduced the “B” or “C” variant, it would have been sightly changed/improved, but all later variants would still fit the plate that was originally designed to have the “A” sausage on it.