IIRC Vivaldi and Brave promised to prolong it for a year.

Oh, look, another billionaire not knowing how to contain his excitement.

IP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren’t a pocket change, but if anyone’s going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP’d make a hole in their pockets. It’s a low stakes conservative gamble ‘just in case’.

Neuralink ftw lol.

I’d like a GTA singleplayer cheat making every police car a cybertruck that can’t pursue you for long and would rather lose control and do a barrel roll than even get close to you.

I think these games sold the prequel trilogy to me. I don’t think I ever saw SW before playing them, but then watched too see all familiar scenes and characters lol. And, damn, I too remember playing it in coop, on one keyboard… I think now I know what I’d do if I ever retire.

I’m sprry for your exeprience with Steam.

My own buying and playing routine doesn’t even get to the point that I return games, multiple ones at that.

Sadly, I can’t relate and can’t understand your pov.

I don’t want to specify that, what’s your problem?

Valve made it super convinient for their customers and they also took steps to encourage content creation with SFM, Source Engine, sharing their own assets. They created working cloud saving and mod sharing solutions, greenlighting a bunch of indies based on votes and being on the side of the customer in disputes over refunds with 2hr rule becomingthe new norm. For years, they provided and improved their service, so it’s rare to see anyone complaining about that.

Ah, and Epic killed UT4 in beta when they found their initial zombie game mode that became Fortnite gave them that much cash they could start their own marketplace with regular giveaways and exclusives going on for years. I’m fucking pissed at them for that even now. It is irrational and personal, but Valve didn’t kill my favorite game series, it’s the opposite, since they kept slowly releasing and constantly updating Dota, CS, create Alyx, keep TF2 alive, and I’m only sad Alien Swarm would never see new content. In game studios and game marketplaces, Valve are golden.

But coming back to your initial displeasment with them, the funny thing is a lot of Steam games don’t need Steam to launch. Unless devs implement some hooks and DRMs themselves, you can just launch their EXE file. Nobody really checks that, but that’s the truth, and I’ve seen some lists of games that don’t do that. On top of that, 99% offline games can be launched without internet with Steam only, you can even backup and then install some game on your PC offline if your client knows you own it. And don’t forget family sharing - although they promised to rework it, I, my partner and our friends used it a lot, and although you can’t use a game from a shared library when you are offline, if the owner plays it offline you can play it too at the same time without messing with each others’ gameplay. This lazy implementation of DRM with many workarounds and general respect to even the sleakiest, cheating customer is why I still buy games there.

It can be both. Like G. Shröder didn’t join the board of directors of russian oil and gas companies for nofhing, and I believe AfD had been paid in roubles a lot to stay relevant. Yet, no one who wanted to bring hell on US, Germany or any ofher country could’ve predicted that there would be a factor like Elon speedrunning the downfall on some cocaine speeds.

As a major investor into Open AI future, I’d gladly exchange all my non-existing stakes for a blowjob by fugly Sam Altman. It wouldn’t turn into any profits, but for some time, he’d have something in his mouth that isn’t a lie or a sketchy promo. I believe, some on Open AI board would even pay me to keep him silent.

The draft version of the manifesto includes an exit from the euro and a tough immigration policy.

So yeah, besides all their nazi shenanigans they are also a tool to damage EU like Brexit did. No wonder Musk and Putin support them. Can countries make such choices untoacheable by local policies to safeguard them?

and the RGB lighting is customizable via a dedicated hardware button so no need for extra software.

From the article. It seems they completely avoided that question.

I faced that only with different editions of Windows limiting it by itself.

I recreated my account after a ban on some other social network and what it took is a different clear device, different sim, etc, because I needed it too much right at the moment, but I also suggest to took a look at your behavior right after creating it. Assume all new accounts are under a shadowban and deep analysis until X days pass, and for this period you should behave organically, mostly RO, and only then you start upvoting, then commenting, then making posts. Look through their admins’ eyes and notice what behavior a spam account or one recently banned would want to do: they’d have connections to similar sites and topics withing their browser\device (they want you to auth with google so they probably suck from other sources too), they’d want to actively continue their usage like they never left, and they’d probably participate in the same communities they’ve got banned from in the first place. Lurk, make your subscribtions look like you are a normie just starting out and be patient with your involvement.

Rotate and tap an imp could be a more realistic option.

I remember that at some point in the game you activate VALVE and GEARBOX switches at the panel, that was a good one, but other than that I can’t recall it. I played it right after doing HL1 at max diff, so I probably went into it and found this expansion not balanced towards that thus dropped it half way in.

I can imagine they dragged that influence for a while, retouching old logos and keeping this style. I singled Rage out because it’s different and aim to be edgy in comparison to classic games, yet it standed out on a shelf.

I’d filter out metal things that has handles like this pizza cutter and meat hammer and try to give them some sort of a stand or a magnet surface to stick them on.

Wolf’s logo rocks. I believe all id games have that touch, even Rage.