One more reason to maintain your own media library instead of relying on streaming services. Every single service can at any point and without notifying the user delete and alter content as well as remove features.
One more reason to maintain your own media library instead of relying on streaming services. Every single service can at any point and without notifying the user delete and alter content as well as remove features.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s related to many streaming services adding ads even for subscribers. Advertisers are notorious for driving censorship.
Huh, I guess living in a small town with gas stations that have had the exact same pumps for many decades has its perks.
This is one of those American absurdities that thankfully hasn’t made its way over to Europe yet, at least to my knowledge. I hope I have an electric car by the point they start introducing these here.
I haven’t really kept track of Android sites, since I’m rarely playing native Android games other than The Battle of Polytopia, an accessible, but endlessly replayable Civ-clone. Please send help - I’ve been playing it almost since its release seven years ago and can not stop. The base game is free and each additional tribe is only a small one-time purchase. The more tribes you have purchased, the larger maps are unlocked. A single tribe purchase unlocks multiplayer. There’s also one additional skin for each tribe. Perhaps the best monetization model on mobile to date.
There are few standout titles like these for mobile devices. If you want to seriously play games on your phone or tablet, use an emulator. I’m currently revisiting Vice City in GTA Vice City Stories, a lesser known, but nonetheless high quality spin-off in the series (there’s also one for GTA 3: Liberty City Stories), which runs perfectly in AetherSX2 (although I should switch to NetherSX2, which continues development of this PS2 emulator). If you have a less powerful device, you can play the only slightly inferior PSP versions (worse textures and significantly downgraded lighting, some missing side-missions, but overall the exact same games) in PPSSPP, which has much lower hardware requirements. You can even add a second thumb stick to the PSP versions using this patch:
https://github.com/Freakler/ppsspp-GTARemastered
The PSP version of Chinatown wars is superior to the Android port, having better visuals and more missions, so consider playing this one in PPSSPP as well.
I’ve recommended PSP racing games here:
https://beehaw.org/comment/2784912
And PS2/GC/Wii action games here:
https://beehaw.org/comment/2994175
I would highly recommend using a controller for most of these titles. You can connect almost anything to an Android device, either wirelessly or through USB. Wii or newer, PS3 or newer and Xbox One S or newer work via Bluetooth in every emulator I’ve tried. With wired controllers, you can go as far back as you want. I’m playing PS2 games using an original PS2 controller with a PS2 to USB adapter, which is connected to a USB A to USB C adapter. If portability is of concern, 8bitdo makes very high quality, but nonetheless affordable controllers that you can easily fit into even the smallest pockets. The d-pad on my FC30 Pro is perhaps the single best d-pad I’ve ever had the pleasure of using.
There’s a German word called “fremdschämen”, which roughly translates to “second-hand embarrassment”. It think it’s appropriate here.
At the very least put a space bat between thingy and CC.
This is the tech bro equivalent of posting this kind of message on Facebook:
https://i.imgur.com/In7lZg5.png
It doesn’t work. If you don’t want things you post publicly on the Internet to be scraped, don’t post things publicly on the Internet.
Yes, since gog is PC-exclusive, so is gog-games.
Forcing console manufacturers to open their systems to third party stores might be coming in the future, at least in the EU, which could also provide avenues for piracy.
Gog.com are selling DRM-free games, so there’s no copy protection, Internet activation, mandatory launcher, etc. It used to stand for “good old games”, but they also have new titles these days. Same parent company as The Witcher developers. There is a launcher, but it’s entirely optional - you can just pay prices that are generally comparable to Steam and download the installation files for a game, which require no Internet connection at all (apart from some edge cases, e.g. a very small number of multiplayer games).
Gog-games meanwhile is a piracy site that redistributes these DRM-free installers to people who are not inclined to pay for the privilege. What makes them preferable to other sites is that you get the trustworthy installers from gog and do not have to fiddle with potentially malicious cracks yourself. They are also uploading to fast file hosts. One thing they are particularly useful for is preservation, games that are now delisted on gog.com and elsewhere, only available there if you have purchased them in the past. The rather decent licensed Back to the Future game from Telltale for example can’t be bought anywhere anymore (since the license for the movie franchise was only granted for a few years), but it’s still available in its most convenient shape on gog-games.
They released a few statements about being upset about people sending demanding/rude messages to them. They also complained about the cost of hosting (there are no ads on the page). Originally, they wanted to only open for people who are donating, but they appear to have backtracked on that, at least for now.
It’s a common issue on the Internet. The moment you’re doing anything, especially for free, you are basically inviting vitriol.
Genocides predate this political ideology by millennia.
I know that dogs get health issues like osteoporosis, as well as many other ailments that humans are suffering from. However, most animals have shorter lifespans than humans and are unable to articulate that they are suffering (or even hiding it - a common survival instinct), which means it’s far less likely that illnesses are discovered.
Sounds nice in theory, but it works both ways: It would make political progress very difficult. Imagine a scenario in which e.g. trans rights are being rejected as unconstitutional in the past. The same politicians are then trying again in a different political climate year or decades later. This would be illegal according to your proposal.
Not to mention, it would be fairly trivial to circumvent this by using different politicians from the same party or an aligned interest group.
Get one of those gamepad cradles with USB-C (but don’t cheap out on it).