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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Today, 00:39

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What version of Fallout 1 has a tardis? It's an extremely low chance random encounter, like the aliens and the Used Car Salesman that has the very OP Christmas Story BB Gun. I had the aliens encounter but never got the Tardis one despite two playthroughs. Interesting. your profile icon of netscape …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Yesterday, 12:08

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Well, this is more of a "modern retro" project, but I decided to make myself a new coaster for my desk. I've been using a dead real floppy with some feet stuck on it for quite some time, but it's seen better days. So, I 3D printed a floppy designed to be a coaster, printed and attached the Doom …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 12:04

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOOmP6Q6Zk They Are Destroying Your Games - Don't Let Them why do i get the feeling emulators and VMs killed modern gaming? Dosbox/Virtualbox means never having to say goodbye to old classics like doom. you also have free software like FreeOrion crude but it works …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 00:50

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Physical copies of games will degrade over time too, so they’re not a much better alternative frankly. Even if they’re sitting on your hard drive or NAS, those could go bad and then they’re gone. I’m not against physical media here, just trying to show the realistic downsides from the perspective …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 00:39

in Milliways
Physical copies of games will degrade over time too, so they’re not a much better alternative frankly. Even if they’re sitting on your hard drive or NAS, those could go bad and then they’re gone. I’m not against physical media here, just trying to show the realistic downsides from the perspective …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 00:37

in Milliways
Physical copies of games will degrade over time too, so they’re not a much better alternative frankly. Even if they’re sitting on your hard drive or NAS, those could go bad and then they’re gone. I’m not against physical media here, just trying to show the realistic downsides from the perspective …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 00:16

in Milliways
Physical copies of games will degrade over time too, so they’re not a much better alternative frankly. Even if they’re sitting on your hard drive or NAS, those could go bad and then they’re gone. I’m not against physical media here, just trying to show the realistic downsides from the perspective …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 01:33

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Like others have said, technically speaking, you never did really own the rights to any games, movies, shows, or other media you purchased in the past. Legally speaking, the mix tapes many of us used to make were, by the letter of the law, illegal. The thing is, none of that really mattered all …

Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2024-04-18, 01:31

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Comanche (...) Terra Nova Strike Force Centauri It is interesting they somehow added glide and d3d support patches to voxel graphics swiv 3d. nobody commented on that :) maybe looking glass was ahead of its time, that and the dark engine added horror and suspense to the only two titles that used it …

Re: Make Windows 11 look like Windows 98

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:54

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There was an "article" at reddit about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/zvg37h/i_now_have_the_ultimate_win9598_theme_for_windows/ It involves WindowBlinds and new icons. And Classic Shell, the proclaimed universal solution to everything old-school by every "expert". Just like …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:50

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Command & Conquer 4 comes to my mind as the first example of this crap in games. I hated that game. It played crap, and it installed and ran even crappier. Back then I didn't have internet connection always available even. Since then, we've been going down non-stop as it seems. retro is in style …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:49

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Command & Conquer 4 comes to my mind as the first example of this crap in games. I hated that game. It played crap, and it installed and ran even crappier. Back then I didn't have internet connection always available even. Since then, we've been going down non-stop as it seems. your not wrong, …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:31

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-04-16, 10:15: At this point, the Xbox Game Pass and alternatives economically look like a better option well least they tell you upfront its a subscription like WoW where you pay to keep getting access

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:17

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This is why we prefer to collect physical game copies. Unfortunately, that's not enough for certain games released in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Some of those have online authentication DRM, and the servers which used to facilitate that are no longer functional. Meaning, you can't legitimately …

Re: stop killing games review

Posted on 2024-04-15, 23:18

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DosFreak wrote on 2024-04-15, 23:07: Is there anything in this thread worth merging? i doubt it i think its more of a review my opinion on the whole matter of affairs. id say stuff the topic

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-15, 23:14

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we don’t own a damned thing That's it. You never buy games, music, movies...but only a right to use them in a context. There's even more fun with "collector editions", which include much crap but no games at all . UNBOXING THE CREW 2 MOTOR EDITION / COLLECTOR'S EDITION 4K https://www.youtube.com/ …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-15, 23:12

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MAZter wrote on 2024-04-15, 16:31: This is why we prefer to collect physical game copies. retro physical game copies from 80s to 90s given in 2000s internet drm became a thing with product activation starting with windows xp. i remember finding old games at thrift stores but i let it go considering …

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