The loser of a lawsuit always has to cover the cost of the lawsuit, including the other party’s lawyer fees (except in cases where the state attorney sues and a bunch of other exceptions like when an employee starts a labor dispute). They are very much capped based on the disputed sum though. The higher the dispute, the higher the attorney fees you have to pay when losing.

For example, if the disputed sum is 5000€ the base lawyer fees are ~390€. It can then be multiplied by some factor - I think 2.5 is the maximum but I’m unsure - depending on the length and difficulty of the case.

They aren’t a punishment but rather a consequence of losing a lawsuit.

They are also usually covered by your legal protection insurance which is generally recommended to have.

US awarded “damages” are utterly insane.

How do the judges even come up with those numbers? By rolling a die?

I’m really happy to live in a country where the awarded damages must only cover the damage amount and the damaged party mustn’t profit from them.

You wouldn’t have a notebook. Any and all stimuli would be banned as the purpose is making your experience horrible.

Also, you get incredibly mundane tasks as well. Maybe you’ll get a couple sheets of random symbols and are tasked to count a certain letter. And if you don’t do this task you can be laid off for underperforming.

Goddammit why do you English speaking people keep dropping letters from words you borrowed. Don’t you know it’s rude to break things someone lent you?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/charme

Please no.

The current UI is bad but it has charme. I like the inconsistency as more and more design tweaks piled on.

Any redesign risks keeping the UI bad but only removing the charme.

Pretty decent news for us non-Americans tbh.

It’d be a real shame if fewer GPUs are sold in the US and more supply hits shelves across the rest of the world.

Remove the first “M”, there are hardly any players on the map to save on server costs.

I’ve played both a lot yet it’s not rare to spend 10 minutes without seeing a single other player.

The games are fundamentally, very alone.

I wish I had top notch gear :(

I just don’t think a price-to-performance improvement of 12.5% for a new generation is good. It’s OK, sure, but nothing to write home about.

It’d be good at $449 and great at $399 but I haven’t seen any leak suggesting these prices.

I just don’t want this card to be an incremental improvement over the 7800 XT instead of a substantial one.

Edit: Wouldn’t this make the 9070 XT pretty much identical to the 7900 GRE both in price and in performance? From what I can tell, the 7900 GRE is the best price-to-performance upper midrange card AMD has.

Hopefully, because something like 10% lower performance at 20% lower price is nothing to be excited about imo.

It’d make a good card if it matched the 7900 XT and a great one if it beat it.

I’m aware, but right now I could purchase a 7900 XT for a bit less than 699€, including 19% VAT - meaning the price before tax is closer to 566€.

Right now there are some leaks suggesting the RX 9070 XT will be sold for $499 - or 476€. After adding 19% VAT it would be 566€ - or 130€ cheaper than the average 7900 XT:

If the card also performs worse than the 7900 XT, I don’t think it has great value.

That’s not that great imo.

In terms of pure numbers, it’s significantly worse than the 7900 XT, which had 5376 shader cores, a 320 bit bus width, 20 GB of GDDR6 memory and a bandwidth of 800 GB/s. Only the boost clock was worse, at 2.4 GHz.

Let’s hope the additional clock and new architecture offsets this to match/beat the 7900 XT.

To be honest, that’s what I meant with Humble. I knew they got legitimate keys from the developers and didn’t think of the correct noun.

But since the studio was shut down by 2K, they are most likely the one’s footing the bill if a chargeback occurs. For indie games or small studios, I never use these sites for that reason.

Plus I’m still in the process of setting up my pirated games infrastructure. I will first need to figure out how to properly store Windows-only games such that the WINE prefix is in the game folder and automatically applied as well as how to make “cloud” saves work.

It’s still available on key resellers for cheap (including all DLCs) or HumbleBundle if your prefer an official key reseller (that asks for the full price though).

I grabbed it earlier today because it too was on my wishlist.

Edit: Just realized almost this exact sentence was at the top of the article. Whoops

Storage is fortunately pretty cheap and resource efficient though.

In the grand scale of things, a couple petabytes are like 100 modern 32 TB hard drives. Powering them would require maybe 2 kW?

Honestly, I pay for the service alone.

Pirating games is easy-ish enough so if Valve ever enshittifies I will be quickly learning how to remove Steam’s DRM and put all my games on a server and never purchase another video game in my lifetime.

Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.

Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.

The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.

Absolutely, I was thinking more along the lines of focusing solely on bug-fixing.

Eventually: Yes.

There are a finite number of bugs (or bug types rather, you could have infinitely many bugs from the same few lines of code) and it will take finite time to fix them all. You cannot know when you have fixed all of them though. But some games have gone above and beyond with fixing bugs, like Factorio where you will not encounter bugs without explicitly looking for them.

All adult games on Steam are banned already in Germany + those on The Index.

Piggybacking off of this comment, if you happen to enjoy Minesweeper, I recommend:

14 Minesweeper Variants

No guessing is required to solve any puzzle either, despite some variants seeming completely impossible.

Fun fact: There’s an achievement for stumbling across a level with a conpletely empty starting board, without any spaces being revealed to be mines or non-mines. Yes, that can be solved without guessing.

Fun fact 2: I’d argue there are more than 14 variants.

100% accurate emulation is basically impossible for every single console. You can get extremeley close via cycle accuracy, emulating the CPU’s instruction set but even that isn’t perfect.

You can read this for more information:

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulation_accuracy