Used far too much of it from 18 years old to as about 30 years old. I think it has played havoc with my short term memory. It has certainly made my work much more difficult. If I could change anything in my past it would be this. I'm pretty much playing my career on hard mode because of this.
I finished GTA 3 on the PS2. I tried playing the later ones, but I always gave up, it was just more and more of the same. It also just started to take itself more and more seriously which wasn't much fun.
GTA:SA (PS2) is also a good game, with a decent story, and also allows you to just enjoy the spectacle without having to engage in violent behaviour.
One of my favourite things to do after a long day was to jump in a Rustler and fly it into the sunset whilst listening to the game's country music.
GTA IV also has its quirks, with some of the best car physics to play with, where it took real skill to drive it properly, and pedestrian reactions felt more human and realistic.
GTA5 was pretty, but that was it. Situations would escalate from out nowhere. Car physics was laughable. Pedestrian animations were muted or canned.
For the longest time, Microsoft was writing into its OEM contracts that they had to pay per machine shipped, regardless of if Windows was actually installed. It's well-documented, including by Wikipedia[1]. As for why they stopped, it certainly wasn't out of a sense of kindness or duty. My best guess is that it was an indirect result of the antitrust lawsuits[2], and they figured that they didn't want any more legal attention.
Because there's no way Microsoft is charging Lenovo $140 for Windows Home, and also because people who don't want Windows are likely less price sensitive than the average user so you can charge them more anyway.
Microsoft was making it very hard for OEMs to sell some computers without Windows for a number of decades. I would assume they are more afraid of an increase in law enforcement than usual.
I think the same is happening with video games. Especially with Xbox game pass or whatever it's called. I've done it to myself with roms. Everything available so none of it valuable to me.
That was intentional. I recall testing this out every time there was a new "oops, we're sorry, we reset your privacy settings to default -- AGAIN".
The privacy settings were carefully designed to have vague wording that how they worked on the surface wasn't how they really worked. Each and every one of them which had a different functionality than what the wording suggested on its surface resulted in you sharing to a much wider audience than you thought you were.
I recall carefully testing it out with a burner account which my main was not friends with, and it consistently taking 2-3 tries to get the privacy settings back to where I wanted them to be.
I would take those days over what Facebook is today - which is to say, useless. The only thing I use it for is groups, which have the good sense to only be about the thing you want to learn about when you look at the group. Still though - it is sad that FB Groups killed off small web forums.
I remember Facebook group - somewhere in the early 2010s, the group feature disappeared. Years later, group appeared again and I had to re-apply to get back into the group. Perhaps group was killed to boost public sharing.
Definitely true, but back in the day that was sort of the fun of it -- similar to putting up an AOL Instant Messenger away message, it was just... a blast of a funny thought to the people that you knew.
Over time, that network got stale and it included "people you sort of used to know", and then it included your grandma and uncle and rest of the world. There are few things that are at the intersection of the Venn diagram of "things I want to share with all of those people", especially as I get older.
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