Security Writer 
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
luca@SecurityWriter You can't say meaningful things to bureacracy, even worse to bureacracy created for people control.
BTW even my Steam account dates back to portal creation, λ2
BTW even my Steam account dates back to portal creation, λ2
draeath@luc0x61 @SecurityWriter mine goes back to when steam was a replacement for O.G. HL's multiplayer service, WoN. My account name is an email address itself 😅
@draeath @SecurityWriter HL1 was already a game changer for me. I started playing FPS when Doom was on a set of 1.44M floppy disks, and its pseudo-3D gameplay was real magic, running on an i286 below 20MHz clock.
HL brought a real, movie like, story, in 3D gaming. That was amazing, and it still is, if you look beyond the now pixelated screens.
The only other game that brought me adrenaline, even when standing still, is HL:Alyx, played in VR. That leaves speechless.
HL brought a real, movie like, story, in 3D gaming. That was amazing, and it still is, if you look beyond the now pixelated screens.
The only other game that brought me adrenaline, even when standing still, is HL:Alyx, played in VR. That leaves speechless.
Stefan Baur 8 * 💉@luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter See, now we know you're making this up, because DOOM required an i386 or better …
DressToKILT@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter That's true for latest reimplementations, but the original was only for i386, as said above: clearly my memories on when we switched from i286 to i386 in that department were wrong!
@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter See, that's why I'm glad this isn't Twitter - over there, instead of admitting one is wrong, the typical reply would have involved questioning my mother's morale, followed by a block and counter-block. 🤪
@luc0x61 @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter my 286 only had a CGA card so I don't think it could have handled it anyway.
@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter At this point I don't remember what graphics card I had there! I worked in two different places, somewhere we had some scientific setup, otherwise we had plain business machines.
I remember of the site for the Doom DM, with 4 players on the local network. It was also something very new for us. From home we dialled by slow modems, for a point-to-point two players gameplay.
I'd never believe in those times of the 6 Gbps fiber I have at home now!
I remember of the site for the Doom DM, with 4 players on the local network. It was also something very new for us. From home we dialled by slow modems, for a point-to-point two players gameplay.
I'd never believe in those times of the 6 Gbps fiber I have at home now!
@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter Consider yourself lucky. I'm stuck at 6-12 (only on a good day) MBit/s via DSL, yes, in 2026.
@farbenstau @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter I consider myself lucky: another house, 2 km from here, has a 70 Mbps DSL connection on lucky days, when the phone switch isn't flooded. A friend's former house, 30 km from here, had the DSL connection running below 1 Mbps (yes, less than 1000 kbps).
There are areas here where no phone company invests money, even if they're 200 meters from best connectivity.
There are areas here where no phone company invests money, even if they're 200 meters from best connectivity.