When I was a kid, I was really into driving games, started off with Mario Kart and Stunt Race FX on the SNES, later moved onto F1 World Grand Prix on the N64, for which I had one of these bad boys.

You put your legs either side of the wheel to hold it in place. It wasn’t very good at all if I’m being honest. Even at the time, 9 year old me thought it wasn’t great.

So during covid, I saw that V3 pictured above being sold on facebook marketplace for 20chf (swissbux), and thought I could do better. Started off with a Logitech G29 and ended up with this:

Yes, cable management is not great, but I’m in a relatively small apartment, so gotta wedge it in a corner, but it’s my corner, the Corner of Speed

Checked their profile.

They’re gonna say crypto, lol.

I’d like to interject. What you’re calling your GNU mug is actually GNU/Mug, or as I prefer; GNU + Mug… [insert rest of copypasta]

It really didn’t bomb hard, it is pretty dull after you get through the main missions though.

“Awesome game, man.” perhaps.

Google Play Store is, kinda, but Android itself is not.

TIL Android is a walled garden.

Counter-counterpoint: He did eat something off his foot in front of an audience.

The reason you can still play UT99 and 2004 is because those games were never hosted by epic on a central server. The game shipped with the server hosting tools, and it was designed to allow you to host your own server (if your connection was fast enough) or to rent your own server from a third party.

They’re also very different types of games from the current crop of live service games that this youtuber is targeting.

For the last few years, most MMOs have been, or become, Free to Play, with (a lot of) microtransactions. The only subscription MMOs I can think of off the top of my head are FFXIV, WoW and Eve. Then you have the buy to play, with no sub (or optional sub, but not required to play), games like New World and Elder Scrolls Online. Making the vast majority F2P.

All of those games can become EOL and be removed from sale for any number of reasons, and they’ll have the same terms in the EULA that the crew would have. There is literally nothing different legally between The Crew and something like Elyon. Both were paid for up front, no subscription with some optional microtransactions.

Since legallly there is nothing different between all these live service games, it makes this youtubers campaign all the more odd. Car Licensing is notoriously well enforced, so why is this guy, a Half Life youtuber of all things, thinking he can go after Ubisoft on this when it’s pretty obvious that it’s the license agreements that are the likely cause of the shutdown.

That virus isn’t surviving getting cooked in an oven. Stop talking nonsense.

This is all well and good, but what of all those MMORPGs that got shut down?

The Crew is a bizarre game to do this kinda treatment for, since the sequel is very similar to the first, less terrible crime syndicate story, more planes and other nonsense. It’s also pretty middling, car handling is really weird, and the lack of rear view mirrors looks pretty weird nowadays.

I’m guessing it’s car licensing that’s causing the shutdown. It’s what happened to Forza Horizon 1 and 2. If that is the case, this game isn’t going to get open sourced ever. Also: why didn’t this guy go after Microsoft to make them playable again?

Well I did take the pic myself, so you have my permission 😊

Swiss Alps above Adelboden. Was really cold, but took my Wifes’ nephew from the US sledding, and it was tremendous fun, glad I wore a helmet as the “intermediate” run was actually proper challenging, and I went of the sled, head first, into a massive snow drift and slid down the mountain a good 20 meters.

God words is pretty lit ngl

Adonph Stitump.

it is quite literally a crime against humanity

No, it really is not. Grow up.

Ha, jokes on you, already Legend rank 3. ~I have no life.~

Destiny 2 still won’t work, and Simracing is still a no go.

If you’re getting crashes and lag on TF2, that’s your pc. Do you have to hand crank it or something?