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I'm sorry to say we had over a day of downtime starting yesterday. I'm not sure what happened, but it seems to have happened the day after the maintenance from the provider.

This is the story so far:
The day before yesterday (the 24th) the server was offline for a few hours due to maintenance on the provider side. It was announced beforehand, but the exact date of the maintenance was not, so I assumed it was the maintenance.

Yesterday (the 25th) the server went offline again. Since it was still within the announced maintenance window, I assumed it was also part of that. After a while the server still didn't come online, so I started worrying.

I called the provider yesterday, as it seems the server just disappeared. They put out a ticket to the service department, and all we could do was wait.

The server came back online today without warning, and a backup was restored. This means there is at least a little data lost from the last time it was online, but it's at least a very recent backup. In any case more recent than my own backup.

We hope the problems are now gone, and the server is as stable as it was before the maintenance.

We are truly sorry for the inconvenience.

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We had a little downtime earlier today. This was due to maintenance on the provider end.

Unfortunately this meant a downtime of about 3 hours. But thankfully we are up and running again.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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I never had a computer that could run this, but now, with my old IBM and added Voodoo card, it's great. I used to be so impressed by the reflections!

I remember going to my friends house to play this in his dad's home office. My father's friend actually bought a force feedback wheel just for this game. He had to hold the desk with his other hand because else he would rip the wheel straight off. Great memories.

The game still holds up, if you like arcade racers with dated graphics (but let's be honest, if you're here, you don't care about graphics). It's less weird, and a little more grounded, than Need For Speed 2. And the police mode is fun, although easy once you get the hang of it.

I don't know why arcade racers fell off the radar. And the ones that still are arcadey, never feel fun enough. I think the effect where the fov changes to make it "feel faster" just turns me off. Only thing still somewhat encapsulating the old arcade feel is probably Trackmania. And that's just racing against the clock, even if you're playing on a server. So it's not filling that niche for me.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Play NFS3 if you like old arcade racers! If you can't run it on your oldtimer, try the 2nd one instead, that one is fun too!

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[-] [email protected] 117 points 2 months ago

That sounds like a great way to get yourself killed.

[-] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago

I would block hexbear. I've done it server-wide. They are mostly very loud trolls pretending to be communists. Some could be actual communists, but I don't buy anyone actually wanting to be in such a toxic environment and believe what they claim to believe.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago

Same reason people put movie characters, game characters or dragons in there. Because they like them, one way or the other.

[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago

Really? How displaced is your view if you consider the USA easy mode?

Also, fuck Mexico. Apparently.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago

Nintendo is on their way of becoming one of the worst companies of the year for the fans. Fucking hell...

[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

If anyone wants to hate this guy even more: listen to the Behind the Bastards episodes on this guy. It's a 6-parter, so you know it's going to be good.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago

I never worry about motion blur, because I turn it off. The stupidest effect ever. If I walk around I don't see motion blur. Cameras see motion blur because of shutter speed, not the human eye.

[-] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago

History tells us this always works.

[-] [email protected] 105 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Still funny that valve still can't count past 2 even though this is the 5th installment

[-] [email protected] 123 points 2 years ago

With proton, this is less and less the case.

[-] [email protected] 133 points 2 years ago

It's not about the type of game. The new standard should be about releasing a finished game. Not a buggy mess with day one patches.

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