I'm a patient gamer. Most of my games I wait until they are $10 or below. If it's a really good game and I really want it I maybe go up to $15-18. I have almost never payed over $20 and I have almost always been disappointed. The only ecceptions have been Deep Rock Galactic, Sea of Thieves and the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress. But that last one I bought mostly to support the game since I have been playing the free version for so long.

I didn't know it was a co-production, but I knew it was Herman van Veen! That guy had the weirdest kids show ever: "Daar komen de Clowns" (Here come the clowns) about a group of clowns flying through space in a giant top hat.

Alfred J Kwak is actually a Dutch series.

I am Dutch btw. My parents always watched Tatort and any other krimi on ARD and ZDF, like Derrick, Cobra 11 and Kommisaris Rex. I learned to speak German at a young age thanks to the TV 😄

Have fun!

They are very different. X4 is more of a grand strategy game where you need to build up your empire. I really like how all the resource production and manufacturing works. You can't just buy ships. They need to be built. From parts. That need to be manufactured and supplied. If you want to beat an enemy empire then you can attack their supply lines and they can't produce new ships.

The game starts off much like Elite, just you flying around in your ship. But by the end you usually just sit in a chair pouring over the map and issuing commands while your hired npcs do the actal work.

All the good parts of Ubuntu have long since been integrated upstream. And Debian's release cycle has increased a lot so you're not stuck with old versions anymore.

It's worse. As long as any parent or holding company is incorporated in the US, they are subject to secret FISA court orders. It doesn't matter where the data or keys are located. FISA can compel the company to hand it over.

I'm about to start the last act of Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It's a fun relaxing sim game. If you enjoy games like "Powerwash Simulator" you'll enjoy it. The setting is great, I hope it will expand into other games as well.

Dredge is awesome!

That's because the remaster wasn't done by Bethesda but by Virtuosos, a different studio.

But you can be coerced to give up that number. People can buy your vote and you can give them your number as proof. That's a huuuuge problem. You should not be able to prove (to someone else) how you voted. Ever.

What you need is some kind of systeem that allows you to verify your vote, but which is useless to someone else. It's probably possible. But your idea isn't it.

That is a bad idea because now someone else can also check how you've voted. I.e. you can be coerced or threatened to vote a certain way. The current system is anonymous. You can vote X but say you voted Y and nobody can prove different.