I don’t see how an additional hour in winter would help if you have a normal 9-5 job. Does it matter if it gets dark at 4 or 5 in the afternoon when either way it’s dark before you get off work?

People in different regions are able to pay different amounts for a video game. You don’t want to sell a game for €40 to someone willing to pay €80, you also don’t want to miss out on the €40 from someone who’s only willing to pay that amount.

This is also why there are artificial tiers, like an ‘ultimate edition’ and shit like that.

Same goes for things like internet speeds. A 1gbit connection is actually slightly cheaper to sell than a 100/100 connection, but they offer different price tiers to extract the maximum amount someone is willing to pay.

Holy shit that’s cheap.

You like not being able to be outside?

I’d rather have them move the clock an hour backwards in summer. Summer days are so hot nowadays that you can’t be outdoors until after the sun goes down. Summer nights are nice, summer evenings aren’t. With DST you have to go to bed by the time you can be outdoors so you effectively can’t be out during weekdays.

Why does Israel need aid at all? Aren’t they pretty well off?

Probably a cushy ‘job’ waiting for them once they leave public service.

I know I’m in what feels like a growing minority, but I will always pick up a physical copy if given a chance.

I bought a few physical games for my PS4 back in the day and I still regret it. I can still play all the digital games I bought back then but lost all physical games. No idea where they are. Digital games are linked to my account and impossible to misplace.

This is a solved problem.

A company going out of business and customers losing access to their IP is a very common concern for software businesses. The common way to deal with this is using an escrow service.

A copy of all the IP (e.g. source code) relevant to a license is stored at the escrow service (and regularly updated if necessary). If the supplier goes bankrupt, the escrow service is authorized to release the IP placed under escrow to the customers.

You could do something similar for Steam. Pay a 3rd party to keep a copy of all content that is authorized to release it if the original company goes out of business.

Why would you play a game a second time when you could he playing a new game instead?

I assume that by the time they are delisted you’ve already finished them? So why does it matter?

And here I was thinking the point was to play games. Silly me.