Of course they will favor European industry. The reason we’re taking on massive debt now to increase our defensive capabilities is that the US is looking increasingly less dependable. Why would German then spend all that money for military equipment over there?

A friend insisted I borrow his BDs and watch the show. I wanted to give it a shot and kept going until somewhere into season three. Then I decided it probably wouldn’t suddenly become enjoyable for me.

I used to discover artists on Pandora. That site was great.

Dorifto Kingu!

Instantly wiring money to friends without resorting to PayPal is nice, but: When will we see Wero in all our stores instead of the credit card terminals that currently only accept EC and the big US credit card systems?

At first glance, I thought that was John Steinbeck.

My bank doesn’t.

I’m not entirely sold, but it looks kinda promising. I am big into co-op games.

Revolut effectively blocked me for using custom ROMs on my phones. Fuck them.

I just returned from three weeks of mostly tent camping. Those assholes wouldn’t even let me close the tent door in the morning before landing on my legs.

Arte fucking rules. As does 3sat, another European cooperation success story.

“To the engineers: I need size space horse please, thank you.”

They are already here, usually driven by dudes who can barely see over the top of the steering wheel.

If “between specified locations” includes your oil wells and silver mines, enjoy.

Well look at you, overachiever!

My previous card was a Vega 56, which cost me 399 €. I was lucky to get one during launch week, at MSRP despite the mining craze back then. It was a fantastic card in retrospect and lasted me more than 7 years with my 1440p/70 monitor.

I now own a 1440p/144 monitor, so my target framerate at the same resolution is a bit higher than it used to be, but I’m happy with somewhere consistently between 60 and 90 fps. The replacement for my Vega 56 is a 7900 XT (didn’t wanna wait for the 9070 XT earlier this year), which still is not a proper 4K card if you’re after High or Ultra settings. It does 1440p very well, but it absolutely is not a huge leap in technology compared to Vega. I got it for 600 € open box, regular price (after two years on the market mind you) was more like 700-750 € even right before the new gen dropped. I know everything’s gotten more expensive between 2017 and 2025, but an 80 % price increase for a card with a smaller die size and regular GDDR memory is insane. After all, both Vega 56 and 9070 XT are pretty much comparable in their market position when they were introduced.

I’ve ditched AAA gaming as a hobby before for several years, until the announcement of Fallout 4 made me build a new, potent system. If the “been there, done that” feeling returns when I play new releases in the future, I’m not sure I can find motivation to pick that hobby up again further down the road. Ever increasing hardware cost and capitalist enshittification of the games industry might kill it for good as far as I’m concerned.

Even at MSRP and 0% markup, those cards are too expensive. A mid-range GPU shouldn’t cost as much as (or more than) CPU, mainboard and RAM of a good, but affordable system combined.

I was excited that you provided the coords. Thanks!

Sounds like you’re into your Audis.

What?