Recent content by Subatomic

The Australian government gets the money because that's how fines work people... if you get a speeding ticket, you don't pay the other drivers on the road you endangered either, do you?

Close, but the metric system wasn't around at that time yet. The French and English feet were different however, Napoleon was 5'2" using the French measurement, which translates to 5'7" in the English measurement (for us metric folks, that's around 1.70m, which is probably above average for the...

I'd like to know how much training is involved in becoming a police officer in the U.S. News media here (in Germany) are saying it's only a 6 month training course, which if true seems like a recipe for unprofessional behaviour to me. In no way can half a year of training prepare you for the...

That's also why KOTOR (and by extension Neverwinter Nights) shouldn't be on the list - they're full 3D with a variable perspective and not isometric. Would have left room for Planescape: Torment...

It's even more impressive once you consider how many nations have contributed to the mission (according to wikipedia: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdoms all worked on parts of the Philae lander alone). I...

Correction: The German equivalent to SWAT isn't the GSG-9, it's the SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommando, or Special Operations Command). The GSG-9 is a very specialized anti terrorism unit within the federal police that is deployed very rarely and mostly in secret... in the last ten years, there were...

The actual name of the party is 'Christian Democratic Union', and yes, it's for the most part a leftover from the founding days of the party back in the 1940s. They're basically your run of the mill conservative party, though they've left a few of their socially conservative views behind since...

Really? I'm not that big on football myself, but are you seriously suggesting a man who is mostly known for overpriced hipster products* has had more cultural impact than a sport that among other things led to a (small) war [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_war], served as a symbol for a...

They finished second in their group behind the Netherlands (ranked 11th in the FIFA world ranking, Japan is 48th), and got knocked out against Paraguay in a penalty shoot-out... not exactly a terrible performance, especially compared to the humiliating defeats North Korea suffered likr the 0-7...

I'm a bit annoyed with the colloquial use of 'censoring' in the article, as it implies there's some evil, secretive government controlled committee at work, when in fact it's Ubisoft removing content to get a more favourable age rating in those markets. There's no censorship in the strict sense...

I live in a medium sized town called Ibbenbüren (the umlaut is very important!) in northwestern Germany. I say medium sized in relation to the average German town, because as you probably know Germany has a relatively large population (82 million), but few big cities (only Berlin, Hamburg...

That is most likely the source of all your problems then. Installing the patch in the middle of a playthrough is a very bad idea, it messes with a lot of the internal scripting and can cause quest to be uncompletable, NPCs to disappear and other unpleasant stuff. There's a reason the readme...

Remember that this case isn't really about used digital games, it is about the fact customers lose access to their already purchased games if they don't accept updated TOS/EULAs, which is very likely illegal in Germany (and the rest of the EU).

That they say it is so doesn't make it true, especially as it conspiciously mostly applies to AAA games. Case in point: Doublefine had no problem with adjusting the prices for their games on Steam after gamers complained about the unfair conversion rates between $, ? and £, and lots of indie /...

That's nonsense, there is no such thing as "EU-taxes". Each member state levies their own taxes, so by that logic Steam's prices should be different everywhere (which they aren't). Also, the UK is part of the EU too, and generally has much better prices than the countries using the ?. Steam is...