I will not buy a phone without wireless charging anymore. It is just too convenient and with proper OS support it can be configured to not drain your battery life too much.

Also I miss the smaller screen sizes. My HTC Legend was such a nice thing to hold in your hand with unique features. Smaller phones today usually lack a lot of features so they often aren’t an option.

I played a lot of Armada (1 & 2) and loved Elite Force (1 & 2). I tried Command and Final Unity but I didn’t understand English enough at the time to know what to do. My favourite game was DS9 Harbinger though because DS9 was also my favourite show.

Sadly the call features are only available in English. I really hope they come to other languages as well…

I think they are totally planning on adding the new map to GTA Online. Just like in Vice City you visited the original GTA 3 map.

Papers please

Ah yes next year will be amazing for Star Citizen. I wonder when it will finally come…

OpenTTD is fantastic. But after playing Banished and ONI (among others) it is just too easy. There is no real challenge unfortunately…

• Transport Tycoon - I recently found a notebook of mine in which I wrote detailed lists of routes and vehicles. This is maybe the first game I fully embraced and played for hours.
• Dune 2 - The first RTS game I played although I had no idea what it was all about (hadn’t seen the movie yet read the book at that time).
• Red Alert - The OST is still great, the FMV hasn’t aged well, but gameplay is still great. The remaster is very good (alternatively use OpenRA).
• Anno 1602 (1602 A.D.) - I played the demo for hours carefully avoiding upgrading my citizens as this would end the demo. Maybe the first game I bought myself and I still have the box.
• Dungeon Keeper 2 - My first hype game. I upgraded my system for this (it was worth it).
• Gothic 2 - Maybe the first Action RPG I played and it still holds up to current titles. In some aspects it even is better than Witcher 3 which released years later.
• World of Warcraft - I played the open beta and was immediately hooked. I played until the second expansion came out.
• Banished - Still my goto game for cold winter nights. It is incredible difficult and hard to find the perfect balance. You have to force yourself to play slowly which is wonderful.
• Oxygen not included - I can play this for hours and hours. It has the same need for balance as Banished but a unique art style and endless mods on the workshop.

But even the fastest airliners at the moment (A330 neo) moves slower than 300m/s. Wikipedia claims that COCOM limits are even higher so I don’t think that they are the reason for the inaccurate tracking on planes.

Schlagdenhauffen is not a nice surname…

So Swamerica it is?

I think the reasoning is that if you train AIs with AI generated data you can end up in a situation where the development halts and no improvement happens anymore.

I imagine the next Mad Max movie with hydrogen cars. Invisible fires and awesome explosions sounds like a match made in heaven…

I recently called a support hotline (after reading the FAQ) and they had a complex Dial-X-If-You-Have-This-Problem structure which on every end just had a person reading the FAQ entries. There was no way to reach an actual person…

This has been rendered in real time in a game engine. I find it quite impressive how good it works and how versatile the tooling to create such animations is.

Keep is a horrible shopping list app with barely any features qualifying it. There are no categories for groceries that automatically sort your list, no additional notes per item (quantity, etc.) and the usage in the store is just not great as it relies on you reading small text on your phone. Other apps have had far better solutions to this but aren’t allowed to be used with Google’s assistant anymore…

Lamborghini Huracan: fast and exciting

Fiat Panda: outstanding fuel efficiency

Trucks: lots of hauling space

Why not build trucks with the chassis of a Lamborghini and the motor of a Panda. It would solve all of our problems…

To be fair it would have been interesting to read this from someone who actually liked using Unity in the first place…

The good thing is that the party will soon split up because they all want to be number one…

I still have Google Listen on my first Android phone. Maybe I can go back…