Released in 1984 it was, to my knowledge, the very first 3D open world game. At a time when pacman and frogger were the "standard" it arrived featuring 3D graphics in a procedurally generated open world where you could be a trader, a pirate, a combat pilot, whatever you wished. All of this was done an 8bit machine with 32K of RAM including the OS and the video ram. It was truly revolutionary and an incredible technological feat.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

For VAR they could use a rule like cricket has. Each team gets three reviews per match, each failed review costs you one. That way only things where the team really thinks the call was wrong get reviewed.

As far as offside goes soccer is a game of inches. No matter where you put the line there has to be a line.

I'm not sure it's the apps. I think what actually happens is that Vista puts up a login prompt well before it has truly finished booting. i.e. before all the services have started.

The result is that you can login but the machine runs like a dog with no legs for the next 5 minutes as it tries to complete the boot process and deal with you trying to use it all at once.