This is Grifting at its best. It will decades if ever we get rid of the "new" carpetbaggers that have ridden on the coat-tails of Trumplstiltskin.

All your jets are belong to US !!!!

Gurgle sucks so bad at advertising and naming. No pictures of the fold and the other look like...*gasp* a Pixel phone. I'm not in the market for 1 but that's some bad hat Harry.

Do you get to verbally abuse your opponents, err I mean passengers like they do on the net games ?

The security guards on my site will all wear a yellow sash that points out they are wearing Gurgle Glasses. Security guards are in place for insurance purposes only. Their admitted value is being witness or maybe helping give birth or CPR.

what is really sad is that the "AI" slop is no worse than the "engineered" Slop the "Labels" put out. The big labels are worried that once we see how little value out side public venue access they provide it will be their end...

I'd moderate you as the "funniest" in thread if I hadn't already posted....

*wipes tears away...thanks for the belly laugh.

I'm hoping Gemini is a better AI than it is a personal assistant. The standard Gurgle PA does well within its' world. Gemini SUCKS at everything that doesn't involve artistic visualization, and we all know that is just ripping of the "actual" creator.

Do you wanna guess how many of those "new" Gemini installations were by a previous Gemini installation ? Seems like a great marketing propagation strategy.

A US Honda Ridgeline beeps incessantly. When the system detects road lines, when it loses road lines, when it detects a car in front, when it loses the car in front. There are times when it beeps and I have no idea why...

How can the claim copyright on reruns ? There hasn't been a "new" TV show in decades. They just reskin the same skits and call it new. This is about ensuring our corporate overlords get to keep squeezing the same fruit.

His guided cars have hit more things and screwed up traffic more than any other. What we need is a set of national Car2Car standards so these megalomaniac douche bags CEOs don't get to decide what is good enough. If done right, the only thing getting hit is the Darwin winners who J-walk.

Yeah you are right...not sure where I got that number from...still it is OLD.

Funny but the only game I own on Steam is the Doom/Doom2 full collection. It is 50 years old, gets new maps daily from many different dev's. I play on the free UZDoom engine which is as good as most today. I play the original BG and BG2 quite often, they are old as well. Beyond BG3 I've not found too many compelling new games. I use Steam for Demo's and to see what is new. I buy on GoG and Itch.

if you don't have an offline installer you didn't "buy" a game you leased it for an indeterminate period. I've been on steam for a long time, but I don't support a platform with money if I can't play my game at my cabin with no net. Granted Steam has some offline ability but it is flaky and doesn't work for all titles.

By your logic Gaming owes itself to MicroSloth and we should all support that crap. The only thing Valve gives back is that which is required by the various licenses, and they have made a good living off OSS.
All this aside I still love and play HL often.