Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20190226174216

Well, one large portion of translation finished, but there are a few more... and the deadline looms ever closer ;)

In a particularly ironic twist of date, the company that was hurt the most by Steam was... its own creator. Valve. They are so comfortable with their Steam profits that they don't really need to devote much time and effort to making games anymore. Like several analysts said - "They won't make Half-Life 3 because it's the less profuitable thing to do than simply living off Steam."

Profits from selling a game only last for a while, but history is forever. So I think exploring Beta versions is a good thing overall, even if technically illegal. It serves a greater purpose.

I have been trying to digitalize some of my stuff on physical media as well. My new PC has a DVD drive (I specifically wanted it to), but who knows what will be the case with the next one... We retired floppy drives many years ago, disc drives will probably have the same fate eventually.

Did they even know Quake uses analog CD tracks for music... Steam releases of DOS games generally tend to be sloppy. From my time around the Doom groups on facebook I've learned that their Doom release lacks the setup utility. Which means no way to change key bindings. Or choose a different sound/music configuration. It's like this paclage was put together by someone having no real experience with games from this era. He probably thought the setup is just an install program. GOG versiosn seem to be much better in this regard, more competently assembled.

I think I've seen cases when the European version of a game is somehow different. Not a problem usually, unless it messes up with patching or installing addons. But most of the time the difference is trivial, e.g. using the word "colour" instead of "color" somewhere.

There are still plenty of sites where one can hunt... LegendsWorld is one of my favorites. They have this clever tactic of disguising stuff as demos. At first I really though it was demos, but then I thought it was suspicious that they were so large. Large enough to include music and FMV cutscenes, which demos usually don't...

One of the worst things parents can do - nagging about getting married and having children. As if there is some kind of urgent schedule that everyone has to keep. I don't know how to explain that at this point of time, these things are simply not on my mind. I am in a period of my life when I couldn't care less about starting a family. And if I am somehow forced to, this would probably be one very unhappy family. And I don't want that.

The sleep buffer sounds like a good idea, but I do see two potential problems with it - one is the possibility to not fall alsleep quickly enough, which would ruin the whole purpose of this. And the second is my unfortunate tendency to wake up for no reason during the night. It really derails things.