Those kinds of promises only engage a small niche of nolife who follow news about upcoming games.

Most customers only hear about a game when it is released and reviewed and/or recommended by a friend and will never have heard about them.

Yet those niche nolife hardcore fans is exactly what makes or breaks games. If 10,000 unhappy hardcore fans will go around pouring shit on your game and company then you likely never get 1,000,000 players who could've potentially liked it.

Nolife hardcore fans will also be the the first to buy your game, review it and tell everyone if they did not liked it.

CDPR got huge amount of trust after Witcher 3 and they mostly had to start over after CP2077 release.

EA can survive if 4/10 of their games flops completely, but company like CDPR will likely just end there.

You are the first person I hear that seems to care about that.

I care about it a little, not comparing with friends, but I do like the "X% of players" stats.

Most C64, MSX, Apple,Amiga, Atari ST and Dos games can still be played on all majors operating systems.

In fact I used "most" but I can't name one that couldn't be played.

If anything it will be easier than ever to run those games, the platforms you mention can be run in a web browser these days with nothing at all to install or configure or download.

They can't control the licenses rights for some assets like music that can expire and become undistributable. You may not know it until you install them on a new computer n years from now.

Thanksfully, dutch is reasonnably easy to understand (not to speak) if you know english and the actual context.

Or maybe that is just me having grown to understand dutch and flemish as a cyclocross rider and spectator.

Knowing the basics is knowing how to salute, thanks, ask basic directions. You can't ask everyone to know every single language they visit and be able to understand stuff mentionned in a foreign language in a possibly noisy environment and from an only half decent speaker system.

Not being under any obligation doesn't mean it is not a sensible a courteous way to do. You like it or not, english has become a defacto common international language.

While I speak 5 languages and try to learn some basic words of the local languages of any country I visit out of courtesy (how to say hello, bye, thank you, ask where are the toilets, etc), I wouldn't expect any traveller to know enough to understand this kind of specificities in any country they visit.

Near international airports and capitals usually yes you can usually get help in english accross europe, at least enough to get basic help and instructions.

I mean, whenever the Deutsche Bahn is involved, in large parts of Germany speaking German will also get you absolutely nowhere...

Ecosia is still making money (that it uses to plant trees). That means it is selling something and we can reasonnably think that is your data/privacy.

As far as I'm aware, Ecosia does sell ads.

I have been offline for a week, hurry up I need to share my experience online!

Not even offline, minimal internet.

Writing about stuff and entertaining parasocial relationships is his job, it's not exactly weird that he wrote a post about his holiday trip.

> Independent journalist covering national security and U.S. politics.

Well, no, it isn't his actual job, the job he says he's doing

Can't you follow someone without using twitter?

I know that with mastodon I can just subscribe to the rss feed of anyone without using an account, visiting a server's feed or actually firing up a fediverse compatible app

It’s almost impossible to browse twitter without an account anymore. If you get a direct link to a tweet you can see it, but every click will prompt you to log in. Same for other platforms.