*hugs and waves from Passau*

Hey Endre, hope you feel better before long, and enjoy your Sunday.


*waves back from home*

Cheers for sharing moments from your holidays. Looks like the weather's not playing along; hope it improves soon, and that you're having a great time.

So they decided to close one of the bridges that cross the bay AND shut down two stations (with a free bus bridge) memorial weekend. I love the bay but sometimes very poor choices get made here.

Great to see you, Moon, you've been missed. Sorry about the weather, but hope you're having fun all the same.

I have to ask of all our Germans here - is the Donau ever blue? It was that same sad-looking grey when I was there..


Good morning - afternoon here..

Hope you feel better soon, and that you can have a restful day.

Good afternoon fellow threaddites.

Just a heads up in case anyone has missed it in the general page.

I think I need some admonishment for taking such a long break from my project.

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond in detail, I'm most grateful. Would you send you a little chat thingy to say thank you if I was able. Sorry that you're missing 40 of your contacts, that is not good news at all.

I hadn't tried Galaxy before, except briefly. When I found I couldn't turn off the public notification of what game I was playing, I exited stage left.
I am happy to hear it's possible to download without installing, will check that out.

My gaming computer only has XP installed - I have a copy of Windows 7 (legit) but didn't install because I didn't want to lose all my programs, some of which I already struggled to install of old disks, and a lot of temp giveaways as well. It works for me as I don't use it to do any web surfing, and I have very tight security.

But it won't run the GOG downloader, and the other one is very slow. I thought I'd see if Galaxy was faster. I am presently downloading games onto an external hard drive hooked up to my laptop, via the GOG downloader, but my connection speed is lousy. That's why I thought I'd try running downloads on both computers.

Will check out your other advice - and thank you once again. I know you don't like Galaxy, so that was help beyond the call of duty. ;-D

Hope you're enjoying your day.

Hi to everyone else, on this sunny Sunday.

Thanks j0ekerr. Not even via Steam, that's amazing of them. :-)

Forgot to say +1 for that, and lots of +1's for Hyper - and of course, for much-missed Moon.

Soreness is just from an honest weeks work. Kinda nice actually. :-)
Hope you're having an enjoyable weekend.
Feeling fine, just a few sore muscles from actually working for a change. :-)
Hope your day is a good one.
That's a great game, it was a royal pain to get it downloaded, authorized and installed but once your done it's 'offline' and free.

Then it's a good kind of pain, like someone else said.

And yes, it's a kind of pain to authorize and download. A consequence of them copying Minecraft's distribution model. But what are you going to do?

And since I gave someone else my email, I'd better put on my tinfoil hat and start learning how to use a BSD distro.

Let me check your fillings!
Yep, you have to register, make an account and authorize it. Just like Minecraft. Which makes me believe that it's not entirely 100% drm free in the same way that Minecraft is not 100% drm free...

I'm nitpicking.
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I know someone who makes a new dummy e-mail each month.

I don't know about the DRM-free aspect, but I do have multiple throw away and forwarding email addresses.

It's not really DRM free, that being said, the DRM probably consists of a phone home method that checks against updates. I'd also wager that once you've downloaded it, you can play it offline without any limitations.

But since you don't get a standalone installer I wouldn't call it DRM-free.

If this is the case, I fully agree.
I assume that the launcher does not work in a similar way the GamersGate one does?

I don't know how the GamersGate one works. I can't shed any light there.

I'd actually compare it to the Minecraft launcher.

I am somewhat annoyed at a friend of mine, who basically said I'm an idiot for not taking advantage of the offers at G2A.

I'm also annoyed at the fact that he did so with spelling mistakes.