I watched Taxi when I did it. Took me well into the second season.

I had beer. I have nuts. That time that was going to be spent. And was.

It was all right.
That was a nice Freudian slip.

Good choice(also it's odd you mentioned that, as I just linked to another of Christopher Lloyd's roles).

Me? I DL mostly when I buy, and if it's a ton of files I game while it does it's thing(for the larger files)....pausing every so often to DL another batch and make note of what I DL'd.

Hey, ever try combining the two? You could make a mint. ;)

Also that's why I don't fully "get" the ones who say they're "wasting time" with DLs.....as one can usually do other things on the PC or IRL while they wait

S'all right....s'all right.

That is just plain wrong and never was the case (not 6 months ago and not 1 year ago or 5 years ago ...) . Not a single one of my archived installers which I used GOG downloader for has Galaxy integrated.

Still possible until the 17th of March. Try it and see if it has Gaalxy integrated.

When I bought a disk for backup purposes, I inquired around here about the best way to download installers & I did mention GOG Downloader because I was using it at the time.

Someone said the installers it downloaded came bundled with Galaxy, and I'm 90% sure I checked it. Of course, there is the 10% possibility that I didn't, and I just took the user at his word.

I don't know. I'll edit my post to remove that bit. Sorry about that.

No need to apologize, such things can happen. I just wanted to correct the facts. Thank you for your understanding :)

At one time GOG had the (not very good) idea to bundle online installers with Galaxy. During install you would have to opt out installing Galaxy. IIRC they listed a few games for which they wanted to do such integrations. They scratched that idea after the ... not very nice feedback they got.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/offline_installers_with_an_option_to_install_gog_galaxy/page1

Still they wanted new users to have it easy and since they expected them to not understand that they could only get Galaxy features after having installed and launched the game through Galaxy they designed this gigantic blue button on the library page. This button would install Galaxy if it has not been installed yet, start it and download the game from within Galaxy.

Since people wanted to have their offline installers without any Galaxy as well they added regular offline installers which are a bit more hidden and which links are much smaller.

The GOG Downloader links they kept for legacy reasons however were - as I said - never touched by this abd always pointed to the regular offline installers without any additional Gaalxy addition (which is logical since GOG Downloader has been invented prior Galaxy with the idea to just download offline installers and install your games client free).

True, the installers came bundled with Galaxy, in a rather shady manner. But I don't know it affected the GOG Downloader too. My old post from back then: GUIDE: How to keep your PC free of the 'Galaxy client'

I knew there was something bundled with Galaxy.

By the way, did you notice how my posts were immediately downrated after you pointed out I was wrong, & after I edited out the inaccurate part, they immediately stopped being low rated?

If people have an opinion, why not argue in good faith, instead of just clicking buttons?

I don't care about the reputation, but I would like to know if the clicker had something to add. Communication is a wonderful thing. Silent judgment... not so much.

The problem is that for many it is far easier to low rate and move on, etc

Well ... technically they never realized this idea. It was a plan and they never executed it (luckily). Of course this blue button can be considered as being a bundle as well ... but technically it does not even download the offline installer. But yes, you did not imagine things completely :)

I am glad that those who downrated you for this at least had the decency to stop doing it after your correction. I am not a fan of downvotes at all. I might disagree to some thimngs, I might have other information n some cases but simply clicking a button would not show WHY I disagree or WHICH information I might have.

Like I said, I am on your side and only use the downrate button if people are hateful and truly offensive in posts ... or if they are spammers. Unfortunately clicking a button is much easier and of course not everybody is willing or have the to write lengthy posts at all. If it would be up to me I would erase the downrate button completely. If something is against forum rules people could still report and if people disagree they can either post or just say nothing. If I want to tell people that a certain post is wrong or if I have arguments for my side of the story it should be worth the time to write a few sentences. Anyway, I don't think this will change anytime soon.

Thanks. I liked the irony of installing Galaxy to keep Galaxy away, so I went with that route.

Irony always gets me.

But they didn't move on, that's the thing. They came back/stayed & removed the low rate. Why?

Who goes into threads just looking for posts to down/upvote instead of, you know, discussing, make a joke, be an ass? So many choices, so much potential!
Precisely. It's poor form, and I'm pretty sure it contributes to a lot more toxicity than it removes.

In fact, it just drives away more moderate people while attracting those who don't give a fuck.

Did I mention how much I love irony?

I am not sure what you mean by "they never realized this idea". For several months in 2017, the default offline installers were bundled with galaxy. You had the option to download galaxy-free installers if you wanted to (by unchecking some checkbox), but the default installers were galaxy-laden.

Oh, you are correct. I completely forgot that we had those "Galaxy Installers" vs. "Classic Installers". I only remembered that they announced this for 100 games and the backlash that came with it. But still the GOG Downloader afair always downloaded classic installers (feel free to correct me here as well in case I am wrong).

You are right about the GOG downloader, AFAIK.