*Edit* after reading the following article I've gone into a panic and archived-off my entire GOG shelf! (only not really - I'm lying for LOLs)
Poland has certainly had a.. chequered past, bless it!

Polish History 101:
http://www.quora.com/World-History/Which-is-the-unluckiest-country
(will hopefully stay as the top answer anyway - Scroll down and look for 'Glenn Watson' if not)
Blimey!

There might be a hidden connection between the thread title and the actual content, but I'm obviously too dumb to see it. ;)

EDIT: Argh. Now I see it. For some reason I read the thread title as a complaint about downloads and other features having vanished from the GOG shelf interface. ;)

????

Be... cause GOG's servers are in Warsaw and looking at Polish history = ph33r?
Or is the link not linking you to a summary of Polish history?

Made sense in my head anyway - thought it was a crazy and interesting read too...

you ain't the only one stumped :)

I was scratching my head too.

I... I was saying I was panic-downloading after finding out about Poland's past?
Why is everyone looking at me like that?
Do I need a CAT scan?
What?

Put the bong on the floor and come out with your hands up. :P

The problem was that the thread title - without prior knowledge what the thread is going to be about - sounds like a complaint about something not working in GOG's interface, or at least can be read as such. Then we enter a thread about Polish history, which seems completely unrelated. Understanding how the thread title was meant originally took a while, after having misunderstood it the first time.

Likewise, it probably isn't / wasn't easy for you to see how we were (mis)understanding the thread title, since you of course knew what you wanted to say with it.

If it's still unclear, here's what you meant to say:
"I am now downloading all my games from GOG and archiving them"
And here's how some of us received it:
"Downloads and other features seem to have vanished entirely from GOG's shelf interface"

Yup, the World, History and Mother Frikkin' Nature throw ABSOLUTELY everything they could on us, Poles...

And after all this we are still here, alive and kickin'! :D

I'd put Hungary next to our Polish brothers...
In 1241–1242, the kingdom received a major blow with the Mongol Invasion.
In 1521, the strongest Hungarian fortress in the South, Nándorfehérvár (modern Belgrade) fell to the Turks, and in 1526, the Hungarian army was crushed at the Battle of Mohács. Hungary was ripped in two, half ruled by the Turks, the other half by the Habsburgs.
There were a series of anti-Habsburg (i.e. anti-Austrian) and anti-Catholic (requiring equal rights and freedom for all Christian religions) uprisings between 1604 and 1711, which – with the exception of the last one – took place in Royal Hungary. Afterward, to make further armed resistance impossible, the Austrians blew up some castles (most of the castles on the border between the now-reclaimed territories occupied earlier by the Ottomans and Royal Hungary).
The 1848-1849 revolution we all know how well it went (the Habsburgs can thank the russians for that)...
After WWI: Hungary's signing of the Treaty of Trianon on 4 June 1920 ratified the country's borders being redrawn. The territorial provisions of the treaty required Hungary to surrender more than two-thirds of its pre-war lands. However, nearly one-third of the 10 million ethnic Hungarians found themselves outside the diminished homeland.
WW2 also found Hungary on the wrong side...
In 1956 the Soviets had to crush the anti-communist revolution...

You don't get to chose your neighbours, that's the lesson :)

I was about to say the same thing. Many losses and misfortunes in their history. I hear they have a saying that translates approximately to, "The average day is worse than yesterday but better than tomorrow."

Does this have anything to do without how many of them it takes to screw in a light bulb?