Wow, das ist mal eine Nachricht - klingt fast wie eine Zeitungsente mit dem Namen "Peter Pomm"?

Ausschlaggeber ist laut Artikel eine Rechnung von einem britischen Lieferanten im Hamburger Hafen, der wohl Currypulver an den Herrn Pomm verkauft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62Ie7dKXRY

This video answers the "why" perfectly.

tl;dw: everything more expensive, bullshit fees, less quality

Also, in my personal opinion, the current political climate doesn't help to draw in international tourists.

You mean the DLC-exclusive motorcycle in BotW, that released 9 months after the actual game, that you only unlock after completing all major dungeons, do a long quest chain, and then an additional dungeon plus a boss fight, that drains materials while you use it?

You are comparing that DLC Bonus to an (appearent) major game design mechanic showcased in this Metroid Reveal Trailer?

Be real dude.

yeah I dunno, the bike boost animation looked a bit jank. Couple that with the empty desert and the implications for the game design and I'm officially worried about Prime 4.

Well, it's not like I plan on getting a Switch 2 anytime soon anyway, so there's that.

There's no article - this is something that happened to me personally, today. I needed an outlet and wanted some advice what to do about this, and I'm really happy about the responses I've gotten.

e/os is most likely my next step, especially with Google disabling installing "unverified" third-party apps in 2026.

Bought a FP5 with e/os in mind as a possible upgrade path, I just was too worried to immediately do the full jump.

goddamnit I JUST bought a new Fairphone 5 and opted not to go for e/os variant, because I was worried of incompatibility issues.

Guess I'll have to learn how to replace my phone OS in 2026...

Same. Passed on the switch 2. Fuck that noise.

I admire the plan, but I doubt the public sector is going to completely acclimate to Linux. The average age of an employee in the public sector is something like 40+.

You might get lucky and get them to use one new program like LibreOffice, but there's no way you're going to completely revamp every desktop PC to Linux. I work in this field, and while everyone has been nice and friendly, they (and the entire system around them) are also hugely resistant to digital change. If they ever make the move to a Linux Desktop environment, the IT support will go through hell.

Pretty funny story, but it is 3 years old at this point.

Man, I LOVED reading instruction booklets as a kid, whenever I wasn't allowed to game. I was obsessed with videogames back then.

One anecdote that comes to mind, is the german Instruction Booklet for Donkey Kong 64. Throughout the booklet, there were those little dialogues made by Cranky Kong (the old grumpy Kong), who would often insult the player, telling them games have gone "too easy" and that they're "too soft". But on one page that listed all levels of the game, Cranky was surprised - he appearently made a level himself called "colorful barrel fight" and couldn't find it listed on the page, however, if the player was looking enough, they might be able to find it ingame. Needless to say, my kid brain went wild, and I was always looking out for a secret door/wall or something in the game whenever I played. Had me searching for hours. Buuut I don't think anything like that secret level actually exists in DK64. Maybe it was a mistranslation, or maybe Cranky is just referring to the Barrel Minigame that can be accessed via DK's platform. By now, people have rummaged through the decompiled source code and speedran this game for decades while breaking it in every possible avenue via glitches. It would be next to impossible for an entire secret level not to be found.

I was excited for...

• the new gem system - there was this promise, that you don't have to roll fusings/chromatic/jeweller orbs anymore to make the sockets fit for your build on a certain item.
• the graphical update - game looks phenomenal, let's be honest here.
• Technical Upgrades on the engine - PoE1 has a shitton of technical debt and runs like ass. I was excited for them to be able to maybe start from scratch, or solve some longer lasting pains, that they never got around to with PoE2 (since the games ended up so different, that they drifted apart).
• More smooth gameplay - I enjoyed the look of some of the older demos. It really seemed like travel skills felt more fluid and combat overall had more flow to it.

But honestly, I'm not really the right person to judge PoE2, I played roughly 10 hours in 0.1, almost finished Act 1 but then Life got a bit in the way and my playthrough fizzled out. From what I remember, monsters were too strong and too fast, playing melee kinda sucked (as is tradition).