I was coming to the comments to say piracy is super important, but then I saw everyone else already saying it lmao. It's true though, and very important.

Great funny video

Before your explanation of spore, I was going to comment that I had done the same thing just a couple months ago. Ea was really good about giving me another key. It helps to have the original key and box to prove that you own it.

The only people who are suffering from this are paying customers.

I do love how Blizzard's way of making up for literally taking Overwatch away was to give me credits for the F2P trash that replaced it. Destiny and Destiny 2 did the same. Seems fair: Take away something I paid for and give me something with no actual monetary value that I don't want and never asked for... 🤬

I have a pc with a vanta 8 i didnt know it had a vanta 8 untill i looked at the back and saw it had a video card and i was like “is that a video card?” And pulled it out to see what it was and i was like “its a vanta 8!”

Half life 2 can still be played from disc but you need to extract the content from the disc

F triple AAA, stick to indie with new games.

I also bought a PS5 just for Granny Turismo 3 months ago and I too will never buy another console or GT game. It reminded me of that old Tomy Racer game from the 80's with the constant rolling starts. I try to play it sometimes but it's just so boring.

It started with Half-Life 2

audio is bad, kinda overprocessed by noise cancelling? It makes kinda annoying effect, semi-bathroom.

I still remember the DIRT series being on Steam and seeing them disappear 1 by one all the way to Dirt 4. That's 5 games I've purchased now delisted and one of them requires GFWL to be played.

Amazing work, thanks for documenting all of this, enjoyed every second

I still play Rise of Nations, Command and Conquer Generals and Red Alert 1-3 and Battlefield 2 lol all games nearly 20 years old.

bought the mass effect collection to find out i didn't have a key for it as it was pre-owned lol. can't play it

ubisoft goes steamworks bye bye always on DRM

This is why GOG is the best

"The money I spent on this game has essentially gone to waste..." Almost sounds like you've been robbed...

I bought a copy of Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning on eBay. Because the original buyer already used the CD Key, I can't play it. Back in 2009 or 2010, I bought a copy of battlefield 2 used. The CD key worked even though I wasn't the original purchaser. Not sure why Reckoning isn't like that. What if this happened to console games? Places like GameStop, Game Crazy, an EB games would never have existed.

I am sure there are ways with cheat engine/ollydbg and others to get pasted the drm check.

I have a related example. The Dead Space 3 PC release's Single-Player DLC "Awakened" requires Origin In-Game Overlay to launch. This integration apparently was broken and fixed repeatedly over the years until it broke one last time and EA gave up fixing it. It is not possible to play the Single-Player DLC on a legitimate Origin Store PC copy. The only way is to use an "unofficial" route. The optional multiplayer Co-op missions also require the Origin In-Game Overlay, which is broken there too. I don't remember if the multiplayer relied on external servers. If it did, I don't know if such servers still exist. I'm not sure if there are "unofficial" routes to playing the multiplayer Co-op missions. The main campaign (minus the the Optional Co-op missions) still worked on the legitimate copy last time I checked, so there's that.

This is a terrific video. This is why I quit playing PC outside of the classics. Consoles are trying to do this with GaaS but most of the time, all games work offline. GT Sports was patched recently so hopefully 7 but that ticked me off too.

Can i just say, i wished i todays products still came in these old style of boxes. that way you can never buy utter rubbish.

Made sure to sign the petition, if only everyone who has watched this video would do the same it would have met it's goal four times over in the UK alone

my new made-up retro resolutions for 16/9: 640 x 360 480 x 270 448 x 252 320 x 180 256 x 144 and a new made up dual-pixel color mode: 1byte per two pixel: 2bit Y1, 2bit Y2, 2bit U, 2bit V (YUV or YCbCr) maybe Y with a logarithmic coding.

Not sure anything sounds good drenched in reverb like that. Roland should have reconsidered making everything sound like a cheap keyboard in a cathedral.

I see Pandemonium and Re-Volt in the shelf, I smash that like button

thats really cool looking i love old gaming pc designs id put a 2024 mobo and bits into it i have a predator gaming pc has temp displays for cpu / harddrives and mobo i put hdd sensor onto my gpu though works great for me

go to that url that has user made auth patches probably has that game. forget what its called but i used it for all my games. so no cd or auth required.

Oh god, now that you mention GT7... Step back and think about it: you spend real money, to get virtual money, to spend on virtual cars and their upgrades. And you may end up spending so much that you could've bought *a real car* from that real money.

MMORPGs, as online, live service games, are a whole 'nother beast. The original World of Warcraft was inaccessible officially until 2019. With how even Classic has progressed (and the irony of "Cataclysm Classic", when Cataclysm was where much of the old Classic world was rendered inaccessible!) WoW is running into this problem *again.* Fortunately Blizzard seems to be more lenient on unofficial servers running old versions they aren't willing to support official servers for, such as my darling The Burning Crusade.

An epic nostalgia trip for this video.. but nothing hit more than hearing welcom98.wav - not heard that in a long, long time. And instantly (and eagerly) awaiting the piercing guitar rift towards the end <3 I could only dream of my PC being that level at the point '98 was released!

Tech tangents what model is the 5.25 media dashboard used to copy the ide hdds

I have a weird device that has an Isa slot mounted to a power supply any ideas what that could be?

That 3650 is sick, i had a 3850 that looked very similar

Jokes on you, Fable 3 fucking sucks.

Dear Shelby, thanks a lot for your videos. Keep up the good work!

Csgo I miss you

7:39 I can see why you might think that your Monroe is a pinwheel calculator. The user interface works very similarly to that of a pinwheel calculator. However, all the resources I’ve read about Monroe machines say that they used a stepped drum mechanism. Pinwheel calculators use gears that have an adjustable number of teeth, but a stepped drum machine works by moving a cylinder with a staggered set of grooves on the side. There’s a good animation of it on the Wikipedia article for “Leibniz wheel”.

DRM is a plague of annoyance to consumers pantasy universe has a stupid drm from Korea you have to use a cracked exe to bypass the no longer working drm protection

To everyone that says "Piracy isnt theft". Have you ever tried to ask companies for physical copies that work as is? Especially on pc?

I remember buying a physical copy of fifa 11 for windows back in like 2016 and i had to enter one of these security codes but an asshole had seemingly stolen the cide that was at the back of the manual so i was never able to play the game. I know it doesnt have a lot to do with the video but i feel like if i could just play the game with the disc alone this would have never happened, and i would be able to play the game.

Thanks for making this video. I've been trying to find a nice way to record retro Macs, but the cheap USB HDMI capture devices are a mess. I spent hours yesterday strugging. I was using a scaler, but it wouldn't sync to a clean 720p 60hz... Have you made any progress since this video? I'd dread to try to capture the raw 67hz output from an early Mac :), or sync on green :)

Haven't written a DVD in more than a decade, but each time I see some new, blank media, my brain goes "ooh goodie, some extra space, this will come in handy!"

0:12 bro is hacking a fallout terminal

Fable 3 is playable just not by official means, I just played through it a week or two ago even put a funny clip of it on my channel. You just need to find the games for windows live dll file on the internet

You do not "own" software. You purchase a license.

nah need for speed world is still active thanks to the community its not run by ea but still being updated with new content i think still