I got my PS2, with GTA3, for Xmas. No memory card though, so I stayed up all night to play it, not realizing I could just left it on. I bought the memory card 3 days later, when shops reopened, the PS2 was never shut down.
I got my PS2, with GTA3, for Xmas. No memory card though, so I stayed up all night to play it, not realizing I could just left it on. I bought the memory card 3 days later, when shops reopened, the PS2 was never shut down.
The fine was 1b, 10 years ago. Nowadays chips have a geopolitical importance, so they lowered the fine to keep one of the most important player happy. Intel is finalizing contracts for billions here in Europe to build chip factories.
This was a smart political move, not a mathematical operation
While videogames are great, a hobby that dabbles with real things will stimulate you very differently. Touching stuff with your hands, the gap between what you want and what comes out of your work, the search for materials and techniques and other aspects of working with real stuff and not on predefined paths, will engage with your brain in a very different way.
Videogames and “real” hobbies (as in hobbies that use real stuff) are great together in my opinion, they complement and fuel each other.