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I need to take a taxi to someone's house today, but I can only find Uber and Lyft to get to the house. I've heard some scummy things about both companies that I don't want to get into right now.

Ultimately, which one is less scummy when it comes to the driving experience? If anyone has any stories of scummy or less scummy experiences from either one, I'd love to hear them.

TL;DR: Can anyone here tell me who owns the licenses to these freeware Midway games before I go pirating them?

Recently, I've gone through a whole ringer of trying to download the 2005 Midway game Area-51 released for freeware around 2009, when Midway was shut down. I've unfortunately gotten through the ordeal of downloading the game only to find out the game's servers have since been shut down. The issue with this is this version of the game was ad-supported, which ultimately means the game required an Internet connection to play it. The unfortunate issue here is the servers which are hosting games have since been shut down.

As a result, I've now been looking around for any services which just let me download the game for cheap. However, no service seems to hold the game. Not even GameTap.

No one uses GameTap, but I checked it just to be sure. Also, GameTap is still around.

As a result to all of these issues, I've considered pirating a non-ad-supported version of the game. Before I go to do this though, I want to know one more thing about Area 51 and all of these other Midway freeware games (The Suffering, Psi-Ops): who owns the licenses to these games? I wanted to know in a last-effort attempt to stop myself from inevitable pirating an illegal game I just want to mess around with.

If anyone knows who owns the licenses to these games, please let me know. If nothing else, it will be intellectually interesting to know who owns these licenses.

Do I want it? Yes!

Will I watch it? Probably not.

I'll be honest: I was expecting him to be more in line with Polygon. Aside from the occasionally great opinion pieces, I still see Kotaku as the "Buzzfeed of games" with all of their Top X lists. I just hope he doesn't meet the same fate as Christ Plante on The Verge. I rarely hear from that guy in their "TL;DR" pieces.

At least, Patrick won't be trying to sell me tips for meditating through the day to keep with the stress of life. I'm not completely against that sort of article; it just feels weird and preachy on a site talking about games and other 'nerdy' pop culture.

Happy to be part of the Insurgancy Key Dumping Ground!

Here's mine: https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=rDCbayAHdHXzGzt8

@yummylee: But, could Tara deal with Dan? From what little I've seen her work, Tara seems relatively straight-forward compared to Dan. Even more concerning: does the GB staff even have the resources to get Tara on board? Unless she's working with GBEast or Patrick, I don't see much space in the GB HQ for another staff member. Hopefully, this speculation comes up false. Despite how little I know of her work, I did enjoy seeing to Tara interact with her co-host when showing off Phantom Dust.

In celebrating a new Patrick Klepeck typo, I made a quick pick of a quote from his otherwise excellent piece on social zeitgeist in Destiny and other multiplayer games.

It was a slapdash job, but I think it turned out great.

Either way, you guys should check his new article, Social Gaming and the Fear of Missing Out. It's currently on the front page.

I would also like to add that it's interesting to see you were able to foster enough of a connection with people online -Steam friends, even- they were willing to help you out in a time of true crisis. This must say something significant about your character as a person.

It actually encourages me to play with some people online or talk more on forums.

I came into this game as someone who's played a ton of Borderlands, and I found almost everything (from the menus and other bits of GUI to the act of firing weapons and melee attacks) to be cumbersome in comparison. I like using the jet boots to traverse around the world, but the world itself is unappealing.

For the majority of the time I spent playing yesterday, I played as a guy with a minigun. That seemed great, but his secondary fire seemed to be a shield of some sort. This would be more useful had I not been shooting at hordes of ant-like creatures that only rush the player and don't have any defenses against someone firing at them from an elevated position.

After a few hours playing as minigun dude, I played a support guy so I could play as a guy with a turret, because of course I would. After I laid down a turret using the game's clunky controls, I just stopped.

Overall, I just wanted to play more Borderlands rather than play more FireFall. Which is why I'm downloading Borderlands 2 again as I speak. I think I'll play as the Psycho character to switch things up this time.

Here's my test results. Not sure if I can trust them, however: I was pretty tired when I took the test.