Kazumara

@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Disco Elysium for me. Too many open directions. Too much player agency. I had no idea where I should go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes same here. I did watch a bit of someone else playing the one with the two Mexican boys running away, but never really had the motivation to play it myself. I guess I just found time power to be much more interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a broke vampire, just say that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, and wasn’t there a Vampire who became crime scene photographer but had a vial of blood in his chest pocket. Just in case the flash would kill him, the blood would instantly drip onto his ashes and revive him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, I played it the first time when I was 26, and I’m a straight Swiss and German man. Freaking love playing as Max. I played it two more times after that, and also the Chloe focused prequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I think I know a good one! Haven, and it’s currently 60% off. You play as a couple who escaped a controlling society to a foreign planet.

  There is a combat element, and I don’t think you can avoid it, but what you do is essentially clean the corruption off the local wildlife, instead of killing. Don’t know if that works for you, but it’s worth giving it a look I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a broke vampire, just say that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  at least constantly struggling for recognition, and are exploited as night shift workers in the emerging industry.

  This reminds me a bit of Reg Shoe, leading dead rights activist in Ankh-Morpork.
  Of course the Discworld is more funny, less grimdark, compared to your ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope these CEO’s get their reckoning some way some day.

  They seem to think it’s all just business and cruelly wielding power is no issue, but I think they overestimate how isolated they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes it’s for personal use, true. But the meaning of personal item as it relates to customs means an item that you take with you on the travels for your own use, so the assumption is that it leaves and re-enters your country with you. So that there is no net export or import involved.

  My claim, if asked, would have been, that I always use two phones and I just took both with me when I went to Germany and took both back to Switzerland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From Switzerland shopping in Germany is pretty worth it. Their VAT is 19% ours is 8.1% and on top of that their prices are generally cheaper. It’s a real thorn in the side of Swiss retailers. They lobbied to have the VAT free value lowered, since this year it’s 150 CHF instead of 300 CHF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that once, when the Nexus phones weren’t available in Switzerland but they were in Germany. I ordered it to a location close to the border that specifically offers a postal address as a service and went to pick it up.

  The correct thing to do would have been to go to the border agents, get a confirmation that I’m bringing the merchandise out of the country and pay the Swiss VAT. With the confirmation I could theoretically get the VAT back from the seller I paid it to. Except that was Google and they weren’t intending to sell it for export, so I doubt they would have helped with that.

  What I did was unpack the phone, throw away the packaging, put my old phone in one jeans pocket and my new one in the other, and drive back over the boarder. Having two phones isn’t that weird, so I thought I could get away with claiming them as personal items if I was asked. But I wasn’t even stopped (they only do sampling at the crossing) so it was easy. But it was technically smuggling. Anything over 200 CHF needs to be declared and VAT paid.

  My mom once went clothes shopping to Austria and didn’t declare them. The border guard asked what she bought. She claimed clothes, but not over the limit. He was like no way, I know that brand, they must be worth more, checked the stuff, and discovered it was worth too much. She had to pay VAT plus a pretty decent fine.

  I only crossed the US Canadian border once in each direction, but to me it seemed like they were way more strict and thorough then here in Europe within Schengen. So I’d be scared I think. But overall I still think your plan could work if you’re careful with it. Maybe gaming laptop would be suspicious if you went for a one day trip, would be better if it was longer. But a phone not really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t Krautchan die 5 years ago or so? To be replaced by Kohlchan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct reaction, good on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreOffice is also more compatible that Microsoft Word. It helped me and a friend to save his grandpa’s old writings that were stored in AppleWorks (.cwk) files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inconsistent naming for insert row/columns in the German MS Office⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using Libre Office at my job. Whenever I can get away with it I use the open document format as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Trump Performance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He boast about his excellent relationship with Kim Jong-Un, it’s understandable that your friends and their approach to personal greatness would rub off on you after a while 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha fair enough, I was thinking of multiple little ones not singular big ones. Think of bunny droppings or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Make everyone shit rounded rare earth metal cylinders. Suddenly we don’t need Cobalt and Lithium mines any more and the worst aspects of having to poop are solved too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trapped in the middle with u⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha look at that, it’s the same way I’m looking at people dropping the “c” from a German “sch”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He just said there weren’t any in Dutch on his niche topic. Your suggestion to learn more Dutch doesn’t make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, page 4, seventh line from the bottom. That’s the one in the screenshot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill issue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the old WCFAN (we couldn’t find a name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blobfish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2004

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Drops To 40 FPS At 720P On The Next-Gen Nvidia RTX 5070Ti⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries, I just wanted to make sure. I could totally have missed stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  25 years so… Tarzan? Lilo and Stitch? The Emperor’s New Groove?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Drops To 40 FPS At 720P On The Next-Gen Nvidia RTX 5070Ti⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware of:

  • Unbalanced power over 12VHPWR including some melting in some cases.
  • Missing ROPs on 5080.
  • 5070 not reaching 4090 performance levels because that was just a marketing lie.

  None of those really seem to apply. Were there any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to order a part before the tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that’s quite nice of them as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to order a part before the tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any news about your part Sir_Kevin? I’m curious if anything has happened since Trump already backpedaled a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to order a part before the tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like having the option was not that wrong with the partial exemptions that have already come in.