Kazumara

@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It had a bit of narrative (killing the corrupted son of the traitor out of mercy and to save the world, killing the corrupted angel like beings because they are a threat to humanity), but you’re right, what really drives you is the fun gameplay loop and the challenge of escalating difficulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Journalist writes “I’m predictably both intrigued and worried that 11 bit think there’s less interest now in games with a pronounced narrative component.” But then does not detail any attempt at getting a comment from the studio… What gives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it bleeds, we can kill it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I misunderstood, I thought you meant scumbag CEOs were typically men

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it bleeds, we can kill it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost, there is also Elizabeth Holmes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The End

  Would have been perfect if you said

  Thai End

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your perspective.

  For a moment I was wondering if it’s the similarity to the Israeli currency Shekel, but that doesn’t make sense to me either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Thigh”, actually :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rudolf Schenkel (yes really)

  What? What is weird about that name? Maybe I’m too German native speaker to get this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate hate hate stuart little⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Remy pilots a human mecha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Unfortunately, they aren’t used widely and consistently enough. Even in the press. So you frequently have to second guess what you’re reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterstrike Source was later and still had these tight knit communities on the gun game and surf community servers. There wasn’t any matchmaking in the client either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some people put anime girl pic to their bio?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what a weeb masquerading as a Linux nerd would say!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some people put anime girl pic to their bio?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet his penguin is from “A Place Further than the Universe”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's... normal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on who’s writing the laws. Sometimes crime is moral.

  With the resurgence of chauvinist parties who ignore human rights this is important to keep in mind at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tinkered plenty even when using Windows haha. I even have a Windows 98 and Windows XP virtual machine for some old things, but everything I care about seems to have a modern HD release, a userpatch or can be hooked with dxwnd, so I don’t use them anymore at the moment.

  But yeah probably the long term solution is Linux. Personally I wouldn’t run Windows 7 anymore. The unfixed CVE list has become quite long. I just went checking out of principle, because I don’t like this conflation of PC gaming with only Steam.

  I still haven’t made the jump to gaming on Linux, unfortunately. Although I’ve been running a dual boot for the last 8 years or so, because I used Linux for my studies, use it for my work, and for hosting my game servers on a second computer, so I would be in a prime position… but so far I have just gone the way of least resistance, which is Windows 10 at the moment.

  But I have a deadline now: October 2025. Just need to figure out the best distro, I don’t think I’ll use my existing Fedora KDE install for this. Maybe Arch, or one of these new immutable distros, that might be neat for when different games require different versions of libraries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah sorry I hadn’t heard that they switched to Java 21 with 1.20.5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The title of that article is kind of weird. It’s just wrong to claim they are dead for gaming because of a lack of steam.

  Anyone can just get Witcher 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Stardew Valley, or Anno 2070 from GoG and for each of them you can game for another 50 hours without needing steam. Or get Minecraft from their page directly and play for 100 hours. This is all without going to any retro titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Zeebo, only released in Mexico and Brazil. More info in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  looks like a console from a 90s pop music video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the day I’d say. Option 1 if they’re feeling row major, option 2 for column major days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewel Beetles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides “AI and facetuned images” from OP, another supernormal stimulus that comes to mind is fat anime tiddies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For my part I didn’t mind that so much in Cyberpunk 2077, I just played it multiple times with different V characters.

  But then I can see that it’s a big time investment and not good for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Divine Dick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Divine full-package futanari confirmed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chloë Grace Moretz Comes Out as a ‘Gay Woman’ in Early Voting Post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit, after her dating Kate Harrison for a while and them probably even exchanging rings of some sort, this isn’t that much of a surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Summary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Bilbo Baggins My Balls”

  Good group name though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people are willing to accept lower pay for a remote role, making it a highly effective tool for companies to leverage against workers.

  Interesting way to look at things. You could then look at it like this: Allowing people to work from home was essentially a raise. And now they are rescinding it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decline in arable land⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does Ireland have such a small sliver of areable land? I thought it was “the green island”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes we have some general contracts for whole sectors as well that ususally contain better conditions (called Gesamtarbeitsvertrag GAV).

  My workplace, also IT, also gives 180 Swiss Franks a month to help with lunch (much appreciated in Zürich, shit’s expensive). There are some tax rules concerning workplaces either offering cafeterias or lunch subsidies. I believe 180 is the most they can give you before it counts as a separate form of income. I think this is common for office jobs, but I also don’t have hard numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are various exceptions in Switzerland too, I think the weekly maximum if going over your contract is 50h and that can either be paid with 25% extra, or compensated by free time in another week. And then even this maximum can be surpassed by another 2h/d, for a real max of 60h, if there is exceptional work that needs to be done, also paid with 25% extra, or compensated by free time in another week.

  It seems a little complicated to me, lukily I haven’t really had to deal with those protections in the law yet, since my workplace is pretty sensible overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that’s interesting, thanks.

  Here in Switzerland if a shift is longer than 5.5 hours it needs to have at minimum 15min unpaid break for lunch by law. Longer than 7 hours means 30min unpaid lunch and longer than 9 hours means an hour unpaid lunch by law. Additionally if the split is uneaven such that the period before or after lunch is over 5.5 hours, then you recursively get another break following the above rule by law. But these are all unpaid and do not count as hours worked.

  The usual reality for typical 8.2 h/d office jobs is that people take half an hour to an hour of lunch, unpaid, and companies allow two 15 min paid coffee breaks, one in the morning, one in the afternoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You get paid for lunch? Where is that? We don’t either in Switzerland