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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US it's Father's Day weekend, so happy Father's Day not just to you American dads but to all you dads wherever you are.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago⁩:

  The honest answer is: we don’t know.

  The common name and interpretation is as the others already mentioned.

  But it is part of the so called black paintings of Goya. He created them at the end of his life when he was depressed, maybe insane and utterly lost all hope in humanity. He painted them inside a house on the walls and never showed them to anyone or talked about them. They were only found after his death, so we literally have no information about them.

  But they are all pretty haunting and have dark themes. And this one got memetic usage and was also often referenced and is therefore the best known one of the 14.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Summer Sale is here!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I send an email to support asking about it and they said they can’t tell me more than the second apology and quoted it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Summer Sale is here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your definition of “make good”.

  After the first disastrous comment on reddit they issued a second one on Twitter which sounded like the first one should have in the first place.

  But that’s all and they didn’t address it inside the newsletter, so for me it’s empty words without really addressing the deeper issue of how much somebody in GOG fucked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. And that is the difference between “not doing wrong” and “doing right”. Because in the latter’s case, you don’t die. Or at least… Its complicated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nethack, a very deep and actively obtous game. If you want to figure it out yourself, its complexity is nearly on a level with dwarf fortress.

  Outer Wilds does not fit 100 % your description, as it doesnt hate the player. But it is a game all about exploration and figuring stuff out yourself. And if you do things wrong, you die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far back into the human/mammal family tree does one think we would have to go to find a genetic relative that doesn't give a whit about how good their hair looks ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do birds worry about their hair? Well… They dont have hair, so probably not.

  But do birds worry about their plumage?
  Yeah, probably they do.
  Because there are many examples of birds using their plumage to attract mates, best known is probably the peacock.

  In short, my thinking is that you need sexual procreation and a certain minimum intelligence to care for their outward appearance (e.g. I don’t think ants care for outward looks). So probably all mammals and a lot of birds definitely do care “about their hair”. But insects and fish do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I havent received any newsletter from GOG addressing their fuck up. So all this is, is PR noise to placate those, who are looking for it, not a sincere apology and change of way.

  Sad to learn really, so nor more money to them it seems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trine 6: Together in Time | Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, was pretty alright as coop game.

  But I seriously wished they finally let Amadeus, Pontius and Zora retire and let new heroes go. It is getting ridiculous to unlock the same stuff for the 6th time.

  And now after watching the trailer: FINALLY. Now let’s just hope they manage to do the transition in a good way. In contrast to the 3D transition…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but they use not a small amount of psychological tricks to make you play it like a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The local supermarket takes protein bar protection. Anyway does anyone know how to open these cases ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a lot of people suffer from bladder infections. Would increase their life quality if it was indeed sterile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do studio's get people who are so called ugly or fat or pimpled face do they just take an ad out? What about if another adaptation of Christ is done do they call up actors and just offer that role⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is: yes, not a beautiful face, but for sure an interesting and memorable one. I will not forget his character when I already forgot who pretty face #256 was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for checking the math, that is indeed an ambitious goal to reach.

  Subnautica 1 and Below Zero together sold over 18 million copies, so reaching over 14 million with only one installment is doable with the bonus of being well known now, but still very ambitious.

  And just to admit: yeah I also think the CEO did an overly stupid thing with that amount of money as bonus. But he also uses ChatGPT as legal advisor, so him being stupid is something we already knew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you could see it as an investment? You know, by motivating their workers to create a very good product that then sells very well later when they are out of early access? Like a theoretical normal company should do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the articles I read: the three main developers didn’t deny that fact but said, they will give parts of their money to the others. And apparently they did do that for the initial money they got for selling the company to Krafton in the first place, so at least once they followed their word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive Interview with Remedy’s New CEO: “Alan Wake and Control Should Have Sold More"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the game was payrolled by Epic and wouldn’t even exist without them. Its different from those other instances where they threw money at a game at the end and bought the exclusivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, you put into words what always bothered me about it, but I couldn’t exactly form the words to describe it.

  Nowadays I would be glad to be able to get into the nothing box again. Always on brain it is, sadly, for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not solvable, since the logarithm base 1 of 10 is impossible to solve. 1 to the power of any number is still 1.

  Seems somebody doesn’t want to be called.

  (Also the variable f is never defined, so that’s another point to “doesn’t want to be called”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Air ☢️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First, props for actually engaging with my question and finding out.

  Now to the rest of your comment:

  That might be flippant, but does this matter at all?

  Yes? As I said: here in central Europe (and Chernobyl is not central europe, I meant parts of Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and Austria, so not really close) we still have areas, 40 years after the event, with too high radioactive levels in e.g. mushrooms for safe human consumption. I personally don’t really find that cool. Same is happening in Fukushima, but in a more local event due to the wind pushing most into the sea.
  So we just have those nuclear meltdown events and then move around outside the areas where the failures happened? That is your preferred mode of living in the future? I envision a much more positive future for mankind.

  You might as well say solar panels are deadly because some idiot didn’t tie his safety line while installing rooftop solar panels.

  Yes? That’s how it works? Those kind of things have to be considered to properly judge a technology. And thank you for proving my point. What happens if a solar cell\battery\transformator fails catastrophically? A house burns down and the people inside might die. Tragic, but nothing that stops humanity from using the local area for the next hundreds or thousands of years, depending on how bad it is. And still fucking up food resources in a wider area outside the local area depending on how lucky the non-locals are with the weather conditions.

  We sadly don’t live in a perfect world where everything goes right, so failure rates and failure modes have to be considered. In fact, those two things are kind of the main things you have to think about. At least if you want to engage seriously with a topic as engineer. And even the oh so perfect and advanced Japan was not safe. And why? Because of human error.

  In addition I would like to point your view to the current Ukraine war where Russia (and Ukraine afterwards) attacked right next to a nuclear plant, which isn’t exactly filling me with confidence. Furthermore I would like to point out the shitstained Florida Orange and his administration in the USA, which has shown time and time again their disregard for science and any and all safety measures. Do you seriously want to tell me, that you think those kind of people will never come into power again and threaten our and humanities safety because they have the ego of a planet but the brains of a mosquito? They fired the people responsible for nuclear weapons in the DoE and only afterwards realised it and tried to reverse it after the media reported their epic failure. Did you forget about those parts already?

  Do you seriously want to tell me that you engage with your life only considering the best case scenario? That is not how reality works, sadly.

  And just to add to your answer regarding the fuel: not being able to stack radioactive fuel together is exactly one of the problems, as you should know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Air ☢️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As you said: easy to answer, so not worth it to engage with seriously.

  So let me counter ask you a very similar question: how much radioactive material (weight or volume, your choice) do you think was spread in Chernobyl, that made it still a closed off region today and resulted in ongoing increased radioactive levels in mushrooms and wild boar meat in multiple regions over central Europe, that it is still not considered safe for human consumption?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loin kig⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What crack are you talking about? Do you mean the round edge between the blinker (no colour) and the back/breaking lights (Red)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unseren Nachthimmel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think they said: this is awkward?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just kill me, before my brain commits suicide after reading more of those “messages”.

  This is the second of his brain farts where I seriously thought: nope,this one has to be a troll.and surprise: it’s real!

  I mean big fat hug???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a sports drink list sodium and chloride as separate ingredients, separated by other ingredients, is there a difference between that and just listing salt as an ingredient?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that each ion could also occur from a different source salt besides sodium chloride. In a system with only pure water and pure sodium chloride, your proposal would work.

  You could have e.g. sodium chloride and sodium carbonate in there or more likely sodium citrate, since you said sports drink. Those sodium ions are the same and indistinguishable, regardless of source. People who have to limit their sodium intake should not need to calculate the sodium content of each salt and then sum that up. Instead you get one sum value directly, which people can interpret much better.

  In addition I think the reason is that they simply make a ICP-MS measurement and get one sodium cation value and the same for the other ions. Therefore they cannot combine the values,to a salt because they didn’t determine the sodium chloride salt content, only sodium cation and chloride anion content separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been waiting for this for a long time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You bring a rationality that is not appreciated in investing circles!

  (The OP is known for joking 90% of the time, if you read their account name, just disregard the opinion and assume the opposite)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of in German? Because the last “word”-part in the word determines what it really is and the separate parts of the word stay with the same meaning most of the time, so the end result is often connected to the meanings of the word parts it is made up of.

  As example:

  Fahr = driving-related Fahrt = the drive Plan = map, plan Bus = … bus

  Fahrplan = timetable for trains, busses etc Planfahrt = drive that is according to some plan (instead of outside of the planned timetable) Busfahrplan = timetable for busses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wizard of the Emerald City and it’s series from Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The first story was a nearly 100 % ripoff of The Wizard of Oz and later books also contain some ideas from the original stories from Baum, but Volkov also created a lot on his own in the sequels. And I love the world he created. I especially like that villains were portrayed in a manner that made sense. While there also were some archetypical “I’m capital E Evil” the character of Urfin was fascinating to me as a child, as it was one of the first instances of a multidimensional charactersi experienced as child. He was an overly ambitious but smart person in a fairy tale village where everybody else was content with their simple life. And that discrepancy was the start of his road to villainhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon owns nothing and is unhappy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have enough unplayed games for years. And I haven’t even bought all games that interest me on my wishlist.

  So to answer your question: I think it will work long enough till AI either implodes or is big enough that the state forces you to connect your brain implant to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨german bedtime stories be like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The translation is a bit off, OP posted the original German version and there it said that the king says not to press the red button, the one that destroys the whole world. So you are right that pressing the button will kill him too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good News! Valve apparently thinks the same and are working on a visual novel for the heroes in order to tell their stories. I’m really looking forward to that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Avoiding media because of certain themes is perfectly fine. I for example will not play games like Hatred or Nazi Games, no matter how good they could be. It’s the kind of themes they try to avoid which show how scared they are of everybody around them.