Wrufieotnak
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- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 1 week 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? 1 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Most often the changes I saw till now is the missing (red) cabbage and the bread is different.
But yeah, I’m with you: I haven’t yet found one that is better or even equal to the real one
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
I want to protest the Döner one. Other countries sell something they call Döner, but the similarity is superficial at best to a real one. It’s a fun little thing I do on vacation in other European countries: try to find a “Döner” and see what travesty they give me
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 month ago:
For me it was Warframe. I adore the style of the game and it’s lore. The gameplay and variety of the different weapons and characters gave me a lot of fun playtime. But the way RNG is used and how timed special missions are abusing dark patterns became more and more clear, the longer I played.
And at a certain point I realized the addiction it nurtured in me and I had to stop cold turkey and never touched it again afterwards.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 2 months ago:
Normally I would agree, but this one does have really strange occurrences. First there is no camera feed, then the camera feed released is strangely missing exactly the time around his death. Like how many strange occurrences does it take for you to say: wait a minute, why is it so hard for them to prove everything happened as they said.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 2 months ago:
I could also only increase the playback speed to 2x at maximum. Firefox and no YouTube specific add-ons are used.
- Comment on "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks 2 months ago:
For sure. Is not like the bosses at other big companies are magically better. They select for the same criteria, so they get the same crap.
And honestly, AAA industry should go down for 99% of them. The way they treat their workers is not something that should be supported.
- Comment on "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks 2 months ago:
Again: And who is responsible for that innovation? The workers or the bosses?
- Comment on Deadlock Major Update — Old Gods, New Blood 2 months ago:
Looks interesting, especially the patron design. But the new heros look more like overwatch than deadlock too me, the faces look too pretty.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 3 months ago:
I mean Cuba was a crisis and dangerous for sure, and the USSR pushed it to the near breaking point, but I still find it funny that the USA got nervous when strategic rockets were close to them, something that was true for Moscow nearly the whole time.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 3 months ago:
Both sides were the aggressors in general and each side had moments where they were the more active part leading to confrontations.
I don’t think the cold war can be described as one single conflict with a clear aggressor, which is the whole point why it is called a cold war.
I’m not knowledgeable enough if there are statistics about which side was more in the wrong or did more aggressor stuff.
But for me, knowing that the USA did the Iran and CIA stuff while the USSR did Afghanistan and KGB stuff is enough for me to decide both were elitist assholes that didn’t care for normal humans but just wanted to increase their own power.
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 3 months ago:
True, and it still doesn’t include that the boot industry has no interest in building proper snow safety but just to make it as cheap as possible and if the boots fail, the state should pay you for your wet and cold feet.
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 3 months ago:
No, your example is wrong.
It’s like saying nobody should go into the snow because it can’t be 100% ensured that all shoes are snowready.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 3 months ago:
Because tablets are not normal PCs, but rather big smartphones, which are expected to have cameras.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 3 months ago:
While you are right in general, Fullmetal Alchemist isn’t an example of glorifying Nazi Germany. The country is a military dictatorship, they committed a genocide while conquering a neighbouring region and are not portrayed as the good guys. The war and genocide was shown to have long lasting bad effects both on the victims and the perpetrating soldiers. And the leadership is literally working for the big bad.
Just wanted to clarify, as this is one of the few examples where they play the Nazi card straight instead of going: “nice uniform and marching music”.
- Comment on ¡! FREE REFILLS !¡ 3 months ago:
These things are mostly used for dry, waterfree solvents.
We do proper science here, which explodes and/or becomes useless if it sees even one water molecule. So no, no water! Begone with your aquatic sin!
- Comment on Tyranny: Recommended starting character with a mind to story, not ease of combat? 3 months ago:
I would also advise to go with magic, since you can generate your own spells here, which is really fun. And you will have a high Lore stat, which will help you experience more lore background of this fantastic works.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 3 months ago:
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Still wakes the Deep
Indika
Blue Prince
Hades II
Another Crab’s Treasure
Animal Well
- Comment on 'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 3 months ago:
True, but the picture tells a story on its own.
- Comment on Change my Mind 3 months ago:
You are right, but Bloodlines 2 is a bad example. I only heard bad things about that game prerelease, more advertisement would not have convinced me to buy it. And the fans were rather taken aback by the changes to gameplay, namely focus on action and removal of RPG elements.
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 4 months ago:
Again: in the past they couldn’t, even if they tried, fuck up the whole biosphere of our planet as we are doing right now.
So no, not same as always. The underlying principle yes, but the scale was physically not possible before.
- Comment on Man critical after being mauled by dog in Sydney apartment 5 months ago:
Honestly I’m just glad it’s the owner themselves this time and not an innocent bystander.
It is a deserved fate for the owner, even if he did everything correctly. For the reason you said.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 5 months ago:
The number was reassigned because Bond was not in the MI6 at that time, yes.
- Comment on When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers? 5 months ago:
Can you give me directions where that planet is with the same countries?
