nightlily
@nightlily@leminal.space
- Comment on Duckduckgo search assist is not quite flawless 1 day ago:
New Zealand was named Nova Zeelandia by Dutch cartographers which was then Anglicised to New Zealand. It’s named after the Dutch province. Denmark had nothing to do with it.
- Comment on Duckduckgo search assist is not quite flawless 2 days ago:
It’s actually the Dutch province of Zeeland which is notable for being otherwise completely unnotable.
- Comment on Good luck, space cowboy 2 days ago:
99% of all media is garbage. Anime is not special in that sense.
- Comment on flat housing 3 days ago:
As opposed to getting into an elevator to not get elevated? Or having a „roommate“ who doesn’t live in your room?
- Comment on flat housing 3 days ago:
Does it come with dressing at least?
- Comment on Why Should I... 2 weeks ago:
Baked beans outside North America don’t have molasses, and generally only a small amount of sugar (if any). The colour in British baked beans is from tomatoes.
- Comment on German joke 4 weeks ago:
I work with one guy who is a master of the second style to the extent that even other Germans don’t notice he’s joking.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 4 weeks ago:
Tenant rights in Germany are amazing (comparatively) and there is still renter associations (Mieterverein) because landlords are scum sucking parasites who will knowingly do illegal things to tenants.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 5 weeks ago:
It’s never going to happen as modern English is six small children in a trench coat but it’d be lovely if there was a spelling reform like German went through. While there are one or two quirks (long/short unspelled vowels, no one pronounces -ig properly, Berliners insist on being weirdos), you can generally know exactly how a written word is pronounced in (standard) German.
- Comment on Date artsy girl 5 weeks ago:
The man himself said it in Twin Peaks: „Fix your hearts or die“
- Comment on Is this is a crime in your country? 1 month ago:
While it is, the only time I remember it being relevant in the news, the person responsible (Māori activist Tame Iti) got firearm charges instead:
- Comment on culture 1 month ago:
Yes the symbolism in One Man, One Jar cannot be denied.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 1 month ago:
Also extremely racist.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 1 month ago:
Unfortunately it’s not real. The account is a bot pushing far right, racist crap.
- Comment on RAM crisis averted 2 months ago:
By Earlybird right? That was a fun watch.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 months ago:
One has to assume the body of the helicopter is a perfectly spherical cow.
- Comment on Valid point 2 months ago:
Or they’re German.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yes! Free oestrogen is not actually a particularly good thing if you’re not on antiandrogens and pointless if you are. E-maxxing is sadly money down the drain.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
Most AAA studios have bonus programs in place for sales up to around a year after release - to theoretically make up for the extremely poor baseline salaries. Artists do in fact get paid for the amount of copies sold.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
The dogged ignorance of gamers as to the financial reality of game devs neglects the fact that launch profitability bonuses are the only thing that lifts many of them out of a minimum wage bracket.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
Librarians don’t get dressed up in balaclavas and hit their nearest book store to get more books. No you’re not entitled to artist‘s work for free.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 2 months ago:
„Nicht verfügbar“
- Comment on Japanese man tries to reminisce with his brothers 3 months ago:
Why many words when „Tja“, „Doch“, and „Genau“ will do?
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 months ago:
There wasn’t really much of anything broken at launch. The updates added a couple of QOL changes but the gameplay was much the same. The „insta-fail“ stealth sections were trivial, not really instantly failable and low consequence but I get that the broader market doesn’t really want stealth games with any real consequences (there were similar complaints with a trivial stealth section in FFXIV).
- Comment on The Matrix 3 months ago:
I’ve worked in open plan offices my entire 20 year career and I yearn for the cheap fabric covered mines.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 4 months ago:
Finding out that he did a photo op tearing down homeless camps definitely vindicated my initial bad vibes.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 months ago:
It’s amazing how Rockstar has gotten away with the same linear quest design with rigid boundaries for generations, thrown in a bunch of edgy boomer humour, and is the biggest media property of all time. No accounting for taste.
- Comment on Cultural impact 4 months ago:
It still made more than most blockbusters could dream of. Literally the 16th highest box office ever. We’re definitely getting a 4th.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 4 months ago:
Where is this idea that game developers are all rich coming from? Artists in the industry don’t get paid much better than a retail wage and programmers could double their salary outside it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I dunno, I could see Höcke (who we are legally allowed to call an actual Nazi) wanting to get really close with Trump, Thiel and co.