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- Comment on Games then vs now 16 hours ago:
My personal interpretation was the guy is just overly tan and potentially covered in mud, because he’s so tough and runs around on battlegrounds all day long.
Well, and the color palette is gray-brown in general, because we had an abundance of those, especially military shooters in the early HD era.
But yeah, who knows, could also be that the post originated from 4chan or the like and is just racist.
- Comment on Games then vs now 16 hours ago:
Earlier today, I signed up to a service and immediately got the “Become a member” badge.
Well, and I had signed up to upvote an existing post, so I also got the “Team player” badge in the same moment, for that singular upvote I had made.
Gamification was a mistake, especially when it is as meaningless as this.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 1 day ago:
Yeah, it feels like those consoles would be more expensive, for hardware that’s not going to be terribly stronger, to play games which don’t need the visual upgrade, and all of that wants to be paid by players with less money to spend.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 1 day ago:
For me, it’s a matter of infrastructure for regular downloads being free. I just upload the distributable into a release on Codeberg and I’m done.
Whatever is needed to provide a torrent is just additional complexity, where I’m not sure it actually benefits anyone.
Of course, if I wanted to become more independent from my code hosting platform, torrents would be something to consider. But my projects are far too unknown to get seeded, so it would still just be a direct download with additional hoops. - Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 3 days ago:
I feel like this isn’t really a new development. Back when LAN parties and local multiplayer were still a thing, games like TeeWorlds, Worms etc. were popular, because they ran on potatoes and you could often get them for free.
The actual fun then came from dicking around with or competing against your friends. The game itself does not need to be ground-breaking for that.
Hell, it technically started even earlier than that, with physical card games and board games and such. Just play them with friends and it’s fun.
- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 5 days ago:
I mean, I don’t have a ton of skin in the game here, as I don’t care much for horror games either way.
But yeah, I just assume that they say they’re cautious to calm the fans, but they actually can’t be cautious, since well, they can only really delay by a whole year at a time, and if they do that, then they have two games in the year afterwards.They did only pre-plan a handful of years, so maybe they can just delay the following games by a year each, too.
But yeah, it still just sounds like the decision-making here isn’t driven by logic or what allows publishing good games, but rather by
Mr. Krabs meme, where he says “Hello, I like money!”. - Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 6 days ago:
Oh man, and they’re gonna want to release in autumn, too, to be in time for spooky season. So, if it isn’t done at that point, they’re likely to release in an unfinished state rather than delay by a whole year…
- Comment on Why We're Boycotting Xbox (and Maybe You Should Too) - People Make Games 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Microsoft
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 2 weeks ago:
For Germany, there’s also www.gesetze-im-internet.de/index.html which lists the laws in their current version, similar to dejure, but well, the webpage is actually hosted by our government. It’s as official as you’re gonna get on the internet.
- Comment on ribbon seals! 2 weeks ago:
Neat. Makes it look like there’s four seals there.
- Comment on Fun science fact 2 weeks ago:
I think, my brain broke from reading “fun science fact” followed up by “the North Pole elves”…
- Comment on Latin names suck 2 weeks ago:
I enjoy how “turd” rhymes with “bird”…
- Comment on How I imagine mathematicians... 3 weeks ago:
Do you mean 36 = 18 there? Otherwise, I’m very confused. 😅
- Comment on How I imagine mathematicians... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, when I found the meme template, it did say that, too, but I wasn’t sure if that information is actually helpful to someone reading alt text. Personally, I only know the guy from the memes. 😅
- Comment on Two types 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I tried it in my other comment, and at first it started with “I think, folks…” which was already a dead end, because any continuation I tried would eventually need a “they”. Kind of wild that something as basic as plural can fuck you up. 😅
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- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I figured, once I actually thought about it. 😅
- Comment on multiplication alignment chart 3 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah, I studied computer science. Presumably, I’ve been taught the majority of these at some point. I just absolutely fucking hate mathematical notation.
Due to your comment, I’m guessing, top-left is multiplication then, even though I was also taught in school to use × for multiplication.
Top-center might be logical AND? Top-right might be function composition? Center-left and center-right might be ranges, unless those dots indicate multiplication, then no fucking clue. Bottom left is set intersection. And one of these circles or crosses is probably the Cartesian product.So, I mean, I do know some of this shit. In truth, I was just deriding mathematical notation with that meme, because well, “Set” is the only actual word in all that mathematical notation… 😵💫
- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 3 weeks ago:
I’m now imagining you going to the grocery store, pretending to be your twin, to get the employee discount. 🙃
- Comment on Two types 3 weeks ago:
I think, you usually post, if you got a thing to say. And thus you want to say that thing, not look for formulations all day long…
- Comment on Two types 3 weeks ago:
Mastodon instance where you can’t post the letter “e”: oulipo.social/public/local 🙃
- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 3 weeks ago:
Would love to know, too. To my European eyes, it looks like onions, potatoes, apples and tomatoes, but surely they have some different produce there. Whatever is in the bottom-left does look unfamiliar, at least…
- Comment on Who? 3 weeks ago:
But what if your kink is personal attention?
- Comment on multiplication alignment chart 3 weeks ago:
Meme with the text “I know some of these words”
Namely: lawful, true, chaotic, good, neutral and evil. - Comment on Sorry guys 3 weeks ago:
Apparently, it was in a forest in Guyana. And well, perhaps you’re imagining a filled-out spiral, but in this case, it looked like a normal ant migration at the first. They were going in 6 lanes at most and at 370 meters circumference, that just looks like a line until you follow it around.
That’s according to this source, which seems to have excerpts from his book: themountainsarecalling.earth/the-army-ant-death-s…
- Comment on Sorry guys 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Hawkward…
- Comment on Peas plz 4 weeks ago:
I believe, the problem is mainly white bread, which is what people typically have in mind for feeding ducks.
As opposed to wholegrain, it only retains the endosperm, which is mostly just carbohydrates without many nutrients: Image
I think, the lack of fiber is also particularly problematic. At least, I’ve heard that it gives them diarrhea, which probably means their guts don’t have time to extract the few remaining nutrients.
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 5 weeks ago:
If you enjoy pinball, this one is decent: f-droid.org/…/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy
- Comment on Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish? 5 weeks ago:
I would argue that a substantial reason for their popularity is also just that devs have fun when developing them.
With most other genres, you’ve seen the story a gazillion times, you’ve done each quest a thousand times etc… It just gets boring to test the game and it becomes really difficult to gauge whether it still is fun to someone who isn’t tired of it.
Meanwhile with roguelikes, the random generation means that each run is fresh and interesting. And if you’re not having fun on your trillionth run, that’s a real indicator that something needs to be added or improved.
