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- Comment on Poor Jeremy 4 hours ago:
Damn, so that’s what it feels like to be left-handed…
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
It’s pretty much just a hook into infodumping about medieval cities…
- Comment on Brand new bag 5 days ago:
You know what you can also inside a backpack? Bags. And inside those bags? Even more bags. Basically, you can carry infinite carrying capacity in your backpack! 🙃
- Comment on how to dust properly 6 days ago:
Sorry, I meant a mop. Couldn’t think of the word and wanted to express that it should just be damp, not actually wet…
- Comment on how to dust properly 6 days ago:
I can recommend wiping the floor regularly with a damp cloth. Removes a lot of the dust from the room and is relatively quick to do. You don’t have to catch all the corners for that either.
You may want to add a bit of lemon acid to the water every few months or so, since the water will leave behind limescale when it dries, which will make your floor less shiny.
- Comment on Menger cheese = string cheese 1 week ago:
There’s these “ontological arguments”, which are basically folks trying to prove the existence of a god by reasoning with pure logic, so without relying on evidence. And they all sound like that. 🫠
One of the classics goes roughly like this:
- There is good and bad. (Which is one hell of an axiom.)
- A creature can exist which unifies all good properties. (Yet another hell of an axiom.)
- Because this creature has all these good properties, it would be even gooder, if it did exist.
- Since this creature unifies all good properties and its existence is itself a good property, it therefore must exist.
These arguments are also always funny, because the same logic can be used to “prove” all kinds of things. For example, a perfect island can exist, therefore it must exist. 🙃
As far as I can tell, the arguments don’t actually get better over time either, but rather just more convoluted, to make it less obvious how silly they are… - Comment on Drag 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s kinda what makes storms scary…
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 week ago:
Yeah, it reads like they wanted to make that reality show and then just slapped a random franchise on it for PR reasons.
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 1 week ago:
Yeah, window cleaner or alcohol in general has the advantage that it dissipates, making it much less likely for it to get into the electronics and shortcircuit something.
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 1 week ago:
It’s not yet in its enshittification phase, so right now it seems like a good deal. But before you know it, blog posts there will be blocked by all kinds of overlays and whatnot, like they are on Medium these days.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
I think, this was on my mind: pt.mezzo.moe/w/waYE4NkZGpqQ9qpW1th1ga?start=15m10…
I don’t know, with this example in particular, I find it quite disruptive, too, that there’s explanations of the game mechanics and then the character barges in with some funky expression and some rhethoric question à la “And then I’m that thing?”. Yeah, dude, did you not listen to the tutorial ghost explaining that just then?
In fairness, this is a game that’s pretty much story-first with a bit of puzzling in between. And it was only that Let’s Play that I saw; I would’ve almost certainly skipped that game, if I came across the store page, since I assume, it would’ve been obvious that it’s a story game.
Well, and also in fairness, this is a pretty fringe game. There’s a decent chance that it isn’t considered ‘good’ in other aspects either.In general, I don’t want to be too critical. Not every game has to be for me. Well, most don’t have to be, since I don’t play an insane variety of games to begin with. But yeah, still just wanted to throw that into the conversation as a pet peeve of mine, since there’s (perhaps less egregious) examples of that in a variety of games.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
I think, you’re perhaps conflating story with gameplay here? I do think, it’s good to incorporate the tutorial into normal gameplay. So, you start playing the actual game right away and get told the controls as you need them. And sure, if it is a story-driven game, that probably means there has to be a story segment before all that to explain why you’re starting on this journey to begin with. So, I’m not saying I want the tutorial to be an entirely separate thing, like it typically was in the 90s.
I’m mainly just complaining about when it’s too intermixed, because I’d like to be able to skip all the text boxes where they’re rambling about the story. If they switch mid-sentence to explaining what you’re supposed to do and what buttons to press, then I’m likely to miss that while skipping through the story bits.
Preferably, there’s a separate info box on screen after the dialogue ends (which is a good idea for several reasons), but it could also just be highlighted, if they want it to be within the dialogue. - Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
I actually reinstalled it myself after writing that comment. 😅
I only really started to fully appreciate it, when I learned that drifting gives you a boost. So, if you’re going around curves, you pretty much always want to drift, which then kicks your speed up once you stop drifting. Maintaining a higher speed than your car normally goes, is vital for beating the harder difficulties.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
I really don’t like when games intermix tutorial with story. Unless the story is the main attraction, I cannot get myself to care for it. And then having to click through tons of story texts to pick out the tutorial parts, that is just cumbersome.
I also have to say, though, that it really doesn’t help my immersion when the fairy, that just told me she’s from the clan Uhgaloogah, then tells me to press the X button on my controller.
If you put in a lot of effort, you can make it credible that the controller is part of the game world and the fairy would know the buttons. But most games do not put in that effort. And then, IMHO it is a lot less immersion-breaking when the game just shows an info box, where we both know that it isn’t part of the game world. - Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
Mario-Kart-at-home by the way: supertuxkart.net
Buy now for $0 and get Rocket-League-at-home for free on top!
(It’s one of the game modes in SuperTuxKart. 🙃)But yeah, $80 is kind of wild, even just because it’s fundamentally still a cart game. You pretty much need a group to regularly play it with, otherwise you won’t get your money’s worth out of that.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, from what I understand, countries try to regulate the use of antibiotics, so that we don’t blow the most potent ones, a.k.a. new ones, right away. But on some level, we’re reliant on regularly discovering new antibiotics, which isn’t great.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 2 weeks ago:
and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans.
But diseases jump from non-humans to humans all the time?
At least, Wikipedia chooses to spell out the sentence “Most human diseases originated in non-humans” and lists a who’s who of pandemics as such: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoonosisOr do you mean something different?
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 weeks ago:
Ackshually, gram is a measurement of mass, not of weight. And because a gram of ice takes up more volume than a gram of water, it is likely to float on top of the water, where it is slightly further away from the center of gravity, therefore experiencing less strong gravity. As such, a gram of ice likely weighs less than a gram of water. :P
- Comment on Crude! 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely how I feel sometimes. Like, I’ll usually just say yes, so that we can move on, but I have made the joke “How would I know?” quite a lot of times already, because it’s much closer to the truth…
- Comment on Games then vs now 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 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? 5 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! 5 weeks ago:
Neat. Makes it look like there’s four seals there.
- Comment on Fun science fact 5 weeks ago:
I think, my brain broke from reading “fun science fact” followed up by “the North Pole elves”…
