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- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 2 days ago:
I already know of it and had it installed when getting into the game in the first place. Turned out, that even the base game with the expansions is so huge, I haven’t even finished the main quest yet :-)
But I am looking forward to setting up the latest release of TR when I am finished with the main game and start over again on the mainland!
I read that it is designed to be best played from the ground up with a new character, my by now completely overskilled mage might be a bit to powerful ;-) - Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 2 days ago:
RPGs.
I had my first encounters during the late nineties (still the old 2D/2.5D ones), got confused and overwhelmed, so didn’t consider them to be my thing.
Briefly tried out Gothic during the mid 00s, and instantly getting killed by some big wolf or bird without having the slightest idea what was going on or what I was supposed to do didn’t help.
Fast forward 20 years to the early 2020s when I started gaming again after a 15 year pause, see everyone praising Elder Scrolls, grab Oblivion as it was on sale at GOG: Completely blown away and probably hooked for life.
Currently playing Morrowind, which will last me a while still, but I am excited to revisit tons of old and newer RPG games that turned out to be exactly my thing after gaining some experience and finally understanding how to play them.
- Comment on In what medium be it print music movies or other was the first villain monologue delivered? What was it about? 2 weeks ago:
Cave fire speech is not a medium in the strict sense, though.
That means at least writing would have to have been available.
Gilgamesh epic might be a good candidate, I think. - Comment on could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app? 2 weeks ago:
in industry
I think, that is the important point here.
A private person letting Claude Code generate a spreadsheet behaving like Excel that they then uses to categorize their tea bag collection, is as far from any “industry” as possible.But even if a Company is doing it… Say, they wrote their own chat app that behaves like MS Teams and use it internally… What are the potential allegations Microsoft could raise?
(One additional info: I’m an European, while your use of the legal term “fair use” tells me that you are likely from the US - in Europe there is no way to patent “business processes” like the behaviour of an interface…)
- Comment on could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app? 2 weeks ago:
It is like me taking your bike, and using it for my own transportation
No, OPs example is not.
Rather it’s like you having seen me riding a bike and based on that building a two-wheeled device behaving in a similar way for yourself. - Comment on could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app? 2 weeks ago:
But that would only be a problem if OP wanted to sell the result.
Only using the stuff himself, as he stated, should be totally fine.
And the point is exactly, that doesn’t steal (at least if you for a moment don’t regard based on what LLMs are trained…), but use something different instead. - Comment on is the romantic period due, in any part, to the high alcohol content of their food ? 2 weeks ago:
Let me introduce you to the healthy medieval childrens breakfast, consisting of old bread dipped in beer soup served with generous amounts of diluted beer!
Apart from that, the Romantic era started around 1800, though…
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that makes some sense then!
I remember SMS still being a hot topic in the US from the (for me as an outsider) amusing blue(?) and green(?) text message bubble discussions. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not in the US either…
“US defaultism refers to the tendency for people, particularly those in the United States, to assume that the US is the default or only relevant context when discussing various topics.”
…and so the circle is closed! ;-)
- Comment on is the romantic period due, in any part, to the high alcohol content of their food ? 3 weeks ago:
I am not aware of especially high alcohol content during that period.
Apart from that, the Romanticists I know of were much to earnest and somewhat boring to likely be under heavy influence of intoxicating substances. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 3 weeks ago:
@davidgro@lemmy.world pointed out to you that OP might not be an US citizen, so suspected you to be one, ignorant of the fact that other people outside the US exist.
And you then replying to that with the US defaultism quote is funny.
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 3 weeks ago:
Whenever SMS comes up on the Internet usual people mention it being a US thing almost exclusively. You are sure? Never experienced it that way.
After all, SMS is originally an European cellular standard and has been huge thing there for decades. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 3 weeks ago:
Funnily enough @davidgro@lemmy.world suspected you of having been displaying US defaultism ;-)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Did a little search on youtube and found a documentary with English narration about the first months after the war in the rubble of Berlin.
Consist entirely of remastered and colorized original film material and is quite good and held in a neutral tone (a concerning amount of the other stuff I found was more or less obvious recent right wing propaganda…), so you might want to have a look:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKJ_PPg9aVE&t=585s - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well, regarding the able bodied people left over…:
Women. The building up again was largely done by women. Most men either were dead, maimed or still in war imprisonment.
There is a recognized German word for these women and the hard work they did: “Trümmerfrauen” (rubble women).But apart from the very hard early years, I think the transition back to “normal” went surprisingly fast.
After all, the core of Germany still was the remains of the probably most industrialized nation on Earth at the time, and a lot of the infrastructure was outside of the devastated main city centers and could be reactivated again rather quickly.Also, with the cold war starting, the winning powers (mainly the US on the one side and the USSR on the other side) took a huge interest in bringing the parts of Germany situated in their respective regions of influence back to some decent level of economic and industrial standard (as opposed to forcing the whole country to become a de-industrial agrarian country, which had been one of the proposals before).
I unfortunately don’t have any readily available links to material about the time, but I suspect that there must be a lot available.
The “Wiederaufbau” (“reconstruction”) and “Wirtschaftswunder” (“economic miracle”) time and the whole early cold war in Europe with the two Germanys and Iron curtain is fascinating time period after all… - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
So, some background from a German to give you an idea:
“Ramma Damma” is an expression in Bavarian Dialect which means “We are now tidying up!” and became popular sometime after WW2 when there was a lot of broken down stuff (whole cities being bombed to stone heaps) to move away and build something new out of it.
The disc cover is from a single released in 1975 by a band of the same name and probably is as cringy as it looks :-)
Just found it on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVpmAPbCAfs&list=RDcVpmAP…And it is even worse than I expected… 😆
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 3 weeks ago:
SMS riding signalling side-channels is stuff from the old 2G days.
Current 4G and 5G connections just use normal IP protocol to handle it, no re-use of protocol bits any more.
So it’s not a scarce resource at all by now…
Also, MMS is also increasingly a thing of the past. Most operators have already switched it off by now where I live. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 3 weeks ago:
(*Insert confused guy meme here*)
“You guys have SMS limits?”And also: Call time limits? Never have seen those since forever, as it is all just some form of VoIP nowadays anyway…
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, after thinking about it for a few seconds it becomes clear what they are trying to say.
The direct translation 1-to-1 translation to German is just really bad and funny sounding :-) - Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, looks effective!
When young, I had a blowpipe shooting sucker cup darts.
Most effective mosquito hunting device I ever owned. But left a mess of the target and was slightly cross to re-use the darts ;-)I will give translating a try, but guess some of the silly punch will get lost in translation: "Will the salt squirt [on] the beetle?
“No, the beetle stays complete for an easy cleaning” (Where “bespritzen” may also be used as a colloquial term for ejaculating on someone or something) - Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don't covet thy neighbors corn 3 weeks ago:
So why would the Baptist’s corn behave different?
/forward => comparisons-that-make-no-sense-at-all
- Comment on "you should come to…" 🤚you're obviously already in hell 1 month ago:
I feel slightly offended! As if I would not be c…
*fingersnip* - Comment on Is there a way I can get someone or some company to get me books that are illegal in the US? And if so how would I go about it without losing half or all my money? 2 months ago:
Now I am interested, what book would that be?
Wikipedia banned books list shows me nothing currently still banned?
I see a bunch of expected ones for my home country Germany, mainly Holocaust Denials, which is illegal here, but that’s not the case in the US. - Comment on "you should come to…" 🤚you're obviously already in hell 2 months ago:
“This is the Bad Place!”
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 2 months ago:
Shetland Pony has entered the chat.
But then again, Shetties are not stupid… - Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 2 months ago:
I would argue the horses not being sorted in the “stupid” row…
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 2 months ago:
While I am not that pessimistic, I guess you have a point (Looking at the Skyblivion release, that has been delayed…)
But meanwhile I am playing some Tamriel Rebuild content and feel slightly more optimistic again ;-) - Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 2 months ago:
Anyone else think porting a 25 year old game to a 15 year old game engine is kinda funny?
I’m not quite sure I would call it “funny”.
“Surprising” or “confusing” perhaps.
And when you know a a bit more, a little “sad” might also come to the mix.
There are reason after all, those people don’t have switched their attention to newer games by now… - Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 2 months ago:
It will still be some time until release, though.
But I am fine with it, most of Tamriel Rebuild is still waiting and I also expect Skyblivion to be there before it :-)
