bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Sudden memory 14 hours ago:
Since getting Long Covid I basically live naked in my bed. Now little by little my family is taking possession of my clothes or they throw them away. We already know that I will need a completely new wardrobe if I ever get better.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 14 hours ago:
To paraphrase Pitch Meeting: “This sounds exactly like something I want to pay real money for!”
- Comment on Which way? 1 day ago:
Like most claws from animals they’d probably just wear down naturally.
- Comment on Which way? 1 day ago:
That’s so counter intuitive. Like, the things at the sides are those that hurt you. But as long as you let them do their thing it’s fine.
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 2 days ago:
She doesn’t like being included in sexual activity without her consent? Who would have thought.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 days ago:
Oh, you’ve met them.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 days ago:
My parents had some lettuce on their balcony but failed to harvest it in time so it grew taller and taller. They gave it to a friend as a birthday present and nobody could say what weird plant they had brought.
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 2 days ago:
I heard the “failed dice roll” effect from Baldur’s Gate 3 in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Unfortunately I can’t exactly remember where. I think something with Verso.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 3 days ago:
I’m curious from which angle they will tackle the movie. So many possibilities.
- Comment on Deep dish thought 5 days ago:
Not the way I make my lasagnas.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 6 days ago:
All Poets Society
Ensemble Dancing With Wolves
All of the Mohicans
- Comment on How does ads generate money for the ones who display it? 1 week ago:
They try to filter out people faking ad views. Precisely so that you don’t get more money.
As an advertiser you usually don’t talk directly to the people offering ad space but at an ad distributor like Google. They usually have techniques to minimise fraud. And often they offer to only take money for ads that actually lead to measurable goals. Then you wouldn’t pay for views but for how often that goal was reached. Those ads are usually shown less often so they might be less attractive if your sales aren’t exclusively online.
The marketing boss at one company explained it like this: “We’re basically known by every potential customer in our field. We advertise often so that they don’t get the impression we’ve ceased to exist.” So for him targeted views were more important than immediate sales.
- Comment on Bears: 3/5 1 week ago:
I protest!
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 1 week ago:
MasterCard would allow this!?! Wow, this reflects so badly upon them!
- Comment on Why don't I hear about the Fediverse very much anymore? 1 week ago:
You better start believing in the fediverse, Miss Turner.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 week ago:
They’d have to get the stuff first. Any shop caught selling them would face huge fines. And if you tried to import it you might risk confiscation.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 week ago:
It was the scientists all along!
- Comment on A great find 1 week ago:
My grandma revealed to my father at his 50th birthday that mothers actually cannot look through walls after all.
When he was a child it was a common occurrence that while their mother was in the living room and he was in the children’s room with his sister the mother would warn him to stop pestering his sister despite a wall being between the rooms. He was flabbergasted at how she knew what he was about to do. And she told him that mothers could see through walls. He never noticed the wardrobe with the mirroring glass doors in the corridor between the rooms.
- Comment on Laxative Effect 1 week ago:
Only 2025?
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
And in the end that totally backfired. I never touched it because of that even though it is supposed to be a great game.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
Is it possible that WOTC just utterly suck? Like even playing D&D for real at a table I always thought the wizard’s stuff was kinda boring. Every time our DM did something himself it was awesome.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
You have an account that earns interest?
Last time I saw that was as a child.
But then again I was able to get a loan for my house at ridiculously low interest, so I’m not complaining too much.
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
Sorry kids.
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 1 week ago:
You need a VPN if you’re German.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 1 week ago:
Didn’t scientists set up a high speed camera to see the amazing echolocation avoidance tactics of bats in action and actually ended up filming tons of collisions? I remember seeing that in some documentary.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 1 week ago:
Was it piloted by Ozzy’s ghost?
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 2 weeks ago:
First time I went into a sex shop was as a kid with my parents. They wanted to buy him a gag gift because he stayed home alone for the first time while we went on vacation. They settled on penis pasta (warning, increase in size when cooked) while I tried to appear to not be looking at anything.
Yeah, buying your kid sex stuff is generally seen as weird. But ultimately only you can say how your family does things.
- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 2 weeks ago:
Nice. Didn’t know thag PRPGs are a thing. I take it that Gothic would qualify although it is German?
What about dungeon crawlers, like Ultima, Lands of Lore or Might & Magic? To me they seem to be very distinct from isometric CRPGs.
- Comment on DAE? 2 weeks ago:
Na, The Conduit rocks!
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 2 weeks ago:
What irks me most about this is that originally the idea was to use humans for their computing powers. But they changed it because they thought audiences wouldn’t be able to understand it.
