bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on A Utah city is removing raised traffic-calming measures on a busy road after backlash from residents 2 days ago:
In my area they are often accompanied by wooden policeman stands to indicate the new obstacle. Though they usually take them away after a year or so and only sometimes leave behind a proper sign.
- Comment on When it’s none of your business, you should keep scrolling. 2 days ago:
Mathe Mann?
- Comment on If America and Mexico did an all our "WAR" against the cartels look like? 2 days ago:
Reminds me of the time I accidentally a bottle.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 4 days ago:
Warwick Davis (best known for his roles as Wicket the Ewok or Willow) told this story from when he was an extra at the pod race in Star Wars Episode 1.
He had an awesome looking cocktail and he made the fatal mistake of taking three large sips in the first take. And of course he had to repeat that action every take. And they had to do many takes. Trouble was (apart from the enormous amount of liquid) that the cocktail tasted absolutely awful. But as a professional he stuck to his role of course.
Those takes never made it into the movie. They aren’t even available as cut scenes or still photos.
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 5 days ago:
Murder chicken.
- Comment on Indian university faces backlash for claiming Chinese robodog as own at AI summit 1 week ago:
With the amount of times I’ve heard /e/OS and others being referred to as a non-Android mobile Linux I can hardly blame them.
- Comment on youtube shorts bingo 1 week ago:
Aren’t your shorts made from stuff you watch? This should be a reflection of your own history, OP.
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 1 week ago:
The release of the Gothic Remake in June. Hope I will be healthy enough to play.
- Comment on Ruining my life 1 week ago:
Praying should be about as effective as the meth.
- Comment on Name it 2 weeks ago:
Minecraft
Also Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2
- Comment on Name it 2 weeks ago:
Even 2016 and Eternal have pretty moderate requirements for their fidelity.
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 2 weeks ago:
Something something Bell’s Theorem. I don’t really understand it but that one was supposed to be counterevidence to hidden variables.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 2 weeks ago:
Current Blizzard wouldn’t have cancelled Ghost.
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to be taken more seriously you should dial back on the excessive punctuation and dial up proper capitalisation. You don’t need to have perfect grammar but putting the effort in makes your posts easier to read.
For simple talking communities see !casualconversation@piefed.social. If you really want to blog into the void I think something like Mastodon is better suited.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 weeks ago:
Whelp, guess that means we can be sure to find out about mass killings in El Salvador or Alligator Alcatraz or wherever right away because it will be so obvious.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 weeks ago:
But she did not pretend it didn’t happen. Where are you getting that from? She just never saw it, or at least the full extent. She did see starved prisoners. She saw the furniture at the opera. Just because the killings happened in a part of the city she wasn’t allowed to visit doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
And propaganda was trying their darnedest to keep it that way for most people. Even high ranking officers were boasting about how they were just about to beat the Sowjets the day before they retook the city.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 weeks ago:
I just re-read that. The official story they got was that they were from a Sowjet prison. Not even a German one.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 weeks ago:
She lived in the non-Jewish parts outside of the proper city and worked in an ex-Sowjet party building. When she arrived it still had Trotzki, Lenin and Stalin statues. And even then she couldn’t move freely and had to give the correct passwords when moving from one part of the city to another.
And still life went on in Minsk. Most people there just had to keep on living. Farmers still regularly brought wares. Even theatres and cinemas were still working even when good food was scarce and expensive.
She did mention seeing fires at night in the distance. That was officially attributed to the rebels. That was easy to believe for her since some of her colleagues died from hidden bombs.
The closest she came to the actual crimes was when she got a new bed from the storage where all the furniture from the murdered people were stored. Though back then those were from “defeated Russians”.
With the way she didn’t shy away from describing atrocities she did see (before the Nazis, from family members and of course during the war) I believe that she did not know what was happening in the ghetto. The way she wrote she didn’t even know when she wrote it that these people were killed right in the city. She (and me before you showed me) thought there was a camp near the city. But not a whole part of the city itself.
I’d honestly like to see an editorialised edition of her memoirs published that showed what really happened around her. To put it all into perspective.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 weeks ago:
She did not call them rapists and murderers. That’s what they told her. That’s the lie they told people outside of the camps to justify any cruelty. In this instance the extended lie was that they were coming from some other “normal” prison and not from the camp.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 2 weeks ago:
She was naive. She asked a friend who was about to have an audience with Hitler to tell him about how undersupplied the camp in Minsk is. Because in her mind surely the Führer wouldn’t let these people needlessly suffer. Hitler told the friend not to listen to “those rumors”.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
My grandma worked for the Nazis near a bad concentration camp near the end of WW2. She knew that it was “bad” in the camp. And when she got some really malnourished “rapists and murderers” to help with moving some furniture she didn’t associate them with the camp.
The worst she experienced was a Jewish secretary being murdered by her boss because he “lost his temper”. Happened while she was away so she didn’t know more.
And by her account most of the guys were huge idiots. And still she only found out about the real extent of the camps after the war.
- Comment on Hey, how you doin' lil mama, let me whisper in your ear... 3 weeks ago:
Can I get a mnemonic for that like Luigiana? Along with the cook frying Kentucky that would make four states I can remember.
- Comment on Even their fish are fucked up 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t just about every banknote contaminated with cocaine?
- Comment on I sometimes worry that most of my posts from lemmy.dbzer0.com have been sorta doomeristic. Does anyone have any good Lemmy communities that would act as palate cleansers? 3 weeks ago:
!wholesome@reddthat.com !aww@lemmy.world !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 3 weeks ago:
XWVM to play X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 3 weeks ago:
Of course, if you don’t look up any builds a first playthrough of BG3 will be indistinguishable from one with a loot randomizer.
Obligatory, if you do want a roguelike BG3 you can get that with the Trials of Tav mod.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t know exactly what it is but I always feel like I don’t have enough overview in those. Like I can’t really make out the enemies. Apart from that I don’t really like the gem system. I think PoE 2 had something new but PoE2 is too hard on my brain unfortunately.
D2 exactly hits that sweet spot of simplicity and new mechanics for me. Although nothing beats the atmosphere of D1.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
D2R even dropped LAN play and backwards compatibility with classic D2. Those had both been promised during development.
And I would also like to play D4. The atmosphere in the beginning is great, really felt like Diablo 1. But apparently the rest of the game is more like D3 again so I’m not that salty that I can’t play.
There are a lot of games I simply don’t have the brainpower or energy for because of !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I have started Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect. But they’re too wordy for me. And I can’t bring myself to play them in a way where I don’t fully exhaust every conversation.
I hope I will be able to stomach the Gothic Remake. The original is one of my favourite games ever.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 3 weeks ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3