French Guyana isn’t in Europe either and nobody cares, so there’s precedent.

Played the demo a bit. I really enjoyed the mechanics illustrated here. Felt like a modern roguelike with a license I’d enjoy.

The one thing that stood out negatively for me was the art direction. Especially the character design. It’s one thing to not have the original faces, which is fair. I guess it’s some rights oddities with actors and actresses owning their own likelihood or something. But the movement is stiff and they just feel kind of… I don’t know, “dead” would be a hard word, but it kind of fits. I would have preferred a more comic-like appearance or something. Maybe a bit like the tf2 characters? That wouldn’t require the high budget that’s needed to make a human look decent which then never works anyway and always ends up deep in the uncanny valley. I also would have preferred a more abstract look of the systems, like an astrometrics map or something, with views that show actual models more true to scale (e.g. like the look of homeworld).

I’m too busy to play video games right now anyway, so I guess I’d wait for a sale either way, but it still feels like the game could have worked better for me, personally, if a few decisions in the design process had been made differently.

We really shouldn’t. For every watt of electricity you produce, you’ll get a hydrogen-powered car only a fraction of the distance of a battery-powered car. People are already lamenting how all those batteries should be charged, adding another factor (that’s >1) to that equation will only make the transition even harder.

Just build batteries in Europe.

• Kein Offlinezugriff über git etc, ganz toll wenn man im Zug sitzt oder so.
• kein branching wie bei git, stattdessen komplette Intransparenz, wer was editiert hat, wenn mehrere gleichzeitig gearbeitet haben. Wir hatten auch schon Fälle, wo nach paralleler Bearbeitung, wenn ein User zwischendurch offline war, viel Inhalt verschwunden ist, was imho in sich schon ein dealbreaker ist.
• bestimmt unser eigenes Problem, aber single sign on hat bei mir unter Linux mit FF bei confluence noch nie funktioniert
• wir wollten das Wiki dann auch als DB für Fotos von Events benutzen. Zu viele Fotos als Anhänge von Seiten machen dann aber die Indizierung serverseitig so lahm, dass die IT uns dann angerufen hat was da los wäre, unser mickriges wiki würde über die Hälfte der Zeit aller wikis im Betrieb verschlingen und ob wir das bitte lassen können. Jetzt müssen wir die Fotos wieder woanders haben, ganz toll.
• Die Syntax ist fürn Arsch. Mediawiki ist schon nicht toll, aber dieser XML Kram von confluence ist echt unbenutzbar,
• was nicht so schlimm wäre, wenn nicht der wysiwyg-Editor die Seiten ständig so zerballern würde, dass man mit dem kaum noch etwas bearbeiten kann, bis man den Code wieder geradegezogen hat.

Aber das eigentliche Problem, neben dem ganzen Murks da, ist, dass sie das on-premise-hosting abgeschaltet haben, uns erst in die cloud überreden wollten und dann als “Kompromiss” für zumindest noch ein paar Jahre uns auf die datacenter-Edition haben umziehen lassen, was im Prinzip nur bedeutet hat, dass sie um Faktor 10 teurer geworden sind, damit wir denen nicht alle unsere Daten schenken. Typisches Ding von vendor lock-in, der dann halt gemolken wird. Für den move alleine gehören die echt zum Mond geschossen. Drei Kreuze wenn wir von den Räubern weg sind.

Confluence :(

Aber weil’s so 'ne shit show ist benutzen Leute mit technischem Hintergrund zunehmend md im gitlab. Und eben gitlab selbst. Immerhin gibt’s das. Lustigerweise auch direkt ohne Umwege über proprietären Mist direkt von einem viel zu lange benutzten svn (uuurrrgs) da hin.

Well, you know, the question was why that guns topic is so much more important than all the other atrocities going on. You see the relation in there? This idea of “I get there’s topic A, but why the fuck would that matter more than actually relevant topics B through ZZ?” Any relevant answer would thus have to establish some relation between A and any other topic and maybe generalise this relation a bit.

Your answer was “guns and v8 make dick hard”. More or less. Which is a not too elaborate but somewhat fair statement in itself, but, you know, kind of absolutely doesn’t answer my question. Alas, you missed the topic. Happens to the best. But don’t get all mad if you don’t get your upvote then, pal.

No worries mate… I’m on Jerboa that doesn’t really display the alt text, at least not in a way that is enough on the nose for me to just see it somewhere ;). I dig the album and really like the minimalism of the vinyl cover… just never saw it before, so I thought it just stood out how the title seems a bit shorter here.

I get designing a different cover artwork. Removing like 95% of the title seems an odd choice though.

As I said,

I’m not from the US

so I act fully within my moral frame of reference to consider having that appended to a constitution as utterly insane.

But, you know, that Bill of Rights also includes amendments about e.g. requiring warrants to enter homes or due process and I guess there’s a whole bunch of laws about the stuff trump does I mentioned or didn’t mention above. But yeah, guns are obviously special or something.

If that’s the reason for guns and huge cars, then it’s one of the best takes I’ve ever seen for regulating the fuck out of both.

There are plenty of other ways to feel empowered, big boy. Go downhill mountain biking. Learn martial arts. Become a part time lumberjack. Whatever. But if you just need hobbies that make you pound your chest, there’s really no reason to pick those that kill people or the planet.

Love her music…

But the title of the album was

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he’ll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring There’s no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo, you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land And if you fall it won’t matter, cuz you’ll know that you’re right

When did they shorten it to just the first three words? I know it was always abbreviated as “when the pawn” but I always thought the album itself had the full title on it?

I’m not from the US and only have a vague understanding of the dynamics on the other side of the pond. But damn would it be funny if of all the things he does this would be his downfall. Like, there’s a million reasons not to let that guy near any public office… The pedophilia, the ridicule of disabled people, the dementia, the dismantling of democracy and its institutions, the treatment of women, the lying, you know this list could go on forever. But now there’s this one thing he says that any other country on earth regards as a reasonable and sensible thing to enforce, which is “people shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns around all the time” and suddenly he has a problem with important voter demographics. Like… this is a problem now? Unlike… *wildly gesturing at everything*…?

The real question is why I would play this when there’s Into The Breach.

I thought the map was made for English speakers that wanted to know the local versions of “John”. That’d be Johannes.

Ich kotze.

Jetzt werden echt neue Gasmeiler gebaut während lauter umweltfreundlichere Großbatteriespeicher auf ihre Genehmigung warten. Aber was soll man auch erwarten, wenn die Gaslobby die Ministerin stellt?

German here. I think the biblical name should be Johannes and the names listed on the map (Johann, Hans) are just shorter nicknames for the former.

Not always.

Das kapitalistische Wirtschaftssystem ist den staatlichen und sozialen Lebensinteressen des deutschen Volkes nicht gerecht geworden.

Inhalt und Ziel dieser sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Neuordnung kann nicht mehr das kapitalistische Gewinn- und Machtstreben, sondern nur das Wohlergehen unseres Volkes sein.

CDU, 1947.

But yeah, that was some time ago.

Do you have steam running in the background in desktop mode or did you shut that down?

It’s really not. I get that the US have a lot of problems, especially when it comes to training people to deescalate, not use force when it’s not absolutely required etc, but it’s not the same on all countries.

Like… I’m from Germany. Police here are trained for years, with a focus on values and deescalation, before they commence their service. This really results in a relationship of trust between them and the citizens, like when they e.g. arrest people and tie them down to burn them alive in their cells instead of shooting them. Or when they don’t run rampant in the streets to kill or citizens (duh) but instead finance right wing terrorist groups that then kill citizens. You see?

was a German schoolteacher and a member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) who served in a mobile killing unit

“I wonder what I should do with my life… I already tried to mentor and help people find their way through life. Guess I could try genocide next.”

What the fuck.