Carighan

Carighan , 27 minutes ago

In fact, many do. As soon as a minority group gains power, they tend to first execute the people who opposed them, and then start executing the people who didn’t stop the opposition.

Yeah in fact, this is the big one. This is just an observation of how power struggles purge those who opposed the victors.

Carighan , 2 days ago

Of course, it’s going to be difficult to find a modern application where each individually deployed component isn’t at least 7MB of compiled source (and 50-200MB of container), compared to this single 7MB war that contained everything.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Yeah I was about to say, imagine this tiny Velociraptor purring in your lap sleeping off the murder of the chirpy-chirpy flap-thing in the garden.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Costs 16.99 here. Which locale is this in?

Carighan , 4 days ago

I worried about this a lot back after uni, too.

I studied 8 years for a diploma that was supposed to be done in 5, and I had done nothing with the extra time. I just wasn’t in a good place to be done any faster.

However, it turns out to just not be a problem. Companies generally could not give a flying fuck about what I did at university, and as soon as I had been at one company, they only cared what I had done before in the industry.

Now of course, going for a masters is different, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it, it probably matters less than you think it will. If you want to explain gaps, I’d just cite it as “personal reasons”. If they ask - which is kinda not-okay - you can always say you had family matters that precluded you from focusing on your studies until now.

Carighan , 4 days ago

Oooh, finally a sale on the Shadow Gambit DLC. Time to get both, I heard a lot that while Yuki is of course the “cooler” DLC since well, it’s Yuki, the other one is mechanically smarter as the new unit is overpowered but also quite different.

On that note, cannot recommend Shadow Gambit enough. It’s the perfection of the Commandos / Shadow Tactics / Desperados formula.

Carighan , 4 days ago

Brown Sauce - HP, Daddies etc this sauce is pretty popular in the UK (Where I live) and goes great on chips/fries and prior dish mentioning.

I don’t think Germany has this, usually.

For us the three big ones would be Mayo / Ketchup / Mustard I imagine. Of which personally, spiced Mayo always wins out (Miracle Whip). Just too used to it from my childhood. 😅

Carighan , 4 days ago

Hey, hela is normal ketchup, of course. Anything else you might as well just chew a tomato!

Carighan , 5 days ago

Isn’t there a requirement for mental sanity among elected officials? (in the medical sense) Because can’t this easily be constructed as a sure sign that she suffers from dementia? Or well, her colleagues do?

Carighan , 5 days ago

OP, make sure that since you’d be collecting personally identifying information, you can comply with GDPR requests.

Carighan , 5 days ago

Quite odd that this is supposed to come to Switch just about when the next console will probably release. I wonder whether this will be the switchover (ha!) title akin to Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild.

Carighan , 5 days ago

It’s great just to see it exist. And not every game needs to reinvent the wheel, especially when the series hasn’t had a game in 15 years.

Plus it’s a MetroidVania. Well, kinda the MetroidVania, or half of it. Trying too much with it would feel weird IMO because I’d want the two grandfathers to focus more on the central tenets, not some inventive genre-spinoffs.

Carighan , 5 days ago

Finally got around to playing Oxenfree II after finishing Dave The Diver. Slow progress as I’m getting distracted left and right and center by other games, but I like how they kept the semi-creepy atmosphere from Oxenfree. Really neat presentation, and I love the voice actress for Riley, she did great work.

Just wish the game had more characters than me and my sidekick, atl east so far.

Carighan , 5 days ago

This recycles the graphics from the Link’s Awakening remake, for which it was already divisive, yeah.

OTOH, it’s a great way to make it look teensy-tiny, especially with the built-in tilt-shift.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Usually hugging for saying hi or bye, just like with women.

Beyond that, not really? But then I’m not a very physically affectionate person with anyone, independent of gender. Except Pepper - my cat.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Yeah that’s the point of the video.

He’s not wrong, Valve does have a lot of power over the PC gaming market. Worryingly so. But Hi-Rez of all possible asshole companies with an asshole boss should be very very quiet about such subjects.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Yeah but that game is either (depending on how you view early access) woefully unfinished and shat out in such an incomplete state, or not released yet and possibly years away from release.

Carighan , 7 days ago

So put in a mass order on cheap second-hand carbon fiber for custom-built submarines?

Carighan , 7 days ago

And you will notice that in the vast majority of the world, the joke about the ball game happens/happened. America is very american football centric. Germany is all about football. England has cricket. Etc, etc.

You jest, but yes, since our lives are complicated enough as is, we want our hobbies to be as straightforward and easy to communicate/communalize as possible.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Basically, save a Fediverse account in your browser

Already too complicated unless it comes pre-installed on your phone as part of the setup process when you buy it.

Carighan , 7 days ago

The problem is Mastodon’s shittiness will be spread across the Fediverse regardless of what other forks you make.

Making a good point for Bluesky’s rejection of sharing AP federation, incidentally.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Ah, Whitaker is a good example. I mean of snake oil. The guy is snake oil, and probably paid by Better help or something.

Carighan , 7 days ago

I mean considering that single skins cost 20 in Overwatch or Dead by Daylight, 7 for an actual mission is almost generous.

Fuck gaming is fucked…

Carighan , 8 days ago

Certainly not the players, given current costs - where Steam is virtually always cheaper than elsewhere.

Carighan , 8 days ago

Of course it is.

All those large online action/claim sites are commercial in underlying nature. When you saw all the small farmers protest in Germany it was primarily driven as an action by about 5 large farming conglomerates because they are the ones getting ~85% of the grant money that was being cut. The whole point of the cut was to not funnel money that was supposed to go to small farmers to large megacorps after all. Who in turn instrumentalized the small farmers to protest it.

Probably what’s going on here, too. You can bet somewhere deep deep down, this is something Tim Sweeney cooked up.

Carighan , 8 days ago

Even if you believe that all privately owned capital is intrinsicly evil, you still ought to go after companies from most to least problematic within a specific category, no?

That is, for digital storefronts, start with the likes of Epic or in a broader digital gaming space in general, Microsoft or Ubisoft. Go after Steam when you’ve cleaned up the rapists, backroom dealers and collusionists.

Carighan , 8 days ago

It’s a strict and strongly opinionated language by design.

So it’s a nice language.

Carighan , 10 days ago

And by vigilance, you mean changing laws to ban free possession of weapons, hopefully?

Carighan , 10 days ago

And yet the consistent element between the countries with lots of mass shooting vs the ones with very few of them is how easy respectively difficult it is to get a weapon. Coincidence? Possible. But there’s enough evidence to suggest there’s a causal link, and a significant one.

Carighan , 10 days ago

Yep, same here. Willow was my big TV crush back then. She even won against Dana Scully.

Carighan , 10 days ago

Oh that’s awesome! It took a long time, but they’ve been asked for a universal menu and they actually did it. Nice! 👍

Carighan , 11 days ago

Every search you make, email you send, text message, voice chat, location, and most likely the conversations you have in your own home are monitored and stored in a database for whoever knows how long (probably forever).

This is most likely incidental.

As in, to successfully show text messages to people, somewhere at the ISP, someone has to have a database that shows what messages were sent off from which tower and need to be routed where. Maybe they’re retained for a while for re-send reasons, too. Yeah.

But the point is, that’s not the same reason why your home address is retained at the motor license department.

We humans love to see patterns in things, but we do so even when none exist, as our brains want to desperately simplify information to save space, essentially. But we should not let that fool us into thinking the world is simpler than it actually is: We have a host of reasons to retain data, and this existed long, long, loooong before digital databases. And for good reason. After all, if it cannot be verified that you are you in context X, the state can hardly offer you service Y or protection Z (such as those are in the US in particular, granted).

Your city has to know who you are and where you live. Your motor dep needs to know which license belongs to whom and is attached to which vehicle. Amazon needs to know where to send your parcels. Your phone provider needs to know which phone belongs to which number in their network and where it is right now. Etc, etc, etc. They all do so for individual reasons.

Carighan , 11 days ago

Signal’s desktop app is as horrendously unusably bad as the project as a whole is good, tbh.

It’s no wonder people prefer stuff like Telegram. It has native apps and all. Or can be used in a browser. Meanwhile Signal is only used in a browser, but you have to download it and it fucks up font scaling and it shits the bed on font antialiasing and it can’t even get UI design consistent with the OS it’s running on and it won’t even use the OS emoji font.

Let’s not even mention how you still cannot use Signal on a tablet.

Carighan , 11 days ago

People want a chat app. If your secure chat app sucks as a chat app, it doesn’t matter how secure it is. It failed the primary use case it was meant to be developed for.

But keep in mind, Signal’s nature is no excuse to have shitty app implementations. In particular to have desktop apps as second-class citizens (and tablets as exterminated not-citizens). You can be a secure chat app. Signal got the secure part done, they’re just struggling with the chat app part.

Carighan , 11 days ago

Already posted: lemmy.world/post/16446011

Carighan , 11 days ago

Wow, an actual new Mana game. Looks quite rough from the trailer but going to keep an eye on it. If the dress-spheres, sorry, class-changes, work mid-fight I could see myself enjoy that combat system.

Carighan , 11 days ago

I genuinely did, either. Not actually making fun of it. Everyone hated X-2, and there I was seemingly having a better time with it than with X!

Carighan , 12 days ago

Having had all 3 of those before, they’re definitely not “tasty spicy” or “fun spicy” any more, but unless you drink them on an empty stomach and try to wash them down with beer only, they were perfectly fine.

Always got some of the 2x spicy here for when I have a cold, best way to clear your nose. 🙈

Carighan , 12 days ago

Yeah was about to say, my phone can’t even tell whether I’m walking or cycling or taking a bus, I have exactly 0 hope it could tell whether I’m driving or not other than not being connected to my car’s bluetooth which will be exactly what they are doing here of course!

Carighan , 12 days ago

I don’t know about other countries, but here in Germany IKEA workers are unionized, and have been for a long time.

Carighan , 12 days ago

This is AFAIK normal, as legal details for unions differ by country. In other words you cannot have a single global union. The per-country unions can of course communicate and plan action to be synchronized, sure. But as unions they exist separate, and have to. As in, they’re striking at “IKEA Germany”, not “IKEA”.

Carighan , 12 days ago

They’re part of ver.di, although that in itself skips a whole host of details that I personally don’t all know either. But yeah over here plenty unions are local in a company, too. But they also got strong legal protections (and some obligations), so apart from the shakey time when you’re forming a union, they’re on stable ground.

Some others - like ver.di - are large cross-business union aggregations that centralize their decisionmaking process and then can strike on multiple divergent businesses at the same time to force business owners to come to the table. From what I know from people who are in such companies, upsides and downsides. They got a lot of pull, but in return their demands are often rather generic which is good if you just care about pay, but bad if you want things more specific to your work.

But again, totally not an expert about unions.

Carighan , 12 days ago

Ha, 460k to create a modern huge scope game. Uh huh. Very trustworthy KS this is.

Carighan , 12 days ago

Yeah, Daggerfall was cool. I can’t really tell nowadays whether it impressed me more than Arena did or not because obviously the first one got me when I was younger and it was my first experience of an open adventure game, constrained as it was.

Carighan , 12 days ago

I did!

It’s … actually damn good. I know, I know.

Okay so caveat first: It is just Far Cry wearing a Pandora mask. That’s it. I’d say it’s even slightly less than that because they had to thin some mechanics to make space to fit the theme a bit more.

But, that theme? It… it makes it work! Even the mechanics being watered down works, because making it fit the theme just ends up being more important. Yeah, you play this for playing on Pandora. But fuck does the game sell this well! Incredibly well. I found myself just stalking the jungle (or plains, or forest, of which the plains are the weakest but still incredibly beautiful) half the time, genuinely doing the grindathon entirely willingly, just because of the lush atmosphere the game presents and how it feels to be roaming in this alien nature.

Plus, I played Horizon Forbidden West right after this, and while I give HFW that it has much higher fidelity overall and is really pretty, the actual jungle and forest in particular are leaps and bounds above it in Avatar. You can notice the artists focused their entire effort on that, and even at daytime it looks amazing. Nighttime and they did the bioluminsensce we know from the movies incredibly well.

So erm… recommended? In a weird way? It’s really just Far Cry: Pandora, but it turns out that despite not expecting to, that’s kinda what I wanted? 😅

(Caveat though: I don’t think it’s worth €70. However given how much I liked it, €50 or so seems perfectly adequate.)