That scene was so awesome!

Because I love vague hints and mystery boxes that never go anywhere and have no relevance to the sorry excuse of a story that made me loathe my childhood’s favourite franchise.

Merz is not the prime minister. Germany doesn’t even have a prime minister. He’s Chancellor.

No, of course it didn’t say that. But of course he doesn’t invite people over who he can’t trust with that kind of information. So his friends, closer allies or whatever you might call it. Imagine inviting someone over just to have them spill the beans to your family afterwards because you had the wrong impression of their loyalties and values. No way the people that were there weren’t in on it.

OP hat ihm doch sogar eine entsprechend schnelle Genesung gewünscht?

Ja klar. Wie so oft macht der Ton die Musik.

Ja wie? Ein Leben lang gearbeitet und doch nicht glücklich geworden? Das kann ja gar nicht sein.

Schön erstmal jemandem die Berechtigung absprechen, depressiv zu sein. Alleine das ist echt das Letzte.

Ich wünsche ihm gute und zügige Besserung, aber mein Mitleid mit diesem Kandidaten hält sich arg in Grenzen.

"Gute Besserung aber " ist echt super-widerlich in dem Kontext. Vor allem wenn es kein “aber ich weiß, dass der Weg lang und steinig ist” ist, sondern ein “aber eigentlich hast du’s verdient”. Steht da nicht so? No shit. Aber genau das wird damit suggeriert. Aber schön ein “gute Besserung” da einsetzen, damit man die eigentliche Botschaft dann schön leugnen kann, wenn jemand dann sagt, dass das unmöglich ist. Nicht nur widerlich, sondern auch noch zu feige, das ohne Hintertür in verklausulierten Formulierungen zu tun.

Was der so an Sprüchen rausgehauen hat…

Oh, der Mann ist nicht linksgrünversifft genug für Lemmy? Tja, Pech, dann gibt’s hier wohl kein Mitgefühl für psychische Krankheiten die einen in den Suizid treiben. Kammanixmachen. Hätte er mit seiner Firma doch weniger Gewinn gemacht und den dann komplett in die Förderung von sea shepherd gesteckt, dann vielleicht. Aber so? Tja.

Did those owners also bring their secret potentially marriage destroying affairs to those official events?

No sir, just because I was deeply involved in their private life and invited to an expensive event during my free time by and with them doesn’t mean we’re “friends”. I barely know them!

So what? Things are mostly valued by what the projected performance is, not the prior performance.

Also it seems that Krafton assumed they would miss the performance criteria, so they thought they’d bought it for $500 million. That doesn’t sound unreasonable for a studio that made $250 million with a single release and already had more in its pipeline.

Is klar

Also erstmal wäre mir nicht bekannt, dass ausgerechnet trigema besonders unethisch arbeitet und zweitens ändert das halt nichts an dem grundsätzlichen Ding, dass hier ein Suizidversuch gutgeheißen wird, was halt einfach mal durchweg widerlich ist, egal ob der Typ ne Firma hatte oder nicht.

Krass, bist du ein widerlicher Typ.

No need to be insulting. What’s a guinea?

So, I just got slice & dice and man, I’m hooked. Dunno if that qualifies for patient gaming, it’s a bit older than a year.

It’s a roguelike, but not really a deckbuilder. Instead, you keep upgrading and improving a DnD-like party that keeps going down a dungeon of some sort, where each person is represented as a six-sided die. Your magician has sides that produce mana, your fighter sides that mostly deal damage etc etc.

I’m several hours in, which for me is already a lot. Just lost my latest run on level 19/20 on normal difficulty, so it feels like I’m starting to get an idea of what works well. The game has lots of unlockables and achievements and looking for upgrades and characters that synergise well is fun. The balancing seems, as far as I can tell so far, outstanding - time will tell if that holds.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1775490/Slice__Dice/

You make it sound like I said something different?

Ich bin so gaga im Roof, mir hängt die Birne im Sud

To be honest, I think that’s barely a footnote.

Like, yeah, transfer some made up numbers from our computer to your computer, whatever. Money has a different meaning when it comes to the state that manages it spending it. ECB will adjust its interest rate a month later or something to make up for it. The issue right now is that Europe has neither stockpiles nor production capacity, so the USA sending their hardware is the game changer.

I’m adding some second hand experience here, but what made below zero much worse for my son when he played it was that it constantly crashed, resulting in a lot of lost progress. Often crashing when saving, too, so after having accomplished something. He got it on the switch as some kind of double-feature with subnautica and below zero on a single cartridge. He played through subnautica and loved it but ditched below zero after barely a handful of hours played, purely due to the frustration, not even being at the point where those game design points would have mattered.

I love how I went back to the first panel and the wizard was already there, of course.

(I don’t identify as much with my body as some other people apparently do. It’s the only flesh I have ever been incarnated in so it has a lot of sentimental value but it fundamentally isn’t me. It’s a thing that I have.)

Yeah, but what happens to you if that thing breaks? ☹️

the UN gave them money to research ways the UN could use AI, so that is what they did.

That’s kind of my point… They didn’t. To research ways the un could use ai, you could have workshops and interviews with various groups, experts and non-experts alike. You don’t just pick one, utterly insane use case (that is called out beforehand as such) and implement that. You do research on the options and pick either the best ones or, if there’s no good one, none!

To come up with a research project, it has to go through various pitches, drafts and proposals. I can’t imagine every single control instance failing so utterly that this kind of project with this high school level of arguing (“well, we could do this, so why wouldn’t we?”) passes each of them. There has to be a better reason why they did this. And if there really isn’t, a lot of people should ask themselves what the fuck they’re getting paid for if they let this happen - and some other people if they’re the ones who should fire the former.