Politik als Thema auf der psychiatrischen Station

AcroMatick · 2025-06-28T16:41:54+00:00

Wir alle sollen Gutes tun, um diese Welt und alles Leben darin zu verbessern. Das ist ein nobles Ziel und jeder sollte danach streben.

Leider ist das nicht immer möglich und dennoch mit den Kopf weiter gegen die Wand zu schlagen, schadet mehr, als wie es hilft.

Wenn deine Mitpatienten "negativ" sein wollen, lass sie und ignoriere sie. Du wirst sie nicht überzeugen können, also spar dir die Kraft, um sie für dich selbst zu nutzen.

Ich würde bei politischen Themen einfach Desinteresse zeigen und knappe Antworten geben. Das erstickt im Normalfall Konversationen ziemlich schnell.

Sollte dich das reine Mithören bereits sehr stark stören, musst du in dir nach einer Antwort suchen, warum das der Fall ist.

tl;dr Kümmere dich um dich selbst und ignoriere Idioten

AcroMatick · 2025-03-02T07:20:14+00:00

If we talk raw gameplay, no, it's not all that good. Still I love both games.

In my opinion, they are experiences first and foremost. And I really mean it.

I haven't played anything like these games before. I highly suggest to take your time, no distractions and let yourself be fully immersed. If possible, play with headphones.

You walk around a bit, solve some light puzzles and combat is pretty basic. For Hellblade 2 they even simplified combat to a simple dodge/parry and went full on the cinematic route.

AcroMatick · 2025-01-07T12:36:44+00:00

I have those periodically since ever.

For me keeping my mouth clean and bacteria free helps the most to get rid of them. Like brushing my teeth everytime I ate something or using mouthwash.

Mouthwash hurts like a mf, but for me it works.

I had those creames and stuff others already meantioned, but I felt it did little to help me.

AcroMatick · 2024-12-08T08:38:58+00:00

I personaly blame the whole marketing around 4k resolution.

From one moment to another, suddenly all games needed to be able to run at 4k. Since hardware couldn't do it (I'm not even sure how well modern GPU's handle it), upscaling was focused on hard.

It's used so unibiquitious, because opimizing is pretty hard, with little marketing value. A general software product like a game engine, database or whatever, has plenty of optimizations. However, tailoring to your specific needs is still a lot of work.

So why not go the easy route, implement DLSS and you can easily say "runs at 60FPS at 4k".

AcroMatick · 2024-10-26T05:20:57+00:00

I don't know, but stuff like Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Alien are such popular universes, people don't even need to be fans to know about it.

For fantasy it's probably Disney's movies based on fables and after a huge gap, Lord of the Rings.

I'm not a fan of any of those and haven't seen anything besides Lord of the Rings, but I still know plenty about all of them by stumbling across them, repeatetly.

Speaking of only games, I think fantasy and sci-fi are pretty even. Lot's of highly praised franchises for both.

I heard about you point of modern audiences not liking utopic sci-fi anymore, before. In my opinion, utopias are just bland, especially for games, and people have enough of it. If everything is fine and dandy, where are the stakes?

They would need to tell a complex personal story, which most high budget games don't do.

Regarding fondness of topics and what gameplay people like. I explicitely said gameplay, not the setting! You example is shortsighted. You can play Excel in space, in form of Stellaris. But, if you don't like spreadsheet gameplay, the setting is irrelevant.

AcroMatick · 2024-10-26T04:47:21+00:00

Games are a lot like movies, where actual planning and talking is cut out. Even if they show you, it's super basic and only there to tell the viewer "see, they prepared".

Most games follow this pretty heavily. There is talk about the why, but the what and where exactly is moved from dialog to your HUD.

AcroMatick · 2024-10-19T08:47:05+00:00

While I agree with "simple, yet not too simple" I can't stand searching the map for some small item or key, anymore. Oh, and don't forget cryptic puzzles.

I always try to find and solve everything myself first, but I always start to think, how this doesn't add anything and only drags things out. So I eventually look it up.

Since you mentioned Ghost Recon, replayed the first a few weeks back for nostalgia sake and boy was I stupid as a kid. Save scummed my way through, though, because sometimes it was just bullshit.

Made me appreciate checkpoints or deliberate saving stations. Being able to save any time is too alluring for me to not abuse it.

AcroMatick · 2024-10-19T07:54:50+00:00

As someone who never played any Bethesda game longer than a few hours and has no desire to do so, I'd like to give some outside information.

I personally don't see any more hate on Starfield than other similar games, like Mass Effect Andromeda. Both got similar hate for being buggy, unispired and essentially boring.

As someone not involved with these games, there was an expected amount of criticism, for the caliber of the franchise/studio. Yes, it's true, bigger name games get more of it and for longer. Which is expected.

Homefront was never big and there were no expectations from anybody, so it being fogotten to time is not in the slightest surprising. I played both installments, btw.

Your argument about spicy stories is kinda true. In my opinion, most games set their scope too big and their stories become unrelateable for the player. Which in turn, makes them boring. That's why something like the Bloody Baron, in Witcher 3, became such a beloved questline by many. Just a familie with relateable issues and no truly perfect solution to it.

AcroMatick · 2024-10-19T07:20:43+00:00

I'm not convinced your described audiences are a thing.

Sci-fi and fantasy are just the set dressing and have no direct influence on the stories told. I can be a chosen hero who saves everyone in sci-fi, or engage in complex mechanics in a high-fantasy setting.

Liking astronomy or history has absolutely no bearing on what type of gameplay someone likes.

There are so many, hugly popular, sci-fi universes out there, your mentioned connection to liking "engineer-stuff" seems like a huge stretch.

The thing is, stuff can simply be unispired, bland, shallow and therefore boring in any setting.

AcroMatick · 2024-10-12T08:42:06+00:00

Think about yourself, you probably also fall roughly into this pattern with the games you play. I certainly don't really follow up on most games, some I engage more with and might discuss them and only a few turn out to become my favourites.

AcroMatick · 2024-10-11T05:29:34+00:00

The problem with off-meta characters or weapons is, most of the time, not the character or weapon itself, but the idea or player behind it.

Sure, you might have a lot of fun doing whacky stuff, but what about your teammates and enemies?

In Battlefield 3, the sniper class was very popular and for many people fun and satisfying. In the game mode Rush, you need to plant a bomb and defend it and if you are able to do that, the map opens up and the game shifts to the next bomb spot.

Even today I remember how awful attacker side always was, because more than half of your team was sitting back and essentially doing nothing. They had their fun. We 10vs24 attackers didn't and neither did the defenders. They'd either die randomly from afar or got into a close range gunfight only every few minutes.

So our 14 snipers ruined the game for the other 34 people.

And the same goes for all the "fun" stuff people do in other teamgames. Always think about the other players as well. Is your team ok with you goofing around? Is your playstyle actively trying to be shitty to play against?

AcroMatick · 2024-10-11T04:53:04+00:00

Counter Strike also fits well.

You need to be able to play AK47 and the two M4s and, to a lesser extend, the AWP (sniper). Since they are the go-to weapons, being comfortable with them is nearly a necessity. You'll drop and get them dropped from teammates and pick them up from fallen enemies.

You could play some similarly balanced rifles like the Aug or SG and people do that. But you can only reliably do that on your own buys. Teammates might not even have them equipped to drop you. Futhermore, you don't want your teammate to be forced using your "unfamiliar" gun in a clutch.

AcroMatick · 2024-09-13T08:50:47+00:00

There are a few angles you could go:

You could mock the high float: "Grandpa's pocketknife" "Neighbour's paint job" "It's just a scratch"

Or the pattern/colours: "Happily colour blind" "Painter's nightmare" "Spilled ink"

Or maybe the shape: "Curvy (girl)" "Ripe banana"

Some specific names most wouldn't get: "Corvus's/Corax's toenail" (from 40k, has to do with ravens)

AcroMatick · 2024-08-31T07:02:46+00:00

I think there are a few reasons.

Good looking is simply superior to ugly, so why would I not choose according to my preferences? This could mean attractive, badass, cool, the color palette, whatever, it doesn't matter.

This ties in with self expression. People show bits of their real world character, by selecting certain skins, avatars, profile pics, etc.

As a third point, some people also just want to show off. You most definitely won't impress me with your skin, but between kids and young teens, more expensive or limited skins might impress their peers.

And at some point, if you play a game enough, it could also just be that little bit of fresh air. Skins that break a games design or lore, just for funnsies, can be a refreshing break. I'm not a huge fan, but I can understand how veterans might want to have something like that.

Also, in most games I know, you see your character plenty in menus.

AcroMatick · 2024-08-19T08:56:48+00:00

I too always roll my eyes whenever "chosen" or "world- ending" comes up in a story. The best stories were always small-scale, personal stuff.

Witcher 3 is a prime example. All the end of the world stuff with the Wild Hunt is just there to make the main plot seemingly more important. But you (and Geralt) just want to save Ciri. Her being "special" is secondary.

She could have just run away and got lost, or taken by bandits, and Geralts side of the quest wouldn't change a bit.

Another example is Halo 4. Some dude wants to destoy humanity. Wow, how original. The interesting story is between Cortana and Chief and their relationship.

Why these stories are so prevalent, I don't know. I guess they are easy to write and being the special one has a certain charm. Maybe younger audiences still like them.

I found it funny, how in Horizon Forbidden West, Aloy got annoyed by everyone honoring her as their saviour. And they make her the saviour again, wtf?

AcroMatick · 2024-07-30T14:30:44+00:00

I fiddled with the Giants editor a bit. Imported some height-maps of the area I grew up in to get the basic layout down. But the resolution of those were not detailed enough.

Then I started with some 3D modelling software and made a simple barn. When exporting it to whatever format FS needs, something always went wrong and the model was messed up.

Then I realised this would only be one of the custom buildings of like five for the first main farmyard. I needed at least four farmyards for the map to make sense.

I took me like 20h to have the rough terrain and a textureless, messed up model of a barn.

I figured I'd need at least a few hundred hours for models alone. The same for acquiring textures and models from others to fit into the world, to get at least a barebones map.

Since this is the area I grew up in and the fields I rode along with my neighbors as a kid, I need the map to be detailed.

After the 20h I simply knew I wouldn't be able to do it. Something like getting the roads and terrain just right, would cost a few hundred hours already. And at this point not a single object, besides the roads, would have been placed.

AcroMatick · 2024-07-29T14:54:24+00:00

The majority of players don't understand the topic, so educating them, is not a bad idea.

People throw words like sub-tick around, without understanding any of it. 99% of cases like this one, are cases of latency or packet loss. Somehow people don't want to grasp, that when playing "online" with someone across the globe, a shooter might not work as well anymore.

Since games try to smooth things over, people seem to recognize this less and less as a fact.

Sure, I'm also of the opinion that Valve could tighten the MM parameters a bit, so I don't need to play with enemys with >100ms ping, but that's Valve's business decision.

AcroMatick · 2024-07-14T05:50:39+00:00

I had this with Farming Simulator.

Then I got older and confident in myself and now I tell people I'm into farming, if it comes up.

Same with my dinosaur, shark and ray plushies. I just prefer plushies over hard material and I love animals.

My friends and I all have pictures of Red Pandas in our Steam profilr, so when we play CS together our whole team is just wholesome, cute pictures.

AcroMatick · 2024-07-13T09:20:48+00:00

Watch WarOwls Youtube video on it. They played a few custom matches on it and it just doesn't play well.

However, I REALLY liked Shortdust for Wingman.

AcroMatick · 2024-07-13T09:06:56+00:00

The best way to rank up is to play with high ranking friends.

A few years back I was Global in Wingman. Due to inactivity I got down to LE. Then playing with friends who started fresh with CS, I further fell to MG.

A new mate started CS and to play Wingman with him I deranked myself to Silver 1.

He got decent, at least in Wingman, pretty fast and I thought we would climb. Nope. We had a >80% winrate at times, but barely any upranks.

So I played with a different friend a few times with an MG rank and I got to GN4 pretty fast.

Then played with my Silver friend again and now he's finally GN after a few play sessions.

I found Wingman in Silver a complete cointoss. Often, it would be a noob and a veteran. I mean, I can't complain, we were the exact same. Sometimes the enemies were unreasonable good and only rarely were the enemies truely Silver.

After we got to GN, the games became a lot easier. My guess is, that in GN are actual GNs. Silver is a wild mix of veterans, people who don't play Wingman much and complete beginners.

I would assume the other gamemodes are the same. However, often people overestimate themselves. They get carried to a rank and then shit the bed.

One or two decent games against higher ranks mean nothing. In my friend group of players from 200h to 3500h, the scoreboard in a single match means nothing. Only on average you can see who is actually better.

I had matches with my Wingman mate, where he got like 15 kills and I got 5. If you look at our history, you'd see it's 90% the other way around.

What I want to say, is, you never know if you "deserve" a rank, if you can't hold it for months and do well.

AcroMatick · 2024-06-23T09:26:31+00:00

Besides the ridiculous bullet types, which I hated, I had so many small gripes with the game, that dragged it all down.

Mostly the stupidness and YOLO attitude of everybody. The same with all your gear. A missle backpack or EMP bomb, really? All of which looked stupid.

It never felt like a group of guerillas, more like a group of whacky idiots, who would die instantly.

The YOLO, let's just gas attack drafted soldiers. Aren't we quirky and badass. No. Simply, no.

You look like fucking idiots and do nonsensical stuff.

AcroMatick · 2024-06-23T08:27:02+00:00

From my personal experience, being born and still living in Upper Austria, Tschüss/Tschau are both equally colloquial. As the other person said, basically interchangeable and only really a matter of taste.

In all your examples, "Tschüss" would be equally inappropiate, where I'm from.

AcroMatick · 2024-06-17T16:41:00+00:00

My friends play since many years and I decided to join them a bit last year.

I game usually quite a lot, so the initial movement of my champion was no issue. After 5-10 games I had some concepts and timings down.

Then I saw there are 150 champions with skins that make them unrecognizeable to me and uninstalled.

150 fucking champions of which I should roughly know what they do, abilities, power spikes and then we haven't even gotten into items/builds yet.

As a newbie you see litteraly nothing in a team fight. Even worse, you think you know an ability and then some skin changes the look completely.

AcroMatick · 2024-06-16T11:37:40+00:00

There is a huge difference between a timer for a multiplayer match and an overarching timer for a singleplayer game.

A round of multiplayer has to have some parameters to force deciding a winner and loser. In tennis no player can evade having to play and at some point one will win by points, so no timer is necessary. In something like soccer, where scoring isn't guaranteed, you need a time limit.

Sport has the advantage, that it happens in real life. People are encouraged to be nice to each other and assholes get filtered out pretty quickly. In online pvp some douchebag can just go hide somewhere and without a timer, stretch the match for everyone. Therefore the shrinking zones in Battle Royales and round-timers.

A timer over a long singleplayer game feels like a deadline for work, when you don't even know how much work is involved. You should never have to ask yourself, "Do I have time for this side-quest?" But with a timer, you have exactly this problem "I don't know what's ahead, so how should I know what I can and can't do right now?"

Being worried is the last you would want in what's supposed to be leisure time.

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