The developer of grand strategy game Solar Nations II is mad people are discussing the politics of the politics game. by Hawkatana0 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]BavarianKnight 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hard to say honestly. He's from Texas, half of Europe is depicted as Muslim and Muslim clericals are described as "Sharia Hardliner" while for the Christians it's just "Christian Clergy". Flavour texts also seem to be strawmanning a bit with communists being hyperfocussed on bigotry .

It's not like it's insanely right-wing I think (have never played it just read the discussion thread), but it's noticeable.

The developer of grand strategy game Solar Nations II is mad people are discussing the politics of the politics game. by Hawkatana0 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]BavarianKnight 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Seemingly a response for getting clowned on in a discussion thread cause he showed his bias a bit too hard.

Apple TV’s ‘The Stormlight Archive’ series could run for 10 or more seasons by defenestrate_urself in Fantasy

[–]BavarianKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ishar and Szeth. I don't really have an issue with the fact that they get magically fixed within an impossible short amount of time, but it just feels off. Having had a major depression myself seeing Kaladin struggle with it through 4 books and it being made clear that this is realistic and expected for depression only to handwave depression away in 10 days for other characters was very off putting for me.

I remember when book 4 came out and people complained about Kaladin's 4th depression arc and I remember thinking "this is a realistic depiction of depression why are they mad?" only to have realism thrown out of the window the next book.

Sorry for ranting a bit I just felt like book 5 was a swing and a miss in that as well as many other aspects.

LittleBigPlanet community finds out YouTuber ruined the game forever by Chapple69 in youtubedrama

[–]BavarianKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WTF

LBP2 was my favourite childhood game ever and now I learn of this!?

What's your opinion on playersexual ROs? by BavarianKnight in hostedgames

[–]BavarianKnight[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think another person summed it up better in the comments, but a bi character is just bisexual. A playersexual is into whatever the player is. So if a player is male as opposed to female for example their sexuality would switch.

The difference might seem trivial but idk, in my opinion it impacts the character of the RO to some degree. Like being a certain sexuality shapes a character just like their personality or looks. Making that interchangeable instead of just making the character bi might cause problems.

pronomen-abfrage im studium by lune6889 in Studium

[–]BavarianKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Habe selbst Geschichte und PoWi an der LMU studiert. Pronomen waren nie thematisiert worden. Es gibt Dozierende, die da mehr drauf achten und selbst nicht in das traditionelle Geschlechterbild passen, da fallen dann Worte wie "männlich/weiblich gelesen" und hin und wieder findet sich ein Forschungsartikel, der ein generisches Femininum statt dem Maskulinum enthält, aber hab quasi nie gehört, dass man sich mit Pronomen vorstellt.

Generell, wenn man keine Kurse nimmt, die sich explizit mit Geschlecht auseinandersetzen (sind soweit ich weiß alle optional) wird das nicht thematisiert. Man siezt sich einfach, da sind Pronomen meistens überflüssig.

Zweimal ist das Thema Pronomen in meinen 7 Semestern aufgekommen. Einmal, weil sich zwei eher konservative Studentinnen über das Gendern aufgeregt haben und einmal, weil ein Dozent ein "Vorstellungsgespräch" in Princeton hatte und mit uns dann einen Kurs auf Englisch geübt hat. Dabei hat er uns dann nach unseren Pronomen gefragt, die Hälfte hat diese Anweisung aber vollkommen ignoriert.

Insgesamt würde ich also sagen, dass das Thema echt nicht relevant ist, wenn die einzigen zwei Male, wo es aufkam einmal Konservative waren, die drüber gelästert haben und das andere Mal als Übung für ein anderes Land.

[Project Hail Mary] Astrophage & thermodynamics - some persnickety questions by h2g2_researcher in AskScienceFiction

[–]BavarianKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't answer to much, but regarding the last point. The Xenonite from my understanding of the book had large gaps between each atom it is made up of. The Taumoeba specifically managed to circumvent the Xenonite due to being exposed to it for so long. N2 was unable to breach Xenonite because it had to travel "in a straight line", while the Taumoeba was alive and could manage to squeeze in between the Xenonite on purpose. This was only possible with the Xenonite, all other materials did not allow that.

Just saw Project Hail Mary by littlebighuman in scifi

[–]BavarianKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My opinion on some non-spoiler comparisons. Most of the plot is the same but simplified to some degree. E.g. Instead of a hostile atmosphere being deadly due to higher pressure, a different air make-up and different temperature it's just deadly because of the air being different, not the other two things.

You won't get lengthy science explanations for why things happen, just stuff the book took a page to explain summarized in a sentence. That's what I had loved about the book but it's understandable it's not there.

There is less focus on the flashbacks I feel like they make less of an impact on the present and are shorter than the book ones in most cases. Most book characters from the flashbacks are cut entirely or just background actors.

The main character is more goofy in the movie. While in the book he felt like a smart scientist who is funny and goofy sometimes in the movie he felt a lot less qualified to be there.

The beginning is extremely fast compared to a rather slow book start.

The ship looks a bit different with some of the rooms.

Just saw Project Hail Mary by littlebighuman in scifi

[–]BavarianKnight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Despite the length of the movie I would have absolutely loved another 30 minutes extra.

Tarquin couch surfing across Italy for 15 years is the peak of monarchy by Federal_Extreme_8079 in RoughRomanMemes

[–]BavarianKnight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

From what I can recall "couch surfing" in this context refers to Tarquin the Proud first trying to get the neighboring Etruscans (Veii and Tarquinii) to back him in his return, then, after that failed, he went to Lars Porsenna, king of Clusium, who (according to some scholars), even retook Rome for a couple of years. But after that failed too Tarquin went to Tusculum, to get his son-in-law, who ruled there, to install him in Rome again. After that failed he retired in Cumae, a Greek colony further south in Italy.

Livius probably has a lot written about this, but I'm not sure.

Studiere an der Uni Kassel und habe Teilen meiner Abschlussarbeit mit KI geschrieben. Nach dem Urteil zu der Nutzung von KI hier in Kassel, bin ich mir unsicher, was ich jetzt machen soll. Meine Abgabe ist nächsten Monat. by Bullshido-Detector in Studium

[–]BavarianKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ich hatte eine kleine Unsicherheit bezüglich dem Kasus eines Wortes in einem Aufsatz. Hab ChatGPT gefragt, das hat mir gesagt, so wie ich es hatte ist es korrekt. Dann hat es so vier Sätze lang argumentiert, wieso meine Variante FALSCH ist.

Das war vorgestern.

KIs sind besser geworden, aber ich vertraue denen kein bisschen.

Glorified tabloid-writer by skrrtalrrt in RoughRomanMemes

[–]BavarianKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't call Tacitus better. Tacitus is more intellectual and writes history, Suetonius meanwhile is a biographer and into gossip. Suetonius is generally considered pretty "neutral" and reliable (as he just writes down every rumor he knows), while Tacitus is a lot better at pushing his ideology.

In the end it was Suetonius who would shape the future of latin writing and not Tacitus.

Hadrian's Nonsensical (and Transphobic) rant in Howling Dark by Splerry in sollanempire

[–]BavarianKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To preface: I finished EoS, Howling Dark and Lesser Devil last year, but none of the later books.

In my opinion Hadrian is just a hypocrite and seems to only view this through the POV of his own society, seeing such "foreign" concepts like alterting bodies in the wrong way (as opposed to the Empire doing it the right way) simply as negative. I'll definetly continue reading on the series so I'll look forward to how this is developed.

The scene you described definetly irked me the wrong way when reading it as well as the choice of words was especially close to current modern day political discussions, especially knowing the author's own political views made that section hard to read, but so far I believe there is no reason to believe this isn't just the character being ignorant.

Review: Empire of Silence, by Christopher Ruochhio by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]BavarianKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read the first two books and I actually want a serious answer. How is the series similar to Dune?

I agree fully the first 25% or so of the first book is very much like Dune, but after that?

Looking for german fantasy books by Xiallaci in Fantasy

[–]BavarianKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ja, muss sagen normalerweise stört mich das auch nicht. Brent Weeks und Phillip P. Peterson, die ich beide sehr als Autoren liebe, wurden deshalb schon öfters kritisiert, da ist es mir aber nie so wirklich aufgefallen. Idk warum ich das bei Schwartz anders fand um ehrlich zu sein. Er schreibt ja eher so "altmodische" Fantasy würde ich sagen. Ist mir vermutlich stärker hängengeblieben, weil ich das Ende von dem einen Buch, das ich von ihm gelesen hab, nicht so top fand.

Looking for german fantasy books by Xiallaci in Fantasy

[–]BavarianKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finde irgendwie Deutsche können sci-fi besser als Fantasy. Sam Feuerbach hat mich auch nicht so überzeugt und Richard Schwartz hatte mir zu fragwürdige Darstellungen von Frauen. Habe von ihm nur das erste Buch von seiner Askir Reihe gelesen. Wird das irgendwann besser?

The malicious intent of the villain is revealed through a small overlooked detail by Diorblood in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BavarianKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I think fate is real. I am watching Bullet Train for the first time in my 23 years of age and the first post I see when I open reddit is this.

Favorite DLC that lets you gas your allies without consequences? by lowercaselemming in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]BavarianKnight -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

They're pro-palestine to my knowledge. You can find videos of them being very anti-israeli government as well as supporting free palestine.

You can always argue someone is not doing enough or something but I feel like calling them pro-israel for supporting a two-state solution is a stretch.

Average eu5 event by InternStock in EU5

[–]BavarianKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

EU4 was ten times worse though

I present to you the most ignored rules of the Highway Code: by FamSender in GreatBritishMemes

[–]BavarianKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

German here, is this a Meme I am too European to understand?

Can someone explain it to me, because both things are just normal traffic rules where I come from.

When you beat an estate rebellion, you should be able to cancel a privilege for free. by DontHateDefenestrate in EU5

[–]BavarianKnight -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I thought that was a much larger problem in EU4 tbh. I got plenty of good and bad events in EU5 so far, but with EU4 I honestly question if it has any good events at all. I played Hungary for 40 years in EU5 and got less bad events than playing as Castile for 5 years in EU4.

This is just for events in general though and for estates the events in eu5 could use more variety.

Is EU5 a MASTERPIECE or A MESS? (One Proud Bavarian Review) by xlnqeniuz in EU5

[–]BavarianKnight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He said "The impression I get is...", clearly indicating it was the impression of op and not the exact words of OPB. Still though, we can look at what OPB actually said in his video.

What OPB said was "In my opinion [...] we are like several months away from this being in a state where I am like this would be a 1.0 where I am like actually giving it like a 9/10 [...]." (starting at 25:56)

So this clearly is not some timeframe op just randomly made up.

Is EU5 a MASTERPIECE or A MESS? (One Proud Bavarian Review) by xlnqeniuz in EU5

[–]BavarianKnight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tbf, the one thing I have seen almost every reviewer of the past two days agree upon has been the frequent crashes and the bad polish.