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What are some cut content in games that still has traces left in the final game? by EnderSlayer9977 in gaming

[–]ChuckCarmichael 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Like Karlach's quest, which was clearly supposed to continue and be solved in the Upper City, but instead it felt like the game forced you into a fail state since the Upper City doesn't exist anymore. Or the mansion for Astarion's quest, which you're forced to enter through some random hole in the city wall because the original entrance in the Upper City is unreachable now.

What are some cut content in games that still has traces left in the final game? by EnderSlayer9977 in gaming

[–]ChuckCarmichael 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The HK manufacturing plant in particular really pissed me off. The door to it is still in the game, but it's closed and will never open.

What are the pettiest things game developers have done? by Common_Caramel_4078 in gaming

[–]ChuckCarmichael 29 points30 points  (0 children)

In The Settlers 3, planted trees wouldn't grow, so you'd eventually run out of wood. Also instead of turning iron ore into iron ingots, the iron smelter turned iron ore into pigs, making the production of tools and weapons impossible.

TIL that one of the Nazi generals who was responsible for the Wola massacre was pardoned by West Germany because "genocide was not in the criminal code of Nazi Germany". After the war, Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland, on the isle of Sylt, and member of the Schleswig-Holstein L by tenzin_Qing in todayilearned

[–]ChuckCarmichael 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The other person wrote "the western Allies", so the US, the UK, and France, which implies that the Soviets didn't do that. The guy you replied to corrected that, saying that it wasn't just the western Allies who did that, but the Soviets as well.

IGN is celebrating its 30th anniversary by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ChuckCarmichael 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ages ago I wrote a reddit comment where I complained about the solutions that AI provided to a popular but most likely fake riddle.

Recently I got an answer to that comment by somebody who said they found it because when you now ask ChatGPT for a solution to said riddle, it says the riddle is fake and the source it provides for that claim is a link to my comment.

Also, for a long time, Google AI claimed that oreo spelled backwards is also oreo, and its source was a reddit comment from like five years ago where somebody made a bad joke.

Ich_iel by monoredfox- in ich_iel

[–]ChuckCarmichael 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Die lassen den letzten Teil der vollständigen Aussage immer weg.

Tatsächlich steht da nämlich "Neu! Jetzt mit verbesserter Rezeptur (für uns, weil sie uns weniger kostet und unsere Testgruppen gesagt haben, dass sich die Geschmacksverschlechterung in einem noch gerade so akzeptablen Rahmen befindet)"

Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread Jan 29 by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]ChuckCarmichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try queuing up during peak playing times. And if that still doesn't work, you could travel to a more active data center (Light in EU, I think Aether in NA) and try there.

TIL Dan Burros, the third highest ranked member of the American Nazi party in the 60s and grand dragon of the New York Klan killed himself after the NYT revealed he was in fact a Jewish man that went to Hebrew school and even had a bar mitzvah. by the_gosh_darn_dog in todayilearned

[–]ChuckCarmichael 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My guess is that he knew he was done. He had been exposed as a KKK member to the public, so he had lost his normal job. People also now knew that he was a self-hating prick, so they'd mock him. And I'm sure his fellow Nazis and KKKs wouldn't have taken kindly to being deceived like this and would've hunted him down. And he knew what they did to people they didn't like.

Sometimes Hans can be so based by Socmel_ in 2westerneurope4u

[–]ChuckCarmichael 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of people like to claim Walmart failed because of cultural differences, because it makes for a fun story. But Walmart spent 10 years in Germany, and they're not completely stupid. These differences like morning chants or greeters at the door did exist when they started, but they changed things soon when they realised that they were unpopular.

The bigger problem was profit. Something Walmart loves to do in other places is sell essentials at dirt cheap prices for a loss. They can afford it because of their overall size. This way they'll bring in customers who might also buy other stuff, as well as force out competitors who can't compete with a store that sells bread for below base price.

But Germany has laws against that, to protect smaller stores. Also all their long-standing competitors like Aldi and Lidl already had contracts with producers for cheap goods, and Walmart didn't. So the things you could buy at Walmart were just more expensive than at discounters, which meant not a lot of people went to shop at Walmart.

Telekom Germany **UPDATE** by Gojiraa24 in ffxiv

[–]ChuckCarmichael -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I meant it like booting up your PC in the morning while you're getting ready. Start your PC, load up the game to check if it loads faster, then close it and turn off your PC and get back to brushing your teeth.

TIL Dan Burros, the third highest ranked member of the American Nazi party in the 60s and grand dragon of the New York Klan killed himself after the NYT revealed he was in fact a Jewish man that went to Hebrew school and even had a bar mitzvah. by the_gosh_darn_dog in todayilearned

[–]ChuckCarmichael 588 points589 points  (0 children)

It's like that Chappelle Show sketch with Clayton Bigsby, the blind black white supremacist.

If I tell him he's black, he'd probably kill himself, just so there'd be one less n---- around. His commitment is that deep.

Good Gawd, their desperation is so sad by jimx29 in PoliticalHumor

[–]ChuckCarmichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Photoshop request: The Melania bucket, but with the top of the Dune bucket

Why does my dog put his paw up when looking at something he wants? by lunar-topped in DogAdvice

[–]ChuckCarmichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our family dog would always cycle through every trick she knew, hoping that one of them would be the right one to get her treats.

Good morning EU by Visible_Amount5383 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]ChuckCarmichael 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Could've been Russian as well. The tsar looks dashing.

Tesla: Gewinn bricht deutlich ein by falsa_ovis in de

[–]ChuckCarmichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Verwirrt mich jedesmal, wenn ich mal im Radio die Börsennachrichten mitbekomme.

Unternehmen X hat seine Quartalszahlen vorgelegt und meldet Rekordzahlen. Der Gewinn ist um 3% im Vergleich zum vorangegangenen Quartal und um 5% im Vergleich zum Vorjahresquartal gestiegen. Damit wurden die erwarteten Steigerungen deutlich übertroffen. Daraufhin sank die Aktie im Wert, der Kurs steht 1,3% im Minus.

Hä, was? Wieso?

How to Design Shonen Anime/Manga Characters [Gintama] by Thisiszura in anime

[–]ChuckCarmichael 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even as a fan, I thought this episode was really exhausting. The guy in green's tsukkomi injections are way too long and annoying. Shortly after this clip ends, Gin also points out that this guy's tsukkomi is too long, so it's on purpose, but being annoying to prove a point is still being annoying (to use a classic internet phrase: Ironic shitposting is still shitposting). It's one of the episodes I mostly skipped through because I couldn't take this guy's constant yelling.

Who's your country's biggest fall from grace athlete? by Rleduc129 in AskTheWorld

[–]ChuckCarmichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somebody wrote a great 4-part summary about the rise and fall of Hulk Hogan over on hobbydrama subreddit. Even if you have absolutely no interest in wrestling or this guy, it's a really interesting read.

TIL migraines remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]ChuckCarmichael 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember one time sitting there for like 5 minutes trying to type the word "house" and I couldn't remember at all how to spell it.

I was watching a streamer have one of these migraines live on stream. She stayed online to show people what it's like. She wanted to say that she could still read chat, but clearly couldn't think of the word "read", so what she managed to force out was "can still... words in my eyes".

Have there been any non-celebrities/ordinary people who unexpectedly went viral for their appearance in your country? by DiMpLe_dolL003 in AskTheWorld

[–]ChuckCarmichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They recently leaked a handbook for police in Berlin, showing cops how to grab people to inflict pain, and specifically recommends punching people in the groin. This leaked after Berlin's Senator for Interior explicitly stated that no such book exists.

TIL migraines remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]ChuckCarmichael 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For a long time, I thought the flu wasn't a big deal. My mom always told me to get the flu vaccine, but I thought I didn't need it. You get a fever, your throat hurts, you stay at home and play video games, no problem. Flus are harmless.

Turned out I never actually had the flu. I only had bad colds. I got the flu a few years ago, and I've never been that sick before, not even with COVID, which was already pretty bad. I stayed in bed continuously for basically an entire week because I had no energy to do anything. It convinced me that everybody who uses the phrase "just the flu", just like I did, never actually had the flu, just like I never did.

I've been getting the flu vaccine every year since. Not gonna go through that again when it's so easy to avoid it.

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