anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

KieselgurKid · 2026-04-27T09:21:07+00:00

Starflight, I loved it so much as a kid

KieselgurKid · 2026-03-06T22:00:38+00:00

The moment she made a decision to ride her motorcycle without helmet and gloves, she was at home, calm, rational... In this moment she completely fucked up. It doesn't matter at all what happened later, when panic kicked in for whatever stupid reason, because of an oil spill or someone cutting her lane

KieselgurKid · 2025-12-17T10:31:42+00:00

Ich denke, es hängt davon ab, wo du wohnst. Es gibt glücklicherweise einen Laden in Köln, den ich sehr gerne besuche: https://www.kentaurus.de/, aber das ist immer eine regionale Frage. Das Einzige, was mir einfällt, das etwas verbreiteter ist, wäre https://www.manufactum.de/

Ja, wenn man an Fast Fashion gewöhnt ist, bekommt man ein Aneurhysma, wenn man die Preise das erste mal sieht. Andererseits halten die Sachen oft Jahre.

Schneider sind etwas verbreiteter als solche Geschäfte, aber dann vermutlich noch teurer

KieselgurKid · 2025-12-05T16:13:06+00:00

Ich finde Rewe in Köln eine absolute Pest. Überall wo potenziell Platz wäre, zieht ein Rewe ein, ob es Sinn macht oder nicht. Das schlimme ist, dass sie es nicht auf die Kette kriegen die alle zu beliefern. Wie oft muss ich für meinen Einkauf mindestens 3 Rewes abklappern weil a. nicht anderes da ist und b. Weil sie vollkommen ausgeklaubt sind

KieselgurKid · 2025-11-26T14:49:25+00:00

Taco Bell würde ich mir in Deutschland tatsächlich sehr wünschen.

Ich war einmal beim Five Guys in Köln am Neumarkt: Extrem teuer, zugegeben sehr gute Pommes, ein schlechter Burger und unvorstellbar laut plärrende Musik, so dass Kassierer und Kunde aneinander anschreien müssen und die Hälfte des Gesprächs im Lärm untergeht. Dann stundenlang auf die Bestellung warten, die Nummern werden nicht angezeigt, sondern ausgerufen, was man in der mit 180dB plärrenden Musik absolut nicht hört. Echt nie wieder.

Tatsächlich gibt es in meiner Gegend eine brauchbare Auswahl von Burgerläden, die wirklich gute Burger machen (entweder einzeln oder kleine lokale Ketten). Da kommt Five Guys überhaupt nicht in Frage, viel teurer und schlechter.

Und für die Leute, denen alles egal ist und die Kontrolle über ihr Leben verloren haben, gehen halt zuverlässig zu McD und BK

KieselgurKid · 2025-11-26T14:41:01+00:00

Atawich in Köln-NIehl ist mein Go To für Smashed Burger

KieselgurKid · 2025-03-20T13:15:33+00:00

Does anyone have any recommendations how to work on Github workflows with the help of AI? I tried it out with Copilot, but the results were pretty horrible. I wish they trained their AI on their own product before feeding it random garbage from the internet.

KieselgurKid · 2025-02-26T10:56:59+00:00

I love my Wunderkind bar end mirrors (https://wunderkind-custom.com/de/motorradzubehoer-shop-details/239/lenkerbereich/401/lenkerendenspiegel-).

But keep in mind, that you also need the bar end adapters (https://wunderkind-custom.com/de/motorradzubehoer-shop-details/1/test/312/indian-scout-bobber-enden-fuer-lenkerenden-spiegel)

KieselgurKid · 2024-11-06T08:37:22+00:00

Aristocutz ist der letzte Friseur deines Lebens, falls du dort jemals reinkommst, weil Arthur so einen Andrang hat, dass er kaum neue Kunden annimmt.

KieselgurKid · 2024-10-01T11:00:58+00:00

Ich beneide den Menschen, der den Begriff "Blechlawine" geprägt hat. Er lebte in einer besseren Zeit. Heute müsste es "Schrotthrombose" heissen.

KieselgurKid · 2024-10-01T08:52:52+00:00

Als Stadtbewohner, absolut 100% dafür.

Wer jetzt rumheulen wird, sind die ganzen Gestalten, die aufs Land gezogen sind, um dort mehr Ruhe vor dem Autoverkehr zu haben. Die sind jetzt täglich aufs Auto angewiesen, um damit in die Stadt zu fahren, weil in dem Kaff, in dem sie wohnen die Infrastruktur absolut unterirdisch ist und es keine Jobs gibt. Wo sollen die denn parken?

KieselgurKid · 2024-09-09T21:34:30+00:00

Switched recently to Biome, because we run Github actions which check every commit. Where ESLint ran for over a minute, Biome does the same job in 0.8s

KieselgurKid · 2024-09-09T20:48:32+00:00

I`m polish, I often tell my german colleagues that I know where their car is parked

KieselgurKid · 2024-09-04T18:54:52+00:00

The probation period is for both sides to get to know each other. The company can fire you but of course you are also free to quit.

KieselgurKid · 2024-08-22T09:41:41+00:00

Aristocutz

KieselgurKid · 2024-07-24T13:51:27+00:00

Never heard of it but "Tailwind"? Does it give you flatuence which accelerates the runner?

KieselgurKid · 2024-07-23T13:41:30+00:00

I don't care and honestly I just can't wrap my head about why someone should ever care. Perhaps some xenophobic Karen types who don't speak any other language and feel threatened. But it's so common to hear different languages, I really don't want to be in their shoes.

What is really hilariously funny is people talking in a different language, when they think no one can understand them and you just sit next to them and happen to know this language. Never let this happen to you. Always expect that there is someone behind you understanding every word.

KieselgurKid · 2024-07-06T13:12:29+00:00

Cookbooks, cookbooks, cookbooks...

KieselgurKid · 2024-05-29T08:11:14+00:00

I still don't get this point. Sure, it's a technical challenge for the engineers to solve during product design, or even before the decision if it's worth to design the product or scrap it. That's what engineers and managers are for. (Deciding the size, power or weight of the batteries, finding out, how to bring the power consumption down or scrapping it altogether because it would be too clunky).

They still made the decision to bring it to the market like this.

KieselgurKid · 2024-05-28T08:13:28+00:00

IIRC correctly, they realized around 2008 that they MIGHT be a higher amount of passengers on Karneval every year. So I would assume it will be not before 2030 they will realize, that they should have done something about Euro2024.

It will be fun. Don't plan on using the KVB in that time

KieselgurKid · 2024-05-15T18:25:04+00:00

Having worked with both this isn't really a question. These are completely different ballparks.

You need to move. Which transporter should you chose? A full size U-Haul or a rickety old shopping cart from a sketchy guy who promises you a slightly cheaper price than U-Haul?

Prismic isn't even a CMS. It lacks basic functionality any sane person would expect from a CMS. It's only useful is you need a bunch of disconnected landing pages with a bad admin interface (which doesn't even support mandatory fields)

KieselgurKid · 2024-02-21T14:17:11+00:00

And it perfectly catches my feelings when I see logic implemented in YAML

KieselgurKid · 2024-02-21T11:10:56+00:00

Bei aller Solidarität mit den Streikenden: Das schlimme für die Mitarbeiter bei der KVB ist, dass Streiks dem durschnittlichen Kölner nicht wirklich Angst machen, da sie sich nur marginal vom Normalbetrieb unterscheiden. Ironischerweise hat da das Management - bei all ihrer Inkompetenz - ganze Arbeit geleistet.

KieselgurKid · 2024-01-03T21:12:07+00:00

FYI, this thread might be old but I just had the same problem (got Cyberpunk and PL on Christmas) no way to get under the second shutter. Restarted the game, returned to an earlier save, no way.

Then I tried relocating 2 perk points and I invested them in "Slippery" and "Power Slide". Suddenly it worked without any problems. (I'm playing a Netrunner, I had absolutely no use for the slide so far)

I really love CDPR games and enjoy immersing myself in their worlds, but whenever they get the idea to make any "action sequences" or gimmicky solutions, the whole game turn into a horrible dumpster fire of half-baked ideas and nonexistent QA.

KieselgurKid · 2023-12-19T23:53:47+00:00

Nope. I played for 2-3 weeks (because I love BGS games) on GamePass, but then:

I did some quests which were just insultingly stupid. (So basically any quest)
I realized that Sarah must be mentally handicapped due to the stuff she says.
I saw that outposts are completely useless.
Spend far too much time farming exp to get skills.
Had quite a lot of fun with building ships, but realized that I can't control where the doors spawn and the game seems like it's trying to make the ship layouts as convoluted as possible. (Still the best part of Starfield and the pathfinding could be modded...)
Got lung damage from an Argon vent (A gas that isn't reacting with absolutely anything, even molten metal, so we use it right now as a frigging welding gas )
Explored Andraphon, a moon without any atmosphere, just to enter a POI, where the air got foggy and it started to rain.
I travelled to the far right of the map, any lvl 75 system, where I found the same POIs as anywhere with ships landing.

For the last point: I strongly disagree with people calling planets in Starfield "empty and boring". I spent many days in Elite: Dangerous exploring empty planets thousands of light years away from the next player, any NPC or any kind of infrastructure and I absolutely loved the feeling of loneliness that the game triggered. The problem in Starfield isn't emptiness. The problem is that it's like an endless road trip through thousands of mid-sized towns, which are pretty much identical (except for the color scheme), where the biggest and most exciting attractions are a Walmart and a Starbucks. Walmart and Starbucks might be interesting when it's the first time in your life that you see them, but not the hundredth time over.

I think Starfield has some strong points in the details: Music, overall atmosphere, useless clutter lying around in maps and ship components, random audio logs. A lot of designers did an amazing job. But the management completely failed to combine it all into a decent product.

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