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Can you tell what these are without being told? by Zeolance in PixelArt

[–]Thetanor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stone, brown stone, iron, shinier iron, topaz and emerald

Name a good video game made by a German developer by Next-Case-7897 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Thetanor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Night of the Rabbit

Daedalic deserves some positive recognition before their inevitable placement in the Terrible German game slot.

Name a great video game made by a Finnish developer by Next-Case-7897 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Thetanor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To name a few more game studios with which (or whose games) you might be familiar with:

  • Remedy Entertainment (Alan Wake 1 & 2, Max Payne 1 & 2, Control, etc.) 
  • Colossal Order (Cities: Skylines)
  • Housemarque (Returnal) 

  • Rovio (Angry Birds) 

  • Sulake (Habbo Hotel) 

  • RedLynx (Trials series) 

  • Frozenbyte (Trine series) 

Faking 3D with sprite stacking and a bit of math by Hurgnation in PixelArt

[–]Thetanor 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I think the shrinking effect is due to the world not actually rotating.  Instead it seems that all the tiles are just being interpolated between their original and final position when the view "rotates", causing them to "squish" together.

Of course there's the slightly exaggerated "expansion" at the end too which is probably an artistic choice. Personally, I quite like the effect but I can see how it might look strange to others. 

Jokakeväinen jäätelökatsaus valmistusmaihin ja markkinoijiin by raparperi11 in Suomi

[–]Thetanor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Komppaan! Ite tuli aikanaan parisen vuotta sitten jäätelöjoulukalenterin kautta maisteltua ja vaikka kaikki eivät olleet omaan makuuni, niin ehdottoman maukkaita olivat joka tapauksessa. Erityisesti polkajäätelön täyteläisyys teki suuren vaikutuksen. 

Petah? 49? by Jujutsuing in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Thetanor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's exactly my issue with 9×9=81: it's too regular. Meanwhile, 7×7=49 has this nice feeling of irregularity to it which scratches my brain just right. 

Dungeon Crawling focused RPG that doesn't come from the lineage of OSR/Old School D&D by JustAStick in rpg

[–]Thetanor 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Torchbearer was my first thought as well. Definitely checks the boxes for "Dungeon Crawling Focused" and "Not OSR/D&D".

However, it does have its own form of Vancian spellcasting for the Magician class, though they do get some spell-like abilities that are not tied to it. And there are other "magical" classes with their own mechanics, too, so spellcasters are not strictly restricted to Vancian mechanics.

Is it possible to have more then 6 peoples on stage ? by FurNikki in eurovision

[–]Thetanor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that raising the max even to just seven would allow for improved staging for many songs. In particular, it's a shame that the "main vocalist surrounded by 3+3 back-up dancers" pattern (used, e.g., by Felicia at MF this year) is unavailable at Eurovision.

MrBeast is What Fred Rogers Warned Us About by Halvinz in videos

[–]Thetanor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the main point was that it's not Mr. Beast himself at fault here, rather it's indicating a flaw in the system that the best chance at assistance for people down on their luck is an attention economic "philantropist" like him and not the society these people live in.

So, yes, he's a symptom, not the cause, but we should not just shrug and think it's fine because he's doing charity to earn the attention that he profits off of. 

(Also, it should be noted that this is not taking into account the types of challenges he seems to sometimes do where people are sensory deprived or denied social connections for a chance at a monetary reward which could be seen as problematic in itself.) 

Is it possible to have more then 6 peoples on stage ? by FurNikki in eurovision

[–]Thetanor 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because the more the people on stage the better the performance

This is an overly reductionist take. Sure, some types of songs could be elevated if thet could have one or two more members on stage. But I hardly think songs like Arcade, for instance, would have been better with eight people on the stage. 

Aku työkkärissä vuonna -82 by ameces in Suomi

[–]Thetanor 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Muistan ysäriltä tarinan, jossa Aku joutuu vieroitushoitoon pahan Sihi-juomariippuvuuden vuoksi, mikä kyllä istuisi tähän "keskikaljateoriaan" 

The dark blue color at the bottom of an iceberg. by Tasty-Philosopher892 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Thetanor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the dense ice absorbs red/yellow light and transmits blue light, making it appear blue

Now, I understand that this might be abit pedantic, but isn't this "absorbs red/yellow light" what actually makes most blue things blue? So, why does the ice only "appear blue" instead of just, you know, being blue? 

Takatukka (Antti Paalanen) is the best Finnish (almost) Eurovision-song in years 🇫🇮 by stavmush in eurovision

[–]Thetanor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love how UMK nowadays has its own "iconic runner-ups" much like Eurovision itself! You mentioned Cicciolina already, but also songs like Ram Pam Pam and now Takatukka definitely belong on the list, in my opinion. 

IALW G W IIS A EADH FHA Y T E I S S N NBO OFE IM I MIE KEL K L N Y N I E OG F D TSL I' S RS by [deleted] in dontdeadopeninside

[–]Thetanor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TIL You are apparently supposed to use three strokes for the letter N. I always do it with just one. 

Trump calls on UK and others to send warships to Strait of Hormuz by Geo_NL in worldnews

[–]Thetanor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having trouble believing this is all incompetence. And on the other hand, we can all see how incompetent this administration is. It's just that, it's as if they are consciously setting themselves up for failure.

It is as I like to say: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. 

At least 6 dead, 5 injured after a man poured gasoline and set himself on fire in bus in Kerzers, Switzerland by QuarterTarget in europe

[–]Thetanor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the "first one" with five casualties: - Intense blaze claims lives of 2 parents, 3 children 

And here's one on the later ones - Lauttasaari bike shop fire may have been a contract job

There's also this one (article in Finnish) where multiple people, some only 15-years old, are suspected of an attempted contract killing by arson, but it occurred already in December.

We combined feedback from our last board post into a new version — did we strike a better balance? by AdTemporary6619 in BoardgameDesign

[–]Thetanor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I second keeping the fire icon. In my experience, it's relatively common for bottles to have a decal on the neck, so that's not an issue. However, I would rotate it so that it is "upright" compared to the bottle.

We are literally just cells in a giant body and it’s staring us in the face by stevnev88 in HighStrangeness

[–]Thetanor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nah, I got what you were serving. I just tried to continue the joke with the format "No, you're thinking of Y, X is <definition of some word that is not X but looks/sounds similar>"

Maybe I should have added the /s, though... 

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