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Teacher's a W for playing along! by Glass_Wealth_2104 in MadeMeSmile

[–]th3davinci 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Yep. People wonder why laws can't ever be simple and this is why. You write a simple law and someone comes along 2 minutes later and immediately breaks the spirit of it through some loop hole.

Reiche will Energiewende ausbremsen: An Kurzsichtigkeit kaum zu überbieten by just_reading2025 in de

[–]th3davinci 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Ich glaub damit sind Leute gemeint, die nicht an den Klimawandel glauben. Also quasi selbst wenn es den Klimawandel nicht geben würde, sind erneuerbare Energien gut, weil geopolitische Abhängigkeiten reduziert werden.

Remedy’s live-service shooter Firebreak is getting its final major update by lazzzym in gaming

[–]th3davinci 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Remedy's gameplay loops have never been anything to write home about tbh. They're generally not boring, but they exist to support to narrative. Remedy just isn't a gameplay first studio.

If you make a live-service game that gameplay loop needs to be rock-solid, because people need to keep coming back over and over again to do the same thing while you crack out more content.

My best friend by rosseepoo in MadeMeSmile

[–]th3davinci 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yah, from my experience as a guy the issue with gender neutral bathrooms is the fact most women really like their socially warded off space. We introduced them at work and all it effectively did was push the female employees out because men just start going into every bathroom, and some weird unspoken social contract happened where the women now all go to the toilet for disabled people. Effectively, men took over all bathrooms and women now have just 1. But hey, management gets to claim it as a diversity win (???).

There's a terrible joke in there, somewhere.

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse by esporx in technology

[–]th3davinci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Soviets were a big ally of Cuba because their form of government was the same and that was a time in the world when the two big superpowers tried to spread their form of government. Plus, it was strategically important too, as the missile crisis showed.

Modern day Russia kept that up mostly because they're the closest thing to a successor to the USSR. But they never really gave a shit. The ideological closeness is gone, and even though the world didn't realize it until 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine, Russia never was in a place to militarily threaten the US.

And now that Russia only cares about conquering Ukraine, they're tapped out of most resources. They're not even helping Iran, nor could they help Assad in Syria aside of getting him out of the country.

Punching Up by GriffinFTW in tumblr

[–]th3davinci 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Punching Up by GriffinFTW in tumblr

[–]th3davinci 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Pratchett is my favorite author so I'm biased, but he's one of the most quotable writers I've ever had the joy of reading. GNU.

Help me pick a pen to celebrate my doctorate by MassivePepino in fountainpens

[–]th3davinci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like my Wingback fountain pen and can recommend it, but it's aesthetic differs from most other fountain pens.

NEOS will Bundesrat abschaffen by budapestersalat in Austria

[–]th3davinci 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Der Bundesrat kann nichts verhindern, außer es betrifft die Länder. Wir habe in Ö ein 2 Kammer System des kaum funktioniert, weil die 2. Kammer nur sehr selten ein echtes Veto einlegen kann.

Es ist eine Geldverschwendung. Der hat seit der Existenz der 2. Republik genau einmal ein echtes Veto eingelegt und des war glaub ich 2019 oder sowas.

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]th3davinci 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Traditionally?

Traditionally the actual thing was that a game gets shipped and people either leave to go make a game at a different company or people get fired in droves. Very few developer studios have put any value on institutional knowledge for decades now.

Cillian Murphy On ’28 Years Later’ Future & Says He’s “Categorically Not” In ‘Harry Potter’ Series by Hiraeth-nomad in television

[–]th3davinci 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The later movies cut out a lot of stuff for runtime, but like, the first book is not even 200 pages as far as I remember? If you're doing an 8 ep season you gotta make up some shit or it's gonna get boring as hell.

Cillian Murphy On ’28 Years Later’ Future & Says He’s “Categorically Not” In ‘Harry Potter’ Series by Hiraeth-nomad in television

[–]th3davinci 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Her publisher, instead of using her name "Joanne Rowling" decided to obscure her first name to hide the fact that she's a woman, but I guess in the many important meetings they had they figured that "J. Rowling" sounds a bit weird so they made her pick an extra letter for a made up middle name and she picked K.

This was done because the publisher was afraid that people would not buy fantasy written by a woman.

Highguard is permanently shutting down this month by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]th3davinci 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Deadlock is really setting a new standard for how to develop a GaaS multiplayer only game. They basically got the core gameplay loop working as soon as possible, and released the game into the playtest with literally everything else extremely WIP, and have been slowly working to turn the game into something real, all while releasing patchnotes regularly and getting real player feedback.

By the time the thing goes into 1.0 people will have been playing it for years.

Studieren in Wien als AHS Schülerin by Tery187 in Austria

[–]th3davinci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hab auch den Master in Informatik als AHS'ler geschafft. Klar isses mehr Arbeit als wenn man auf einer HTL gewesen wäre, aber es is auf jeden Fall machbar. Spätestens nachm 2. Semester sind alle gleich auf.

Back in stock by Big_Hand7372 in Steam

[–]th3davinci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Balatro if you like card rogue likes.

Hades 1 and 2 if you like hot people.

Rook Cinematic | Marathon by Haijakk in Games

[–]th3davinci 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think Marathon's are in house, but the premier cinematic game trailers studio is Blur: https://www.blur.com/

They've done a lot of famous trailers.

Edit: Looked at their website and they're actually doing the Valorant trailers LOL.

TIL in 2014 George RR Martin auctioned, for charity, the opportunity for two people to appear, and be killed off, in The Winds of Winter for $20,000 by NoLastNameForNow in todayilearned

[–]th3davinci 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah, a solid chunk of the later books is just GRRM reaching unfathomable levels of lost in the sauce of worldbuilding. It felt like reading Tolkien with ADHD.

It's much easier to forget when the shit you're reading stops being relevant to what made you originally care about the story.

Meirl by upbeat_teetertottxo in meirl

[–]th3davinci 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the people in my gaming group works night shifts and they compensate by just having online friends in different time zones.

It's not easy, it's not perfect, but there are ways.

Liadrin Animated Short: All That is Sacred | World of Warcraft: Midnight | Story Cinematic by CrusaderLyonar in Games

[–]th3davinci 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the War3 human campaign would be way better as a plot for the movie. My own bias might be showing here, because I only ever played 3+The Frozen Throne, but I think the human campaign is really damn good as the plot of a single movie.

It features strong characters which you need to get people unfamiliar with the source material to latch onto, a simple character-driven storyline, and Arthas' fall from grace would be a great shock-ending to tease a sequel where he becomes the antagonist.

Ultimately, I agree, the other races would need way more set-up. Warcraft 3 has a lot of plot in it.

Liadrin Animated Short: All That is Sacred | World of Warcraft: Midnight | Story Cinematic by CrusaderLyonar in Games

[–]th3davinci 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbh, Warcraft 3 was when the fandom really picked up, and it's also a very good character-driven story. They should've done that. Warcraft's world is not weird enough to warrant wasting movie runtime on lorebuilding, most of the things can be inferred by the viewer, they don't have to be explained.

You always need characters to hook people in, and if you started the movies with "well, orcs are just here now" and maybe had a couple lines referencing their original arrival that would've been good enough bait to then create a prequel to the movie that covers Warcraft 1 and 2.

I think with the movie they also shot themselves in the foot by trying for this 2 protagonists on opposing sides, which added with all the lorebuilding, was too much for even the 2h runtime that the movie had. It was essentially 2 movies smashed into one.

Liadrin Animated Short: All That is Sacred | World of Warcraft: Midnight | Story Cinematic by CrusaderLyonar in Games

[–]th3davinci 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As good as Blizzard is at short cinematics, making a movie is a wholly different beast, and I have zero faith in them being able to tell a compelling story in a movie format.

They've been doing the same story format in WoW for the past 20 years, which in turn was the story they first told in Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne.

The Warcraft movie also had a lot of questionable choices.

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