Personally, I never cared about the cheating aspect, I was never particularly good at gaming and I’d definitely prefer cheating over not finishing a game or trying to bruteforce whatever I’m stuck on for 10 hours. The issue is that looking up stuff casually like many people (including me) do today has a high risk of reducing the fun for no real reason. And I feel like games today tend to be easier and less grindy than they used to be in the dial-up days, too, so there’s also less reason to look anything up in the first place.

The real easy mode is looking up stuff on the 'net. It might be subtle at first, maybe you just looked up something when you were genuinely stuck, but before you know it you’re just looking up stuff because you’re impatient or don’t want to take notes yourself.

Though I guess there’s games that are mostly about getting the timing right. Like I don’t think the internet helps much with beating the early Super Mario sidescrollers. Also, depending on the game a lot of the info you find might be outdated; games that are/were in early access for a long time are especially bad for this.

Is it, though? If there’s a non-government person who has the means to protect themselves against fucking missile strikes, one of the richest people on the planet seems like a likely candidate.

Nah, cigarettes kill way too slowly for that. Meth, though …

Nah, you can survive a ton of stupid shit. The issue (or the blessing, probably) is that most of those at most turned into pub stories, not something you hear from on a different continent.

I feel like a typical anglophone witch wouldn’t care terribly much about ancient Greek gods.

It’s a bit of a catch22. On the one hand Patrice Lumumba should be remembered, and the drink does actually help with that. But on the other hand, it feels more like the kind of thing you’d do if you were celebrating the assassination than if you wanted to honor the assassination’s victim.

We are seeing a photo of “Zelenskyy taking a selfie”, not the selfie itself.

Lots of “gifted” children are essentially left alone with their problems and often didn’t get the education they needed, e.g. to learn how to actually put effort into learning. Someone with more willpower or something might have pulled through, but children generally need parenting and education to learn that kind of thing and chances are pretty good that their parents, schools etc. just failed those children.

IDK your exact story, but I think this idea that it’s entirely their own fault if they don’t succeed seems like the exact kind of mental pitfall that “burned-out gifted kids” would fall into.

Conversely, injuries often happen because the athletes don’t do things that are known to mitigate injuries, such as specific strength and mobility exercises, or are just pushing themselves too hard; though I assume that the education of young athletes in that area is usually lacking, too.

Most phones have a front camera nowadays, pretty much exclusively for photographing the user.

Meh. The first movie of the second trilogy had tons of issues, too, you can work with that kind of thing if there’s at least a somewhat unified artistic vision - George Lucas had the standing and resources to pull through, JJ Abrams didn’t.

And the suits fucked up, too - there wasn’t much wrong with the second movie (compared to the first and third ones, anyway), yet they brought back the guy who supposedly fucked up the first movie.

There is a popular drink on German christmas markets called “Lumumba” and it’s hot cocoa with a shot of rum, named after an assassinated Congolese politician.

Normal wine isn’t really a common drink on German christmas markets. I’d say the German “Glühwein” rolls off the tongue easier than “mulled wine”, too. I guess this joke is just lost in translation …

The Force Awakens wasn’t the issue IMO, it’s that the followup movies couldn’t be arsed to do any coherency with the previous movies. What did they even think would happen if you switch to a different director for the second movie who wanted to do something else with the trilogy, and then just switch back? It’s not even that the second was a bad followup to the first of the trilogy, it’s that the third didn’t really build on the second.

The third movie also had big issues that couldn’t be explained by the director switch, though.

Naja, dass Leute Issues aufmachen ist eine Sache, aber wenn sogar die Entwickler von yt-dlp konstruktiv antworten, das finde ich krass!

Was können Facebook und X denn noch machen, was die übrigen Nutzer noch vergrätzen soll? Und Reddit ist anscheinend mittlerweile auch so weit, dass der eingeloggte Subscribed-Feed sehr viele Posts aus Subs zeigt, die man gar nicht abonniert hat - genau das, was Facebook schon seit Jahren macht. Und trotzdem wird Lemmy offensichtlich von vielen nicht als Alternative gesehen.

Das habe ich letztens auch gespielt! Wirklich gutes Spiel, ich hatte das vor Jahren schon mal als Let’s Play gesehen und das ist mittlerweile lange genug her, dass ich mir das nochmal persönlich zu Gemüte führen konnte (+ guter Rabatt). Unbedingt die 100% haben zu wollen kann ich mir bei den wenigsten Spielen vorstellen, ich sammle wirklich gerne Achievements, aber die letzten Paar sind in der Regel nur noch pure Arbeit, das hat nichts mehr mit Spielspaß zu tun. Ich glaube, bei Dredge nutzt sich das Spielprinzip ohnehin irgendwann ab. Vor ein paar Tagen waren auch die Addons nochmal im Sale, ich habe mich aber dagegen entschieden sie zu kaufen, weil ich eben denke, dass das Hauptspiel gerade lang genug ist. Was die Herausforderungen betrifft finde ich es auch immer sehr nervig, dass Steam immer alle Addons mitzählt, auch wenn man sie gar nicht besitzt - wenn man keine Addons kauft, ist es in der Regel unmöglich offiziell auf 100% zu kommen.

Hab letztens in den Github issues eine komplett sachliche Diskussion über xhamster (Pornoseite) gesehen. Das Fragestelly hat sogar den Link zum Video in die Frage gepackt.

It’s accurate to the characters if they were in lesbians with each other. They are not, though, it’s your standard cute-girls-doing-cute-things that makes it easy to imagine the girls at lesbians.

As always: Propaganda works.

What exactly are they gaining? An authoritarian state isn’t going to make them richer or increase their personal freedoms, except to discriminate against outgroups. Which might sound fun if you’re an asshole, until you realize that you belong to one of the myriad outgroups, too (in addition to the outgroup of “people who aren’t wealthy”). And there’s always the risk of being falsely accused, which is a big deal if the state says “fuck y’all” to due process.