bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Fan Subber 3 hours ago:
But seriously, fan subs are often so much better than professional ones. With so much more love and care.
- Comment on Ant on a dating show "I like long walks on the peach" 1 day ago:
ME sufferer: I like long rests on the sheets.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 1 day ago:
All Poets Society
Ensemble Dancing With Wolves
All of the Mohicans
- Comment on How does ads generate money for the ones who display it? 1 day ago:
They try to filter out people faking ad views. Precisely so that you don’t get more money.
As an advertiser you usually don’t talk directly to the people offering ad space but at an ad distributor like Google. They usually have techniques to minimise fraud. And often they offer to only take money for ads that actually lead to measurable goals. Then you wouldn’t pay for views but for how often that goal was reached. Those ads are usually shown less often so they might be less attractive if your sales aren’t exclusively online.
The marketing boss at one company explained it like this: “We’re basically known by every potential customer in our field. We advertise often so that they don’t get the impression we’ve ceased to exist.” So for him targeted views were more important than immediate sales.
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 1 day ago:
MasterCard would allow this!?! Wow, this reflects so badly upon them!
- Comment on Why don't I hear about the Fediverse very much anymore? 1 day ago:
You better start believing in the fediverse, Miss Turner.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 2 days ago:
They’d have to get the stuff first. Any shop caught selling them would face huge fines. And if you tried to import it you might risk confiscation.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 2 days ago:
Observation: Master that is unusually creative of you, for a meatbag.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Oof, I remember that one. It’s so cool to build all these awesome units. And at the end you don’t have enough resources and would have to start from the beginning.
- Comment on YSK about qalculate, an opensource, versatile calculator with nice cli 2 days ago:
I just want the 6 $ / TB storage, thanks.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Subscribed. Don’t want to be cursed for not subscribing.
- Comment on A great find 4 days ago:
My grandma revealed to my father at his 50th birthday that mothers actually cannot look through walls after all.
When he was a child it was a common occurrence that while their mother was in the living room and he was in the children’s room with his sister the mother would warn him to stop pestering his sister despite a wall being between the rooms. He was flabbergasted at how she knew what he was about to do. And she told him that mothers could see through walls. He never noticed the wardrobe with the mirroring glass doors in the corridor between the rooms.
- Comment on Laxative Effect 4 days ago:
Only 2025?
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 5 days ago:
And in the end that totally backfired. I never touched it because of that even though it is supposed to be a great game.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 5 days ago:
Is it possible that WOTC just utterly suck? Like even playing D&D for real at a table I always thought the wizard’s stuff was kinda boring. Every time our DM did something himself it was awesome.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 5 days ago:
Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations.
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 5 days ago:
Still, you shouldn’t be able to get money from having network access. Secure connections are a solved problem.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 6 days ago:
You have an account that earns interest?
Last time I saw that was as a child.
But then again I was able to get a loan for my house at ridiculously low interest, so I’m not complaining too much.
- Comment on heaven 6 days ago:
Sorry kids.
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 1 week ago:
You need a VPN if you’re German.
- Comment on What is with games that are completely different from what is advertised? 1 week ago:
You should play Diarrhea 4. It is exactly as shitty as advertised!
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 week ago:
First time I went into a sex shop was as a kid with my parents. They wanted to buy him a gag gift because he stayed home alone for the first time while we went on vacation. They settled on penis pasta (warning, increase in size when cooked) while I tried to appear to not be looking at anything.
Yeah, buying your kid sex stuff is generally seen as weird. But ultimately only you can say how your family does things.
- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 1 week ago:
Nice. Didn’t know thag PRPGs are a thing. I take it that Gothic would qualify although it is German?
What about dungeon crawlers, like Ultima, Lands of Lore or Might & Magic? To me they seem to be very distinct from isometric CRPGs.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Well, it’s better than the actual ATLA movie.
- Comment on Creative writing 1 week ago:
Don’t hug me, I’m scared.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Will start?
I’m pretty certain that they’re already guessing as much about you as possible for targeted ads.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
In DOS time I learned how to type quickle because I had to type in
cd gamescd keenkeenas quickly as possible to minimise non-gaming time. - Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 1 week ago:
7 sounds about right. When I see a number of stuff in front of me I can quickly grasp how many there are up to about 7. 8 already becomes two fours. 9 is 3x3 or 4+5 depending on how the objects are clustered.
Though I think I can estimate up to about a thousand. Usually by comparing to stuff I have already seen in that ballpark.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 1 week ago:
“Lots”
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 1 week ago:
Doom started out as an Aliens game. Though they pivoted away from that to retain more creative freedom.
