bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 2 days ago:
You probably got them from NOLF revival.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 days ago:
At the moment it isn’t even that. It’s more the concept of an inventory of the landscape of a plan.
- Comment on one bright second 3 days ago:
And if you could live so long it would invalidate basically everything we know of physics. So the long dark wouldn’t actually come.
- Comment on one bright second 3 days ago:
Yeah, though eventually they should all evaporate one after another with a last huge tiny energy burst due to hawking radiation. But that will take a looooooooong ass time. And we still don’t know (might never know) if hawking radiation is real.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 3 days ago:
They should happen in that order, and ideally copyright would only be awarded to individuals (or perhaps specifically named lists of individuals, with some reasonable cap), not corporations.
That’s actually the law in Germany. Here it’s not called copyright but originator’s right. The big caveat being that things you create while under contract are licensed to companies. But the originator’s rights can not be transferred or erased.
Of course international contracts severely muddy the waters here.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 5 days ago:
Not video, but many Asterix comics get released in Latin and regional dialects.
Also, I liked how in Enemy Mine they both learn each others language instead of the Alien just learning English.
- Comment on Massive Pokemon leak purportedly covers next-gen games, scrapped ideas, and more 5 days ago:
Quick, someone patent it all!
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 6 days ago:
Look for Pig’s King of Cannons series.
- Comment on Serious Sam 2 was just updated after 20 years in celebration of its anniversary 6 days ago:
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 6 days ago:
The Bongcloud chess story reminded me of the StarCraft 2 player printf. Theoretically it is intended play, but he will start every single game with a cannon rush.
A cannon rush is when you attack your enemy’s base with immobile cannons that are actually meant to be used defensively. When the enemy doesn’t know that they are being cannon rushed it can be devastating, especially for inexperienced players. But when you halfway know what you’re doing and spot it quickly enough it is easy to defend.
But printf plays at a level where he’s not likely to encounter inexperienced opponents. And anyone who has any interest in the game is very likely to know who printf is. And he never hides his identity and he always opens with a cannon rush. And he’s still super successful with it.
He’s played it so often with so many variations he can probably (maybe he does) teach the top players a few things about that strategy. And although it’s always the same it’s still interesting to watch him play.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 1 week ago:
I wanted to say that I don’t dress for anyone because I mostly lie naked in bed because pulling trousers up is too hard for me.
But then I realised when I have to get up I put on a bathrobe so that my kids don’t have to see me naked.
So, I do dress for others.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
I really love Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo on the C64
Or, let’s say, I like the idea of playing Usagi Yojimbo. Because that game is frickin’ hard. I could usually defeat the first few ninjas but I never got close to the end of the game.
It has a nice honour system. You can’t just run around with your sword drawn. You have to be polite and bow to other people. Killing innocents reduces your honour. And when it’s depleted you kill yourself.
I was really amazed when the character Usagi Yojimbo appeared in an episode of the Ninja Turtles. In my mind he only existed in that game. A modern version could be nice.
- Comment on Not everyone has what it takes 1 week ago:
2B views this video
- Comment on Alien (1979) predates Predator (1987) 1 week ago:
That I pronounced it “pre date or” most of my life really sells this showerthought.
- Comment on ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 weeks ago:
I love how absolutely nothing in these “straight pose” diagrams is ever straight.
- Comment on pick your side 2 weeks ago:
I very much wouldn’t want to enter the war sober.
- Comment on Spokesperson 2 weeks ago:
I remember Cowboy from Shangai Noon.
- Comment on In this essay... 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s true for any system. And I’d say mathematics or just logic are simple enough. Every system stems from unprovable core assumptions.
- Comment on In this essay... 2 weeks ago:
And shortly after that some other guy proved that he was wrong. More specifically he proved that you cannot prove that 1+1=2. More more specifically he proved that you cannot prove a system using the system.
- Comment on Giving good Hedera 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I volunteer as tribute! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 3 weeks ago:
Herzlich Willkommen!
Plus, you don’t have to take vacation days when you’re sick. And when you’re sick during vacation that also doesn’t eat up your vacation days.
- Comment on Trump's Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show 3 weeks ago:
“The US should do something against their opioid crisis.”
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“NOT LIKE THAT!”
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 3 weeks ago:
Our loud elderly neighbour liked to complain about our lawn. Even after I got disabled. Now he fell ill and guess whose plants are growing through the fence?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
I remember many kids in my schooldays saying the same and being gaslit by the teacher into thinking they tested incorrectly.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
We had to write angry letters to our children’s school about 5 years ago to get them to stop teaching taste regions. It’s really baffling.
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 4 weeks ago:
Opposing
- Comment on Not even half a year left 4 weeks ago:
Only if I put on any.
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