bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason 1 hour ago:
Or maybe we actually are the first interstellar civilisation. With features like Jupiter and especially our giant ass moon seeming to be pretty rare we still don’t know what it really takes to make a planet habitable. Let alone habitable in such a way that it creates intelligent life.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
Drinking right from the battery tastes so much better.
- Comment on Try Butt Nutts Today!! 4 days ago:
But it’s No Nutt November!
- Comment on moving from nextcloud to opencloud 4 days ago:
I’ve made an update script that tries to run the migrations and index updates in one go.
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/php8.3 /cloud/updater/updater.phar --no-interaction --no-backup /usr/bin/php8.3 /cloud/occ maintenance:repair --include-expensive /usr/bin/php8.3 /cloud/occ db:add-missing-indices
The updater itself is by far the slowest of the three commands. I think downloading the new version into a different folder and just moving apps and files over would be much quicker. But I haven’t had the time to look at potential errors with that method.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 6 days ago:
In Casino Royale (the real one from 1967) they actually do that. They call every agent, male and female, James Bond to confuse the enemy.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 6 days ago:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has one of the most interesting world in stories inside and outside of gaming. I hope we will see many more stories set in that world.
The hook alone is great.
Spoiler for the prolog and trailers.
Around the end of the 19th century the whole world broke apart and a part of Paris (called Lumiere in the game) was thrown into the sea. And this giant “Paintress” started painting the number 100 on an enormous monolith and each year she counts down. And everyone who is that old or older evaporates into ash and flower petals.
So the people started sending out expeditions to find out wtf is going on.
Spoiler for the rest of the game.
The world is actually a magical painting the Paintress’ son made when he was a child. For him, his sister and their parents to play in. But when he was an adult their other sister was tricked by “the Writers” into setting a fire which killed him. In her grief the mother fled into the painting because it was the last bit she had of him. Fearing she would stay in there until she died of starvation the father went in as well to get her out. As she wouldn’t relent he started erasing the painting and she tried to prevent that. Every year painting the age of the people she wouldn’t be able to save from him onto the monolith. So we actually have this world of magical Painters and Writers who are at war with each other and it is hinted that there are Musicians as well. And who knows what other artists with magical powers exist in this world. I’m imagining Programmers joining the fray in the future. The possibilities both inside any art pieces and outside in the “real” world are endless.
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 6 days ago:
Got it from this song that was falsely credited to Weird Al Yankovic on eDonkey. youtu.be/9hNkfvW64VU
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 6 days ago:
- Comment on CERN top quarks discovery hints at mysterious 'toponium' particle 1 week ago:
And people say particle physics is dead.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 1 week ago:
Just saw lemmy.today/post/40824242 a Thief VR game.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 1 week ago:
Das ist ja wie Äpfel mit Birnen vergleichen.
- Comment on Pronouns history 1 week ago:
That’s just a cheap Mathemann nock-off.
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 1 week ago:
Asshole son, mow the lawn!
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 week ago:
Automatic upgrades handle the security patches. Everything else maybe once a month. My big services like Nextcloud auto update as well.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 weeks ago:
Just yesterday, when I told the great wizard Lorroakan
spoiler
that the Nightsong is dead. “That always happens to me!”
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of jokes remaining in Act 3. Like Expedition 60.
- Comment on There's a part of my soul that needs 'cat lady' culture to be adopted by the mainstream like 'gamer' culture was. 2 weeks ago:
Play The Cat Lady to combine them both! And it’s even discounted at the moment.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 2 weeks ago:
I remember getting lost in one of the missions, literally muttering “Where am I?” in English even though I’m German and opening the map to a page that said “Where am I?” written by Garrett.
Can’t get more immersive than that!
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 2 weeks ago:
I guess there’s The Dark Mod to scratch that itch. It’s a completely community made stealth game using the Doom 3 engine. It pretty much feels the same as the first two Thief games.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 weeks ago:
Most things are hard until you get them. But that’s especially true in Maths. From elementary school to university until the necessary neurons in your head connect every problem seems daunting at first. But once you see what the actual problem is, once you see what tricks can be used they become trivial to solve.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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.
