Wow, wie sich das auch einfach liest, als würde es von der Webseite selbst stammen. Nirgends wird erwähnt, dass das von einer KI frei erfunden wurde.

Yeah, these days it’s obvious that video games are the next logical step in media consumption. First we had audio. Then we had audio+video. Now we have audio+video+interaction. You can literally watch a movie inside of a video game, if you care to.

But back then, the audio and video qualities of games weren’t yet terribly developed. You could still easily find board games, or heck, sports, that were more complex than Pac-Man and Space Invaders.
I can definitely see that one would think, it’s a novelty and not be able to imagine how cineastic games would become, or that some even contain books worth of history lessons.

Am German, can confirm.

No, that’s not quite right.

“Bis dann.” translates to “Until then [when we meet again].”.
“Bis später.” would be “Until later.”.

And if someone says “Bis später.”, I do expect to meet them again on that day.

I was gonna say, I’m not sure there’s non-acidic ingredients that have the same acidic/sour taste.

But there are these bubblegums that are extremely sour, so I guess, we do have a way of triggering those taste receptors without melting away your jaw. 🫠

Ketchup contains vinegar. Probably don’t want that down there…

Somewhat tangential, but USB-C docking stations, as useful as it is to have everything in one cable, it can also be annoying.

At the office, I often just want to charge my laptop with them, but they also give me a wired internet connection, which, thanks to corporate networking shitfuckery, doesn’t work. So, every time I plug in, I have to disable that wired connection.

Also, recently a colleague had problems getting her headset working when she was plugged into certain docks, ultimately due to a bug in the OS.
Like, alright, that should be fixed in the OS, but that USB-C dock doesn’t even have a speaker attached to it. It’s completely useless that it shows up as an audio device.
And even after we found a workaround to fix her headset, she will now have to switch over her audio device every time she plugs into a dock.

So, basically it’s now one step to plug in the cable, but potentially multiple steps to undo half of what you unwillingly plugged in…

Some years ago, my wind band was participating in an event where you get graded+critiqued by experienced musicians. Specifically, we performed in a category where you’re given note sheets you’ve never seen before, then have 1 hour to practice and then you’re graded.

So, that’s 1 hour of concentration and no discussions. The conductor has to make precise calls and the players have to realize them.

Well, it was my brother and me on third trombone. We had a soloistic section, written in 𝆑. We already made sure to be heard, but the conductor told us to not play 𝆏 there.

There’s a joke to never tell trombonists to play loud, because our usual 𝆑 is just 50% of capacity. So, we had to assume our conductor knew what he was in for and rather than discuss, we just played that non–𝆏 𝆑 on the next cycle.

It would have been easy for our conductor to tell us to not play quite as loud, but well, he didn’t.

So, off to the performance we go. There’s a recording of it and it’s basically 80 musicians playing 𝆐𝆑 vs. 2 trombonists, who would win?

Kind of feels disparate from it being a video game, but it’s difficult to really make this experience another way:

I wanted to play a healer in an MMO. It was a shitty MMO, so healers could only be female characters wearing skimpy armor.

Well, it took about half a minute until I had people walk up to me, to then just stop 3 meters away. From the way they were moving, I have to assume, they were working their cameras to look underneath my skirt, and probably doing so with only one hand.

Some of them were sending me “hello :)” messages, which I guess is basic decency, if you’re going to use my body, but it felt weird, too, since we had nothing to talk about.

All in all, it felt uncomfortable. And I did not even have to fear for them to start touching or even raping me. Plus, I was able to log out, delete my account and basically just leave all of that behind.

Well, except for one thing I did not leave behind: I do not want to be the other side in that experience either.

Fucking AIs, man. I spent far too long wondering what the hell kind of UI that could be.

Seems just a tad excessive…?

Yeah, and at least those are their pets and they don’t, like, violently kidnap wild Pokémon to force those into fights.

I once had a very special, very young colleague, who would always question everything, but was never willing to change his own mind. And of course, he believed the Bible was 100% verbatim correct and scientists were lying.

Well, one day he exclaimed, “Scientists don’t know everything for certain either!”.
So, I responded, “Yeah…? They don’t claim to…?”.

And that left him absolutely confused. I don’t know how much propaganda his parents fed him, but I guess, at the very least he never considered that a possibility.

So, I told him that it’s not called a “scientific theory” for nothing. And that literally everything in science will be abolished, if you can disprove it.

After that quick shock, he was already back to not wanting to believe anything that sounded logical, but his last response was something along the lines of “That doesn’t make any sense. How can you live by something and not know for certain that it’s correct?”.

Which, like, I get it. It’s scary to not have certain answers. But it makes no sense to just pick one answer and decide that this one is certain.
But yeah, that is the mindset he grew up in.

Yeah, to other fields, it looks like an equation.

x is equal to x+1 will make some mathematicians scream.

These are rarely mutually exclusive. Rather the opposite, as these textures and whatnot need to be pumped through RAM and VRAM via the CPU.

What kind of propaganda non-sense article is that? I live in Germany. We’re doing absolutely fine.

For anyone left behind, Minetest is a community-developed alternative.

It’s more of a game engine/launcher + highly moddable, so the base game is rather minimalistic, but you can simply install more extensive games. For example, for a very Minecraft-like experience, MineClone2 is your best bet.

You mean, like on Ubuntu?

Yeah, but to my knowledge, you can only go forwards in time.

What you can do, is go forwards at a slower speed. So, if you sat yourself in a spaceship and accelerated to e.g. 10% of the speed of light, you might get out after what you perceive as a few years and find yourself in the year 2200 (I did not do the math), but you cannot go back from there.

Causal chains always have to follow causality. They can just do so less quickly, because, as far as my current understanding goes, the speed of light is actually the speed of causality.

(Sorry to bonk you with so much physics. I know that initial statement could have also come from someone who’s never heard of the theory of relativity…)

Well, I’m glad we got to the bottom of what’s unrealistic about traveling back in time…