as usual where austrian (any DACH country, really) bureaucracy is concerned: it’s not that simple…
we are technically neutral! …but participate in (and host!) NATO training exercises, use NATO equipment, use NATO tactics…
so we are a de-facto member. without actually being a member. but still kind of a member. but not really…see where this is going?
austrian neutrality exists only on paper. always has. it’s bullshit, a farce, and a national embarrassment.
achtung: der teil mit der wahrheitsgemäßen berichterstattung bezieht sich nicht auf die partei über die berichtet wird.
die AfD kann lügen soviel sie möchte (leider).
das gesetz sagt nur, dass der rundfunk wahrheitsgemäß berichten soll, nicht dass der inhalt des beichteten wahr sein muss.
sprich, wenn der ARD berichtet: “die AfD hat folgendes gesagt: bla, bla,bla, usw.” <-- ist das eine wahre aussage von seiten des rundfunkes.
das ist was dieser absatz aussagt.
ist, wie schon angedeutet, nicht ideal und gibt damit explizit nazis eine plattform. was ein riesiges problem ist…
so here’s the thing:
if playing these sorts of games makes you sad and lonely, that’s a problem.
but if you are already sad and lonely, and playing these sorts of games makes you feel less so, that’s a good thing.
people that say things like what you said seriously underestimate how many people in the world have trouble forming (healthy) relationships, regardless of the games the play.
the internet and computers could disappear and those people still wouldn’t be better off; they’d just have fewer options.
and that sort of thing affects lots of different kinds of people: those suffering from mental disorders like depression, autism, various trauma, other conditions that make forming relationships difficult. those with physical handicaps, having similar issues about finding partners. and more.
I’m lucky enough to be able to have largely normal relationships (when i want to, when I’m in good enough a place to give it an honest go), but when i was in the deepest pits of depression that just wasn’t an option. and i still craved some of that…so various kinds of smut filled that need quite well, temporarily.
not a great solution long term, but it is definitely a net positive for a LOT of people!
it’s dumb that that’s the reason for the change…but i honestly associate that kind of fantasy language with fallout in general.
makes it feel more like a parallel world, close but not quite like our own, and helps suspension of disbelief!
overall a good change, imho, for a very dumb reason…silver linings, i guess…
“campaigning AGAINST”
they’re against that…
i mean…that certainly is an explanation, but it’s a shit strategy:
there are a lot of objectively false names for emojis, you can’t expect people to get used to that…
“eyeroll” for example is called “bored”…which makes absolutely no sense. (at least in german, maybe it’s less bad in english)
I don’t see that ever leading to vendor lock-in, just perpetual frustration…
the emojis would be fine, if they used standard naming schemes like everyone else does…but for some ungodly reason they don’t adhere to standard nomenclature, so good fuckin luck finding the one you’re looking for!
also: WHY is the shortcut for emojis a fucking parenthesis??? why isn’t it a colon like in damn near every other app???
this is the worst thing about teams:
it forces you to re-learn chat app standards that have been in place for well over a decade, and it does so for abso-fucking-lutely no good reason!
afaik the client does collect a bunch if data, most (all, i think? but not a 100% on that) of which is opt-in.
they do need stuff like IPs for internet related features.
telemetry wise there’s the steam hardware survey, which is opt-in, and it asks every single time it attempts to collect your systems hardware and OS information. this could technically be identifying information, but since it’s opt-in it’s not a privacy violation and it’s entirely optional. (plus it’s super useful for all involved: users, devs, and steam. it’s kind of a win-win and straight up necessary info for devs to know which hardware they should optimize for)
they might be putting it at the top because steam has native support for DRM?
but that’s also weird, because DRM isn’t a privacy violation. it’s a shitty practice, barely does anything, barely works, and keeps breaking or hobbling otherwise perfectly good games, all of which is shitty, but it’s little to do with privacy. and the dev has to specifically opt-in and integrate it as a feature…unless they’re thinking of 3rd party DRM that can be waaay more intrusive, like Vanguard… THAT’S a privacy and security nightmare just waiting to blow up in people’s faces.
otherwise…i haven’t really heard anything bad about steam privacy wise?
doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to be concerned about, but i feel like there’d been some news about it if there was…
Arthmoor is far from the worst the elder scrolls (and specifically the skyrim) modding community has to offer, lol
he’s one of the most famous weirdos, but there’s waaaaaaay worse among some of the most widely used mods’ authors.
the best example is probably Boris, the maintainer of ENB (a shader extension/injector), who is a famously fascist russian.
then there’s all the anti-woke modders (which mostly get banned from most platforms within hours/days). these aren’t that bad in the grand scheme, but they regularly cause huge shitstorms and hilarious modding sprees that can be best described as “extra, super gay” in protest.
ETA: one kinda famous incident was some guy modding out a SINGLE reference to a (probably, implied only) gay couple of dead skeletons. they’re not even really characters, they’re just set pieces lying around, but this dude thought “absolutely not!” and posted a patch that removed that like, single text line in a diary, from the game. suuuuper petty, borderline insane. anyway, nexus community, understandably threw a fit, nexus staff was super on board and went nuclear on the dude’s account, and a bunch of mods in the theme of “EVERYONE in skyrim is now super gay” sprung up on the front page of the skyrim nexus. so that was pretty funny!
but yeah…there’s regularly gross ass bigots around…'cause, you know…viking-themed fantasy land…
have i mentioned the frequent self-takedowns of mods in protest? yeah, that also used to be a big thing on the skyrim nexus…have fun trying to mod when some of the core frameworks just dissapear overnight just because someone was mildly offended by some bullshit…except like once or twice, when they actually kinda had a point…
at least with minecraft most of the mods, and as far as i know all of the big ones, are open source. skyrim’s are often closed source, so for a bunch of the core frameworks the community is built around there just isn’t an easy replacement. if the modders got mad, things used to just…break.
and then there’s the pedos…yeah. some folks keep trying to lewd the kids in skyrim…also get banned pretty much immediately, but like…you know.
sooooo…yeah…minecraft drama is suuuper tame by comparison!
it’s intense for the people involved, sure, but big picture wise it’s childs’ play…skyrim drama hits different.
effectively calling at least a quarter of the population some kind of mentally handicapped is certainly a novel strategy…
i wonder why politicians don’t typically run on such a platform? /s
also in the books!
the expanse is probably the most faithful reproduction of a book series ever.
especially considering it’s like, what?, 5 books they made into the series?
it’s almost a 1:1 translation into a different medium, which is hella impressive!
they cut some stuff here and there (more and more as the series goes on, for obvious reasons) but seriously, damn near everything about the main story is there!
there’s really good reasons for the fans demanding more of it after Netflix stopped production
i mean it’s a mathematical certainty that FPTP systems will eventually result in only 2 parties.
so it really is not up to the voters…
because that doesn’t make any sort of sense in german; it’s nonsense ;)
ETA: “waffenspiel” is the only actually german part of that. and the translation for that is accurate (weapons’ game), but also kinda nonsensical, especially without proper context.
the rest is just straight up not a word…
it’s not the anthem, it’s a popular folk song ;)
right up until redacted and suddenly it’s reeeaaaal difficult to find a way to end the game, because dying isn’t an option if you didn’t prepare for it XD
workaround: zip the folder?
i know it’s a little annoying, but it does make it into “one file” ;)