Björn Tantau

@Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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I made changing farting sounds in my game Diarrhea 4 by manipulating the pitch. I bet that's how they do it in racing games as well.

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Watching other people on YouTube do it you should know what you want and have some knowledge about your PC.

Probably for external radiotors. Outside of the case you can make them bigger and thus more silent.

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Since I got ill immensely. Probably until I have disability set up.

It already was pretty famous in pop culture before the movie. I guess that's one of the reasons how it got its budget approved.

It was popular in the 80s with references in Ghostbusters and Timebandits and that was easy to stretch on into the 90s.

I always tell my children that Maths is finding the best way to cheat at a problem. Don't solve the hard problem. Solve the easy one that's kind of like the hard problem and then find the difference.

And judging by the school material that's how they're supposed to do it. But either the teachers aren't explaining it that way or the kids aren't listening.

Yeah, in the time I describe the problem to the AI I could program it myself.

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No more incorrectly used German manhole covers?

Handbrake is great.

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Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie

Not open source but CX File Explorer can make an FTP server for you.

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman?

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harumphs upset hetero noises

As a kid varius radio play cassettes like Benjamin Blümchen, Bibi Blocksberg, later the Star Wars soundtrack.

Nowadays various science shows on YouTube. Mainly astrophysics stuff. My favourites are Dr Becky, Harald Lesh and PBS Space Time.

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10 episodes for Namek to blow up "in five minutes". That's a whole season for some shows. Dragonball Abridged is the true canon for me.

EQ2 recently launched their own classic server. My wife who has been an avid player for decades is delighted. She always loved the crafting which has been totally dumbed down in later versions.

And within hours of joining the classic server she has also joined a guild like in the good old days. Sure, she is sad to see her the millions upon millons of platinum gone. But now on the classic server money is suddenly a viable currency again. So all is well.

Thanks, Kohl.

Literally. For those who don't know it was Helmut Kohl (chancellor during the reunification) who stopped a 30-year project to lay fiber throughout Germany to instead favour copper wires to help his old pal Leo Kirch build up a private TV network to rival the mostly left leaning public broadcast. And I thought one of his family members owned a copper plant or so but I wasn't able to find an article about that.

It's a relatively new addition to Android that other app managers can install and update apps without user interaction. Before that you'd have to approve every update manually.

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The OLED model has slightly better performance due to a newer version of the same APU. So it's not just the screen that is better.

That said, I have a very early LCD model I love. The OLED is not a big enough upgrade for me to consider buying it. But if I were buying new I would get an OLED.

I never got the puking scene at the end of Ace Ventura as a kid. I still don't really do. Always loved that movie but that is just too much.

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Reminds me of my Commodore 128. You could boot it into 64 bit mode for legacy programs. I had exactly one C-128 game (which was a super complicated combat flight sim) so I only used it in C-64 mode.

I think every touch up besides color correction and cropping should be labeled as "photoshopped". And any usage of AI should be labeled as "Made with AI" because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.

Besides, this is totally a skill issue. Removing this metadata is trivial.

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If I got a nickel for every popular zero-g game that quickly got shot down after release I would have two nickels. It's not much but it's weird it happened twice.

Also https://stopkillinggames.com

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It's really a shame because by now WordPress itself actually works quite well. Sure, it's fueled by unspeakably ugly spaghetti code. But at least it's unspeakably ugly spaghetti code that works and receives regular automatic updates.

And other than putting up a verification program I don't see what they could do to improve the plugin situation.

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I'm still bouncing. I hope.

Wasn't that just one newspaper reporting it which was more or less just an advert for the play?

I beat that stupid track in Star Wars Racer where you are muuuuch too slow if you fall onto a lower track. Without any upgrades so that I had enough credits to max out everything.

I remember in my childhood in the 90s reading it as a possibility. So it was already on people's radar. And as far as I know in the book Jurassic Park they do have feathers. Haven't watched the newer movies, but I heard that in Jurassic World it was explained by the frog DNA that they didn't have feathers.

Wasn't there just a thread here last week about this? Or one of the other gaming communities.

Edit: Yeah, here https://sh.itjust.works/post/21025866

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Time for a class action suite.

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For years there was the "Phantom", a notorious criminal, haunting all of Europe. DNA testing revealed that it was a female and her crimes ranging from petty theft to murder were seemingly unrelated to each other. That each of them were done in different countries didn't make solving the case any easier.

But eventually they did solve it. They found the woman working in a cotton swab factory. Turned out many police departments were using the wrong type of swabs. So there seem to be more than one way to incorrectly use cotton swabs.

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I mean, there must be a reason why wizards are constantly perplexed by muggle technology.

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The company that introduced horse armor is charging horrendous prices for small DLC?

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When I couldn't repair my Nokia and replace the 5 € USB-Port because there happened to be a small crack in the screen (of course you have to remove the glued on screen to accese the innards), I caved and bought a Fairphone 3.

Worst decision ever. The stupid thing refuses to break to let me even use the better repairability.

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A job interview isn't just for the company to find out if you are a good hire for them. It's also for you to find out if the company is a good employer for you.

So yes, ask away. And if they cannot meet your criteria you just don't start working there.

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