There is a local service/app in my city called Yuze. It has only a small selection of restaurants. The service the app has is pretty basic: you order food and it gets brought to you by a handful of (employed!) riders. No in-app tip BS, no hidden service charges - it’s great! Haven’t used Lieferando (takeaway.com’s name in Germany) in forever. Downsides: the food selection is limited and the restaurants tend to be on the more pricier side.

The guys from Boy Boy made a really good and informative interview with David Mcbride. I recommend watching it also!

https://youtu.be/sYt4CxFfQUU?si=OP7OtYQueMoAkfay

Man, I have to do this also. No idea why the algorithm doesn’t pick up on me not wanting to watch some idiot ranting about how videogames are woke or whatever.

Why is it the responsibility of, say, Nintendo to make all their games available on all platforms? They make their own hardware and games that are optimized to run on that hardware. Sure, the Switch is inferior to a modern pc in performance and all that but at the end of the day Nintendo chose what their hardware can do and make games accordingly. The fact that most developers and publishers want to release their games on all platforms is not the responsibility of Nintendo. If the most important thing is that every game runs the same on every platform there is no need for hardware like the Switch, which, like it or not, has done something new and interesting. Kinda the same with VR. I personally don’t care for VR but it’s at least something different.

Yeah, same! But I guess I’m actually looking forward to any video from Dan. He makes the best long form content on YouTube. His channel is called Folding Ideas - for those who never heard of him.

Sounds more like an inconvenience store to me.

Yes, literally a show on Russian state TV. He got a paycheck from the Russian government. I mean, is it that hard to grasp that this little fact makes the “he’s a russian asset” accusations at least understandable? And I am not saying he is one. I am not that informed about him and Wikileaks to have a strong opinion.

Ich kanns nicht so stehen lassen, obwohl ich vieleicht auf rage bait reinfalle aber

• Man kann Kassel diverses nachsagen, ne Nazi Hochburg ist es definitiv nicht. Eher das Gegenteil. Kassel ist traditionell sozialdemokratisch mit starken grünen Anteilen und vielen Studenten in den Bereichen Kunst, Sozialpädagogik und Lehramt. Klar gibt’s hier auch rechte Idioten aber die halten sich in der Öffentlichkeit sehr zurück. Glatzen sieht man im öffentlichen Raum sehr selten bis gar nicht. Ich bewege mich aus beruflichen Gründen in den meisten Ecken der Stadt und wüsste daher ziemlich genau, wo ich nicht mit meinem FCK AFD shirt rum laufen sollte. So eine Ecke gibt es aber nicht.

Na komm, wenn hier unbedingt jeder Nichtsnutz genug zu essen, ein Dach über dem Kopf und Klamotten haben will, wo soll dann die Kohle für Steuersenkungen, Lufthansa bailouts und Subventionen für Großindustrielle her kommen?! /s

It’s like falling asleep while two friends are talking on the other end of the room.

I personally don’t care a lot about Kojima’s games but I still think it’s absolutely great he gets to make whatever he makes because he is a unique voice in gaming! In a sea of games as a service, mindless franchise milking and countless copycats someone like him is needed to make outlandish stuff, whether I like the games or not. Tons of people do and that’s great!

Aw man… I know that Elex has problems and stuff but it is and always will be one of my all-time favorite open world games. It’s probably the insane mix of science fiction stuff mixed with Mad Max style stuff mixed with fantasy stuff. It’s definitely a game done by people who really cared! And if they have to shut down, the gaming landscape will lose a unique voice!

Na, no rose colored glasses needed! The first Golden Sun is one of my favorite top down “classic” jrpg. I replayed it a couple of years ago on my old Ds (the one where you can play your Game Boy Advance games) and it aged really great!

Social media wasn’t a thing back when IRC was big but it did basically the same as modern social media sites do today: people connected and talked. And I would argue that Twitch/Discord/YouTube do different things than Facebook or Twitter in the end all of those places are there to connect and talk about stuff (and to harvest money and data).

Knowledge Fight! Pretty much the only I regularly listen to. It’s two friends listening to Alex Jones. The premise is that one of them knows nothing about the insane stuff Alex Jones spouts and the other one has researched it and kinda shows it to Jordan (the one who knows nothing about Alex). They are hundreds of episodes and the show is still as funny and informative as day one.

Yeah! I played it something like two years ago and it aged wonderful! I mean, I wish them all the success in the world but this game doesn’t actually need a remake

Man, I so wanted to love this game! Instead I just liked it. The graphics, the world, music, even the story are so well made and interesting to look at and explore. I loved the mining town at the beginning or the town with the ghost house! The only thing holding this game back is the somewhat stale level design between the interesting places you explore. They feel like flat 2d Zelda dungeons with a handful of frustrating design decisions to make them harder and take longer to finish. Still, I will probably get the DLC to show support for the devs and the interesting world they created!

Edit: Jesus fucking christ! I watched the trailer after commenting and didn’t see they made a Harvest Moon/Stardewvalley style DLC! Day one purchase!

Ich verteidige hier keinesfalls Aliexpress aber die usability der App ist zumindest weitestgehend in Ordnung. Ich bestelle dort eigentlich nur Sachen, die ich auch bei Amazon finden würde aber dort ein Drittel mehr zahlen müsste. Zb so ein USB Leselicht für meine Tochter. Sollte bei Amazon 15€ kosten, bei Aliexpress warens es knapp zehn. Beide genau der gleiche Billigramsch, komplett mit autogenerierten Beschreibungen auf den Fotos. Da spar ich dann einfach den Fünfer. Und der Bestellvorgang ist genauso einfach wie bei Amazon. Nur dass ich bei Aliexpress mit Paypal bezahle ist der einzige Unterschied. Wo wollte ich jetzt mit meinem Kommentar hin? Ach ja: im Prinzip ist alles der gleiche Kram und Elektrozeugs kommt fast immer aus China und die einzige Möglichkeit einzugreifen die ich habe ist, dass ich mehr oder weniger Geld dafür ausgeben kann. Und dass ich natürlich versuchen sollte nicht auf Scams rein zu fallen!

As much as I like to shit on Reddit, Twitter is, in my opinion, still way worse. Way, way worse! I follow exclusively left leaning accounts and a couple of game developers on Twitter, yet my ‘for you’ tab has increasingly more right wing bullshit thrown my way. And I actively block stupid Nazi shit. Still, the Twitter algorithm thinks I might be interested in some local assholes who say openly racist and bigoted stuff.

Reddit was never toxic in recent years

Nah dude, you can’t be serious. It obviously varies between the communities and the bubble you created for yourself on Reddit. But even in the smaller somewhat niche subs I frequented had people acting toxic and hostile. And it became more and more in recent years. And I am definitely not talking about all the manospehre, incel and cringe subs. Those are on a whole other level of toxic and at least as bad as similar algorithmic bubbles on Twitter.

There is also toxicity on Lemmy, too. But you can just manage what you consume so much better. Never encountered Hexbear stuff outside of drama posts for example.