Even that tariff thing can be positive for us already. At least here in Germany, big Hollywood productions snag a lot of public funding, because they produce a small amount of the film in Germany. That money could’ve gone to smaller, national productions (that actually need the money) instead and maybe, if Hollywood has a disincentive to produce outside of 'Murrica, that funding can actually go to someone who needs it.

Or they’ll just fund the same lame ‘comedy’ films with the same jokes, same directors and same actors as the last 20 years again. Because why would they ever take a risk on sth new and creative, if the same old works just about well enough

Safari auf Apple Produkten, Firefox(-Forks) auf allem anderen. Chromium, wenn ich GeoGuessr spiele, weil natürlich funktioniert gmaps nicht so flüssig in anderen Browsern…

Movies do belong in cinemas. Rian Johnson‘s movies do not.

No, that’s ‘Beretta’.

Better is a German woman‘s name, which, prefixed by ‘Big’ is also the nickname given to a large German howitzer in WWI.

That has been rectified in 2017. iPhones these days do not slow down with new software updates any more than any other phone. They do throttle performance, if the battery is degraded to much but this is both communicated clearly and easily reversed by replacing the battery (even if you do it yourself or have it done by a third party, instead of paying apple’s admittedly high price).

Apple have plenty of anti-consumer behavior in other places. Treading around on an issue that is older than any currently supported iPhone, however, instead on focusing on current issues (like lack of app sideloading anywhere but in the EU, for example) is not conducive to actually getting Apple (or other corporations) to change their behavior. This battle has already been won.

Don’t need network connection on my kindle to use calibre.

I just looked it up: Apparently there was a scene where the actresses butt was visible, which got covered by CGI hair extensions.

However, the movie has since gotten a 4K remaster on D+, which does not censor da booty.

Last time I used it (been a while though) it was free, if you only transferred playlists up to 200 songs

First of all, stevia is not artificial but actually plant based as well. It‘s fairly healthy.

As for usage as sweetener: I like sweetening my tea with it. It tastes different than regular sugar of course, but I prefer the taste over a lot of other sweeteners, especially artificial ones like aspartame (which I loathe), safe for maybe Xylitol and Erythritol (which are sweet poly alcohols, also non artificial but less sweet and less healthy than stevia, albeit probably still a lot better than sucrose and which taste very nice, imo). At some point I actually got used to stevia so much, that normal sugar tasted a little weird to me.

As some other comments mentioned though, for cooking and baking it doesn’t work as well. Xylitol and Erythritol may work better there (haven’t used them in baking but worked well for tomato sauce).

So, long story short: if you like, or can get used to the taste of stevia, it’s a great sweetener. Also look up Xylitol and Erythritol, if you haven’t yet, they’re also pretty great.

„The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.“

No. Technically, both watermelons and cucumbers are berries.

That’s because our eyes adapt themselves to different colour temperatures all the time during the day (a tungsten light bulb has very warm (orange) light, while daylight is much cooler (blue), for example, yet white is always white to us). This happens automatically and subconsciously.

If you close one eye for a little while though, it „resets“ back to its default colour temperature. After opening it again, it’ll take a little while for it to start compensating to the correct white point again and thus you‘ll have different hues on both eyes for a little while.

The effect is exaggerated a lot, if you close one eye and then look at a bright monochromatic image with the other one (like a bright red image on your phone, close to your face).

Or, of course, if you wear anaglyphic 3D glasses (that’s the red/green or red/cyan kind) for a while, as one eye will try to compensate for the red as much as it can, while the other one will try to compensate for the green/cyan as much as possible. Result: the eye with the red glass will look much cooler after taking off the glasses, and the eye with the green/cyan glass much warmer.

Generally that effect will balance itself out after a little while. Except for very slight variances of course. Our eyes and brains are far from perfect.

The mix of BCE and AD hurts my brain. It’s either BC/AD (before christ and anno domini) or BCE/CE (before common era and common era), depending on how religious or secular you are. Please do pedants like myself a favour and don’t mix 'em.

Yea. Humans never needed an excuse for violence.

Or rather, we always found an excuse, religion is merely one of them.

Game dev salaries have increased roughly in line with inflation though, so development time still costs the studio the same as 15 years ago, while AAA game prices are only now starting to surpass the $70 mark with games not generally surpassing the $60 mark until 2020.

It’s a wonder, they haven’t increased to prices any sooner, as much as I‘d like them staying where they were.

And again: if you don’t like the prices, vote with your wallet, buy used or on sale or don’t pay at all.

Was raised roman-catholic but got disillusioned pretty quickly. I was fairly religious in elementary school but by the time I was 14, I was agnostic/atheist.

Partially because my parents aren’t religious (my mum is from the GDR, so she didn’t grow up with religion and my dad seceded from church before I was even born) and even my grandma, who was the religious one (albeit never very strongly, compared to American catholics. More a „goes to church on religious holidays“ type of person), drifted away from church quite a bit after all the child-rapist priest shit that was uncovered at the time.

By now (mid 20s) I’d probably consider myself agnostic. Can’t prove there is no higher power but also, if there is, we wouldn’t know what religion – if any – is right anyways. It’s probably not christianity though.

Same here. Couldn’t use Apollo anymore so I downloaded Voyager instead.

Yea, I don’t generally disagree. Especially if you‘re someone who plays games for hundreds of hours, instead of dozens.

But $100 is still a lot of money for a lot of people. I‘d have to save up for months for that (I’m a trainee and have less than 1000€ per month for rent, food, internet, gas, etc.), so I rather wait until I can get games cheaper.

Eh, there‘s some truth to either one. Game development is expensive and pricing hasn’t kept up with inflation ($60 in 2010 are almost $90 today). But also, games are ridiculously expensive at full price, especially in todays economy and especially if they’re as badly received as Skull and Bones, while Nintendo games are at the very least usually pretty decent.

I’d recommend voting with your wallet and only buying games on sale or used. Just wait a little. (Or pirate them, if you can live with not supporting the developers at all).

Yea, the renault twingo of my ex-fwb felt borderline dangerous above 130kph while in my workplace’s Mercedes B-Class, my comfortable cruising speed is roughly 160kph with 200kph still feeling perfectly in control.