AbNormalHumanBeing
Some weird, German communist, hello. Obsessed with philosophy (German Idealism and its subsequent evolutions) and history (mainly everything since the French Revolution), as well as the Fediverse. Secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program, but not that good.
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AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Games@lemmy.world•It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again - People Make GamesEnglish3·5 hours agoTo give them some leeway - it seems that wasn’t for lack of trying to get more statements from other people involved, and they did try to provide statements by all involved parties were relevant with what they had available.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Games@lemmy.world•It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again - People Make GamesEnglish2·5 hours agoThat was an interesting summary of the happenings since last time, and I appreciate them delving into the criticisms of their last documentary - which I think was overall also a good work of research overall, even if the mistakes they made (and acknowledged) were real.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldMto Peertube@lemmy.world•Episode 35 - Dr. Robert W. Gehl - Author, Academic, Advocate - Livestream 2025-08-13English1·7 hours agoHuh, that is weird, I have missed 3 episodes as it seems - they don’t show up on my instance and I wasn’t notified as a subscriber. Did a very quick check of logs in the PT admin interface, but nothing stands out on my side as a federation issue. (But I may have missed something for sure.) @ozoned@piefed.social - do you know what could be the issue? Will try to see if I find more later today, too.
I guess as a workaround I can try watching on mastodon/piefed - although I am not really using the former at the moment, and the latter is not the best for following PT yet.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org•the myth of the good tech giantEnglish4·8 hours agoIt’s about Clippit, which was a mascot that notoriously annoyed MS Office users in the 90s and 2000s. It did not yet collect your data the way everything does now.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org•the myth of the good tech giantEnglish49·19 hours agoBonziBuddy was a herald of the apocalypse.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldMto Peertube@lemmy.world•Let's make a Fairphone case part 2, the last and definitive part.English3·1 day agoThank you for taking time and effort creating these videos and providing them on the Fediverse, will have a watch later!
As for Kdenlive messing with colour levels, never experienced that myself - but I only used it for very casual editing and also didn’t really pay attention to it. Maybe you can try asking about it on !kde@lemmy.kde.social ?
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz@feddit.org•Crack greift um sich: Ist Deutschlands repressive Drogenpolitik gescheitert? Derweil zeigt die Schweiz, wie es mit Entkriminalisierung und Konsumräumen besser geht.English131·2 days agoUnd die
KillerDrogenspiele!!!
Wann wirds mal wieder richtig Sommer
So ein Sommer wie er früher einmal war
Ohne Hitzerekorde und ohne Waldbrände
Und nicht so heiß und drückend wie die letzten Jahr’
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldMto Peertube@lemmy.world•WOOOO!!!!! 1k subscribers!English3·8 days agoWe’ll do our best!
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Disco Elysium@lemmy.zip•I've never even heard of this - seems to be a canned projectEnglish9·8 days agoYou can still watch (and download) it here on peertube.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Disco Elysium@lemmy.zip•Where do you stand on this?English3·11 days agoIt’s somewhere between RPG and narrative/graphic adventure game. The highlights are the writing, and how the game includes reactivity to and options for player choice. Another huge strength is emulating a good DM for a TTRPG session - often failure for check rolls are rewarded in their own, sometimes very humorous way. They included hundreds of small things most players will never see, maybe one of the greatest games for multiple playthroughs ever.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldMto Peertube@lemmy.world•Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube accountEnglish2·11 days agoThat’s awesome, thanks for sharing! Excited to see what talks there will be.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Disco Elysium@lemmy.zip•Where do you stand on this?English10·11 days agoOne interesting thing is that we don’t really kow much about her. The few things we can be pretty certain of, are (Spoilers ahead):
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We know her hedonistic escapes from a guilt complex are real, and that some forces in the MI truly want her dead - confirmed by our ESP if we do take her in. (Much to the shock of some players who had hoped to arrest her and keep her safe somehow, from the blind playthroughs I watched people play)
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We know she really has some skillset that indicates some sort of spy work, but where does it really stem from? It could be from what she tells us, but it could also be something different, maybe something worse, maybe something more mundane.
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We do know she has seemingly always had the problem of being fetishised by men around her, as we witness with at least Ti
dtus and the Deserter (EDIT: And of course Harry), and that she both inadvertantly and consciously used that to her advantage (mostly: trying to survive) if possible, while also not having a choice about it. EDIT: Her relationship with the mercenary is really interesting in that regard, she probably witnessed unwillingly bringing out the worst in men around her over and over, turning them into monsters. Then there is a monster, and in her mind, she turned him into a better version of himself, reducing hist monster-ness. Not that that is healthy, but it is a great characterisation by the writers for sure.
But no matter what, I, personally don’t think prison (which results in her death) is something she deserves. There is a part within me, that would love to somehow keep her “safe” while also putting her into a situation where she has to reveal what is really in her past - but that part of me, I realise, is exactly the fetishising effect she has on het men in action, even as a fictional character (combined with my often aggressive curiosity).
So, my vote is: Let her go. She might not be a great person overall, and has definitely some shit in her past, whatever it really is, but she deserves to live. If she really does deserve prison, then only, as she herself put it, in a new world, after La Retour, which would stop hunting her as prey, both literally and in the way people who are attracted to her force their fantasies on her.
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AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•San Francisco is deploying speed cameras this week. If everything goes according to plan, the number of deaths will be reducedEnglish6·12 days agoThis paper seems to suggest so, but also mentions “Previous empirical work on this topic, which shows a diverse range of estimated effects […]” - so it seems like other factors will play a role. (Disclaimer: I read only the abstract)
Ah, that is a bit of a UI design issue, I agree that should be added - the way it currently works with embedded PeerTube videos is by clicking on the instance name in the bottom right:
(Screenshot is from PieFed UI, but the overall mechanism should be the same on lemmy-ui or other lemmy interfaces.)
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldOPMto Peertube@lemmy.world•DuckStation may remove Linux support because of ArchEnglish3·12 days agoYupp, sadly his channel is no stranger to clickbaity titles. I guess one can say that the AUR is part of the larger Arch ecosystem, but it definitely feels like a “please click and contradict me”-title.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldOPto Lemmy Moderators@lemmy.world•/c/peertube@lemmy.world in danger of going unmoderated - adding new moderators doesn't seem to federate properlyEnglish2·12 days agoOK, knowing that takes a bit of pressure off, thank you very much. Then at least it should be possible to handle this even if adding the new accounts as mods myself won’t work out before tonight.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldOPto Lemmy Moderators@lemmy.world•/c/peertube@lemmy.world in danger of going unmoderated - adding new moderators doesn't seem to federate properlyEnglish1·12 days agoI tried that, adding my lemmy.world account at the same time as my piefed.world account - sadly that one ended up never showing outside my original instance, and also got removed there without any visible reason. Is there a way for the admins to add it as a mod locally, after my original account is gone come this evening? It’s https://lemmy.world/u/AbnormalHumanBeing.
If not, I guess moving the comm to a new one on piefed.world would indeed be a workaround, but I’d like to try and get it working some other way beforehand. The comm on lemmy.world isn’t closing down, and it would be a bit sad to lose the posts there, right now, it can work as a decent place to browse Top/All of the community to check for past popular PeerTube channels and videos one might otherwise not have heard of.
I’ll try adding my two .world accounts again today, and hope it will work out this time, before closing time later tonight.
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.worldto Community Promo@lemmy.ca•AskLemmy thread about communities people wish were more activeEnglish3·13 days agoI don’t know if it plays nice with Voyager - but a link from https://lemmyverse.link/ is usually a good thing to add:
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/33886241
Although, it is giving me a 500 error when I click this one, which is disappointing, but hopefully temporary.
Ah, good to know and thank you for looking into it! Yeah, I added you to the instances I mirror automatically, I can remove you or you can add me to trusted - whatever works better for you. I have a lot of space to spare, so I reserved a big chunk of it to mirror stuff automatically from trusted instances for better network availability.
Will restart PT later when I’m back home. Thanks again for the heads up! And already excited to watch/listen to what I missed later.