Oha echt? Interessant. Bei mir ist die Grundschule schon ne Weile her, aber ich will behaupten da sind alle entweder allein mim Fahrrad oder allein zu Fuß erschienen. Allein im Sinne “ohne Eltern”. Da wars eher was besonderes, wenn die Eltern dich mal gefahren haben. Aber da lebte ich auch (wie jetzt wieder) in nem Großdorf; vielleicht hängt das zusammen.

Das hat sicher auch sehr viel mit der Einstellung der Eltern zu tun. Wenn die sofort Todesangst haben, nur weil ihr achtjähriges Kind beim Spaziergang zwei Sekunden außer Sicht ist, überträgt sich das (vermutlich) leicht auf die Kinder.

This is a short story about hygiene and introducing new tests to a long-running system.

I’m new at my current job and we have an environmental monitoring program (checking for the germ levels in your facility) that existed for a year already but I basically completely overhauled. It really was neither effective nor efficient before.

In the same vein, I suggested having a look at the microbe levels of our water supply. While the water that reaches the facility must be (and almost always is) clean by law, everything that happens to the water inside the facility is controlled by no external body. And the company I work at apparently has never done water tests for legionella before (despite having multiple showers). Now, legionella pneumophila is pretty much only dangerous (but then it can be quickly life-threatening) if it’s inhaled, such as via aerosoles from hot showers.

To come to a point (partly because I need to get ready for work): I introduced comprehensive water tests, many higher-ups believed for two weeks after the results that I must have made an error in the way I took samples, despite me literally researching for days how it needs to be done correctly because I absolutely didn’t want to be doing it wrong (in our case, it’s a technique you could learn by heart in two hours). We ordered an external lab to take samples and they came back with the same results (that our showers are highly contaminated and basically our coworkers have been showering in legionella for years) and now we got this whole can of worms to deal with.

But I’m glad. Would rather have this to deal with than someone of the company being admitted to the ICU because of that.

Was that Quora as well? I thought that’s only StackOverflow :c

But yes, I very much hope that the ethos of beehaw makes for “programming question” communities that are as useful as StackOverflow while not being so rude.

I thought so, too, but there’s [email protected], although I have not checked out that many posts there. And the name alone makes it sound more biased than something like r/CombatFootage

Indeed! I guess it’s (at least partly) because there’s not as much stuff going on that the user can see (and sometimes can’t see).

Hey, don’t worry, I’m sure most of us really appreciate the work you do. Personally, “the site is online and moderated in accordance with our values” is more than sufficient for me!

Whatever causes the website to have trouble, I’m all for it, right now.

I already wondered if I got lightning-banned for sending too many API requests in a short time, when I used a script to auto-edit all my comments and text-posts.

I cannot see a way how this collector’s edition would be worth it. Even if they throw in all future DLC and physical goodies like your very own collection of multiple starship models, it’d be a tough sell to me.

Mhmm that’s my initial reaction, too. I’ll probably look into this, but Elite: Dangerous and, to name another good example, X4 can both be played as pure space trucker sims already. And to a fulfilling degree, I believe.

I have too little experience as a trucker, to say what could be added that is currently missing from E:D and X4. I mean it would ideally be similar to Hardspace: Shipbreaker vs. X4. X4 has a ship salvage mechanic that is pretty abstract (you carry a a ship to a salvage station and then the ship is turned into materials). Whereas in H:S you are the person who receives the ships and you actually pull and cut the ship apart until nothing but the basically worthless bags of space doritos are floating in the salvage bay.

Enemies that scale with your level in an RPG. I would rather get completely curb stomped by rare high level enemies, so I have something to work towards. In the same vein, I don’t like it when the stat gain you get from leveling ends up with you literally being unkillable by lower level enemies. Most MMOs are an offender to this, where you can just sunbathe in a group of 30 level 1 enemies and are unable to die to them.

Two things:

Anything that fleshes out “bard classes” (bonus points if you have grest freedom in how you play music). I don’t want to be a mage who, instead of fireballs that deal damage, shoots music notes that deal damage. Shoutout to the Entertainer class in Star Wars Galaxies and the ukulele magic in Tchia for getting it right.

High degree of freedom spellcasting. Right now, only Magicka comes to my mind, who really excelled in this. Fictorum also has a pretty awesome spell shaping system, but it limits you to a specific spell loadout that is hard to switch in the heat of combat.

Surprisingly tough question. On one hand, I don’t think every ex-Reddit user should go “Nah, it’s too late, fam” because then it wouldn’t even make sense for the devs to make any changes if they had no chance of regaining their userbase. On the other hand, I feel like even if they made really good changes, I would still always be on edge waiting for the bad thing to happen (pretty much what I imagine an abusive relationship to be like).

In addition to RimWorld, I would say Deep Rock Galactic has never even once left me in a worse mood after playing it. Every time I boot it up, I cannot stop admiring the love and care GSG has put into their game and almost all of it for free. The only monetisation in this game is purely cosmetic, but they make sure that the stuff you can get through gameplay alone doesn’t look worse than the stuff you pay real money for. Add on top of that the awesome gameplay, atmosphere and community and you got a game that pretty much never fails to lift you up.

If shooting native lifeforms as an exploited space miner isn’t quite your mood right now, you could also try Tchia. Super pretty and lovely game, although I suspect it doesn’t offer too much replayability, once you completed it. But the same could be said for Okami and that is the game I first say when asked what my favorite game is.

I think I’ll never not recommend VtM Bloodlines if it comes up! If my memory serves right, you would preferably get the unofficial patches to fix a couple annoying glitches, though.

Not only academic texts. Also darn ISO norms. Unfortunately those are pretty rare to find among the booty bobbing across the sea.

Yes and I won’t “upgrade” to Win11 for as long as possible. The computers at work have been changed to Win11 and for every single thing I find to be neat, I immediately (or delayed) find fifteen little things that annoy me.

So far, I have found one or two things that are neat about Win11

SWG Legends. Not just because it has the largest playerbase but also because I prefer the type and amount of content that came with/after the Combat Update and NGE. The skill system from pre-CU was really awesome though!

Another reason why games don’t necessarily have obstacles that require pixel perfect maneuevers, is that you no longer need to throw a coin into the machine every time you die.

That said, yeah, I recently watched a video essay on the first Wing Commander and it must have been so crazy back then because there wasn’t anything quite like it, if I remember correctly.

Mhmm I feel that problem. My unintentional solution was that my additional 2TB drive died and I was reduced to 2TB disk space in total (so about 1,5TB usable for games). Literally having to uninstall one or two games if I had a spur of “Oh I could quickly (relatively speaking, as it would also have to install and update) start Red Dead 2 again” keeps me from jumping from game to game constantly.