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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Cake day: August 1st, 2025

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  • It’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.





  • I’ve got some torrents that I’ve been seeding for months barely breaking 0.1 - for some that are in low demand and have some dedicated seeders with better internet connections than yourself, you will have to acceppt not being able to seed them properly, especially when they become outdated.

    Just do your best and aim for a good ratio above 1:1, but don’t beat yourself up if it won’t work out. 1:2 as a goal is fine, not everyone has to be a dedicated super-seeder (which would be impossble anyway).






  • One interesting thing is that we don’t really kow much about her. The few things we can be pretty certain of, are (Spoilers ahead):

    • 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)

    • 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.

    • We do know she has seemingly always had the problem of being fetishised by men around her, as we witness with at least Tidtus 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.


  • Andreas Peichl, Wirtschaftsprofessor in München und Experte des ifo-Instituts sagt bei RTL und ntv: “Wir haben tools wie ChatGPT das Sozialgesetzbuch lesen lassen und andere Gesetze. Und dann eine Liste erstellen. Ich fürchte, wir haben in der Tat mehr als 500 Sozialleistungen, die man einzeln beantragen kann.”

    Ich will ehrlich sein: Während ich die Tendenz nicht einmal hinterfrage, und die Probleme sehr real sind, eine ChatGPT-Auswertung erzeugt bei mir nicht viel Vertrauen. Ist aber vermutlich selbst symptomaufzeigend dafür, dass es schlicht keine gute Datenlage gibt, und Verwirrung selbst bei den offiziellen Stellen und in Expertenkreisen herrscht.