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Mein Lieblingsapfel und in Ba-Wü meist von Direktvermarktern erhältlich: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubinette Fast nie im Supermarktsortiment. Gibt morgen Apfelpfannkuchen!

The chain also pointed out that cigarette sales, once the largest sales category for convenience stores, has fallen 26% since 2019. A shift in sales to other nicotine products hasn’t made much of a difference, they said.

I consider that good news and hope the people loosing their workplace find something better soon!

Nah, the value didn't drop becaue it has even less value. The bubble let some air out in a stinking fart, because people start to realize that's what coming out of Musks mouth: "Warm air and nothing of substance."

Definitiv den Rat annehmen und das Ticket beim lokalen Verbund kaufen und nicht bei der Bahn. Ich erhalte jeden Monat eine Mail mit einem Link der die Kündigung mit zwei Klicks finalisiert und sofort eine Bestätigung der Kündigung. Ich werde auch jedesmal informiert bis zu welchem Tag genau ich kündigen müsste um das Abo zu beenden.

Indy games are art. Find an artist(s), pay them a living wage, and let them do their art largely undisturbed, guided by a vision of what the game should be, so they keep working towards the same goal. Let them learn from their mistakes and make their next game better. That leads to Baldur's Gate 3.

CEO of an AAAAAAA+ game developer/publisher: "No games are a product. The most important thing is that the line goes up, so we check what the user feedback is and listen to the loudest crowd that wants the same old shit, only to complain that they always get the same old shit. Also, hire cheap, treat people terribly and get everyone out of the industry as quickly as possible, and none of that art nonsense - I mean, how am I going to sell that to the shareholders, they just want an estimate of how many skins we will sell in 2025 so they will agree to my pay rise?"

Danke, ich brauchte den Lacher. Thanks, I needed a laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQzGBt3gSbs (Der bewegte Mann: Guten Morgen (1994))

Die Hochsicherheitsanlage wird nicht nur für Gaia gebaut, sondern perspektivisch auch für andere Wildtiere, die einen Platz im Bärenpark im Nordschwarzwald bekommen. Geeignete Aufnahmeplätze für verletzte oder verwaiste Großbeutegreifer aus freier Wildbahn seien in Deutschland kaum vorhanden, sagte Nonnenmacher. Angesichts der voranschreitenden Verbreitung, insbesondere von Wölfen, seien solche Plätze jedoch dringend erforderlich.

Ist also nicht nur für sie, aber natürlich ist sie bekannt und das kann helfen Spenden zu organisieren.

Dass das Gehege kleiner ist als was sie in der Natur hätte ist eine Sache, das muss aber auch so groß sein um sie zu ernähren und damit sie anderen Bär*innen aus dem Weg gehen kann, beides ist hier kein Problem. Plus Beschäftigungsprogramme für Tiere in Gefangenschaft die Langeweile verhindern sollen die inzwischen Standard sind, es wird nicht mehr einfach nur Fressen ins Gehege gekippt, ergibt zusammen jetzt nicht ein so großes Problem für die Bärin glaube ich. Jedenfalls besser als die Todesstrafe für ein Tier dem WIR als Menschen zu nahe gerückt sind und nicht umgekehrt.

Ja, war er. Das einzig Gute waren seine Anzüge, die haben mal Farbe in die Flimmerkiste gebracht, ansonsten war er schon immer peinlich. Das war um so schlimmer weil er ja nichts anderes hatte als Labern und Antatschen. Er kann nicht tanzen oder singen, hatte keine Meinung oder Position, nicht mal einen eingängigen selbsterfundenen Spruch - sprich er war der Anzug. Zur gleichen Zeit haben andere Showmaster das Mikrofon ergriffen und gesungen, getanzt, Sketche gespielt etc. - bei ihm ist da einfach nix. Deshalb erinnerst du dich auch an nix aber jeder erinnert sich an "Das war SPITZE!" oder "Welches Schweinderl hätten's gern?" oder "Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?". Wenn man sich bei ihm an was Spezielles erinnert dann höchstens, dass er Werbung für Haribo gemacht hat.

I tried to replace Twitter by Mastodon but, in the end, I just left Twitter and don’t use Mastodon at all.

This is me, I left Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. I reduced my online time a lot and it is better for my mental health and I have more time for my hobbies.

Mastodon made it clear to me how much algorithms steer me and keep me online, when I don't need that, don't profit from it. When I had to search for content on Mastodon that was for me it felt not worth the effort while being fed by an algorithm on Twitter /Facebook / Reddit kept me endlessly scrolling.

So I am very thankful to Mastodon for opening my eyes, but I will not use it anymore. Tchncs (world news, tech news and cat owl pictures) , Grouvee (gaming forum, keeping track of my games) and German Tagesschau ( tv news of my country) is enough to stay up to date and I feel freed from a burden that social media became for me.

Also my phone stays in my bag now and I am more in the moment wherever I am - I have used it 99% less than before and my next smart phone will be a cheap one with the only must haves being the newest Android version and a replacable battery so it will last me for long.

Wishing them all the best and that they take the time to make everything around legal stuff and ownership secure so that bad stuff can't happen again. It is a shame that Kurviz and Rostov aren't part of this, but DE had a lot of talent behind it and I trust everyone else too to be able to make something interesting. I also hope Kurvitz and Rostov will keep creating and sharing their creations in one way or the other with the world. It would be a shame if they retreated fully from making their art, because of what happened.

sorry, I laughed

I am so far behind on series on Netflix & other streaming services, that I can watch the next 10 years only ones that made it to a reasonable amount of episodes and seasons and got a nice wrap up. I am not investing my time in new ones that might not make it. I learned my lesson with Firefly.

As long as they don’t do it on real humans nobody is hurt.

Living out the fantasy of having sex with children (or other harmful sexual practices and fantasies) wit AI or alike can strengthen the wish to actual do it in RL. It can weaken the strength to abstain. If you constantly have fantasies where for example "the child AI wanted it too" then it can desensitize you and making it harder and harder to push that thought aside when in a tempting situation. Instead of replacing the real thing with a fantasy you are preparing for the real thing. Some pedophiles already interpret children's behavior as sexual that isn't at all, but the AI might be told to act in that way and strengthen these beliefs.

This is still something that is and has to be studied more to fully understand it. Of course this is difficult because of the stigma. There might be differences between people who only are attracted to children and ones that are attracted to adults and children and there is just not enough data yet, but even the communities in which pedophiles who do not act on their fantasies discuss coping strategies this is heavily discussed and controversial.

If you are interested in the subject a bit more, this is a start: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8419289/

In the first region in the midst of the first small village two neighbors are arguing. They are not giving a quest, they just talk to each other and listening gives such an insight in how war can turn people against each other that have been living peacfully and been friends for years.

Do the side quests and take your time with the dialogue. Some of these stories are impactful, mostly sad and worth your time. If you are told that you should talk to people to find out more about your contract, do it. Some of these quests can be done with only talking to one person but you want to get the information from everyone and especially their side of the story.

Do not look up the outcome of decisions. Make your decisions and live with them at least at your first playthrough. Most decisions have impact and seeing the outcome unfold makes this game special and yes often there is no "good choice" - that's war for you.

Last: Buy every Gwent card you can get your hands on and play with everyone you can. If you can't win just come back later with better cards and obliterate them - it will feel goooood!

The DLC's are a must.

Try out difficulty settings - there is a sweet spot for most people somewhere but what it will be for you no one can know, but it would be a shame if you play through the game not having found the difficulty that fits you best because you "always play on

<insert difficulty>

Have fun, I wish I could play this game for the first time again.

In a perfect world, things like FOMO and group pressure would not exist. People would understand that skins are just useless pixels. We do not live in that world. Yes there are a handful of people who are not affected by the psychological effects of this and if you are one of them lucky you. The truth is, most people are affected, most people feel bad to be the only one with no knife skin, with default armor ( "Default" being an insult in online games with a very young audience) and most people do love the "look" and feel a real need to buy cosmetics.

There is a reason game developers hire psychologists. That's why all lootboxes have sparkles and sound effects and even look like slot machines although what is in your box is long decided. It is because it works for most people's brains as stimulating. That's why some people make a living out of videos where they open loot boxes because even watching someone else open them makes our brain chemistry go WROOOOOM.

It is way less of a choice for most people than you think it is. I remember one FPS game has a quest where you need to open a loot box ingame and others can watch you do it, to animate them to buy loot boxes. These businesses have no shame to invent constantly new ways of making you enter the shop. Like making food rot ingame so you will have to buy a fridge from the shop (Fallout 76).

MTX and loot boxes are part of the core of many games. When they finally got rid of loot boxes in Mordor: Shadow of War , they had to redo the whole economy of the game, because it was to the core made in a way to encourage you to buy war chests for better Orcs.

You CAN live without ever eating cake, but if everyone eats cake, all other food looks bland and boring and you constatnly are shown ads for cake, shiny cake, tasty cake, colorful cake, cake that you can only buy until

<date>

... and they could put an end to the black market for skins and the gambling at anytime, but refuse to do so. This would get rid of the account stealing mostly too.

Not to mention that Valve had to be forced to follow consumer laws in some countries by expensive lawsuits.

It was also Valve who started the "you do not own your games" shite, by forcing the connection of licences to an account and a gaming client, which got rid of the ability to resell your games or to have at least the game's installer offline available.

I'll never get why Valve always gets a pass. Would it be worse if Steam was owned by Epic / Tencent / Activision ...., no doubt, but that doesn't make it great.

If someone want to give praise I would point to GOG. Not perfect but at least I own my licence to the point that I can install my games from an installer I have archived on my HDD (no deleting the game, no forced updates, no adding MTX at a later time, no taking away licenced music), I can go to earlier versions of Early Access games if they change it for the worse and more.

We should not expect companies to choose a less immediately profitable route that ensures long term sustainability.

We should expect that. It is not that "companies" are creatures with their own will. Humans own them, humans work for them and it is humans making decisions and we should expect them to do better for humankind.

I refuse to buy into the boys are boys companies are companies saying, it is changeable. So many businesses have no whatsoever problems to adapt, but the people leading these WANT to adapt, they want to plan for the long run, they want their business to make money and do the right thing and it is possible.

Yes the government needs to step in with laws and force them to do the right thing, but still we need to call the humans out that decide by free will to f*ck us all over and use a business to do it, again the business does nothing, it is humans who do it because they want to, they are not forced to do it. That's why we should not say BP does this, we should name the responsible people behind the business name and hold them responsible one by one.

Why are y’all so dumb?

this is the wrong question, The real question is:

Why are y’all so mean?

See, the people believing this shit are the ones who, if being able to create a hurricane, would do it in an instant to harm their political opponents, so it makes sense to them others would do it. They would steal an election, they would get rid of elections once elected, they would pretend to be a shooting victim if paid enough money... Once you leave all morals behind and get on the me and my version of America first train, everything is possible and thinkable. It is not about "is this possible" or "can they do it" it is all about "if I could do it I would so they are doing it".

This is my winner!