Lmao, good thing I was still using the same chapo.chat bookmark from 5 years ago 😎

It doesn’t surprise me the same convention is also used in Swedish since we share so much history and culture. It’s interesting you still use “miss.” Like 60 years ago even children would’ve used words like herra (mister/sir) rouva (mrs.) or neiti (miss) but those kinds of honorifics have basically disappeared entirely

I wonder if this some specifically Eastern European thing. I’m pretty sure languages like German or Swedish just use their local equivalents of man/mister or lady

Even in the English-speaking world unrelated close adult family friends can sometimes get called uncles or aunts, no? 🤔

That’s kind of on the same wavelength

Yep, men are oji-san, which is often shortened to ossan, women are oba-san, meaning uncle and aunt respectively.

Vaguely relatedly, in Finnish, the words setä (uncle) and täti (aunt) are used in children’s talk to refer to unfamiliar adult men and women

These fancy Lindt chocolate bars are about 42€/kg in a local supermarket

As for something that costs about one pound, there are these small Fazer chocolate bars (Fun fact: they used to be 50g and cost 50 cents )

I agree with your sentiment, I just think 1 pound for 18 grams for basic milk chocolate is INSANE

On my last replay of the Machine!Wolfenstein series, it dawned on me that I don’t really like TNC that much, at least not compared to TNO and TOB, which are both utterly fantastic.

I’m playing these games for the first time and I wouldn’t call TOB fantastic. It was a fine DLC if you wanted to see more of the classic WWII Wolfenstein setting in the MachineGames continuity but it just felt so much lesser than its parent game, especially in the writing department. I was also disappointed by how they didn’t do anything particularly interesting with the supernatural elements which just amounted to unremarkable zombie enemies and the final boss. The beginning had amazing atmosphere though and the interactions with Rudi Jäger were great (Ja, uhh… ein… Hot Dog)

Also, minor gripe, but having studied them recently for a course I’m taking, I dislike in hindsight the way the KKK is portrayed in the game. I know the devs are just playing to the popular perception of the Klan as a bunch of ignorant hicks, but in actuality the Klan tended to be populated by small business assholes and middle class joiner-types, people who would’ve been seen as pillars of the community. I know this wasn’t the intention, but portraying them as baying rubes seems like an attempt to downplay how pervasive white supremacist beliefs were even among “respectable” cirlces.

In some ways The New Colossus definitely feels like a reaction to Trump and the alt-right (TNO came out in the middle of Obama’s second term, TNC came out during Trump’s first year as president) and you get the feeling the devs are using the occupied Nazi America setting to comment on and dunk on them. There’s a scene where BJ stays behind to cover members of the Black Revolutionary Front from a Nazi assault as they’re evacuated by the Kreisau Circle and he says “Come fucking get me, you white-ass Nazi pigs,” which came off as such a weird line to put in BJ’s mouth. In the previous game, he came off as a Greatest Generation guy that definitely hated the Nazis and everything they stood for but wasn’t necessarily too politically aware. This was best demonstrated in the Wyatt timeline scene where J vents about his experiences with racism and racial segregation growing up black in pre-WWII America to BJ and tells him to his face that blonde, blue-eyed jarheads like him were the Nazis back home, and BJ gets defensive, angrily shoving J up against the wall before backing off. That came right after a scene where Grace makes fun of testicles being a synonym for toughness since they’re so squishy and delicate, which is fine, but it was prompted by BJ admiring Caroline, the dead Kreisau leader for having “balls of steel” which didn’t feel a very BJ line either and more like something Fergus would say

Wait, that works out to… about 66 euros per kilogram?! Holy fucking shit, you could get some actually nice high-end chocolate with those prices. Also, chocolate’s gotten incredibly fucking expensive in Finland too. A big 200g milk chocolate bar from Fazer now costs almost 5 euros

No treats for the poors

China in like 5 minutes: “China declares their continued commitment to the UNHRC”

I believe, if we don’t kill ourselves, we will be able to simulate the dead and bring everyone back. There isn’t going to be some dumbass Judgement Day where a basilisk determines if we were good, there’s no point, but instead every person who has ever lived will be simulated and no one will ever have to say goodbye ever again. Some people will need some rehabilitation to get over their traumas from life, some people will need reeducation to get over their own bullshit, but everyone will be saved.

What would these recreations of dead people, most of them long since departed, be based on? How would this differ from those ghoulish AI services that offer to train a chatbot on a deceased loved one’s chat history

Like, one of them wrote an essay that, if you could torture someone for 50 years, and that would make nobody ever have dust in their eyes again, you should torture the guy, because if you quantify the suffering of the guy, it’s still less than the amount of suffering every subsequent person will feel from having dust in their eyes.

“It’s fine for billionaires like me to grind workers into dust today because my actions will one day lead mankind to a glorious future where we upload our brains into robots or something and you can have unlimited hair plugs”

In Terminator, Skynet sends an Austrian robot back through time to shoot you in the face

Roko’s Basilisk creates a virtual version of you at some point in the future after your death that it then tortures for eternity… and you’re supposed to piss your pants over the fate of this Metaverse NPC for some reason

Microsoft sucks, obviously, but Xbox has been touting diversity and accessibility pretty hard for the last decade and tried to make them part of their brand

I also really just hate the high res look on classic games and it makes me shudder when I see what people do to ps1 games, i prefer integer upscaling

That’s more of a 2D thing though, right? Anyway, all the edges in my PS1 games look sharp enough to cut paper

Looks like I may have been misusing the word “upscale” for years

I forgot to mention the textures. Yes, the GC definitely comes out on top with that here too. It’s interesting- the GameCube minidiscs hold almost three times less data than DVDs but on the other hand the PS2 had a tiny amount of VRAM so I guess it evens out

Original PS2 resolution on a modern monitor is a bit too spicy for me. It looks like you’re playing a Youtube video from 2006

lol, my main memory of the game is how absolutely hideous everybody’s fashion is. All the NPCs are dressed in neon fetish wear

The bodies of North Korean soldiers dissolve upon death like the Ganados in Resident Evil 4

Or is Doomguy just BJ Blazkowicz