Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThat's like saying "people who can't swim can drown in the sea, so we should have every single access to the sea guarded and protected at all time".
That is insane...

This is actually something that is and has been happening in Germany for several years – some lawyers figured that they could extract money from mayors of small cities that have a small lake somewhere where children without parental supervision had accidents. The end result is that there is an effort to build fences around lakes and remove accessible piers.

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Addendum: The thing is – automatic AUR helpers have been warned against time and time since I first saw them. If anything should be stopped it is them. You cannot stop people from copying random commands from a random website or opening suspicious email attachments or using the same password all over the web. Discontinuing the AUR is a really bad idea since it can be a useful resource for looking up information about packages. The only way to force people to be safe is to lock them into a room without access to water/electricity/internet, other people and the sun. All those things can harm you.

The helpers like npm and all the weird python/rust/etc installers are a huge risk to download and execute random code from the web.

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Quoting: jiralHowever "refined" with absolutely no qualification could also just mean, that humans are merely checking that there are not 6 fingers on a hand or so, add/remove some tiny things here or there and call it a day.

I assume it means that they made sure that it is not that obvious that the art is AI generated.

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I'm not sure about the art style – the gameplay sequences and the cutscenes don't seem to fit together.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI hope not, that doesn't sound like very much fun.

Exactly. Too much realism would make it very tedious. I'm always wondering about the people that cry about the scale in American Truck Simulator/European Truck Simulator 2 and demand a 1:1 representation of the world or wanting to go out of the truck and connect all the cables/tubes manually every time. That would definitely kill the games for me.

I'm not sure about the game – I really liked the first Cook, Serve, Delicious!, but I didn't like the cooking in Dave. At the start of the game it felt like the underwater aspect was the main focus, but when that shifted to the above ground chores I stopped playing.

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AI, Denuvo and yet another sequel. Yawn.

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Quoting: StellaI hope all the AI generated slop was worth it for this.

The enormous amount of slop is the other thing that I hate about this situation. And all the bad forced AI translation that you get shoved in your face when you're in Germany – although to be fair they force the reader to practise English because most of the things are complete gibberish unless you translate them back to English in your head.

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Thank you AI. The prices – like the RPI ones – are horrible.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSignificantly cheaper than buying the games separately.

I don't know how I missed that. Thank you. I had the separate items in the cart for a few days wondering if I would ever play them, but due to the GDX version I thought that I might regret not getting them.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneAs long as they don't improve the character physics/controls I don't care. Witcher 1 is still the only Witcher I could enjoy (and I know the controls were weird, but at least they worked).

I fully agree. I hated the second part and after watching a few parts of a Let's Play video I bought the third part and quit not long after leaving the tutorial area. The gameplay was basically reduced to rolling around all the time.

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Quoting: mindedieAll external battery chargers/dock (for cylindrical, prismatic, random battery packs and whole devices) have exposed pins.

No, they don't. There are some, but most that have exposed conductive surfaces only have ground connections on the outside. Take a look at the cylindrical connectors of olden times (okay this one can have the positive on the outside depending on polarity), all types of USB-plugs, Molex, the power part of SATA, etc. are safer by design.

This is pure laziness. Even if you limit the current (which obviously you should) you have to assume as a designer that that mechanism can fail (and it will wither by aging or by production error).

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