It was a different time. As you said, it is not a true statement in general, but I can understand where it comes from in the 2000s video game history.

Interesting, thanks for your perspective!

I would say if you only say Doch! as answer in German, it’s more kind of a stubborn, planting your feet in the ground, “come at me” response instead of ignoring.

Begriff + s + assoziativität + s + kombinatorik

Word/term + s + associativity + s + combinatoric

So it is the combinatoric of associativity between words.

The “s” in there are just for easier speaking, which itself has a compoundword name: Fugen-s, so literally translated: Joint-s

Doch, from German and its main use is expresseing a positive statement in opposition to a prior negative one. For pronunciation, use Wiktionary.

So if you say: “you can’t win the game by cheating” and I say “Doch!” I express “yes I can!”. But neatly in one single word with one syllable, which is why it’s often used by children as single counter to something their parents say.

It’s exactly what they described in English. It’s that nonsense just expressed in German and written together because you are allowed to simply combine multiple words into one compound word in German. There is no “real meaning” to it. Or not yet, feel free to start using it and give it any meaning you want. If it catches on, it has a meaning from then on.

No, you bring it back to where you bought it and they need to take care of it. And it is not for every electronic, but only the big stuff (oven, washing machine). Which makes it a hassle mostly, so people don’t do it.

Smaller electronics you can bring to the communal waste collector, they should do the further sorting and recycling.

So no extra bins, I’m afraid.

• Hollow Knight & Silksong if you want hard platformers/metroidvania
• Return of the Obra Dinn if you want a great detective game
• Disco Elysium if you want the maybe greatest game. Genrewise its closest to an CRPG, but without fights, “just” talking
• Tyranny if you want a great CRPG
• Subnautica if you want a great survival open world game
• Minecraft is still also a great game
• Hades if you want a great Roguelite

With those games you would already have something like 400 hours covered.

Wow, “online co-op only” for an atmospheric horror platformer. Exactly what I want to play with somebody next to me! That is the most atmospheric way to do it. And online as second option.

Partially we are. They found Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, meaning our ancestors found them nice enough…

Maybe the making of documentary from noclip gives you more explanation.

But short form: more tester and more steady revenue stream, both important for a small truly independent game studio. And it was a great success for the team, so they kept it for the sequel.

And enough other indie development teams didn’t make it in the past, so I take this model over more publisher owned garbage.

Art Deco and Art Nouveau both are great in my eyes. (Neo-)Gothic cathedrals and churches are also wonderful.

But one more regional thing: I really like the Brick Gothic style. It is robust against wear and tear and still looks great.

Ok yes, then I agree. But deciding to stop a mass murderer has often a possible life ending consequence and I think most agree that it would still be the right way to act.

Refusing lawful orders comes with life-ending consequences.

Not even close to real? As far as I’m aware, death punishment is not what happened to any of those that refused during Vietnam or Afghanistan.

And also for a certain value of lawful I might add. Last I heard congress didn’t say the USA is going to war with Iran. Making it not exactly a war situation. Hey, now that you say it, suspiciously close to the last time a Republican president decided to play little dictator and fucked up the middle east. Strange how that keeps on happening.

That’s my current state as well: if I kill myself just like that, the ones in power won. So I’m not letting them win. Either by surviving or… your option.

See it more positive, don’t look at the amount of comments, but rather at the votes:

the 2 highest main comments and most of the high voted main comments are agreeing with the main gist of the post. That there are then people discussing that is a different thing, but a majority of the people watching this post agree that there is a problem and recognize it.

People who feel attacked by it are naturally more interested in answering and sending their own viewpoint out into the ether. But most votes are not agreeing with them. So majority of those here in this post are on the right trajectory, but of course still have to do the walking towards that direction.

That does not seem to be what research shows, but rather your personal experience:

For animated children movies, I found that 80 % male leads are reported for 1990-2020. Source

Couldn’t find data for children movies in general.

And I found for children books that there is still a slight male overrepresentation on average but in general it being around 50 %for the last few years. Source, search for “Fig. 2”

I feel like it’s awfully interesting though that we have ‘parallel discussions’ whenever someone says “hey this specific thing sucks for women.” […] The answer to that isn’t “we need better male role models in movies” (though it would obviously help as well) as it’s dodging the original question.

Yes, perfectly agree with you! I think both are important points and needed to tackle the issue of patriarchy, because if we don’t teach boys to be better, they never will be and grow up to ask “but what about me?” when they read about feministic topics.

And I fully agree, the way the op posted it with “counter point” already send the discussion in the wrong way.

Yes, it’s not a counter point but rather an also important parallel discussion. We need to have higher standards for male role models, or we will continue to have incels fill the space.

Nice try bot.

Followed your advice, now my husband complains I’m not the woman he married anymore.