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  • Deponia free for grabs.

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  • It's been years since I played through these games, and I have forgotten much, but "has to dance for money" is not the whole story.

    It's more like "has to dance for money, has to always give all income to another person and is physically not able to leave before having saved up a large sum of money to pay the debt", or something along those lines. And the reasons were out of her control, but very crucially, also out of the control of the protagonist.

    I find it refreshing to get to play the bad guy in a game. He's doing things I absolutely would never do, and it is me who has to click the button to command him to do those atrocities. It's good because you should know your enemy, and this gives me a perspective that let's me peek into the thinking of an absolute fucking asshole. Also, if you ever find any similarities between what you'd do and what the protagonist does, you know that's something you need to process in yourself.

    But... There are so many spots where the horrible things happen to the people in the game for reasons not in control of the protagonist. So, you should probably re-read previous paragraph, adding a lot of "would" words in there. Because when it's not about the protagonist being evil, it's about the developers being mean. You're not role-playing an asshole, you're playing a game that is an asshole towards various minorities.

    Of course: I did play the game in German. Others are saying many of the jokes get missed if you play it in English. Maybe the game is kind of milder if played in English, then? Maybe it's left more ambiguous whether the people in the game will really live a miserable life for the rest of their days?

  • Maximalist UI's

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  • XMMS is able to use Winamp skins. This one seems to be WMP, but that one copied the concept of crazy skins from Winamp.

  • The Autistic child

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  • If you'd assume practically everyone (say, 95 % of people) are able to do something, and it turns out only 60 % can, then that already counts as shockingly rare. So, even though more than half of people can do something, and the ones who cannot are a minority, it can still be "shockingly rare" that people actually can do it.

    In this case I'd guess it's entirely possible that only a third or a quarter of people are able to reasonably read the body language as told here. But, @theneverfox@pawb.social can give a better estimate of this than I can, I believe.

  • Deponia free on Steam until 16 March

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  • I think I'll copypaste my comment from the Linux Gaming comm to here as well... So, here goes:

    There are a bunch of jokes in this game that I absolutely am not okay with.

    Yeah, the whole point of the game is the main character being a horrible asshole.

    But then, the game for example makes jokes about a black woman ending up a slave. She ends up as a slave not because the main character is being thoughtless. Yes, his actions affect the result, but it's a pure coincidence he could not have reasonably predicted. The joke boils down to "look, we dare to be this inappropriate."

    Some of similar jokes could maybe read as commentary on horrible bigots who really do behave towards other people in the way the protagonist of this game does, because technically the bad things happen to those people because of the protagonist's behaviour. But when the same things sometimes happen to them kind of "just like that", it puts the rest of the jokes in a very different context: The developers of the game actually are making fun of the fact that black people used to slaves or that women often experience sexual violence.

    And then there's also the transsexual who turns out to be the worst stereotype of a transsexual that a MAGA person ever could imagine. And, and, and.

    Some of the jokes are kind of more neutral: At one point the protagonist needs to feed some ten-ish children to a monster, camouflaging them as hot dogs and covering them in ketchup and mustard. And then the children do indeed get eaten and the game progresses. I mean, okay, it's super inappropriate in a way, but it's not perpetuating hate speech. But a surprisingly large share of the jokes are punching at various minorities.

    I've never seen as much bigotry in a game as I saw in the Deponia trilogy when I played through it.

  • Deponia free for grabs.

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  • There are a bunch of jokes in this game that I absolutely am not okay with.

    Yeah, the whole point of the game is the main character being a horrible asshole.

    But then, the game for example makes jokes about a black woman ending up a slave. She ends up as a slave not because the main character is being thoughtless. Yes, his actions affect the result, but it's a pure coincidence he could not have reasonably predicted. The joke boils down to "look, we dare to be this inappropriate."

    Some of similar jokes could maybe read as commentary on horrible bigots who really do behave towards other people in the way the protagonist of this game does, because technically the bad things happen to those people because of the protagonist's behaviour. But when the same things sometimes happen to them kind of "just like that", it puts the rest of the jokes in a very different context: The developers of the game actually are making fun of the fact that black people were used as slaves or that women often experience sexual violence.

    And then there's also the transsexual who turns out to be the worst stereotype of a transsexual that a MAGA person ever could imagine. And, and, and.

    Some of the jokes are kind of more neutral: At one point the protagonist needs to feed some ten-ish children to a monster, camouflaging them as hot dogs and covering them in ketchup and mustard. And then the children do indeed get eaten and the game progresses. I mean, okay, it's super inappropriate in a way, but it's not perpetuating hate speech. But a surprisingly large share of the jokes are punching at various minorities.

    I've never seen as much bigotry in a game as I saw in the Deponia trilogy when I played through it.

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    Can someone explain this meme?

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  • Beside other things mentioned, by adding the hat on the Israeli guy, it's also trying to make it look like Jewish people in general are siding with Israel's atrocious behaviour. Many are, but those who have relatives who were in German concentration camps are of course strongly opposed to genocides, including the one committed by Israel.

    The meme is trying to create anti-jewish sentiments, and that's not okay.

  • Iran threatens Ukraine over "support for the Israeli regime with drones"

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  • Ah, so there will be shaheds attacking targets in Ukraine? Do I guess correctly that Iran will be helped by its friend, the Russia, to launch said drones? Must be a schocking new experience for Ukrainians.

  • Liberals will never not fall for it

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  • Liberals will never not fall for it

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  • Liberals will never not fall for it

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  • The people in Iran have a right to express their opinion even if a country somewhere else would be willing to use their expressing their opinion as an excuse to bomb them.

    USA bombing Iranians is USA's fault, not the fault of Iranian protesters. And in extension, it is not the fault of people supporting the Iranian protesters. The Iranian leadership is full of shit.

  • What are your Lemmy upvoting/downvoting habits? How do you judge posts/comments?

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  • I upvote when the argument is good or I want to give a little more visibility for the argument expressed in the comment. And if it's a joke, to show that I enjoyed the joke.

    I downvote if an argument is in bad faith or not thought of thoroughly at all.

  • TIL there's a remote Amazonian language that's so hardwired for empiricism that it disproves the logic of people who complain about sealioners

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  • I've always been a fan of language with evidentialism in their grammars. This is not the only such language.

    Some have it only when talking about past tense. There might be, for example, five categories of where you knew the thing from. If all language were unable tell about things in the past tense without implying where they know the information from, populists would never end up in charge of any country. You can't make people afraid of foreigners if you cannot imply that you are talking about your own experience without outright saying aloud that they are.

  • Maximalist UI's

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  • That is probably what the image in the post is about, really.

    It's supposed to make the program more accessible for those who are not used to the concept of computer programs at all.

  • Purple Bozankaya tram in Timisoara - Romania on February 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM heading towards Traian Square.

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  • The bigger part of the technology is non-Chinese, the better. 100% would be optimal, but if we abruptly need to become self-sufficient regarding electric buses, it's waaay better that we already have, say 45 % of the product in existence!

  • Purple Bozankaya tram in Timisoara - Romania on February 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM heading towards Traian Square.

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  • That's the whole list when it comes to Bozankaya's products in EU. They have also sold trams for Belgrade, and coöperated with Siemens in building metro trains for Bangkok.

    It's a pity their production of electric buses has been discontinued. Because of political decisions in EU, construction of electric buses is concentrating more and more in China, posing a strategic danger to EU.

  • Purple Bozankaya tram in Timisoara - Romania on February 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM heading towards Traian Square.

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  • Oho, made in Turkey! I had no idea they have tram factories in Turkey!

  • May I have permission to speak?

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  • Anybody's permitted to speak here, unless they behave like complete asses.

    Keep in mind that where the community is hosted does affect it. Lemmy.world, where both you and this community are hosted, has good moderation, so don't worry.

    On lemmy.ml, it is forbidden to say that there is something wrong about genociding Uyghurs or Lenin, and you might get your comments removed or yourself banned if you break that rule there. Similarly, there have been situations elsewhere where you are not allowed to talk bad about genociding Palestinians.

    But if you encounter that kind of trouble, just concentrate your activity on communities hosted on instances that are okay with your existence.

  • German man says New York is a disaster

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  • Why would they not exist in USA?

  • German man says New York is a disaster

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