I think you nailed the highlight and shadow placements. Looking forward to it with all the details painted and all the blends smoothed out.

When you pray for the lord to have mercy, they have to dispense it somehow. That part made sense to me as a kid.

However why would God have to buy one? And from whom? Who manufactures these mercy dispensers for God? Why wouldn’t God just make them into existence?

When I learned that it was Mercedes Benz I came to understand that even God needs to abide by trademark law.

But it is.

They know you can’t improve on a master piece.

Oh if you have those and they still work then yes. All except one flat I used to live in here in Germany had either one that didn’t work anymore or one that basically just had anti freeze, slightly warm and tropical, no numbers or anything.

Funnily most people in Germany do not have thermostats where you can input a target temperature.

That assumes everyone experiences heat and coldness the same which isn’t the case. I for example need around 20 degrees to feel alright in warm clothing. But on the other hand I am fine in around 43 degrees in the summer and wouldn’t use any AC below that.

Also young kids and older people have different needs as well.

If you wanted to regulate this, the time and money needed to care for everyone who get an exception from this rule could likely be used instead to heat everyone’s home.

And this is M. Bison

Valve good.

But valve company. Company bad.

But valve company do good thing.

But selfish reason.

But good outcome.

But what if no GabeN.

We pray.

Having state funding as a basis is fantastic and I like that Germany has this as do many other countries. But if the corporate and other donations get top big there will always be a conflict of interest. If you do certain things you’ll get more funding from certain groups. Those who get more funding will have more money to campaign for the election. In gaming this would be called pay to win I guess.

The other issue is that in Germany groups get around donation limits and having to disclose donation sources for larger sum donations by splitting them into smaller chunks and sending them through multiple organisations. That’s why I’d like parties having to disclose every single donation. That’d at least show where their biases might lie.

I think longterm we’ll have to cut funding for political parties from outside sources or even entirely. This has turned into a propaganda money arms race and lobbying money arms race and will continue to undermine our democracies imo.

Each party gets an identical fixed sum from the state and then then they have to win by convincing, not brute force marketing and manipulation. Or so goes my wishful thinking.

I agree. I also think ads do influence us way more than almost anyone would believe or admit. Why else would companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ads without batting an eye. Many products cost as much or less than their ad campaign cost to make.

So I try to avoid ads as much as possible. I haven’t seen or heard an ad in a long time aside from billboards and posters which are basically impossible to avoid.

Must… Contain… Racism… Aaaaah. Oh shit failed again.

Around here people call it McDoof. Not sure if that’s a local thing or not.

“I completely understand why someone doesn’t want to commute an hour and a half every day. Totally get it… Doesn’t mean they have to have a job here either.”

Then why hire people living 90 minutes away?

Sure limit yourself to workers living close by. But don’t give me any of that labor shortage bullshit then.

Now I understand the rename. It is much harder to block X.

I’m not through the whole video yet but I think you can cut the tech from the title. That’s just YouTube or even social media in general. Ego, dogmatism and cult of personality.

And now the same conservatives who led the government for 16 years will blame the current socdem+green+liberal government for wasting so much money on this problem. Sigh.

For me it comes down to overall quality of the art rather than style. Also I care whether or not the art style serves the gameplay and mood of theme of the game.

Hand drawn with smooth nice looking animations if done well is hard to beat.

Pixel art is very common so you have to do it super well to stand out these days I find. But I still love a good pixel art game.

3D or 2D using 3D models is fine too but it can quickly look bad unless executed well. While this comes last for me I want to add that I would still prefer well made 3D over mediocre hand drawn every time.

The most dangerous thing with Ads is most people believe they are immune. That way no movement towards tighter regulation is happening. But Ads are weaponized psychology.