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  2. Comment on Jet Lag | Season 9 trailer : Hide and Seek across Switzerland in ~hobbies

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    Regarding the cheese: I think they were genuinely expecting to find a type of cheese labled “swiss cheese”. Like they weren’t saying the cheese in that shop isn’t swiss(adjective) but that it...

    Regarding the cheese: I think they were genuinely expecting to find a type of cheese labled “swiss cheese”. Like they weren’t saying the cheese in that shop isn’t swiss(adjective) but that it isn’t swiss(name)

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Jet Lag | Season 9 trailer : Hide and Seek across Switzerland in ~hobbies

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    Click to expand spoiler. I definitely felt like they screwed up by not asking for more hints. I’m sure some of the curses are bad, but they spent _so much_ time fumbling around not knowing where...
    Click to expand spoiler. I definitely felt like they screwed up by not asking for more hints. I’m sure some of the curses are bad, but they spent _so much_ time fumbling around not knowing where to look. Something like a much smaller radius question around Zug would have instantly told them they’re in the wrong area and could have saved them hours.
    4 votes

  4. Comment on Jet Lag | Season 9 trailer : Hide and Seek across Switzerland in ~hobbies

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    The political party vote one irked me (way more than the rhyming, they all seemed to be on the same page which is good enough, frankly). As presented now, it’s basically misinformation, and all it...

    The political party vote one irked me (way more than the rhyming, they all seemed to be on the same page which is good enough, frankly). As presented now, it’s basically misinformation, and all it would have taken is to reword it to something like “which party got the most seats in parliament” to be accurate. Or perhaps “which party got the most votes in the last election”. But not “which party did the canton vote for”, because they… didn’t.

    3 votes

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  6. Comment on How can I best keep my room cool in summer? in ~life.home_improvement

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    I'm not entirely sure what the difference between shutters and blinds is supposed to be. Mine are greyish plastic panels that can be rolled down on the outside of the window and that, when fully...

    I'm not entirely sure what the difference between shutters and blinds is supposed to be. Mine are greyish plastic panels that can be rolled down on the outside of the window and that, when fully rolled down, entirely block out the light.

    The issues I have with just keeping them down all day is threefold:

    • It's depressing as hell
    • The air in my room goes bad quite quickly
    • It doesn't do enough to keep the room cool, by evening it'll still be at least high 20s celsius in my room, and not much cooler outside, and I can't sleep well in those temperatures

  7. Comment on How can I best keep my room cool in summer? in ~life.home_improvement

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    Good to know! From what I could tell they’re out of my budget anyway, but thanks for the warning

    Good to know! From what I could tell they’re out of my budget anyway, but thanks for the warning

    2 votes

  8. Comment on How can I best keep my room cool in summer? in ~life.home_improvement

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    Thanks a lot! Proper split systems probably be possible as I'm up on the fourth floor with nowhere to mount anything outside except for a narrow metal windowsill, but the inventum one looks promising

    Thanks a lot! Proper split systems probably be possible as I'm up on the fourth floor with nowhere to mount anything outside except for a narrow metal windowsill, but the inventum one looks promising

    4 votes

  9. Comment on How can I best keep my room cool in summer? in ~life.home_improvement

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    Oh I bought a fan a long time ago, it's the only reason I'm still alive to write this post, but it's not enough to be comfortable

    Oh I bought a fan a long time ago, it's the only reason I'm still alive to write this post, but it's not enough to be comfortable

    4 votes

  10. How can I best keep my room cool in summer?

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    I’m looking for advice about what sort of portable room cooling devices to look at and what pitfalls to avoid. Some context: Over the past few years I’ve noticed that I do pretty badly in the...

    I’m looking for advice about what sort of portable room cooling devices to look at and what pitfalls to avoid. Some context:

    Over the past few years I’ve noticed that I do pretty badly in the heat, especially at night. I live in Zürich, the concept of air conditioning has not yet arrived in this place. The prevailing wisdom for how to survive summer is to just make sure your house doesn’t get too warm in the first place, but my apartment is pretty badly insulated and during the worst weeks it doesn’t cool down that much at night either, so it’s been pretty bad the last few years. I’ve mostly just avoided being in my room whenever possible, but I do have to sleep somehow.

    The obvious solution to me is to buy some sort of air conditioning device, a topic I know basically nothing about. My flatmate has one for his room, of the “dangle a tube out of the window” kind, which seems to do an okay job, but it is extremely loud and quite bulky - neither of those are dealbreakers per se, but I’d happily pay a bit more money if that gets me something quieter. In addition, our windows are not sliding windows but ones that open like a door, so any device that requires me to poke something out of the window would probably need a solution for this as well. Any sort of permanent modification to the house such as putting a hole through the wall or the window glass are not allowed.

    So my questions are: What types of coolers should I look into, what types are best avoided? Any specific brand or model recommendations would also be appreciated. I looked at one electronics vendor’s website and found a huge range in prices from below 100 to over 1000; I don’t have a specific budget in mind per se, but unless it makes a big difference (e.g. in noise levels) I would rather stay below 500 dollars.

    31 votes

  11. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I'm listening to the audiobooks pf Dungeon Crawler Carl at the moment. I'm on book 4 now I think. They are great fun and the audiobook is fantastically well produced, though I have to say for both...

    I'm listening to the audiobooks pf Dungeon Crawler Carl at the moment. I'm on book 4 now I think. They are great fun and the audiobook is fantastically well produced, though I have to say for both this book and the previous one, the "plot of the week" (i.e. "how do we beat this floor of the dungeon") hasn't been that captivating to me. The greater overarching plotlines and especially everything between the individual characters has been great however.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Quinns Quest reviews: The Wildsea in ~games.tabletop

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    Quinns (of Shut Up and Sit Down and People Make Games fame) recently started a new channel for reviewing TTRPGs. The linked video is his first review on the channel, of the game The Wildsea....

    Quinns (of Shut Up and Sit Down and People Make Games fame) recently started a new channel for reviewing TTRPGs. The linked video is his first review on the channel, of the game The Wildsea. Unlike quite a few RPG reviews I’ve seen, Quinns has actually played the game a decent amount, and promises to do so for all his reviews.

    I hadn’t heard of this particular game before and thought it sounded extremely fun – I’ve already got some friends lined up to play a one-shot in two weeks. If interest is there, I’ll post a post-session review of our experience here after that.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on OpenAI releases Sora: Creating video from text in ~tech

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    The one with the tiny red pandas looked pretty bad, they just kinda popped out of noise. There were also a few that looked uncanny in ways I could not place at all (like the one with the birds...

    The one with the tiny red pandas looked pretty bad, they just kinda popped out of noise. There were also a few that looked uncanny in ways I could not place at all (like the one with the birds sitting on a tree) where I just felt like something unsettling was about to happen even though it never did. But perhaps that was just my expectations because I know these are AI-generated

    12 votes

  15. Comment on Christian Super Bowl commercial outrages US conservatives in ~humanities

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    Apart from the stained glass windows, the only decoration in my village’s church was a quote from some theologist painted on the side wall that, roughly translated, read “To be Christian is not to...

    Apart from the stained glass windows, the only decoration in my village’s church was a quote from some theologist painted on the side wall that, roughly translated, read “To be Christian is not to speak of Christ, but to do as He did”. I wasn’t raised religiously, and the only reason I am even a member of the church is because it was just kind of the default way to go, but that quote is basically why I haven’t left it either. They do seem to try to live up to it, the church is one of the only institutions in the village that is actively trying to do community events and bring people together, and they’ve been extremely supportive to refugees from what I’ve been able to tell. I find it very sad that this seems to be quite an exceptional state of affairs though.

    6 votes

  16. Comment on Which characters have the best bows? in ~anime

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    I can’t find it right now but there’s a hilarious page in the manga where Kaguya and Chika compare their daily hair styling routine; Kaguya has this complicated process of tying her ribbon into...

    I can’t find it right now but there’s a hilarious page in the manga where Kaguya and Chika compare their daily hair styling routine;

    Kaguya has this complicated process of tying her ribbon into her hair, while Chika just… somehow puts the bow there and it stays in place, with everyone questioning how the hell that works.
    If anyone knows what page I’m talking about I’d be very greatful, I came across it linked in some random reddit comment once and could never find it anymore.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I just finished the first book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and immediately started volume 2. It's a LitRPG with the premise that aliens have turned the entire earth into a massive dungeon...

    I just finished the first book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and immediately started volume 2. It's a LitRPG with the premise that aliens have turned the entire earth into a massive dungeon and made a huge televised game show out of it. We follow Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat Princess Donut as they fight their way through the dungeon, with occasional glimpses into the background politics of the aliens. It's fast-paced and fun, definitely not very deep though

    Before starting that series, I just finished Pratchett's Men at Arms. Now that was a fantastic book. One of my favorites in the series so far.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Jet Lag | Season 8 trailer in ~hobbies

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    As someone from Switzerland, I am incredibly excited by the next season. I was a bit disappointed at how little it featured in the past European seasons but this more than makes up for it. I...
    As someone from Switzerland, I am incredibly excited by the next season. I was a bit disappointed at how little it featured in the past European seasons but this more than makes up for it. I wonder if their game is going to be fun enough to replicate it with friends...

  19. Comment on Is there a markdown editor which let me open .md files from Windows? in ~tech

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    While obsidian does use md files, it’s not really convenient as an editor for an md file you have lying around. To my knowledge, you can’t just open an md file with obsidian, you’d have to move it...

    While obsidian does use md files, it’s not really convenient as an editor for an md file you have lying around. To my knowledge, you can’t just open an md file with obsidian, you’d have to move it into a directory where there’s an obsidian vault and then open that vault. Perfectly fine if that’s where you want that file anyway, but annoying otherwise.

    12 votes

  20. Comment on What was your first computer game? (Soundcheck question 2023) in ~games

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    Assuming “Watching the pipes screensaver” and “drawing in ms paint” on my mom’s pc don’t count as a games, the first ones I got for myself were a handful of educational games, of which I only...

    Assuming “Watching the pipes screensaver” and “drawing in ms paint” on my mom’s pc don’t count as a games, the first ones I got for myself were a handful of educational games, of which I only remember one by the title of Fürst Marigor und die Tobis, a puzzle game that teaches you german spelling and maybe some elementary math as well? I also played the sequel, a game that required ~8 year old me to memorize my first (and only) Alt code: Alt-225 ß (a letter used by the Germans who were the primary target audience of this game, but nowhere to be found on our Swiss keyboard layouts).

    1 vote