/int/ - International

I finished Pentiment, put it off for a long time. Mixed feelings, on one hand setting a game in the Peasant Wars is so wonderfully specific and it's clear that it was a passion project of Sawyer. Sadly both the RPG mechanics and the murder mystery plot were sort of lacklustre and I didn't care at all for the new protagonist in the second half. But it's nice that they wrote dialogue where people don't swear all the time, was a major irk for me in KCD where they made the dialogue too Game of Thrones/Witcher like.

>>7699 Pentiment was such a letdown. It started off great but then quickly after the first act turned worse. Mainly, the choices we make, the character dialogues and the traits we select, don't make much of a difference. The dialogues are also weak and basic. Expected something more from a game that is centered around story telling. Also, I'm not a poltard by any means but the narrative not missing a chance to talk about women's place in society, rape, Turing vollständigs, black monks in the middle of fucking nowhere, jewish people, gypsies and so on, is too much. It's exaggerated to the point of it being comical. The historical accuracy is perhaps close to 20%. Probably less but I stopped caring early on. The art and OST is well done. The idea was neat. It's a shame that they couldn't get better writers and historians on the team. Now the game I recently finished is Mundaun. It's a game with a setting in Switzerland and the VA is in Romansh. It was interesting being able to understand a lot of it due to knowing italian. The game is a walking sim with light puzzle and horror elements. It's the great atmosphere that pulled me in. I just liked walking around and exploring in the limited area. The story is cliche but it's executed well. Currently play testing Militsioner and really like the game, the atmosphere in particular is comfy and the idea itself is rather unique.

>>7706 The secretly fag monks and the Jews were plausible enough (they were involved in the printing business), the gypsy and Ethiopian did reek of forced DEI though.

>>7707 >the Jews were plausible enough (they were involved in the printing business) Correct but them being friends and guests with the Druckers was also as historically inaccurate as possible. My problem was not that there were jews in the game, it's the way the relationship with them was handled like with other characters. You can suspend belief here and there but Pentiment kept posing such silly premises that it stops being immersive. At least for me. >The secretly fag monks Yeah. That wasn't a problem for me but it did add to the overall inclusive narrative the game has going. I wish they kept it more realistic is all.

>>7718 It's an unfortunate reality that modern writers of historical media can only implement diversity in a heavy-handed way. Like, it always has to be niggers, it can't be, say, a guest from Novgorod, a Turkish diplomat or whatever. Instead of showcasing historical trades women dominated like brewing or textile making, they just write them to be sarcastic and snarky, it's superficial and stupid. Games usually have at least _somewhat_ authentic art direction/costumes which is why I can enjoy them, unlike TV show slop.

>>7717 When it's ready it should look like this You can eat it with ketchup or without

>>7719 The ketchup is the Bernd-cherry on the top. Thanks for that very Berndy recipe :3

>>7720 It's basically Hörnli mit Ghackets. Finns are the only Non-Swiss who get it.

>>7721 Germans have "Nudeln mit Gehacktes" (no idea why they use the wrong case, but they do) The eggmilk reminded me a bit of Wähe.

>>7719 I might try it but my sisters probably won't let me. I was told that I wasn't even aloud to put mushroom in mashed potato tonight...

>>7629 I liked the Roosian menes

>>7630 A couple of times in the past 5 or so years I intentionally posted some lame joke on 4kanal with a Petrosyan image to see if any Bernds were around to catch the reference. There hadn't been any.

>>7629 Lel

>>7632 Nah, I've seen it posted from time to time. I miss yobaposting.

>>7644 https://youtu.be/Bew5rxQesOc

>>7702 >>7701 We had this discussion already on /b/. The problem with lolibernd is that if he's tolerated he floods any thread with lolis.

>>7703 Then let's not tolerate him. There's a perfectly cancerous imageboard he can spam with his cancer.

>>7701 >and usually wasn't erotic pics Yeah I don't want your "cute girls at the beach" shit, either.

>>7704 >Then let's not tolerate him. No. Lets hang you both on the same gallows.

>>7711 What did I do???

>>7529 >>7530 It's not just people who are more social, but who fall into a specific demographic. It's been widely known by now that IQ tests have strong cultural and personality-based biases. If you have ever taken a test or seen questions in those tests it slowly becomes more evident. The biggest issue is that this isn't just your standard test where you answer and it's either right or wrong; but someone else, maybe many people, maybe not, looks at your answers and gives you an arbitrary score based on their own opinion. But not only that, in many cases and specially wealthy people will spend money on a test to assure them that they're smart, oftentimes the people with strong financial ties to the institution. Combine that with the previous point and now you see there's a clear conflict of interests. Would you like the test if it came out and they called you an idiot? If you were one of the people who invests in that company or donates to that organization, would you keep doing so? Most people have fragile egos, and rich people, as a normal consequence of their social situation, even more so. And finally, just look at yourself. Do you think you are the same level of intelligent every day at every hour? Do you not have times where you think, do or say a thing and then question yourself? Don't you have days when things just don't seem to come out right and nothing makes sense, and then other days when everything seems so simple? Obviously intelligence fluctuates. So it's a really hard sell to say that you can just sit down at a time and a place within a specific context and you're going to get a an accurate score. But rich people have another problem. Even if they're smart or are born smart or are taught to appear smart... they dumb themselves down over time as they wield the power that money and status gives them. They use money or threats to avoid having to think about stuff and they become accustomed to just not using their brains much.>>7530

>>7669 I agree it has issues but it's the best test we have. Rich people don't get dumbed down by being rich... It obviously takes more brain power to manage a company than it does to flip hamburgers. And I don't think intelligence is changeable to a serious degree anyway. Yes, on different days people might be smarter and such but it would be all within a certain range. People aren't going to be intelligence and then become stupid because they took a vacation for a year or something.

>>7673 >It obviously takes more brain power to manage a company than it does to flip hamburgers. Two problems with that. 1. Rich people pay others to manage their company, or, if they're rich enough, "manage" their company while paying or using their position to threaten other people into fixing or at least taking the blame for their constant fuckups, then they lie so much and with such conviction that they start living that lie; suddenly, they don't have to actually think anything through, if they have an idea they just demand that idea be realized and when it doesn't work or can't be fulfilled or creates more problems they just tell themselves it's not their fault and demand as well it be fixed. For example: I had a boss once who would regularly spend more money bribing lawyers to avoid paying taxes than what it would've taken to just pay an accountant and the taxes properly. And he's not the worst, nor the richest, I've worked for or met. But more often than not the richest will literally just pay someone else, often multiple people, to make all the important decisions while they are nothing more than a figurehead who also takes home the biggest check home (those are actually the smart ones, even if they'll act dumb when confronted). 2. people who flip burgers don't use their entire brainpower to do their burger flipping job. Like the taxes guy? He has literally no hobbies, no interests, and no topics of conversation besides whats most immediately relevant to the goings on of his business. Except for rich people gossip, what's needed for him to network for the promotion of his business. And even other rich people hate him because he has nothing to bring to a social interaction except promoting his business. Burger flipper guy might as least have 1 other thing going on in his life. >People aren't going to be intelligence and then become stupid because they took a vacation for a year No, but people are going to act stupider if they're, for example, nervous or anxious, if they haven't slept well, If something upsetting happened to them that morning, if they're ill or hungry, or not interested in the test, etc. And sure, maybe you don't feel like these or any other number of things could affect IQ test scores significantly, but how could you know? > it's the best test we have. The best... but for what, exactly? For giving you a number with no real meaning that you can make fun graphs with, yeah. For actually telling how smart people are, specially to find trends in populations? nah. Only one curious trend I find in IQ is that people who care a lot and claim to trust IQ tests more tend to be conservative older demographics, yet these same people also complain about how all young people are ignorant imbecilic retards for generally disagreeing with them on social and political issues or having different interests and skills. Yet the real trend in IQ is that younger people consistently score higher with each passing generation.

>>7680 >1 That's the difference between an owner and a boss. I have no problem with bosses making more, as long as the ratio is a reasonable amount. They do have more responsibilities and do other things. Owners, i.e. "my grandfather founded this company 100 years ago so i deserve the biggest cut" are a cancer in society. From a market perspective, they are a liability to the company and from a fairness perspective, they do nothing so they should also get nothing. >>7669 I once did an IQ test as a kid and one of the questions was to find as many advantages of a soft-cover book over a hard-cover book. Good luck for children from families with no books. I only remember that i answered price and weight, which were directly from my own experience. My parents let me choose a book for up to 10 bucks. If the hardcover is 11, i might get the soft cover for 9. And from carrying books to school, I knew to appreciate the lightweight ones. Does it make me more intelligent that my parents had the money and education/interest to buy me books? Probably yes to a fucked-up degree, but that's not what should be tested in my opinion. Otherwise they could just test the income of my parents and make that part of the test as well. I would've failed the question about advantages of smaller boats for example. My parents don't own a boat and i never will. A rich kid might have overheard the parents talk about boat parking fees rising for long boats or some shit. Or maybe you need fewer staff to drive the boat around. I think IQ tests should test the performance in completely new circumstances. Nothing where growing up in a particular class is an advantage or disadvantage.

Having to live with Niggers.

>>7220 What's the point of watching the sea when you can't swim? It's nice.

>>7222 Totally the same thing bro

>>7223 It's something pretty you can enjoy even without dipping in.

>>7222 Beauty can only be seen and regarded. True, a Bernd may never feel the touch of a woman but looking at her beauty from afar, he gets the exact same look at her like her husband. You don't think a lot about beauty during sex.

>>5944 I try to ignore them, but sometime it occurs, that my instinct gets the best of me.

I think there is such a famous Zen Koan in this song. When she says 'atashi Yui-Senpai ga daisuk' 'Demo, demo hontou wa. Mina de iiru noda. Ichiban tsuki daiyo!' It really makes you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2f_BVSat4

>>7606 Huxley knew.

>>7654 Your brother was lazy cunt.

>>7654 Maybe I'm a cynical cunt, but why wasn't Buddhism in Japan mainly a tool for power and bureaucracy? Why would anyone go there for Buddhism? That's probably true for most religions around the world, but in Japan I noticed this particularly strongly. N.B. I know next to nothing about Buddhism in Japan before the edo period.

>>7625 You are missing the point. It doesnt really matter what koan is about, it just meditation object. Student puts efforts to "solve" koan while teacher refutes any logical answer to the point when student loses all hope and his conceptual mind explodes. Yes, there are books with answers to koans with commentary and explanation but it doesnt work like that.

>>5594 Pure love

This is both entertaining and educating in case you ever wondered how sex works.

>>7373 What the flip

>>5594 Saw this gem on kohl

>>7663 Why are microcephaloids so fuggin adorable?

>>7294 We urgently need regular British posters here in general. Just doesn't feel the same without them.

>>7296 Also Spaniards and more Scandis.

>>7294 falcofag left the premises like 15 years ago. nobody knows about him or what's he up to anymore.

>>7296 UKsians were good posters on the original KC. Many serious discussions were had and they always seemed level headed.

Have people here actually been in touch with Wojak ever since he stopped posting his 'rorey' shit posting over ten years ago?

Here they're called Staatsverweigerer (State-Deniers). Activities include not paying bills, walking around with cowbells drinking discount beer and commenting anonymously on Nau.ch

>>7612 You forgot reacting to 20min comments.

They still haven't got him...