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  • It’s both.

    Nestlé is Nestlé. It regularly gets caught of similar things. Now it put a little too much of some ingredient that contains a toxin.

    Nestlé has been under boycott since at least from 1980’s for convincing mothers to use formula instead of breastfeeding, even in places where the formula will be mixed in very dirty water. When the pediatrician recommends something, you do as recommended.

    Since 1980’s at least, newborns have been dying painful deaths through diarrhea because of Nestlé wanting profits. And the last time I checked, around 2010, it was still doing that. Nothing has changed.

    It’s a company intentionally killing newborns for profit.

    So: this is a sign that safeguards are working. They are, once again, forcing Nestlé to reduce the amount of toxins in its baby food. That’s a good thing.



  • 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?



  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoMemes@sopuli.xyzThe 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, @[email protected] can give a better estimate of this than I can, I believe.


  • 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.


  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldDeponia 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.



  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldCan 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.


  • Probably less relevant for completely static sites. But for example, a PieFed instance can easily get tens of thousands of request from the same bot in one day, requesting different variations of the same thing practically without an end.

    If you’ve got a form that can include text, it will basically try every combination of letters possible for that form. I’ve read enough times about how admins of Fediverse instances are trying to battle those AI scraper bots and what kind of trouble they cause, but I do not personally know enough about the subject to give any advice more useful than what I’ve said. At this point I think you already know about as much about it as I do :D

    But, a completely static page should be safe, I assume?


  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldMaximalist UI's
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    Okay, sorry if you got oversatiated.

    But anyway, what did you actually try to say with your comment? You said:

    Lots of wheelchairs around here that assume every one here knows about them.

    And I cannot really make heads of tails of what that was supposed to mean. Could you paraphrase that comment, please?