Honestly that would be great, because that means the rear of the universe is nicer than our corner.

I mean, imagine the other way around: we are the nicest ones. That would be one literal hell of a universe.

The joke was that’s how the IQ works. It’s a relative measurement, not an absolute. So the average IQ per definition should always be 100, but it also needs constant adjustment.

I played the GOG version of Sacrifice and it worked fine.

Ouch, that YouTuber just called marathon “a new universe” XD

But seriously, that video cemented my worst fears:

• narrative will be written in the last 6 month of the game development???

• the art style is fine, but it looks nothing like the original marathon to me. It reminds me more of the art style from NeoTokyo.

• the gameplay is completely bog standard, nothing special about it

Who is the target audience for this game??

Marathon fans won’t find any campaign here, while extraction shooter fans already have different games that deliver their fix, especially since this one seems to be full price.

And 4 years development for 3 maps and 4 characters hints at a lot of trial & error with emphasis on error.

You want history books and “We didn’t start the fire”? I got the right video for you!

Yes, mostly some small islands somewhere in the Atlantic.

Thanks for trying to explain it to me. But as you said, that whole thing just raises more questions.

Light speed seems to be rather slow for them, similar to their brains.

Wait what? How does that work then? Now I need to look what kind of brain twisting logic they employ to combine a flat earth with time zones.

Yeah the second method. Of course the children are not going to make master pieces that are kept for multiple years, but it’s still a nice gift for grandparents etc. In central and eastern Europe, there are some longstanding traditions with that method of egg painting. And some are really great pieces of art.

I know some schools for example paint the eggs now, so the children/family can gift it to somebody or just so they hang already a while and don’t have to be taken down soon already

You won’t fit through the bars after eating that fat fish though!

Again, I’m not denying verifiable reality, you are not reading correctly.

The article mentions the sentence in the following paragraphs

Indeed, from the campaign trail in the east Berlin district of Lichtenberg, von Storch told Drop Site that “‘From the river to the sea’ means kill all Jews—I don’t think we should have that free speech, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

Dayan had provocatively uttered the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” on social media in response to an article in November 2023 saying that the slogan should be prosecuted.

-> not illegal, just some idiots calling for it to be illegal

Here, just for you, from me who lives in Germany, where it’s not illegal to say it: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

And I mean it, because what Israel is doing is simply a genocide. But that doesn’t mean you can just change reality to what you think it is.

And honestly, if you read and understood the article, it shouldn’t take much time to search for the terms you know and then copy that into a comment to prove me wrong.

… Because that is exactly what I did with this comment, proving you wrong that the sentence you wrote is in fact not illegal.

Edit: after checking Wikipedia, I have to partially retract my statement about the legality. The ministry of inner affairs ordered Hamas as terrorist organization and the saying as its slogan and forbid it. However, multiple courts have already overturned that decision and stated that the saying is not illegal in itself, only if its meant as direct support for Hamas. So I was wrong, but the Wikipedia article explained it much better than the posted article.

What? I specifically checked the article before I posted the comment. Please quote the part you are talking about.

No, you either didn’t read the article or didn’t understand it. The article doesn’t mention a single instance of what you claim.

The article is about political pressure, as I said, about accusing Israel critics of other crimes and thereby trying to shut them down. But criticizing Israel is not illegal. And that is the same as happened in USA, where protest where shut down and accused of other crimes to stop them.

Really? I can’t remember that anybody got legally punished for criticizing Israel, but I might just not remember it. Can you provide sources for your claim?

And that is not on a criminal level but instead on a political.

It is legally perfectly allowed to critique Israel. So the OP still would be wrong.

And that is not on a criminal level but instead on a political.

It is legally allowed to critique Israel.

Free speech gave the USA Trump.

I rather like that in Germany it’s a crime to deny the Holocaust. The problem is that our politicians are too cowardly to stand up towards Israel and to stupid to realize the problem with the Holocaust isn’t that jews were the main target, but rather that it happened at all.

Ragnarrox did two very interesting video analyzing the themes and topics for each game (1, 2) and McGee himself commented on them that he felt understood.

And I seriously think they did the first game dirty by porting it to consoles. It was designed and programmed with a certain input (keyboard+mouse) in mind, a controller will make the impression of the game much worse for the player.

I mostly disregarded the gameplay (aka grading of pictures) and just considered it an exploration game: find the locations and also the environmental storytelling bits. And I highly enjoyed it for that.

I sadly was spoiled regarding the story, so I didn’t have that “wait, what exactly is happening here?” Moment. But nonetheless, the atmosphere really fits its name and considering how the real life is going, I sadly predict it’s going to be more and more relevant. But same as you, the last level hit me hard. I consider it good game design, that the game really trained you well, so I immediately understood what I needed to do to end the game. And it kinda felt natural, because it is the only thing left to do at that moment.