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  • I played and enjoyed both. They feel very different. Divinity was built without the pen and paper foundation and solasta is very true to DnD 5e. While 5e is nice for roleplay where in theory everything is possible, it lacks in a videogame setting. I don’t go into detail here but in all DOS2 feels more like a complete game that isn’t hold back by sticking to a rulebook that was designed for something else.

    As already mentioned, DOS2 also has premade Characters on with the story builds. Solasta focuses on ‘White Canvas’ characters which I like.








  • I always wondered what would happen if you cite an original source of something we consider common sense now. What would nature say if you use conservation of momentum and cite Isaac Newton and the Principia Mathematica.

    What if you quote something in latin. For most of science history this was completely normal.


  • Schau dir auch Mal “das Recht auf Faulheit” von Paul Lafarge an. Insbesondere der Teil über den “Kapitalismus der sich selbst abschafft” ist eine gruselig präzise Beschreibung der Welt insbesondere der USA.

    Zusammengefasst steht da dass Kapitalismus irgendwann so erfolgreich ist, dass es zu viele Reiche auf zu wenig Arme gibt und dann einfach die Konsumenten fehlen. Dadurch werden die Reichen zu einer würdelosen Dekadenz gezwungen, einfach um den Konsum zu produzieren den der Kapitalismus braucht.


  • One Word you mentioned showed nicely what you missed here: Plain

    Originally it was called an aeroplane. This could be translated with “flat thing in the air”. Which is exactly as ridiculous as your other examples in German. The difference is that Germans don’t mind complicated long words where English does so they just drop the part they don’t like.



  • That is a strange take because economics builds on this principle to function. If you found a producing company today it will have to buy a material and - by the magic you apply to it - sell it for more. Like a refinery buying crude oil and selling gasoline. Or a goldsmith buying gold and selling jewellery. It’s how everything works.

    On a broader take it reveals a Marxian perspective on a market where every item looses its value to the cost of the labor that goes in it. For the alchemist (if everyone found out his Pb->Au secret) the price will drop until it’s worth the labor that went in it because everyone else also can’t sell cheaper.

    So labor is all that has value. And owning the means of production hasn’t.