It is in the Cyberpunk genre, it’s not like Cyberpunk 2077 invented that look.

But I agree, besides the big TV tower, there was nothing that connected it to Berlin. If you don’t integrate the city’s unique qualities, why even call it Berlin?

Meh, for piracy I agree, but here the users were willing to fork over money for the product. So its not unreasonable to assume at least a significant part would buy it normally as well. Not all obviously, so it would be better to name it “up to xxxx $” or something like that.

Maybe a source would be nice, so we could check it out instead of just some stupid picture without context?

GOG isnt setting the price, the publisher is. So maybe turn it down a notch or at least think about it first?

And the problem with the price policy is that steam demand no lower cost on average on other platforms, so that stops developer from selling it for cheaper somewhere else. Except if they put in a bit of extra work and sell it as a different version from the steam one, which is something they evidently don’t see as worthwhile.

Which again has the responsibility on the developer/publisher, not GOG.

Wrong wording from my side, I meant an aquatic solution of the salt. Not the puresalt as solid.

I wrote SDS for commercial products in the late 2000s and that sure was a rude awakening to the “there are no grownups” realization I think people go through when they realize the people in charge aren’t there for their knowledge and oversight 😅

Well shit, so much for my believe in proper safety data. Admittedly, your point is just one more data point in a direction I don’t particularly like.

I tried to check how the regulation is in the EU, but I couldn’t find a direct explanation if the ingredient as used during the mixing stage is to be given or as present in the mixture. The wording I found always just mentioned ingredients. I mean, I agree with you, it makes more sense to have the present form written down, if known. As example: Acetate anhydride is fucking toxic as hell, mixed in water its acetic acid and non toxic. I just thought there might have been a legal reason that overrides it.

And it seems they either agree with you or changed now completely to the dihydrate version, as the newest SDS I found has the same ingredient for both versionsbof the product.

And your example with sodium bisulfite is really angering me. Offgassing is exactly one of those properties that can lead to accidents if people don’t realise its happening. I checked a German SDS for this salt and it also only said that it is offgassing with acids. Seems everybody copies everybody there…

So I take it it’s the same as in uni days: ask people who worked with it before to get more reliable info about the handling. And adjust for the personal safety standards that person has.

If the best argument you can bring for your point is that it is literally not forbidden to say it, maybe do everybody else a favour and just shut up.

Freedom of speech is important, but not a good argument enhancer.

The reason is probably a legal issue: they have to name exactly the ingredients as used. And one did use the hydrated form and the other one didn’t. So while it doesnt really matter for the end user, the workers used different versions, need to check different SDS and adhere to them. And then these differences were printed on the label.

Is it pedantic? Sure as hell.

But there are edge cases where things like these can make a difference and where pedantry protects from harm. This… is not such a case ;)

For sure, the child will never have problems with bees again!

As a chemist: the CAS numbers are different, because the compounds are not the same. If a salt contains water inside it or not is very important to know, because it changes the molecular weight and sometimes the reactivity.

If a salt contains a hydrate and you don’t expect it, that would mean you add too little of this active ingredient. Or worse the other way around: maybe you have a reaction where the active ingredient is very aggressive and you can not use more than absolutely necessary. Then a salt without hydrate, but where you thought it would be with the water, could lead to an accident, because you added too much.

Ah thanks for spelling it out for me. English isn’t my mother tongue, so for me both several times shorter and twice shorter felt somehow wrong. So I thought they were equally wrong. Thanks for explaining!

OK, either I don’t understand you or you don’t understand me, because that’s what I’m also saying?

Your example “twice as short” works.

The original comment wasn’t about your example.

The original comment was “several times shorter”.

As you used twice in place of several times, I also put twice in there to make the difference to yours more obvious.

Twice shorter isnt the same as twice as short. You talked in your first comment about something different than the other comments talked about. That is what I wanted to express.

That’s because you wrote something different than the other comment.

Twice as short != twice shorter

And the second version is just wrong.

I agree in general but slight nitpick:

When somebody declares intent to harm you, proportional violence becomes justified as self defence.

If you say you want to hit me on my pinky finger, I’m not justified in killing you. If you declare to kill or eradicate me, as the extreme right does to certain marginalised groups, a lot of different levels of violence are justified, including killing for the really severe cases.

Hey, try to see the silver lining: it won’t be a particular long era.

Wow, I completely missed that this movie exists and thought you were fucking with us. But no, they seriously did a soldier isekai into Monster Hunter world. How much coke was involved in making such a travesty?

Ah gotcha, now I understand what you mean exactly and I agree.

Nope, the one who pays the bills decides. If you disagree that’s fine. You are free to host your own instance, where the users can decide how much space they want to take up for saving old pictures.

I dont know a single one besides A Short Hike, which one do you recommend?

I would have expected a user named JohnnyEnzyme to value the denaturation of proteins during heating higher than some boring carbohydrates making some polymerisation reactions. ;-)