No, you don't understand. Night City is a dystopia, so they use wrong manhole covers to show how corrupt this city is.
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Finally, someone on Lemmy that's media literate
Night City is a dystopia, so they use wrong manhole covers to show how corrupt this city is.
They use the cheapest they could get on hand. That's why it's the one rated for pedestrians rather than vehicles on the roads, obviously.
Bravo Vince!
Here is a deeper rabbit hole:
Wintermute (the author of that tweet) was the name of the admin of the original german lemmy instance "feddit.de". At some point Wintermute said they would go on vacation, I think to somewhere in asia. After that they were never heard from again and the instance decayed and we all had to move to feddit.org eventuall.
Now... what if Wintermute fell down a manhole cover??
Wintermute is the name of a character from William Gibson's Neuromancer novels, so it's fairly common. But the German angle does add a bit of spice...
If this is true, fuck you it's all I can think about right now
It actually is. You can go to feddit.de communities and check the last posts.
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The joke is he got into trouble in North Korea. My head canon goes he started some shit with the authorities in Pyongyang because of the manholes.
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I'm comfortable with saying it fits as deliberate in-setting.
The manholes used are thinner and weaker, but cheaper to make. Night City would be the kind of place that would try to save cash on manhole covers, then if someone caves one in by driving over it, they charge the poor gonk for the replacement with a fine on top.
the TÜV is tenacious enough to crush even the biggest megacorps!
Night City would not stand a chance
Can't play the game until they are fixed.
Literally unplayable
Instead of fixing the spec, they should make a "randomly falls through manhole cover" mechanic.
I believe it was there on release
And people failed to understand why their heavy vehicles were getting stuck in roads.
Guys... it actual was a feature.
Don't worry. Someone wrote a mod to fix that issue
I work in municipal development, and this is the kind of shit I notice all the time.
My job is to nitpick details.
Why have realistic graphics if you're going to ignore minor details like these ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Vibe coded and vibe manholed the whole game smh.
This is one of the things that I love most about the internet.
Someone with a highly specialized field of knowledge is playing a game and sees something only a few people would know.
They use the internet to share that knowledge.
I don't want to be too much of an asshole. In any case, I'd like more Germans being the meme Germans and less of them being the fax using, sending random pictures as Excel files and demanding answer in snail mail.
And yeah, I do work with quite a lot of legacy German industrial machinery. The average German I interact with is quite possibly closer to the end of their career than to the beginning. But on this particular lemming said experience is taxing.
Well, did you request Passierschein A38, fill out form DK64, declare your intent using intent declaration form XY69, and fax it all to my butt?
Germans and Japanese are the Axis powers of fax machines
I am too lazy to check, but did they by chance fix it? That would be even more hilarious.
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I'm always a little put off by games using inappropriate plugs and wall sockets for the nation or time period that the game is set in.
Can somebody explain why it makes sense that the green underlined number and the red circled number are not the same, please?
DIN B125 is the class of manhole covers designated for Light to moderate loads. DIN 4271 is the standard for B125 covers that have vents. Obviously. Did you forget everything from German Manhole Cover Standards class at school? ;)
DIN 4271 is the standard for B125 covers that have vents.
Yo dawg. I heard you like standards. So we defined some standards for your standards, and now you can standardize while you standardize.
kids these day. the german education system really is falling apart. smh.
The green is the correct standard and the red not being the same is what they are complaining about not being correct
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Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
A wizard did it
I only know about “DIN” specification standards because of the recent New Mind video about washers 😭
Buchstäblich unspielbar.
I'd leave the hole covers in place and add the code to have it break under weight.
Total Immersion Killer.
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