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on Anon is a Witcher · c/greentext · 3 pts · 5d

Sure, if you can make the case that you were not in your right mind when you committed a crime and therefore unable to grasp what you were doing (criminal responsibility or Schuldunfähigkeit in German), you cannot be punished. If the court also finds that you were only temporarily in a condition that made you commit the crime but will most likely not do anything like it again and are not a danger to others? You may go neither to prison nor to a mental institution.

I think if I were in his shoes, I would have been asking myself and my country's embassy some questions. As a EU citizen, I am now required to get myself a travel passport if I want to travel to London for just a weekend, as well as some kind of electronic mini-visa similar to the US Esta thing. Assuming that new (in my eyes absolutely bonkers) post-Brexit restrictions only work one way is pretty silly.

on Is this for real? · c/books · 65 pts · 6d

"I never read any books when I was growing up" is a sentence I would definitely keep to myself as an adult.

Maybe I'm too judgy, but my first reaction will probably always be "Yeah, now that you say it it's quite apparent."

The last game I preordered was Kingdom Come II and didn't regret it. It was slightly discounted and had a little bonus quest line.

The last game I preordered before that was CP 2077 and I'd say that it at least made me laugh more than it made me mad (remember the PS One meme?). The thing is: Had I not preordered and waited for the reviews before buying that overhyped game, it would have made zero difference. I still feel like the entire games magazine and journalism crowd let us down and even after extensive patching and bugfixing, the game never became what they claimed it was in their glowing reviews.

I played the demo at Gamescom (must have been back in 2009) and was so blown away that I got myself an Xbox 360, even though I could barely afford it at the time and had always been a PC gamer with little interest in consoles. Maybe I should make a serious attempt at playing it once again, it's been in my Steam library for a while now.

[...] tips don't count as part of a restaurant's revenues, but higher menu prices do. So if a venue increases prices to pay staff more, its revenues go up accordingly, and it must pay more sales tax.

So conversely, legal tax evasion allows a business to undercut the competition? Who would have thought.