I love all the ritualized behaviour, secret meanings and unexpected taboos - standing up when someone of higher status stands, elaborate rules for serving and eating, tapping the table to thank the server, never refuse a toast from a superior, stuff like that....
I feel like this is a global thing but here it goes When serving dinner the women are served first, then the men. They do this from oldest to youngest.
So, first person to get food/wine/water/wtv served is the oldest woman, and the last person to be served is the youngest man…
Edit: I got the tittle wrong I thought it was only formal setting stuff. This is only done in very formal settings. Like an extremely important ceremony on the military branches of my country for instance.
Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
I grew up watching pewdiepie playthroughs. Then when I was in my late teens early 20s he went too edgy and I lost interest.
He has changed dramatically since. He’s content is very wholesome again, he’s now a father (wth) and he’s living in Japan. I looove their Japan vlogs. So much so that it gave me the confidence to visit Japan this year… Twice.
What games would you suggest that have LAN support these days?
While PC may be one's first thought here, I'd also be really interested in any mobile games that might leverage one's local wifi network for multiplayer.
It’s December! Which means vacations and deadlines. Which mean unreliable schedule to post weekly threads. So, bear with me this month, I’ll try to post them on time, but if I don’t, don’t worry, we should get back to normal weekly posts from January....
However I’ve been playing some Rust and Project Zomboid on the side.
I am also playing Skylords (fan resurrection of EA’s Battleforge) which is an RTS but your units/civ is made up by a deck of cards you build yourself. It’s a very different take on the RTS genre and I never saw anything like it.
Edit: might go enjoy GuildWars2 winter event. They are usually super fun.
Usually I play Skylords for about 3040mins to take care of the daily. Project Zomboid late at night maybe 2hrs or so. Ruat about 12 after I get off work and then some league ARAM games here and there. It’s tight but I manage.
I don’t think I could fit anything else in there though hahah I’m only considering GuildWars2 event since it’s the weekend :)
To be fair, on the meme they aren’t saying communism is the solution (although there any many memes that do).
I think it’s easy to criticise capitalism because people live with it on a daily basis. If these people lived under communism they would criticise it somehow.
This kinda reminds me of something I heard someone say. It’s something like “Democracy is shit. But it’s the best shit we have”.
Is capitalism right? Nope. But I don’t feel like communism would be a solution either. But I’m all up for criticising whatever needs criticising otherwise things don’t improve/change.
Also speaking as an European we might not have it as bad as the US (which is where most people are from here). Just the fact that our healtcare is free is a huge plus. When I was younger I dreamt about living in the US or even just going to NY, SF etc. Now I’m afraid I might get shot, get a huge hospital bill and come back broke. 👌
(sorry, this comment turned out a lot longer than I wanted it to. ADHD is a bitch)
I mostly don’t like the movement. Feels very… “floaty”. Also the fact that when it released it only had controller mapping icons for the tool tips (this is how I remember it. Don’t know if they fixed it afterwards.)
I’m playing with a mouse mad keyboard ffs, just tell me which key to press. I don’t know wtf L3 is on a keyboard.
The world and story looks very interesting. I really want to like it… But I don’t.
This is me yesterday… And other days… And then I can’t fall asleep because I am too worried that I should be asleep already and that I have to wake up early. This causes my absolute favourite feedback loop.
Started during covid to avoid going outside, plus I had one of the big players in food delivery as a client, so I got a monthly 20€ voucher. That got me hooked.
I got used to it, became lazier, completely got cooking out of my routine and I the process gained 30Kg that I’m now slowly trying to get off for the past 6months or so.
In a nutshell, I got addicted to junk food and was too lazy to go get it. Also had enough money to allow me to do it, even if I shouldn’t for health and economic reasons… Could be saving for something like the down-payment on a house but nope. Spending it on junkfood+delivery (luckily tipping isn’t a thing here).
Trying to break that habit now.
As a bonus: I ordered a lot from BurgerKing. Until the end of 2022 they had free delivery above 12€. I’d easily get to the 12€.
Around January 2023 they changed the website to offer delivery ABOVE 15€ and that was crap because my orders usually didn’t go that high. Turns out they fucked it up when coding it and if you managed to get exactly 15€ it would completely bypass this check and give you free delivery.
Someone needs to go back to basic math >= :)
Unfortunately they fixed it in early November. Good thing though as it might discourage me from ordering even further.
10K€ would pay me some debts and allow me to buy a new(er) car than my old ass ‘93 corsa.
I love the thing to death since it has so much meaning for me. But I really wish it had AC and power steering. Parking on tight spots is hell, but on the upside gets me a quick workout :’)
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
Fruits. I don’t have the habit of eating any fruit. It’s super unhealthy and when I do remember to buy fruit when grocery shopping, I am always surprised how good it tastes, only to forget about it for a couple more months…
My brother hates when I do it, he straight up mutes me on discord for a day or so if I do it hahaha Probably other people too… As someone said here, it’s probably my ADHD, never thought about it in that way but it does make sense.
I’ve been trying to cut down on the amount I send though. Keeping things concise, as much as I can.
If signal gets the new username feature, this just might be what i do, so fricking tired of people just blindly giving random apps and websites their contact permissions and they get my contact as well, and there’s nothing i can do about it
I did just that about 7 or so years ago. Only gave my number to family members and really close people (maybe 5 at most). Also deleted all my social media.
One of the best decisions of my life.
Unfortunately, I was just getting started on “the real world” and would get any job thrown my way. One of them required me to reply to my manager on WhatsApp so I ended having to create one and give them my number. I’ve since left that job and I’m now no longer a junior in my field, but still feels feels bad on my record :(
Absolutely despised it, thought it was just pointless since progress doesn’t really carry over from match to match, so what’s the point?
Eventually gave it a go back in 2011 and never got rid of it. Took me a while to get into it too, I’d only play because of my brother and with friends on teamspeak but eventually got reeeeally into it.
These days I don’t have time, or at least don’t want to invest it, for rankeds or even SR (5x5) so I mostly play ARAMs and some of the riot forge games (LOTRK, song of nunu). Looking forward for the mmo, really love the universe and I loved the TV show too.
Yeah I was really looking forward for LoR being a big hearthstone fan. However the way the turns work just never clicked with me. My brother on the other hand completely abandoned HS and only plays LoR now. The cards and the effects are amazing though, it’s one of those games I feel sad I don’t like it hahaha
Also very hyped for arcane season 2. A bit frustrating that it will take so long but, if it means it’s as high quality as the first one them I’m all for it.
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I use this all the time to fix my electronics :) great resource and their tools are good too. A bit expensive but at least you know you’re supporting a good cause.
What's the most interesting traditional or formal politeness behaviour or table manners in your culture? Or for any service personnel, in your restaurant?
I love all the ritualized behaviour, secret meanings and unexpected taboos - standing up when someone of higher status stands, elaborate rules for serving and eating, tapping the table to thank the server, never refuse a toast from a superior, stuff like that....
Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
What are you playing this weekend? 2023-12-13
It’s December! Which means vacations and deadlines. Which mean unreliable schedule to post weekly threads. So, bear with me this month, I’ll try to post them on time, but if I don’t, don’t worry, we should get back to normal weekly posts from January....
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How do you justify continually using take out delivery services?
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Do you ever come up with genius ("genius") ideas for joke domains to unsettle/embarrass people when you tell them your email?
like, GiantHairyNipplemonsters.com…...
What’s the least amount of money that would significantly improve your life?
Who's winning the war in Ukraine?
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
Famous artwork in Europe (i.redd.it)
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I just love hearing my Yoshi tongue notification sound fire off like a goddamn uzi (lemmy.world)
Anyone else feels like they want to destroy their old sim and never give their contact to anyone ever again?
If signal gets the new username feature, this just might be what i do, so fricking tired of people just blindly giving random apps and websites their contact permissions and they get my contact as well, and there’s nothing i can do about it
Which video game did you bounce off of at first, but then tried again later for it to become one of your favorites of all time?
A wiki for repairing anything (www.ifixit.com)
“Our philosophy is that if you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Once you disassemble, repair, and put back together your laptop or iPod, you have a much better understanding of what goes into it. It’s astounding how just 20 minutes of work can make an iPod good as new – but most people have no idea that there are...