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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you don’t mind a non-US-American comment on this one. I see this kind of statement/question quite often and I have a few things to say about it:

  1. It is not common to learn 3-4 foreign languages at school

  It’s not rare to find people who speak more than 3 languages around the world. However in most countries schools just cover the languages you are expected to know in your country/region and the most common lingua franca(e). You guys simply need less languages in your daily business. If anything, there should be a bigger emphasis on Spanish in your education, at least in some states.

  2. School education isn’t enough to properly learn even one language

  The truly foreign languages we learn at school do not stick with most of us. On the one hand, we had to pick a language that we may have not been interested in. On the other hand, you need to spend much more time beyond and after school to get beyond the basics for real life communication - even if the common reference level says otherwise. Even English or the respective lingua franca for the given region is mostly learned from real day-to-day communication. The school lessons serve more or less as a frame.

  3. An overlooked advantage of learning a foreign language is to understand how little we understand

  Sure, learning a foreign language is naturally useful for traveling, job prospects and educational value. But when you rewire/extend your brain a language beyond some basics for traveling, you have a bigger understanding how different languages can be, how much gets lost in translation and how little you understand of the world.

  I’m not sure, if Spanish in the USA can be as important as e.g. English in many European countries (as an outsider I get the impression that it should be even more important :D), but I think treating it that way would be a much bigger benefit for the entire USA. Oh and 4) most bilingual Europeans who are yapping about dumb Americans on the internet have no idea how ignorant they are themselves. Greetings from a child of immigrants from Germany! <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any cloud backup. If I had to, I’d probably use a self-hosted solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  /e/os on Fairphone 4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some federated platforms and their "big-tech" equivalent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This joinfediverse wiki page lists some fediverse replacements. Here is a bigger overview and the descriptions are usually enough to understand what kind of “traditional” social media it’s based on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do young adults (or rich kids in general) from wealthy families engage in illegal street racing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the Grimreaper saga continues…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way, if your game descriptions, dev-logs and especially the game itself uses AI text generation, I’d also add that information.

  Personally I don’t mind it for these conversations, if the reason is a language barrier. But if you are capable of basic English, I’d recommend to try writing everything by yourself and only use AI or simply a dictionary for specific words/expressions. Not only do you learn more this way, but you are also more in control of expressing yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for adding that note to the description! Just for clarity: If somewhere in the future you are able to work with an artist, would you re-work the art for this game? And can we expect a Linux release?

  Other than that, I had the wish for this kind of game for some time and I’m glad something like that exists now. Given the circumstances, I still don’t see myself in the target audience, but good luck on your journey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It shouldn’t matter in the first place though. Such a story can happen, because, to the surprise of the internet, women are humans and individuals. If a person falls victim to such a scenario, they were just a victim to one individual, not all women in the world, let alone all people in need of help in public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soap trusted you. I thought I could too⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Als Nicht-Englischsprachiger gebe ich euch die Übersetzung:

  Wenn ich Seife gegessen hätte. Ich esse sie nicht, weil ich es getan habe. Nein, das habe ich nicht.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that none of this is real?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is always possible that none of this is real, but then everything you know to be real and normal is from this fake reality. You have no way to identify a real anomaly. You still do exist and you do matter, because what you sense, think and live through is your reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s go, another chapter of letting a small amount of AAA games dictate our perception of video game prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t find a word that on its own echos this exact situation. However if you leave out the details, you won’t need a lot of words either, e.g.:

  Oh yeah, awkward coincidence the other day — I ran into Sebastian McGillicuddy wearing the same T-shirt as last time lol. Hate when that happens.

  But it’s certainly a more interesting and vivid story with the details you gave us. Much like Michael McGillicuddy’s infamous ‘Genesis of McGillicutty’ promo :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remove my upvotes. I never understood the auto-upvote feature in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for "amateurish" song covers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, love the Let it be cover!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to avoid time-consuming games like Dota 2 or Crusader Kings 3…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for job listing internet tool submitted to Lemmy about 6 months ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it perhaps this Lemmy post ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One can only fight this pessimism for themselves. For some people there is no urge to fight it. They want to be part of the hardest times. Perhaps it works as a coping mechanism and in the end the problems most relatable to you are those that you are facing.

  But if someone truly wants to feel less pessimism, all you have to do is to look back and reflect on history. A lot of people miss how long some “modern” problems have truly existed, long before it became relevant to them, from decades to millenniums. Some are totally aware of it, but it may be difficult to look at the past of a problem where you didn’t care about it or may even have been part of the problem. Or the history was so long ago that you only look at is as stories and nothing you can relate to.

  We also underestimate our ability to live through the hell and normalize it. We were doomed multiple times and here we are. Vice versa, we underestimate the quality of life (especially in the western world) we have today. It’s not only hygiene, health and entertainment. We have progressed in our thoughts so much. Again, a lot of problems have only changed in how we recognize them as such. I’m not saying you shouldn’t fight fascism, because a lot of modern fascism used to be normalized not too long. I’m saying that we should be aware that we live in a time where we don’t ignore these problems in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite RPG maker games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OMORI is one of my favorite games, perhaps even my #1, in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the name of this 80s song sang by a solo female singer? I only remember her saying "nothing really maaaa-tters" or "nothing truly maaaatt-ers". Has a vibe like I Feel For You by Chaka Kahn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could it be “Woodcabin” by Saint Etienne? If not, how close is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for pointing that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Max Caulfield in Life is strange 1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pongalius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Food Network do product placement in there shows? Would they not earn more money by a host saying I use this hot sauce name drop but you can use whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, my bad, thought it was only YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Food Network do product placement in there shows? Would they not earn more money by a host saying I use this hot sauce name drop but you can use whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On Youtube there is a checkbox to mark paid promotion in a video. There will at least be the common label for paid promotion. I don’t think hiding a paid promotion is worth the risk for big Youtube channels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t assume anything with only this information. Jokes about death and suicide aren’t uncommon and we don’t know how they mean it. However it doesn’t hurt to ask them and give them the opportunity to share their pain and sad songs with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly happened that leads to your conclusion that none of your support requests are going through? And why was it not possible to continue the on-going support request that you linked in your screenshot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends, but in most cases I can’t determine the exact minute on an analog clock. In practice, the quickest way is to choose the worse case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that you have posted this on the internet, it’s probably too late to feel embarassed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. OMORI
  2. Children of Morta
  3. One Dreamer

  This might change everyday, especially for #3 I don’t have a definite pick. But I chose the lesser-known game.