I don’t know if that’s something that can be done in one session, but I have a group of friends that have been playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 every week for a couple months now, and they really enjoy it.
Man, this is deeply dystopian. While state and federal regulators are having a conniption about TikTok/ByteDance gathering information on Americans, that same information is hoovered up by all the other social media companies and freely sold by data brokers. The response should be sweeping privacy legislation and regulatory reform, but I have very little confidence that will happen in the near future.
It’s the niche stuff that made Reddit useful. For example, Amazon reviews are no longer trustworthy, but there were really good recommendations in reddit threads about which devices or products worked. The DIY subreddits were incredibly helpful. I got good recommendations for motorcycle tires and ultralight backpacking gear and Android apps and hotels in particular destinations from reddit. I got walkthroughs on how to set up a Plex server or do a particular project with a Raspberry Pi on reddit. With so many subs, there was almost always a thread for what I was looking for. That was the value. I expect it will take a while to rebuild that elsewhere, but I’m sure it will be recreated.
Reubens aren’t and every day thing for me, but it’s peak sandwich. That combination of ingredients shouldn’t work on paper, but it comes together so well!
This was a pretty weird article. I understand her frustration in learning the language, I’ve done it before and it’s rough. And I understand her frustration with not having support from the military due to her status, as well as the natural human experience of being far from family and missing home. But those aren’t Germany problems, those are either universal in any place you might move to, or they are the products of her own choices.
It also seems obvious that she brings her North American assumptions with her and is partly disappointed that Germany isn’t more like what she’s used to. She mentions driving, but yeah, it’s expensive to drive in Germany. If she chose a small town to live in that didn’t have good access to transit, that might be necessary, but it’s part of the cost of living there. She mentions big box store shopping, which made me laugh out loud, that’s a very North American perspective and even in the U.S. a lot of people would disagree.
Are there cultures more welcoming than Germany? Probably. My German isn’t great, I’ve definitely been criticized for my accent and lack of vocabulary. It felt harsh, but it was also true, and they weren’t impolite about it. Is it a reasonable expectation to land in a place and get free language lessons and be welcomed with open arms? Not really, and I would note that Americans probably wouldn’t do that either. Heck, in some parts of the country, your welcome would be considerably less polite.