Yea i’m not German. That makes sense.

The Swarm by Frank Schätzing. Modern sci-fi. Sea creatures rise up and begin taking vengeance against humans, guided by some mysterious force. Very interesting and well written, but i haven’t seen it mentioned here.

Nearly all video games, and by extension where i get them - Steam. Open source gaming is simply not an option. One can - and i do - stay away from the big annoying AAA companies most of which of just subsidiaries of yet bigger annoyinger tech companies, and Valve is actually pretty decent about open source, but one cannot simply game without proprietary software.

Discord and WhatsApp. Literally everyone i know uses one of them.

For me at least i have no problems with the UI, functionality, etc, of these apps’ foss equivalents but the main problem is the userbase. You cannot have a messaging app with no people to talk with and you cannot and a game store with no games to play. You can have the best design and software ever but that won’t do shit without the established legacy and publicity of a big company.

Roughly half the music i have is from some kind of media but i’m going to specifically mention the Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGc. I didn’t play the game but from what i know of it it is very janky, but the music is epic.

I was born too late to experience most of these, but i am currently playing through Half-Life 1 which is from 1998 and i’m greatly enjoying it. I tried to emulate some of the Zeldas from this time but got confused and quit. Maybe i’ll try again.

Saving this thread for writing inspiration.

I’ve always dreamed of being the last human on earth. There are signs of civilization yet it is all overgrown and in the process of being taken in by nature. The climate and ecosystem has rebalanced itself from what man did. There’s no else to annoy or judge me, and i can do whatever i please without caring for how i am perceived. I can finally be my true self. Eventually i, too, die, and nature simply forgets as mankind’s influence fades.

The entire idea of “knowing” a language is a complete mess. When do you know that you know? There are only two languages i can confidently say i am fluent in yet i know bits and pieces of random other languages, sometimes enough to follow simple conversation, and i taught myself to read some foreign scripts for fun despite not knowing the language(s) they are used to write.

Coldest was -20° last winter, hottest was 40° (Celsius). I’m not sure about either of these as i didn’t have a thermometer on hand in either situation

I’m the same. Can’t sleep if there is a sliver of light. I got myself one of those sleeping masks and it’s great

ברי סחרוף - השומר של הגן - Old ass Israeli song. Trippy animation, and weird lyrics that get really sad once you think about them.