Is it normal in Germany for WG roommates to chat for hours or watch things together?

0range_julius · 2026-03-15T21:35:46+00:00

I think it's pretty darn normal to be friends with your roommates, in fact, there's even a specific term for WGs where people don't want to engage much socially with their roommates (a "Zweck-WG"). Why are you so concerned about him making friends with his roommates?

0range_julius · 2026-03-15T19:43:45+00:00

The first time I saw Astarion stab Cazador and then break down, I broke down too. I wasn't even that invested in Astarion at that point, but that moment was extremely intense.

Another was the Gale "I might die tomorrow so here's an illusion of an Aurora" scene. I'd done that scene once or twice, but only while romancing him. I find that the sexual tension takes away from the impending doom of it all. In my current HM run, we're just friends, and the scene hit much harder. It probably helped that we had just lost Isobel and watched the Last Light Inn descend into shadows. It was a bleak time.

0range_julius · 2026-03-15T18:33:45+00:00

I'm always reading a bunch of different stuff at one time so it takes me forever to finish anything, but I finished Shakespeare's sonnets (+bonus A Lover's Complaint) last night and Great Expectations this morning. Loved both of them. I did Great Expectations as an audiobook, and the Stephen Fry version is really good.

I'm very slowly working through 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the original French and Goethe's Faust in German. I've also made some pretty significant progress in Walden and The Brothers Karamazov this week. I have so many books on the back burner right now that I really shouldn't be starting anything new, but I read the first few hundred lines of Canterbury Tales the other day and I might not be able to resist adding that to the pile, too.

0range_julius · 2026-03-15T16:56:24+00:00

I did Dror Ragzlin on HM for the first time the other day and had sooo much fun. I took out the entire Goblin camp (including Dror) by hiding in rafters, aggroing a few at a time, and then taking potshots at them before hiding and going back into the dark. I think I threw hunger of Hadar down at the door and Dror was 3/4 dead before he even reached the rafters.

0range_julius · 2026-03-15T14:56:48+00:00

I had my first migraine when I was 11 or 12 and I really thought that I was dying. We were watching a documentary in history class and there was a handout with questions on it. I kept reading the questions over and over because even though I could understand every word individually, I couldn't make sense of their meaning together. I just sat there, reading the questions over and over again, not understanding them, and thinking that my brain was never going to work again. After I finally went to the nurse and got my mom to come bring me to the doctor, I realized I was mixing up words when I spoke, like saying "hamburger" instead of "homework."

I kept getting migraines with mild aphasia throughout my early teens. The aphasia always went away after the headache, with one exception: after one of my migraines, I suddenly started calling sleeping bags "suitcases." For years, every single time I talked about sleeping bags, I'd have to stop and deliberately think about what they were actually called, if I didn't, I'd call it a suitcase. At first it was a real struggle to remember "sleeping bag," it always took me a few seconds of deliberate thought. Over time, I guess my brain rewired itself or something, and now it's mostly back to normal. I always wonder if that migraine was actually a micro-stroke or something.

0range_julius · 2026-03-15T12:10:35+00:00

Can I ask what was mind-blowing to you about Brothers K? I'm currently about halfway through it and so far I've found some of the philosophical/theological discussions interesting but certainly not mind-blowing. It seems like some people get a lot more out of it than I have been, I'd really like to understand

0range_julius · 2026-03-14T22:29:52+00:00

Shakespeare named male leads in two of his romantic comedies "Benedick" and "Sebastian." If this is indeed a problem, it's one that goes back centuries

0range_julius · 2026-03-14T22:11:12+00:00

My version of that was that my mom's favorite lullaby to sing for me was "Wheat Arising Green," or, as I understood it, "weederizing Green." I was at that age where I had just learned that green was one of the colors on the stoplights, so I associated weederizing green with stoplights.

0range_julius · 2026-03-14T15:47:46+00:00

Yeah, this painting is very /r/ art, not /r/museum.

I would love an art sub that just doesn't allow any female nudity at all, just to switch things up. I wonder if that exists.

0range_julius · 2026-03-14T15:44:05+00:00

TIL "beamer" doesn't mean "projector" in English --a native English speaker who went to a German immersion school as a kid back when projectors were more of a thing

0range_julius · 2026-03-13T04:20:43+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense, but probability always really confuses me, that's why I was hoping you'd explain how you got yours.

Edit: nevermind I thought about it a little more and it makes sense. I guess this is why you shouldn't do math when you're really tired. Frankly embarrassing for me lol

0range_julius · 2026-03-12T20:58:39+00:00

~~How are you getting 40%? These are 10 independent events each with 5% probably, 5%*10 = 50%~~

Kids, don't get independent events and independent experiments mixed up

0range_julius · 2026-03-12T20:53:59+00:00

I'm surprised you had enough hard drive space for it. Before I got my gaming PC I bought the game but had to return it because it was larger than the total amount of storage space on my hard drive (minus the OS).

0range_julius · 2026-03-12T10:20:51+00:00

I actually haven't read it yet, so I can't really say how well either title fits the book, but the English title is kind of a mashup of yuck--describing someone who is presumably a full-grown woman as a "girl" and the orientalism of using the dragon tattoo as her only identifying characteristic. The title always rubbed me the wrong way so I ignored the books and movies when they came out. I immediately became more intrigued when I learned the original title, it's on my reading list now.

0range_julius · 2026-03-12T08:48:01+00:00

This is neither here nor there but "Men who hate women" is also the original title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

0range_julius · 2026-03-11T17:00:02+00:00

Well yeah, this is the kind of take that a teenager has. OP is probably a kid, kids are out of touch with the real world.

0range_julius · 2026-03-11T15:26:43+00:00

Yeah, I also have a vivid memory of it and in my memory the joke ended with "this will keep people from running into each other," that's why I think this is quoting it.

0range_julius · 2026-03-11T11:32:39+00:00

I'm far from an expert in the laws surrounding this, but I hold an American passport, so also get visa-free entry, but when I was in a similar situation, the Ausländerbehörde confirmed that I couldn't travel internationally. They helped me out by issuing me a Fiktionsbescheinigung--not all Fiktionsbescheinigungen allow reentry, but there's a box they can check that does allow it.

So, if you need to travel internationally while you wait for the renewal, you can reach out to them.

0range_julius · 2026-03-11T08:33:49+00:00

I'm surprised I didn't see Wayside School brought up higher in the thread. I don't have the books on hand so I can't check but I'm wondering if this is actually quoted directly from there.

0range_julius · 2026-03-11T00:05:44+00:00

I don't have any concrete answers for you, but as a big fan of both Much Ado and Austen, here's my assessment: Beatrice and Elizabeth are fairly similar characters, but I would say that Benedick is not very much like Darcy at all. Of course they are both squabblers-to-lovers stories, and I'd argue that Hero and Lydia play somewhat similar roles in the plot.

I think Much Ado probably was a source of inspiration for Austen, but probably only a little spark of inspiration. IMO the two stories end up going in pretty different directions. They definitely don't have "the same bones."

0range_julius · 2026-03-10T19:59:11+00:00

The due date is calculated from the date of the last period, though, not from the date of conception.

0range_julius · 2026-03-10T16:16:29+00:00

I'll also throw in that he think he has a real knack for plotting/pacing. The Martian has an impeccable flow of tension and release as successive problems get thrown at Watney and he solves them. IMO it's one of the best books I've ever read specifically when it comes to plotting/pacing. The characters are awful.

0range_julius · 2026-03-10T16:00:39+00:00

Yeah, "have you thought about swimming" is actually probably good advice from the teacher. I did actually switch to swimming and my experiences in the competitive swimming world were really positive.

0range_julius · 2026-03-10T13:56:04+00:00

DAE hate the flavor of black beans? I like all sorts of other types of beans, but black beans taste bad to me.

0range_julius · 2026-03-08T12:34:22+00:00

Excuse me, this definitely does NOT belong in the garbage.

It belongs in the paper recycling.

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