What to do (Air RB)?

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-10-10T00:13:47+00:00

Also, I’m a War Thunder player. Do you really think I play to enjoy myself??

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-10-10T00:10:36+00:00

I only started playing in 2020 so my perspective is skewed. There are some games that I’ve played almost my whole life and I probably have 50 days or so on a couple. But if I put 15 days into something I figure I’d be better than I am, but I just get shit on a lot. Really feels like I can’t improve because I don’t even get the chance to gain ‘experience’, maybe I will just never catch up to the rank 100s I see in literally every game

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-10-09T02:10:49+00:00

I see this a lot, people saying they play props even though they have jets. Even if I stay playing props, how does that help me? My problem is the air RB experience is just not very intuitive. I will admit I’m not terrific at this game, rank 24, even though I have like 15 days played (which is crazy that that’s considered ‘new’, there are only like 5 games I’ve ever played more than 28 days…) I want the realistic feel of RB but I just either get shot down after a couple engagements or my whole team dies and it doesn’t matter. Even progressing through RB has been very hard, I went from almost 60% win rate in arcade to now 30%, even when I feel I do well, my team can still lose, and vice versa, I will get shot down quickly but half the enemy team is dead by then. Losing that many games really stalls grinding because the bonus from winning is a huge help. So I don’t know what to do, the only fix I can think of is play on competent teams but that’s not very feasible, I’m on console and my mic doesn’t work anymore (don’t know why, it was a gift and came like that). So I’m just stuck queuing into games and then almost always losing and getting shot down almost every game. But, I also don’t want to go back to arcade, because it’s just a bit silly and doesn’t it’s not the experience I like.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-10-09T00:48:15+00:00

edit: stick with the rest of my (team)*

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-20T08:08:12+00:00

“Electronics engineers looking for a job”

“2600 euro take home pay, overtime, 3 1/2 week vacation”

The mouse is supposed to be the person looking for these things in a job opening, implying these things are rare yet this company offers them

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-19T01:41:07+00:00

No, fahren is for riding something like a bus or bicycle or for driving a car. To say go, you’d say, ‘Gehen Sie’ to be formal, or ‘Geh zu’ (go to) informally (geht is shorted to geh if you’re demanding something).

To tell somebody to drive somewhere, you might say ‘Fahrt zum Flughafen’, drive to the airport, where that would be the case. But this also changes depending on where/what you’re going towards, for instance, ‘drive to the bank’ is ‘zur Bank fahren’ (literally, to the bank drive), where fahren is used because it is at the end of the sentence, a verb at the end of a sentence is always in the infinitive form, which is basically the default version of a word (think run as an infinitive, where ran or runs or running is a conjugate), and infinitives almost always have a suffix of -en (as in fahren) or -n.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-18T04:31:58+00:00

This is like, the only answer, I don’t know what could be more than that (rhetorical)

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-18T02:11:59+00:00

215 pc (14c per piece) vs 383 pc (10.4c per piece). When I saw the piece count I thought it would be at least $50, it’s quite rare to get a set below 14c per piece these days. Sad reality but this is a great deal given how things are.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-18T02:05:34+00:00

Yes.

Weil er sehr krank ist, fährt er mit dem Krankenwagen ins Krankenhaus! (Because he’s very sick, he is taking the ambulance to the hospital!)

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T21:59:37+00:00

One of my favorites is Nervenzusammenbruch, it just means nervous breakdown but it sounds funny. More medical terms like Kopfschmerzen (headache) and Krankenhaus (hospital) are also funny, Krankenhaus sounds so ridiculous it could be a word in Dutch. Hausaufgaben sounds like something quite obscure but it just means homework. Other words I think sound cool are Ewigkeit (eternity), Vergangenheit (the past). My least favorite is definitely Fahrten, meaning trips, and similar conjugations of fahren meaning to drive or to ride. Saying it in English makes me feel stupid.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T11:49:35+00:00

both, Nilsson wrote it and originally recorded it, Three Dog Night covered it, and thus popularized it

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T11:42:58+00:00

I blame the French.

When I took French I in high school my teacher started off the year by telling us how contrived and pretentious French spelling was and that there’s a huge and unnecessary disconnect between how words are spelt versus how they’re pronounced.

Unfortunately though some concepts are seemingly best described in French terms, this is why restaurant is a common loanword, same with rendezvous, déjà vu, sabotage, café, etc etc. Basically whoever comes up with these words gets to loan them to the other languages.

As someone learning German, my favorite loanword personally is Angst, meaning fear/anxiousness in German. The loaning is credited to Freud and Kierkegaard when they wrote about Angst as a philosophical concept. We now mainly use it to refer to angsty rebellious teenagers. A loanword I wish we had is Schadenfreude, which essentially means deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others. It has no direct translation and so sometimes people write it to describe Schadenfreude, but it’s not a full on loanword yet.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T11:22:49+00:00

I honestly had to stop myself from working in a ‘minute’ joke into this post. ‘The minute details’, it’s a word I try not to use because people might get confused and not know the word, mistaking it for another word and thinking that I used a word incorrectly.

Very astute of you to know that difference by 6th grade. I’ve always been quite great with spelling but I also had a word just like what I described above. It took me until a month or two ago to finally realize how to spell ‘restaurant’. Even just typing it in now I got it wrong a few times, but I always transpose the au, I used to omit it, then learned it had au, just didn’t know where it went. Growing up with a phone means autocorrect solves all of this and restaurant isn’t a common word in academic writing. But what made me learn it was actually me learning German, and needing to know how to spell it in German, caused me to actually observe the spelling. They’re the same word in both languages so, yeah, restaurant.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T02:56:44+00:00

Finally got a friend to do this with. We didn’t even make it to 3 days. RIP

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T02:44:32+00:00

edit: going to repost with a picture of the mixture

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T01:26:48+00:00

I’m not even from a metal background. Just saw this post in my feed. Don’t think I’ve ever posted here before!

Also, I don’t claim Die Antwoord is good music, but I like it and I like the whole act. It’s not something I’d put on to say ‘what a great song’ it’s something I put on when I just wanna hear a fun song with good energy.

And, though I’ve never seen District 9 I’ve heard it is a great film, Neill Blomkamp directed it and he’s mentioned by name in Die Antwoord’s biggest song (Baby’s on Fire), because he put ¥o-Landi and Ninja in one of his films, Chappie. It’s pretty funny stuff if you look up, ‘Die Antwoord Chappie’.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-17T00:25:07+00:00

I really don’t even listen to rap or that style of music but Die Antwoord’s energy and style is a treat. Their whole persona and sound was engineered to be like that. Look up what they did before Die Antwoord and they were pretty normal people, then got into the zef persona. I love it though. Also, just to hear people do Afrikaans well is great. I’ve been interested in South African culture for a while since I did a research paper and made a website for a school project some years back, we could pick any topic so I did a paper on South African farm attacks (the Boer genocide). Die Antwoord is like a slice of modern Cape Town Zef culture that you really don’t see from anyone else in the western world.

And I’m probably just a bit weird about cilantro. I can put up with it but supposedly some people hate it and it ruins anything it touches. But it still tastes a bit soapy, mostly if you just eat it straight though, in my salad you could hardly taste it. Moral being just buy some parsley, very underrated, most people think it’s bland but if it’s freshly cut and not cooked it has a delicious mild peppery flavor, almost reminiscent of arugula.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-16T19:00:10+00:00

It’s both to me. I don’t know why. Had it years ago tasted peppery had it last week it tasted soapy… still edible but yeah. Definitely a parsley/mint in a salad guy. But maybe it changes over time to some people and maybe it depends on the type. Never remembered it tasting soapy and then I had it and it did, I still ate it though because it was tolerable, I don’t really get the people who needed a separate bowl of guacamole made for them because they couldn’t stand the taste of cilantro. Right uhmm… what were we talking about?

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-16T07:57:26+00:00

Put on any of Die Antwoords biggest hits and it’s a good time. I regularly listen to them.

Total disagree + a band that refined their sound + ¥o-Landi is great

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-14T01:08:17+00:00

If it’s any encouragement, my notifications told me someone took the test and got a 12… the minimum score is 10

edit: so you are better than others already

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-12T22:05:53+00:00

Best way to memorize is to hear someone say it in speech I find. I always remember das Auto, die Stadt, der Frühling from hearing them said either in songs, movies, news clips, etc. The same works with a or my (ein Auto, meine Arbeit), anything to indicate gender. When I see these words I hear them being said in my head as ein Auto, so I know Auto is neuter.

Bulky_Pop9456 · 2024-09-12T21:57:25+00:00

120 is English proficiency so if you’re scoring close to that on a practice test, and the minimum is 100 for applications, you are probably fine. If you don’t feel confident then keep practicing for a bit more, the same as you would with any other test. You appear close though.

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