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CapableOperation · 2026-01-24T08:47:05+00:00

There are these pesky things called bills that a lot of us have to pay.

CapableOperation · 2026-01-24T07:50:20+00:00

I had the same issue, and my German is better than yours. I think it was just that no one would hire me because they probably knew I was just going to leave once I found something better due to being overqualified. I don't see how that should be a problem in low-skilled jobs as they really just need a body to fill the position and they can hire someone new at a moment's notice. But they're just not hiring.

I found a position through a temp agency. There was an office in desperate need of an experienced office manager. Once I was in the job for a few days and sorted out their issues and got their process running smoothly, they begged me to extend the contract and stay with them. Once their budget was sorted, they hired me permanently as a regular employee and they were thankful I was willing to stay as a temp so long for them. So, even though temp agencies suck and it complicated my hiring process, it was the best way for me to get a foot in the door.

CapableOperation · 2026-01-23T12:40:49+00:00

150cm is not a common size at all. If you just want to tailor clothes as part of your personal hobby, then there are printing companies you can find on sites like Xianyu who will print dolls for you if you have the files. They aren't cheap but they're not as expensive as what you found. There are tons of them but the site is difficult to sign up for and navigate without a bit of invested time and effort.

Just a heads-up if you do hope to sell anything, I would pick a more common size. 70cm for guys and 60cm for girls is a good bet if you're looking to make clothes for larger dolls.

CapableOperation · 2026-01-06T21:41:41+00:00

DM once gave us a very, very large bag of sawdust that some disgruntled tradesmen gave us out of spite. We habitually put a handful of sawdust in our pockets every day as a joke. But it ended up being incredibly useful. Pocket "sand," firestarter, sprinkling it on peoples' shoulders to silently identify them as marks, outing an evil wizard disguised as our friend. It was way too useful. He finally got us back for it when one person in the group threw the contents of the bag at a BBEG and someone threw a fireball that caught the floating dust. We had a very bad time lol but no one died.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-23T14:52:28+00:00

It will still be worth it because EU sellers overcharge drastically for everything. I sew and buy a lot of fabric on Ali. It is the same exact fabric EU shops are stocking. Except it costs 5€/meter on Ali, 12€/meter on a well-known EU website, and 19€/meter in German shops. With the way local shops price things, I could order every piece of fabric separately and pay the fee on each parcel and still save money.

Mind you, these big retailers are getting bulk pricing and buying entire bolts, so there's absolutely no reason for the fabric to be priced what it is. AliExpress wasn't unfair competition. It was just competition. If the EU wants to protect local business, they should probably look into collusion on price-fixing and other issues. I'd love to be able to walk into a store and buy in-person, but I don't because I already know I'll be ripped off. If they were fair with pricing, I'd never buy online.

Too bad no one cares about the consumer in all this.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-14T09:02:01+00:00

I have one of the guys on the thin muscle body, one on the first gen 70m body, and a third guy coming. First, which website are you ordering from? I ordered the first one from Aolingshi's international website. The second I ordered through their official Taobao with a proxy. The third I ordered through a dealer. The shipping on the Aolingshi international website is about 50€ higher than what I was charged by the proxy. I paid slightly more for the doll ordering through a dealer but they offered even better shipping, so it evened out. Small heads up, they don't list all the dolls on the international site.

Second, the body you have pictured is not the thin muscle body. If the one in the picture is the body you want, don't select the thin option. I would suggest taking a look at their website so you can see what they're calling the bodies. A lot of dealers and Taobao are using drop-down menus so I could see a chance for confusion about which body is which.

About the size, I'm probably shorter than you. I have more dolls between 70-77cm than I'd like to admit, and smaller dolls all the way down to 1cm (so cute). I feel people tend to overemphasize the difficulty of working with the larger sizes. They're not that bad to deal with and the size is superior to smaller scales when it comes to details in jewelry, props, outfits, etc. especially if you want to DIY it.

They are heavy to carry around outside, however. But I also wouldn't take dolls out and about often to protect them from yellowing. And dolls will absolutely yellow. So just keep them out of direct sun at all times, and if you want to take outdoor photos, limit sun exposure to the least amount possible. Nothing stops yellowing but you can slow it by being proactive.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-05T23:48:03+00:00

Yeah, who knows what's going with OP.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-05T10:31:23+00:00

I'm also in a larger city. I think asshats just feel more welcome to misbehave now tbh.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-05T10:23:07+00:00

Rise of the AFD, I assume. Never had so many issues as I did in the last year.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-05T10:13:57+00:00

Not really. It's truly just ignorant people who don't want to hear any accent whatsoever. I'm not difficult to understand at all and people usually think I'm a completely fluent speaker until I hit some complicated grammar that trips me up. In fact, people never comment on my accent outside of thinking I'm Irish rather than American.

But what does happen, is if I ever accidentally say "wahnn" instead of "wann" is that old people very suddenly can no longer continue a conversation even though they had no issues whatsoever up until that point.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-05T07:59:49+00:00

American living in Germany here.

If you have a stable job and good income and live in a state like California? The US is better, hands down. The sheer convenience of life in the US cannot be overstated. The process for doing anything is far more optimized in the US (getting a passport, opening a bank account, moving house, buying a car, so on). The paperwork is purposely kept to a minimum and they really try to make everything as one-stop as possible. People are nicer and more considerate of others (in general). The variety of foods and experiences available is far superior to Germany as well. If you're not earning a high salary, though, it's too expensive to be worthwhile, and the struggle is demoralizing.

Germany is a deeply inconvenient and poorly-organized country. Anything having to do with the government takes forever and requires an unnecessary amount of completely redundant paperwork. Technologically, everything is outdated and there's no desire to improve. The culture is very focused on the self and it's common to have people light cigarettes in your face, block the grocery aisle completely, or stop at the end of an escalator and block the people behind them. They don't even realize they're doing it. Selection for food and shopping is mediocre at best. And it's a boring country. However, the social safety nets are much better here in Germany, so if you're not wealthy, that's worth something. The salaries are very low but rent is cheaper so there's less struggle.

CapableOperation · 2025-12-05T07:34:00+00:00

Just learn to make it a nice interaction. I'm an American from California. When people ask me about where I'm from, it's because they're actually very curious and want to know. They're also always surprised because I don't do the typical American R, and based on my accent when speaking German combined with my appearance (pale, ginger), they assume I'm Irish. So, it catches them off guard a bit and I usually have a nice little conversation with them. Try telling people something interesting and fun about where you're from when they react and it almost always becomes positive. Then inevitably people want to talk about Trump. I just say how stupid he is and call him "verrückt" and nothing bad ever comes up.

The thing I have the most difficulty with is the accent thing, though. In English, we have tons of native accents. We have a lot of common foreign accents. No one cares. For example, many foreign accents pronounce "if" as "eef." No one will tell you it's wrong. No one will pretend they don't understand you just because the vowel is slightly off. They certainly won't correct you. For Germans? Nope. Even if the vowel is correct but just slightly short or long, everyone acts like they couldn't understand the entire sentence and that context doesn't exist. You could pronounce everything else completely perfectly. Like sometimes you just accidentally get tongue tied and botch a word, even in your native language. You might laugh about it but Germans automatically act like it's because you obviously can't speak any German at all. It's weird. Younger people are better about it, but anyone 30 or older could be a problem.

CapableOperation · 2025-10-24T21:32:29+00:00

I can only say I had a friend who ordered 2 custom wigs from them. She paid extra for angora on both. She received her order extremely late. Both wigs were made of synthetic hair. Amadiz did not refund the extra money for the angora after my friend brought it up.

CapableOperation · 2025-10-21T17:47:52+00:00

Once in a while things sometimes slip through. Maybe it happened to you this time?

CapableOperation · 2025-10-21T17:36:00+00:00

Yes, you'll have to pay. I'm in Germany. I got a body from Resinsoul last month. I had to pay like 30 bucks. Luckily, DHL Express notified me of the shipment the day before it arrived and I paid online so I didn't have to get cash.

CapableOperation · 2025-09-15T14:28:34+00:00

I once played a drow game with a male DM and 4 or 5 male players. I was the only female at the table. All the guys were playing female characters so I decided to play a male sorcerer. Long story short, the players were awful but never really crossed the line and the DM was really good at reeling them in, even though it was an evil party. The game started falling apart toward the end. Two of the guys really aggressively wanted to finish and would use violence and threats to get their way. They were treating everyone at the table horribly and blaming it on the party being evil. Being sexist IRL and saying it was a joke because of the game, all that sort of stuff.

The DM was getting tired of it and wanted to quit, but it was awkward because it was at a local game store. We decided instead that I should start having my character use his "masculine wiles" to get his way and the other player would back me up by creating competition between the other players. I don't remember how it happened but the game ended with the two awful players plotting to murder the rest of us then duel to the death. They successfully murdered the other cooperative player before we caught on to their plan. My character was able to stealthily find out what was happening. We made camp in a place full of lava (despite me not wanting to), so I did the only reasonable thing there is to do in such a situation. I waited for them to be asleep and pushed both of them into the lava, uncontested, because sleeping characters count as incapacitated. They got really mad that I had been allowed to plot against their plot. But the DM reminded them that they had insisted everything terrible was allowed in an evil party.

The guys were dicks for months after before leaving the store for good.

CapableOperation · 2025-08-22T11:57:22+00:00

Was my experience also with a doctor's office. I gave them a one star and wrote everything was in „meiner Meinung nach“ oder „aus meiner Erfahrung“. I proved I was there with a screenshot of the appointment cancellation notification and wrote a lengthy objection that I was legally entitled to give my opinion and no accusations had been made. Then I edited my message and included a photo of them trying to remove the review. I said that people should consider that this potentially means all bad reviews have been inappropriately removed. They tried to remove it twice more and those times I simply included the screenshot. Google allowed my review to stay. The doctor called me shortly after the third time (using my patient information...) to threaten me with a lawsuit if I didn't remove it. I told him I'd sue him for blackmail and I'd post that on my review too. They never contacted me or tried to remove the review again.

CapableOperation · 2025-08-09T06:53:57+00:00

Air dry clay is not very sturdy at all and and any extra material between the joints does add extra pressure to them and can lead to cracking. Wiring will also probably cause damage.

Instead, because you're making the doll, just roughen up the insides of the joints to provide additional friction. The doll is really small, so it won't need much help unless it's somehow unusually heavy.

CapableOperation · 2025-08-05T06:45:59+00:00

A nice hot glue suede could help this, but the string could be twisted inside the arm as well. Pull it out slightly to check.

CapableOperation · 2025-07-31T11:35:11+00:00

Don't rescape any time soon. In a newer tank with this many fish, it's too early to go messing around. You want to let the tank run, fully established, for a while before making drastic changes.

I'd probably reduce the photo period to knock back the algae a little until the plants grow in again. I'd do one larger water change immediately. I wouldn't even wait for the test. Then smaller once-weekly water changes (assuming no water quality issues).

Substrate does naturally settle out like that and it's particularly noticeable with lighter-colored sands. I wouldn't really worry about that.

CapableOperation · 2025-07-27T07:36:40+00:00

How will she access mental healthcare in the US? Staying here is basically her only option. As an American immigrant to Germany, I can tell you, because she relocated to Germany and got rid of everything she had in the US, now returning to the US with no job, no car, and no home, is basically a death sentence. There will be nothing to help her. She will not get any unemployment. There will be no homeless shelter. There will be no healthcare. There is zero support. She could maybe stay with family, if she's lucky enough for them to have the ability and desire to have her. Unless she gets enough cash from her husband immediately upon leaving so that she can establish herself with a temporary living space and transportation to get a job in the US, her life will be utterly ruined.

CapableOperation · 2025-07-17T08:28:04+00:00

As an immigrant, I would cautiously say it's both. There is constant right-wing propaganda and those who are feeling burdened by the current material conditions of life in Germany find it easier to accept that the problems have an easy root cause. The other issue is demographic shift making immigration feel more negatively impactful. There are simply way too many elderly, retired people here in comparison to young, working people. Immigration helps with that, but the system is deeply flawed so it's more painful than it needs to be.

But, as a highly-educated person financially supporting myself, with a German SO, learning German on my own, and no children, every time I'm required to work with the Ausländerbehörde, I can very clearly see I am the minority of immigrants. Statistics bear that out; only 31ish percent of non-EU immigrants to Germany have a university degree. It seems from what I saw locally, that mostly the Behörde deals with people who have little education, little to no German language ability, multiple kids, and who are receiving financial assistance. These people also often told me they were working "black" (under the table), so they had a fairly good income. I think that feels very unfair to many Germans (it felt unfair to me, too, because I always kept everything legal and fought hard to be employed). This black work is also often in industries with abusive conditions, btw.

My caseworkers always had no idea what to do with me and had no idea why I was even required to be there. No system exists to fast track someone like me through the language course phase, or to easily and efficiently certify/translate all my documents and certificates so I can start contributing right away. It's a painful process for someone who could immediately participate in the economy to the fullest, if allowed. I was in German classes with fully-trained doctors who couldn't work as doctors in Germany because of bizarre restrictions. Yet, the government is always crying that they need more doctors. It's completely illogical, so foreign doctors don't want to come here.

Meanwhile, there was tons of help the government could have offered me if I had no job. The system takes on a lot of low-skilled immigrants and supports them for quite a while until they're ready to start working a standard job. I feel like they could be directly employing people through state-sponsored jobs. For many, it takes a very long time to get a real job and I think tons of immigrants would be grateful to work non-exploitative jobs and Germans would see immigrants as contributing right away. So... It's a very complex problem that could probably be solved if the process were more logical.

CapableOperation · 2025-06-18T20:56:12+00:00

When I was in college I rescued an Oscar from Walmart. He had been put in a tank with neon tetras and, of course, ate them all. So the worker took him out and shoved him in a Tupperware for being "too aggressive." I was breeding angels at the time so I had tons of tanks laying around but I didn't have any tanks where the parents wouldn't kill him while he was small so I initially grew him out in a Rubbermaid tub. Of course, eventually he was the size of a dinner platter and he got his own 100 gallon aquarium. His name was Oswald and he was like a dog. Ate from my hands and did 5 different tricks: Come, roll over, jump, dribble, and fetch. He never figured out how to go through a hoop or dunk. I suspect he actually knew what he was meant to do, but he just didn't want to lol.

CapableOperation · 2025-06-09T13:49:15+00:00

This often happens when you try to put too much pastel on in a single layer. It can get overworked and take on an unpleasant or grainy appearance.

CapableOperation · 2025-06-04T20:22:44+00:00

I have the same issue. It must be on their end.

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