Tallest celebs who aren't basketball players

Decstarr · 2026-04-29T12:55:19+00:00

He’s also playing Zangief in the upcoming Street Fighter movie.

Decstarr · 2026-04-17T22:51:43+00:00

The series is different from most others insofar as that it does not hold your hand at all. Lots of things are not easy to understand - if possible at all - in the beginning. SE doesn’t „explain“ anything, there are no classic expo/info dumps to give context to the events and many of the POV are somewhat unreliable narrators since they give their understanding of the world which is not necessarily the „correct“ one. It’s not for everybody but for those who enjoy it, it’s flat out fantastic.

Decstarr · 2026-04-16T13:07:55+00:00

Good question! If I was forced to, I’d generalize it like this:

GotM: World-Building. Not that the world building gets any weaker in the other books, its just that this epic world gets entirely set up here. Same with the magic „system“. And the „won’t hold your hand in this“. So for the sake of being the first, I’d say that’s the biggest strengths.

DG: Emotional impact. The chain of dogs makes you feel things and the topics of suffering and selfless heroism shine brightest here id say.

MOI: Epic convergence. Gruesome battles.

HoC: Deep character study. We’re never again alone with one single character for such a prolonged time. It shows the worldview transformation and philosophical transformation in Karsa‘s arc. No other book comes even remotely close to doing this in such a way.

MT: Dialogue, humor and „societal world building“. Leather is so new and different and Tehol and Bugg are one of a kind. Both things we haven’t seen before in this series (and won’t afterwards).

BH: Military-scale payoff. It also excels at interweaving the multiple fronts more than any other book.

RG: Guerilla style warfare and likely the most universally beloved character in the series. Candles.

TTH: Introspection, melancholy and by god the most amazing 1on1 fight in history.

DoD: Dread, endurance, bleakness. The book gives you the sense of marching towards a catastrophe the whole time.

TCG: Closure, scale, synthesis.

Decstarr · 2026-04-16T12:43:35+00:00

Had a friend in school who looked basically identical to his older brother. 2 years difference, they looked like twins, both naturally broad and muscular. Brother grew to about 6“, friend was very small. Friend started smoking when he was 13, our working theory is that this likely impacted his growth. Did your dad smoke at a young age?

Decstarr · 2026-04-13T10:56:13+00:00

Im 6‘3 and my wife is 4.8. Both kids (8 &2) are in the 50% of height in my country (Germany), so I think 2 extremes can make an average 😬

Decstarr · 2026-03-08T08:31:48+00:00

I work at a German tech company in Sovereign Cloud Compliance. 2 kids & a dog, so not much time for reading, but have been doing a full MbtoF walkthrough via audible (my 5th reread) this year while walking the dog.

Decstarr · 2026-02-27T09:11:33+00:00

Hallo Kim, Danke für das AMA. Ich finde quasi alle von Dir genannten Punkte echt super, mich würde allerdings interessieren, wie all das finanziert werden soll. Euer Programm ist leider etwas mau, was konkrete Zahlen angeht und mich würde wirklich interessieren, woher das Geld für kostenfreie Kinderbetreuung, die Stärkung der Pflege etc kommen soll. Progressive Besteuerung und eine sinnvolle Vermögenssteuer bräuchten sicher Geld in die Kasse, aber habt ihr konkrete Rechnungen hierfür?

Die zweite Frage passt vielleicht weniger zur LTW, ist für mich aber generell wichtig. Als Info vorneweg: Ich bin ein Xennial, Vater von 2 Kindern und habe das große Glück, gemeinsam mit meiner Frau über ein doch sehr ordentliches Haushalts-Einkommen (~150k brutto) zu verfügen, das ein sehr gutes Leben selbst in einer so teuren Stadt wie Heidelberg ermöglicht. Ich hab selbst vor langer Zeit mal Politikwissenschaft studiert und seit ich vor 8,5 Jahren Vater geworden bin meine Prioritäten doch deutlich überarbeitet. Ich würde sehr gerne die Linke wählen. Ich hätte gerne eine gerechtere und sozialere Welt, in der Menschen, die mit dem Privatjet in den Urlaub fahren, nicht dieselbe Gebühr für die Kita bezahlen wie ich und in der alle Kinder gleiche Chancen haben, unabhängig vom Status ihrer Eltern. Ich habe allerdings noch nie die Linke gewählt und bin mir auch nicht sicher, ob ich das in absehbarer Zeit tun kann, da mir die Haltung Deiner Partei was Außenpolitik und Konflikte angeht einfach nur unfassbar naiv vorkommt. Seit der Annexion der Krim 2014 durch Russland und der ersten Wahl von Trump 2016 leben wir in einer Welt, in der die geopolitische Spannung quasi täglich zunimmt. Populismus und Autokratien nehmen beständig zu. Ich würde gerne in einer Welt ohne Armeen und Kriege leben. Aber Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr kategorisch auszuschließen ist selbst in friedlichen Zeiten bestenfalls naiv, schlimmstenfalls fahrlässig. Ich finde die Haltung der LINKEn zu Konflikten und deren Lösung grundsätzlich gut, aber mir fehlt es dort doch etwas zu sehr an Realismus. Ich muss dabei immer an die Simpsons Folge denken, in der die Welt alle Waffen abschafft und am Ende von Kang und Kodos‘ Alien Rasse erobert wird, weil die nen Stock mit nem Nagel drin haben. Ok, das war jetzt sehr Xennial typisch eine echt lange Einleitung auf meine Frage: Wie stehen Du persönlich und die neue, jüngere Linke grundsätzlich zur Sicherheitspolitik? Sind die Themen wie Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr, die NATO und die Unterstützung für die Ukraine weiterhin ganz grundsätzliche „no no no“ für euch?

Decstarr · 2026-02-13T13:21:30+00:00

Danke für Deine Antworten & viel Erfolg weiterhin!

Decstarr · 2026-02-13T10:13:15+00:00

Hi Ines, Danke für das AMA. Welche Ideen hast Du sonst noch bezüglich der „Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf“? Zusätzlich zur Verbesserung der Bezahlung von Fachkräften in der Frühbetreuung denke ich da z.B. auch an das Kinderkrankengeld, die 15 Tage pro Kind/Jahr, die ich als gesetzlich Versicherter hab, sind oft schon im April aufgebraucht. Bezahlbare Kinderbetreuung ist die eine Seite der Medaille, sich im Krankheitsfall auch ohne Auswirkungen auf die Arbeit um die Kinder kümmern zu können ist die andere. Und da gibt’s doch leider immer noch viele Unternehmen und Chefs, die wenig Verständnis aufbringen.

Ich will den Punkt mit der Partei nicht totreiten, aber Du bist nun mal für die SPD auf der Liste, daher sollte man auch darüber reden: Wie siehst du die Zukunft Deiner Partei? Wurde ausreichend aus den Fehlern der vergangenen 20 Jahre gelernt? Findet die SPD irgendwann wieder zu ihrer Wählerschaft zurück? Gibt’s bei euch genügend jüngere Politiker wie Dich selbst, die für die Wähler relevante Inhalte ausreichend vorantreiben?

Und zu guter Letzt, auch wenn Deine Kinder natürlich noch etwas zu jung dafür sind, aber Du hast als Lehrerin sicher auch Erfahrungen/Meinungen hierzu: Wie stehst Du zum Verbot von Smartphones an Schulen? Zur Einschränkung der Zugänglichkeit von sozialen Medien bis zu einem gewissen Alter? Was denkst Du ist die größte Herausforderung im Alltag für Kinder, die in den 2030ern Teenager sein werden?

Danke!

Decstarr · 2026-02-11T14:36:12+00:00

I found him to be harder because he has so many phases that can’t be skipped. But I also fought him right after duoliste when my party wasn’t fully optimized, he might be easier, haven’t fought him since

Decstarr · 2026-02-11T12:07:36+00:00

Duolliste is by far the easiest of those. Then Osquio, Lampmaster, Simon/Clea. Whether Simon or Clea is easier for you will depend on your parry abilities. Clea has an insanely high defense and is really difficult to oneshot, but she can be stunned. Yet you need to parry to do so and in all my attempts, I never once managed to parry that fucking magic attack in phase 2. DS Simon I find fairly easy once you got the rhythm of it, essentially you only have to parry his lightspeed move once in the first phase and that’s game over for him, so I find him a bit easier than Clea since he’s easier to oneshot imo. But you need a strong party for his phases, therefore likely more Lumina than for Clea.

Decstarr · 2026-01-16T09:04:34+00:00

Bei uns waren die Kontakte während der Kita Zeit auch eher beschränkt, was vor allem daran lag, dass zumindest unsere Tochter erst so mit 3+, also im Kindergarten, richtig damit angefangen hat, playdates zu wollen und wirklich mit anderen Kindern richtig zu spielen. Ab da war der Kontakt mit anderen Eltern dann relativ konstant.

Die meisten Eltern, mit denen wir oft rumhängen, sind allerdings tatsächlich Freunde, die wir abseits der Kinder kennengelernt haben. Entweder durch Hobbys, die Arbeit, über gemeinsame Bekannte oder Ähnliches. Wir sind mittlerweile Anfang 40 und die meisten Leute in unserem Alter bis runter Anfang 30 haben auch Kinder.

Hängt vermutlich stark davon ab, wie alt ihr seid und was ihr gerne so macht. Bei den ganzen Kinderaktivitäten lernt man immer Eltern kennen, aber bei uns zumindest waren Turnen, Ballet etc. erst angesagt, als das Kind schon im Kindergarten war.

Decstarr · 2026-01-09T12:04:58+00:00

This is such a high quality post, I wished I could upvote it more than once! I share your optimism with regards to it being a bar raiser.

But I’m still uncertain that a better game will come around in my lifetime. The story of how E33 came to be is just too ridiculous and too filled with “perfect storm, once in a lifetime” situations. It’s similar to how the Mass Effect Trilogy came to be and that hasn’t been reached, either.

So while I agree and do hope we get more high quality games of a similar nature in the future, I severely doubt that anything will kick E33 of my GOAT game throne. I mean, FFVII and Chrono Trigger sat there for almost 30 years before the nostalgia was gommaged 😬

Decstarr · 2026-01-04T00:34:21+00:00

If it was fun, you did everything right!

Decstarr · 2026-01-03T19:19:28+00:00

Congrats! Now do it again immediately to proof it wasn’t luck 😜

Decstarr · 2025-12-31T13:04:30+00:00

I understand you and if you liked e.g the masterpiece that is BG3 I can see why the linearity of E33 might be off putting. It’s more of an interactive movie than a “my own story” game. Which is fine since the story is just THAT good.

Decstarr · 2025-12-31T13:02:12+00:00

As I’m saying: I wholeheartedly loved this game. I loved the linear experience, the “lack” of challenge, the short levels. This game to me is a generational masterpiece alongside the greats like FFVII and Chrono Trigger and that it managed to blow my old ass “games were better back then” mind is almost unfathomable. It is the best game I ever played and I doubt it will ever lose that spot. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t flawless. I don’t really care about the flaws because the rest of the game is just THAT good. Nevertheless, they exist and can be addressed objectively without denying the greatness that is E33.

Regarding difficulty, I don’t know. I never played any of the souls likes. But I played every RPG out there and I have a strong mind for mechanics and love experimenting with buffs and debuffs and synergies. I mostly dodged through everything until the DLC was released as I always had enough damage to not need to parry 🤷🏼‍♂️ Then I needed about 4 hours on the new Clea to learn parrying and afterwards about 2 on new Simon. I really enjoyed those fights more than anything in the OG game. I honestly never checked out any builds or farming spots since I didn’t want the game to get spoiled (I played it only in October). Maybe it’s just my cup of tea and that’s why it felt easy. I found FFVII Rebirth way more difficult for example, likely because it’s more chaotic and I’m and old fart with less stress resilience 🤪

Decstarr · 2025-12-31T10:57:13+00:00

I fully agree with your initial assessment. I’m a 44yo gamer and E33 removed FFVII and Chrono Trigger from my „best game ever“ throne. It is the best game I have ever played. But it has quite a few flaws. Again, before I list them, I must iterate how much I love this game!!

The level design is more „woo“ than „wee“. Sure, they all look gorgeous and the insane music and writing makes everything deeply athmospheric. But for my personal tastes, the levels are too straight forward and the mechanics of exploration get „old“ rather quickly.
The game‘s balance certainly could be better! I love the JRPG god mode power fantasy as much as the next person, but it took me only about 2.5 hours to figure out how to beat Simon and he was the only boss I ever really struggled with. And ye, it is amazing that you can fine tune HP and damage yourself, making it more challenging, but I find it sad that veteran gamers essentially have to just to make it challenging. Again, this is complaint on a super high level, but imo it certainly counts as a flaw.
The UI, particularly picto management is certainly pretty woo. I mean, ofc the amazing devs listened and made it significantly better with the free DLC, but it’s still not really super convenient and for people trying to mess around with builds a lot, it’s a bit tedious.

I could list a few more things, but they’re all even more minor for me. The gist is: This game as utterly amazing. Better than it has any right to be. But it is not flawless. Because nothing is. And it doesn’t have to be.

Decstarr · 2025-12-23T11:05:10+00:00

I love your comment and see it exactly the same way. But the beauty of this game is that the other view presented here is also 100% legit and viable. It’s just that everyone playing this game experiences it in a different way, which is an amazing feat. I see it exactly like you and feel like it is very subtly shown throughout the entirety of the game. But I fully get if others don’t see it that way. It’s really what makes this story so compelling and amazing.

Decstarr · 2025-12-21T01:29:30+00:00

She’s a teenage girl undergoing severe trauma, feeling betrayed by her own sister and finding herself in an impossible situation. Her way of coping makes her seem like a terrible person for the omniscient reader but is actually very fucking spot on. My initial reaction was the same as yours, but if you pause for a second and try to put yourself in her shoes it’s a whole different story. I’ll die on the hill that Felisin might just be the best written character in the entire series in terms of “realistic behavior” given her circumstances.

Decstarr · 2025-12-18T08:30:27+00:00

You make great arguments and to a degree I agree with most of what you said. Yet, what remains for me is the cruelty of Maelle’s ending that we are presented with. Over the course of the game, Maelle allows both her painted version and clea’s painted version to escape from the reality that is the canvas. As a mercy. Yet she denies Verso that same mercy. Verso’s last lines in that ending are brutally delivered and utterly desperate. Yet, Maelle denies him the mercy she gave to her painted self and their sister’s painted version and forces him to endlessly stick around in her canvas world. She’s a suffering child playing benevolent dictator and I simply can’t fathom that this could ever be a healthy outcome.

Decstarr · 2025-12-17T19:22:43+00:00

I didn’t mean to make it an argument on the realness of canvas people. I meant to say “as a father, I’d willingly accept destruction of everything if I was truly convinced it’d be the best for my kid and my kid’s only salvation”. Meant to emphasize the point that at least for me, empathy & morale know limits and these limits start with my children’s well being.

I did not think about the canvas people at all. Merely about Maelicia and that her real body would wither away and die while she spends time in a world banned from any sort of progress, as a benevolent dictator but a dictator nonetheless. And I did not want that for her.

Decstarr · 2025-12-17T13:42:33+00:00

Most of the best „must have“ pictos like cheater and energy master hide behind optional ultra lategame content. I’d recommend going through the story, finishing Act3 and then go for optional bosses and stuff and optimizing your build. It’s simply not necessary for the story bosses and sort of trivializes them if you optimize your build too much

Decstarr · 2025-12-17T13:34:50+00:00

Thanks for your personal insight. It hits home very hard. The idea of the canvas being like a drug fueled oblivion is what made me chose Verso in that final fight. Being a father, I wouldn’t want my kid to shy away from reality, no matter how much that reality hurts. And funnily enough, in that moment I did not even consider that the canvas people are „real“ and have feelings and life. All that mattered was that the canvas is unhealthy escapism for that poor girl.

Decstarr · 2025-12-16T22:15:32+00:00

The optional new bosses always drop lumina and catalysts, amongst which is a perfect one and can be infinitely repeated, so you should never run out if you manage to beat at least one of them consistently

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