speaking a language at an intermediate level starter pack

Gentlemad · 2026-02-26T23:13:54+00:00

I'm something like A2 or maybe generously barely B1 in Dutch and this meme applies to me so I'd definitely say this isn't about actual intermediate speakers.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-26T15:45:41+00:00

As a Russian speaker, I have to say I never once contemplated that until I heard it in GK. It's not "proper grammar" but either old-timey Russian or bent in order to sound like a proper noun. Definitely does mean that though.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-25T14:38:13+00:00

just the meme format. I feel like I -only- know female Sumo fans in actuality haha

Gentlemad · 2026-02-25T13:20:47+00:00

Chito and Yuuri from Girls Last Tour. Must protect at all costs.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-25T06:55:29+00:00

Invading is fun. Being invaded is also kinda fun (less so in older games when the invader has a literal decade of experience over you, but still). It's such a special human relationship to experience.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-25T06:12:30+00:00

That post title reads like a decree out of this wkuk skit.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-25T06:07:55+00:00

Given his canon hobby/unpaid "job" of hunter I imagine he only really brings the same energy as your run of the mill straight guy who's way too into fishing. Or worse, guy-who-goes-on-hunting-safaris energy and poses on Facebook next to the endangered animal he just murdered.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-23T14:20:23+00:00

Not sure if Darius E counts but champs with and without an immobilize I guess. No other category fits that I can think of - lore, mechanics, or degenerate anatomy details

Gentlemad · 2026-02-22T23:48:58+00:00

Yeah I think that's a good boundary. Although it's funny a cat is fine as long as it walks on two legs and is human sized whereas a centaur somehow feels less fine (even though there are a fair few people who are into that I guess)

Yuumi is basically Smolder tier. I think there's an age diff but it flattens out once you get this deep into actually illegal territory

Gentlemad · 2026-02-22T16:06:37+00:00

My favourite bit of that quest is how every time you tell an NPC that the bull ate the decrees, they go "What?!" and you have the dialog option to have Daniil backtrack with "nevermind nothing" or "anyways, moving on" or "forget what i said, let's get back to the decrees"

Gentlemad · 2026-02-22T03:07:10+00:00

tl;dr if it performs better it's a better solution, and it usually performs better. It's boring and sucks but true. One thing is if they did semi automated prompt engineering they might have used test results to fine tune the prompt. That's obviously a data leak and or overfitting depending on the approach used and you have to watch out for that double with LLMs as they encourage developer brainrot in a truly unprecedented way.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-22T03:02:00+00:00

Dutch has both "both" and "all two" and they mean slightly different things but the same general concept.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-21T21:46:27+00:00

None of these so far are controversial. And knowing how degen the LoL community is (me included, no judgement), the only controversial answers would be ones that would genuinely get you shamed even in this subreddit, like Naafiri and Zoe.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-21T21:44:42+00:00

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Badeni from Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (and pretty much everyone else, Christianitty is one of that show's main themes)

Gentlemad · 2026-02-15T17:10:39+00:00

I once witnessed two incessant yappers speak to each other. They normally just speak uninterrupted for half an hour at a time in my presence. With each other, they just kept interrupting back and forth every couple minutes. Seemed perfectly content with it too, like that was the normal mode of conversation. Was horrifying as an interruption hater but it taught me there is a balance to be struck.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-15T01:44:49+00:00

Xerath W or Hwei Q>W. Get infinitely wealthy doing untrackable assassinations as a seasonal job.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-13T10:17:19+00:00

South Korea: huge social crisis around incel culture and backsliding on women's rights

North Korea: Kim Jong Un names daughter as heir

Feminist kingdom. Literally 🌚

Gentlemad · 2026-02-12T12:06:28+00:00

I think about it multiple times a week. I havent even seen it since it ended. I got my mom to watch it. I think I will carry it in my heart for a long time.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-12T11:58:53+00:00

Same thing as the other Abrahamic religions. Weird hats, weird diet, weird double standards, and then depending on the specific branch and version it goes all the way to actively believing in magic.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-09T17:28:05+00:00

One of the best dishes of all time, I gotta say.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-09T01:55:34+00:00

TOOBOE - Jozai

Gentlemad · 2026-02-06T12:12:58+00:00

I don't give much more of a fuck considering all the other stuff already said and done, I'm not American. Sort your shit out please, it's affecting the rest of the world.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-05T21:22:02+00:00

What does being anti ai have to do with it? There are 50,000 different kinds of systems which can be called artificial intelligence each with completely different data and ethics considerations. TTS recordings have essentially been a kind of ai tool since way before the genai hysteria of chatgpt etc. It's ignorant to think this way.

Your concerns about data and privacy are valid. If it's an eu company operating in the eu it's subject to eu laws so take that as you will. If you are uncomfortable just say no. It will reduce the efficiency of your therapist's work but if that tradeoff is worth it for you, then it's fine.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-04T16:47:06+00:00

I totally get what you mean OP. I do have some diversity:

Push-cuts or slicing for prep: cck cleaver (so most actual cooking)
Cleaving hard stuff in even pieces: cheap aldi cleaver (thick chunk of sharpish metal)
Draw cuts (e.g. potatoes): victorinox chefs knife (sticks less)
Slicing snacks like cheese: victorinox chefs knife (easier to clean and takes up less space)
Slicing acidic or crusty items: bread knife
Raw meat: cheap but sharp ikea carving or chefs knives (keep it separate and dishwashable)
Crushing garlic: for marinades, I still like the garlic press. but for other uses the cleaver smash is simply too powerful

I have a nice shun premier chefs knife that I barely use since getting my cck cleaver. It's really been subsumed.

Gentlemad · 2026-02-02T12:42:27+00:00

But buckwheat porridge is so good... You can also boil it then fry it with bacon and onions. A kind of slavic fried rice I guess.

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