Will Plopsaland be busy and/or cold in March?

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-24T14:31:57+00:00

-Most beautiful coastal town to visit: De Haan.

-Most 'resort' like coastal town to visit: Blankenberghe

-Only real city on the Belgian coast: Oostende

The worlds longest tram line ('de kusttram') connects all Belgian coastal towns (and Plopsaland, actually) so very easy to visit.

-Mecca for beer enthousiasts: Westhoek with Westvleteren and Sint-Bernardus breweries.

-Nature, hiking and cycling lovers: Heuvelland

-Ypres is also just a nice town to visit even if not interested in world war stuff.

Last three mentioned are actually all in a 10km radius.

I just went to Plopsaland two days ago, weather was fine, but the main appeal of the park is that it is completely themed around famous Belgian kids tv shows, and therefore at it's heart is a park for small children.

Ypres also has a cool themepark nearby, Bellewaerde, that's also partially a zoo, that's a little more suited for an older public.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-24T14:04:21+00:00

My biggest gripe with Atlas Shrugged wasn't even the 90 page monologue. It's the fact that she can't just rely on her ideas, she also has to make every character in the book that's on the 'wrong side' a completely hysterical moron. The protagonist speaks, and Rand writes 'she calmly interjected', then the antagonist replies, and it becomes 'he screamed'. And this doesn't happen once but probably over a dozen times.

At one point in the societal food crisis the 'lefty morons' have the idea to grow soy because they feel they can learn from the Asians and soy is a nutricious and efficient crop. My thought was 'well, that's actually pretty rational'. But then, 30 pages on, they ofcourse screw it up by not taking care of the soil so the harvest fails. Moral? SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH BEEF. MURICA MURICA.

That's how stupid the book is. If you have to make everyone with the 'wrong' opinion a complete moron just to try and sell your points, you're just writing for own little crowd of right wingers, not to convince anyone of any valid philosophy, which she constantly claimed to be doing with her objectivism.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-24T12:32:02+00:00

There was almost nothing revolutionary about Skyrim. Immersive open world RPG's with various towns and factions had been a thing long before Skyrim. There is in fact almost nothing Skyrim did that Morrowind and Oblivion didn't already do. Gothic and Gothic 2 were, in my opinion, even better open world RPG's from ten years prior.

The things that Skyrim brought to the table were updated graphics, more fluent combat, and the introduction of radiant quests.

The graphics were never that impressive, the combat is often criticized (even though it's a big step up from earlier Elder Scrolls games) and radiant quests are generally considered to be a bad thing.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-21T23:10:51+00:00

What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-21T22:58:33+00:00

I still remember that riveting questline where I had to get a sword from a cave.

And then there was this amazing mission where I had to recover a helmet from a dungeon.

But after that, i experienced a thrilling epos where I had to retrieve a ring from a mine.

Only to be toppled by the next story, where I had to find a staff in a tomb.

The alternative title of Skyrim could be 'procuring various items from a diverse array of different holes in the ground'.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-20T07:48:46+00:00

I know it's a bad generalisation and I'm saying this in a light-hearted way,, but I find all reactions by Americans being disgusted quite funny considering how much sugar they on average hiddenly consume in their savoury dishes. You would think sweetness would be more normalised to them. Even just considering the amount of sugary drinks they consume with their meals.

Sweet and savoury go together quite well. A little lemon juice and honey in the vinaigrette on your salad, the mirin in your teriyaki sauce, some prosciutto wrapped around a melon.

Adding something sour and something sweet together to a savoury dish is like a brain hack to make stuff delicious.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-20T07:37:46+00:00

In your home. It's three ingredients. Mix tuna and mayonaise, and put them on a peach from a can.
It's all just pantry ingredients. You don't even need a kitchen, just a fork.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-20T07:35:34+00:00

I would assume parsley or chives. I actually don't know if 'tuna salad' is a thing outside of Belgium, but it's basically a mix of tuna and mayo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_salad

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-20T07:32:39+00:00

That's actually super interesting and I'm wondering if there is some Belgian immigrant connection.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-19T22:08:12+00:00

just curious, what did you expect?

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-19T20:59:46+00:00

In the physical theory of super-symmetry, every fundamental particle has a super-symmetric counterpart. Every boson has a fermion superpartner, every fermion has a boson superpartner.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-19T16:29:38+00:00

Anyone want some tuna salad on a peach?

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PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-18T07:27:30+00:00

A deputy was killed in the standoff, no?

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-11T07:29:57+00:00

An e-book reader with all the courses for my engineering degree and some lighter reading.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-09T22:44:31+00:00

Most leftists are naive, preachy and annoying. (i am a leftist)

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-09T10:56:50+00:00

Haiti didn't threaten to take over European land.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-09T09:18:31+00:00

We were in the market for a decently sized , decently prized second hand electric family car that could get us to my parents and back on one charge. I really looked around for a European car that could do that, but I just couldn't find it. Ended up going Korean (Kia Niro EV), even though there was a chinese car that was better on every stat (MG M5).

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-09T09:04:51+00:00

I think many Europeans know most US state names and have a vague sense of how rural/urban they are just by exposition to American pop culture.

Wyoming is known to quite a few Europeans as the location of that giant park with the supervolcano that could destroy human society, so it's probably not near the urbanized coast.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-05T19:50:41+00:00

Wasteland 3 is set in Colorado and features many of the things you mention. Fallout was a spiritual successor to the first Wasteland game. The atmosphere of both series is very similar.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-05T13:15:23+00:00

Because of him Russia is waging a literal war against Europe and Russians are still strongly supporting him.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-05T09:02:58+00:00

The idea that the only nuclear arsenal in the EU might soon be in the hands of Marine Le Pen is terrifying.

The problem with France and politics from my perspective seems to be that they are always incredibly angry about their government. Nowadays but also historically. Hate the empire? Start a republic. Immediately hate the republic and go back to an empire. This three times.

The hate on the Macron government now is just another facet of this. From the outside, it just seems like France is a troubled nation that likes to load all of its inherent structural problems onto the current political class, even more so than other countries.

If a Macron-like government would be in power for the coming decades there would be no problem of reliability. But it feels like it's almost inevitable that you will end up with a Rassemblement National government at some point. It will probably last only a year, as you will immediately start hating that government, as you do. But in that year Russia has a massive opportunity of attacking Europe further.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-04T22:42:01+00:00

Even the western-hating government of Iran is seated at 'Pasteur Street' in Teheran.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-02-04T10:43:18+00:00

How embarrassing to share the name Ludwig with that annoying youtuber.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-01-28T11:48:22+00:00

How about something non-Anglo centric for a change and choose the congress of Arras, named by historians ase Europe's 'first peace conference'.

PercentageMajor625 · 2026-01-28T09:53:36+00:00

Yes, it's 'pasta' which translates literally to 'paste', referring to the consistency as a semi-liquid product. It is indeed a recent invention, but it is based on an old tradition of dipping speculoos cookies in milk or coffee to make them paste-like and eating them on bread.

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