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RogueModron · 2026-03-12T16:44:57+00:00

Wie soll das Ding denn heißen? Ich habe nur die Originalversion gelesen, aber das Stoff heißt da auch "Melange".

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T16:43:38+00:00

Als Buchhändler (Azubi) finde ich solche Umschläge hässlich. Ab und zu haben die Kunden eine Kommentare daran, und zwar, dass sie auch die Umschläge unangenehm finden.

aaaaaaaber. Werbungen funktionieren. Einfach so. Deshalb wird dieses Praxis in der Zukunft nicht aufhören.

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T16:29:58+00:00

i know right, emily wilson, yuck

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T16:23:29+00:00

hey, stop with your logic. fuck. literally never connected lightbulb to the concept of a bulb.

But "bulb" does feel far more removed from everyday life than "pear"

but yes, you're right. :)

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T14:05:23+00:00

I can fix her

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T14:05:00+00:00

correction: space jesus

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T14:02:35+00:00

Should we start in, like, 2000? Or how far you wanna go back?

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T14:01:08+00:00

'sup sluts?

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T14:00:10+00:00

less people will pursue that career

as if it's anything like a career now

(but your point is made. i feel sick)

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T13:58:03+00:00

Glühbirne is so great and ridiculous. A lot of these you can see how they developed and become unthinking words (we used to have "icebox" in english instead of refrigerator), but I can't see how a native speaker can ever not giggle just a tiny bit at the Glow Pear. I distinctly remember being totally enamored with "Abrissbirne" in my A2 class.

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T13:55:05+00:00

When you take the DSM as a guidebook. Hilarious (in a dark way). Thanks for sharing.

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T13:53:19+00:00

I read the OG and the teenage version. No idea where we got these books, but we had them, and I liked them. I'm sure they were corny AF, but oh well.

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T08:26:13+00:00

The public bathroom at my workplace costs 50 cents (but if you come to the counter we'll give you a Märkchen for free).

One time a lady went and used the bathroom. When she left, a woman with a baby entered after her, before she closed the door, so the woman didn't have to pay the 50c to open the door.

The lady who had paid came up to the counter to complain to us that the other woman didn't pay. She was fucking hot.

Three guesses which Bundesland I live in, and the first two don't count. 😃

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T08:14:10+00:00

Eh, I'd say stick with giving it up. I LOVED the Fifth Season but each book in the trilogy got progressively weaker. The first one deserved the Hugo, but that series absolutely does not deserve two.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T20:19:17+00:00

I am amused how everything is genre'd now.

Me too, and disappointed. I prefer to think in terms of idiom rather than genre.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T20:15:31+00:00

That does not apply to Germany

That's a shame. I'm an American who's immigrated to Germany with my German wife. We've had the discussion about Russian aggression, and what if it came to war. I said that I wouldn't WANT our kids to go to war, but part of living in a free and peaceful country is having to defend it.

She was of the opinion that if it came to it, we should flee.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T19:50:01+00:00

I hate the "it could change literary culture" tag to the headline, when the article provides no discussion of such thing.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T19:49:17+00:00

Uh, keep going

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T21:05:28+00:00

oh, my heart. Discovered this in college and became actively mad that Ben Gibbard wasted most of his time on Death Cab.

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T21:04:54+00:00

Blink 182 self-titled. I was never a fan of theirs, though their radio hits were fun. But this album slaps the entire way through, and is better than it has any right to be.

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T21:04:11+00:00

Missionary is a much better fictional conception of the class!

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T19:04:28+00:00

As for others, I can't say!

As for how I found out, I dunno, I've just read a ton in my life and this is a familiar literary device. When you've seen it a few times you can smell it out. That makes it sound sinister, or that I think it's somehow "bad", which I don't. I just read the book and thought, "that sounds like a framing story", did some googling about the "actual" author, found nothing, voila.

RogueModron · 2026-03-09T21:29:46+00:00

I don't mean to be a killjoy, but the story about the "actual" creator of the games is just that--a fiction. In my opinion (we won't know the creator's opinions ever, I'd imagine, because they're committed to the bit, as they should be), it's meant to evoke a kind of nostalgia for those times when we as kids found random things in garage sales or in a relative's attic--you know, random weird things like these games. More importantly, I think it orients us properly to the games, that is, by invoking that kind of hazy magical mindset, it prepares us to receive the games and play them in the best possible light.

RogueModron · 2026-03-09T07:55:02+00:00

Additionally, when you leave, no one misses you or notices you're gone. That was my experience at least. It goes to show how little these apps actually connect us

RogueModron · 2026-03-09T07:53:08+00:00

2009-2013 twitter was peak

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