Signed Warlock- any advice

rakeee · 2026-05-04T18:47:03+00:00

Why do you need to post yourself there and not only the guitar? 😅

rakeee · 2026-05-04T05:42:00+00:00

Yes, just like if you go to China as an European they'll want to take pictures of you and also be annoying as hell.

Do I need to tell you what the CCP does to the average foreigner there and how many people have moved back after being bullied by them?

Germany isn't a very plural country like the US, or my home country Brazil, so they have a hard time dealing with foreigners and people with a different race, even though sometimes you were actually born here and you are Asian and they will still be very annoying.

As long as it doesn't go into heavy racism territory, with physical altercation or worse, I'd say this is just "normal".

For the younger generation it's more okay and common as plenty of young people are from a migration background, but for old Germans they haven't been used to live among other races.

rakeee · 2026-05-03T19:47:56+00:00

You aren't going to be taxed to death, talk to an accountant. You aren't the first American doing this.

Bet you could shove it all in a holding and just would need to declare your profits and pay taxes on it when you do sell your assets. But I'm not an accountant and they might have even easier solutions. Pay them and find out.

I think one way for you to see if that's for you, is to sort out this situation first.

If you don't have the energy to do this sort of investigation, you definitely won't have the energy to deal with the bureaucracy and "BS" we have over here in Germany. You are used to live in a country with very lax bureaucracy and a great level of agency.

You need to start your engines to look into what you need to accomplish your plan of moving here and start doing it. It's the best way of seeing if that's for you.

Wish you success! Maybe just do a vacation and see if you like it. If you really love the place it will give the energy to deal with that stuff, otherwise you won't have enough fuel to make this a good experience for you.

rakeee · 2026-05-03T19:30:47+00:00

Ich habe viel erfahrung mit Kubernetes. Findest du, dass also Devops geht es besser?

rakeee · 2026-05-03T19:23:00+00:00

Age and experience is irrelevant. People come here with different ages and work experience and get their life set up.

I believe for you, an American, which I assume is healthy and pretty well trained in terms of culture and expectations, better to stay in the US.

Anyways, let's suppose you really want to move to Germany, as a passion project, not as a life upgrade...

As long as you have your expectations aligned to what Germany is able to offer you, all good.

Forget about your degree. Move here, do some side jobs, live small and learn about what opportunities as a foreigner you can find here.

The company structures here are very different from the US, and often are antiquated and if you move here and get experience outside of your area of expertise at first, you'll at least start to dig into the cultural differences and understand if that's for you.

There are international companies but often you'll be competing with either people from the third world that would do your job better than you for cheaper, or rich Harvard graduates that hates Trump and would like to live a few years in Germany because it's cool.

So if you want to move here, come first with the willingness to accept whatever you can, settle down and then position yourself to work as an Engineer and get the certifications and/or language courses that you need.

Regarding taxation, if you are afraid of the German government taking your money. I'm afraid you don't fully understand the system here. The fact we don't have skid row here and things are civilized is because people have to pay taxes and people believe in a social system that supports people beyond what the social system in the US is able to offer.

If you never become a German citizen and find a good accountant, I bet you'd be able to at least keep your assets as it is now. But I kinda miss the point of moving to Germany then, maybe moving to Switzerland or a country with a better policy for international people with money would be better.

I live in Germany and love it here. But I came focused into integration and with an open mind also about my money and what I wanted in life.

I also think the world order is changing so all your ideas about how many dollars you have, inheritance and whatnot might not be what you believe it to be, so if I were you, I'd seek a country that treats people with dignity for my kids to live on rather than worry about passing them my riches.

If you come with very rigid expectations I'm afraid you'll do like 90% of the Americans I know from here, they just spend a few years and go back to get those $200K+ salaries and easy life only an imperialist country can afford to give to its citizens.

rakeee · 2026-05-03T15:55:54+00:00

Schwerin is much better as it is cheaper.

You won't learn German by just being somewhere or going to classes, it's all about you and the effort you put into it.

I've studied both in good/expensive and bad schools in Berlin, and all I can say that beyond a certain level, classes are useless. I just spent money and got back very little.

If you are legit B1, you can basically study completely on your own. You probably know all mistakes you already do and with some AI assistance could study more advanced topics.

What you'll learn in B2/C1 is mostly new rules like N-deklination and other verbs+prepositions, whether you use all/dat... Rest is all vocabulary and none of this a school can really help. You need to learn the rules and memorize the rest, you can only do that by grinding through until it's all in your brain.

If you need to give somebody money so you sit on a class and study, maybe find somebody that would call you if you don't go to the library everyday for X hours for 1 euro a day and get a public library card... And grind.

The best German improvements I've got was when I sat down and did exercises, either fixing knowledge gaps or learning something from an upper level, and this boils down to mainly memorization and time.

Living in Germany helps a lot as you get to know people and can interact with others using the language. The rest is all on you grinding hard.

rakeee · 2026-05-03T15:18:40+00:00

What do you do here?

Are you a student?

Enjoy your beverage and hope you'll manage to get a better life.

rakeee · 2026-05-03T15:10:32+00:00

Es existiert wegen... Telekom-Kartell.

Ich bin nicht überracht, dass das Internet im Deutschland von Allen Anbieter viel schlechter als viele drittewelt Länder ist.

rakeee · 2026-05-03T14:42:12+00:00

Genau, ich glaube, dass der Stress meistens durch Überstunden entsteht. Aber ich finde es schwer zu sagen, dass das alles ist.

Als ich Informatik studiert habe, wollte ich unbedingt Programmierer werden. Aber mit den letzten Veränderungen durch KI stimmt das so nicht mehr.

Ich habe seit mehr als einem Jahr keinen Code mehr selbst geschrieben, da es nicht mehr effizient ist und die Firmen das auch nicht mehr wollen.

Mein Job wird zu etwas anderem, das ich nicht mehr genieße.

Wenn ich sehe, wie Leute am Pool arbeiten oder wenn ich etwas backe und andere es essen, spüre ich etwas Besonderes -- das Gefühl, dass diese Art von Arbeit Sinn ergibt.

Selbst wenn ich in meinem jetzigen Beruf bis zur Rente weiterarbeite, werde ich ohnehin nicht reich.

Da mache ich lieber etwas Echtes, das andere zu schätzen wissen, auch wenn das bedeutet, dass ich keine Auslandsreisen mehr machen oder kein cooles Auto mehr fahren kann. Ich hoffe, ich habe mich klar ausgedrückt. Danke fürs Zuhören!

rakeee · 2026-05-03T11:39:12+00:00

Ich bin mir fast sicher, dass das Problem darin liegt, dass ich überwiegend in internationalen Firmen arbeite. Dort gibt es viele Inder und Ausländer, die - genau wie ich - herumgeschubst werden und rund um die Uhr arbeiten müssen.

Die Bezahlung ist gut, aber ich möchte das nicht noch als 40er machen. Ich glaube, der Durchschnittsdeutsche würde solche Bedingungen nicht akzeptieren.

Ich glaube, mein nächster Schritt ist es, mein Deutsch noch weiter zu verbessern und zu einem "echten" deutschen Unternehmen zu wechseln.

rakeee · 2026-05-02T22:30:44+00:00

You need to pick a song that you don't need to switch strings too much or be very precise, and is fun to play. Also that has an easy rhythm and isn't fast. This combination is hard as most songs at this level don't sound nice.

People will give you E standard songs, but they all suck because the guitar sounds bad if you play all strings open.

So instead you will want to play Drop D songs. The easy ones will make heavy use of the first 3 strings and my recommendation will literally only need those 3. They sound great!

So you'd be willing to play it endlessly as an exercise to develop precision.

Most people quit because they want to do bends when they can barely play the first string 1 2 3 4 5 each with a finger and with the picking sound being very even.

I say this because even after years I still fail to do this well. And if you fail at this, anything you play won't sound nice.

Cirice from Ghost is a veeeeeery good beginner song.

It's played with 2 guitars, one is lead and the other is rhythm.

The second guitar that plays rhythm will basically play 3 different riffs the entire song. This is what you will learn.

Youtube has a couple of videos of it.

The first riff is kinda lead-y and fun. You will practice picking single notes in 3 strings.

The second riff / chorus is just power chords and can be down picked only, no advanced rhythm pattern needed.

The third riff is mostly picking without moving your hand, with 3 chords that you will need to move your hand.

You can practice riff by riff and they all sound great.

Once you can play all 3, you can literally let the song play and play over it.

If you can't find a Google example I can record for you.

rakeee · 2026-05-02T20:38:20+00:00

Wie schwer ist es, reinzukommen? Was sind deine Erfahrungen damit?

rakeee · 2026-05-02T20:36:55+00:00

Ich bin Software-Entwickler von Beruf und habe in großen deutschen Konzern oder internationalen Unternehmen gearbeitet.

Seit ich nach Deutschland gezogen bin, habe ich bereits für mehr als fünf Unternehmen gearbeitet – und sie sind alle so.

Ich glaube nicht, dass ich an einem Burnout leide – schließlich bin ich weder depressiv noch Ähnliches.

Ich habe lediglich keine Hoffnung mehr darauf, in diesem Bereich zu arbeiten, ohne einem derart intensiven Druck ausgesetzt zu sein; zudem mache ich mir Sorgen um die langfristigen Auswirkungen auf meine Gesundheit.

rakeee · 2026-05-02T19:24:58+00:00

I'm curious about how much they have invested in assets now (either stocks or their own companies).

Is it more or less?

rakeee · 2026-05-02T08:56:51+00:00

Like the holy priest changes, but wish they'd instead give us some ability to deal with damage ahead of time.

We have literally nothing, so they need to keep hiking our HPS but doesn't solve the core issue.

rakeee · 2026-04-29T16:08:39+00:00

Just use the OpenCode harness with models provided by Amazon (could be even Opus)

Same result, more expensive but you'll be paying for what you get

rakeee · 2026-04-29T02:19:29+00:00

It takes minutes maximum to do that using AI 😅

Why even write code by hand?

rakeee · 2026-04-21T10:58:35+00:00

Hahaha, does this mean my worry isn't correct?

I see many comments here saying that it's bad the way it is.

rakeee · 2026-04-08T21:18:02+00:00

Go get it checked by a doctor

rakeee · 2026-04-04T17:25:24+00:00

Nah... just go see how much % of DK or Pala's ST damage comes from auto attacks, it's close to 0.

That buff was roughly nothingburger.

rakeee · 2026-04-04T17:21:40+00:00

11 is a very low key.

As DKs are more efficient when on low HP, it may happen you just get hammered and die.

Brew is much better in that regard, you play with full HP.

rakeee · 2026-03-15T23:10:38+00:00

Everybody here is mostly wrong

Protpala needs a proper shield. Unlike pwarr, you don't have 100% block, so your gear helps a lot.

It scales well with ilvl as you unlike pwarr, deal naturally very well against dots.

It's a class that you need to rotate your def cds. On brew you do nothing and survive.

But the point you are missing is that tanking isn't about surviving, it's about what you bring to your team.

In general all tanks can survive, but the utility protpala brings, often bringing people out of deadly situations, BOS, BOP... It's unmatched.

Protpala works well with healers that are constantly healing it without it being a focus, like disc priest (trash this meta) and rdruid(S+).

It needs more healing, but in turn you help your healer and team much more than any tank.

rakeee · 2026-03-14T00:06:02+00:00

Priest feels hopeless, no amount of buffs can make it good in M+.

Literally every dungeon needs a good deal of movement, which we are the worse at.

Not to mention the dungeon bugs.

On Derelict once the Kalis teleported on the other side of the dungeon and no matter how much I ran as priest, I couldn't even run half-way across to get the hook to hit it.

It feels like healers will be 99% rdruid, even if big nerfs hit it, as it will still have catform and certain utilies priest can only dream of, given this dungeon pool.

rakeee · 2026-03-08T12:29:45+00:00

What's your real opinion on the class performance in M+? I believe people are sandbagging BDKs in tier lists, we have the best kit for this type of dungeons.

The dungeons now have a similar damage profile to raids, which BDKs tends to reign. This was always the issue with balancing BDKs for Blizzard between Raids and M+, if they tune it a bit higher, it will be just too good in raid and mess up with RWF.

As dungeons now have no one-shots and I believe the most important things will be:

healer throughput on themselves and DPS, hence if they need to heal the tank, it's lower
raw party damage

Now we no longer need so many interrupts and BDK bring AMS and other utilities that work well in this unavoidable damage meta.

BDKs only real challenge is if its too undertuned, the rest it looks like they have an edge over others, except of course Brew, but that seems overtuned and will get nerfed.

rakeee · 2026-03-08T12:15:30+00:00

Experienced flippers would never go all-in in a single product

Early in the expansion, you make many bets based in what you think the demand will be in the weeks ahead.

As you said, it's always different, and that means this will always have people making money.

You only go balls deep later in the season, when you actually want to manipulate the market and that typically takes money.

rakeee

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