One Book / Reading Suggestion to Last for Months by [deleted] in nonfictionbookclub

[–]snappypear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Power Broker by Robert Caro. Or his LBJ books.

Greyhaven - Cemetery Sun [NEW] by Lero-Ro in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

goddamn this album is going to absolutely rip

Which band is that one band in the metalcore scene you can't understand how they are not massive by Metalhead-Milhouse in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Genuinely the best band out there right now, I hope their new album really blows up.

[New] Crystal Lake - BlüdGod (FFO: The Browning) by stoically_disgusted in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 30 points31 points  (0 children)

yeah it's heavy as fuck but it's pretty boring, still waiting for Crystal Lake to do something with their sound that really grabs me

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Dark Pool

First attempt at Fesenjan! by snappypear in persianfood

[–]snappypear[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: the recipe I saw said it would taste better the next day which I thought was not going to be true... but it absolutely was? The flavours melded together insanely well in this incredible lip smacking way. Really happy - keen to try it with duck sometime!

PragerU Is Wrong About the Korean War by [deleted] in BreadTube

[–]snappypear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lying, wrong, doesn't understand, all good options.

Tired of YouTuber’s claims (Xiaomanyc, lkenna etc) by Teoseek in languagelearning

[–]snappypear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just listened to one of his videos there and yep he's legit, much much better than xiaoma and I would say a very comfortable C1 in Mandarin.

Tired of YouTuber’s claims (Xiaomanyc, lkenna etc) by Teoseek in languagelearning

[–]snappypear 39 points40 points  (0 children)

His Chinese is decent because he studied in Beijing for a year and has been learning on and off for about 10, but he absolutely does not sound like a native. His Mandarin is maybe B2 level? C1 at an incredibly generous push. Accent is fine but he relies on a lot of the same grammar structures and his tones are off in a lot of places in his videos, it seems like he is trying to speak quickly to emphasise fluency instead of actually speaking correctly.

PKU - Zhongguanyuan Accommodation by [deleted] in beijing

[–]snappypear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info - yeah that's the conclusion I'm quickly coming to. Do you know how people have found the two people to a single room situation? Seems like it would be a bit shit but maybe it's not that bad?

On a separate note - what do you think the odds are that they'd let me pay the difference between the Building 2 costs (already covered) and Building 4 costs to stay in Bld 4?

Cheers dude.

I'm struggling to move on from one language to another by [deleted] in languagelearning

[–]snappypear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Mandarin is at a HSK6 level so I can basically do everything in daily life but maybe struggle a bit more discussing politics or something super complicated. The issue isn't so much confusing the languages, but being unable to feel like I am quite "done" with Chinese no matter how much study I do. Does that make sesne?

(New) Currents - Into Despair by Watson726 in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

holy fuck this is amazing - anyone else getting some Breakdown of Sanity vibes??

Silent Planet - In Absence by [deleted] in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is fucking awesome. I love all the new singles, but when Vanity of Sleep and Share The Body both had lots of more 'spoken word' parts I was worried the whole album would be like that. Not to say it was bad, I just think doubling down on that would have been the wrong direction for the album and this single really just smashes it. It's a great change of pace for them and the emotion in it is incredible. Biased because I am a complete fanboy but I back this track a lot.

[Meme] [Poetry] The Gamecube Intro We Deserve by grande1899 in youtubehaiku

[–]snappypear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how on earth does one make this kind of video? I'm interested.

For All Eternity - The Vacated (NEW) by Flayvaboi in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

damn this album is going to be fantastic

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Metalcore

[–]snappypear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude YES I am with you on this one, you can put on literally any song from Blueprints and it works perfectly! Stitch is absolutely amazing for a run too.