Yes, BUT! it would look cool as hell being useless :D

can’t seem to find any though

I think there are some female generals in the upper right corner, but the resolution is too low to be sure

Yeah, unfortunately. Basically, there were two changes that made them absolutely useless.

First, they nerfed harries to hell and back by removing the option to repair them from the third seat. Lots of people liked it (of course), but suddenly MBTs didn’t have any real threats anymore. You could still score a kill every now and then with a lightning by sneaking up on them from behind with the “shotgun”, but nerfing harries effectively nerfed lightnings a ton, too.

Secondly, they decided to add a new allrounder secondary gun for vehicles, which was a bit too powerful, imho. Because with one or two of those, even a goddamn sunderer was more powerful than a frigging lightning. At that point, there was essentially no reason to pull them. Well, I guess some people still used them for 18th century-style fights with two columns of vehicles shooting at one another until one side collapsed, but who cares…

Goddamn, Planetside 2 used to be enjoyable. I miss potent harrassers. And lightnings. Or just interesting vehicle fights in general…

Honestly, that doesn’t make it much better. I always viewed the cats my family used to have as family members, but they were anything but children.

The way @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works put it captures it quite nicely. They rely on their owners for certain things, but they are not children and their personalities do not match that.

Referring to them a such gives me the ick because a) it infantilizes beings which, well, simply aren’t children, b) at the same time humanizes them too much. And, paradoxically, c) makes me think of the kind of people who carry dogs around in their handbags and essentially treat them more like plushies rather than actual living beings. Just doesn’t sit right with me.

Am I the only one who finds it really weird when people refer to themselves as mom or dad of their pets? Yikes

German seems extremely hard

I always wonder where that sentiment comes from. Sure, the Grammar is a bit more complex than in English, but afaik it’s still considerably simpler than say Polish.

Plus,they’re fairly closely related, given that they’re both Germanic languages. The writing system is the same, German spelling actually makes sense most of the time, etc. Sure, English imported lots of vocabulary from Romanic languages that German does not have, but learning vocabulary is imho one of the easier aspect of language learning.

Consequently, the FSI classifies German as a category II language, ranging from I (including i.e. Dutch) to IV (which contains Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic), I being the easiest and IV the hardest.

The Chinese writing system alone is enough to discourage people from learning the language up to a fluent level…

I mean, technically there would be more direct measures, like using artillery to blow up infrastructure or destroying crop with flamethrowers.

Ooh nice, thanks :)

I recognized 打 as something on the lines of hitting or striking, but wasn’t sure if it actually had that meaning here, or something (seemingly) unrelated as in 打的.

I don’t know all the words in this, but I doubt it; it’s a classic Chinese tongue twister.

The first line translates to "four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty. On the second & third line it’s something along the lines of “whoever says 40/14 says <X>, <sth> 40/14”, as far as I can tell.

Only the first season

FIFY

Although I actually found the movie quite tolerable.

Is everything alright with his eyes? Looks like he’s blind.

Gotta say, using 3 just feels like giving up due to laziness, even in 1200BC.

Also it’s interesting how the Chinese entries basically stop between 1400 and 1949, whereas European names are far more present during this era. Some Japanese ones, too. I wonder how comprehensive this page is.

Tbf, it is “merely” a private prop plane, not a jet (which would be significantly more expensive still). But yeah, not exactly middle class material…

I mean, that technically depends on your perspective. But yes. Very much so.

Hang on, Nintendo fans are into findom? That would explain a few things. On a related note, I think I finally understood why people keep giving Chris Roberts money for Star Citizen.

And yet, translators are losing their jobs left and right, from what I hear. Sure, quality has gone down, but most people don’t seem to care. Plus, in a lot of cases, instead of the AI doing all the work, translators proof-read AI generated texts and correct the worst mistakes. Fewer translators can translate more at a lower price this way.

Does the quality still go down a bit that way? Probably. But again, who cares? Not the people spending money on translations, that’s for sure.

I can hardly even imagine one that’s worse

How terrifying was it in the end? I found the trailer too scary to actually watch it.