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@captainsparklefists
I just realised that the rest of the world doesn’t know about one of my favourite New Year’s Eve in Germany things:
Angela Merkel getting out her shiny blazers for her speech.
They’re only for New Year’s Eve. The shiny Merkel is very rare and can only be spotted on the 31st of December.
This year we got shiny with some sort of rococo pattern.
Silvery Merkel of 2018.
Shiny Merkel of 2019! I really enjoy the color this year.
An adventurous duochrome!
shinier than ever for 2020
The greatest tragedy of Among Us is making friends and then accidentally disconnecting before you get to say goodbye
I just... I wound up hosting for a bit, and a player by the name “Dad of 3” came in to join my game
He was... well. Clueless is an understatement. When I say he has no idea what was going on, I mean the second round he was in he SLAMMED the alarm button and said “my screen said imposter what does that mean”
“It means you’re the bad guy this time, dad,” We explained. “But next time try and keep it secret, okay?”
“Okay”
The next round, he killed another player right in front of me and immediately self-reported.
“I got my first kill,” he said.
“Good job, dad!” we all replied. “You’re getting it”
He was so proud, next round, when he helped us catch the killer. And we were proud for him. He was trying so hard.
His kids showed him the game, he said — “Look dad a meme” — so he was playing it for them.
“What’s sus” he had to ask. “Is it inappropriate?” “No dad. It’s short for suspicious, because suspicious is a lot to type.” “What’s gg?” “It means good game” “ok. Thank u. gg”
Two rounds later, he slammed the alarm again. “My map looks different,” he said. “There are buttons on it”
“That means you’re the bad guy again, dad. You push them to sabotage us. Try it out”
We spent that round watching Dad of 3 gleefully pop in and out of vents at random and press all the buttons just to see what they did
“Have you killed anyone yet dad?” “No. It feels strange.” “It’s okay. It’s just a game. You can kill us if you want to practice.”
He was trying so hard. I don’t know if he’d ever even played a video game before, but he was trying so hard to understand this thing his kids enjoyed, and my little group of strangers was doing our best to help him get there.
I’m so proud of that random father’s effort, and I’m proud of all the other players who were so willing to help him learn.
Then out of nowhere he was gone. Mid-round, Dad of 3 vanished to a bad connection, and I’m legitimately sad. I’d hoped we’d get the chance to play a round for real, and I’d have liked the chance to wish him luck and say goodbye.
But since I can’t do that, I’m throwing this into the void: I hope you have a nice time, Dad of 3, and I hope we were able to help you learn so you can have fun with your kids.
Good luck out there, buddy.
Daybreak says hello.
Germans: Americans and their guns! It's ridiculous! They're just incredibly dangerous and good for nothing! How is taking away guns taking away human rights?
Also Germans: tHEy wAnT to PuT A teMpO-LimIT oN tHE AutOBAhN??? tHey ARe tAkIng aWAy mY rIghTs!!!!
Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.
Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.
Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???
If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.
There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.
One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.
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— Nathaniel Orion G. K.
dragon age II but it’s varric telling it in the style of drunk history
i think that’s just literally already the game all the caves look the same because Varric is like “THEN A CAVE, idk, they all look the same, fuck caves, lol”
I used to be a grader and an occasional substitute prof for an introductory astronomy lab. That means that the majority of the people in this lab are only taking it because it’s a requirement and about half of them think it’s an astrology class.
I was grading midterms and this one girl. She was so nice and I think she was a business major. Fuck. The question on the midterm was to draw a diagram of the solar system and this poor girl. This fucking girl had drawn a Mars-centric solar system. As in every planet and the sun were orbiting Mars. I now actually have a custom Cards Againsy Humanity card I got at a con that says “A Mars-centric solar system”
I had a boy argue with me that there was liquid water on the moon (this was around when they had found liquid water on Mars in ~2015) and he wouldn’t believe me that he likely meant Mars and not the moon. After I marked his answer to the relevant lab question wrong, he took it to the department head who had promptly laughed him out of the office.
And there was another boy who, during a lab in our observatory where we would look at certain things in the sky, asked where the sun was. At 10pm in November. After some questioning it was revealed that he thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.
My friend, whom I love dearly, found out that the moon orbits the earth as a 20-year-old in an upper-level political science class, and was utterly and completely flabbergasted. When questioned, her defense was that she doesn’t have anything to do with the moon, so why would she have needed to know?
i was once talking to a friend of mine about how at that point in time you could see mars, jupiter, and venus at the same time, which was pretty cool, and she said “where’s pluto? wait, it was destroyed” and that’s how i found out that my friend, who is in her third year of a medical degree, thought that pluto stopped being a planet because it was eaten by a black hole.
I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS
me: time for sleepy :)
my garbage body: hot hot hot no cold no HOT bad bad, throw up??? no, hungry, NO remember that mistake you made at work. Internalize it. Never forget. Back hurt yes headache YES hot yes roll over r-RA RA RASPUTIN, RUSSIA’s GREATEST LOVE MACHI-
#i’m not okay
we popping the BIGGEST bottles when makorra happens tomorrow
Ain’t that the truth
Bread, but make it sexy
I think we can get sexier
Garlic bread
Don’t worry, Germany’s got you covered
@izumisays
“Wie groß ist dieses Streichorchester?”
- “Kann ich nicht sagen. Ich hab meinen Geigerzähler vergessen.”
My NT friend: doesn’t this silence bother u
Me, autistic: are u telling me u can’t hear this incredibly loud fridge
The lights have sound
Electronics have sound
Appliances have sound
If electricity runs through it, it has sound.
Rarely is there actual silence (and that does bother me due to lack of sensory input).
This is why the barn uses me when they think the horses are reacting to a noise they can’t hear. I’ll likely find it (it’s usually the heating or the electrical box in the indoor).
I also know when the electric fences are on.
For years I was convinced that I was either hallucinating or had hearing damage, because electronics always made this high-pitched whine that was closer to being felt than heard, and nobody else knew what I was talking about. Then I met other autistic people.
Wait so I’m not the only one who hears electric currents in things?
Wait wait hold up… so are you telling me that most people DON’T notice the sound of electricity??? That this is… Some kinda weird-ass neurodivergent superpower??? H - HOW do people NOT hear it??? I mean I can kinda purposefully tune it out sometimes if I’m paying attention to something else, but like??? It’s such an omnipresent noise??? You’re telling me Neurotypical people never hear that soft, high-pitched whine, usually accompanied by a slight static-y energy feeling that makes your heart beat just a little bit faster, every time they leave a charger plugged into the wall or turn on that one kind of lamp (usually Florescents)? You’re saying that’s NOT a universal experience? That people DON’T feel the different kinds of electricity, how the pitch changes when it’s being transferred from the outlet to a different kind of device? How warm bulbs make the noise softer, how it almost (almost) completely quiets when plugged into a thirsty battery, that I only have these experiences because of my wackadoodle brain chemistry??? And IF THAT’S THE CASE, then how come my electro-superhearing makes me require subtitles on almost everything I watch???
We traded our verbal processing to hear electricity itself
There’s a reason we frequently test sub- to clinical ranges for various psychosis spectrum Dx’s in inventory personalities. And it’s why that clinical diagnosis has to account for this as being consistent with autism clinical diagnose. Nothing wrong with being schyzophrenic for example, is just we are aren’t schyzophrenic - we’re autistic. And people wonder why autism has such high rates of mis-Dx
I’ve got ADHD and DEFINITELY notice electricity humming through appliances.
Electric fences make noise.
The oven breathes when it’s on
Old tube TVs made a fun little buzz-hum, and the static crackled when I dragged my fingertips a few milimeters from the screen.
When I’m at work I listen to music, because that sound can drown out keyboards from the other room, my computer whirring louder or softer depending on my work, my desk neighbor chewing on seeds, conversations from the meeting room down the hall, the heater kicking on, someone fiddling with the coffee machine, people in the warehouse driving around, plus whatever sounds is coming from outside through the window, dozens of clicks and slides from mice being used, those clicks becoming faster or slower, keyboards clicking, sighs, little grumbles, chairs squeaking, the sound of hair or skin being scratched, the drag of cloth against itself, shoes scuffing on carpet… and so on.
When the brain can’t automagically filter out what is important to notice during background processes, and ignore what is irrelevant before it reaches the forefront of your thoughts as “I noticed this!l EVERYTHING is flagged as important and worthy of being noticed + cataloged.
So with ADHD and autism there’s a lot of brain power being actively used all the time, noticing things, trying to keep those acknowledgements as brief as possible to turn focus back to something productive. Which means adding MORE things like listening to someone talk, or trying to talk back, is way harder to do while also fighting through the simultaneous processing of a thousand sensory inputs that refuse to be ignored.
Music in my ears, familiar, repeating, loud - it drowns out all the ever-changing sounds around me. The sound waves and plastic in my ear physically block me from hearing other things, and since it’s a familiar thing on repeat, i know what comes next, it doesn’t surprise me and drag my attention to it, so I can ignore it and turn that steady ignoring into a background process.
It’s that same logic that makes stimming so attractive and instinctual - hands and mouths and pain take precedence over all other physical input, so wringing hands or chewing on something, or pulling hair forces your brain to focus on THAT, which you control, and forces it to ignore a dozen other low-level but NOTICABLE and IRRITATING stimuli like rough denim or a sock’s seam, or hair itching your neck, or the constant flicker of fluorescent bulbs.
Stimming a way to override how fucking bright and noisy the world is, by tricking your own brain into focusing on something you control.
ADHD is frequently co-morbid with audio processing disorder - we can hear tones and frequencies with our ears just fine, but getting our brain to process a whole language while dealing with all the other distracting shit is hit-or-miss, so you end up hearing English syllables without meaning, and it sounds like the SIMS language.
Hi my name is Werther and I have curly dark hair (that’s not how I got my name) and sad brown eyes like sunlight going through a glass of whisky and a lot of people tell me I look like Jonas Kaufmann (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Johann Wolfgang Goethe but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I have pale white skin. I’m also a poet, and I live in a town called Wetzlar in Germany where I’m the local broody stranger (I’m twenty-two). I’m an emo (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly blue. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a yellow waistcoat and a dark blue coat, a frilly cravat, blue breeches and black boots. I was walking outside Charlotte’s house. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. Albert stared at me. I put up my middle finger at him.
Den schnapp ich mir!
An ancient German proverb; when a person tries and fails to achieve something over and over again, yet each time they and everyone around them remains convinced they will succeed.
