I can attest that this is true, at least for myself. Used to have massive procrastination issues. Spent days playing video games I didn’t even really like anymore. Tried out all the standard advice for time management, but it didn’t do much. Mostly just increased the pressure when the results were lacking.

But through therapy (and also uniroinically mindfulness Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), I’ve gotten to a point that I find tremendously satisfying. I can actually do the things I always wanted to do. And though some procrastination still persists (frankly I doubt it’s possible to never ever procrastinate even just a little bit), it is now on a much, much more manageable and tolerable level.

And yeah, first feeling and regulating emotions was absolutely key in all of that.

Ah yes, of course Central Europe shares a border with Turkey. How could I have ever thought otherwise.

It was already cheesy at that point, but the part where they were down on the ground & just happened to stumble upon an F-14, took that into the air & used it to defeat much newer airframes really took me out of the immersion.

Honestly, if they’d found a ww1 byplane and the copilot had used a bucket to scoop air from the inside after they got hit or a paddle to make them fly faster, I wouldn’t have found it much more cheesy.

These types of window are great until you want to get AC in a rental & realize that you now need to attach 1-2 hoses to them whilst also getting a good seal. Then you’d actually prefer the American style slide-up windows (ask me how I know) :/

Do they really add sugar to bread in the USA? Sounds so wild to me.

Anyhow, light bread isn’t terrible, but wole-grain bread makes for a much more balanced diet.

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.

The twist is that it’s a shapeshifting killer robot from the movie Terminator 2, specifically a T-1000 sent back in time to kill the child in question. The biker, on the other hand is an older (non-shapeshifting) killer robot model also sent back in time (to protect the kid from the newer model).