General Off-Topic Chat (AKA: Let's Break The Ice)

[Kyyo]

R.I.P Martyn Brown
A sad lost for the Industry... I love Team17 games from the Commodore Amiga-era: ProjectX, Alien Breed, Worms,...

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R.I.P. Martyn Brown (Team17)

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/12/team17-co-founder-martyn-brown-has-passed-away-aged-57

www.lemonamiga.com

Sadness. Rest in peace. I will always preserve my memories of playing Worms Armaggedon on my cell phone all afternoon as a child.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

LOL, YouTube sometimes recommends me the wildest junk:

 

[Yousef]

LOL, YouTube sometimes recommends me the wildest junk:

It recommended that to me too. Haven’t watched it yet.

 

[The Almighty Hamster]

Beetlejuice was weird ngl, but the idea of the afterlife being an equally boring bureaucratic dump is hilarious

 

[WestleyWolf]

I know its late but happy new year, I'm happy 2024 is over.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Good morning, everyone!

 

[Yousef]

Morning!

Post automatically merged: Jan 1, 2025

I’ve really godawful internet right now but I can at least say hi x)
I’m glad at least our trip has been safe so far

 

[Amag0k1]

Happy new year all!

 

[Bakuma1997]

Good morning, ready to feast on leftovers from yesterday's dinner

 

[Karnik]

Hello everyone and happy new year. I'm posting here just to show off my new avatar and his (and my) surprising expertise to get to the heart of the matter in the field of love. ?

 

[Amag0k1]

I don't know why but sometimes I feel too tired to even wake up and just wanted to sleep for one day whether that'd be because of the weather or I'm just that tired

Do you have any tummy problems such as constipation, or tummy cramps?

I suffer crones (not saying you do), so allot of what your describing may be related to the gut brain axes, meaning your are lacking nutrients, or your tummy biom (literally a colleny of bacteria) might be poor, resulting in poor digestion and fatigued due to the gut brain axes causing you to feel that way.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Do you have any tummy problems such as constipation, or tummy cramps?

I suffer crones (not saying you do), so allot of what your describing may be related to the gut brain axes, meaning your are lacking nutrients, or your tummy biom (literally a colleny of bacteria) might be poor, resulting in poor digestion and fatigued due to the gut brain axes causing you to feel that way.

Thanks, I'll take a note of that

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Good... whatever time it is for you, y'all!

 

[Amag0k1]

Good... whatever time it is for you, y'all!

How goes you? Doing well today?

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

How goes you? Doing well today?

Yeah, thanks! I actually got great news to start off the year :) You?

 

[Amag0k1]

Yeah, thanks! I actually got great news to start off the year :) You?

Not bad, making progress on research, but still at the start.

So what is the good news then? Your a millionaire and you wish to support all our dreams?

"Remember, tred softly, as you tred on my dreams."

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

So what is the good news then? Your a millionaire and you wish to support all our dreams?

I got a bit of a raise at my job, which I desperately needed :)

Good luck on your research!

 

[Amag0k1]

I got a bit of a raise at my job, which I desperately needed :)

Good luck on your research!

Congratulations on your raise! Well deserved i am sure!

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Yoooo! What's up, people of the retro world?

 

[Yousef]

Yoooo! What's up, people of the retro world?

Hello person of the retro world. The floor is up! Or am I sitting upside down??! x.x

 

[DunkeyKong]

Yoooo! What's up, people of the retro world?

What's up, I'm from Mars

 

[Sandteufel]

Yoooo! What's up, people of the retro world?

Nothing much, Waffles; it's a Friday so it's a family get together. Kinda weird showing up when I'm the only adult male since the rest of the guys in my family go out with their friends. They only used to come around when they were kids and young teens. When they came of age they developed lives outside of family while I still haven't; my social circle is comprised entirely of family and I'm not really sad about that mostly.

Kinda hard to find people in my age cohort (early 20s) I enjoy talking to. My dad's one of the few I can actually speak to about topics beyond the most mundane. I don't carry a hatred for 'normies', I admit that they live lives that work for them as I do myself. We just don't overlap in terms of personality and interests, which is perfectly ok. My life works for me as it is and I don't doubt the possibility of someday having RL friends.

 

[Yousef]

Arabic and English (natively)
German (B2, upper intermediate level)
French (C1)
German I started studying on my own when I was 14 (Well, 13, February 2018, soon to be 7 years next month, wow.)
French I studied academically, taking an intensive French course for a year.

[im responding here to keep that thread spanish-only] wow brother I’m impressed you’re fluent in so many languages! I speak Arabic natively, speak English as secondary, Spanish as tertiary and wanna get better at Italian and PTBR but I’m a terrible learner xD. You’re leagues above me already haha.

 

[Sandteufel]

[im responding here to keep that thread spanish-only] wow brother I’m impressed you’re fluent in so many languages! I speak Arabic natively, speak English as secondary, Spanish as tertiary and wanna get better at Italian and PTBR but I’m a terrible learner xD. You’re leagues above me already haha.

Ah thanks man! How'd you learn Spanish btw?

 

[Yousef]

Ah thanks man! How'd you learn Spanish btw?

Oh haha this is quite a big question for me so I’ll do my best to explain it best I can haha. It sorta started out with me using my Arabic knowledge to help me understand Spanish grammar because it’s very similar. And Spanish having 8% loan words from Arabic really helped.
I begun by watching a lot of Spanish content. Like DBZ or Pokémon in LATAM Dub, or Shrek.
I begun emulating my English learning process. Write, read, speak, communicate, listen… but I have to balance out all five which is extremely tricky haha.
It’s also a really slow process of trial and error!
Hope this help a bit! I can try expanding more a bit haha. This is a topic worth revisiting!