My coat has this and that little visor bit does absolutely nothing to protect your eyes in heavy rain at all.

No worries, seen as you said the EU version worked fine I thought it would be worth a quick search :)

This site regarding censorship says that the EU and US versions are both uncensored, I could only find info saying that the Japanese, Saudi Arabian and UAE versions were censored.

Are you sure the EU version is censored?

Yeh definitely not then, this Polaris is fairly heavy with both clean and screamy vocals, good riffs, makes you wanna stomp.

All their albums from that kind of era are pretty great!

I have no idea as I dont know the show or that song. They are metalcore though so if hey sandy is a metalcore song then maybe?

That fatalism album is the first stuff I have heard from them :)

I’ve now moved onto the masterpiece that is Untrue by Burial though :D

I have just finished The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart and Jesus Christ was it a slog to get through. I dont know if it was the way it was written (auto biographical style) or something else but I found it took a really interesting idea / concept and managed to deliver it in the most mind numbingly dull way.

It went far too in depth on some of the situations described during the course of the book that I really felt were unnecessary and ignored other opportunities to expand on other, more interesting aspects.

On the whole I wouldn’t necessarily say it was a bad book but would I recommend it to anyone? I doubt it.

After this I went back to my comfy place at the moment, being the deathlands books for number 46 to find they have changed half of the cast of voice actors in the Graphic Audio adaptation I listen to.

I guess it makes sense in terms of how long they will have been recording these books but the new voice actor for the main character is fucking dire compared to the one I’m used to and lends the character a different feel in a particularly negative way.

I’m not going to give up with them yet and I hold out the hope it will get better. Failing that hopefully I’ll at least get used to these new actors.

On the whole a disappointing week!

Silo is a bit of a slog after the first book I thought.

Right now? Doppelganger by The Fall of Troy

Fatalism by Polaris has been on heavy rotation recently though.

I am definitely not qualified to diagnose anything but when I have had knee pain in the past the definitely didn’t feel like a muscle it was still connected and I found a lot of relief from foam rolling.

Particular the upper leg, find points that hurt when you did deep with the foam roller and work on those points.

It may not help the issue but it is worth a try if you haven’t given it a go.

I think it is you who needs to learn that in the UK we also use English and it is spelt learnt. Gilipolla

I have heard of Chicken Little, is it an animated film or something? Anyway no, it is from the intro of Power Stone on the Dreamcast.

Well that looks fucking cool! Most new cars do nothing for me at all but this is super interesting!

Easy or not that doesnt excuse Duolingos lack of explanation of any rules or concepts present within the language you choose to learn.

I am admittedly salty about my own experience with it which definitely skews me towards the negative view of it, I just dont like to see people jumping on that app and thinking that that alone will see them through learning a language.

I do see your points of using it as a supplement to learning through other methods but also due to the fact that it taught me a few different things that were flat out wrong I just think that there are better supplementary learning resources.

Also personally I really struggle with languages and wasting so much time on that app really destroyed my motivation for learning the language in general and as such my initial momentum has gone and I haven’t really progressed at all recently. Engagement is important like you say and I dont think the streaks are a bad idea but the way they implement them is insidious in that it is all tailored to keep you in app and hopefully paying them IMO.

My initial message was more in disgust of the app as a whole, I wouldn’t go as far as to say I expressed hate otherwise I’d have used much stronger language but again everyone’s opinion on that line will be different. I just dont think it is good at all and if I can dissuade people from using it then I will. Maybe I should have put the alternatives I mentioned in the first comment to balance out the message but it is too late now :D

I kind of see what you mean but for me I really liked it as I am not very good at languages at all, maths and science makes more sense to my brain.

I appreciated that they went through and made links with the English language based on the common root that they shared be it Latin or whatever. For me this helped me a lot to understand what was going on in the background of the language and how I could relate it to what I already know.

Everyone learns differently and so will find different methods effecrive. Duolingo was a lot better when it first came about but now it is all about getting people trapped in a loop of feeling like they are learning something when they aren’t so they can maintain subscribers.

Except for the fact that it is designed to keep you coming back and hopefully paying them for the privaledge whilst making people believe they are learning something useful.

It is in fact counter productive to actually learning a language properly. I used it for a year and a half trying to learn Spanish and in that time I never really learnt anything of worth. On top of that my native Spanish speaking girlfriend told me on numerous occasions that the things it was “teaching” me were flat out incorrect.

I learnt more useful language skills in a month on Busuu than I did in a year and a half using Duolingo. So yes there is a lot of hate because it wasted a lot of my time for absolutely zero benefit and in some cases taught me the wrong things so I had to go back and “unlearn” all the bullshit it constantly pushed to me.

It isn’t a tool to bridge a gap, it is a word game designed to get you addicted to “streaks” and then hopefully remove money from your wallet under the guise of teaching you something.

People that seriously want to learn a language should be dissuaded from using this trash app as it is only counter productive to the learning process, they should instead check out Busuu or listen to Language Transfer which is free and vastly superior!

No one is learning any language using shitty Duolingo all they are learning is how to parrot useless phrases and vocab with no explanation on how to form sentences or actually use the language properly for themselves.

Interesting. Just a couple of years ago AI generated audiobooks were unlistenable for me due to the dead voice delivery but the example here actually sounds like it would be alright to listen to.

Definitely want to give this a try for some books that have never had an audio book recording. Thanks for posting!

Oooo thanks for the heads up. Did you see the last Australian series of this? It was absolutely fucking horrendous and made the second season here look amazing in comparison.

The music is fucking dog shit though xD