In Europe we have Thomann and their in house brand of guitars (Harley Benton) and they have absolutely no right to be as good as they are for the price, also good looking things as well.
Especially if we've been away longer our cat will just go nuts for us for days. Even just coming home from work she'll come say hello and maybe give us a couple roll-arounds to greet us. I get that it's not quite as obvious as dogs though and previous cats I've had were not so affective.
Doesn't look like anyone listed the Ori soundtracks by Gareth Coker yet, they're amazing. Also can't go wrong with WoW if you're looking for more classic fantasy style.
This holds true across pretty much everything, you're always better off doing a moderate amount of effort regularly over a longer period of time than going all-in for a short period, it's just being human. Ever since we were hunting mammoths by slowly walking behind them, rather than sprinting.
Piano is maybe a slightly easier learning curve at the very beginning if you're just trying to play with one hand and sound like a 4 year old, but these curves cross real quick. It's much easier to sound decent with a guitar, which sounds like what you're trying to do.
You've got a lot of good advice all over this thread, up to you to listen to it!
Depends what you mean by going out to eat. In Europe: these days we mostly cook, we only eat out if we're going to a proper restaurant, in which case the food is made by a proper chef and is usually delicious. We very rarely order in because instead we have a subscription where we get two dinners a week delivered in reheatable format, the food is designed by dieticians so it's not always super tasty but it's healthy, especially compared to what we have available for delivery and it does the job of not having to cook that night. I've cut off fast food entirely except maybe a nice kebab here and there (very rarely). It all started when I went on a forever diet and counting my calories/macros, my partner, being amazing, helped me out with the healthy cooking and grocery choices.
I just struggle with finishing my ton of blueberries before they spoil :(
Perso je fais 3/4 (pas encore trouvé comment éviter le stress...), a environ 75%/90% d'effort et ça marche vraiment au top. Je sens mieux maintenant que quand j'étais jeune... Le tout c'est de trouver un rythme que tu peux soutenir sur le long terme, et de quand même s'accorder de vivre un peu.
I guess if it's a situation where multiple enemies are in sight everyone would focus on the cybertruck so you'd be even more targeted than normal (I have no idea how to play Fortnite).
Aren't you a smart cookie 🍪 also less risk of getting killed in your sleep I guess.
Unfortunately like I said it's a non-starter for me regardless.
"The crowd's energy was an encouraging sign for the democrats"
As a non-American, I found it very grating how they would cheer every other word. It just made the speech unlistenable and basically interrupting the speaker. Maybe I'm getting old but got me a speech should be listened to and you clap at the end.
It gave me the same worship-style energy I get when I see trump speeches.
My partner doesn't tolerate light/sounds when going to sleep otherwise I'd love a ceiling-tv over the bed.
What's the Sopuli stance on threads?
I know that's the talk of the minute and the rest of Lemmy is bombarded with arguments about whether to defederate from threads or not.
I'm not looking to start the debates here as well but I'm just curious on our beloved admin's stance about it, are we going to allow federation with threads?
Dead feed?
Hey there, so I registered to Sopuli recently and I'm still getting through the transition out of Reddit, I'll admit right now I'm enjoying the shit show too much to step away but once RiF stops working, I'm probably gonna be around here a lot more.
But right now my feed seems completely dead. I spent some time subscribing to some popular communities from different servers and I try browsing local, all and subscribed. Both hot and active serves me posts that are days, sometimes weeks old.
What can I do to get more content in my feed? I was just browsing the kbin front page (without an account) and was seeing fresher posts from Lemmy servers than I'm getting in Jerboa so it must be something wrong on my end and not just that's there's too little content.
I'd like to share a branch of Hip-Hop/Trip-Hop that you may not know about if you don't know the French scene
Hello! As a newly arrived Reddit refugee I thought I would try to contribute. I might start posting individual tracks if I sense interest but for now, let's start with a broader overview.
There is a branch of hip hop very close to my heart, one that has a relaxed, elaborate ambience on boom bap beats with twists.
I won't pretend I have historian level of knowledge but you can think of it as a continuation of artists like nightmares on wax, tricky, etc but also massive attack, portishead and that kind of more melodic trip hop. Some of it mixed with traditional rapping.
This all mixes into the French melting pot and you get this back and forth between traditional hip hop with a rapper, and this abstract, melodic Trip-Hop scene. You'll also find influences from reggae, dub, punk, rock, jazz, Celtic, Arabic, oriental etc etc etc, since this is very much a world of samples, while some artists do compose everything themselves.
Now of course all these things exist outside of France but I've explored a lot, I don't even live in France and I listen to many genres, and for me at least it's in the French artists from which I tend to find "that sound" that works for me.
Now to get you started on the journey, some of the more mainstream artists to search for in your preferred streaming service. I keep it to things international people can listen to (e.g. no/limited French lyrics).
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Chinese man (the masters, within this artist alone you can find many of the substyles I'm talking about I prefer the older albums by I hear youngsters enjoy the new stuff)
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Degiheugi (more modern and his own unique twist, kinda tropical)
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Chill Bump (these guys are more traditionally hip hop, the lyrics are in English, but you can still sense the influence)
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Kognitif (this is very much the essence of what trip hop means to me)
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Guts (here you'll find more ethnic influences, he also makes live musicians participate to his productions)
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Scratch Bandit Crew (not a fan of the whole discography but the good tracks are really, really good)
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Mounika (and finally, one of my all time favourites in his decidedly more chill and dark vibe, bordering on lo-fi at times).
There are so many more great artists and if you did want to try one with French lyrics, then in the more traditionally hip hop category but embodying this branch, I suggest starting with "Dooz Kawa".
I hope that I might make a few people curious with this and maybe even create a new passion or two for my beloved flavour of trip/hip hop.
Share your own regional artists that you think upstage the usual international stars in their own way!