@Chemus cc @Thyzer A Vorlesung is the German word for university lectures and/or the "course" these lectures belong to. So this thing being called a Vorlesung can just mean that you will be credited for it as if it were a lecture course you attend, but it may well be more of an "ordinary" classroom experience
I've had Vorlesungen that really went more like a classic school lesson, particularly when they involved language or practical things like working on a specific program
@Chemus I liked the english books especially made for school usage (new vocabulary was translated at the bottom of the page)... But friends of mine had to read "Much Ado About Nothing" (?) and there was no vocabulary help... disturbed the reading experience heavily.
I didn't like any of the English novels/screenplays we read in school. I think I started actually reading English novels with Pratchett since I wanted to enjoy the puns in the original
My proficiency with English comes largely from reading, both massive quantities of functional but not showy English and smaller amounts of very elevated and eloquent English.
@ACuriousMind a friend of mine LOVES Pratchett, but she reads it in german. She actually offered me to read them out loud while I play videogames, because I didnt want to read them by myself :D
@Thyzer Heh, how would you concentrate on both the game and the story being read to you? And the translations are very well done, but they still lose a bit, of course.
@BESW since I am at university the only books I read are those from the professors... when I am finished learning I do not have the desire to read more...
@BESW yeah pretty much all of mine comes from my strong desire to read books, sci fi, fantasy, fiction, and historical books contain a certain fun variety of language I think
@Chemus, Its true that people share what they enjoy, but level of effort is generally a factor for almost all non-autistic people I know. Outside extenuating circumstances, this effort/reward ratio is usually too high.
My friends gave me so much reading recommendations... and every single one is a whole series with dozens of books... Like "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" which is (regarding to my friend) "Game of Thrones in good"
@trogdor My favourite storyline is probably Commander Vimes (his name is Mumm in German) and the city watch, but there's not a single one I dislike (though I think the first few books are weaker than the rest)
@Thyzer I think it's the Sequel effect: Author's book sells well, author writes more of those. Readers get attached to characters/world, readers read more of those books.
@Chemus I've invested about 300 hours in this show... and I would say its my favorite show to watch... even above game of thrones, hannibal, walking dead etc.
Also, honestly, that's the point of playing it HARD is learning how to deal with other people's shittiness while simultaneously learnign what is or isn't other people's shittiness.
@ACuriousMind I was a bit overwhelmed, coming from a 1000 inhabitants village with at most 200KBps internet into this city... people every where, everytime... with the right connections there is a group activity almost every day... I love it... especially the 15MBps internet.
"Fun" is not the word I'd evoke first when talking about the point of playing League, any other pvp game or Dark Souls. Not in the usual sense. "Git Gud" is probably a more accurate first order "point"
@Thyzer Oh, wow, I can't imagine what that's like. I'm originally from Wuppertal, about as big as Münster, so I don't know what's it like not to live in a city
@ACuriousMind, "fun" as the point is contrary to "getting good". It can't be any more than a side effect, or else it gets in the way.
@Miniman, I'm not saying you can't play "any" games for fun. Just saying that "for fun" is a screw, and League of Legends is a hammer. Its a bad tool for that job.
@Miniman I would say the point is to "enjoy" it. I would not say that some (emotional heavy) games or fighting a hard boss 10 times in Dark Souls is 'fun', but the feeling after beating it is very enjoyable.
@Thyzer That's fair - although I do enjoy fighting hard bosses in Dark Souls repeatedly. The way Dark Souls makes improvement of your skills palpable is one of its biggest selling points for me.
I....honestly don't find most of the community to be that bad. There's also the interesting fact most of the issues in that game don't come from genuinely "toxic" people, like you'd expect.
Most of the toxicity is anger-propogation through community members who are generally and genuinely non-toxic people.
whether that is true or not, there are people playing that game just to have fun, who then run into people yelling at them for dying one too many times
I'm not trying to say they are horrible people for it, but the action they currently take at that time can be considered "toxic" especially proliferated on the level that it is
@godskook can be, but that still leaks the toxicity into the community
all that tells me is that there is a bit of a feedback loop
