Unfortunately, I’m not a native German speaker. So, take this with a grain of salt.

I will say that the German language has always been open to loan words from other languages. And, according to my German teacher (who is native), the biggest change recently in that regard is NOT how loan words are accepted BUT how quickly they are accepted these days. New loan words are being added all the time, especially by young people. He said that generally the word will be accepted as it is at first, and then over time it well become more “germanified” and used more like native words. He said this process used to take decades but now it can happen in less than a year. An example of a germanified English loan word is “chatten” which means “to chat,” just like English. Ich chatte, du chattest, wir chatten. (I chat, you chat, we chat.)

I believe the simplification of grammatical structures (like the abandonment of genetive) has been going on slowly over centuries and is mostly unrelated to contact with English speakers. But, there is likely some influence there.

While not totally gone, German’s genitive case (which is used to show ownership) is becoming less and less common. They have both the genetive case as well as their equivalent of " 's " - which is just “s,” if you’re wondering. Example:

Der Herr der Ringe.

The Lord of the Rings. It would normally be “die Ringe,” but it becomes “der” in the genetive case.

Another transition in German is that the “formal you” is being used less and less frequently. I understand this is the case for a few other European languages as well.

Discord does support this (depends on the distro) if you’re looking for an immediate solution.

Only tangentially related to your question, but it wasn’t until Gen 5 of Pokémon that French, German, Italian, and Spanish started getting their own direct translations from Japanese instead of being translated from the English translation.

Technically not a fully first party game either.

Literally nobody asked for this.

Do you make these yourself? Are they quotes from something?

Oh, and - Happy Birthday!

I see where you’re coming from on the “getting burned out focusing on one game” thing.

Personally, that time I spend hyper focusing on the one game tends to be the only time I’m actually having fun with a game. Well, sometimes.

I’m glad this works for you. Sounds neat. I might try it.

Do you mind talking about why you did the two hour switching thing? Did it keep things interesting?

Without trying it, I would guess it would be confusing/annoying jumping between stories like that.

What do you know?

WHAT DO TOU KNOW?

Also, I already have my own little library so I’m set on that end. I probably would just get get blitzed and enjoy myself with my husband those last three days.

I have books on everything from “doctoring where there is no doctor” to scavenging the local area to encyclopedias, etc.

My library is for the survivors. I harbor no delusion that I am likely to be among them. (And, in the mean time, I just like books.)

2 guys 1 fish was better

I had kinda thought it was from my breath, but I never really looked into it. Could be all three?

1. Use your phone to take overview pictures of where the photos are located.
2. Put all the photos in a drawer
3. When you are ready to move out, use the photos from step 1 to put everything back where it was.

What does SBA mean?

Huh, that makes sense. I was wondering what caused that buildup slowly over time.

Whichever distro you decide on (the current top comment is correct in implying that it really doesn’t matter), just look up how its program manager works. It’s usually not hard to use, but it does vary from distro to distro.

Unlike Windows, you usually want to install Linux programs from the distro’s “app store” instead of downloading each program from its website. However, what’s called “app image files” do exist. I want to emphasize, though, that these should be your last resort.

Top option isn’t free, but the third one is. FYI.

I have no idea why an agnostic lesbian who is married to a brown woman would ever want to support a far-right party, but here we are.

Ugh, of course. Guess I misunderstood that part.

Gay German politician, Spahn, recently resigned after announcing that he and his husband had a baby via a surrogate mother from the USA.

Why? Just a few years ago he supported legislation that made surrogate motherhood illegal in Germany. (Technically, using a surrogate mother from another country wasn’t illegal, but the whole point of the law was his party of Christian values said it was immoral.)

Not really sure what he thought would happen.