Portugal

No one is going to behead you if you get the ages wrong for some reason.

But as you said, it’s only done in very very formal situations. Usually army/navy/airforce dinners and such. You almost never see it anywhere else.

I feel like this is a global thing but here it goes When serving dinner the women are served first, then the men. They do this from oldest to youngest.

So, first person to get food/wine/water/wtv served is the oldest woman, and the last person to be served is the youngest man…

Edit: I got the tittle wrong I thought it was only formal setting stuff. This is only done in very formal settings. Like an extremely important ceremony on the military branches of my country for instance.

Hahaha you’re not wrong…

Usually I play Skylords for about 30~40mins to take care of the daily. Project Zomboid late at night maybe 2hrs or so. Ruat about 1~2 after I get off work and then some league ARAM games here and there. It’s tight but I manage.

I don’t think I could fit anything else in there though hahah I’m only considering GuildWars2 event since it’s the weekend :)

LoL plagues me as usual.

However I’ve been playing some Rust and Project Zomboid on the side.

I am also playing Skylords (fan resurrection of EA’s Battleforge) which is an RTS but your units/civ is made up by a deck of cards you build yourself. It’s a very different take on the RTS genre and I never saw anything like it.

Edit: might go enjoy GuildWars2 winter event. They are usually super fun.

I mostly don’t like the movement. Feels very… “floaty”. Also the fact that when it released it only had controller mapping icons for the tool tips (this is how I remember it. Don’t know if they fixed it afterwards.)

I’m playing with a mouse mad keyboard ffs, just tell me which key to press. I don’t know wtf L3 is on a keyboard.

The world and story looks very interesting. I really want to like it… But I don’t.

Elden Ring sucks.

That does usually work! But when I feel like eating crap the lady thing that comes to my mind is looking myself in the mirror.

It does sometimes happen afterwards and I wonder why I did it. It’s getting better. I’ll get there. :)

Started during covid to avoid going outside, plus I had one of the big players in food delivery as a client, so I got a monthly 20€ voucher. That got me hooked.

I got used to it, became lazier, completely got cooking out of my routine and I the process gained 30Kg that I’m now slowly trying to get off for the past 6months or so.

In a nutshell, I got addicted to junk food and was too lazy to go get it. Also had enough money to allow me to do it, even if I shouldn’t for health and economic reasons… Could be saving for something like the down-payment on a house but nope. Spending it on junkfood+delivery (luckily tipping isn’t a thing here).

Trying to break that habit now.

As a bonus: I ordered a lot from BurgerKing. Until the end of 2022 they had free delivery above 12€. I’d easily get to the 12€.

Around January 2023 they changed the website to offer delivery ABOVE 15€ and that was crap because my orders usually didn’t go that high. Turns out they fucked it up when coding it and if you managed to get exactly 15€ it would completely bypass this check and give you free delivery.

Someone needs to go back to basic math >= :)

Unfortunately they fixed it in early November. Good thing though as it might discourage me from ordering even further.

India is absolutely leaning (hard) towards Russia. They probably never bought gas/oil and fertiliser so cheap.

10K€ would pay me some debts and allow me to buy a new(er) car than my old ass '93 corsa.

I love the thing to death since it has so much meaning for me. But I really wish it had AC and power steering. Parking on tight spots is hell, but on the upside gets me a quick workout :')

Is it because your life is amazing as is? :')

Fuck man, if I had more money I’d buy you the steam page :(

Hope you can get that soon! Maybe your indie might just be what you need to get your financial freedom :) good luck!

Hilarious. As a non native English speaker, that took me a few seconds to get. But it’s so good lmao, I’m stealing this one.

Yeah I was really looking forward for LoR being a big hearthstone fan. However the way the turns work just never clicked with me. My brother on the other hand completely abandoned HS and only plays LoR now. The cards and the effects are amazing though, it’s one of those games I feel sad I don’t like it hahaha

Also very hyped for arcane season 2. A bit frustrating that it will take so long but, if it means it’s as high quality as the first one them I’m all for it.

League of legends.

Absolutely despised it, thought it was just pointless since progress doesn’t really carry over from match to match, so what’s the point?

Eventually gave it a go back in 2011 and never got rid of it. Took me a while to get into it too, I’d only play because of my brother and with friends on teamspeak but eventually got reeeeally into it.

These days I don’t have time, or at least don’t want to invest it, for rankeds or even SR (5x5) so I mostly play ARAMs and some of the riot forge games (LOTRK, song of nunu). Looking forward for the mmo, really love the universe and I loved the TV show too.

Well to add to that then, Microsoft outlook also has a free alias servixe, which work as a redirect email that you can enable/disable at will. But I believe there’s a limit to those, so I just use my Gmail address most times.

When registering for stuff I always pay very close attention to not check the “send me offers and promotions” checkbox, unless I am genuinely interested.

If any gets by, or if any by default signs you up, whenever I get an email from them I’ll go to the bottom of the email and unsubscribe.

This means that all the marketing emails are from things that I genuinely have interest on. Sometimes, even these things get too spammy and unsubscribe from those that kinda act abusive. They aren’t your “FREE LIMITED IPHONES! OPEN NOW!” kind of emails. Those I mark as spam, hoping to improve the detection system on whatever email client, and move on.

So, essentially, I have “free time” to read those as much as you and I have “free time” to come here on lemmy. It’s something I am interested on.

Edit: just realised I didn’t specifically answer your questions but it’s basically:

1. Just a regular guy.
2. I am interested in the ones I do get.
3. Sometimes before sleep or when I go to the bathroom I look at emails/lemmy/others.

Edit2: I think there’s a distinction to make here between SPAM emails and Newsletters. SPAM emails are mostly sent based on leaked emails lists or something. Newsletters, you usually sign up for them (knowingly or not).

Edit3: Bonus ProTip - If you use Gmail you can get a + sign after your email and before the @ symbol and whatever your write on there is ignored. So for instance myemail+otherwords@gmail.com will still forward to myemail@gmail.com . This means you can kind of find out who leaked your email if you register as “email+websitename@gmail.com”, however this tip is getting known a bit more so some websites now sanitize your email and it won’t work as intended… :(

Also, if for some reason you’ll be using the email as the login it can be kinda crap.

Sorry for the long comment :) interesting topic.

I think I overall prefer digital, but on e-ink devices mostly.

I like that they don’t take up space, I can download them quickly and not have to go to the bookstore or order it online and wait for it to be delivered. Also I can sync it on multiple devices and read on my kindle when I really want to have a good reading experience but if I forget it or am waiting for the bus or something, just pull up the kindle app on my phone and everything is synced.

On the other hand, growing up with a lot of books I kinda miss the feel and smell of physical books. Also I feel like they are a bit more… “permanent”.

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