Thank you, i appreciate that, i also love the history of music, i even have a small collection of songs from the thirties, and there you can already see how many songs from the seventies or even the nineties "borrowed" them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUSGuNxt-4 (Ram Jam's Black Betty).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsfcUZBMSSg (Nirvana's Where did you sleep last night).
I got a big collection, but often catch myself still playing the hits (i also love to sing, so why i also know the lyrics already) instead of the b sides, but maybe after i move i gonna work on that, but i also kinda want to replace my mp3 with FLAC, and that is very space (and time) consuming. :p
No, we have may 5th as our liberation day, also with festivals although not every will have a day off unlike King's day, which is just basically to celebrate his birthday (before that his mother the queen, then we called it queens day) but both their birthdays were around the same date in april.
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Wish I actually knew music but I'm kinda awful at anything beyond listening to it, to the point that as a kid I got kicked out of the chorus class in school and even from private piano classes, apparently I just can't differentiate between two notes to save my life (I like puzzle games but whenever I run into a music puzzle that requires me to remember a tune I just look for a guide or walkthrough).
The idea of having the literal birthday of the current king as a national celebration with the day off and stuff sounds so odd to me, I'm used to how they do things here with only remembering important figures after their death, although I've heard quite a few people complain about that mentality of waiting for someone's death before giving them recognition... probably has to do with how there was a president who changed the name of a province to his surname, which of course was quickly reverted. Oops, I started rambling, sorry.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/LOOM/ Ever played that? It's beautiful and a childhood favorite.
On easy mode you can see the notes on the wand, in hard mode you have to guess the notes.
Maybe it's a nationality thing where you are more used to it then in EU, although usually when someone dies we remember them by building a statue, but you even had Leningrad and Stalingrad in Russia too (then again they are also very different then europeans).
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I've heard good things about that one but never actually played it, I guess it never got a Spanish translation during the 90's and back then I didn't speak English. There's actually quite a few games I didn't play or had any interest in playing as a kid simply because I couldn't be bothered to get over the language barrier, like the entire Final Fantasy franchise, and then those titles just got pushed to the back of the list as new games came out. It's like how sometimes I'd watch a video about some really cool looking Japanese game but since it never got any translation I just can't be asked to play something while holding the phone with the google translator app open, I know some people have the patience for that but I don't.
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Actually playing old Sierra/Lucasarts with a printed walkthrough (and watching cartoons at 6:00 in the morning) is how i learned english, and the only subject in school i never had to learn for and still got good grades (don't ask me about the rest). :p
It seems you know english now, so no excuse not to try it now, it's often on a sale too, and music by Tchaikovsky. ;)
I know some german, as it has a lot in common with dutch, so i played a few games in german, and i tried to pick up some french also by playing adventure games in french (ones where you have lots of objects, so you learn the object names, what's it called how to interact with them, i mean if it's just a game with a lot of story then offcourse you wouldn't understand half of it.
I know from a game magazine here, some writer there learned to play japanese games simply by keep on doing it and eventually understood a bunch of basic commands (not that he could read whole texts), that was before the smartphone era, so in essence just keep on trying can go a long way.
But i also think the older we get the harder it's gonna be to learn a language, i gave up on fully learning german/french, life is short. :)
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As a kid I was satisfied knowing enough English to pass the exams in school (fairly easy since it was the same subjects year after year) and to navigate the interface of a program or game, then I got to university and failed the first English exam miserably, so partially out of spite and partially because I got tired of how crap Google translator was back then I pushed myself to learn to read stuff in English. I wish I could use that same approach for learning other languages but I was 20 back then and I guess my brain was more malleable, besides actually having the motivation.
But as you said I no longer have that excuse, now it's just me being a bit too slow to make my way through an ever growing backlog :P
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It's actually true the older we get the harder it just will be, kids at 3-4 years old they easily can learn new languages, for them it's like a breeze.
I got 520 games installed, i know the feeling. For every game you complete, you already got 20 other ones;)
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It's a shame about Stalin, the curator said
He really was one of the best
Just look at the detail on that head
Too bad to melt him down with the rest
But since they wrote him out of the history books
Nobody gives him a second look
It's amazing how little time it took
And now he's never gonna get his statue up in Red Square
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Too bad about Lenin, the old man sighed
He really had quite a run
For seventy years he was idolized
Even though he missed most of the fun
But the new revolution promised everyone cars
So they burned down the Kremlin and brought back the Tsars
Now they're spraying blue paint over all the red stars
And he doesn't even have his picture up in Red Square.
It's King's day thursday, but lots of scandals, and i am not a fan of the monarchy, for the rest it's a day of boozing around, but since i can't drink booze, i'll just wait patiently for the King's day lottery draw, 250000 a year, 20 years. :p
But it's gonna be 9-10c, it hasn't been over 20c for half a year, which is a record.
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