Unless they pull off some kind of paramilitary overthrow of the German government (and last time I checked their co-leaders didn't have an army of brownshirts to do their bidding) I cannot see Alternative fur Deutschland taking power in Germany. They actually lost vote share and support from other far right European parties when they spouted borderline Nazi views recently.
Reassemblement National on the other hand... Macron was stupid to call a snap parliamentary election, and if Marine Le Pen can make it to 2027 without being driven out by political scandal, she'll probably be the next French President.
I'd have to say winter.
Spring is horrendous when it comes to pollen allergies and gets really bad around April.
Summer is similarly bad for hayfever sufferers, but also too hot and peak season for wasps and hornets.
Autumn can be nice but that's overshadowed by being born in the same month as a lot of birthdays fall on (yes, a lot of people fuck during the Christmas holidays.) plus September is the one month that's very restricted in terms of me taking time off because we have to prep the year-end accounts at work.
Winter on the other hand... It's cold, it gets dark early, it can be pretty quiet, and there is nothing that beats the feeling of eating a turkey roast feast on Christmas Day, or going to a Christmas market and drinking mulled wine.
Petrol Bastard.
They call themselves 'Tesco Value Prodigy', yet when I see them put out tracks like these, I'm surprised they don't have much of a following.
Wrong Impression - Natalie Imbruglia
Two Become One - Spice Girls
C'est La Vie - B*Witched
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
I have a friend who worked his ass off as a teenager and had founded a moderately successful IT business from the back of his garage. He sold his share of the firm at 21 and walked away with a seven digit bank balance.
He's one of those self-proclaimed alpha males who did a lot of stuff like playing video games a lot, martial arts (black belt in two martial arts), gym, partying, etc. He would also still work from time to time, not out of necessity but rather boredom
Unfortunately age and a nasty case of long COVID caught up with him, so he's mainly going back into IT.
Windows 3.1, 98SE, XP, 7, 8.1, 10 and now 11.
I did once use Ubuntu for a few weeks but this was after someone at school goaded me into acquiring a copy of Norton PartitionMagic to try and merge two awkwardly partitioned drives on my computer, which then nuked my C:\ partition. I didn't have a backup copy of Windows XP to reinstall from so I had to go open source.
Needless to say, we didn't remain friends after that.
75%. I have my moments, plus it's hard to stay nice when there are so many assholes in the world.
Chloromancer? Yeah, I remember RIFT fondly, and I feel sad that Gamigo are milking the rotten husk of Trion Worlds out of every last cent before they inevitably shut all their games down.
I think the reason FFXIV is enjoyable is more-so that if you act like a toxic dickwad, you'll be yeeted out of the community at record pace by Square Enix, because unlike Blizzard, they actually enforce their game rules.
Healing is fun when the community is supportive and not when people are blowing a gasket over imperfect play.
I'm nowhere near as into MMOs as I was years ago, but I honestly preferred non-DPS roles. Healing was my forte and I actually feel proud of myself for nearly clearing Icecrown Citadel Heroic during my WoW heyday. Had to quit several weeks into joining a decent guild because of sixth form.
Dunno whether it's a European thing but I've always found MMO (and MOBA) communities to be toxic-as-fuck and that's what turned me away from hardcore raiding. Things were once so bad that I got bullied and harassed off of a server (Turalyon EU, horde side) during my teenage years.
I could write an entire novella of negative experiences I've had with players in both game genres, but I'd be going off on a massive tangent.
All I'll say is that this meme is accurate. Healers get a lot of flak when things go wrong, and it takes a certain level of masochism to actually want to play with the kind of verbally abusive, sociopathic, basement-dwelling turbovirgins that flip out with slur-filled nerd rage, messages telling you to off yourself, and wishes that you'll die of cancer, all because you didn't parse highly during a raid boss or didn't carry their hardstuck asses in a Ranked League of Legends game.
The hardest part about World of Warcraft (at least from a PvE perspective) isn't playing your class well. It's having to wade through a community rife with elitism, gatekeeping, unattainable catch-22's to join a raid group and toxicity. Final Fantasy XIV is a bit better, but that's because unlike Blizzard, Square Enix actually invest in customer service and actually enforce their player conduct rules.
As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.