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Simply Simon posted:Just buy Lego it's always the correct answer Just try to resist the temptation to build the Lego for her "because she's too young". (No, I'm not still bitter about many relatives doing exactly that to me in my childhood.  )
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Yeah Lego is a good idea, there are some classic Steineboxen which are great for creativity. I'd recommend the 1500 parts one + a big baseplate. But ask the parents what she already has.
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Inzidenz is going down a teensy bit, and even Lauterbach is hinting at some "modest" reopening soon-ish. Let's see how drastic the Lockerungen will be. By the way, I don't think anything but the most toothless Impfpflicht is going to make it out of the Bundestag.
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The answer to what should i get a kid is always: books.
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Feb 13, 2022 12:00
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Yeah, quality children's books are always welcome in my experience. Kästner is a good start. Das doppelte Lottchen for example. Lindgren's Michel or Kinder von Bullerbü may be a good fit as well. They are all still Vorleseterritory at that at age though. Which is an added bonus, if you have the option.
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Feb 13, 2022 12:23
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Comedy option: drum set
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Hopper posted:Yeah, quality children's books are always welcome in my experience. Kästner is a good start. Das doppelte Lottchen for example. Lindgren's Michel or Kinder von Bullerbü may be a good fit as well. Hey thanks for the tips - it is difficult as a foreigner to get a hold of German children's literature classics. I might get those for my kids.
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Torrannor posted:Inzidenz is going down a teensy bit, and even Lauterbach is hinting at some "modest" reopening soon-ish. Let's see how drastic the Lockerungen will be. Am I reading that right and Germany has a 40% positive rate? Also we in Austria did a toothless Impfpflicht and now there's already a lot of noise about getting rid of it from the parties that did it. Lmao, utter waste of time.
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Son of Rodney posted:Comedy option: drum set
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Much like adults, kids like getting money
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I gave my niece one of these big piano mats with a built-in synth that can do both musical instruments but also animal voices for her third (I think?) birthday. The kid loved it, the parents "loved" it 
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Hopper posted:Yeah Lego is a good idea, there are some classic Steineboxen which are great for creativity. I'd recommend the 1500 parts one + a big baseplate. But ask the parents what she already has. I’d actually go for the Minecraft Steineboxen (if they are still available). Both my nieces (9 and 11) are totally into Minecraft (and Animal Crossing, and Pokémon) and imo they provide better bricks than the typical, modern steinebox. No baseplate IIRC, but I’d source that one from a third party like Wange, where it’s easy to separate from “true” Lego once they want to sell it again. tuo fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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aphid_licker posted:Much like adults, kids like getting money Nah, they can't even go to the store on their own. I guess they'd like 2€ for the Kaugummi automat but Lego sounds sensible
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Combine music and Lego and get the vidyo stuff that’s on clearance https://steinehelden.de/search?sSearch=vidyo
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Feb 13, 2022 15:43
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Baseplate is stupid. My cars and spaceships and dinosaurs and spaceships don't need no baseplate
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Spice World War II posted:I gave my niece one of these big piano mats with a built-in synth that can do both musical instruments but also animal voices for her third (I think?) birthday. The kid loved it, the parents "loved" it That and a drum set for maximum carnage imo
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Healbot posted:That and a drum set for maximum carnage imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWPklDIVFc
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Throw in a pair of Vuvuzelas.tuo posted:I’d actually go for the Minecraft Steineboxen (if they are still available). Both my nieces (9 and 11) are totally into Minecraft (and Animal Crossing, and Pokémon) and imo they provide better bricks than the typical, modern steinebox. No baseplate IIRC, but I’d source that one from a third party like Wange, where it’s easy to separate from “true” Lego once they want to sell it again. I'm willing to bet that they're right on the verge of dropping Minecraft for Roblox, which is concerning.
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You can definitely get reasonably good synths for less than a Switch costs, if a kid's into making music this is not the worst idea. Although one with a keyboard i.e. a recognizable interface that teaches/builds on transferrable skills will run you a bit more.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I'm willing to bet that they're right on the verge of dropping Minecraft for Roblox, which is concerning. While I’d be up with that as I’m planning to sell all of my (mostly OVP) Lego stuff, I’m not sure….as a video game nerd, I’m actually impressed at how much Minecraft seems to be interesting for kids (Man könnte fast meinen, die Menschen bei Microsoft wussten, warum sie dafür so viel Geld ausgegeben haben). I’d have to check if I have more hours in Stardew Valley or Minecraft (I bet it’s Minecraft) but VR Minecraft was something I actually removed the headset, checked the clock and couldn’t believe that I just basically played for like eight hours in VR…I don’t even do this in racing sims….
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Son of Rodney posted:Comedy option: drum set if you hate everyone, a violin is much worse. a violin, badly played, is both surprisingly loud and off-key. that said, drum kit, but unironically.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUxfZtxcujk Just watched this and it is good imo
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*taps sign*
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I've seen this and my first reaction was "do we even still have that many left?" Ukrainischer Botschafter trinkt einen Vodka zu viel, rastet völlig aus
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Libluini posted:I've seen this and my first reaction was "do we even still have that many left?" Let's just give all the working Panzers (yes both of them) to Ukraine and see how much that helps lol
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Libluini posted:I've seen this and my first reaction was "do we even still have that many left?" In fairness, can't really blame them for being pissed after "Oh yes, we'll help you with, uh, some helmets".
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Word of the day: das All (space) I like it
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suck my woke dick posted:Let's just give all the working Panzers (yes both of them) to Ukraine and see how much that helps lol Imho, it would have been a good idea to just mothball all our old DDR-tanks for cases like this. Maybe even cheaper than just scrapping them, plus now we could have had thousands of "non-lethal" rusted wrecks we could have given Ukraine as Panzerattrappen.
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In fairness, Ukraine actually asked for helmets (I think 100,000) among other tactical equipment. But yeah, Germany sending only sending 5000 was pretty bad optics.
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Phlegmish posted:Word of the day: das All (space) Next word of the day: 
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W... why are we so super hesitant to clearly position us against Russia? Is there more to it than our reliance on Russian gas?
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Tarquinn posted:W... why are we so super hesitant to clearly position us against Russia? Is there more to it than our reliance on Russian gas? https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/germany-nato-and-the-ukraine-crisis/id1079958510?i=1000550546680 If you are interested this podcast covers your question fairly well. To sum it up in one sentence, it is nuanced and Germany has 'Special Interests and connections' with Russia. Also, the guest speaker is Dr. Ulrike Franke who has her own podcast https://sicherheitspod.de/
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Tarquinn posted:W... why are we so super hesitant to clearly position us against Russia? Is there more to it than our reliance on Russian gas? W..why are you so horny for war?
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Dick Ripple posted:https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/germany-nato-and-the-ukraine-crisis/id1079958510?i=1000550546680 Thanks. Goa Tse-tung posted:W..why are you so horny for war? Edit: Of course, I know poo poo all about this topic, and I am open to other opinions. That's pretty much why I asked in the first place. Tarquinn fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Tarquinn posted:W... why are we so super hesitant to clearly position us against Russia? Is there more to it than our reliance on Russian gas? There was this time roughly 80 years ago where we were very obviously the bad guys and Russia is the successor state of one of the biggest victims of that time.
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A bunch of bougie Germans seem to think that the bad stuff Opa did "in Russland" didn't include Ukraine and that you can make up for Nazism by letting the super chuddy current Russian Federation punch around other Eastern Europeans A bunch of leftist Germans seem to think that imperialism is good as long as it's not NATO doing it Goa Tse-tung posted:W..why are you so horny for war? Shouldn't telling Putin that the invasion is going to be expensive economically make war less likely? If he thinks it's easy and we'll let it slide the war is definitely coming
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There's different philosophies at work. Some believe that Russia stomping its neighbours like a bull in a chinastore brings further instability and insecurity to the rest of Europe, so intervening in the form of a threat of sanctions and propping up the underdog would reduce the risk of things going bad. The opposing view is that it's none of our business or something that can be helped with, better isolate instead of getting our nose deep into people's businesses and possibly escalating things by our presence.
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It's gonna be the usual.Tip-toe around and hand-wring quite a lot, then watch and say "nothing we could have done" and then lament how X product/resource Ukraine had is now more expensive because prices are now dictated by Russia. But at least we didn't risk our trade relationship with Russia because otherwise we would have had to come up with a solution to being dependent on their gas. If we were able to get a united strong EU answer to Russia, that might actually have an effect, however "united answers" are not even possible in Inlands Fragen as Covid has shown repeatedly. Hopper fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Nenonen posted:The opposing view is that it's none of our business or something that can be helped with, better isolate instead of getting our nose deep into people's businesses and possibly escalating things by our presence. This view is also mindlessly stupid, considering Putin's demands included wanting Poland and the Baltic States to leave NATO again, which in no way sounds suspicious. I'm certainly sleeping soundly at night, knowing a military dictator is trying to occupy a country just on the other side of Poland. Hell, Kaliningrad is in Poland and probably close enough to Berlin to really gently caress with us if Putin wants too.
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