u/nightfall_69_

I'm a foreigner, and I've been reading about the German university system lately. The more I learn about it, the more different it seems from countries like the US or France.

One thing that really surprised me is that Germany doesn't seem to have a Harvard, MIT, or Grandes Écoles equivalent. There are obviously excellent universities, but it feels like quality is spread across many public institutions instead of being concentrated in a few elite ones.

Another thing I found interesting is that I haven't come across anything like the SAT or a nationwide university entrance exam that everyone has to take just to get into college. From what I've read, admission mainly depends on your Abitur results, and restrictions only exist when there are more applicants than available places..

For people who have studied or lived in Germany, does it actually feel like higher education is more accessible and less prestige driven? Is choosing a university mostly about the program rather than getting into one famous institution?

As someone looking at the system from the outside, it honestly seems like a privilege compared to how higher education works in many other countries. I'm curious if Germans see it that way too, or if it just feels normal because it's what you've always known.

Is there any way to increase the subtitle size in the Crunchyroll Android app? I already tried changing the device settings and nothing worked. It would be great if they added an option to adjust subtitle size directly in the app.

So, I was playing Minecraft today and witnessed a true blocky tragedy. A wild wolf hunted down a sheep, which is fine, circle of life and all that. But then, the absolute monster turned its gaze to the baby sheep that was following its late mother. And took it out too.

Now, as a quick reflection: this feels a bit inappropriate, right? Especially since baby animals don't drop any meat or XP! Furthermore, it's worth remembering that Minecraft has a massive audience of kids. Witnessing a predator completely annihilate a helpless baby animal for no reason can be a bit violent and shocking for children to see. It got me thinking about the logic, or lack thereof, behind this unnecessary cruelty. So, I decided to conceptually dissect the game's code.

In Minecraft's Java structure, the wild wolf has a NearestAttackableTargetGoal specifically set to hunt the generic Sheep class. The problem? There is absolutely no age filter! The code doesn't stop to check if isBaby() == true before authorizing the attack. To the wolf's cold, calculating AI, a juicy adult sheep and a tiny, pointless baby sheep are the exact same variable.

The irony here is both hilarious and a bit dark. The developers deliberately programmed baby animals to drop absolutely nothing (0 XP, 0 items) to teach us human players a strict moral lesson: don't hunt the babies! Yet, they completely forgot to teach this same ethical rule to the game's own predators. The wolves aren't hunting for survival or drops; they are just blindly executing a flawed line of code.

I know that in real life, wolves naturally hunt baby animals too. But even so, maybe watching babies being killed isn't exactly the best feature to keep in a game played by millions of children.

What do you guys think?

Sometimes I jokingly say I’m two years younger than I actually am, because the pandemic years felt so unreal and disconnected from normal life.

So when I’m 20, part of me feels 18 instead. Not literally, of course, I always tell people my real age. It’s just a weird feeling that those years didn’t fully register as “lived” years to me.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Sometimes I jokingly say I’m two years younger than I actually am, because the pandemic years felt so unreal and disconnected from normal life.

So when I’m 20, part of me feels 18 instead. Not literally, of course, I always tell people my real age. It’s just a weird feeling that those years didn’t fully register as “lived” years to me.

Does anyone else feel this way?

I basically consider 2020 and 2021 to be filler episodes.

So even though I’m 20, part of my brain still goes “nah, you’re 18.” I mean, can we really count years spent rotting indoors, losing all sense of time, and watching society collectively malfunction?

Obviously I tell people my actual age. I’m not committing age fraud. I just refuse to emotionally acknowledge the pandemic timeline.