Wow, that's surprising! I live at the German/Danish border (Flensburg) and didn't know this. Have you got any idea, why?
Close at the border we have a lot of shops where people from Denmark (and even Norway and Sweden) travel to to go shopping, because it is so much cheaper here. But thinking about it, I have never seen/overheard Danes in an Aldi - and I wonder why?
They closed because they lost money for 40+ years straight, or close to it. Aldi never really adapted their stores to Danish habits in the same way that Lidl has. The design of their stores always made you feel like you traveled back in time to the 70s or early 80s. They did to modernize in the later years, but it was simply to late. The stores still smelt weird though.
It may also be partly due to Aldi reluctance to carry brands beyond their own. For some items Danes don't care, but if you then can't get the brand name cereal or ketchup, then you have to go somewhere else anyway. The Danish supermarket space is insanely competitive, in regards to price, so Aldi just didn't have much of an advantage over local discount stores anyway, at least not enough that you'd bother splitting your shopping between two stores.
I believe they lost €125m+ per year in the final years, loses that need to be covered by Aldi Nord in Germany. In the end they just didn't want to keep losing money. REMA1000, from Norway, bought a large number of the stores. Not sure why, they look nothing like REMAs own stores, and in some places they are literally across the street from an existing store.
A fantastic example of a man / band that is embracing the silliness is Rainbowdragoneyes. He mixes death metal with chiptune and trash pop voice modulators but still produces very intricate and well designed albums, that tell engaging stories, like this one: https://rainbowdragoneyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-mirr...
He'd fit in well at the Bangface Weekender I go to religiously, they've had both plenty of chiptunes artists and Napalm Death play there in the past :) https://www.bangface.com/
I was taught a good lesson about animations, that I want to share:
When you make an animation, you might fall in love with it too much. You are proud, because it looks really cool. It's exciting to make it. Visitors of your page might not feel the same, since we see so many animations every day. Look at one of those cheap american news shows - there are really professional animations all the time. It's a hard pill to swallow, noone cares about our animation as much as we do :(
It doesn't mean, the animation should go. It should absolutely stay, but the crank up the speed of the animation as much as you can bear. And then make it twice as fast. I mean that literally. I had made an animation that took a second to complete, a decade ago. My senior looked at it, and gave that same lesson. I cranked the speed up to 0.3 seconds - it was as much as I was willing to speed up. "Otherwise noone can really see it." ... Then I sped it up to 0.15 seconds, went to lunch, and when I came back, I could appreciate that it was perfect.
Ancient Greek was one of the best courses I had in university. It changed my view on language and western thinking quite a lot.
My favorite words are
μαθηματικὴ (mathematike): If I remember correctly, it means 1. learning, 2. letter or book and 3. "everything there is to know (for certain)".
χαίρε (chaire): Used as a greeting, literally "be happy!"
Also it is funny that βαίνω (baino) means: I am walking, while "Bein" means leg in German - the amount of Ancient Greek words in German and other languages is ridiculously high.
I think it's more likely that–being an indo-european language–there are frequent cognates between Ancient Greek and other indo-european languages like German.
Here's[0] a massive list of them, and you can see cognates between languages you might not have thought would have them, like Sanskrit, Latin, and Ancient Greek sharing many cognates.
I wanted a game like wordle, which I can play in like 5 to 10 minutes, but I don't really like word-puzzles. But everything else about wordle is great: no barriers, easy to pick up, replayable. So I made rrpg and intend to add content to it.
I haven't really thought about licensing, but I guess I will open-source it, if people like it. Right now it's just js in the browser, so anyone could copy it. Written with nx in typescript.
Played it for a few minutes and found it pretty fun!
I’ll return later to finish my run, but wanted to point out the opening quote character is wrong (it’s the same as the closing quote): it shows up as ”some dialog” instead of “some dialog”. Also, I’m on a phone and occasionally one of the options is highlighted. At first I thought it might mean something, but on closer inspection it may be a selection bug.
Both are minor issues which do not detract from the experience, but they may also be quick fixes.
Thank you for taking the time to give me feedback!
Indeed the quotes are wrong and I noticed the focus(?) bug as well on the phone. I think there are also some CSS-related bugs in safari, that I still need to fix.
Close at the border we have a lot of shops where people from Denmark (and even Norway and Sweden) travel to to go shopping, because it is so much cheaper here. But thinking about it, I have never seen/overheard Danes in an Aldi - and I wonder why?