Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 days ago:
Okay, not nearly the same, but I swear to god KH changes the fucking axis, target, and menu buttons each game, and my ass was fucking tired of it. So if a game changed inputs every save/startup I’d probably cry.
- Comment on Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus 4 days ago:
I laughed in actual horror before I realized it was The Onion. Like I would’ve fully believed it for a sec. Media literacy is important kiddos, read more than a headline!
- Comment on Don't gas people 1 week ago:
God any video of a person trying to escape something with the Springtrap audio playing in the background is guaranteed to kill me with laughter 😂
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yep, another comment in this post has the screenshot of the Tumblr thread
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I was like, “is this joking about the Tumblr color theory post?” and saw this and went yup.
- Comment on Hang on... 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but I’ll bite.
I don’t love calling people, honestly, I might prefer talking to them in person rather than calling (same for texting, I really don’t bother with texting) and I have literally cried after making an awkward call. But I still would prefer a million times over to call an actual person to take my pizza order, and for other purchases in general.
Like yeah, online shopping and self-checkout at grocery stores are great and make sense for what you’re trying to achieve. But the robot making your pizza order is gonna fuck up and add crazy unwanted toppings, or forget to mention the spice level, or etc. A real human can clarify your questions and give you extra info like, “Oh yeah it has a slightly sweet taste to the spice,” or, “This drink is really popular for people who like fruity drinks and aren’t too big on strong alcohol.” Like you would have to do way too much effort to train a bot for all that.
I don’t wanna needlessly put people out of a simple job just because of the occasional awkward call. And talking in person is almost always a joy rather than calling. Sometimes I have a decent convo with a staff member. I have a lot of introvert tendencies, but this is one that I just tell myself “get over it”, especially when another friend is too nervous to talk, then I’ll do it for them.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 1 week ago:
Hosting your own media library is awesome, just don’t try and bullshit people by pretending that you’re better than Spotify because they pay their artists poorly when you’re stealing from the artists yourself.
This in general when people talk about piracy. It’s great, and sometimes almost needed in cases where companies are making it impossible for people to access the media they want. But stop making it sound like you’re doing the creator a favor by pirating.
“Oh I pirated this musicians music, BUT I’m giving them exposure!1!1! Spotify and YT only pay them .0000001 cents per view!1!1”
Sure, they get almost no money via streaming, but at least they get SOME money over time. People who listen, like, and comment on their songs on social media gives them more exposure then you ripping the song for fucking free and MAYBE (not guaranteed for some of you) telling a friend or two about it. Priating contributes nothing to the (albeit evil) algorithm. Like it’s the dumbest moral argument/excuse people seem to bring up to defend themselves. Artists do deserve to be paid or recognized in some sort of way. Either stream or buy on bandcamp to support artists. Exposure means nothing when the bills aren’t paid.
I hate Google, but I know I don’t have the means to buy every single album from the many artists I listen to, so I’ll stick with them for now until I start making a plan on how I wanna go about buying their music and streaming it at home.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 1 week ago:
We don’t want your kind around here. Out there fraternizing and praising those dirty, electric sucking clankers! Git now, git!
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 2 weeks ago:
It’s bullshit but I’m too tired to fight it sometimes. Especially for college, I don’t want teachers bitching at me for a test glitching or a textbook link not working, so I just use ungoogled Chromium as a replacement. I use Librewolf for personal browsing which is more likely to break shit + uBlock, so I’d have to make a whole nother profile for school that has reduced security and disable most of uBlock to do my work. But to go through all those hoops is tiring.
Schools are just forcing people to give up their privacy, especially since you know non-techy students aren’t gonna do stuff like have a separate profile for their school and private browsing, so now Google knows all their shit. Plus Firefox has become the “green bubble shaming” of browsers I guess, cause I’ve had several friends and randos tease me and make it seem like FF is obsolete or something and, “why not use Edge or Chrome?” 🙄
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 weeks ago:
Glad to know I’m not the only one 😭
- Comment on I just learned this existed 2 weeks ago:
Let it be AI for my sake. Please.
- Comment on I'm ready for spooky 2 weeks ago:
Not all of us live in a place that actually gets snow when it gets cold. So you stay indoors cause you have fuck else to do, and the lack of sunshine just makes the seasonal depression that much spicier. Yeah you can bundle up, but like, if there’s nothing to do then why bother going out?
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I love watching them and really wanna get into them (P4AU, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter, etc.), plus their soundtracks are banger. But I fucking suck at fighting games and the only one I ever tolerated was the soloplayer Pokken Tournament campaign. I honestly got bored of both 3DS and Wii U smash as a child very quickly, and to this day I feel bad for the money wasted.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Alice is only a princess in Kingdom Hearts lore.
Meanwhile Ariel just chills in her world in KH1. Really wonder why they made that choice.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Lol I know what a Thwomp is, I was more so noting the fact that the pic is missing a fourth player, so I just was thinking about fighting game crossovers in general.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Almost thought the pic was a shitpost before I remembered Smash exists (forgive me I hate fighting games). Lovely that we live in a timeline where Shirtless sephiroth, Kirby’s Pokemon cousin, and a gorilla named after another animal, and another fighting game character can all fight each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
First image that came to mind when I saw this
I’m missing the Sonic collab rn…
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what it was like when my sister was young, but I also got occular migraines as a kid, and it’d be like a static spot in my vision where things just disappear behind it. Once that static appeared, I only had 10-20 mins or so before an awful headache would set off, and I ended up needing meds for it. They went away after 13 though.
- Comment on Happens EVERY time 4 weeks ago:
You’ve never had a gremlin cat cause I’ve definitely had cats try to run off with random shit in their mouth
- Comment on Anon watches youtube 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, was gonna say this. Like what YTs are y’all watching? My subscriptions and recommendations are randos playing games with their friends, memes, cat vids, and randos talking about interesting topics or the latest shitty Tiktok trend that I can be horrified by. I’m very lost as to everyone only finding these talent/corporate YTs.
I definitely have encountered the corporate YTs in the VTuber community, and I honestly think that’s why I hate Agency VTs so much compared to indie VTs. Watching Hololive/Kurosanji is like watching a bunch of coworkers play Mario Kart. Yeah, you “know” them and “get along”, but only in the superficial sense, cause you have to pay your bills. The shit always blows up later on anyway. Way more fun to watch some random with a mid setup play some obscure horror game by themselves or with actual friends.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
As a weeabo, fine, make fun of us. But I’m tired of people crusading furries and I’m not even one of them.
- Comment on Good Guy Humpback 5 weeks ago:
Ugh, yeah. It’s making me have a love-hate relationship with it. “Haha humpback helps seal not die 😊” vs “Ah. Creepos being fat-phobic 🫤”
- Comment on Florida ounces 5 weeks ago:
Of the minor but noticable changes:
- Bottom icons and text are bigger for some reason on Apple mode. Maybe more readable?
- Share icon is the “network dots” on Android, but the weird “up-arrow page” icon on Apple. Honestly I’ve never liked that Apple icon, hated Safari cause that icon doesn’t scream “share” to me.
Biggest issue for me? Why the hell does Android mode throw a grey bar at the top unlike the all pitch-black that Apple mode has. It looks clean and smooth on that mode and jarring and ugly on Android mode 😮💨
- Comment on Florida ounces 5 weeks ago:
Go to settings > appearance > theme, and there should be a category saying “System”, pick between Android and Apple.
- Comment on Florida ounces 5 weeks ago:
Holy shit you made me realize there’s a Apple Android option on Voyager. I’m on an Android phone but I was using the Apple layout:
Here’s Android comparison:
NGL, I think I like the Apple one more…
Also voyager voting buttons are Blue/Red no matter what theme you use unless you specifically pick the reddit Blue/Orange theme.
- Comment on What a shocker! 5 weeks ago:
But silly squid game fun… 🐙🥺
At least my game doesn’t have micro transactions!
~Yet… Nintendo please don’t~
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 weeks ago:
Holy fuck that can’t be real. I’m almost convinced to make an account just to see if they’re trolling. Is this how they recruit?
- Comment on How do gameplay youtuber develop interesting commentary? 5 weeks ago:
I never got super info their videos, but I think the DreamSMP would count as the roleplayer category. Honestly, when I think about my childhood Minecraft YT channels, Aphmau was the main creator of RPG-like “tell’s a story though Minecraft” content (MC Diaries, MyStreet, Dreams of Estorra [RIP 😭], etc ).
Anyway yeah, there’s a subcategory of people who I think like to roleplay in their games and make a creative, original story out of it. I think another modern example would be the Your Average Hylian, a channel that makes silly content focusing around LoZ, like “What Hyrulean ads would be like” or “Hyrule Cooking Show Parody”
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 5 weeks ago:
Oh man, the moment I clicked on this thread, Trails came into mind. Now, I myself haven’t played it, but my mother is close to finishing Kevin’s game, and we were speaking at the the next few games and the most recent one to be released. And man, I don’t even know if I wanna play this series anymore.
The anime tropes we saw and read about from people’s reviews are killing us, and me and my mom fucking love anime. Hell, she’s a shonen-anime lover through and through. But the way the older characters like Agate get yassified into looking like generic anime guy #1 with red hair and Zin into slightly less generic anime guy #2 kills me, these dudes should not look like college kids 😭
The shitty romance that they’re hinting between Agate and Tita is 🤢. I really wish they had kept them as a sibling dynamic, and I thought Tita’s mom was freaking out because she thought he was a pervert, not that he actually liked her…
Also found out about the adopted siblings from TS:CS that seem to like each other, which is creepier than Estelle x Joshua because this pair was raised together since they were literal toddlers unlike the original two… God Japan’s not-by-blood adopt a son to marry thing kills me. The adopt a son to marry is fine if the girl wasn’t raised with him or like, they’re 20 years old. But this, “we literally were raised like siblings” thing kills me sometimes.
But yeah the egregious fan service, flanderization, and overall lack of seriousness that we saw from some of the newer games made me be like “maybe I won’t pick this game up,” which is a shame. I’m really disappointed to hear about the anime gender tropes stuff…
- Comment on Nintendo survey seeks feedback on controversial game-key cards, physical and digital purchases | VGC 1 month ago:
Yeah, but physical cartridges can be sold or given away to others if you no longer want the game or didn’t like it. You can make eternal backups with tools and help others, as we know that media doesn’t last forever. You OWN the game. I have a couple digital games, but my family has box upon box of physical games. It’s the fact that if you ever get these consoles later in life, you’ll never be able to play the game because support will be cut for your console. So if a game is digital/keycard only, it’s lifespan is only as long as the support. As someone who has been playing several of my mom’s old PS1-3 and GC games, I’d be devastated if I could never play those old games due to bullshit like the keycards.
And if game companies can’t make a game without any major bugs on day 1, then maybe they should take more time to make a quality game. Minor bugs are fine, but something game breaking shouldn’t be brushed off and treated like a standard.
I’m already upset thinking about games we bought in the past that we might’ve not realized won’t work without Internet. This shouldn’t become a norm.
