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 Great submission to "rate my professor" 3 days ago:
I certainly do, and this shit doesn’t even look close to the ratemyprofessor website of today. I was about to do my review this week or next since semester is ending.
- Comment on Anon watches Jurassic Park 3 days ago:
Pretty sure annoying orange was a gen Z thing, as I, a gen Z kid was addicted to annoying orange at 7 or so. I hated Fred though his voice was so damn annoying. I like his current channel though, felt crazy when I saw him as an adult and not screaming. Now he’s doing shitty vacation trips 😀👍
- Comment on I will not go quietly 1 week ago:
Okay it was bad enough that people were just straight up dipping their hands into the pile, but that one lady who just straight up took a whole second plate and scooped them up was fucking insane 💀
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 1 week ago:
God, I don’t wanna look like a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist to my friends, but I hope one day they magically get concerned or ask me for privacy respecting alternative services. I haven’t really had the chance to actually test how good Revolt, Matrix, and SimpleX are, but all of them would be worth trying a million times more than Discord.
I wish we would use Signal instead. But unfortunately I have to resign myself to using Discord and GroupMe for school and friends. At least they don’t hate me for not using Insta, although some randos do seem to be annoyed by my reluctance to use it on first meet.
It’s just so hard trying not to isolate myself from friends. I get that the alternatives aren’t always great (might lack video calls, easy bot management, sever costs, shitty UX and onboarding, etc.) but we gotta at least give them a try…
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Katamari’s 5am Mourning Routine in my ass
Really hope the little prince isn’t rolling my shit into a ball…
- Comment on Forbidden weapon 4 weeks ago:
In literal tears and confusion as I watched this and then I said “holy shit” out loud, only to delve deeper into my 3am fueled headache delirium of laughter 😭
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I’m a young gen, so maybe that explains it but… I played the virtual console Yellow and got so damn bored…
It’s hard picking a favorite gen, as 4 was my first (Platinum my beloved) but I liked 5 despite not being able to beat it, but the features they introduced after gen I are all very good. Physical Special split is good imo, makes more strategy to a relatively basic game (when you don’t play against real people), abilities are great, newer types and type combos are nice additions, and a major one it the aesthetic.
Gen I characters and region are just so bland, the lack of themes, no extra minigame stuff… And I get it was the first gen so I can’t fault them for that. But the characters in the modern games are fantastic even if they’re weak, the music only gets better and better (each gen feels like it has a genre now), they include neat side stuff like the Poke Olympics, performance contests, berries & snacks, a ton of other stuff throughout the games. Like yeah, the newer games fall hard on the battle/difficulty aspect, and GameFreak’s inability to make a good looking game is astonishing. But they do put some heart in the little things in the new games, that just made grinding all day long in OG Yellow feel like a chore…
And even those there’s a lot, more Pokemon just makes that initial hour or so of a new game feel so special, like you’re discovering it all over again.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
Ugh. Thank you, I was just about to say it myself. There’s been politics in games for forever. Even the simplest shit like, “environmental destruction bad, so Sonic fight Eggman”
People are just too dumb to realize that they were kids back then…
- Comment on Rhythm Heaven Groove – Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Bro how is this the way I find out there’s a Switch Direct, and that there’s a new Rhythm Heaven, AND a new Tomodachi Life??? Next year is gonna be so fucking peak holy shit 😭🥹😩
- Comment on Hydro 4 weeks ago:
Wow, hide yo wife guy in 2025…
I remember being like, idk a elementary school kid when my mom would laugh and show me the remixes. I’m in college now.
Sorry if I aged anybody right there…
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 4 weeks ago:
I never did and I hate the app, this is just the shit I see from Youtubers who cover awful/interesting trends on Tiktok.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 weeks ago:
This is why I get so fucking mad at the tradwife Tiktok people, who go “Oh feminists are forcing you to go to work, I miss the good old days!”
Like no you fucking don’t, in the “good old days” since the industrial revolution anyone who wasn’t rich had to work their ass off in shit conditions, including women and children. These people never read The Jungle (that shit was horrifying in middle school, and I only read an excerpt), or saw the pictures of coal kids, or the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire back in 1911 that killed 100+ women and girls.
You get to pose for the camera with a full face of makeup and hold your soccer team of kids because your husband is rich and thinks you’re hot. Full stop.
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 1 month ago:
I forgot not all clients do this and thought it was an anti-joke or something for a honest second.
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 1 month ago:
Damn…
I’m Gen Z and I feel like I’d still understand the article analogy, but when I think about my gen-alpha cousins maybe they would need the TikTok analogy…
- Comment on Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal 1 month ago:
Well, I feel a decent amount of people knew it was selling their data, and just used it anyway thinking they’d get a discount from that sold data. Unfortunate but the modern reality we live in, and hey, nobody’s perfect as we’re all probably using a service or two that it’s totally bad for you (especially games)
But straight up stealing money from the YouTubers who thought they were getting sponsorship money? Now that shits crazy, and sounds illegal from the start. I mean how did they plan to respond to this once they were found out? Call me a fool but I wouldn’t expect a company to literally steal from their advisers/promoters.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 1 month ago:
Interesting, I do use Freetube on laptop but it’s been finicky about when it wants to work lately. I figured it was more of YT blocking bs.
I tried Newpipe for Android and it wouldn’t work, so I went to the fork PipePipe which does work better, but at some point I had to login so it could use my API because YT blocked that too. Plus PipePipe can scan NicoNico videos and Bilibili videos.
How good is Freetube on android?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
I’m young and even this has me gagging. Our Switch games definitely don’t look like that, although I do feel box art and blurbs on the back used to entice me more, but maybe that’s just because I’m not a kid anymore. But yeah this is fucking horrendous to look at 🤢
- Comment on Android removes my Firefox search widget on reboot 1 month ago:
Okay, thanks. I noticed that minimalistic theme seemed to be a trend with the FOSS launchers, shame they’re so text based. Maybe it’s a sign I need to clean up my home screen lol.
Maybe I should just stick with what I have anyway, no need to clutter my phone 😅
- Comment on Android removes my Firefox search widget on reboot 1 month ago:
Got any good FOSS/F-droid recommendations? I’m on GrapheneOS and used the launcher it came with (literally just launcher) but I’m thinking I might want something a little more “cuter/aesthetic” that can use icon packs. I do like weights and apps on my screen, so I don’t like search/text-only launchers.
- Comment on 'The point is to be generous': This $20 FPS releasing next month is trying something new—giving away a full version of the game 1 month ago:
Yup, me and my sister did occasional Pokemon battles/trading and Mario Kart races with each other using the Download Play or whatever it was called. I think even 3DS had it, or something similar to that effect. I just wish I had enough friends who actually played Pokemon back then, cause at my elementary school only one friend had a 3DS and played Pokemon. Everyone else was too busy trying to be “cool” and play GTA and CoD 😮💨
- Comment on Anon tries to download videos from youtube 1 month ago:
If on Android, use Seal, a FOSS app that uses yt-dlp and allows you to download the video in a shit ton of format and stuff. Apparently can even embed subtitles and metadata into the files, although I never do that.
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, I’m a gen z who can rollerblade but wants to get better and know cool tricks and shit because I love those game OSTs and wanna pretend I’m one of the characters, despite never having played them (maybe one day I’ll bootleg the JSR games). I also wanna learn how to skateboard to em. I’ll skate in your honor.
I have fucked up loose ankles tho so we’ll see how far I get before I wipeout for the final time