Dreaming_Novaling

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was an advid Pinterest user until the excessive ads around 3 years ago, and that was right as the AI art was starting to flood the place. I just liked looking at Anime art, memes, and making boards of my favorite media cause something about categories makes my brain tick. But I feel like Pixelfed doesn’t meet the exact needs Pinterest people have.

  I might be dumb but from a quick test on both Pixelix (Android app I use) and the Pixelfed Webapp, Collections seems to be a collection of posts by you, not a collection of saved posts from others. They’re either a draft, public, or followers only, not private option. Also the bookmark button seems to not work on either client either, like what does it even do?

  Anyway, yeah Pinterest is a hellhole now, but until Pixelfed cleans up the UI a bit more and adds more features, I don’t think it can really be called a replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Figured lol, he’s the usual culprit for any cute gijinka of a current trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this Merryweathery? I swear he’s always the one doing these gijinkas (Internet Explorer-chan, Twitter-chan, Switch-chan, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something to think about⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, is there like good ways to discover music via the Fediverse? Cause like, forgive me for still clinging to YT Music, I like finding new music and it gets stale every now and then since I don’t have history turned on for recommendations.

  At this rate I’m gonna start making daily/weekly Mastodon posts about what I listened to in hopes of someone just commenting similar sounding artists.

  • Dubstep is nice, not my fave EDM sub-genre tho (DnB, Breakcore, and Jungle all the way!)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst thing about Linux is its users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I think outside of potential language/accessibility/hardware incompatibility issues that I’ve read on blogs/comments, Linux works for the “average” user. It’s the slightly “advanced” user like me who struggles, and the “truly advanced” who swim like a duck in water in any distro. Like the bell curve meme.

  I say this cause if I literally only needed some apps and the browser, I wouldn’t struggle. But I do tinker with things and end up needing slightly uncommon software/features that require me to use the CLI (and my dumbass can’t remember commands), even though I’m mid at using the CLI. Meanwhile, people born with a usb-stick in hand love the CLI and use it for everything, even things I would try to avoid unless I felt it was easier.

  A kid I know has put his grandparents on Fedora, and has no issues. It comes down to the person. If they can click some buttons and read, and only wanna use office, browser, and a app or two, they’d probably live. Yeah, you might have to tinker how it looks for them or put the apps on the desktop, but outside of that, it’s simple.

  Windows definitely doesn’t “just work”, I had to figure out Windows decided to kill my Wifi adapter whenever my laptop would go in sleep (god… why???). OneDrive is an ass, devices not wanting to connect (Bluetooth controllers), printers, etc. I’ll give you that Mac works pretty well for those who like it, but I hate Apple and never got used to Mac. I still can’t remove some shitty old virus scanner that doesn’t work anyway and it can’t update anymore, so it just rots on our computer. So like, Mac has their off-days with me too (one time FF nuked itself…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst thing about Linux is its users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my grandma had to call my mom and I to help her with Windows to stop uploading everything to OneDrive, and even I fucking hate fighting Windows over OneDrive. I think she could live with Fedora or Mint and be okay, unless there’s a specific app she needed.

  My grandma actually used to be a computer professor back in the 80s or so, but I guess use it or lose it lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New vocal stim⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the post

  I guess it’s a drink + a (Travis Scott themed?) Labubu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New vocal stim⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just liked a post like, 10 mins ago that was Travis Scott x Erewhon Dubai Labubu Chocolate Matcha Latte in Production or some shit and the OOP said "this sentence would kill a Victorian child’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m upset, the tech and privacy communities need to step it up cause I’ve never seen this fact. I kinda knew URLs had a lot of junk, but I never knew what could be removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck it, Akihikonator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta start P3R. I finished Fantazio and then dived head-first through every piece of KH media so now I’m a little fatigued from RPG media…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, that graph and website is amazing. Simple, but gets the point across. I’ll share it from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High quality sticker though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as bad as being called a “Klan Man” but I once saw a guy with a MAGA hat and then wearing a Christmas themed Naruto outfit while walking around the mall with his family…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Coldplay actually sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly yeah, I’d never heard of this company before the whole viral scandal and memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Coldplay actually sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if this is sarcasm, so I’m gonna answer genuinely:

  The two people in the pic are having an affair, that’s the Astronomer CEO Andy Bryon and his Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot on a kiss cam, and they hid their faces once they were on the Jumbotron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Illiterate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eng Learning TLDR: I was raised with both sight words and phonetics, and realize that my gen was fucked over.

  I’ve heard about the reading wars, but this was the first time I actually thought about it with my education, and I realize why I probably wouldn’t read as well if I didn’t have parents who actively read with me as a child.

  I’m a 2006 baby, so I guess my elementary years were at the perfect time for this little debate to occur. I definitely remember doing sight words and their flashcards, but I swear we still did phonetics (thank god). But like, how would anyone expect a kid to magically learn words by just looking at it 50 times and hearing a teacher say that word? I get that according to this article, a large portion of Eng words can’t be read properly first try, but still, I see the value in having a kid connect the sounds of “cat, bat, hat, that,” etc. Yes, some homonyms like “to, too, two” are gonna have to be “sight words” but that’s unavoidable.

  I hated Eng class, not because of sucking at it, but how we never really got free reading time after elementary, and that we were doing lame ass journals and reports on books I didn’t want to read. And there were high levels books I did want to read, which is why I loved a banned books project that gave us the freedom to pick a book to do a creative, in any format you want, presentation of the knowledge from the book.

  So if I, a person who actually wanted to read and can read well hated Eng class, then people who have learning disabilities, are simply bored, didn’t have parents who cared, etc were cooked. I guess that’s why my college classmates are so incompetent rn…

  Also side note about Chinese (or well, Japanese in my case):

  Yeah, CN and JP use hanzi/kanji respectively, which are logograms, but both CN/JP have “alphabets” that can be used to tell you the reading of a word. Chinese uses pinyin (which is actually what most of their keyboards are based on I think), and JP has hiragana/katakana. It’s still however more useful to learn the readings for these characters in the context of what you’re reading (esp. Japanese, they got their writing system from China but used their own bastardized readings for words, so 生 has like 10+ readings depending on the word it’s paired with).

  But they still have a neat trick in which kanji have two parts, the phonetic component, and the meaning component. Kanji are made of radicals, which is like using lego blocks to make a single character (i.e. 米 + 青 = 精). The neat part is that you can potentially guess the reading of a word if you already know that phonetic components reading. 青 can be read as “sei”, and these kanji 精, 清, 圊, 睛, etc. all have “sei” or a similar version as a potential reading. Now sometimes the radicals don’t always make sense meaning wise when added together. 青 is “blue/youth” and 米 is “rice”, but 精 means “spirit/ghost”, “energy”, and uh… “semen” (mostly in the word 精液 “spirit fluid”). Why rice + youth = spirit or ghost, is beyond me, but these kanji usually have interesting stories behind them that could potentially explain their reasoning.

  JP Kanji Learning TLDR: JP is fun to learn and kanji have reading patterns based on their components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dimitri uses the self checkout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FE3H shitposts on Lemmy, I feel so blessed. If only I could find my lost copy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Libreddit died when Reddit made the APi change a couple years back, RedLib which is a fork is maintained

  Originally, I was confused why people were saying that Libreddit is dead, cause I thought I was using it up until about a month ago, but now I realize I was using RedLib. I’m not sure why, but recently LibRedirect defaulted to Libreddit instances and I was dumb and didn’t check which service I was using, so I thought all Reddit proxies were dead. Thank you for helping me to notice this difference! I can finally stop having to go to the actual Reddit page 🥹

  I also host a Redlib instance at lib.halstead.host again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s.

  I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, nadeko is one of the few that works, but like I said, they get mad at me for using Chameleon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher (which I turn off but still). Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.

  Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People were no less thirsty back then⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay at first, I was choking back laughter and raising my eyebrows to the heavens while reading, but then I clicked the link and was shocked by the sheer horror of quickly skimming the countless horny-jail letters this guy wrote to Nora. Like my jaw dropped likea fucking SpongeBob character 💀

  Nobody should be judging younger gens for their kinks holy shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Green bubble shaming is real and I felt it in middle school but more so in highschool from my own softball team. Hated that shit, but I loved my Moto g7 play so those bitches can fuck themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨twisted⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The text was probably original, but it’s become a copypasta, so this evil Snoo is definitely a shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, depends on the group and mod level. Yeah, the overall Tiktok and Insta moderators get paid (poorly) to do their job, but do subreddit and individual sever Discord mods get paid?

  If we’re talking about Fediverse, maybe the mods of an instance would get paid, but I can bet most Fedi mods rn aren’t being paid, they do it for love.

  The biggest point is this:

  a team with tonnes of support from the get go, both each other and mental health services etc as a bare minimum

  There was a post the other day about protesting Tiktok mods who talked about the horrifying amounts of gore and NSFL stuff they had to remove from the service, getting no support nor concern for their well-being from Tiktok. So you can absolutely pay someone (although not well probably, even for a billion dollar company), but all the money in the world won’t erase looking at 300 beheading videos.

  I think the biggest thing helping the Fediverse is the fact that it’s fragmented and not meant to get too big per instance. No one is ever gonna have to moderate millions of accounts like big tech does. Mods can suspend sign-ups and set their own limits. We could make a pretend scenario where each instance is only 1K people, which is far easier than what YT and Insta have to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: I probably wouldn’t suggest playing 3 unless you’re willing to play/watch the side games. The conclusion will not hit hard at all if you didn’t play the side games.

  I literally just played through all the games (besides Re:coded, watched it) and I have conflicting feelings about it. Storyline wise, I didn’t love or hate it, as some parts were really nice and heartwarming to see (I really loved the reunion of the other two trios) and certain worlds are nice to meet your fave characters (Toy Box my beloved). But the main plot feels both satisfying and meh. I watched the fandub of union x and got really excited to see the lore be teased more in 3, but because 3 tries to appease everyone (crowd who played all the games vs crowd who only played 1 & 2), they don’t get to dive as deep as I wanted. I am more willing to ignore some of the bs and laugh rather than cringe, but I do understand why many find the plot corny.

  The combat… I’ve basically hated the combat in every KH game, BBS is the only one where scrolling through the skill menu didn’t feel like ass, meanwhile DDD executes flowmotion beautifully (while it feels useless in 3), and yet CoM had my favorite system overall (might be my favorite game honestly). 3 controls are far better than KH 1, but the actual difficulty is non-existent and makes blocking feel almost useless. The attraction attacks are there I guess (my mom liked them lol). KH 1 normal mode had me near tears (Even the fucking Traverse Town Armor), CoM was frustrating but satisfying, 2 was boring besides the impossible super bosses, all of 358/2 was just awful overall, BBS was very normal until final boss, and DDD was slightly frustrating but beating the final boss was satisfying. 3 was a snooze fest besides final bosses that just made me go, “oh, I guess I won. I kinda just mashed x.”

  IDK, I’ve had a KH shaped hole in my heart over these past two days, wondering what I want to play now that I got through my 2 month marathon. I both miss the games but also acknowledge that they get very repetitive and tiring over time. My mom only played 1,2 & 3 and has basically said KH and Square are dead to her.

  CoM, BBS, and DDD are a must to watch/play. 358/2 is only worth it if you like challenge missions (I skipped them, hated the gameplay), Fragmentary Passage is only on the 2.8 disc and is literally 4-5 hrs, and Re:coded is supposedly good gameplay but the plot is just “what if data simulation Riku and Sora went through KH 1 together?” And Union X is gonna be vital to watch for those preparing for KH 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy cheated on 35 different women for gifts and you go:

  Also, what a legend.

  I hope that’s a /s 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can only bring back one. Which do you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was like, “Friendly’s is dead?” for a terrifying second before I read this 🥹

  Actually I was like 5 the last time I ate there so it’s really not that special to me but happy they’re not dead yet. Started my love for gummy bears in ice cream.