Novaling

Whoa don’t come for Bluetooth like that. I like not having tangled wires and janky earbuds/headphones, especially because my clumsy ass used to snap the cords all the time by accident.

I do agree though that we should get the choice to use headphone jack or bluetooth. I also miss having a jack since I have to use my charging port to connect to my car radio…

The DS had plenty of fantastic games, but when it comes to a game I feel had the most beautiful example of using the controls in a creative way, I’d say The World Ends With You takes the cake.

I’ve literally never played a game that needed such a high degree of multitasking, not just for mental multitasking, but also hand-eye coordination. Playing that game on Hard mode felt crazy, and I literally never unlocked Master mode. Balancing between the top and bottom screen characters was such a challenge, especially if you’re actually trying to make use of the green puck for more damage. The fact that each partner has their own battle method is fantastic too, as you never get too comfortable with one character until you finish the game.

Add in fantastic art design, catchy soundtrack, funny & memorable main cast, and you get absolute peak. I can’t believe Square let that game rot for more than a decade. The Neo TWEWY sequel was pretty good too, but nothing will literally ever compare to the original’s controls. It’s just so addicting man.

At this point I’m leaving a paper trail in my comments. Sigh, I’ll keep it short and sweet.

If you’re using ReVanced to hack and get through Duolingo, then I think you should just drop the service. There are countless free resources out there that do a better job, and aren’t predatory or make you hate learning. Duolingo is good for beginners and about a month or two of learning. Please let that app go, especially since the CEO thinks AI is a suitable replacement for the education system…

So glad I clicked on the post, would’ve missed the absolute ride in the cutoff.

Not OP, but typically asexual is perceived as not having any sexual attraction/having minimal sexual attraction to anyone, regardless of gender. It’s like the opposite of pansexual (attraction to anyone regardless of gender).

Everything is a spectrum of course, which is why people talk about the graysexual area, where you have some attraction but there’s extra things that make it not the “typical” experience of allosexuals (those who experience sexual attraction). Things like Demisexual (attraction only after having a close bond), Aegosexual (having sexual arousal and fantasies, but you don’t think of yourself in those fantasies), etc. These are all microlables to help people narrow down how they feel.

So if you have a distinct and noticeable sexual attraction to one gender, you probably are allosexual (straight, lesbian, gay, etc.). Note, however, that romantic ≠ sexual, and you can be asexual but only date men, or be asexual and date both men and women.

Well we all know OneDrive cost money but like you get 5 or 10GB free, and even then if you go over I’m 99% sure those files just stay on your PC.

But the moving files thing feels real. I remember testing out Fedora one time with a classmate who was trying to convince me to switch, and for some reason, even though I direct all downloads to the download folder, it was in my OneDrive somehow. So when my VM tried installing the iso, it was taking a million years to pull it from OneDrive.

Similarly, I didn’t realize my Documents folder was backed up on the Cloud, so I had to find the dumbass settings to turn off backups for documents and other shit besides pictures. This is one of those moments where I understand why Linux users love a CLI, because Microsoft’s menus are stupid to navigate sometimes.

The worst offender that I never managed to figure out was my ShareX files. It would save locally, but then switch to OneDrive for no reason, so my config and shortcuts would be lost, and the auto backups would also be lost. I fought with that thing for months, and only gave up cause I moved to Fedora Silverblue, in which Linux unfortunately has no app that is nearly as good as ShareX.

I’m not gonna lie, I stopped using Renshuu due to having other resources at hand and because it just looks so rough, but I think it’s great for a free resource. The fact that they offer a shit ton of vocab/grammar/kanji study sets for free and community built ones is reminiscent of Anki, and Renshuu also uses a SRS. Lots of customization for reviews and answer options.

It’s certainly nowhere as eye-catching and addictive as Duolingo is, so beginners are probably more likely to give up than if they used Duolingo. But honestly, that site lost the point of what learning a language was supposed to be about anyway.

Sometimes I feel I should pick it back up, but at this point I want to focus more on reading/watching content for practice/learning.

Man the soundtrack alone could get me to play Katamari games. I got a birthday gift card recently and was deciding what game to get, when one of the OSTs came up on YT Music and I listened to it for like a week straight. Immediately got We ❤️ Katamari + DLC on 80% sale.

Could scream that shit in my car honestly.

The banking app thing is unfortunate, but then I kinda realized that I don’t really need them anyway. I have all the features I need in browser, and text notifications set up for when I spend money.

The wallet not working REALLY sucks, but if I look on the bright side that’s one less thing Google knows about me and my spending.

Surprised that worked for you, but congrats. Did you only use Duo, or did you use multiple materials along with Duo?

I just am curious, since I and many others who criticize Duo seem to see it as a tool that should only be used for beginner knowledge and introduction to a language. Duo also don’t do as many listening examples compared to other apps right? You must be skilled at listening input.

Edit: Here’s another example of a person (skip to 7:20) who did mostly just Duolingo for 2 years and struggled on the JLPT N5 (lowest level)

Yeah, there’s that concern, especially with how students and professionals rn are being snatched away in America.

I still use fingerprint but I totally understand why people turn it off entirely. Just noting for those who might want it on.

God, even before the AI bullshit and CEO defending it, why did people use Duolingo. You’re not learning a language, you’re learning how to play a game that is coincidentally about languages. The only good thing Duolingo does is getting you motivated to learn, and teaching basic vocab. That’s literally it. The best advice I got on that platform when I used it as a kid was how it was incorrect, and where I should go to learn from better sources, which is probably why they got rid of forums and comments.

Edit: Forgot to mention the awful and scummy monetization of making people wait to do lessons because of the heart system, while giving paid users unlimited lives. I’ve literally seen a comment on Lemmy where a user said they used a cracked version of Duolingo to get unlimited lives for lessons. Why should you have to crack your language learning app to make it bearable?

YouTube is free, and almost guaranteed to be better. Mango languages is free for students and library card holders apparently, haven’t used it, but others seem to like it. Get yourself some books to read, a textbook/grammar book to practice shit, and watch content online for listening. Use exchange apps for speaking. Use multiple resources, one resource that claims to teach it all is probably lying and can only do so much.

Edit: Not hating on the meme btw, just ranting

Literally was the only Pokemon I was unsure about, I knew the others by heart. Shame too, because I know Pidove and Unfezant, but couldn’t remember the middle evo.

Well, there’s all kinds of GMOs that serve different purposes, because GMO is not just a thing or chemical, it’s literal DNA and genes that they alter in crops. They can be good, like the corn that has fish genes to make it more resistant to frost, or the golden rice in Asia that contains more carotenes so kids don’t go blind.

But as the other comment said, they’re expensive and can’t be regrown again, as if they’re copyrighted. And yes, if we replaced regular non-GMO crops with GMO crops and reduced genetic diversity, then we’d be fucked if a plague or virus hit them and they all died. Furthermore, if one of these crops still actually had the potential to grow seeds and got out into the wild, it could cause environmental issues like becoming an invasive species, and we already have a shit ton of those around the globe.

But people used to use GMO as a trigger word to scare uninformed people into denouncing all GMOs and looking for GMO free foods.

Technically, almost all foods we eat today are “GMO” in a sense, as we’ve been doing selective breeding of crops and animals since the ancient times, hence why we have such fat animals, bananas without huge seeds, mostly orange carrots instead of the other colors, etc. But the genetic modification stuff didn’t start until the 70s.

Here’s a lovely video I remember watching back in middle school that talked about them by Kurzgesagt

Also your link is broken

Guess this guy grew up with a tablet, smh… _/j

If you know you’re about to be in a shady place, you can do a quick restart or lockdown mode on both Android and iPhone. So you still get to use biometrics, but turn it off when you know you might be in some shit soon.

This is part of the reason why I don’t compliment men. The first part is I’m just shy as fuck when it comes to complimenting anybody and will literally flounder in my mind about whether to say it or not, only for the person to walk away. _{mission failed}

But the other half is not wanting to seem like I’m hitting on a man, because then if he harasses/pesters me, he’ll think he’s justified because I gave him a compliment so obviously I must wanna fuck him…

But yeah I’ll be thinking, “his fashion is so good!” or “that cologne smells nice!” or “I love that tshirt!” but then I worry about coming off the wrong way, so I don’t say anything…

Shit you got me → Shit, you got me /jk

Yeah realize now I added the method of interaction

I’m not sure if you’re joking or not…

It should be: dog , pussy is the best I swear man that shit changes your mood

If you don’t put the comma after dog, then it looks like you’re talking about a dog’s pussy. By putting the comma, the reader knows the speaker is using the word dog as a nickname for a person, and is telling “dog” (a person) about how much they love eating pussy. The comma is necessary for clarification.

Let’s eat Grandma vs. Let’s eat , Grandma Help robbers! vs Help , robbers! etc.

pfp is an abbreviation of profile picture.