They didn’t entirely miss the mark there. They publicly released the version after that and the world became worse. That certainly fits for some definition of ‘dangerous’, even tho it’s probably not how they were thinking.

Pretty crazy, since they were already known for being slow. It’s never bothered me, but ordering from them isn’t great if you’re in a hurry.

A friend of mine was telling me about this game the other day. I’m not a car guy, but driving around Japan does sound kinda fun. I’m out on the Xbox Series tho and doubt my PC could run it.

There’s gotta be plenty of other games set in a semi-realistic Japan, right? I’d be curious to hear recs, racing or not.

For sure! Something about making it more organized little by little is super satisfying, theraputic even.

It’s so ingrained in conversational habits. I find myself really struggling for a greeting when I visit someone who I know is struggling or in pain. Like, I don’t want to force them to think about how they’re doing. But then I also don’t know what else goes after that initial “Hey”. v_v

I think there’s definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it’s nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.

But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.

Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I’ll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don’t have time to read them) and occasionally import them to my main browser. Like others have said, that’s built up over many years. And in general I’ve tried to be more of a ‘bookmark it and close the tab already’ kind of person lately.

It’s all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I’ll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It’s also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they’ll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.

I do very regularly use a few that I keep on my bookmarks toolbar. I make better use of that feature at work too, where I have the most important few pages and environments right at hand.

The premise doesn’t feel true for me. I’m in the US - Verne and Wells both seem well known generally. But that’s highly anecdotal of course.

If you like video game music, there’s https://gametabs.net/

Or https://www.ninsheetmusic.org/ It’s sheet music, but some are workable for guitar.

But yeah, in general I don’t have a great answer. It surprises me that I don’t know of any prominent websites that openly share general tabs and lead sheets and don’t suck.

Freetar is an alternative frontend for UltimateGuitar. It cool that it’s not so annoying. But the mobile experience can be worse than UG w/ adblock, so it doesn’t really solve that problem.

Looks to me like it’s mostly paywalled.

Anyway, the maximalist web design trend that’s popular there is really interesting. I like how low-techish it looks. But it is really hard to scan, especially when you’re only sorta-kinda able to read the language anyway.

Been busy between work and family stuff lately, so this week I’ve mostly just been maintaining.

I second the recommendation for Dreaming Spanish. If you need help with a plan, here’s one to get started with: Watch a video from this superbeginner playlist every day. You can watch on Youtube or you can sign up at their website for progress tracking, but watching on their site for free has some limitations.

You can get more info about how it works here or here. Now, they’ll tell you that studying any other way isn’t needed or is harmful. There’s reasons and probably some truth to that, but I’m always weary of Youtube video makers telling me all I need to do is watch their Youtube videos for 8000 hours.

The other starting point I’d recommend is Language Transfer. Their method is cool, and assumes no knowledge coming in. Imo, starting your learning here is a good supplement to the other videos I mentioned. So as plans go, I think you’d do well to listen to one of these lessons each day in addition to a Dreaming Spanish video.

After you’ve got a sense of it built up, do grab a beginner’s textbook and learn some grammar. Can’t rec any, since I just learned with whatever we had in grade school. But imo there’s value in it.

I’m doing pretty well! Busy lately, but still finding time for things I enjoy.

Chaos computer club sounds cool, what kind of topics come up there?

Nothing wrong (AFAIK) with asking here, but I think you’d dig the !casualconversation@piefed.social community.

I’ve been thinking about the videos and podcasts I listen to (in Japanese), and realizing they’re at too high a level. I enjoy listening to them and picking out words/phrases, but my brain is getting a little too cozy zoning out. Since my listening is so weak, I’m trying to get simpler and slower input that’s easier to understand.

Hope they know, you don’t have to launch a console every half dozen years. Could just hold off and y’know, not for a while. A long while.

I know it’s because I’m getting old, but it seems like PS5 just came out. But part of it too is diminishing returns on tech advances. The difference is more and more negligible every gen. And that’s for AAA; for most developers on real-world budgets, I doubt many are even hitting console power bottlenecks.

Another fun one to mess around with is guitarix. It’s like a modeling amp in software form.

LMMS is a fairly intuitive editor that makes it easy to build midi tracks and drum loops. Can’t really record tho.

Famistudio is specific to chiptune music. I think it’s a tracker. Along the same lines, there’s MilkyTracker. I haven’t figured out how to use them, but they’re neat.

I think your example already makes a case for it - your cart still contains 1.0. You couldn’t get that any more, if digital were the only option. It’s a beautiful thing, to have media that does not depend on the Internet, that no company has control of (unless they want to physically send someone to your house to confiscate it).

To me, that stability is so much more valuable than any add-on content. It works both ways, so there’s tradeoffs, ie the latest updates are often not available on physical.

But yeah, I’m with you on most of it phasing out and us being dinosaurs.

I don’t like digital, but I’m already old and would be fine if no new video games were released (physical or otherwise) starting today. I enjoy the paradigm of games I grew up with, and since it’s voluntary, for-fun entertainment, I don’t always have to adapt.

Personally, I think as consoles shift more digital, I’ll shift more to PC.