I used to do it a lot, but now that I share my shower with my roommate, I think it’s kind of gross, so I stopped. But it was nice, I really enjoyed it, especially with some good music.
I also did it while I was in Japan, since the bathroom layouts over there allow for showering while sitting and then simmering in the bath tub.
I mean… if you use DC digitally (I.e turning it on and off making it binary code), it really is a cleaner information transmission than AC. But I doubt that’s what Edison had in mind.
How much does it cost to run your own instance? Do you have to pay the whole domain, server, security package with a service like cloudflare and all?
Actually, the discretisation will probably be like:
70% just download the official Reddit app and don’t mind
20% leave the site and don’t look for alternatives
10% look for alternatives
And half of them choose Lemmy
So we might get like 5% of Reddit’s entire 3rd party userbase across all of Lemmy. Which sounds tiny but is actually frighteningly large.
I mean, I think it is far removed from what it used to be, and that’s good.
Like… people spending more hours playing Animal Crossing or Zelda than those playing Overwatch and Dark Souls aren’t really called “gamers” despite sometimes being very hardcore about some video games.
So I think “gamer” has just more and more become synonymous with that competitive gamer stereotype that flocks to games like League of Legends, Valorant, Overwatch, and so on. But like… I know people who only play Fallout, or Garry’s Mod (yes in 2023) or Nintendo games, and probably have games as their main hobby, but they still aren’t really gamers as in the stereotype associated with that word.
Absolutely. I just don’t think we need a new gimmick. I don’t think I want or need a new gimmick. The Switch hit the right spot for me as a console. It’s by far the console I’ve used the most in my life, and it’s just too convenient.
Tbh, I buy Nintendo because I like their games, and I don’t play any other AAA games either, with most of my time spent on stuff like Cities:Skylines or indie steam titles.
So… I don’t really care about the specs in the slightest, and I think a lot of Nintendo’s playerbase is like that as well. The Steamdeck and PlayStation getting super powerful isn’t going to get me to buy them over a Nintendo console because I like Nintendo’s games and not… the next big Last of Us, Elder Scrolls or Dark Souls clone, to be honest.
Competition is good I guess, but with every passing day, it feels like Nintendo and PlayStation are getting further away from being direct competitors and more them catering to completely different niches and subcultures.
I think this is good. The world where “gaming” was this monolithic and culturally unified activity monopolised by mostly male teens was kind of boring and extremely toxic a lot of the time. With a more diverse playerbase in terms of age, gender and socioeconomic background, the “gamer” label seems to be getting kind of obsolete, and now it feels like people follow genres, developers or trends rather than gaming as an industry. It became truly mainstream I guess.
It’s better if you don’t mention them by name in the comments, though.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Reddit has been slowly descending into becoming yet another Instagram/TikTok clone. You scroll a never ending front page of videos and pictures, and it gets somewhat overwhelming pretty quickly.
I think this might be the necessary distinction that will make this a unique space different from Reddit. The less doomscrolling I can have in my life, the better.
I had a similar experience. I first went to Japan when I had just passed N3 back in 2015. Needless to say, it wasn't quite enough to be a competent adult, but it also wasn't so poor I didn't understand anything around me.
Some things I realized on my first trip there: Katakana is far more essential than you'd think, and conversely, Hiragana is far more useless as well. There are lots of 丁寧語 and 敬語 structures that will get thrown around even in the most common situations.
But then I returned to Japan in 2019, and I was already an N2 by that point (for a couple years already), and it was a completely different experience. My Japanese had improved a lot by then, and I was solidly making good every day conversation with all sorts of people. The leap was really noticeable too, with my main limitation being that my kanji knowledge was still somewhat lacking for a functional adult. Some people even complimented me asking how long I had lived in Japan and whatnot.
So the main takeaway, is that it's normal to struggle a lot at an N3 level, but at the same time, you're really not that far away from being able to use Japanese comfortably. Just a little more and you'll get there for sure!
I know very little about the several Indian languages and scripts but are some of these even somewhat related? Like in the same way Latin, Cyrillic and Greek are all related?
Other than Gens III and IV for pure nostalgia factors being the first games I played and whatnot (and HGSS being fucking amazing) I’d give a huge shoutout to Gen IX. It’s the first generation where I actually felt that magic that made Pokémon click with me so long ago.
If bugs and performance issues can ruin the experience for you, they’re definitely not recommended, but I don’t mind that much, and in terms of story, music, gameplay and exploration, I think Scarlet and Violet are possibly the best games in the series. They would’ve been perfect if gym leaders and titans scaled with the level of your Pokémon party, though then again, it was also very fun running around wherever and actually losing to them because you went to a town you weren’t supposed to yet. I enjoyed how little hand-holding there was in terms of story and progression, and that was awesome.
Overall that Gen was such a massive step up from gens VI-VIII, I can’t help but love it.