Spectacle8011
@Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
Full-time free software advocate and part-time reader of エロゲ.
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- Comment on 3 months ago:
Very exciting!
Original Japanese text included, too. I’ve been meaning to play this game for years at this point, and finally there’s an easy way. And it works great on Proton: www.protondb.com/app/2396980
A lot cheaper than Mahoyo, too… wishlisted.
- Comment on Kanon is now available in English 6 months ago:
(and Japanese)
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- Comment on 「Fate/stay night REMASTERED」Nintendo Switch™/ Steam® Teaser Trailer 11 months ago:
👀 An easy way to buy Fate in Japanese, and not liked to the Switch like the Tsukihime remake.
I’ll add it to my wishlist once it gets a page on Steam. Hopefully it’s cheaper than WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT…
- Comment on Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives 1 year ago:
You’re not going to convince anyone to suffer inconvenience for something that has no tangible benefit in their eyes. The best you can do is give people the option to contact you on Signal and explain (briefly) why you prefer it. After enough experience, you realize there is no argument you can make that will convince people to care about privacy. The people who join you on Signal either already care about privacy (but maybe didn’t realize it) or value your comfort over theirs.
Personally, I would rather send unencrypted SMS instead of using a Meta-owned service. I don’t want to be part of the network effect keeping people on Facebook. Everyone with a SIM card in their phone already has access to SMS, but few use it if they can help it, so I don’t think I’m contributing to a network effect by doing this. The only MMS client I use is Signal, so anyone can contact me over there if they want more functionality. That’s the only tactic I use, and so far, it has been unsuccessful.
- Comment on Mercedes-Benz is using Qt framework to build new operating system for its cars 1 year ago:
It’s worth mentioning that Android Auto doesn’t work on GrapheneOS due to the privileged access it requires, and will not support it unless it is re-architected. Which phones were you thinking of when you said “compatible”?
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
15 years ago, I thought I wanted to make a game. Turns out, I didn’t.
A few years ago, I sought out Linux. Learning to use it has made me so much more confident and excited about technology. I understood so much more. And yet, it feels like I don’t understand nearly enough. So I’m learning programming so I can start looking through codebases for the projects I use, maybe seeing if I can add new features or fix some bugs that are annoying me. I’ve sort of accomplished that goal for one program. There are also some programs that don’t exist, or don’t exist in the way I want them to that I intend on developing.
I’d like to learn reverse engineering too…
Well, I guess I’m a programmer only by technicality. I haven’t done anything serious and I’m certainly not decent at the art. I’m just curious. 🐇
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
Did your opinion of the teacher change at all after that?
- Comment on Bizarre Steam Releases (Subahibi/Wonderful Everyday) 1 year ago:
Cheers!
Given how well Frontwing hid it, I’m guessing there are some rules about linking to patches that have content Steam doesn’t approve of…but I don’t know what they are exactly 🤷♀️
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- Comment on Steam Sekai Project Publisher Sale 1 year ago:
Thanks for sharing! I didn’t know about this sale. Interesting games with the original Japanese script:
- Planetarian (it’s rare for KEY games to retain the original Japanese). I already own this one but I haven’t played it yet…
- QUALIA ~The Path of Promise~
- The Entire 9-Nine Franchise
- Amairo Chocolate
- Watamari Part 1 - a Yuri story with high quality art/animation. I might pick this one up. It’s only Part 1, though…
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
So on the subject of the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, January 1st, 2024 is actually the day the very first incarnation of Mickey Mouse will make it to the public domain. Finally.
Except…not quite. See Mickey’s Headed to the Public Domain! But Will He Go Quietly? (HTTP-only):
The answer lies in the realm of trademark law. […] So, on January 1, 2024, the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie will pass into the public domain, along with The Barn Dance. […] Many people also believe that this means that Mickey himself (Minnie and Pete as well) will also pass into the public domain, and anyone will be able to make new Mickey Mouse cartoons. This is by no means certain, as the application of trademark principles may prevent this.
Leaving nothing to chance, Disney has also obtained 19 different trademark registrations for the words “Mickey Mouse,” including live action and animated television shows, 9 cartoon strips, 10 comic books, 11 theme parks, 12 and computer games. 13 Disney also has trademark registrations for Mickey’s visual appearance for animated and live action motion picture films.
Somehow, trademark law is being abused to eternally extend copyright! Trademarking characters prevents commercial distribution of work that is not copyright-infringing. We’ll see if Disney is actually able to employ this in practice starting next year. Way to go Disney, plundering our public domain and ladder-pulling it for the rest of us.
And I’m sorry if this is not interesting to you at all, lol.
Holy, I didn’t know of Veronica Mars before this but it doesn’t really surprise me. I bet they figured the movie would never break even normally so they just extorted fans; this doesn’t even remotely look like incompetence.
Veronica Mars is a great show! At least, the first three seasons are. The movie is alright, and the fourth season is…fine. It’s just a shame Warner Brothers are, well, a corporation. And after doing some more reading, it’s possible the reported budget of the film only includes the production budget and not the marketing budget. $3.5M seems like a pretty bad performance so I wonder if they did actually make a profit in the end.
It’s worth noting that backers who could actually watch the film on Flixster (WB’s part-owned streaming service that has since died a violent death) had a worse experience than people who bought the film on iTunes or wherever else. They didn’t get a HD version. So backers ended up mailing in receipts after buying the film elsewhere, which Warner Brothers refunded. Sounds like a total mess.
I’ll keep that in mind; it is sad to see it’s not FOSS (or at least not from what I can see).
Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned that. MakeMKV is proprietary and under standard copyright, but the sources for every release are provided for compiling yourself on GNU/Linux (and wherever else you can get it to work). It’s C++ and you can try poking around in there. I don’t know C++ yet, so I couldn’t tell you what the program does :) Some of the components GulpinSoft has developed seem to be free software, just from checking the headers of some files?
Sources here: forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2…
The linux release includes full source code for MakeMKV GUI, libmakemkv multiplexer library and libdriveio MMC drive interrogation library.
I’m not quite sure how it works. I think they have a keyserver which provides keys for particular Blurays. My understanding is MakeMKV does extract the key itself, so it’s not like you need to rely on keys from the developer’s site…but I could be wrong. Regardless, I’ve found the interface a lot more usable than Handbrake and it has been very reliable.
You can use MakeMKV indefinitely with the Beta key. The program has been in beta for over ten years now, so there’s probably not much risk of a full release… even then, it’s only a one-time purchase for a license you can use on as many computers as you like, on any operating system you like, forever, even with the full release.
I should note that mpv seems to be handling subtitles very poorly in the resulting mkv files. Like, sometimes not being able to switch to them or the timing being out. VLC handles them completely fine though. I don’t really care, since I don’t use subtitles, but it seemed important to note if you use mpv (which you probably do).
MKV video is fantastic though
It’s a fantastic format for playback! It’s It’s not so great for editing in an NLE because of, well, how much stuff it supports.
Same happened with the switch to smartphones where these devices lost things like user replaceable batteries even though there is no technological reason for it, and it’s taking the might of the european union to undo this age old trend.
Yeah, that’s true. I hope it actually does get better over time…I feel like a luddite sometimes eschewing new technology because I don’t like the way they treat me.
Definitely going to give that a read; I do know that we have proper technologies for decentralized file hosting and indexing (not just bittorrent, but also IPFS which bases itself on the same technologies), these will definitely become a requirement if we want to fight over the ability to share information freely.
The article touches on the history of libraries but is more focused on comparing it to file sharing, which nonetheless, I found super interesting. Is there a particular advantage IPFS has over BitTorrent? BitTorrent has a lot of advantages over HTTPS for transferring files, so I’m curious. BitTorrent is technically superior to HTTPS in several ways, so for practical reasons alone it’s worthwhile using. The decentralized aspect is a bonus.
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
DRM was a mistake enabled by corporate greed and our current copyright laws
Section 1201 of the DMCA is an incredibly shameful piece of legislation to have made it to law. Ridiculous copyright terms apparently weren’t enough for Disney and co.
the best we can do is show that we’re not biting anything that smells of these practices which is hard when exclusive licensing only provides one legal option with the alternative being piracy.
Yes, unfortunately, that’s all we can do. I doubt it will convince any of these companies to abandon these practices, but I refuse to support them monetarily. I’m reminded of the Veronica Mars Movie kickstarter campaign, where fans happily pledged over $5 Million dollars to see it come to fruition. Warner Bros. rewarded their fans for their generosity and support by encumbering the film with DRM so GNU/Linux fans who funded the film couldn’t watch the film: techdirt.com/…/warner-bros-turns-kickstarter-succ…
This is greed, plain and simple. They already brought in 5.7 Million dollars of revenue before the film was made. Sure, that money was spent on making the film, but at the very least, they knew they would braek even. Not many studios have that kind of guarantee. They brought in another 3.5 Million in the Box Office, making a profit. It’s very possible that without fans funding the film, Warner Bros would have lost money.
DRM did nothing to increase profits.
(Yes, I’m a Veronica Mars fan)
I haven’t gotten into the whole Blu-Ray shenanigans yet (part because getting anything anime here is a fucking nightmare in the first place and DVD/Blu-Ray are far down on the list of anime things I’d buy) I also don’t have anything that could read Blu-Ray ATM (my laptop does read CD/DVD perfectly fine though) so it’ll be a good bit before I even dare bother.
Thanks to the discussion we had, I spent yesterday going through my Blu-Ray collection. MakeMKV is fantastic and I highly recommend it if you ever buy a show on Blu-Ray. Hell, even DVD. I don’t know how well it keeps up with constantly changing Blu-Ray encryption schemes, but it seems to be much better than any of the standard methods. Plus, it has a nice GUI.
Depends from studio to studio, nowadays 1080p generally looks “fine” for most anime; but for older projects where SD DVD or VHS (/Betamax) was the best quality option or a lot of stuff early in the HD era it’s always a gamble to see if it turned out ok-ish.
Ah, that makes sense. I don’t have a VHS or Betamax player, haha. Or a Laserdisc player. I’ll have to settle for the DVD conversion when I buy one of those older shows.
New technology usually comes with less consumer control compared to it’s predecessor, e-books can have DRM
That’s an interesting thought. I can’t say I disagree with it at all. I own Harmony on Blu-Ray and started watching it again for the first time since 2015 (fantastic film btw), and it really does feel that way. The more advanced technology gets, the less the general public can do with it. It’s just…strange, when you think about it. The one exception has been the web, which was kind of an accident. Had Microsoft created it instead of some wide-eyed engineer at CERN, it definitely wouldn’t have ended up being the open platform it is today. And even though it is very open compared to a lot of other areas, there’s a trend toward certain companies trying to lock it down.
On the subject of locking down physical books, TorrentFreak has a super interesting article on the history of libraries and how publishers really didn’t like them: torrentfreak.com/you-cant-defend-public-libraries…
Make sure to set it to use an invidious instance that works well for you, freetube also has SponsorBlock built-in which you can enable in the settings, there’s also much more there for you to tweak.
I’ll have to tweak it sometime, thank you! For the moment, the default invidious instance has been working great. A lot better than the invidious instance I use in my browser.
On the surface it definitely sounds like the usual isekai; but it doesn’t just copy the formula for the sake of copying the formula, it takes care of every detail in order to build something that stands on it’s own.
That’s my favorite kind of story, actually. It’s the same reason I really like the Monogatari Series (even though I despised it when I watched it originally; the novels grew on me).
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
ONScripter
Yeah, I’m happy ONScripter exists, although I haven’t gotten it to work perfectly for a VN yet. TRianThology doesn’t work in Wine, actually displays in ONScripter natively but flashes green twice a second due to some image decoding issue, and works properly when running the game through a Windows ONScripter binary over Wine. Riddle me that one, lmao. I installed the patched AUR version, for what it’s worth.
Still need to get around to playing TRianThology properly…
really helps to highlight how resilient OSS can be when put in the hands of weebs.
I remember someone saying something similar about mpv. I thought ONScripter was dead when I visited the page when I was writing pages for the wiki. Good to know it’s still alive. Hell, it outlived NScripter!
KiriKiri and TYPE MOON
I get the impression most visual novels are not going to make it mainstream, which is why the presentation is usually budget-constrained. And the length, of course. It makes me wonder if TYPE MOON is going to make their money back on the remakes—I hope they do! It means more pretty animations. I guess if anyone can do it, it’s them, lol.
I remember reading Muv-Luv Alternative, and while the animations were pretty primitive, they did a good job of conveying the action. Sometimes you don’t need much, but I always love to see visual novels go above and beyond. Age are probably doing pretty well for themselves too…
Anime streaming services
It’s not too bad over here. Obviously, if you’re not American, you’re going to miss out on a lot of series, but aside from the Monogatari Series, I don’t run across series I can’t access in my region that often. Then again, I watch anime from 1980-2010 mostly. HiDive is nice, though.
I refuse to use services that require me to install a DRM module in my browser like Netflix. Fuck Amazon too, but for different and more personal reasons.
I’ve bought some anime, but being a GNU/Linux user, that means I either need to check the decrypted AACS keys carefully before purchase, or I need to avoid buying Blu-Ray editions. I wonder if MakeMKV is more reliable. It seems silly to spend any significant amount of money on DVDs that tap out at 480p when there are 720p/1080p editions that treat me like a criminal because I don’t have an authorized software Blu-Ray player in addition to an actual Blu-Ray player. From memory, the 1080p editions of some anime are actually scaled up by the studio anyway. And usually poorly.
I remember reading about that when I was learning about encoding…
So, yes, I am kind of bitter about the choices I’ve been left to make. I spend more money on manga and visual novels these days. At least there are actually a significant number of visual novels not encumbered by DRM…can’t say the same for most Blu-Ray editions of anime. Region codes, disk encryption…this is crazy stuff. I’m just glad they haven’t figured out a way to encumber physical books with DRM yet.
That being said, I’m happy to purchase older anime because the highest quality you can get a lot of them is on DVD, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything :)
FreeTube
Thanks for recommending it. I installed the Flatpak. It seems more reliable than going to an Invidious instance in my browser. It’s not like I watch YouTube much, but I guess it ought to be comfortable when I do.
Mushoku Tensei
Well, you’ve done a good job selling it to me! I don’t know too much about it, but that’s enough to pique my interest. A lot of isekai with male protagonists are very transparent wish fulfillment fantasies or grindfests. And that’s fine, but I find it so boring! Isekai series with female protagonists tend to be more fun. Mushoku Tensei sounds like it has a lot of the stuff I enjoy in those isekai stories, and I can put up with fanservice for the sake of that. I’ve got a loooong plan-to-read list, but I will eventually read it!
I have no other words than “that’s insane”, even for Mushoku Tensei I didn’t get close to that (I averaged a little over one volume a week) and that was with me being addicted to it’s story (I even had to jump to a translation on the WN later on because the english light novels weren’t caught up and I needed to know more.
I think I spent about 14 hours a day reading it and lost a fair bit of sleep in the process. Combine the novelty of reading with a great story, and I just couldn’t get enough. There is no way in hell I could spend anywhere near that amount of time reading a story today, even if I lost sleep for it. That being said, HakoMari volumes are only about 200 pages long.
Meanwhile, Worm took me three weeks and I was not the same afterward.
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
being able to read a 20 year old VN (on linux natively) is something that Type Moon would probably never concern themselves about.
That’s definitely true. I don’t know of a Japanese company that has released a visual novel with a native GNU/Linux binary.
Type Moon has also been very lax when it comes to derivative works (I probably don’t need to mention that with all the fate spin-offs and doujins floating around).
I’m aware of how uh, interesting, copyright law is in Japan, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone get raked over the coals for a doujin. Is that something that actually happens? And, aren’t the Fate spin-offs authorized by TYPE-MOON?
Mahoyo is the indirect prequel to that (get used to not having any direct sequels in the nasuverse)
Sounds like it’s just up my alley, then! I’m excited! I’ve been wanting to read Fate for a long time, too. I’ve seen the DEEN anime, UBW series and movie, but I haven’t touched Heaven’s Feel. I want my first experience to be with the visual novel. I think I mentioned I’m a fan of slice of life and not much of a fan of action, but a blend of the two is a nice cocktail. I like the “dramedy” genre for similar reasons; I can’t watch a pure comedy for too long but drama makes it feel grounded. BoJack Horseman comes to mind.
Anyway, it sounds like a good time. Animations are a plus too, because most VNs don’t have that kind of budget :)
although I have a couple youtube channels that cover anime news really well
I have a confession to make: I’m not too interested in keeping up with the latest anime. I don’t even have a Crunchyroll subscription. The only anime I watch tend to be 10-20 years old, though I was thinking of watching Kimagure Orange Road the other day…
That said, I am interested in VN news. Particularly localizations, because as I said earlier, they’re easier to get my hands on when I want the Japanese script. Thanks for providing invidious links though!
but every time I start my free time gets eaten up by something else and I end up having to put it off.
Feels like my life this year. Unfortunately, certain things have had to take a much higher priority, but about half of it was just me getting distracted by something else, lol. You don’t need to spend hours learning Japanese every day, though. Half an hour is good enough to form a habit and get acclimated. But I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that, since this isn’t your first rodeo :)
if I would seriously start immersing myself I bet I could form a pretty decent understanding of Japanese in no time
I bet you would! Take this as my encouragement to do so when you have the time! I never had any formal classes on Japanese, don’t know any Japanese people, and only really interacted with Japanese media, so I’m self-taught, you could say. I only knew English beforehand. It took a while to wrap my head around some fundamental stuff, but it feels natural now. It’d probably be easier for you, haha.
Mushoku Tensei
I have not. The kind of web novels I was interested in were the villainess kind. You know, Destruction Flag Otome (or Bakarina, whatever), Reika-sama, Evil God Average, Eliza, stuff like that. I prefer female protagonists (and somehow Saga of Tanya the Evil counts as that). I liked Ascendance of a Bookworm and really liked So I’m a Spider, So What? but have only seen the anime adaptations in any great detail at the moment. I’ve transitioned to reading the light novel adaptations of the web novels, mostly, but because Syosetu novels are free, I’ve downloaded a fair few. Mushoku Tensei was one of the few stories with a male protagonist I was interested in reading at some point.
I just remembered that the story that got me into reading was actually HakoMari. I think I read all 7 volumes in 3 days… I have no idea how I managed that and I have never read that fast again, haha!
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
Ah, so Mirror Moon themselves haven’t dropped that requirement, but another fan group intervened. I’m probably just going to wait until the 2024 version is out since I have such a big backlog anyway, but it’s cool that fans are preserving this stuff, putting copyright law aside. I could probably argue about this particular aspect of copyright law for hours, but I’m sure nobody is interested in that :P
I’ll definitely be reading Witch on the Holy Night first, though. I’ve been wanting to read it since watching Garden of the Sinners, which was years ago now.
Counter-point, though: is there anyone better at Japanese media reporting than ANN?
Thanks for the advice on learning Japanese! I’ve actually been at for about a decade now, though not consistently. I only started getting serious about it ~3 years ago (and I’ve been far too busy this year to give it the attention it deserves). I’ve got a decent understanding of the language now and can approach most media with a dictionary (and watch a lot of anime without). And yeah, production was never a priority for me. I don’t think there’s an easier language to immerse in. There are so many great options, and there are so many tools out there by all these different people you won’t see for other languages.
I’ve never had trouble with Kanji. I just learn words and get a feel for the Kanji as a byproduct. It’s not difficult to remember Kanji after you’ve seen them a few times, especially if you know radicals. One thing I need to properly learn, though, is pitch accent. I’ve been very lazy about not learning it, but it’s pretty important to do so as early as you can, or you end up needing to correct a lot of misunderstandings about pronunciation, as you say.
And I have actually used the Duolingo Japanese course! It’s pretty bad. I’ve also tried Wanikani, Jalup, Tae Kim, Imabi, Sakubi, iKnow, FluentU, Lingualift, KKLC, Genki, Tobira, various Memrise and Anki vocabulary decks, japaneseclass.jp, and Maggie-Sensei (this list is not exhaustive). Some of it helped; some of it not, but all of that adds up to still not enough to purchase Rosetta Stone. After all of this, I think the best way is:
- Learn Kana
- Read Tae Kim’s Grammar Guide (or Sakubi if you can handle it)
- Do a Core 1-2k deck while immersing
- Mine new words from native material
Everything else is unnecessary or inefficient.
I already know enough grammar to immerse nowadays (I guess I’m around N3?) so I only learn new words from native material. I consider this a general success because I’ve read lots of great stuff (my favourite is Munou na Nana) in Japanese and felt I had a better experience than I would have reading the localization.
Yeah, I definitely should not be this bad at Japanese after so long, but that’s what happens when you leave it for a year or two at a time. Key to learning anything is consistency, and every day, it gets easier. If I wasn’t so easily distracted, I’m sure I’d be almost fluent by now. My biggest regret is not committing harder and sooner.
I haven’t read too many visual novels either! I also still have lots of kamige to read, and I’m glad for it. I never used to be much of a reader, but things changed when I started getting into isekai web novels, haha.
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
Oh right, interesting stuff. Yeah, I’m kinda glad most visual novel developers are so small that DRM is often out of reach, except for digital editions (DMM makes it easy). I thought Mirror Moon required proof of ownership before you could run their patches? I haven’t read any TYPE-MOON stuff, but that was my impression.
I don’t read ANN regularly but that was the source OP posted. And I corroborated it with several other news sources for the PS4/Switch game, as it’s the same localization. That being said…yeah, you’d expect them to have someone who knows Japanese on staff.
While I would love to buy Japanese visual novels directly from Japanese publishers, they’re often encumbered by DRM. The digital edition usually is. With physical editions, you just don’t know (hopefully the new VNDB DRM tag will change that; it’s now in Beta). Western visual novels that retain the Japanese text are often the best way to buy visual novels in Japanese. They are always clearly labelled as containing DRM or not and they rarely do these days.
Oh, well…even if you are biased, hey, at least it’s an improvement! One thing I’m glad about after deciding to learn Japanese is that I don’t need to worry about translation quality. Nonetheless, I’m grateful to fan translations because they were how I got into Japanese media in the first place. Even if most of them weren’t great (and filled with translation notes). I’ve yet to come across a VN writer who can write a good H-Scene…
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
Oh, good to hear the KiriKiri2 engine has limited support for DRM. I’ve got DRACU-RIOT here with plaintext archives, so that might be part of the reason why they’re plaintext. I wonder if Ren’Py supports DRM very well…I don’t think I know of a Ren’Py game encumbered with DRM.
I don’t use emotes enough to go to that effort, but yeah, that’s definitely a good way to get them.
Aniplex is the only western company publicly listed for the visual novel in the ANN post and on the Steam page, so I have to believe they’re responsible for the localization. Otherwise, why wouldn’t the Japanese company just publish their own localization? That’s something that’s been happening more and more lately; Japanese companies directly publishing their games without going through a middle-man. Good and bad, I think. Western companies are far less likely to ship a game with DRM these days, but Japanese developers tend to have no such compunctions with digital releases.
That said, I’m happy to see more Western localizers who retain the original Japanese text. If Moenovel did that, I would buy their localizations…
It’s good to hear you thought the localization was good overall! I tend to hear bad things about localizations lately, though I don’t read them myself.
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
I’m always on the lookout for cool new visual novels 😎
A native desktop release also makes it a lot easier to tamper with the game files
Yeah, it probably won’t even be DRM’d, with any luck. I don’t see myself doing any of that myself, but I’m happy about the Steam release!
I was sort of afraid they wouldn’t port the HD version to PC, but it’s good type moon (and I think aniplex) are going through with it.
Sounds like it’s going to be a good release then! It’s interesting that Aniplex appears to be the localizer. This is only the second game they’ve ever published on Steam, and I don’t think they’ve localized VNs before. But hey, it’s not Moenovel, and they’re retaining the Japanese script, so I can’t complain.
- Comment on Witch on the Holy Night Game Gets Release on Steam on December 14 1 year ago:
It’s now on my wishlist! I’ve been thinking about buying this title for quite some time, since Scraft631 mentioned it to me. Happy to see it retains the Japanese script.
- Comment on Becoming widely defederated 1 year ago:
My vote is to remove the exception. For one thing, I don’t think anyone has ever posted “loli” content from this instance; at least not on the visualnovels community, so I don’t see this impacting any users. For another, popular opinion about “loli” content from Lemmy instance admins seems pretty clear. Personally, I have no interest in the content and would rather not see it, all moral and ethical dimensions aside. I think it’s likely the only reason most other instances haven’t de-federated this instance is because they don’t know about this instance or this exception yet.
The communities I can no longer communicate with that I care about are:
- !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz
- !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
I don’t know how this instance would go about getting of the defederation list of these instances, though. To be honest, I don’t think it’s actually likely. But in my opinion, this is still worth doing before instances lemmy.comfysnug.space currently communicates with pre-emptively de-federate this instance.
- Comment on Open source and privacy respecting website builders? 1 year ago:
To add to this, there’s Sourcehut Pages too, which is a free software code forge unlike Github. Sourcehut is very minimal and doesn’t even use Javascript in its interface. The landing page for Sourcehut declares in no uncertain terms:
Absolutely no tracking or advertising
I can’t say I’ve used the Pages functionality myself as I already have my own website hosting, but the quick-start guide seems pretty approachable: srht.site/quickstart
It might be easier to use Hugo to build the website files if you don’t want to learn HTML/CSS. If you want to use a custom domain name, the steps seem simple enough: srht.site/custom-domains
Sourcehut is in Alpha at the moment, so it’s free, but they intend on charging for it once they’re out of Beta. You can optionally pay for it now, and the prices are pretty reasonable.
- Comment on Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE 1 year ago:
Fair enough, thanks!
- Comment on Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE 1 year ago:
Thanks for the suggestion! If you can believe it, I already have Syncthing installed but haven’t used it in ages. I didn’t even think of using this for keeping git repositories in sync! I did find these forum posts that seem to recommend against using Syncthing for git repositories, though they’re 6-7 years old:
Well, conflicting reports really, but it’s enough to make me wary. Interestingly, someone recommends the branch solution as an alternative:
One of the objectives of git is to be decentralized. Just make a branch called
uncompilable_messand then clone the repo on your laptop.Seemed to be working out well for the OP, though.
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It’s not so much committing early, but pushing early. You don’t want to be push early, then rebase your commits, and then force-push to a repository other developers are using too.
But as I’ve learned from all of the responses in this thread, there are many ways of avoiding this 🙂
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I use mpv on macOS and haven’t had any trouble to speak of. But you might have installed VLC from the App Store, which is a common mistake—unless you’re installing Apple’s own software, you probably shouldn’t use the App Store. It usually only carries inferior versions of the software to comply with Apple’s terms, haha.
I very rarely use Microsoft Office nowadays, but once it’s installed, it’s (mostly) fine? I’ve heard from a coworker that there are some significant missing features in some software in that suite. I just remember struggling to find the page to download the
Setup.exefile. I went to the exact same page in Microsoft Edge and a download button that wasn’t there in any other browser suddenly appeared! Maddening! This was a 5 or 10-license verison, I think. - Comment on Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE 1 year ago:
Well, it’s what I use with Neovim, but not everyone uses a terminal-based editor. But other users had some other suggestions too: lemmy.comfysnug.space/comment/620209
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