Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on Thai officials seize over 200 tons of illegally imported electronic waste from the US 1 day ago:
Thanks, honestly would’ve scrolled past this, but reading your comment made me feel like a lazy piece of shit, so I read it.
I can more time being mad at my country than feeling like a piece of shit now 👍
- Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 1 day ago:
God…
If you put a gacha down for like half a year, you’re close to quiting. God forbid if it’s a year plus, you might as well drop it with how anyone you used is guaranteed to no longer be meta.
I’ve been on pause from Genshin since before they dropped the 4th region, Sumeru, which was like 3? years ago. I’ve given up all hope of ever playing the game again, because I know it will be impossible with the few shit 5 stars I’ve managed to scrape together. I keep telling myself I’ll pick up HSR again after dropping it a month or two after release, and even then I dread doing their shitty “designed for the new meta waifu” trial fights.
I love gachas but lord they make it a full time job. Cookie Run Kingdom is literally the only one I have the heart to keep up with, and even Ovenbreak has lost me.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 1 day ago:
Picked up Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story like 10 years later after giving up on it as a kid and had NO fucking idea of what I was doing. I remember bitching about the hard as fuck train minigame/mini-boss fight you have to do (perfectly, mind you) that I thought I couldn’t beat for the life of me. But I got back and was in a completely different area, not knowing how to leave or get back to where I needed to be.
I really need to beat that game, it was my first M&L side game…
- Comment on kyah 3 days ago:
I actually flinched and backed away from my phone with a pained face and my hand up like a demon getting holy water thrown on them.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 3 days ago:
I loved my 7G Play like it was my own child in middle school. It was my third phone, and not a hand-me-down like the Note 4 and the iPhone 6? that I had previously. Kids used to green bubble shame and be like “OMG wtf is a Motorola?!?!” but I loved it. I didn’t do too much crazy shit on it cause I still was a less-curious middle schooler, but I did get a cracked version of a wallpaper app to use this special Persona 5 background, and I loved it. I didn’t love my next hand-me-down iPhone X nearly as much, in fact I hated it so much in highschool that once I graduated my mom got me my current Pixel 8a as a gift.
I tested putting a custom ROM on my old Motorola to prepare for doing GrapheneOS on my Pixel (silly, since they literally have a button to do it for you on the website) and once it loaded up LineageOS it felt like Christmas again. I seriously almost considered using it again, and was just so happy to scroll through it lol.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 4 days ago:
Oh boy, can’t wait to see this garbage on my Samsung Tab 9. My mom upgraded me from my dusty, way beyond eol Kindle Fire that I had, cause I I really do on it is watch YT and read/web browse. Was excited, until I realized I couldn’t custom ROM it like my precious Pixel.
Like another comment said, Samsung/One UI is truly the Apple of Android, and it’s dogshit. So much bloat that I had to disable/delete, random UI changes that oversimplify/water down personality, stupid settings I will literally never use, etc.
The best I could get is a stock Android GSI, but I’m not sure if potential bugs and battery life issues would occur, and I don’t want to root.
- Comment on What are you doing step assistant gunner? 4 days ago:
Including a cover made by the voice actor of a silly robot space cowboy:
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 5 days ago:
Yeah the Nintendo vitriol for the past month has been funny. I get it, companies are not our friends, and Nintendo has done a lot of shit to be mad at. The game keycards are dogwater, but this concept of buy cartridge and download the rest is not new. Sony and Xbox have literally done the same shit for years, and Nintendo did this with some large games on Switch 1.
Another comment showed Sony will brick hacked consoles that get on the internet. Switch 1 also does this.
The price sucks, but it’s definitely tariffs, since the console is like a whole hundred dollars cheaper in Japan.
If you wanna pirate/emulate, pirate/emulate. I just don’t like pirating current gen consoles, and it’s a hassle to do so on Switch 1 if you got a newer one. Plus switch emulation on steam deck seems to be iffy for some games… I pirate/emulate old consoles cause they’re dead and they’re not making money on them anyway. Sometimes you just want to buy a game and enjoy them, especially for online ones like Splatoon.
I’ll just wait for the price to be reasonable one day.
- Comment on Unfair is what it is 1 week ago:
God I have rolled my ankle a shit ton doing physical activities and simply walking, to the point both feet have rolled several times, and to the point where I needed physical therapy. I am fucked on uneven terrain, and even when walking in my house on kitchen tiled floor I have rolled and tripped.
Physical therapy at least made it so it doesn’t hurt anymore when I roll, and I’m not out of commission for the next hour.
I’m not even of legal drinking age, I’ll probably die by falling down the stairs at 50 or smth.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 week ago:
I’m starting to remember his name and I don’t want to 🤢
- Comment on Many period tracking apps leak users data. 1 week ago:
If you’re on Android, get on Fdroid and use Drip. It’s simple, does it’s job, can give you alerts if you want them, and can be locked so the gov isn’t tracking when you were possibly pregnant. Also tracks symptoms and body temp and shit for those who want to get pregnant.
Or if on GrapheneOS turn internet off for you period tracker app (but at that point just use FOSS)
- Comment on Must secure the castle 1 week ago:
Honestly, not just a black thing (but more likely probs). My mom told me about a news story where two teenage white girls got shot at and were killed by a dude because they pulled into his driveway and were lost or some shit.
People are just crazy.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 week ago:
My ass repeatedly reset games I had beaten or got close to beating, especially if I was stuck. I was especially guilty of this with Pokemon games, where I would just reset if I couldn’t get past a certain point (didn’t find the strength TM in BW so couldn’t fight Team Plasma), I beat PMD Gates to Infinity like 4 times lol. I grinded so hard on Platinum Victory Road in an attempt to beat the elite 4, that I found my first ever shiny from ruining the local Rydon population.
I’m far too tired to do that shit now, I felt depressed going from Octopath I to Octopath II because I have to grind again and I’m broke 😅
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 week ago:
Gonna add Kingdom Hearts to this (cause Sqenix), because I was playing 1 as a preteen, beat Cerebus, got in the Gummi ship, and promptly got lost on where to go after. Bonus for stopping the game for months, picking up again, and being lost so I just never beat it. I plan to finish KH1 this summer after beating Metaphor Re:Fantazio, but I probably will reset to get that full experience factor 😅
- Comment on Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions 1 week ago:
I stopped using Pinterest about two or so years ago due to how dogshit the service is. I was only on there to look at art and anime shit anyway, but the ads got fucking obnoxious. I’m talking like a page full of ads and content with links to shops or sponsored products, and then have only one real post that isn’t trying to sell me something. They frequently emailed me about content not meeting the ToS, even though none of the pins were posted by me, and they usually banned random shit too.
And then AI art started flooding the posts so I would see a page of ads, sponsored content, shops, ai slop, and finally a real post.
I fucked off after that…
- Comment on Don't be Evil 1 week ago:
Ohhhh man I love the Chocobo Theme, and have also played like zero FF games besides XV, which was dogshit. But one of the teammates sings this cute little in-game ad jingle that uses the Chocobo theme, so I hear him singing it in my head every now and then.
- Comment on Pope 1 week ago:
Maybe I have shit humor but I love this. I need to see more crop complaint memes.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Tap for spoiler
I hate you 😟
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
My mom is the one who got me into gaming, especially my love for JRPGs as she has played FFVI through FFXIII. She has told me several times how much she hates Cactuar because of the thousand needle attack or whatever.
Unfortunately the backlog of games is so high that I haven’t played a FF game besides 15 (which was ass lol). But I do wanna play the FFVII and FFX remakes real bad. I think her favorite is one of those two, don’t remember which.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, I knew Mango existed but didn’t know it was free like that. I probably won’t use it cause I already have learned a lot of Japanese from other resources I use, but that’s nice. I’ll try to recommend it more now.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry but “any combination of ‘tuah’ and ‘hawk’” has me fucking rolling. Since every now and then my mom and I will do that exact thing spontaneously while talking.
Like she’ll be talking about Cactuar and my brain will be like “Cactuah”
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
I get what you mean about the monetization ruining the hobby, but also realize that there would be a significant lack of creators (and therefore content) if they couldn’t make money from their channels. People were doing it for fun back then and they could afford to since they didn’t have to worry about high quality, well produced videos. Even today, plenty of people join YT to make content without the idea of trying to make it rich or make a job out of it.
I watch mostly gaming content online, and I feel that a lot of these YouTubers wouldn’t make content if they weren’t getting paid, especially for those who are livestreamers and VTubers who’s whole life depends on subs and spending money on them.
I think it’s justified that these creators want to be paid for their work, as these quality videos take teams of people and hours of editing and love put into them. You can still love your hobby and also want to get paid for the mass amount of effort it takes to do so.
So the shitposts, fan clips, video essays, art memes, gossip channels, etc. would still exist, yes, but some of the longer content that needs higher production would just tank. Stuff like gameplays, cooking videos, makeup tutorials, etc., at least in my mind.
I want Peertube to succeed without needing ads, but I just find that extremely hard and unrealistic to do. Maybe if online culture shifted entirely from ads to sponsorships instead, creators would go to Peertube, but that would require us to actually use these codes and pay money to said sponsors for them to make money. Plus, sponsorships are the new ads, which is why I use sponsorblock, defeating the purpose.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
Ehhh, I feel it’s not just that.
Yeah, people don’t think centralized media is an issue, and thus don’t join Fediverse, causing it to be a little dead and discourages others from using it as an alternative.
However, YT is a job for the thousands that create content on there, and reasonably so, they need money to make said content and pay bills. Which means ads, cause be real, most people (including me) don’t wanna join a Patreon to see their content. I just can’t think of many creators who I love enough to drop consistent money on them, never mind several at once.
Lemmy doesn’t need to be monetized to entice people, because Reddit wasn’t built on that (karmawhoring gets you no money). Even pixelfed could make it as an alternative, because creators aren’t paid by ads or Insta themselves, they get money from sponsorships and promoting their shops.
But YT? It’s built to make money from putting in ads. So unless creators lived off of sponsors alone and the few who subscribe to Patreon, they’re shit outta luck if they join Peertube.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
I’m gonna be real, Duolingo is literally only good for motivation and easy vocab review. It has been years since I used it, but the best advice I got on that website was when forums still existed and people told me that the translations for JP were shit and to learn somewhere else, which is probs why those forums got deleted.
If you have to use hacks to not be bored/deal with the bullshit, then just leave man. It’s not worth the bird begging you to come back. Find stuff online, YT (unfortunately) is your friend for resources.
- Comment on US Visa Applications from Japan Now Require Disclosing Social Media History 3 weeks ago:
Fucking hell can we not ruin relations with Japan before I get the chance to study abroad there? I have to wait until next spring at earliest chance, but I wanted to wait until later to go there… 😩
- Comment on Great submission to "rate my professor" 3 weeks ago:
I certainly do, and this shit doesn’t even look close to the ratemyprofessor website of today. I was about to do my review this week or next since semester is ending.
- Comment on I will not go quietly 3 weeks ago:
Okay it was bad enough that people were just straight up dipping their hands into the pile, but that one lady who just straight up took a whole second plate and scooped them up was fucking insane 💀
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 4 weeks ago:
God, I don’t wanna look like a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist to my friends, but I hope one day they magically get concerned or ask me for privacy respecting alternative services. I haven’t really had the chance to actually test how good Revolt, Matrix, and SimpleX are, but all of them would be worth trying a million times more than Discord.
I wish we would use Signal instead. But unfortunately I have to resign myself to using Discord and GroupMe for school and friends. At least they don’t hate me for not using Insta, although some randos do seem to be annoyed by my reluctance to use it on first meet.
It’s just so hard trying not to isolate myself from friends. I get that the alternatives aren’t always great (might lack video calls, easy bot management, sever costs, shitty UX and onboarding, etc.) but we gotta at least give them a try…
- Comment on Do it 4 weeks ago:
Katamari’s 5am Mourning Routine in my ass
Really hope the little prince isn’t rolling my shit into a ball…
- Comment on Forbidden weapon 1 month ago:
In literal tears and confusion as I watched this and then I said “holy shit” out loud, only to delve deeper into my 3am fueled headache delirium of laughter 😭