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 Anyone else surrounded by inelastic Dunning-Kruger hypocrites? 1 day ago:
Where the fuck is that second stock image from??? I fucking love how the one chick has a whole damn assault rifle 😭
- Comment on So close! 3 days ago:
Yeah that’s what I was going for, I was to lazy to type my “sister/brother in christ” so I figured sibling was the best way to get both women and men along with any enbys.
Happy Pride, people 🌈
- Comment on Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse 3 days ago:
Felt that. Lemmy perfectly replicates (and improves) on the things I liked about Reddit. I don’t need or want an algorithm for this, because you can just subscribe to all the communities you love anyway.
Meanwhile, Mastodon and Pixelfed are a struggle. Tagging is key since there’s no algorithm, but even after following like 50+ tags, I still don’t see exactly what I want in my feeds. I love fanart of games and anime, so I tried to pick pixelfed.art, but even then I don’t see much, and also realized a large amount of artists are on mastodon.art instead, and the federation struggles to show me people not on Pixelfed. Hell, both official and 3rd party clients sometimes break when viewing a non-pixelfed account page. You seriously have to work to curate a feed on these places that make you want to come back.
I was never really a Twitter person, but I absolutely used Instagram and Pinterest a lot to look at art before I dropped them, so now I use Tumblr to not shut myself off entirely from fan content. So it’s not a matter of me not liking Fediverse services like Pixelfed and Mastodon, but them lacking the methods necessary to make viewing content easier.
Don’t get me started on Misskey, the language barrier isn’t a problem for me as I am learning Japanese. But I feel a little lost with the UI, and once again, trying to find artists on other instances.
- Comment on So close! 3 days ago:
I’m honored, truly. I try my best 🥹
Tbh I probably saw someone else say it before and just used it myself.
- Comment on So close! 3 days ago:
I know it’s overused but cliches are cliche for a reason, so I love it when people say “So close!” and then make fun of someone for saying some braindead shit.
Also reminds me of some stupid ad I saw for expensive ass chlorophyll powder packets to put in your water. My sibling in christ, eat a fucking salad with spinach if you want chlorophyll.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 5 days ago:
I was good at math and it was one of my favorite core subjects in school, so I know I’m a weirdo but… I never understood how people couldn’t understand basic PEMDAS/BEDMAS/Whatever-the-fuck-your-country-calls-it.
Obviously these problems are shitty engagement bait because they don’t use parentheses, but still, seeing people fuck up the fact that Multiplication AND Division occur at the same time, and then the next step is Addition AND Subtraction just stupefies me.
Like, did you sleep through 4 years of elementary school to miss that fact??? Even in middle school pre-algebra teachers still did PEMDAS refreshers. I get that once I get out of college I’m probably gonna forget half the pre-calc shit I learned because I won’t need it, and I’m not being drilled on it everyday like people in school are, but PEMDAS is a fundamental and basic daily life skill that everyone should know…
I really wish we gave a fuck about US education.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 5 days ago:
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…
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 1 week ago:
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…
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on pokémon or dopémon? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 1 week ago:
Also your link is broken
Guess this guy grew up with a tablet, smh… ~/j~
- Comment on Punctuation 2 weeks ago:
Shit you got me → Shit, you got me/jkYeah realize now I added the method of interaction
- Comment on Punctuation 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Punctuation 2 weeks ago:
I saw the pfp and was deadass horrified for a hot second before I realized the joke was the person realizing their comma mistake.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Outright banning them from schools is wrong imo, but if I had to put my phone in a locked box every class, I would’ve lived. I just think banning them outright is bad for needing to contact parents, especially for kids like me who had after school activities often.
My only issue I had with HS teachers were the ones who bitched about people having headphones/earbuds in during class. Obviously I don’t have them in during instruction or group work as that would be disrespectful, but if you’re not at the front of the room talking and we’re doing individual work, I want to have my earbuds in. I had a study block teacher who was so fucking anal about phones and earbuds, when it is literally a fucking break class to do whatever the fuck you want/need to do.
I just really like having music or background noise while doing work.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
If it’s a cotton sports bra, or really just any non clip bra that isn’t skin tight and a soft material, then I could do it, and actually have forgotten one time and fell asleep while wearing it. But I hate clip bras and will never wear them unless literally forced to do so.
- Comment on Occupied! 2 weeks ago:
I had a friend who complained about the high windows that you can’t even see out of in his high school, and he swore up and down that the building used to be a prison. I tried looking it up now to see the history, but I can’t find anything lol. Wouldn’t be surprised though if they actually were former prisons and the school just didn’t want the stigma associated with them.
- Comment on Thai officials seize over 200 tons of illegally imported electronic waste from the US 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
I’m starting to remember his name and I don’t want to 🤢