tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 8 hours ago:
Watch out though, because while the TV anime ends on a sweet note, and you should probably stop there, the manga ends with time-skipping forwards 10 years to when they start a romantic relationship together.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 9 hours ago:
Kakushigoto is really good.
It is the story of a single-parent manga artist who is ashamed of his work and goes to great lengths to keep it from his young daughter.
The story begins when the girl, now older, discovers her Father’s job, and is told through flashbacks to her growing up and life with her father who was always trying his best for her.
I can’t find the official trailer with subtitles but it gives you the idea. Trailer.
- Comment on Nokia solos 1 day ago:
To be fair, probably his back would pop off, and his battery would shoot out across the floor like a missile, but then he’d go back together like nothing ever happened.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 days ago:
Yes, that’s right. Steam can play windows-only games via Proton, which is the exact same thing they are doing on Steam Deck. Steam Deck is what really motivated a lot of work in this area, and why the situation is so good these days.
It sounds like you’ve already got plenty of Linux machines, so perhaps try it for yourself and see.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 days ago:
Steam is absolitely the EASIEST way to run games on Linux.
It abstracts Wine, Proton and all the other dependencies so you don’t have to think about it much.
You just install it, download and play exactly the same as you would on Windows.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 6 days ago:
Honestly, I had completely the opposite experience with Dredge.
The first few days in the game feel truly scary, with your terribly slow ship, and strange lights in the darkness are terrifying. Those initial quests with the pulsating wet package are creepy, and you wonder where that’s going to lead, and what storyline will cone from that.
But then, you get a few engine upgrades and there’s suddenly not a single danger in the game you can’t easily run from. You’re invincible and the whole ocean is your oyster. The pulsating package was just a bit of flavour and nothing comes of it at all - in fact the quests in the game are almost entirely plain fetch quests, totally shallow with very little real story. And while the ending gets interesting, it’s all too brief.
Now don’t get me wrong - I loved Dredge, actually. But I loved it as a cosy collect-em-all fishing sim bombing around the ocean in your fun and zoomy boat, rather than the narrative-driven Lovecraftian horror the trailers made it out to be, which it ultimately I felt it wasn’t at all
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 6 days ago:
- They know people use the desktop app in order to not use the phone app, and they want those people on the phone instead because the phone is even more data-valuable and ad-valuable
Facebook web on mobile browser already doesn’t allow messenger, and tells you to get the app. Pulling messenger from the desktop web browser will be the next move, forcing people to app completely.
Glad I don’t use it.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
Looks interesting in other respects too, thanks for the suggestion
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
It wasn’t because of the apps.
It was because closing down the APIs - despite the widespread protests and subreddit blackouts - was the final nail in the coffin for many. It proved reddit was no longer a place where community opinion mattered at all, or had any sway in how the site might operate.
It was proof that things were firmly entering the enshittification phase of milking the reddit userbase and their content for profit, pushing a first-party app full of ads, and fattening up the balance sheet for investors.
I left at that time because I didn’t want to subject myself to that, and no number of “still working” apps would change my opinion.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
Thank you for all the suggestions! :)
Buddy Simulator 1984 looks great, and the most interesting, because it (seems to?) combine text chat with other gameplay.
I honestly did a bad job with the title of my post (entirely my fault!) because most people have been going straight to the text adventure genre for recommendations, and that wasn’t quite what I had hoped for.
Text adventure games are easy to find. So are games that simply involve a lot of typing of any kind. There’s a typing tag on steam, after all!
What’s not easy to find are games which aren’t necessarily entirely text-based or text parsing, but have natural language chat as part of their gameplay.
So they could be any genre - walking sim, puzzle, horror, anything, even an FPS or an RTS! Though I struggle to imagine how a game could fit natural language chat as part of a single player FPS, but if they did it, I’d be interested!
In all, what im interested in is a pretty specific and weird non-genre that doesn’t fit established categorisation, and that’s why I needed Fellow Humans to help, because tags on steam simply cannot.
So, thank you for the Buddy Simulator recommendation. I’ll certainly be playing that one! :)
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
Definitely a left-field suggestion but could be interesting, thanks!
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
I played the demo - it seemed novel but it didnt grip me and I dropped it.
However! I watched a friend stream it further into the game, and it seems like it got a lot more to my taste later on, with more puzzles and riddles, so it’s now on my watchlist :)
- Comment on Built to last 1 week ago:
Exactly right.
It’s not as if companies were being intentionally pro-consumer then any more than they are now, they just seemed that way as they hadn’t figured out how to tighten the screws as much, and especially how to do it cost-effectively in the consumer segment.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
I played Starship Titanic as a kid, and loved it! Its one of four or five games I still kept the original PC “Big Box” for, all these years later.
The text parser being used only to talk to characters isn’t a detriment for me, it’s a feature! Clicking on things is much more intuitive for interactions, so just like Event[0] (which works the same way) I consider that a plus. Thinking about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if the devs of Event[0] were actually inspired by Starship Titanic…
As for AI, that’s something I imagine we’ll see more of in the future. Something like KathaaVerse isn’t that exciting to me as it’s mostly a thin wrap around an LLM - which as you say is liable to go off the rails, and it’s not a rich experience.
For it to be compelling to me it needs to be a curated game first, with environments and interactions and actual programmed mechanics, and then AI second to potentially enhance that game experience with rich and natural conversation. It will be a fun match when someone gets it right.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
Thanks, interesting suggestion. Even if it doesn’t have free-text interactions (not sure on that point) it still seems to have other mechanics around how doing ‘investigation’ in the game works which makes me want to check it out.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 week ago:
Those kinds of old text-based adventures are definitely worth a shout, but I think you mentioned their biggest flaw - that other means of interaction are much more natural and intuitive than text parsers.
It’s very frustrating and not fun to be trying to find the right phrasing the game wants for “combine the x with the y” or “use the a in the b” when we can just click on things.
In Event[0] for example you are free to move around and look at things and click on things and find clues by yourself, but KaIzen is always there to chat to - and you often need to. So it’s a great blend because it’s a “normal” and modern game in most respects, but with free-text conversation as an core element.
Again it’s a flawed game (Only ‘Mixed’ on Steam and I agree with that!) but it’s an interesting experience regardless.
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- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
For me, there’s no level of advertisement that is permissible, no matter how seemingly inoffensive the ad may be. It’s still an ad.
In my own home on a device I paid for, it’s simply not happening.
My tolerance is zero, because I am not willing to accept this ad-saturated society that we have somehow been generationally conditioned into thinking is acceptable.
- Comment on Punch Time 2 weeks ago:
The interesting thing about clarifying and localising is that you’re always consciously making a trade-off between multiple competing factors - the original direct meaning, the emotion, tone and intent, and the ease of consumption in the target context.
And so how you choose to translate depends not only on the text, but the, circumstance, the speaker, and who you are translating for.
If in a manga for example a character says (in Japanese) “the child of a frog is a frog,” you could make the choice to localise that with an equivalent English idiom, as “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” or you could perhaps instead take the speaking character’s personality into stronger account and preserve their meaning, such as “He’s a piece shit, just like his old man.”
But it all depends on context. If that idiom showed up in a piece of poetry you might decide to leave it exactly as “the child of a frog is a frog.” - Perhaps there is related symbolism to preserve, and the ‘frog’ metaphor is important. But in that situation you can do it, because the reader will have more time and desire to study it, and preserving the original words is more important than making it easy on the reader.
Context is everything.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
Sure, if it wasn’t Linux then another project may have got the love and attention.
I’m not glad it was Linux specifically, just glad there is a credible FOSS alternative of some kind, and in our universe that’s Linux.
You might think there’s no such world where we wouldn’t have had some credible alternative, and as reasonable as that is - because freedom and independence are things people intrinsically want - I’m sure if you flap the butterfly wings enough times there’d be a universe where we all just collectively decided that commercial operating systems were the answer.
Glad I don’t live there.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never been more appreciative than I am now of the decades of effort that have gone into building this free and open-source operating system.
Imagine if we were here in 2025, with all the incumbent operating systems going to shit, but in a world where Linux didn’t exist and there was no alternative that wasn’t owned by a tech giant.
I don’t even want to imagine.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Why are you commenting on a post you think has fuck all to do with you, then?
But let me say this; corporations becoming increasingly emboldened to replace people with AI, disregard accessibility concerns, and make ethically bankrupt purchasing decisions without any consequence is something that perhaps should concern you, regardless of whether the particular company’s output is of relevance to your interests or not.
Hot take, I know.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 3 weeks ago:
The point is, this is not an overclocked chip.
The factory speeds for released chips topped out at 3.8 GHz, but this is a factory Pentium 4 with a base clock of 4GHz.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 3 weeks ago:
You edited it! Put it back lol, doesn’t make sense to change the context like that :)
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 3 weeks ago:
Ohhh you really got my hopes up there. I was like “There’s an Outer Wilds 2!?” all excited
But no. There’s only an Outer Worlds 2, sadly :(
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 3 weeks ago:
That’s a valid opinion if you want ownership over everything else, fair.
But to blanket-label Game Pass as “shit” right from the start really isn’t fair to all those people for whom it was good value, and gave access to a lot of games they probably wouldn’t have been able to justify otherwise.
Personally it wasn’t for me, because I too don’t like subscriptions, but for some of my friends it was and I respect that.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 4 weeks ago:
Personally I saw a very noticeable improvement in battery life after turning it off.
- Comment on nostalgia 4 weeks ago:
Also b3ta! The source of so many great shops.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
For real.
When I still had Netflix and Disney+ I’d want to watch a show on my PC, but I’d just get black screen and no audio because something about my setup the DRM didn’t like, possibly that I had USB displaylink monitors.
So I had to watch on another device.
DRM isn’t stopping any pirates. It’s just making life a pain for paying customers.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
The red route makes sense, because you’re connecting two of the most populous coastal areas of the US to each other.
If you compare this fictional map to an existing map of freight rail there are a lot of similarities
