Sudokuvania 2: Lineage of Logic - Finally finished after a solid two weeks of sleepless nights chipping away at this. Game of the Year 2026.

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising - I’m reminded of why proximity normals are one of my least favorite fighting game mechanics. Hard to confirm off 5M when I don’t know which 5M I’m getting and oops there’s no far 5MM.

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 3 - Translation patch is finally out! I’ve literally been waiting two decades for this one, I own a physical copy that I picked up as a souvenir from a trip to Japan back when I was in high school. Ripped my old save off the cartridge to NG+ off of.

Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku - The handful of JP GBA games I own physical copies of are a bit above my reading level, I struggle with the pixel kanji fonts, and I’m too attached to them to be able to play them without being able to 100% comprehend them - I want to revisit them eventually, but I’m looking for some easier alternatives closer to my level right now. So sampling a bunch of DS ROMs, this turned out to be the perfect study material. Full furigana, and I’m more okay with skipping over parts that go over my head, as long as I can get a rough idea of what’s happening and where to go. I’ve never seen Keroro so I’m really just playing this for the fact that it’s a Tales game rather than for the story.

Mahjong Soul/Riichi City - mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit

Fred Flintstone?

They basically told us that if we don’t reopen they’ll simply remove us as moderators of the sub and reopen it themselves.

I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that’s when I knew I was done with the platform.

Why would you do that? What did you think would happen?

Outside of hearing brand new slang for the first time, t’s pretty rare for me to come across an English word I don’t already know. But if I were to read a dictionary cover-to-cover I would certainly find some. But those would be extremely rare and esoteric words, if I don’t know them it’s because I’ve never seen anyone use them.

People don’t learn their native language by memorizing a dictionary. They learn it from being immersed in it their whole lives. When hearing a unknown word for the first time, if you understood every other word in the sentence then nine times out of ten you’ll be able to infer the missing word from context.

Maybe sometimes you occasionally come across a rare word that’s not obvious from context, but the longer you’ve been using a language the rarer this is - you get better at picking things up from context and it gets rarer how often you even encounter unknown words to begin with.

There will always be words out there you’ve never heard, but if they’re rare enough for you to have never encountered them when using your native language your whole life, they might be rare enough for you to never encounter them in the future - unless you just read a dictionary to find them.

To be fair, English spelling already is pretty damn disconnected from pronunciation.

Also to be fair, two of those writing systems are entirely phonetic, and aren’t that much bigger than our alphabet. It’s really only Kanji that’s the hard one.

Porter Robinson and Madeon - Shelter

I think that’s just Neon Genesis Evangelion.

I’m not sure what you mean, but quite a lot of channels write a script first rather than ad-libbing. Not always, obviously if it’s something that was recorded or streamed live there won’t be a script, but you seem to be suggesting that scripted content is some ultra rare anomaly.

If you already script your videos, you can just upload the script. From there Youtube will automatically sync it to the video.

Crunch got steadily worse and worse, until I just couldn’t take it anymore.

I’m aware that Pretendo exists, but I don’t know if it’s active enough to get into a full 8-player match at any time, I’m guessing it probably has to rely on Discord matchmaking.

I also feel like it needs to be said that S1’s balance is not good, and I’ll bet anyone still playing it today knows how to run circles around a casual beginner. It’s not like you’ll be getting any kind of skill-based matchmaking here.

I have to be that guy and point out that the Threadiverse isn’t just Lemmy, and microblog-Fedi isn’t just Mastodon.

It’s meant to keep the Switch 2 affordable in Japan in spite of the weak yen, without importers buying up the entire stock of cheaper JP Switch 2s.

This sounds a lot like the dreams of Ura Zelda ever seeing the light of day, only for it to eventually just be Master Quest.

We know that Ocarina of Time left a lot of ideas on the cutting room floor, but many of those ideas never made it far before being cut, and couldn’t ever all be reconciled with other ideas they were later replaced with. Ura Zelda never actually existed in a complete enough form to be remade. And the new remake is still gonna be original OoT with its original story and scope.

Likewise, any Secret of Mana re-remake will still be based on what made it into the final game. A game based on lost ideas may as well just be reworked into a new sequel.

I do know that there are some romhacks of SoM that try to expand the game based on imagined interpretations of what could’ve been. But that’s the best you’re going to get, I don’t think Square Enix will never make the exact version you’re imagining.

One thing to bear in mind is that JP Switches are sold in two SKUs, a cheaper region/language-locked model and a more expensive unlocked model, and I’m assuming this is the cheap one. That means you won’t be able to access NA/EU eShops or play NA/EU cartridges, and games can’t be set to English language. If you’re fluent you may be fine with that, but do know that this is a thing.

Probably the biggest thing to keep in mind is that if you want to buy physical, that means you have to import all your games too. Which will probably end up costing you more in the long run.

Well I’m halfway there.

That’s little more than cartoonish at worst. No one in the film is truly evil the way that real world oligarchs are evil.

Some nonzero amount, sure. But there’s never going to be a mass exodus where the entire userbase jumps ship.

Look at how many people still use Twitter even now.