Ashtear

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[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Hey, looks good, tossed you a star. It doesn't fit my use case but I'll pass it along.

The font selection--and not defaulting to, say, Meiryo--is a real asset here. Especially like the random font feature. I think students don't get exposed to different fonts early enough, especially considering handwritten stuff is increasingly rare nowadays.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago

It's sounded like it. I imagine the next game in the Trails series after Horizon will be simultaneous release, especially since NISA won't have the backlog of Trails games anymore.

Of course, I'm assuming they aren't just handing the series over to GungHo. Who knows what'll happen there.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

Holy hell. I have some bad GameStop trade-in stories, and that's just from taking in normal trade-ins. I can't even imagine the clusterfuck this would be. I'd be calling in sick.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A small AAA production in 2000, maybe. E33's was only a fraction of a small AAA budget today.

TGA calls it "a game made outside the traditional publisher system," which fits. I'd agree that we're looking at wildly different scales of production in the same category, though.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Good showing for E33 but I'm not convinced it's a shoo-in for GotY. It's a media-run event and the press adored Hades 2. Plus there's always the Kojima factor and it would be the first time TGA's ever given it to a studio's first game.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Had a solid week. The no-lookup reading is starting to feel almost cozy, and it's giving me a ton of confidence. I feel like if I can just get on the other side of these intermediate grammar structures and boost my overall comprehension rate just a tick, I'm going to unlock so much content I want to read and listen to. Already the textbook is feeling so much easier than it did a couple months ago.

I can see vocab and speed being more the focus soon, and I can definitely handle that. Here's hoping!

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This article didn't even go into the service disruptions Perplexity has had the past couple of weeks. In short, the best thing Perplexity does is give you access to multiple models at once, but frequently when you try to select one for a specific thread, it will throw an error and (quietly) kick the response to your prompt to a backup.

Perplexity's calling it a technical issue but it looks more like throttling, especially considering API access to Claude is expensive and that's the one that is having the most "technical issues." I would have already gone elsewhere if my sub wasn't free, and if it continues to be this bad, I might end up going elsewhere anyway.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In terms of content moderation? Not in the least. Discord is extremely laissez-faire about it. They intervene when compelled to by law enforcement. I can't speak to the large server experience, but we've run our server for nearly six years and not a single member of staff has ever spoken with anyone at Discord. Every single one of the moderation tools we use are third party.

As a practical matter, Discord provides the communication infrastructure for us and that's literally it. Irrelevant to the topic at hand. We could pack up and move it all to Matrix tomorrow and our content moderation experience would be just as centralized (that is to say, it would not be).

 

I'm enjoying Currency Wars! The full runs are maybe a touch longer than I'd like but I also felt that way about DU at first, so I'm sure I'll settle in eventually.

So far I've tried out a Bloodflame build and the popular Aglaea build that's been going around, pretty nuts. Funny that I haven't used my main yet (Acheron) but half the fun I'm having is getting to play around with a bunch of chars I don't own.

How's everyone feeling about the new mode?

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don't think it's necessarily true that it's so overly onerous that it must lead to centralization. I'm part of staff on a medium-sized Discord server and we have more than enough coverage to handle objectionable content. As another example, Fediverse instances here have proactively established rules and norms for NSFW content that ensures the communities keep running, and most are still going a few years later after the Reddit exodus exploded their populations.

It absolutely does make scaling up more expensive, but I've gone from a fairly libertarian stance on this to now asserting proper community moderation has become part of the social responsibility corps have now when making these spaces grow to have massive reach. And yes, I don't think big corps do enough on this topic, and it's another inequity because it's really starting to look like new organizations are going to have to be more responsible for what content they allow. But I'm all for coming down hard on the big corps. Everyone got by just fine in the 90's and 2000's when they had much, much larger customer support/moderator staffs. "It's too expensive" is the same garbage excuse used for other forms of enshittification today while these platforms make money hand over fist.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, my phone has productivity timers, my note taking app, temperature controls for my home office, not to mention 2FA and other tools I need. I don't see myself leaving it in the kitchen.

That said, reading this did made me think to turn off email push notifications. Fortunately I'm not in a position where I have to reply to emails immediately, so I like the idea of scheduled email time. Honestly don't know why I didn't think of that.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

You won't find any questions on the CES about, say, whether the respondent approves of capitalism. So yes, this analysis was likely done with the American Overton window in mind.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this!

 

Owlcat just put this track out today.

 

Do you do your flashcard reviews every day? Take weekends off? Maybe you scale your rate of new cards down instead when you need a break?

What's your flashcard pace like?

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