ryven

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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

There are quite a few of them for learning languages. For example, Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Speech is a game focused on learning to read hiragana.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I can understand that. I'm 5'9" with an average build, and it's really convenient that everything is made in exactly my size. Being much taller or shorter would just be annoying.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

I have one. I use it to play fighting games and old arcade ports, mostly. I like it because I learned to play those games on arcade hardware as a kid, so it has the right feel for me.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I haven't seen the movie. The show ending I remember is

spoilerthat everything is sort of going to hell, and then before Shinji can get his shit together and do anything about it his dad achieves Human Instrumentality and human life as we know it is replaced with a nonphysical gestalt consciousness, and then after that allows our protagonists to finally understand each other's trauma they finally feel happy for perhaps the first time in their lives, and then everyone claps. Shinji in particular seems like he feels better off after the world ends.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

...Is this the conclusion the show comes to? That is not how I remember it going.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Perhaps she hit her head on the edge of the canal as she fell? Possibly her foot missed the edge and went into the canal, she fell forward, hit her face on the edge and fell into the water, was stunned, and started drowning before she could recover.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're probably thinking of Life by You, which was being developed by Paradox and was canceled in 2024.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

14-year old me was way cooler than I am. I seem to be declining with age.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I'm really struggling with this reading. The rebels aren't space communists trying to save their homeland from the encroaching Empire, they're fighting to restore the republic that was the precursor to Palpatine's totalitarian regime. If you allow for the sake of argument that they represent the Viet Cong, then the story of the first movie is about how a handful of heroes, some of whom were defectors from the Empire, were the ones instrumental in the first major Rebel victory, which is a bizarre kind of Great Man Theory/white savior complex that I imagine the Viet Cong wouldn't have appreciated.

Also the later movies make it clear that the fall of the republic and the rise of the Empire was almost entirely due to the machinations of one man, Darth Sidious a.k.a. Emperor Palpatine, which again points to a Great Man Theory of history and doesn't align well with the real world, where the rise of the U.S. as an imperial power has more to do with structural forces that serve the interests of the capitalist class.

I'm not saying Lucas didn't intend it to be about the Vietnam War, but I'm saying that if he did intend that, he didn't include much in the movie that supports it.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Mmm. Lost 85% of the matter in the observable cosmos, Master Obi Wan has. How embarrassing! How embarrassing.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I suspect the claimed "99.98% accuracy" is counting out of all faces scanned, which is a bullshit way to make the tech look good. Most faces are not marked as shoplifters in the database. A system that literally does nothing would probably still have greater than 99% accuracy.

What we really want to know is what percentage of reported matches are accurate, and I bet it isn't anywhere near 99%.

 

The Myth girls are playing some games to send Gura off, starting with Minecraft on Calli's channel. It's her last day, be sure to drop in if you have the chance. After the relay, Gura's last stream will be a 3D Mini Live on her channel.

I wish I had gotten into Hololive earlier, so that I could have spent more time watching Gura's streams. I can really see why the Chumbuds are so passionate about her. I don't know if her last original song, Ash Again, got posted here, but definitely check it out if you haven't seen it, it's freaking amazing. 💙🔱

 
 

I just started playing OSRS recently and have been just drifting around from one activity to the next, as I find stuff that catches my fancy. Currently I'm about 20 games into Fishing Trawler and haven't seen a piece of the angler set yet; I ended up liquidating some of my food and crafting materials on the GE to buy more rope. I notice a lot of people prefer to play the lower deck even though swamp paste is so expensive; what's the appeal?

Previously I spent a while in Camdozaal because I liked that it was a pretty self-contained grinding area; I stayed long enough to unlock all the buffs, and get the barronite mace and the Imcando Hammer. I like the concept of the Vault but it seems like the actual loot is worthless compared to how much time you spend mining to pay for vault runs. The best drops are adamant armor that you could buy on the exchange.

What's everybody else working on? Grinding skills, making money, minigames, bosses? Having fun?

 

Yes, this is a 4 hour long review of a hotel that's already closed.

 

UPDATE: Ahoyoo has confirmed that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded with TAS tools, meaning that The Last Dance was the final legitimate level all along! Congrats to kazeihinn on the Last First Clear! The journey continues in Super Mario Maker 2...

ORIGINAL POST:

Team 0% is attempting to clear every level in Super Mario Maker before the servers shut down on April 8. (New level uploads have been disabled since 2021, so there is no danger of new levels appearing at the last minute.) As of a few days ago, only a single level remains: Trimming the Herbs, uploaded in 2017 by Ahoyoo. (See also Ahoyoo's original upload video.)

The level is short but extremely precise, requiring Mario to use Bob-ombs to precisely remove Piranha Plants and collect coins while navigating a tight space filled with spikes. There have been over 200,000 attempts so far! If you have a Wii U and feel like you might be a Mario master, this is your opportunity to pick up the final First Clear in Super Mario Maker history.

 

Spoilers for the WyrmwayIn the room where you must demonstrate insight by striking down a representation of one of three writers, Amaps is represented as a tiefling:

Image of Amaps being a tiefling

However, the book he wrote clearly indicates that he was a halfling:

Image of book description that says Paul Amaps was a halfling

This is halfling erasure!

 

Sometimes I can tell when my current DM fudges a roll to miss an attack or reduce damage. He has a tell in the specific way he pauses and breathes before announcing the roll, then tries to hurry to the next turn, which only seems to happen when someone is in a life-or-death scenario, but "luckily" survives.

Should I let him know he has a tell? Will it be less fun (or more stressful) for him if he knows I know?

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