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[–] emb@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

It used to drive me crazy, but these days I love it when my Internet goes down. Can't work if I can't get online. Can't mindlessly scroll timewasting websites on my computer (bonus points if my phone has no cell signal).

Just all the time to play games, read, get things done around the house, take a walk, etc.

Power outage can be nice too, but more limiting.

But sometimes of course no Internet means you can't do things you need to or want to. Don't mean to minimize the annoyance it can cause, and I hope you're connected again soon if you want to be.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Actually now that you mention it, I just checked and it seems like links in profile aren't even clickable or selectable from the Loops Android app, so that's annoying.

I usually make an acct for each distinct fedi service, so not sure. I see a bunch of videos pop up from Mastodon users, but I just browse it from a Loops account (and never post videos).

[–] emb@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thought this looked really good!

The uncut gameplay reveal approach is a little weird when combined with the mostly-cinema beginning of the game. Might've been nice to see more gameplay and less setup.

I dig how goofy Frank the cube is. But I can see those quirky random characters really rubbing some folks the wrong way.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I get they were going for more violent, but the blood is like, distractingly a lot. There'll be an option to turn it off/down, right?

[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Had this issue with my DSi's R button. Blowing into it worked for me, for a little while.

All these fixes seem pretty temporary, wish I knew a surefire way to get in there and solder or replace something to get some peace of mind.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly I usually like to read up on my field. Scrolling hackernews or lobsters and reading the programming/tech articles there isn't immediately productive to work, but at least I could plausibly make the case for it.

Tho I guess all in all it depends on how much leeway you have.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Both is the answer. Most people will flip past a 10 minute short-form video. Just like the TikTok/Youtube sitution, edit some things to be vertical and short, and post those to Loops. Include a link in your profile to your Peertube, and let the short videos direct people who like your stuff to your longer horizontal videos.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Because it's so simple, it applies to psychology (including for humans) very broadly. Remove the context of dog and food and bell.

event -> reward -> response

becomes

event -> response

And being able to predict or control behavior (responses) without providing value (rewards) is a powerful concept.

Edit: instead of 'without providing value', I should have phrased that to be more generic.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, that's good to hear! Always had the impression that the blob-free distros caused compatibility headaches, but glad to be wrong I suppose.

Edit: And I should say I didn't mean to pick on Trisquel in particular, it was just the one GNU recommended distro I remembered by name.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I studied some more kanji this week, watched a few videos from Easy German.

Probably my best step this week was finally setting up Yomitan w/ AnkiConnect. Been meaning to for a while, now I can mine cards that aren't so barebones.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Great milestone to go there and get the experience. Thank you for sharing!

Something (at least to me) about going and finding people who don't speak English (or at least don't speak it well) really activates that sense in the brain of like, this is important, it's worth all the learning.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's really great! Mistakes happen, but sounds like you've hit the important milestone of being able to communicate well enough. Great job!

Also sounds like the calmer parts were the most fun. Do you foresee being able to go back? :)

 

Cool to see where Harada went, and the idea of this studio potentially making Vs fighting games is nice.

Tho, this is SNK related, so keep in mind the issues involved with SNK these days: https://www.timeextension.com/features/talking-point-we-the-consumers-need-to-vote-with-our-wallets-the-moral-dilemma-of-supporting-snk-in-2026

 

The Ultimate History of Video Games is a popular book, written by Steven Kent that tries to cover video game history from the start up to around the early 2000s.

Despite it's popularity, there are many errors. Game historian Ethan Johnson and others put together 65 pages of errata and uploaded it to the Internet Archive.

More context in this blog post: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/what-to-do-about-steven-kent/

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