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There's not a lot you or any one individual can do, but every little bit contributes. Do measure expectations tho - in many cases (eg, Sony) the backlash is very much expected and they're just planning to weather it.

Biggest thing is to cancel your PSN sub (or other subscriptions relevant to whatever issue), stop buying buying games that fuel whatever practice (eg in the Sony case, stop buying digital games on Playstation).

Tell your friends and family why you're doing it, especially if there are people you play games with. Try to widen the impact from losing you, to losing your whole social circle. (Note that it probably won't work - people are set in their ways and not everyone cares about every issue-, and may not be worth it if you don't have another way to connect with them.)

Bluesky has some companies like Playstation and Xbox on it, so that's one place to be vocal. Twitter and Reddit probably still get read a lot by these companies too, so if you're on those, sure add to the dissent. They probably also value engagement on Facebook, maybe Threads/Instagram. Tho that makes me think, not sure if it's better to even add activity to their posts - maybe best way to send a message is simply to unsubscribe/unfollow? Sometimes it's worse to be ignored than hated.

Don't sweat it if you don't remember syntax stuff right away.

The building blocks will repeat so much - your if statements, loops, variable initialization - that some will stick in your head eventually.

But even when you get it, every once in a while you'll get a brain blip and have to look it up. Don't hesitate to have the language manual readily available.

Most of the time in you won't even have to know it - in larger projects, you'll find a similar bit of code in an existing file and copy it, then make your modifications. Or depending on your dev environment, the IDE's intellisense stuff will act as a guide rail.

It's definitely a bigger undertaking than I initially thought! At first, having done mostly Japanese recently, I just saw that Thai had something like an alphabet and was relieved. But I'd really underestimated how confusing it'd be to have very different phonetics and resultingly confusing symbols.

Still, I feel like if I'm going to a place, I should know at least a little of the language. And trying to learn the basics doesn't feel very effective if I don't know any of the building blocks.

I've got some travel coming up later in the year, so I've been trying to get my head around the Thai alphabet. It's weird trying to learn some things about a language, without having a long term goal to really know it.

But on the flipside of that, still trying to maintain Japanese. Doing a different podcast approach, re-listening to episodes and reading/mining the transcripts. It's been kinda helpful.

Continuing on with my summer reading, I've picked up I, Robot (Asimov) and Professor and the Madman (Winchester) from the library.

I also checked out Hatchet (Paulsen). My niece is reading it, figured it'd be fun and quick to join in.

On the listening side, I've been going through Disrupting the Game by Reggie Fils-Aime since he reads the audiobook himself. It's very directed towards the business advice angle, but there's good biographical and Nintendo history info in there.

Was talking to a young adult relative the other day, and he was telling me about one of the new Call of Duty games.

I haven't played one lately, so I mentioned something I thought was neat in World at War or Black Ops 1. And he's like, "Wow, that's an old one. I don't think I was even born yet."

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My backlog gets daunting too. I'll get real motivated one week and add a bunch of cards, to then get busy another week and fall behind.

I just try to keep reminding myself the spaced-repetition system will work itself out.

Yeah, it is kinda sad. But Lemmy is small, so we get what we get.

Searching for communities for French, I see 2 or 3 that look OK (but pretty quiet). Then the more frustrating part is there's not a clear standout to try and breathe life into.

Higher level comms like this one offer a place at least. Learning languages share a good bit in common, even with totally different targets.

Like another comment mentioned, questions or topics that are specific to learning French are welcome here!

Why are they freezing?

When we go to the beach on vacation each year I always make a point to stop in the local bookshop. Selection and moreso price aren't great, but it's always so much fun just to look around.

Went the past week and picked up:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
• Secret History (Tartt)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Zevin)
• And Then There Were None (Christie)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)

Well that's installing from disc but still using it to play the game, a precursor to the way it continued to work on future Xboxes (with the differences that install was optional on 360, and that on later Xboxes sometimes games required a download to even install).

This rumor would have to be a step further.

This is my favorite game ever. Enjoy the playthrough! Try to see it with young, wonder-filled eyes.