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early_riser @lemmy.world
2h ago

What video game did you not expect to like as much as you did?

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2h ago

Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?
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early_riser @lemmy.world 2h ago
I think the ray tracing drew a lot of people in. It certainly did me. I think it also rides on its reputation as a big-budget spiritual adaptation of the SCP Foundation.

2h ago

Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 2h ago

Never played this game but I'm aware the same devs are involved with Pokopia in some way. Makes me worried.

It's like they saw Minecraft's complete and utter lack of direction and decided to overcorrect.

11h ago

Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 11h ago

They nerfed the final smashes starting with smash 4 on the Wii U. They used to be an instant KO but now they’re just flashy regular moves.

11h ago

Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 11h ago

Donkey Kong country is like that for me. The platforming isn’t very satisfying. Music is great though.

13h ago

Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 13h ago

Any pokemon game after gen 2.

I started in 1999 with red. It was a childhood-defining experience. I spent all summer with my nose in that game boy. Keep in mind I had to use a loupe mounted in a glasses frame and had to hold the screen an inch from my eye, so the ergonomics weren't ideal, but the experience was compelling enough for me to bear through it. Then I got gold in the summer of 2001, I think, and was blown away. It was an upgrade in every way. I personally think the series peaked with gen 2. To be absolutely clear I am not a "gen-wunner" or whatever the word is. I just think the combination of the game itself and the zeitgeist it created for those first few years came together to make something unrepeatable.

Gold and Silver came out while Pokemon was still everywhere, but by the time gen 3 released, the craze had ebbed. Yes it was still popular but it was no longer in everyone's mouth. I was also in the latter half of high school, and most of my friends were no longer into it. I bought the game, so it's not like I thought I was too old, but it just didn't feel the same. They removed the day-night cycle and the calendar functionality. It felt like a downgrade.

I've tried several times since to rekindle that feeling I got in 1999. The closest was with Pokemon Go in 2016. For a few weeks it felt like the late 90s again,, with everyone and their dog talking about Pokemon. I actually beat Pokemon Let's Go, but I think the nostalgia is what kept me going. Tried with the first Legends game and just couldn't stay interested. Ditto with Brilliant Diamond.

There has to be a word for not wanting something but wanting to want it. That's how I feel. (Of course the nice thing about being a conlanger is I can make the word myself 😁)

spoiler

sdC CB

a serial verb construction consisting of the verbs sdC (to pine for/yearn for/be nostalgic for) and CB (to want). Perhaps "to miss wanting" is a close translation.

    
sdC CB qGr qGrbfrp
0     sdC-0   CB-0   qGr-0  qGrbfr-p
[1sg] yearn-A want-A play-A video_game-3D
I miss wanting to play that video game.

1sg = 1st person singular (0 means it's dropped)
-A = authoritative verbal mood (-0 means a null morpheme that isn't pronounced)
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix ('that video game')

16h ago

My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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early_riser @lemmy.world 16h ago

UPDATE:

I see Bookstack mentioned a lot, so I decided to try installing it. I took the better part of a day and I still can't get it working. Pity since it looks a lot nicer than Dokuwiki and has access control unlike Mediawiki.

2d ago

Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 2d ago

Vampires don't suck, they scrape and lick

2d ago

How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 2d ago

Texan here. 2 years in HS was required when I was there. I took Latin.

2d ago

Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 2d ago

…like an insect molting? O_o

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3d ago

What weird names did you give things as a kid when you didn't know the real name?

3d ago

(XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW

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early_riser @lemmy.world 3d ago

XMPP doesn’t seem to be well supported in terms of Windows clients

5d ago

My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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early_riser @lemmy.world 5d ago

Lemme tell ya somethin about Tiddlywiki. Actually a lot of knowledge base software has this problem (I've specifically encountered it in Trillium, Obsidian, and TW).

You have your body where you're austencibly storing the meat of your information. But you also have configurable metadata fields. Obsidian has its YAML headers, and TW and Trillium have separate metadata forms. All three of these have scads of methods for sorting and querying and filtering the metadata but next to nothing for the actual note. But the note is already organized data. It has headings and subheadings and text under those headings. Why can't that be queried? I got into this on the TW forums. Everyone was basically telling me to cram all of the actual data into the header, leaving the note itself virtually empty. Obsidian has its bases feature which does the same thing. Then why not just have a bunch of YAML files? A genuine question, I'd actually love a system for sorting and querying a bunch of organized YAML files almost like a noSQL database. But Obsidian doesn't let you do that. It has to be markdown.

I got off track there, but there it is.

5d ago

My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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early_riser @lemmy.world 5d ago

Was it the backend, maintaining the DB and juggling extensions and such, or was it organizing the wiki itself? I've heard lots of people complain about maintenance. My personal project currently uses Mediawiki with sqlite as the DB. I'm essentially the only editor and almost the only reader, so it's more of a CMS than anything.

Because the wiki is public, I have to maintain a separate KB (currently Obsidian) for drafts and scratch notes and other "thinking out loud" such and such that I'm not ready to present to the public. That's why I'm looking at something with access control. I'd like to consolidate all my work on this project to a single place, with notes and drafts accessible only to me, that I can publish when I'm satisfied. Dokuwiki with a crapload of plugins seems to be the closest.

5d ago

My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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early_riser @lemmy.world 5d ago

logseq

Forgot about logseq. It's an outliner first and foremost, so not what I'm looking for.

silverbullet

This one's almost there. No version history. For accessibility reasons I'd like something that clearly separates the acts of writing/editing and reading/consuming. It works better with screen readers. In silverbullet, headings only look like headings, but they're just undifferentiated text to a screen reader. Obsidian has the same problem). I get why people want a seamless editing experience, but it's very important to me to keep track of how my ideas change over time, and Obsidian and Silverbullet are constantly saving your edits, making versioning difficult.

Helix notes (mentioned recently in another post) tries to get past this by having a "save new version" button.

QOwnNotes

Very very simple. I can see why some would be attracted to it but I'm not.

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5d ago

My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

1w ago

What if we got Ea-Nasir wrong?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 1w ago

To be fair, if people acted back then more or less as they do now, they'd be more inclined to leave a negative review than a positive one. All the more so considering the effort involved in writing, the skills and materials needed to write, were rarer back then, and the effort just to transmit the message after it was written would not be trivial, either.

1w ago

The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way

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early_riser @lemmy.world 1w ago

It's completely arbitrary, and people at the time it became standard were very aware of this. Before, each country had its own prime meridian centered on its capital. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Prof. Aronnax tries to find out Captain Nemo's country of origin by getting him to specify which meridian he uses. I can't remember how Nemo avoided this, I think it was by using the American prime meridian centered on DC, when it's very obvious Nemo isn't American.

spoilers for a 150-year-old novel

Nemo is Indian, BTW.

1w ago

How far back can you remember to your childhood?

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early_riser @lemmy.world 1w ago

We lived in a small starter home until I was four. I have several memories from that house, including at least one birthday and Christmas, as well as my mom's birthday, I think.

My earliest memory, or at least what I count as my earliest memory, is being pushed around the block in a stroller. I specifically remember being fascinated by the fact that the sidewalk stopped mid-block, just a grass path for maybe 10 yards before the pavement started again near the corner. It was a disruption of expectations. The sidewalk is infinite, the sidewalk is unbroken, the sidewalk is eternal, and somehow it isn't. I miss those days when every day brought something new and unfathomable to my little mind.

UPDATE:

Some possibly earlier memories:

Being potty trained.

Going to McDonalds and bringing the food home.

Watching my brother or neighbor play the NES port of Burger Time, the very first video game I can remember, either that or Super Mario Bros.

Sneaking out of my room to eat salt straight from the shaker.

Some social worker visiting the house and having me pick up colored plastic circles from the floor. I think it was a vision test.

Hiding behind the couch when Sesame Street came on.

I also have misty dream-like impressions of the zeitgeist of the 80s, songs, TV shows, technology, etc. I think that's why I like synthwave and cassette futurism. It reminds me of those foggy early memories. Every now and then I'll run across the name of a show or a description of some early home computer and be like "Oh yeah, that really did exist and wasn't just the product of my little baby brain."

1w ago

Eventually, coffee moves from a drink that gets you going to an emotional support drink.

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early_riser @lemmy.world 1w ago

I very rarely drink coffee. I figure if it's just going to get to the point I need it just to function normally then I might as well not start. I'm already a morning person anyway.