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  • Staten Island GameStop Stapled Receipts To Switch 2s And Punctured The Screens Because Nintendo Boxed Them In The Weirdest Way Possible

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  • Sure, that's on Nintendo a little bit.

    But who staples things directly to the box of a collector's item or an of expensive piece of electronics? Store was asking for trouble. The staple would have bothered me even if it didn't touch the screen.

  • Any interesting new (2024+ launch) browser games / web-based games?

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  • Not exactly games I guess, but https://neal.fun/ always has neat stuff. I think some of them are relatively recent.

  • What is the best way to learn a new language as an adult?

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  • There are lots of great things to do, but most important is to build a habit and keep working at it. Engage with the language every day, and work up to consuming content designed for native speakers.

    Duolingo and similar apps are helpful, but don't put all your eggs in that, or any single, basket. Also do Anki or some other flashcard thing. And at the very least a beginner textbook or grammar guide is good to have. Early on, mix time between textbook, apps, 'comprehensible input' videos. Work your way up to reading, and look for graded readers to get started.

    (Also, as Duolingo gets worse, consider alternatives like Memrise and Mondly. Or even paid stuff like Busuu, Lingq, Pimsleur, Babbel, Rosetta Stone. Also, your local library may give access to Transparent Language or Mango. Although of course I can't vouch for most of these personally.)

    Another rec: check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz for a cool community. Good place to ask questions and get support.

    There are probably a ton of cool learning resources specific to your target language. Look online for communities around it.

  • What is the best way to learn a new language as an adult?

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  • Yeah! Songs are a good addition to learning activities. You learn several words deeply, with great repetition, and it's fun.

    But I agree you need to be looking at lyrics and using a dictionary. It can be too easy to just listen to songs as music, and not get any language-learning out of it.

  • As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"

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  • Kinda, but I think phrasing it that way overstates how bad it is right now. Generally, you buy a physical game and you get something that's a reasonably complete product, playable to the end without ever patching.

    Basically every game has a patch, but it's usually minor bug fixes, optimizations, or extra content that's not so important.

    Truly broken and deeply unfinished games shipping on cart/disc are (were?) still kinda the exception.

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  • Good question. I always assumed the updates were cumulative (as in, a later version would contain anything needed from older versions) and that pretty much every cartridge required some firmware that was newish at time of release... such that yeah, each cart would have a version of firmware update on there.

    But there are a lot of assumptions on my part there. And the Switch 2 situation could be a totally different kind of thing for all we know.

  • If you consider the early 2000s to be some sort of cultural peak do you think we will have another in your lifetime?

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  • No. 1990 was, and will forever be, about 10 years ago.

  • If you consider the early 2000s to be some sort of cultural peak do you think we will have another in your lifetime?

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  • I can see an argument for it. The Internet was widespread and accessible to common people, but governments and major corporations hadn't really figured out how to completely abuse it yet.

    But the real thing is probably that the peak of culture is probably based on whenever a person was between 5 and 25 years old. For most I think those were the good old days, no matter when they actually were.

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  • That sucks, but I wonder if future games will have the needed firmware update on cart?

    A lot of Switch 1 games require your system to have newer firmware, but then it'll ship the update on cart so you never have to go online. PS4 and 5 do that too. Up to now, only Xbox One (and I assume Series does it too) has required me to do periodic system updates online.

  • What games are just objective masterpieces?

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  • Super Metroid

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  • Kind of annoying, but it was locked behind a subscription paywall anyway, so not a big leap.

    I'm all the way out on subscribing, so already not a feature I planned to use.

  • What's your method of enjoying (or at least tolerating) physical exercise?

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  • A couple ideas:

    One of the best things you can do to be active is walk/run/use cardio machines for long stretches of time. So,

    • Get some wireless headphones and catch up on some podcasts, albums, or audiobooks you've wanted to check out.
    • If you have a convenient way to set it up, you can try to get an excercise bike or treadmill in front of a TV screen, and watch or even game while you're active
    • Find some trails nearby. It's more fun moving around if your focus is on sightseeing and exploration, instead of exercising

    But also, gamification can be fun. Stuff like,

    • Last time I did 3 sets of 12 reps of 100 lb, can I do more this time? Get an app and keep track, aim to increase either reps or weight when you can
    • Last time I went a half mile in 20 minutes, can I do it faster this time?
    • Yesterday I walked for 5 minutes, can I handle 6 today?
    • Can I piece together a workout from some exercises that I don't hate? One that gives me push/pull/legs? One that covers certain muscle groups? That planning can be kinda fun
    • Likewise with diet, get a calorie counter app and try to eat with intention. Think of it like a strategy game for min/maxing numbers. Can I get a slight surplus? Deficit? Can I get xyz grams of protein a day, or stay below xyz grams of sugar?

  • Wait, that game is still playable online?

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  • I haven't played in a number of years, but I'm pretty sure fan-made servers are still running for Phantasy Star Online.

    I was playing the GameCube version online well over a decade after that console was dead. Blue Burst on PC is well supported too, I believe.

    Crazy now to imagine a console game letting you input a DNS server and IP address for online play. But it did.

  • Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?

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  • Fira Code is my answer as well! I'll use others for some variety, but it's the favorite I always go back to.

  • Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?

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  • Yes, it's fun and my brain can convince itself that it's productive too. How can I work if I don't have the perfect programming font?

    Along the same lines as your link - I really enjoyed playing out this font tournament, and found a few new ones I like - https://www.codingfont.com/

  • Blender has the donut tutorial. What is the donut standard tutorial for inkscape, gimp and krita?

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  • Vim has that same kind of tutorial, that you can access right within the application. Such a nice feature.

    I didn't know that about Inkscape, now I really want to try that one.

  • A tool to compare monitor specs and prices

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  • That looks useful.

    I was gonna mention rtings as an alternative to this, then I saw them included, which is nice.

    The one thing I miss in this tool is display lag. It's basically included in the rtings score; but with all the other specific filters, that's one I'd want up front.

  • You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Been loving the feature.

    My next hope is that they'll upgrade tab groups so (when collapsed) I can move them around like normal tabs. Right now it's a little awkward if I start the group in the wrong spot.

  • You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here | The Mozilla Blog

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  • For me, open tabs and bookmarks are different levels of the same thing. I'll open a bunch of tabs researching some task I want to do, and leave them open because I want to come back to that. Bookmarks do the same thing, but with lower visibility and higher permanence.

    Tab groups let me group a handful of things to reduce the clutter. Similar to the way that folders are useful within the bookmarks manager.

    To use them, just drag one tab on top of another, it'll make a new group. Give it a name, and you can now expand/collapse. So 10 tabs all related to one task can stay in-sight to remind you, but only take up 1 tab's worth of space in the bar.