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  • Why does it feel like there is currently less new games, songs, YouTube videos, valuable articles and creations in general?

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  • Right! It's not that there's less. It's that there's a discoverability issue, and on top of that more stuff means less cultural relevance for any given work.

  • YSK: Anki (especially in FSRS mode) is an incredible learning tool if applied correctly

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  • Anki is so useful! It can be intimidating, having to find or build a deck to get started though. For people (like me several years ago) putting it off because of that, it's definitely worth getting into! Put in the effort to research a good deck and set it up, and you'll get a lot out of it.

    Another small note on FSRS settings - adjusting the desired retention a little bit can be helpful. Defaults at 90%, turning it down makes review intervals longer, up makes them shorter. For large decks (vocab lists), I prefer it down at mid-high 80s. You want familiarity, not perfection, so less overwhelming reviews can be better.

  • Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam

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  • Had the exact same reaction. Love that Steam keeps this very visible.

    The price would have to go negative before I'd consider adding this to my Steam account to rot in my library unplayed.

  • "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts"

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  • What do you use for podcasts? The software should be handling it so you don't have to think about it much.

    I'm on AntennaPod (FOSS podcast client), and looking at the Add Podcast screen, I see it does include Apple Podcasts. You can add RSS feeds for other sources, but mostly I search the name of whatever podcast I want and it finds it.

  • Humans suddenly gain the ability to selectively delete their memories. How do you use this ability? (if at all) How do you think society would change?

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  • I don't think I'd personally have much use for it, at least so far.

    But I see it going dark places. If people figured out how to delete their own, that's one step away from authorities or even just criminals being able to rewrite other people's realities.

  • "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts"

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  • It's at least pretty cool that the statement is true enough most of the time to be in wide use. The walled gardens continue to expand, and the situation will get worse. But by and large podcasts are pretty open and accessible in a decentralized way.

    I know Spotify is grossly proprietary, but is Apple's new service too? For a long time it seems like being on iTunes or whatever meant they also had an open RSS feed for podcasts clients?

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • Replacing the digraph is pretty cool. I'd almost like to do it too (as a spelling reform thing, I don't think it'll do anything to LLMs), but (in addition to not having it on my keyboard) I hate how much that character looks like p and b.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • What made you want to learn Korean in the first place? Try to think about what you could do if you knew it, and set up goals that you want to reach.

    I realized when I was young that I'd like to learn Japanese. But I put off serious learning for so many years (decades, tbh), and now I think a lot about how I could already be using it for all sorts of day to day (web browsing and entertainment) tasks if I had focused sooner. You learn a language, you can learn or do your other hobbies/interests in that language.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • Pokemon Z-A in French is perfect, lol! I've been playing it for language learning too (Japanese). I think those games are pretty great for it, good low-stakes, familiar games that have a lot of text, but are also kid-approachable. Would be nice to have voice acting, but otherwise fantastic language immersion games.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • What's the vibe like at these meetups you're going to? What kinds of things do you talk about, what are the people who go like? Sounds fun, though I think I'd be too self-conscious to attend.

    For my part, I've been learning Japanese. It's been good, but very slow. Focused on mostly Kanji, Anki, and listening/reading this year (rather than staying with my textbook). Feel like my foundation is way more solid now, and characters I don't recognize are the exception (by a slight margin), rather than everywhere always.

  • People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going?

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  • Are there any active communities for amateur songwriters and/or home-recording enthusiasts?

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  • Yeah, it's pretty sparse here all around. But don't be afraid to try opening threads like the ones you mentioned in the comms people recommend.

    A lot of communities here have subscribers, that just aren't seeing anything to comment on. If you ask a question or give people a space to talk about themselves, sometimes a few will come out of the woodwork to chime in.

  • The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

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  • Yep, I think that's the real terror of it, is that the line between ad and content will blur even further. There's already everything ranging from astroturfing to paid endorsements, but eventually AI maybe can get good at finding that line of what you think is trustworthy and crossing it maliciously.

  • Could pizza be considered an open-face sandwich?

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  • Pizza is also, like other foods, apparently a salad.

  • What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?

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  • Super Paper Mario's line "I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played." is really good.

  • Nintendo is releasing a Zelda Breath of the Wild vinyl box set in the West to gauge the demand for physical soundtracks there | VGC

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  • Pretty cool. Love to see some game OSTs on vinyl, and Nintendo publishing makes it that extra touch more official to probably push me into buying the small one.

    BotW is an odd choice for an extensive soundtrack release though. I know it has some jams, but the bulk of the time playing it you mostly get this ambient feeling music that just drifts with the flow of things. Hard to see how they get 8 records out of that, but I'm sure if I looked up the tracks it'd make sense.

  • ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’

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  • Sounds like a big promise.

  • Kirby Air Riders Direct #2 10.23.2025

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  • Haven't gotten to go watch it all yet, but it seems like this game has a whole lot going on! Love the Sakurai maximalism.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It's been true for decades now.