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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

name one person you know in real life that even knows about Ascendance Of A Bookworm. it's a super niche anime. it's also a kid's Anime.

Niche isn't the same as trash.

And it's probably the only slow anime my best buddy actually likes. Usually he only goes for the typical action/comedy stuff, and he always complains when I recommend him drama/slice of life/romance stuff.

So, ofc I recommend them to him even harder

Dalthine posted...

I don't know how accurate it was, but I saw something about Xitter changing its rules to explicitly allow porn recently, or something along those lines.

That "news" came from a meme so take it with a heaping dash of salt.

Yeah, they changed their terms of use recently.

Until now NSFW was never banned by the rules, but now they actually gave out some guidelines how to post NSFW "correctly".

But AFAIK it was about "NSFW" / 18+ / sexual stuff, not outright pornographic stuff.

They tip around a bit using words like "sexual expression" or some stuff. I think there is still some grey area, so don't be surprised if some porn is still getting you banned.

pinky0926 posted...

Tbh isn't apple really strict on privacy/security stuff? Seems like a bold move to risk that huge brand promise on AI, but I don't know enough about this.

The question is if you trust Apple with your data, and if yes, why you don't trust them as soon as they work with OpenAI, even without knowing about the data they will get.

Or why you would trust Google/Microsoft more.

Musk just has an extreme hate against OpenAI.

I don't think Ascendance of a Bookworm belongs on the trashy list, but yeah, I can relate to the slime witch most.

Lobbying.

The media industry is just very strong with their influence, and was able to frame it all over the place.

In german the most common term for media piracy is "Raubkopie", (Raub = robbery, kopie = copy"), so piracy is framed as violent and physical assault using force.

Why?

Because they can.

BalanceLost posted...

Pls explain.

It's a life of Brian joke.

In this scene it's about the group (political party) of the "The People's Front of Judea".

Joke here, joke there, they absolutly hate the other party, the "Judean People's Front".

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

"I remember something slightly different than how they really are and some other people do the same. Therefore parallel worlds are bleeding into each other. Me be wrong about something? Don't make me laugh!"

Sometimes they even skip the "some other people misremember the same thing I do" part and say anything they misremember is parallel worlds.

Actually mental.

I'm more annoyed because it always feels like a loaded question.

"To you remember the disney intro with tinkerbell doing this dot on the i with magic?"

"Sure, why?"

"BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN".

Humble_Novice posted...

When I first got COVID, I had a severe sore throat and incessant coughing, two of the worst combinations to have.

Had it exactly like that too.

no headache, no other symptoms (just some fever I didn't even notice myself), but a throat so fucked up that I could not even drink tea without coughing and pain. Or, lie down for 30 minutes.

Just coughing up gallons of slime 24/7, until my throat felt maimed from the inside, and then coughing some more.

I was boosted, but sadly my booster was already a while before that. I was thinking about getting another shot before winter, but was hesitating too long.

"Hahaha! Finally I'm freed by this mortal husk! Rechoice, as you just sealed your fate with my upcoming return!"

<dies while bluffing>

Customer: "Since the update last week, this doesn't work anymore."

Us: "In the logs we can see that it never worked in the last 3 years, because you deactivated this checkbox in october 2021"

kirbymuncher posted...

I'm actually currently working on trying to make UI for a hobby project and it's veering a lot towards this. every time I think to myself it would be nice to be able to do a certain thing, I add another button/dropdown and it's getting out of control

You know what always help there? A navigation top bar, just like the windows file explorer.

Everyone know how to go throught folders, it's perfect! You just need a strict hierarchy, and it works!

(Yes, I was on the technican side)

pinky0926 posted...

I'm sure you know already but there's a weird quirk in software dev where all of the best and most passionate devs go into game design and then most other folk go into soulless corporate CRM type app development.

So having a team of slick engineers coming up with their dream game UX is a lil different than having one overworked backend dev have to hodgepodge together a workable customer portal

During my college in computer science, I specialized in UX, so I was in a class with UX people.

There were always (ALWAYS), two approaches.

Use case vs. appearance

On one side, the technicans, who pushed so many functions into the UI that it got bloated. Everything was were it should be, but the core question was always "how could we add this too?". The result was a bunch of mock ups and designs, right out of Windows 3.11.

And the media / graphic designer site which cared about the look & feel, and not much about the use case.

It was more or less always the same, no matter the projects we did.

One looked ugly as hell and was like "how tf do you intend to sell that?" and the other one was "okay, it looks nice, but how can the customer access this function?"

SoIidLegacy posted...

Overall it looks like even though the populistic rightwing parties won more seats, it's not enough to significantly change the balance of power. The 'center factions' (christian democrats, social democrats and liberals) still have a majority together.

Based on the preliminary results, this is the expected distribution of seats (in Dutch, but I'm guessing that the words resemble the English equivalents enough that you get the gist):

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/abcd382e.jpg

And here's a map indicating what faction was the most popular one per country:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a51e5c58.jpg

So yeah, on an general European scale, things have scaled a little more towards the right, but not drastically so. Hopefully the non-right factions will learn from this and take some actions to prevent a similar type of result, because if this happens again, next time the far-right could very well become part of the status quo in the European parliament.

The thing is from where that "towards the right" came from:

If we are looking at the total EU results, the right won, the left lost, and the big central parties still stayed the same.

My local newspaper did this graphic for the preliminary results: Factions in the EU parliament are not as strict as in most parliaments, so it's not saying a lot, but should still be able to give some idea of the current changes.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/23cd039d.jpg

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

To be fair, software UX is abysmal and this brings me no end of frustration.

Oddly enough, video games are extremely good at this while stuff that people actually need to use are the absolute pits.

Usually I would agree with you, but today I don't.

Not after the mail from a customer I got today.

Doesn't help that this customer sents me 3 silly mails per day. (Sadly, new premium customer and stuff, so I have to be especially nice).

Customer: "This doesn't work!"
Me: "Please change your settings. As I can see from your settings, it works exactly as configured by you"
Customer: "It still doesn't work!"
Me: "Okay, let me take a look at it."
Customer: "<not much later> Did you still not find the reason for it not working?"
Me: "No, sorry. Can you sent me your new configuration? I checked it in our system, and can't find any issue, error or mistake there. Everything should work on your end."
Customer: "Thanks, everything works now!"

Client: "Can you fix this? Everytime I try to use the windscreen wiper nothing happens"
Dev: "That's the blinker"

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

big ol' nope from me.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e9eea1ea.jpg

Had do to it.

And now I have to take a leap into the bunny hole of despair.

The good news: The site doesn't calculate the worth of your pile of shame. But another one does.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/78ab3e53.jpg

Hey, I actually played 60% of all the games I own. The 40% are probably some humble bundle stuff for sure, and if I take the household sharing from my brother into account, I probably even played some more!

*continues to lie to himself*

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

i sincerely hope that you are wrong and also am upset that you put this idea into the universe should you be

It's even worse.

It also calculates not the hour, but the worth of your pile of shame.

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

At least the button is a honest warning.

I think there was some website that calculated that stuff for you (if your profile is set to public), but I think it's better for all of us if we don't have a number and just say "too many".

projectpat72988 posted...

I don't think less is ever better in places like this.

I would not say that for sure, because of how topics get archived.

Less topics are no issue if the postings are still going up.

With the current 750 to 1000 topics, only topics with no activity for 2 days get purged.

But every topic above 1000 gets instantly purged, with no mercy at all.

No matter what we are doing on CE, the statistics will never be able to show more than 1000 topics (assuming TC measures right after the topic purge).

Diceheist posted...

Macron is less popular than before while I assume Le Pen is more popular than before, why risk doing this now instead of waiting for opinions to flip lol.

There is not much time for such a flip.

Macron wants to do the elections now, instead of waiting and risking that Le Pen only gets more popular over time.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

The president can call an election he's not part of? Or this like one of those word twisty things where he's just announcing it but it was the actual sitting government that made the decision?

I'm not sure about the legal details in France, but the french president has quite some political power, so I would not be surprised about that.

The office is much closer to the US-President, compared to most other EU countries, where the president is more of a figurehead and watchdog.

As long as it isn't some specific new game+ mode (with the starting enemies beginning at level 50 or something like that), I agree.

At least for RPGs or games where it takes dozens of hours.

You know what? Go for it.

It's hard to put a price tag on that strange feeling of your teeth after you drank some coke, but for 10 million?

That's okay.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Common mods, the ones you normally see in the wild, are the lowest order of moderator.

Managing them are elder mods, who are the same biologically but are assigned robes and secret names composed of sounds the human tongue cannot speak and the human ear cannot hear.

Above them are the King mods, which are born with four extra arms and have even fancier robes. They also have the names and additionally are entrusted with the answers to all the universe's great questions.

No greater order of mod has ever been observed, but the organization seems to be unsustainable without one. One theory is that King mods simply have more powers than we've observed, but another is that they live somewhere deep in the ocean where other beings dare not tread.

Inb4 Error coming into this topic complaining that his robe isn't that fancy.

Strider102 posted...

Or it means Earth is trying to kill us.

What's the difference?

Okay, enough edgyness for today.

Cordelia.

Or Sumia.

I usually simp most (if not all) the flyers in most Fire Emblems, and this is especially true for Awakening (but not for Fates).

Phoobloobpp

This is more funny that it has any right to be.

I'm actually wondering how long it will take until someone wants to use the front camera, to make sure that the user is actually looking at the screen with the ad running.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


To be fair, there are some differences within the right wing parties in europe.

They all hate the EU, but some of them actually hate Russia even more.

Sadly not all of them, that would make supporting Ukraine much more efficient.

Some countries have some special inner political issues too, resulting in weird standoffs.

Just read the statement that the yearly "Pride Village" we have here every year will now be protected with an all around fence, with strict entry and bag controls, and ban of any bags bigger than A4 format.

Airport security in the city center.

The official statement: No need to worry.

Great work, thank you, all politicians in the last decade. We are feeling so much safer and better these days.

Nothing say freedom and liberty more than a fence.

Lord_Ephraim posted...

Castlevania

Call it Alukart.

There are some nice answers there, but sorry, this pun in #2 still beats them all.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Getting old sucks, huh. Seems like its time for morning stretches.

Inb4 injuries caused by harmless stretches.

Reminds me of me getting covid half a year ago.

"It really sucks being alone being hella hella sick."

Was even calling an ambulance because I suddenly woke up in panic, because I felt like I would suffocate (in the end, it was more a panic attack than actual suffocation).

Aloc posted...

poland?

Vienna / Austria, so west of Ukraine.

Poland would be even worse, with the border to Belarus and Ukraine directly.

Next week we have EU wide elections for the european parlament, yet the situation seems to get more tense and frustrating every day.

Since the invasion of Russia into Ukraine, we already have beyond big problems with Russia and their local shills, not to speak about the catastrophe in Ukraine itself (Lwiw is only 600km away from where I live).

But lately, violence (political and not) is oo the rise without any sign to stop at all.

Knife stabbings in general and physical attacks on politicans in general are on the rise and by now a common occurence in germany, with the attack in Mannheim (with a dead cop as the result) being the peak for now.

In northern Germany, some students make a party song out of "Germany the germans, foreigners out!", not far away, last month thousand of people demonstrated in favor of germany becoming a Kalifat / islamic state.

This summer we have pride month with all the pride events going on, the european soccer championship, and the olympic games in France. In France they already arrested someone suspected of planning a terror attack on the olympic games.

Today I open the news, and can read how another guy got stabbed in a park here yesterday, and is fighting for his life, and in Munich, there was a shooting, 1 dead. But it was probably some personal thing both times, so I'm supposed to not worry at all.

It feels like everyone (myself included) is already expecting something to happen this summer, only unsure when and where it will be.

Prices and inflation go up, the education sector has no ressources, the health sector has no ressources (yeah, my check up got scheduled for october!), everyone has less and less, and violence on words and actions is one the rise every year.

It feels so frustrating, and the only thing politicans do are spewing lies, empty promises, corruption, hate, and fucking putin bootlickers.

"Thoughts and prayers" and "no way to prevent this" made in europe.

Vegy posted...

I shouldn't have read dat post before my appointment

It's harmless, believe me.

After having some other surgery, I now know that the dentist is actually close to painless.

Don't insult clowns, they are funny.

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

Part of the issue is that the game will likely be delisted from multiple countries since they legally can't use PSN. Look at when Helldivers 2 had the PSN requirement and 30+ countries couldn't buy it for a while.

They still can't.

PowerOats posted...

Yeah but which Mario Party?

4 is my pick

1-3, they all mix together in my head anyways.

Goderator posted...

stating it needs a psn account before the launch is very different than the helldivers 2 situation

As long as the list of countries with no real access to PSN is absurdly long, it will always cause some backlash.

Helldivers 2 is still locked for these regions, with no official word at all except "Sony is talking with Steam about that".

I once got modded for saying that in Triangle Strategy, in Chapter 6, Sir Maxwell is a green unit you don't have to protect and is able to fight well on it's own. I mean, what a huge plottwist, since Sir Maxwell is a hero of the nation and Mentor introduced in Chapter 2 already.

Never would have people thought that this guy could be a green unit!

The real spoiler that he dies in a cutscene after the battle was never mentioned by me anyways.

In the same topic:

Naming the other NPC you have to protect in chapter 4? No spoiler

The other NPC you suddenly fight in Chapter 7? No spoiler. Who cares that it is General Avlora after they betrayed you? That's obviously free game!

It was simply a post about how to beat a Fight in a game, and it was something like, don't worry, let Sir Maxwell go on in and fight on it's own, and clean up the rest.

Yes, I'm still salty that this moderation wasn't overturned. Why is it a spoiler that <obvious ally> fights on your side in Chapter 6 a spoiler, but talking about the enemy in Chapter 7 wasn't?

Everyone was talking about mission advice here and there, name dropping NPCs all the time, but for some reason I got modded.

According to google maps I walk 650 meter to my train station.

So, yeah, I usually do this every day I leave my house.

dhampire1 posted...

I never got this. I grew up years in Southern California and I had friends whose parents couldnt speak a word of English and would have elementary school kids explain and ask for everything for them everywhere.
some of these people lived in the country over 20 years and still never learned to speak one sentence.

I dont get it, why move to a place and not want to at least try to learn its language? It would make every aspect of your life easier. Easier to get a job, easier to get help, easier to find a place to live, to buy groceries. Literally everything.
its ridiculous to have a 6-7 year old on the phone scheduling medical appointments for the parent refusing to learn English. Or even calling about an electric bill or anything. I child doesnt know anything about all that stuff.

this might sound bad, but I do wish when applying for citizenship theyd at least have a basic English test included just to make it easier for everyone.
im not saying to get rid of or stop speaking their language.
but its absurd people walks for months straight, risk their lives and their childrens lives to go live someone where, but not once on those months of walking even try to learn a single word of that nations language

The true issue begins when because of that the children can't learn the language either.

I just wanted to link that dad joke topic, but it seems it got purged today :(

Coffee culture is always interesting to me.

My experience with their coffee (9 years ago)

They have good coffee, but much much weaker than what I usually get.

But I have not tried these fruity coffees at all, only normal black coffee, hot and cold.

Miquella posted...

Why didn't he just interview black people and note their current experiences?

Because it's about him.

Didn't you hear how hard it was?

Notti posted...

Feels slower.

You think so?

I would guess all these star wars topics the last few days alone would give us a plus in topics and postings.

kind9 posted...

This guy... Maybe you should learn Spanish and speak it.

This may work in the US with English and Spanish as the two big prevalent languages, but is hardly a solution anywhere else.