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MentalEdge

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Boy did I que up a lot of posts for you last night, then.

And also Izu posts.

MentalEdge ,
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Why? dB is logarithmic so it's difficult for people to picture how loud something is, if that's the only number given.

MentalEdge ,
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Yeah, I thought this was for those pieces of shit.

I'm sure electric ones are being used around my city, but that's not the ones I notice.

MentalEdge ,
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Also big enough for that to be a somewhat unhealthy amount of content to keep up with.

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Oh, hey, I started one of those!

So happy you like it!

For any fellow weebs, there's an instance, ani.social. It is host to a bunch of relevant communities.

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Well yeah, but to say browsing all will actually let you see everything is a bit of an exaggeration if that's what you do.

Like I said. It's possible, but probably not something anyone should actually be doing.

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WRC is a rally racing game.

And even if it weren't, this is a shit take.

MentalEdge ,
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Altman going "yeah we could make it get things right 100% of the time, but that would be boring" has such "my girlfriend goes to another school" energy it's not even funny.

MentalEdge ,
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Helping people self-insert works, unfortunately.

Frieren and Dungeon meshi are showing that people are probably getting a little tired of these fantasy worlds having a random person from the real world walking around.

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Literally her only flaw is that she hasn't realised she is a perfect being and does not need fixing.

MentalEdge OP Mod , (edited )
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So many Izufaces!

https://i.postimg.cc/hvjcV1ps/Screenshot-20240516-212036.png
https://i.postimg.cc/436fGdY6/Screenshot-20240516-212105.png
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https://i.postimg.cc/cHTdKbM6/Screenshot-20240516-212724.png
https://i.postimg.cc/hPYPbNFd/Screenshot-20240516-212855.png
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https://i.postimg.cc/L5C4WbnG/Screenshot-20240516-214831.png
https://i.postimg.cc/rmq8wk4v/Screenshot-20240516-215140.png
https://i.postimg.cc/4yNNBgNz/Screenshot-20240516-215527.png

And Marcille (or even the whole gang) has clearly adopted this new baby.

https://i.postimg.cc/c1mvYD4R/Screenshot-20240516-212501.png
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https://i.postimg.cc/5yxjTzpQ/Screenshot-20240516-215452.png

Even as a retainer Izu was acting freer than most, and right as she has gained real freedom, she is now chafing at the restrictions of a survival situation.

The gang is genuinely trying to co-operate and form a relationship of fair "give and take" but Izu has very little experience with being given anything, not without a catch. And while the catch in this situation is very real in that the gang is hoping shell be helpful and pull her own weight, they are not her owners, nor do they want to be.

Voluntary co-operation is very new to this young cat-person. But the gang is refusing to show her anything but kindness despite her prickly attitude, let's hope they can gain the fickle trust of this feline friend!

And she can move! Chil and Izu dealing with the Ice golem was wonderfully animated, though she didn't seem to pick up on the fact that without Chilchuck showing her where to apply her combat skills, she would have been screwed, and she ends up taking credit for the whole thing.

Chilchuck is still the bigger person in the end. I love the details in how he, and later Marcy, talk to Izu about what it means to be a functioning person. How being too hedonistic and selfish is counterproductive, and that being more well rounded in how you go about life, requires that you show concern for others and consider the bigger picture.

I belly laughed at Laios' wanting to "explore" Izu's body. Of course he would want to know every detail of this exotic creature that is Izutsumi!

https://i.postimg.cc/wTngsJJ5/Screenshot-20240516-212424.png

I was overjoyed to see Izu in the OP, too! I wondered last week whether they would add her in this week, and sure enough, here she is!

https://i.postimg.cc/mrs4msmt/Screenshot-20240516-211429.png

MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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And the gang is already going all parental on her. Chil especially has experience, I'm sure, being a father of three.

MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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Funny you should mention god, and his intentions concerning the creatures of the dungeon...

Izutsumi is 17. She's not quite a kid anymore... But she's a kid. And Maizuru clearly never bothered treating her as more than a vaguely human creature.

Maizuru might have done well enough with Shuro, but she clearly didn't put the same effort into her "pet" as she did her "waka-sama".

When it comes to people to be around. Ones that value good communication, co-operation, and honest interaction (unlike a certain Kabru), Izu could not have lucked out harder on a group to end up with.

Izu has been "taken care of" her whole life, but never by people who concern themselves with who she is and where she is going, the way Laios' gang does.

I love the way they dealt with Izu scratching up Laios' face. Marcille comments that it's horrible, but none of them so much as hint at being vindictive about it. You can just tell that among the Nakamotos, that would have meant corporeal punishment.

But here, no-one stares daggers at her, or tells her she's a bad person. The only one giving Izu any crap is Chilchuck, and he apologized for it.

MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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Congratulations, you are being adopted.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/4569e361-47a2-4a0f-a03a-8f643d9d7792.webp

MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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She's not a side character, but having her in the OP before that point would have spoiled that.

MentalEdge ,
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Ok that's bloody genius.

Did you glue the fingerboard to it to be used as a perch like this?

Edit: Checked the thingiverse, I see it's bolted.

MentalEdge Mod ,
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This has Lemmy front page energy I can feel it.

MentalEdge Mod ,
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!touhou

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Hah!

No.

Soon enough the result will be an AI generated "blogpost", generated by the search engine, in response to your query.

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Fuck yeah

MentalEdge , (edited )
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This has been a thing with Squenix for over a decade.

The Tomb Raider reboot trilogy, too. The first one sold well so they upped the budget and then did a surprised Pikachu face when the sales didn't go up to match.

Their execs seem to think spending on production automatically means sales will go up to match, which is why their franchises have so oddly good production quality, even as the game ends up mediocre.

When I heard Rebirth would be "bigger and better and open world" I just went "here we go again".

Intergrade worked for a lot of people, but when shit works, Squenix just can't leave it alone. They immediately throw way too much money at it, scaling things up to the point they miss out on why something worked in the first place.

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I mean, it doesn't automatically result in atrocious games, either. The Tomb Raider games we'ren't bad, Deus Ex Mankind Divided was incredible, and recent Final Fantasy games have a ton of fans.

They just can't seem to understand that overspending past a certain point doesn't get you a more better game, and therefore more better sales. Whenever they hit a balance, they instantly overshoot thinking they can just "venture capital" their way to the big bucks the second something has a semblance of traction.

When they should be making more games, at medium budgets, they push for fewer games with bigger budgets, and then act surprised when all the eggs in one basket meant some of them cracked under the weight.

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The default webUI de-duplicates cross-posts. I don't know if any apps do.

MentalEdge ,
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Different people posting the same URL get their posts linked up as cross posts.

The cross post button just copies the post text into a new post. It doesn't do anything special.

MentalEdge ,
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There are no "actual" cross posts. Cross-posts on Lemmy are just all posts that have the exact same URL in the URL field.

MentalEdge , (edited )
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Not a cross post. It just creates a post that links to the first post.

If you made a third post that also linked to the first post using the same url as the second post, that would be detected and get linked up as a cross-post to the second post.

Actual cross-posts work in both directions. Lemmy detects them as the same thing, both posts link to the other.

Not in the post body, the post body quote and "cross-posted from" text is completely meaningless and just gets added by most clients, adding it doesn't make something a cross-post, and removing it doesn't break the actual cross-post feature, which shows up as a little "cross-posted to: list of communities" thing on the post page.

Thunder has it, Photon does it, and the default webUI does it.

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No, the posts are separate. But each post will list every other post so you can visit the other comment sections.

MentalEdge ,
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Same here. No trouble with sddm.

MentalEdge , (edited )
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Additionally, by implying that each individual "person" is not already commodified as a body of data in a collection of similar is woefully naive.

Elaborate, this sentence doesn't seem to make sense. Typo?

I'm saying, on average, per person, collecting a bunch of people's data, and putting that data to work, you're not gonna make money hand over fist out of nowhere.

When it comes to data-brokers, the worth of personal data on individuals is that of cents. Not even whole bucks.

Data mining only brings in the big bucks at scale. At stupid, scale.

Gaining data on a million users will never cover the loss of losing out on a million game sales. The math simply doesn't work that way.

The reason they do it is because they can get away with doing both. Eventually they will get both the game sales, and data.

Losing out on some money now, is inconsequential as they will get ALL the money, later.

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Beyond addressing your actual retort, could you have resisted being rude? "Naive" and idiot emojis?

Not to mention the hypocrisy of "look into it before pulling shit out your ass" when that's exactly what you did, in response to which I commented because I do actually have an idea of the numbers involved.

Lastly, trying to shut someone down by asking for sources without bothering to check them yourself first, to make sure you're not the one incorrectly assuming the facts will back you up... I could throw those first and last sentences of yours right back at you, word for word.

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