Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

@lydiaconwell That is exactly what happened to my previous instance. Well, not sold, but was handed over to someone else to continue it.
Not even a half year later that instance crashed something fierce and was lost. That was some lousy hardware they ran that on, sigh. :P I don't think it'll ever go up again.

What did I want to say with this story? Mm.. maybe that it's just not a guarantee that it'll continue forever.

Oh, let's hope so. Lord of the Rings Online is considering improving its business model.
https://massivelyop.com/2021/07/15/lotro-considers-improving-its-business-model-as-players-present-weatherstock-xiii/

When the game was still subscription-based, the storyline was good and the gameplay challenging.

After the release of Mines of Moria expansion, the game became free-to-play and quality dwindled with every new expansion. Their Store was very aggressively marketed, it really got annoying. It was sad to see the decline.

I hope they manage to fix that shit and improve the storyline and quests which was my major reason to stop playing. Nobody wants to muck stables or fetch simple stuff anymore near endgame.
#Games #LotRO #MMORPG

Huh, I just stumbled on this:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Didn't know Valve was working on a handheld console which can be docked. (maybe same idea as the Switch there?)

It does look fairly interesting, especially if you have a large Steam library and can use this as a console.
#Games #Steam #SteamDeck

@thomasfuchs With a hammer, everything fits!

@Acer Dark mode is a way of life!

@zd915 That's a pretty cool picture. It's only missing a few lasers!

For people who still don't have Syberia I and Syberia II, those two games can be claimed for free at https://www.gog.com now!

In my experience, those are very fine point and click adventures with great art and storytelling. I enjoyed them a lot. Just don't bother with Syberia 3...
#Games

@zstark Does that mean I am a criminal now?

@lucifargundam It sounds like you only have to put the food outside to heat them up, heh.

But with microwave you can't do much about the taste, alas. Maybe an airfryer could still help, but I've not used mine to reheat pizza with.

@robflop Hehe, I'll check those later. But Spaced Repetition System sounds familiar, I believe my note systems got plugins for that. I guess I might actually investigate those then, thanks!

@robflop Oh, I meant to ask what an SRS system is? You mentioned it a few times and I can't figure out what SRS stands for.

@robflop I see. I don't really do Romaji, I do use my inner voice. I mean, if I see the kana for 'na', I need to know how to 'pronounce' it for myself with my inner voice. That's where the so-called Romaji part comes in since I can't hear the pronouncation and memorize that instead. Plus the testing sites ask me to type the Latin letters for those kana, so I need to be able to type that as well.

Oh, and I'll pronounce those Romaji the Dutch way, too... ;) I have no fucking clue how English is spoken! English with my inner voice will sound all butchered up. :D

@robflop That's a fair amount of bookmarks I'm going to make. ;)

Checked out this kana.pro briefly, thought at first 'meh' until I got to stage 4, that's actually challenging. I also noticed that here and there there seems to be slight spelling differences, so I'll have to pay attention to that as well. Guess it's time to set up my note system to note all the little details.

I'll have to brush up my Hiragana a bit (it's just the small details I make mistakes at, easily remedied) and will indeed continue with Katakana. Glad to read that the site I'm using is a good resource to start with.

Thanks for the suggestions, I've bookmarked a bunch. Maybe I can actually chat with my RL Japanese friends in their own language someday. :D

@lucifargundam How do you reheat it? Microwave or oven?

I know some people who prefer to eat their day-old pizza cold. Straight out of the fridge.

I tend to not add anything else on it when reheating in the oven. I mean, it tasted good before, it'll taste good again.

@robflop I wouldn't mind some advice. I've been slacking the past few months, but I can still (slowly) spell out hiragana, so I've not really forgotten that, which is good!

I'd been using this site as a starting point:
https://www.tofugu.com/learn-japanese/

and via that site went on to memorize the characters here:
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

and then tested myself via:
https://kana-quiz.tofugu.com

I suspect I probably should go learn Katakana next, via that same site.

Keep in mind that I cannot hear, so ponouncation is lost on me. I really need to know what (Latin) letters those kana are associated with so I can spell them with my inner voice.

That is another thing Duolingo really was bad at. It allows you to hear the pronouncation, but doesn't show the Latin letters for it so I can't memorize those Kanji because I have no point of reference to remember them by.

Learning Japanese in Duolingo seems very... inefficient. It assumes you already know Hiragana while it's teaching you Hiragana. Well, I do already know Hiragana but that's besides the point. It even throws some Kanji in there, I'm not sure this is a good way of learning a new language with their own set of characters.

Whoopitydoo, we've got covid shanties now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtNO0i1TFXY
Subtitles are pretty good and there's hardcoded English subs. :)

@freemo Oh, that's because I'd been slacking lately...

@freemo Uh oh, should I post less? 😅

@Lydiaconwell@fediverse.blog You know... why would anyone even want to wear those kind of clothes? There's plenty of stupid people in the world and you're basically going to parade naked for all of them!