Dreaming_Novaling

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God…

  If you put a gacha down for like half a year, you’re close to quiting. God forbid if it’s a year plus, you might as well drop it with how anyone you used is guaranteed to no longer be meta.

  I’ve been on pause from Genshin since before they dropped the 4th region, Sumeru, which was like 3? years ago. I’ve given up all hope of ever playing the game again, because I know it will be impossible with the few shit 5 stars I’ve managed to scrape together. I keep telling myself I’ll pick up HSR again after dropping it a month or two after release, and even then I dread doing their shitty “designed for the new meta waifu” trial fights.

  I love gachas but lord they make it a full time job. Cookie Run Kingdom is literally the only one I have the heart to keep up with, and even Ovenbreak has lost me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Picked up Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story like 10 years later after giving up on it as a kid and had NO fucking idea of what I was doing. I remember bitching about the hard as fuck train minigame/mini-boss fight you have to do (perfectly, mind you) that I thought I couldn’t beat for the life of me. But I got back and was in a completely different area, not knowing how to leave or get back to where I needed to be.

  I really need to beat that game, it was my first M&L side game…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many period tracking apps leak users data.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re on Android, get on Fdroid and use Drip. It’s simple, does it’s job, can give you alerts if you want them, and can be locked so the gov isn’t tracking when you were possibly pregnant. Also tracks symptoms and body temp and shit for those who want to get pregnant.

  Or if on GrapheneOS turn internet off for you period tracker app (but at that point just use FOSS)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped using Pinterest about two or so years ago due to how dogshit the service is. I was only on there to look at art and anime shit anyway, but the ads got fucking obnoxious. I’m talking like a page full of ads and content with links to shops or sponsored products, and then have only one real post that isn’t trying to sell me something. They frequently emailed me about content not meeting the ToS, even though none of the pins were posted by me, and they usually banned random shit too.

  And then AI art started flooding the posts so I would see a page of ads, sponsored content, shops, ai slop, and finally a real post.

  I fucked off after that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, I knew Mango existed but didn’t know it was free like that. I probably won’t use it cause I already have learned a lot of Japanese from other resources I use, but that’s nice. I’ll try to recommend it more now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  God, I don’t wanna look like a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist to my friends, but I hope one day they magically get concerned or ask me for privacy respecting alternative services. I haven’t really had the chance to actually test how good Revolt, Matrix, and SimpleX are, but all of them would be worth trying a million times more than Discord.

  I wish we would use Signal instead. But unfortunately I have to resign myself to using Discord and GroupMe for school and friends. At least they don’t hate me for not using Insta, although some randos do seem to be annoyed by my reluctance to use it on first meet.

  It’s just so hard trying not to isolate myself from friends. I get that the alternatives aren’t always great (might lack video calls, easy bot management, sever costs, shitty UX and onboarding, etc.) but we gotta at least give them a try…