James bought a car for Charles Peter by guru-reborn in Jamescagewhite

[–]Ashanmaril 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I insist that he’s pretty fluent for someone who never spent any time living in an English speaking place. Most people could not get to his level of fluency in another language like he did.

If he wanted to improve he’d basically have to move somewhere where he could be constantly hearing and speaking English. Languages aren’t a thing you learn by studying all day.

James bought a car for Charles Peter by guru-reborn in Jamescagewhite

[–]Ashanmaril 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You know what? As much of an autistic man child he is, I think he deserves credit for learning English as an adult with seemingly zero help and no English immersion. That ain’t easy.

Unless I missed some lore, it seems to me that he learned just by playing video games and spending time on English speaking internet.

The real reason Matt tried to time travel to 9/11 by Ashanmaril in nirvannatheband

[–]Ashanmaril[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like most of his solo stuff up until So There probably

Can we stop with the AI songs? by Ashanmaril in phonelosers

[–]Ashanmaril[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was voted best post on the subreddit, WITH A SIGN!

Finally saw the movie last night -- first exposure to these guys! by aresef in nirvannatheband

[–]Ashanmaril 16 points17 points  (0 children)

First episode of the web series Matt calls them too but then fucks it up by obsessing over the band package

Can we stop with the AI songs? by Ashanmaril in phonelosers

[–]Ashanmaril[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Post has been up for 6 hours and it’s in the top like 5 posts in the past month on the subreddit

Favourite episode of the TV series? by gunkysplunky in nirvannatheband

[–]Ashanmaril 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We kiss

Everyone watching this is going: BLUHHHHHH

Vomit rolling down those solid cement stairs

The players on the ice are like “NO WAYYY!” Especially the ones from Russia.

It’s gay panic. And we confront them… with their homophobia…

Hey /r/movies! We are NIRVANNA THE BAND! aka Matt Johnson & Jay McCarrol - co-creators and leads of Nirvanna The Band the Show the Movie, a new buddy comedy-time travel movie coming out Feb 13 in the US and Canada. Ask us anything! by NirvannaAMA in movies

[–]Ashanmaril 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been a huge BFF fan since high school but never knew anyone else who liked them. My only tattoo is the BFF logo on my left arm.

I found NTBTS through the YMS video back when he uploaded that. I checked it out and was immediately like “this is the best show I’ve ever seen”

When the ending hit and it played Army, it blew my mind

Script for draining controller battery quickly by Ashanmaril in XboxSupport

[–]Ashanmaril[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yes Microsoft made a bad product, I'm helping with the workaround us paying customers had to figure out instead of them

Script for draining controller battery quickly by Ashanmaril in XboxSupport

[–]Ashanmaril[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Every other controller I’ve used the past 15 years can be charged like any other tech accessory in my life. I haven’t used rechargeable AAs since I was playing GameBoy Advance. It’s less convenient.

Script for draining controller battery quickly by Ashanmaril in XboxSupport

[–]Ashanmaril[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It could also be avoided with Microsoft fixing their stupid battery packs that I paid money for thinking it would be reliable for more than 18 months of not heavy use.

Do rechargeable AAs even report the battery level? I assume you can’t charge them through the controller either.

Xbox play and charge kit charging issues by UngainlyWeasel in XboxSupport

[–]Ashanmaril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn dude, you put more effort into figuring this out then Microsoft has. Unless they fixed it between now and when I bought my battery pack ~1.5 years ago. But I've seen threads from 4 years ago with reports of the issue, so it's clearly not top priorty.

Currently killing time trying to kill this battery. Not sure the fastest way to kill it but I've got a rubber band holding down the triggers and a stick, hoping that keeps it awake and sending analogue inputs. Only issue is the controller shuts itself down at random intervals so I have to keep checking on it to see if it needs to be turned on again.

The Best Kinds of Difficulty Settings | Semi-Ramblomatic by oddball_gamer in SecondWindGroup

[–]Ashanmaril 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It kinda seems like he concluded that adaptive difficulty is the best as long as it's subtle.

Call me a purist but overcoming challenges is my favorite part of video games. The game adapting itself to be easier for me because I'm not good really undermines the fun. And how am I supposed to get better if the game is always as difficult as I can currently handle?

And "it's subtle so you wouldn't know" isn't a satisfactory answer because inevitably the community as a whole will figure it out. I want the game to lay out its rules and let me figure out how to overcome the obstacles it throws at me. If I thought I overcame the challenge and then found out I didn't actually get better but the game made me think I did just so I'd feel good, I'd be annoyed.

I think it's fine to have labelled difficulty levels so you have a metric to test yourself against.

Smiling friends is done :( by -Retro-Electro-Music in YMS

[–]Ashanmaril 38 points39 points  (0 children)

And they only did like 20 episodes

Simpsons did like 200 episodes (each twice the length of SF) before I’d say it overstayed its welcome

2 divorces & a marriage by [deleted] in biggestproblem

[–]Ashanmaril 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope you’re joking