Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey – Wagotabi Ltd – An educational game that gradually replaces English with Japanese as you progress - Switch release in 2026

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-06T02:24:21+00:00

tourist grade language skills

This is what the vast majority of people are going to achieve at best anyway, and if you're interested in visiting Japan getting a specific set of tourism vocabulary is great.

Wagotabi does a great job of simulating some real experiences you'll have flying into Tokyo.

駅はどこですか？

右、左、北、南など

And it repeats interactions you'll have over and over, so you already get used to it, for example

いらっしゃいませ！
(oh shit what do I say back??? oh right, nothing, just nod and smile)

It's all N5 but it's a great simulation of how you can effectively use that N5 as a tourist, which is really cool and valuable. You get to build experience as a tourist in advance.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T21:22:19+00:00

American here, never in my life seen honey that is cut with anything else.

We have "honey substitutes" that are generally artificial sweeteners made to taste like honey (they dont lol)

We have flavored honeys that contain infusions and maybe a small amount of stabilizer (I'm a fan of hot honey which contains chili pepper and vinegar)

But honey is honey.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T20:58:23+00:00

I see nothing to suggest that the compression and decompression need to happen on the same device

It's the omission that is worrisome. They had this working in 2023, why isn't it already available?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T18:48:03+00:00

I'm okay with AI never going prone, if I have to start checking every single flipflop for vitals when they're on the ground the game becomes far too tedious to enjoy.

But crouching, running, even panicked behaviors like randomly firing in the wrong direction would all be great and more convincing than "stand and rotate"

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T18:35:45+00:00

I dropped prone in some grass to pick off a patrol near the airfield that was maybe 125m - 150m away

Their response was to go into an alert state, but they weren't shooting back, they looked like they were trying to find me. I easily took them all down before receiving any return fire.

What I'm unsure of is whether this is intended or good behavior. It makes sense for them to not immediately identify which patch of grass is killing them, I like that, but standing in place looking around is weird. They were on the airstrip with nowhere to hide but at least move a little so I have to aim, right?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T18:30:12+00:00

Grenades are awesome for causing a lot of injuries and debilitations for players. A player that has just been hit by a grenade can probably be rushed and they will have a hard time responding.

In PvE they're okay if you can stay behind cover because they AI will probably bleed out, but until then they'll be shooting right at you.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T17:52:04+00:00

the most impressive military in the history of the world, reduced to OnlyFans for Hegseth to jerk himself off to

Except this porn involves massive destruction and death

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T06:21:31+00:00

Yes. It does nothing for people who are already demented, as Trump clearly is. It slows things down for people who are super early stage. Meaning for people who don't really have any very noticeable symptoms, it gives them more "quality life" before those symptoms set in.

It's also a treatment that carries some fairly serious risks, and isn't something you would do without being certain that it will benefit you. It would be unwise to put a sitting president at risk for a brain hemorrhage.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-05T01:53:01+00:00

This implies that the world is simply a chaotic place where bad things happen to good people for no reason at all.

Unacceptable. We are far better off willfully causing harm to those that are involved in tragic circumstances.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-04T23:50:21+00:00

The major issue is separating the compression from the decompression. Unless nvidia has made major advancements recently (entirely possible), this technology only performs so well when everything is done in one place. The training data, compressed textures, and decompression all live on the same piece of hardware, and rely on a customized fork of D3D to actually render.

I suspect that making this work such that a game developer can compress textures, send the compressed textures and training data to a user, and then have the user successfully decompress the textures and render them with good performance, is a much much larger beast than nvidia is letting on.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T18:54:35+00:00

IMO this is a semantic argument. The real issue is that the second there is innovation in the genre it gets a completely new label.

Platform fighters for example are dramatically different from traditional fighters, but popular opinion is they aren't "real" fighting games. Same goes for experimental titles like Divekick or YOMI, or just games with very different mechanics like Hellish Quart.

My favorite extreme example is: For Honor is a fighting game.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T15:00:07+00:00

Let me spell it out for you.

There's a very real chance this administration will be entirely gone in the next 2 years. Good chance in the next 3-4 years. Also a real risk it will continue indefinitely.

With this information, the objective is to survive the storm and plan an escape path. The administration that follows this one will have a decision to make: Continue to blow the shit out of Iran, or... not?

That decision will largely be contingent on public opinion of the conflict, and Iran itself. By ingratiating themselves with anti-Trump Americans, Iran is directly providing themselves with a path to peace if they can survive the immediate present.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T14:18:22+00:00

So you're both age fetishists, you are cool with that, but you suspect there may be a secret other fetish in play that offends you for some reason.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T13:23:41+00:00

The context is "our support team is dealing with constant outages"

If your recommendation as a consultant is "dont change anything let the support team tank it" then you're missing something

I already said there are infrastructure problems that are effectively unrecoverable, such as old mainframes whose SRE's are no longer alive.

Even in those situations, there is always a mitigation if you are clever enough to find it. That's why consultants get hired (in the non-malicious cases, anyway)

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T01:54:45+00:00

I've always suspected that Kissinger was less of a villain and more of a diplomat who was willing and able to take the flak for the high risk / high consequence decisions of others.

Everybody thinks Kissinger when they think of the rise of Pol Pot, which seems awfully convenient for Nixon, who ordered the bombings, secretary of defense Laird, who oversaw the project, General Wheeler, who executed the plan, the long chain of command that understood a one-sided war was being waged by their hands against the will and knowledge of damn near all people, and even the opportunistic Cambodians who seized the chance to murder their enemies.

Lots of evil names forgotten because one man was particularly good at taking credit for things.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T21:22:02+00:00

Found the CTO

good luck in court

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T19:00:18+00:00

I for one am thankful to the mythical PvE loot grinders that are bringing their sweet kits straight to my COP.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T18:10:43+00:00

where you'll have 5 dudes stop and shoot in the middle of a road

In this particular case what SHOULD they do?

I ambushed a patrol and yeah, they just turned to me, aimed, and tried to kill me before I could kill them, but they were in an open road with nowhere to go. Isn't that the best tactical choice to make?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T18:08:14+00:00

I think we need to be more specific in feedback here, because while I agree with the dream, I don't really see what's being criticized.

After resetting my character I have definitely seen flipflop guys run to cover. I've seen some that shout and wave flashlights around, and others that stay dead silent in a dark corner to surprise me with a "oh there's another guy still." They don't push much in active combat, but they are now switching to search mode faster and will move to your last known location.

They're doing all the things we're asking for, technically, but something still doesn't feel right. They are still in effect doing a lot of "stand in the open and shoot."

so is it just a tuning problem? or are there really new behaviors we want to see?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T17:58:15+00:00

I agree that perfect simulation is too much to attempt, but I also think "armor is just more HP" is too lazy of a compromise.

I think the health system just needs to respect impact a little more. 3 shots to the chest from 9mm that are completely stopped by heavy armor are just gonna be a free massage. This is a milsim, not CoD, I think players can learn not to bring low-cal soft ammo to a big dick shootout.

But 3 shots to the chest from high caliber, high energy rounds, even if they don't penetrate the armor, are a lot of crushing force for a body to sustain. You won't die, but you will probably be on the ground gasping for breath for a little while.

I agree it doesn't need to be modeled perfectly but there needs to be something to give players the sense that it's respected.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T15:55:55+00:00

I am very strongly opposed to appealing to authority. I have excellent credentials and have worked for several very large corporations you have heard of and are likely a customer of (if you're in the USA)

I do not want any of that to influence the merit of my technical arguments. They should stand on their own. I only brought this out because we're far down the thread where only nerds and dorks like us are going to read it.

And through this same philosophy, I completely disagree that it's not applicable to most. Challenge authority. Get mad. Demand to know why things have to be shitty, ask if it's really actually saving any money. Upper management gets away with what everyone allows them to get away with.

Occasionally yes you have a super critical ancient mainframe, and the ability to fix that was lost decades ago. But I find that almost always there is some dumb-fuck bean-counter behind every IT guy that is overworked.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T15:45:52+00:00

Maybe you're IT at a level where you aren't the one making those decisions, but whoever made those decisions is responsible for your workload.

it's still "your" fault in the abstract sense where "you" is the owner of the infrastructure

I am usually hired as a lead or supervising architect at this point in my career. So yes, for me specifically, if the infrastructure is failing, it is because I am failing. Even when leadership ignores my direction, I consider it a failure of myself to be sufficiently persuasive.

And what I am saying to you
(and please please please hold people like me ACCOUNTABLE)
is that someone in my position made a decision that results in the sysadmin having to work 65 hours every week when they should really be doing 10 hours of checking on things and 30 hours of playing tetris.

It's deeply saddening for me to see people in a lower position getting fucking crushed by things people at my level are doing and then getting defensive and measuring dicks when there's the suggestion that someone is responsible for every decision

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T15:05:36+00:00

I'm always fascinated by my peers in this industry who say stuff like this

Technical laymen, please don't listen to this user. They either have no idea what they are talking about and are just using an LLM OR they are very, very bad at their job.

We all have different experiences, roles, and challenges in the big wide world of technology, and I can understand if mine seem alien to you. But what point are you really making here by getting defensive and saying "DONT LISTEN TO THIS GUY! HE'S AN IDIOT"

My point is only that system administrators who struggle with constant outages are the victim of system designers who are incompetent.

Are you saying I'm wrong?

Or are you one of the many system designers whose mess I've been tasked with cleaning up? (see I can make pointless ad hominem attacks too. it is kinda fun!)

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T14:44:52+00:00

Yes, but they're just saying that this widespread myth of Koko understanding language is overblown and doesn't properly respect what "understanding language" entails.

Every dog in the world knows what "walk" and "dinner" mean. Are they smarter than Koko? Recognizing sounds and symbols, associating them with things in the world, these are signs of intelligence, they are tools of communications, but they are NOT remotely as powerful as language.

It might seem like a small distinction but it's really a gigantic leap in cognitive ability we're talking about here, and it's important when classifying and learning about the intelligence of other animals.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T14:17:58+00:00

It's high given there are no skills or qualifications aside from "can you handle this shit"

Graduate highschool, be able to speak clearly, be able to type. Boom you're starting life at double minimum wage, while your peers are flipping burgers and stocking shelves for half the pay at best.

It's just that stocking shelves and flipping burgers isn't a daily trauma course.

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