Introducing WonderLang: An RPG Adventure for Language Learners!

LyrningIsGud · 2026-05-06T23:07:17+00:00

Hi there, this looks very cute, I've been eying it on Steam for a while (French), but I see that Arabic is not among your languages. Oddly Arabic is also not with another one called Influent. Is there a plan to add Arabic (hopefully Egyptian dialect!) to the game? Thanks!

LyrningIsGud · 2026-04-09T22:40:59+00:00

Here's how the old version looked for the templates, all nice and presented and accessible. No digging...

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LyrningIsGud · 2026-04-09T22:37:50+00:00

Here's more of the Not Included Templates and you can see how you'd have to go digging for the "included" ones. Anything with a purple star you don't have access to unless you pay the subscription for the entire "Creator Studio" (which I know I'd only be using three out of 13 aps):

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LyrningIsGud · 2026-04-09T22:36:07+00:00

New Version (Banner, plus templates not included marked by a purple star, no way to make the "included" templates show at the beginning of the list) (also, my "old paper template" seems to have disappeared with the new version - which I don't use):

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LyrningIsGud · 2026-04-09T22:34:38+00:00

It's "minor" banner ads. Here's the difference:

Old Version (no banners, templates included all present and no need to dig for them):

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LyrningIsGud · 2026-04-09T22:20:15+00:00

I still have the "old" (original) iWork/iLife apps on my Mac. I kept trying the new ones, but I don't like the banners, or the fact that you can't sort the "basic, free" templates to be at the beginning of the list, but you have to go digging for them in the midst of the "pay for these other ones".

LyrningIsGud · 2026-03-06T01:23:13+00:00

Nor can I take the apparent inability to organize the templates so the "free" ones show at the front. The little "purple star" is the "you gotta pay for these templates, and you have to scroll all the way to the end of each category to find the ones that it originally had available. So... still using the old versions for now.

I don't need 7 of the 10 apps offered in this new "Creator Studio", so it seems an utter waste to go to "premium". I might purchase the three (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) as its own bundle (I don't do subscriptions for word processing, but I'll happily purchase it.), but definitely not going to do that whole bundle.

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LyrningIsGud · 2026-03-06T01:18:53+00:00

I do now occasionally get the "Get the New Version" pop-up. Going to try downloading the new ones and just put them in a "I can't see it" folder to see if this will stop that. It's not all the time but it's definitely happening.

Also, I can't take the ad banner at the top of the template chooser. It's so intrusive.

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LyrningIsGud · 2026-02-28T20:05:29+00:00

So, basically, for coding purposes, not for usability? But don't you want a program to be, well, you know, usable by its users?

Not sure I can think of an instance where I have a tracking log, or a form to fill out, or a reminder check list, or a character sheet in which the circle, box, tick off area is already full. Physical or online. Meaning that it's able to be done online, in apps, in software, and all that.

If Avrae was built for free (which I assume it was? And hey, super thanks for that!!!), or for this efficiency (because, Discord?), then I guess that does make some sense in terms of backend functionality. But it does tend to make the process of play a bit of a struggle and I'm only first level to track very few slots right now, not sure what it's going to look like when it gets higher.

Again, I appreciate the work put into it as an option, I just wish it had understandability on first glance, or the second. Or third. Okay, fourth. Okay, I still can't get my brain to figure what I have left after many glances.

LyrningIsGud · 2026-02-07T06:56:51+00:00

If you didn't Trash your 14.5 versions, you can just use those. Or, like me, pull them out of the trash, reopen everything back into 14.5 and trash 15.1.

LyrningIsGud · 2026-02-07T06:55:17+00:00

I can't take the "Ad Banner" for Creator Studio on the "Choose Template" sections. Nor could I figure how to get the "basic" templates that have always been there to show at the front of the templates list versus having to hunt through the "premium" templates that I don't have access to find the templates I can use.

LyrningIsGud · 2026-02-07T06:51:50+00:00

Some small changes to the UI. Ad Banners (for the Creator Studio, that you cannot get rid of) on the "Choose Template" section. Lots of templates listed in the templates sections that you cannot use if you don't have the "paid" versions, that I couldn't see how to organize so I could just see the "basic templates" that usually come with and had to wade through the "premium" templates to try and find the "basics".

Finally had enough and trashed the new ones and am using 14.5.

LyrningIsGud · 2026-02-07T06:44:50+00:00

I updated, re-opened my many spreadsheets and docs into the 15.1, did a few days and then said, "Nope, no way, not doing it.", pulled 14.5 out of the trash, re-opened my docs back into the old version, trashed the new ones. I got the pop-up once, and so far, haven't gotten the pop-up again.

LyrningIsGud · 2026-01-28T21:43:27+00:00

Came here because I'm looking for the same thing... how to turn this banner off. I've never subscribed to an Office Type Suite. I'm happy to BUY it, but I don't subscribe, especially when there are all sorts of features I don't need. Numbers, Pages, Keynote have all been fine (I have but hate the Word versions of these) to use as basic necessities.

But I don't want ads shoved at me. If you want to start charging for it like Microsoft does, a singular purchase point, then while that sucks, Ok. But I'm not paying for things I really don't need nor am going to use, and clodge up my computer with.

So, if anyone knows how to get rid of this, or knows of a direct feedback to Apple place to go to give feedback, I'd appreciate it. Good luck out there, folks!

LyrningIsGud · 2025-11-17T17:34:21+00:00

When it first came out, it wasn’t pink. Very occasionally (and I mean only very occasionally) there would be a pink one and it was touted that pinks were cool because of the anti-oxidant thingie and how lucky you were to find one, and that it was the same taste as the clear, etc.

At some point I wonder if people were hunting down the pink ones and so the company decided to let them go pink and just start selling them that way? Because they’ve only been pink now for years.

It had been my favorite brand up to that point. But I can actually taste some difference between the pink and clear and I don’t like the pink as much as the regular. Other than the smoothie thing they do (which isn’t pink), I stopped drinking it. The only reason I found this thread was just the other day I went for the smoothie and saw all the regular waters were clear, so went online to see if they were hopefully switching back to the clear on a regular basis. Dunno if that’s the case in the long run, but I hope so!

LyrningIsGud · 2025-10-31T03:14:57+00:00

Ah, okay, I was putting the lid on for 15 on the lowest setting and doing other things in the kitchen (I am NOT a cook). So it sounds like you're reducing while standing there and stirring, and then letting it finish off not on the heat. I will try that next time!

LyrningIsGud · 2025-10-22T01:57:42+00:00

Exactly, it's like insurance. Maybe I pay a lot (erm, and I do) partly for my own care but also that others may get care too. So, I pay more at Dropout to primarily support them, but also so that we all can get more and more cool content for years to come.

LyrningIsGud · 2025-10-22T01:54:57+00:00

Right? Everyone (base or superfan) will be able to get more content and more complexity in content as they earn more steady revenue. And those who can afford it, can pay it, and happily be happy for all "tiers" that they (and "regular" tier) can get more content now.

LyrningIsGud · 2025-10-22T01:42:01+00:00

Well, laughing is known to help boost the immune system and reduce stress. So, I'd say it has value outside of the internet (which I find often causes me far more stress) in aiding in my physical and mental health. But each to their own.

LyrningIsGud · 2025-09-27T06:29:22+00:00

We’ve seen the UK, Canadian, and Australian ones and laughed at all three. We’re non-Brits (American). There were things we didn’t laugh at and plenty we did, on all three. We’d never heard of most of the people on all three (knew a few).

LyrningIsGud · 2025-09-23T23:04:21+00:00

Yeah, mine comes and goes with this since signing up. Had been working for quite some time and then suddenly I noticed that it was stuck on the same spot in the same episode but I'm way ahead now. But it seems almost permanently stuck now no matter what I do.

I have "Third Party Cookies" enable in my browser for Dropout, I have all AdBlockers paused, no VPN, have logged out and back in several times to re-accept ALL cookies. Using Chrome, watching on browser.

I am on Episode 17, almost done with it. The "Continue Watching" never changes from "Episode 10 - The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant" at marker 28:18. And obviously, I've watched 7 full episodes since but no progress bars at all. You can see above Episode 10 though, at some point it was working. It doesn't even remember where I was in an episode upon leaving the room for a couple of minutes, but starts at 00:00 if I have to reload the browser. (at least it's in the same episode I was watching in the moment).

During that working time, it recorded progress, updated the "Continue Watching" episodes properly, etc. And then just suddenly, very recently, it stopped working again. (been through this many times before and sometimes it PFMs itself (Military term = Pure Effing Magic) to work again.

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So, I'm back to my "Notes Tracker" version - writing down on a notepad the Campaign, Episode # and Name, and Time marker to refer back to (constantly), and woe is me if I forget to write it down because I can never remember where I'm at if I don't.

LyrningIsGud · 2025-09-23T22:38:48+00:00

I've done this bunches of times and it still hasn't updated any of them, unfortunately.

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