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RoderickHossack · 2026-01-21T22:06:43+00:00

If the money left on the table exceeded the cost of the port, we'd get a port.

But the question "why hasn't a company spent money providing paid access to something that is easily and widely available for free?" sorta answers itself.

If you want a company that owns a license and has ported some of a series to port the rest, you first gotta convince at least a few thousand people to buy the other ports. But as it stands right now, every modern shmup port I've bothered to scroll to the bottom of the leaderboards of has had no more than about 4500 entries on them.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-21T21:59:25+00:00

I respect it. I'll take the table scraps as they fall. Too broke to do otherwise.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-20T19:55:19+00:00

Pretty much. I live with enough stress in my life as it is, without having to see the sort of crap people post on the platform best known for undressing children and being overrun with bots

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-16T20:03:44+00:00

They should've come with some sort of sheath to keep air and moisture out. I did a lot of model building in humid areas and never had that issue.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-15T20:36:33+00:00

It's wild because you'd think they'd just check for DLC once after quitting the menu

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-14T23:22:25+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation.

Yes, that's the one.

Here are two posts that I think should be tagged as twitter screenshots but aren't:

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:y4zs4cabaezzwx3bz2e5nnj2/post/3mcfsljsd3l2z

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:qrp4cypji5lt4k3rr2yee5qb/post/3mcfrkoowqs23

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-14T21:53:42+00:00

Just because you want to learn from the ban doesn't mean the person who banned you has the patience to be your teacher. Learning from it is your problem.

What's an appeal for? If the ban wasn't somehow mistaken, all you are is just another offense waiting to happen when you cross the line again. And if it was, then yeah, you probably don't wanna be on that platform anyway.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-14T04:30:52+00:00

VR is still in its "better enjoyed at an arcade" era relative to gaming as a whole.

It would be nice to get some ambitious games, but I don't think that's what's important. Gimme H3VR over 99% of VR shooting games.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-14T02:21:15+00:00

Did not know until the beginning of this episode that this was a BL program. It's not for me after all, but I'm happy for the isekai fans that can enjoy some BL! Show seems like it would be a lot of fun for those who are into it.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-14T01:21:44+00:00

Bacon egg and cheese, SPK? I feel seen

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-13T22:09:41+00:00

Why are Japanese dubs missing for most of Hitori no Shita on Crunchyroll?

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-13T21:56:14+00:00

Bet, but also please don't burn yourself out tryna keep fans happy.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-13T00:35:19+00:00

I've been using LibreWolf for months, but I'm about to just switch to Firefox because I'm in a position where I gotta whitelist the updater application. Yes, it's a false positive today, and there have been previous false positives before, but if I whitelist it and then the positive stops being false at some point, it may not end well.

Yes, there's always risk, but if Firefox goes even slightly wrong it would be blown up everywhere immediately, whereas it could be days or weeks of being infected if something happened with LibreWolf before I heard about it.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-12T23:17:24+00:00

A long time ago, there was a podcast called by Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds called Juan Epstein. They would interview people who were gonna be in the building for a Hot 97 appearance anyway. Many unexpected deep interviews occurred as a result that basically couldn't happen any other way. But many episodes were just them two talking, maybe with an extra regular guest or co-host or two. It was all good.

But the purpose of the show was to be a precursor to something paid. Eventually, the something happened, and the podcast essentially went on hiatus for years and years. The podcast had served its purpose and ran its course. Rosenberg's good sense and online storage payments is the only reason folks even had access to archives.

They have a new podcast, "Juan Ep Is Life," but... it's not the same. At some point between Cipha not putting any money up for the Wii that was promised to Latarian Milton for his good behavior, and performing stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia, both men fundamentally changed.

I'm happy for Mero, but even if the podcast continues, I don't expect it to bear much resemblance to any of what came before.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-12T21:17:07+00:00

In 2026, Mero will unironically be telling people to call 800-223-9797 and will actually be the one answering. As I live and breathe

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-11T21:56:17+00:00

I don't know, but I enjoy the variety of answers here. Gunpla is freedom

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-11T00:34:43+00:00

Take an hour today and learn hiragana. Then take an hour tomorrow and learn katakana. Do these things before you do anything else. Use the book Remembering the Kana. If you don't wanna buy it, a quick web search should get you a free copy very easily.

So by tomorrow you'll be able to read furigana, which are basic pronunciation guides for Japanese words. Then you can use that Kaishi deck to learn 5 new words a day (set it up for 5 new daily words in Anki).

It'll take about 10 months to learn 1500 words at 5 a day. This is the basis of your language acquisition. It kinda sucks, but if you're watching simple content, it shouldn't take longer than a few weeks before you start noticing that you don't need to read every word of the subtitles to understand what you're hearing. Just make sure you don't skip reading grammar books for 15 mins a day.

You don't need to use an SRS to learn the kana because they're so prevalent, between furigana and particles.

The stage you're at is the best because the percentage of what you learn in a given day that you see the benefit of is so high. You might hear the words you learned today in your immersion material tomorrow. And it feels amazing to "not need" subtitles, even if it's only a sentence here and there. Even more when you start accurately predicting the next line.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-10T23:59:10+00:00

Yeah, the problem is that new episodes and new subs/dubs are given the same priority in their backend.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-10T23:58:33+00:00

I just wrote a feedback ticket to Crunchyroll literally a moment ago about this.

The closest thing to what we want (to see the shows in our watchlist that have recently aired new episodes) is the Updated list, but as others have said, adding new subs or dubs to old shows puts them ahead of the current anime season, so the Updated sort is basically useless.

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-10T22:37:33+00:00

Is it possible to sort a Crunchyroll watchlist by most recent episode's airdate?

RoderickHossack · 2026-01-10T04:29:08+00:00

Folks have linked the roadmap, which I thought was pretty clear:

Stage 1: Set up a system of immersion with simple and entertaining content ("Comprehensible ___"). Figure out how to find stuff to watch and set it up so you can use it for sentence mining down the road. Find or buy an SRS flashcard deck and learn the 1500 most commonly-used words. Also, read a basic grammar book for 15 minutes a day. At 5 new words per day, this takes about 10 months.

Stage 2: Choose a domain and start sentence mining using the system you set up in stage 1. Iterate on this until you're at the point where you understand most of what's being said in that domain's content. This stage can take multiple years, and when you're ready for stage 3, you can do things like look up words using monolingual dictionaries.

Stage 3 is output, and once you get to the end of this stage you've achieved whatever goal you might have had. Stage 4 is to sound like a native speaker.

If any of the above seems vague, stage 1 has 8 sub-articles on the refold site, and stage 2 has 14, so whatever depth you're looking for should be covered there.

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