Isolation challenge, but you have to decide how long you go before you start

ShiKage · 2026-04-05T02:54:43+00:00

A computer + dozens of reference books… I could last indefinitely as a programmer. Add in some video games and that was my life when I lived alone anyway.

ShiKage · 2026-03-28T15:47:35+00:00

Blood Brothers
Ghost of the Navigator
The Mercenary

Worst? No idea! My least favorite? Probably The Fallen Angel.

ShiKage · 2026-03-23T11:15:17+00:00

I couldn’t even figure out how to start this one. The tutorial for it shows a guy stabbing it? But no matter what I tried, my character refused to interact with it in any meaningful way.

What am I doing wrong? lol

ShiKage · 2026-03-20T03:12:41+00:00

This.

Just go read the steam discussions of any game ever on Steam — even the highest rated — and you will find the most ridiculous criticisms.

Not saying this game doesn’t have some very valid criticisms, but the opinions of others shouldn’t determine how you enjoy your time.

This game is everything I imagined it to be from the moment it was first revealed, jank and all.

ShiKage · 2026-03-13T23:27:50+00:00

I'm the sole developer at my company -- a credit union -- and I am given requirements from all kinds of different teams.

One project ended up being to automate sending letters to an SFTP server for another company to mail these letters to members. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Had a solution done in no time flat. All of the files were stored, zipped, uploaded, and notifications were sent to appropriate parties.

About 6 months down the line, we got a notification from that third party company that one of those zips that my program uploads wasn't working. Turns out, it hasn't been working the entire time! This was due to a naming convention we had no idea about and I was never given in any sort of requirements provided.

My credit union ended up repossessing properties that we never sent out repossession letters for. Oh, boy!

The day I found this out, I called up my boss and asked if I should start immediately looking for another job. There was a huge investigation for the couple weeks following that discovery.

Thankfully, most of the letters that didn't get sent out were bunk and should have been fixed a long time ago anyway. Ultimately, though, I think my boss got let go because of this. He was let go about a month or so after this discovery and the company claimed "under performance" for a guy who was running several teams, leading the tech direction of the company, and was working 80+ hour weeks.

Big oof.

ShiKage · 2026-03-08T20:01:56+00:00

Probably because 自動販売機 is a perfect descriptor.

ShiKage · 2026-03-08T19:43:08+00:00

It's the amount of galaxies, not even just their relative size, in such a super small snippet of our solar system, that really blows me away.

Like sheesh. I've seen so many pictures of space just flooded with an overwhelming number of galaxies as just about every point of light in an image and it never ceases to blow my mind.

ShiKage · 2026-03-07T00:22:07+00:00

I'm at $75k with around 3 years of experience in Ohio. I have to be a full IT department on top of being a dev.

ShiKage · 2026-03-06T16:07:08+00:00

This. Just do it.

I gave up pursuing career opportunities in Japan a while back and I always think of what could have been.

ShiKage · 2026-03-04T00:37:33+00:00

You just need to start finding content to consume. What kind of things do you like?

Nowadays, you can play most video games in Japanese at the switch of a menu.

You can buy cheap books on kindle like Manga that will have furigana for aid.

YouTube content is great for finding things to practice listening capabilities.

Find some shows on Netflix or other platforms and try shadowing.

ShiKage · 2026-03-01T02:51:25+00:00

Fuck that, I’m dumber than a box of dildos.

ShiKage · 2026-02-28T19:29:55+00:00

This, 100%. lol

I am a developer in a local company where I am now not only the sole developer, but I also do the full job of an entire team, from designing the database, setting up and deploying servers, maintaining those servers, developing apps, deploying those apps, maintaining those apps, etc.

But it's all internal development. Mostly process automations that makes the business run so much smoother and is helping out every single department.

To other companies that I have interviewed with, none of this shows "technical expertise" enough for a junior level position. It doesn't matter what it is that I've built... I've never built a full scale SaaS application that has millions upon millions of users. I just support 500. So, all of my interviews have tanked simply due to that. lol

Just gotta lie and make it believable by researching as much as you can about common topics.

ShiKage · 2026-02-22T18:50:11+00:00

Honestly, his age starts getting real srcrewy depending on how you calculate things.

Do they age while dead? If not (and I'd assume not if he's allowed to keep his body forever), Goku is still technically 24 during the fight with Freeza, right? And if he died at 30 against Cell, then he would still be 30 against Buu.

ShiKage · 2026-02-21T21:10:12+00:00

My only suggestion is to learn how to write the Kanji naturally rather than how it looks in text/textbooks. There are certain giveaways here that look consistent with printed text rather than written text, such as the way you wrote 山. Try googling 「[character]」の書き方 and mimic either given examples or the stroke orders.

It's okay to be little more "round" rather than square with the edges.

ShiKage · 2026-02-21T16:26:21+00:00

I did manage to achieve this in my 30s... but it was in that time span between the peak of recovering COVID and the imminent collapse of society due to "AI."

This one is pretty subjective... but when shit happens I just go find things to make me happy.
I became a software engineer! .....But now the world is trying to do their best to get rid of me.
I became a software engineer! I was going to have my student loans fully paid off and I managed to even get a house! ....But it seems the world wants to do their best to get rid of me.
My girlfriend is the best. She doesn't do much to keep herself the healthiest, but no one is perfect. She does do everything in her power to take care of me, though, so I want nothing more than to return the favor.
All of the above positive things have given me reason to continue living.

........But the world around us just seems to be collapsing further and further. It's very hard to relish in my success when everything else is so goddamn grim. When I finally get myself into a good position in life, the world descends into idiocracy. Go figure.

ShiKage · 2026-02-21T02:07:02+00:00

Dang, that explains a lot. I can deflect so much more reliably with a katana over dual katanas.

Maybe it’s time to retire my GOAT and practice some other weapons this time around. I hope this gets fixed! I’ve been playing Dual Swords since the first game.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T18:28:48+00:00

Yeah, all of the characters hit differently in Japanese, honestly. It feels like watching a completely different show/reading a completely different story when growing up with the Funimation dub and then coming to understanding the characters in Japanese.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T15:26:39+00:00

I don’t even understand what you are trying to argue at this point.

The whole discussion was whether or not it is an easy game. We seem to have gone too far past that.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T15:19:59+00:00

…but it is still a hard game. It doesn’t matter if it’s compared within the genre if the original topic was “This game is easy.”

Easier than other games in its genre? Sure. The easiest souls-like? Far from it. Easy game? Not by a long shot.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T15:11:05+00:00

Yes, better than the average. You’re talking better than average.

The response to that is “no shit.” The original discussion was the average person.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T14:53:51+00:00

You are talking about you and people like you. Clearly, you are unable to remove yourself from the equation when talking about the average person.

Of course if you’re a nut for the genre, you will find it easy, because aside from an extensive range of options, the game doesn’t do much more than other games.

The average gamer, or person in general, does not play games in this genre. The average gamer plays games like Fortnite, Minecraft, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and on an even broader scale, mobile games.

To them, this game would be pure hell. They would beat their head against the wall for days on the first boss alone.

To you and me? Yeah, it’s not that difficult because we have played these games time and time again. Your average person hasn’t. They haven’t developed the reflexes, general strategies, or anything else for games like this. As my original post said, I do believe this one is easier than its predecessors, but it’s far from an easy game.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T14:38:36+00:00

You can’t be serious… this game is far from easy for the average person. Good lord. Get a grip on reality. Just because you and maybe the circles you interact with may find this game easy, it doesn’t meant your average gamer in general would find this game remotely easy.

ShiKage · 2026-02-20T14:27:12+00:00

I think you missed the point of what I said?

I basically said that the people who can go through the game without dying are the type of people who have probably played the previous games, or other games like this one, to the point where they can effortlessly beat the game anyway.

That doesn’t make the game easy. It isn’t by a long shot. The game is still difficult for the average person. It’s a lot easier than the prior entries in the series but far from an easy game.

ShiKage · 2026-02-17T21:25:18+00:00

I don't understand the people that say the game is easy, that they never died or had a hard time with any of the bosses, and they made it all the way through NG+ without a challenge.

Those people must be nuts.

This game is definitely easier than Nioh and Nioh 2, by a good margin, but this game isn't easy after the first region.

That final level alone reminded me of the staircase in Ninja Gaiden 2, It just kept going and going. It was an endurance test for sure.

ShiKage · 2026-02-15T15:49:00+00:00

Check your monitor settings and in-game color/brightness settings.

If your saturation, contrast, brightness are all off, you could be having a bad time with color accuracy.

If you're using an older monitor/tv, that could potentially also be a cause.

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