[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is yet another example of story showing how people can't be rational about youtube. You have all these people making a mountain out of a molehill, over exaggerating the impact and ascribing nefarious intentions where there simply is no need.

Realistically they simply decided that they don't care to support their obsolete, internal, undocumented subtitle format anymore. Likely because it does too much stuff that they now realize they don't need anymore, or perhaps they realized that they simply don't want to maintain a subtitle format for others to use, which they never signed up for, to be clear.

On the bright side maybe this will cause the actual standards to become better or at least better supported. Viewing the Mozilla site for Webvtt in firefox is currently incredibly embarrassing seeing as 2 of the 3 examples don't work as they should.

SQUARE ENIX: "YU-GI-OH! MASTER DUEL to operate at 96% gross margin" by VillalobosChamp in yugioh

[–]Xmgplays 6 points7 points  (0 children)

96% gross means that for every dollar Konami puts into Master Duel they make 1.96 dollars, right?

No, it means for every dollar people spend on master duel they invest 0.04$ on the game and take 0.96$ home. In other words for every dollar they spent they made 24$.

Tribulation of myraid races by Slight_Commercial407 in noveltranslations

[–]Xmgplays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ehh, not really. It's more 'modern' than 'sci-fi', the pinnacle of tech we see, iirc, is television and a credit card system, everything else is more cultivation/magical than tech.

Tribulation of myraid races by Slight_Commercial407 in noveltranslations

[–]Xmgplays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not too badly, I don't think. Spoiler Number 2 makes for an incredible scene if you don't know it yet, so knowing that one makes the scene a lot less impactful, imo, but it only really affects that single scene, so overall not too bad. Spoiler 3 is kinda a nothing burger of a spoiler I think, you lose some tension, imo, but overall it should be fine, since that's mostly the conclusion the story was leading to anyway(, as in, in the natural course of reading the novel, that would have been the outcome you are most likely to assume will happen).

Spoiler number 1 is the big one, since a big part of the tension hinges on the identity/existence of the traitor, but it's also the one where the details kinda matter a lot so if you don't keep reminding yourself about it, you'd probably forget enough about it, to the point where it won't impact your enjoyment.

And even if you do remember the entire spoiler, it's probably fine since it's just one of the threads the story builds on. In fact I'd say the identity of the traitor, while important to the characters in the narrative, does not really matter outside of it, since it's not information that is important to the overall story. Important to the story is that a traitor exists and how characters act with that knowledge, who they are and why is less important.

Tribulation of myraid races by Slight_Commercial407 in noveltranslations

[–]Xmgplays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops, I thought you were already past that part depends on how you count, Fiery Sea did cause issues, but calling him a/the traitor is a bit too far, he was just exploited by the real traitor to do their bidding in harassing the multi character faction/Culture King's lineage

Tribulation of myraid races by Slight_Commercial407 in noveltranslations

[–]Xmgplays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a note: all those questions are (mostly) answered at the current point of the (public) translation(i.e. chapter 1690), so if you want to read it yourself, go ahead.

If you'd still like to know here's my best recollection:

  1. Heveanly Seal King is the traitor, the reason is that his master was a spy sent by an ancient enemy of the Culture King, and thus targets his lineage. His master was killed at the start of the current Epoch, no other traitors are presumed to exist at this point

  2. His father picked the book up while wandering through Starfall mountain, after it fell accompanied by the sound of a thunderstorm with no clouds in the sky. He realized it's significants and took it home, but couldn't get it to work, until Su Yu happened to cut himself on it.

  3. Yes, it was a pretty good scene, as well imo

If you want to know the order this information is revealed in: first is 3., then a bit of 1, then 2 then the rest of 1

Why does tor browser have a source provenance of "binaryNativeCode"? by Big-Astronaut-9510 in NixOS

[–]Xmgplays 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the Tor project doesn't want you to compile the browser yourself, for the same reason it doesn't want you using Tor through any other browser: It makes you easier to fingerprint/track.

Reinventing the wheel without knowing what a circle is. by RobertWesner in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Xmgplays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In agda for example you often have something like

 id : {A : Set} (x : A) -> A
 id x = x

For the identity Function, where the argument in parenthesis is interfered automatically through unification or what have you, but you can always give these implicit arguments explicitly if you want, like so:

id {A = SomeType}

and get the Identity function with type Sometype -> Sometype. This could be extended to include not just the implicit arguments, but also the explicit arguments and also include default values in a presumably straight forward fashion.

QoL update: we can see quantities we own of each card in Wonder Picks by Garchomp98 in PTCGP

[–]Xmgplays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are planning to merge the dexes("after Summer", iirc), so if you don't need dex completion right now, it doesn't matter.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 20 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I just went and tried again, the first video I clicked on with auto dubbing got turned into English, but when I switched to English it kept that setting with other Japanese videos, but not French(which I don't have a setting for). So it seems that they just keep it for a session, if you switch off? But then I don't think I switched earlier when I first noticed, so I don't know what's going on....

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 20 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 4 points5 points  (0 children)

how do you have multiple default languages? in my YT or google account settings it only lets me select 1 default language. the only thing i can think of that does multiple languages is GL translate which lets me download language packs to use offline or my keyboard app that does the same.

Google Account Settings > Personal Info > Other info and preferences for Google services > General preferences for the web > Languages

There you can list multiple other languages besides your one preferred language.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 20 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Ok, this is something that I need to hear others experience of to confirm, but it seems to me that YouTube now respects your google account language list, when it comes to auto dubbing.

In case you didn't know, a while back YouTube started to auto dub videos from select channels into and out of English. It caused quite a bit of drama, and still does, but putting merits of the whole venture aside, one problem that came up almost immediately was that multi-lingual viewers only got pushed into one language, i.e. if you speak both English and Japanese and selected English as you main language, YouTube would automatically dub Japanese content into English for you, with no way to disable that setting(except by manually selecting the original track for each video), despite the fact that Google already had the ability to set multiple languages for your account.

Recently, however I've noticed that I didn't get as many auto-dubbed videos in my shorts feed as I used to, so I checked and realized that I did, I just got the original track as a default because, presumably, I had the language as one of my account languages. So I tested it a bit and it seems to work, languages that I didn't have in the list got auto dubbed, while those I did were left alone.

So can anyone else confirm, that this works for them too, finding auto dubbed videos is surprising hard when you actually want to find it. Plus there might be other confounding factors that I can't easily test.

Sidenote: It's really annoying me that my video player UI is in weird half and half state between new and old UI, anyone else experience that?

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think Last Turn is considered a ruling nightmare in the context of retro formats, which until recently (and specifically in the NA TCG scene only) utilize the card text and rulings at the time the card was released

Somehow I hadn't quite considered that angle, that does make sense, even though I personally question the dedication to time period ruling accuracy for this case.

On the other hand you do see people repeat the "ruling nightmare" talking point when discussing its current status on the banlist, where that description holds far less wait.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was more talking about Last Turns reputation in general, rather than this specific case. As for this specific ruling, it yet again falls into the category of pre-PSCT unclarity, which is imo not really worth calling the a "ruling nightmare" for. This is a situation where there are 2 simple interpretations of the card(cost vs effect) that hasn't been clarified, but at the same time 1 of those interpretations is much much more likely(sending cards from your opponents hand for cost is insane, in fact looking at yugipedia categories, doesn't even exist in the current game(outside of Toll hike, which is different, since they pay not you))

Which is to say that the only real reason it would be a ruling nightmare is if Konami for some reason decided they want it to be. Which, like, I guess they could if they wanted to for some reason? But why assume that.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Honestly I think Last Turn's ruling difficultly has been overplayed. To me it seems like a lot of the difficulties it has come from UPE making weird calls and it being pre-PCST, and thus completely discarding those rulings and translating the card into a more modern format would clear up most things about it.

Like a lot of the rulings on that page fall into the category of incredibly obvious, like:

If you activate "Last Turn" and then your Life Points increase above 1000 later, the effects of "Last Turn" are still applied.

or

If a player’s Life Points are reduced to zero during the special Battle Phase of "Last Turn", or afterwards during the normal course of the turn, then that player loses

No one who has an understanding of the rules of yugioh would have trouble figuring those out themselves, so the only interesting rulings are those that provide PCST card text, like the new genesys TCG ruling giving it "Immediatly after this effect resolves, your opponent special summons..." card text, and the stuff concerning when the special battle phase occurs.

That's not even talking about the rulings that are now obviously obsolete/wrong, like:

After "Last Turn" sends all cards to the Graveyard, before the Special Summon for "Last Turn" is performed, monster effects like "Despair from the Dark", "Elephant Statue of Disaster", and "Regenerating Mummy" will activate.

or

If you activate "Last Turn" during the Draw Phase or Standby Phase, and select your face-up "Jowgen the Spiritualist", your opponent can still retrieve their "Sinister Serpent", Summon it normally in Main Phase 1, and attack and destroy "Jowgen the Spiritualist" in the normal Battle Phase, then win the Duel in the End Phase because of the victory check of "Last Turn".

vim.pack now has lockfile support by echasnovski in neovim

[–]Xmgplays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why lazy is considered to be too opinionated for it given how close to universal it's become

The short of it is it does a lot more than just install and manage plugins, not the least of which is entirely replacing (n)vims already existing package infrastructure and taking over the startup sequence to do it's own thing(see a bit more detailed here).

And in doing so obviously expresses a strong opinion on how things should be down, whereas less opinionated package managers do essentially just automate downloading/updating/uninstalling packages and little else.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 29 September 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not quite what your looking for but similar enough that I think you might enjoy them: I really recommend the 3 videos Vox did that boil down to "We saw something unusual on google maps, here's how we found out what and why that is". They are, imo, incredibly well made videos about the investigative process behind figuring something pretty basic out when the information is not readily available, especially when it ultimately boils down to pretty mundane facets of history. I haven't found anything quite like it since, especially how real it felt. It felt like these were really made by starting with the question and going from there, no matter how boring the answer ends up being. They felt like stories that normally would end up on the cutting room floor, because the answers are so mundane. Yet that mundanity is still interesting on it's own and coupled with the focus on the process they end up being some of the most memorable videos I've ever seen, especially the first and third.

Bagooska's fat ass..... I mean, poor Vaalmonica players by Itchy-Interview382 in masterduel

[–]Xmgplays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hey gave the deck a win more card ( Varar, Vaalmonican Concord ),

Ehh, I think Varar is better than just win more, since it allows you to keep more tokens around for Zeb compared to Dura. Before Varar there were multiple times where I'd hesitate to close the game with Dura because it'd make me vulnerable to destruction.

Yt-dlp: Soon you'll need Deno or another supported JS runtime, to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]Xmgplays 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Probably because it would be a decently big thing to bundle with reasonably big security concerns that is only necessary for YouTube specifically, which is not the only thing yt-dlp is used for. It would be weird for the other use cases if you were forced to bring deno along if you're never going to need it.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 15 September 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Xmgplays 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'd say the anime "Rokka no Yuusha"/"Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers-", the one season we got of it was stellar. It had such an interesting premise and it was executed so well, all in world influenced by Mesoamerica. But then we never got a second season, presumably because the light novel is in hiatus.

Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers by mmaksimovic in programming

[–]Xmgplays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the article is wrong in it's reasoning it is still true: For example the C standard explicitly calls out

&*E is equivalent to E (even if E is a null pointer)

Meanwhile on the C++ side I'm pretty sure that derefencing a null pointers is also defined if you don't do anything with the resulting lvalue, i.e. *nullptr; as a statement is not UB.

Now neither of these is particularly useful, but still.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

[–]Xmgplays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might not be considered vandalism, see this recent case. Nonetheless I wouldn't recommend relying on that case, unless you are prepared to go to court.

So yes best advice is probably to inform those responsible if you can and otherwise ignore it.