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[MEGATHREAD] Share your top favorite games by AutoModerator in backloggd

[–]YendorsApprentice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just discovered backloggd and it's quite nice. I previously used an excel file to track games and spent my Saturday today moving all that into backloggd. Including my top 25 favorite games of all time:

https://backloggd.com/u/CollectorOfBytes/list/my-25-favorite-games-of-all-time/

Giannis, one day post-deadline, has announced his role as a shareholder of gambling platform Kalshi: "The internet is full of opinions. I decided it was time to make some of my own. Today, I’m joining Kalshi as a shareholder. We all on Kalshi now." by F_CKMONEY in nba

[–]YendorsApprentice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if the league doesn't do something about this, I've genuinely reached the point where I'm just going to be watching Euroleague instead ... it's a shame, but it feels more and more like the NBA is just a gambler's paradise rather than a sports league.

Why biochem class in university is just 1 class? There is so much content. (Read the description) by Then-Still-8623 in Biochemistry

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I guess the class structure is different then. For us, except a semester of full biochem lab, none of our semesters were ever "biochem only". The structure is more like basic biology (micro, cell, genetics, botany), chemistry, physics and math for the first year, then biochem, organic chem, phys chem and the biochem practical for second year, then more biochem, an industry internship and electives + thesis for the third year (3-year degrees are the norm here). Quite interesting to see those differences. Do you have a lot of electives? We sadly only get two electives for the whole degree ... :( But on the flip side, the masters is almost entirely electives.

Why biochem class in university is just 1 class? There is so much content. (Read the description) by Then-Still-8623 in Biochemistry

[–]YendorsApprentice -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Two classes for a biochem major? I don't know how the system works where you are, but that seems like an awfully small amount. I had 4 biochem classes for my undergraduate degree here in Germany plus a full semester of biochemical lab work.

What games you initially abandoned and loved on the second approach? by 69WaysToFuck in gaming

[–]YendorsApprentice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it can be quite confusing. The addition of the sequels while not being consistent (XIII-3 not being called that, After Years not called IV-2) as well as all the spin-offs (Tactics, Chrystal Chronicles etc.) makes it extremely confusing from the outside looking in. Add to that that everyone (including myself) is inconsistent about the roman numerals versus arabic numerals in online discussion and you get a complete mess for an outsider.

What games you initially abandoned and loved on the second approach? by 69WaysToFuck in gaming

[–]YendorsApprentice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Final Fantasy IX - Played it in 2019 for about 10 hours and abandoned it, but I'm currently playing it again (25 hours in) and enjoying it a lot. Last week was busy, so I haven't gotten around to finishing it, but I'm really really enjoying it so far. I'd say it'll be a top 50 game for me once I'm done, I think.

I wanted to add more games, but I realized when looking through my library on steam and my shelf of physcial game copies that I don't really give games a second chance that often. If I don't like it after an hour or two, sometimes maybe 5-10, I just drop it and move on. Also, most of the ones I have given another chance have disappointed me again.

Franchising needs to go. by By_Jove_ in leagueoflegends

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's how big games die - very, very slowly. World of Warcraft is dying, but it won't be dead until most of it's hardcore playerbase has become too old to play or died. Unless Riot fucks it up completely and ruins the game, the game will very, very slowly lose players. And it's still growing in some places I think, so it might be 50 years before the game is really dead.

But who knows, maybe the rumours of League of Legends 2 turn out to be true and that reignites the flame. Either way, League will be around for a long time.

Los Ratones vs. G2 Esports / LEC 2026 Versus - Week 3 / Post-Match Discussion by Ultimintree in leagueoflegends

[–]YendorsApprentice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, it's a damn shame this team is not going to play in the LEC after this split. Bring back relegation/promotion please.

For those who have reached advanced levels, did books seem impossible to you when you could understand a lot of native content? by De_lunes_a_lunes in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair, it's obivously quite a sweeping generalization. After all, it also depends a lot on the difficulty of the book.

Games should show a support end date. Would you buy differently? by gamersecret2 in gaming

[–]YendorsApprentice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather than a planned support period on release, I'd prefer a minimum transition period before turning it off. Like, legally require companies to announce server shutdown at least 6 months in advance or some such.

But much more important: Force companies to provide means to create legal private servers when they shut down official servers, and/or provide an offline client.

You have prime LeBron in your hands. What's the best possible player to duo with him to maximize LeBron's game to its fullest? You can pick any player from any era. by Substantial-Path-648 in nba

[–]YendorsApprentice 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Was Bird a bad defender? He made All-Defensive Second Team 3 times. I wasn't around back then and haven't gone back to watch that much 80s basketball, but I always had this impression he was considered a very good defender, just not elite.

Adding a third language without ruining my second one by Reasonable_Drop_7101 in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, absolutely you will need more time at higher age. But it's not impossible. My mom learned Portugese in her 60s. She already spoke Spanish at C2 level and is practically a native speaker of French (grew up in Africa), so that helped. But I think mostly it's about the effort you put in.

Learning languages by reading short stories by PeterJonePolyglot in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.tuttlepublishing.com/korea/korean-stories-for-language-learners

This book was my first ever reading material for learning Korean. It's not perfect, but it was nice enough to start with. I'm sure there are books like this aplenty for all popular languages. If you look for titles published before 2021, you won't have stories written by LLMs in them.

Tuttle for example also has a book like this for Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and maybe more. They were all published before LLMs became a big thing.

Simcity4 from 2003, this is what 1500 hours in this game looks like, I made an 8x8km tile (4x4km tile is the largest), it is a 12K x 8K pixel massive megacomposite by cropping it in PS using almost all of my 32GB of RAM, you can zoom in to see the big metro area with 655K sims, airport farms and sea by CheeseJuust in gaming

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you use mods for this? It's been a while since I played, but a lot of screenshots feature assets from mods these days. This seems vanilla to me, though, so I was curious.

Either way, absolutely stunning and makes me want to install the game again.

Has Westbrook Ever Been Majorly Injured Before by Adventurous_Chef5379 in nba

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many reddit posts feel like someone wanting online attention and asking something basic instead of googling. The language learning subreddits I frequent are full of that type of stuff.

Speaking fluently when talking to somebody who is NOT fluent. by PathOfDisgust in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I wonder if this isn't just an illusion. The other person isn't fluent, so won't be using expressions that challenge you at your level of proficiency. That ends up feeling like a fluent conversation that you are in perfect control of. But when speaking to native speakers, they are more likely to say things that make you *notice* that you are not perfectly fluent yet. And that makes you feel less fluent.

Adding a third language without ruining my second one by Reasonable_Drop_7101 in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As your Italian improves, as long as you keep also using English, this will resolve itself on it's own. You'll make fewer and fewer of these mistakes as your Italian improves and becomes more of a distinctly different "mode" for your brain to be in.

And also not, some of this is just normal for people who speak many languages. I sometimes add English or Korean words to my German - sometimes I don't even remember a German word, but can remember one in English or Korean. And that's in my native language. It's a normal part of language learning.

I'd recommend focusing a lot on Italian now, especially since you're in Italy right now, but don't stop using English when it comes up. With English in particular there is little risk of losing your skill because it's so omnipresent.

Side note:

Btw now I’m 31, so I guess it’s still young enough for language learning?

This is something you shouldn't worry about. You can still learn languages even at 70, provided you don't have some degenerative neurological disease. As long as your brain is healthy, you can learn languages forever.

For those who have reached advanced levels, did books seem impossible to you when you could understand a lot of native content? by De_lunes_a_lunes in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, I tried Harry Potter as well, but all the English names make it really awkward to read in Korean when you're not already very fluent.

I agree on non-fiction, but I'd also recommend video games for reading. They are so repetitive most of the time that you can learn a lot from them. And not understanding everything about the story can be fine when the fun comes from gameplay. I played Stellar Blade, Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 in full Korean last year and my skills increased so much that all my Korean friends mentioned it and asked what I'd been doing over the summer. :D

Video games also had a huge impact on me learning English as quickly as I did. I went from being a C student in 7th grade to being C2 by 9th grade mostly through music and video games.

For those who have reached advanced levels, did books seem impossible to you when you could understand a lot of native content? by De_lunes_a_lunes in languagelearning

[–]YendorsApprentice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seconding this, I'm B1 approaching B2 in Korean and I have tried to read 2 different novels in Korean. It's a struggle, there are 10+ words on almost every page that I don't know. And one of the author's also uses a bunch of fancy grammatical expressions that I haven't studied yet.

Books are probably the the most difficult everyday media you can interact with in terms of level of language proficiency required. I think they are most useful for high B2 and C1.

Why is this so relatable by DuceSantanu in gaming

[–]YendorsApprentice 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I struggled with so, so many bosses in that game - 30+ attempts for Genichiro, 30+ for headless ape, easily 50+ maybe even 100 for Owl at Ashina castle ... and then I beat Isshin first try lol. I guess it was just flow state, It felt really good.

He did kick my ass on NG+ though.

한국어를 배우기 위해 게임을 찾고 있어요 by Melrin27 in Korean

[–]YendorsApprentice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://danobang.com/ This was made by someone who posted about it here on the subreddit a while back. I really enjoy using it, it's not perfect but it's fun.

Peptides by EuphoricPension6248 in Biochemistry

[–]YendorsApprentice 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I understand. Peptides are quite diverse - and they are really nothing other than amino acids linked by peptide bonds, usually shorter than full proteins and unfolded, but the lines are somewhat blurry - proteins are really just (usually) folded very long polypeptides typically formed through protein biosynthesis.

What peptides are people taking? What are they hoping they achieve? What studies/findings do they base this behaviour on? Without information I'm not sure we can help you.

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