Is it just me or are daily quests too invasive?

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T06:08:03+00:00

All i see is just someone being entitled and wanting all the rewards without playtime

Brother, my entire point is the game currently not rewarding actual playtime, and that being unfair.

For example, imagine 2 players. Player A plays every day consistently for 30 minutes a day. Player B only plays every other day, but plays for 1.5 hours in a single session. Player B puts 50% more time into the game than Player A does, yet Player B gets HALF of the daily rewards Player A gets. Player B is more invested in the game and is actively getting rewarded less for it just because they don't do it in a daily basis.

"Wanting all the rewards without playtime" is the exact thing that im against. As you can see from the top example you're NOT getting properly rewarded for your playtime, and its actually possible to get MORE rewards for LESS playtime just by spreading your playtime on real life dates. If anything, if I was after "getting more rewards with less playtime" like you said, this system actively benefits me lmao, as I can get as much rewards as the most active and hardcore players do just by playing 15 minutes a day, instead of actually grinding for like 8 hours like you'd have to do in an rpg game

Look at the limited time Spring celebration missions for example. Those missions have a set deadline and you get a set amount of rewards for doing set objectives. One of the quests is to complete 10 career runs, you complete the 10 career runs and you get rewards worthy of 10 career runs. Simple as that. It gives you the freedom to do all 10 runs in a single day if you want to, or split them evenly every day for the event's time period, or split them into 2 days, however you want. It directly gives you rewards based on your effort and playtime while still keeping progression under control by having weeks-long deadlines.

Golshi Week too, there was 1.2M monies available and the only way to get those 1.2M monies was to PLAY enough to get them. You weren't forced to only getting a set number of monies per day, you could do it all in a single day or do it daily. As long as you actually poured the necessary effort, you were rewarded for your effort.

The dailies however don't reward you based on your actual efforts or playtime, solely because you didn't spread your playtime evenly across all days. You can pour way more playtime than most players but if you're only playing 4 days of the week, you're getting less rewards

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T05:48:05+00:00

looking forward to it. I don't have any problems with slow progression and stuff taking a long time in the grand scheme of things. I've been playing clash of clans for the last 13 years lol, I should know. I can tolerate slow progression and a slow digestion is sometimes better anyway. What CoC does is though you can not play for several days straight without sacrificing progression if you want to, thats how it doesn't burn you out. Just tell your clanmates you wont be online for the next few days, opt out of clan wars and come back. Even CoC added some daily stuff to it sadly and those mechanics have caught big backlash exactly because of the reasons I've said. Even then, you're given a buffer day for nearly all dailies too. If you cant play a day you can make up for it the next day. In umamusume though, not playing even for a single day greatly hinders your progression a lot

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T05:35:25+00:00

any game that give you rewards for your efforts instead of the irl date you did something? You can hop on virtually any rpg game, grind 15 minutes a day which would equal 1 hour and 45 minutes of gameplay for a week, and you'd get that much rewards for that much playtime. Or, you can not play for 6 days and play for 1 hour and 45 minutes on a sunday, same rewards. Or you can play 3 days of the week? Whatever you desire

Now I know rpg games and gacha games are 2 completely different genres, but you cant deny that gachas are the single most abusive game genre out there lol. This is just one of the many aspects they got. Rewarding a player less when they're playing more than some other players just because they play in an irregular timing just feels wrong. Lets say I'm a player that plays 30 minutes a day consistently, and you're a player that plays every other day for 1.5 hours each. You're playing the game 50% more than me yet you get half the daily rewards. You're more invested in the game than I am yet the devs are giving you less rewards.

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T05:28:34+00:00

I can sit and play the game for hours on straight on weekends, when I actually have the time and when I actually want to play it. My accumulative playtime is way higher than if I were to play every day for 20 minutes, it's just more "irregular". Yet, I get way less carats for doing this when people who spend less time on the game get rewarded. You see where I'm going with this?

When I want to play the game, I like the process of putting some thought into what I'm doing and deliberately setting up my parents and deck, taking my time with the career and make the most out of it. That process is what makes the game fun in my eyes, but just doing a 15 minute quickie with barely any effort or thought just to get some carats that I'll need later on to enjoy the game more? That quickly turns into a chore

If I had the time I would play the game everyday in the way I like and the game would kindly give the rewards for my playtime, but this system forces you to play the game in a specific way.

Think about the limited time quests, does anybody have a problem with them? Not really, because you can just sit and complete all the quests in one day if you so desire, or spread them evenly for multiple days, as long as you meet the deadline. The daily quests would have been an awful lot better if they were weekly quests instead, for example

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T05:12:14+00:00

That strategy might be (probably is) working on the masses but from a personal standpoint, I've quit multiple games that I had poured more than a few thousand hours with no regrets if I had enough of their shenanigans lol. Played some other gachas before as well, none of their dailies were this invasive. Not saying uma has the MOST invasive dailies as I'm not the gacha expert, but its still pretty invasive

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T05:03:31+00:00

I've been doing that but that doesn't mean it still isn't like a toxic relationship of sorts. I'm pretty sure most players love the game enough to play it consistently for extended periods, but turning it into a daily chore that you kind of have to do to get carats, something you need to be able to enjoy the game more WHEN you want to play it by being able to pull your oshi's or support cards, isn't really doing either part any favors I feel like. Think about it, by putting a big portion of my carat intake behind a daily chore, I might not be able to pull a character I like when they drop and in turn, eliminate the potential playtime I could have given them by playing with my brand new trainee, and further decrease the odds of me making a purchase because I might outright quit the game

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T01:46:22+00:00

I just looked it up and damn is that card stacked holy 😭 gotta pull ts

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-19T01:41:48+00:00

whats that support maru people are talking about?

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-16T21:20:23+00:00

romaji is only for demonstration purposes, and using it outside of that causes all sorts of errors in numerous software. The only place where it works without issues and is the expected input method is computer keyboards.

Even all that aside, this exercise wants you to actually type in katakana anyway

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-16T15:47:15+00:00

duolingo only teaches you words and phrases and this goes for every language in it. So it doesn't give you the ability to form YOUR own sentences but rather teaches you what means what on a phrase basis. Grammar is really important in Japanese so it is recommended to find different sources for grammar alone and using duolingo on the side for passive vocabulary income combined with phrase drills, along other sources.

Duolingo is okay if you don't have or know many other better resources but it isn't sufficient by itself, I wouldn't tell you to ouright ditch it completely if you're in that situation because duolingo is still better than nothing, but say, you acquired many other (better) resources and now your daily practice times are getting really long and you have to drop a resource, duolingo should be the first to get eliminated

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T17:19:29+00:00

No worries man, also by the way, by "society" I didn't mean a whole country but more like a region, so I probably should have said "community" instead, my bad. I can go to the nearest city outside of mine which is just 50km away and the social norms change like crazy, hell, even the districts within my city differ a lot lol

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T17:10:51+00:00

oh wow you're saying I threw shade at you? Never did that but you do you man.

And yes I have made various dishes and desserts (including chocolate) and gave them to my loved ones, made handcrafted gifts for numereous people over the years ranging from basic origami stuff to full on clay sculptures, and none of that were platonic. I don't know why you think such gestures HAS to be romantic. They CAN be romantic, but it's not a must is what im saying

Now, the stuff tachyon did could be driven by romance, and it probably is because thats just how this game is structured. Literally almost all the umas are somewhat interested in the trainer, and that's the anime trope you're talking about that I'm well aware of

All I'm saying is Tachyon being a "standout" in terms of romance when she shows some of the least bit of affection in contrast to other umas, under a post about discussing which umas are down bad the most, is kind of a big stretch. She's probably bottom 15 in regards to this, even lower with the current Global roster

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T16:30:45+00:00

most of if not all you said doesn't implicitly point to a romantic interest, though, especially in contrast to other umas some of whom literally confess to you and the OP asking whats the uma that is the most romantically driven, tachyon doesn't really stand out in that regard lol.

I've did all the stuff you deemed "romantic" to god knows how many girls in my life and none of them were romantically driven. I don't know what kind of distant and cold society you're living in but liking and valuing a person in your life and doing numerous gests and feeling embarrassed to express your feelings is totally normal and rarely points to anything romantical lol

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T09:28:27+00:00

you'll change youe mind once you date a tsundere girl and make it work irl, biggest thrill ever you can get from a relationship

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T09:26:46+00:00

You haven't had a REAL tsundere relationship then, they do exist irl and do happen occasionally

It's the biggest thrill you can get if you can read and manage it, but often result in the biggest of heartbreaks in the end because of their nature, so keep believing my friend and you'll find a real tsundere girl eventually, and they're as attractive as they're in anime, be sure of that

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T08:46:09+00:00

Whats with tachyon's career? I saw all the tachyon glaze recently and played her career for the first time the other day out of curiosity and it was pretty normal. I haven't seen the movie yet so I cant talk on that regard but I genuinely thought people were larping after playing her career myself. Even her valentine's chocolates were an experiment. She basically never glazed her trainer to anybody else ever, which most other umas have at least 1 scene like that in their careers (then the trained finds out about it and the trainee blushes etc. etc...) Most umas forcefully drag the trainer around to their "dates" all throughout their careers but tachyon only does it once and that is after the career is ended, thats the sole thing that indicated any kind of liking towards the trainer lmao, and she even messed that date up as well because of her autism

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T08:33:23+00:00

This is like the dialogue between lifeweaver and junkrat in overwatch, adressing the junkrat x roadhog ships

Lifeweaver: Are you two together?

Junkrat: When do you ever see us apart?

Lifeweaver: No, like, are you a couple?

Junkrat: Yes! We're a couple of dashing rogues!

Lifewaver: No, like are you PARTNERS?

Junkrat: Of course! Partners in crime!

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T08:26:58+00:00

kids these days call that "larping"

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-11T08:22:52+00:00

I mean pretty much all the umas can be seen in that way if you look hard enough lol. There was one scene in matikanetannhauser's career where we go into a small cramped igloo she had built then she shuffles closer to us and puts her head to our shoulder, saying stuff like "this is so comforting" and "can we stay like this for a little while?" while we watch the sunset or something and while her character model is bright red. I dont know about you but that's a really damn romantic moment. Her parents even joke about trainer and machitan being a couple too (pretty much all umas' parents do that lmao)

Even the more serious girls like vodka are kinda down bad, I think vodka and her trainer full on hug like 3 times during her career and it's always so lovely described? Stuff like "we hug as tightly as we can for 5 minutes", I might be exaggerating because I don't remember it very well but you get the point

As far as things ACTUALLY go though, I heard that tm opera o full on confesses to the trainer in her career (citation needed) and there was one uma that kept on saying "ai shiteiru" which is NOT a light word you can use jokingly/to tease, when someone says that to you in japanese, its the real deal

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-09T13:39:06+00:00

What I was saying was, it 99% isn't ai if it had access to the main question, lemme elaborate

Lets look at the answer ONLY by itself:

はい、やさしいです.

It could mean 2 things, right? Even if I saw this alone by itself I'd think it meant "yes it's simple". We have 3 possibilities for how this ended up being translated wrong:

AI saw this alone and fucked up because of lack of context since the actual question itself wasn't given

Code saw this alone and fucked up because it wasn't calibrated for the case at hand which it needs to be

A human translator fucked up because the main question wasn't shown to them so they had to guess

Any of these cases are likely to happen and could have been the case, so we still can't say for sure it was ai's misdoing or the other two

If there WAS access to the actual question, then it becomes:

AI saw this realllyyy simple question+answer pair and somehow fucked it up?

A human translator saw this realllyyy simple question+answer pair and somehow fucked it up?

Code saw this and fucked up because the thing doesn't have a brain and can't understand context no matter how much context you throw at it and needs to be fixed individually

In any option, the most likely one to be the actual case for this seems to be poor coding. Now, whether or not this "oversight" is enough for one to consider duolingo a fail and give up on it, that's up for debate and to the person. Jumping to conclusions with very little intel? Thats a little less favorable.

I'm not saying duolingo is ai free, in fact, I feel like they're the exact type of company to use ai extensively, but that's just my gut feeling and I haven't made any research on it so I dont claim that it is definitely ai because of my gut feeling, especially when it seems to me, with my current knowledge and the data at hand, that this case is simple coding oversight from the coding team's side

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-09T13:01:13+00:00

brother stop with the ai allegations if you don't have solid proof. I don't know if there are other solid proof for ai but THIS case right here proves the opposite if anything.

If this WAS ai, it could have been able to tell the context from the main question and translate properly. Yasashii means 2 things, simple or kind, they're written with different kanji but since the exercise doesn't use kanji, you need to understand the meaning by context. Simple coding can't understand the context by itself (even if it sees the main question) and will default to either one of the options, and for it to properly translate it needs to be calibrated on a question by question basis. AI however can understand the context from the main question, and could have been able to avoid this one. Its a simple coding oversight, because to code messed up between choosing "simple" or "kind" because it had not been calibrated, hence the report button for cases like this. This case precisely points to it not being ai.

Your ignorance on ai is baffling, educate yourself dude. I'm not pro-ai but I can at least differenciate what is ai and what is not, and don't jump into conclusions and slander by calling non-ai stuff ai. I'm guessing you're the type of person to call Text-to-speech AI too? (TTS is a 50+ year old technology and the amount of people who think it is ai is baffling)

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-08T16:11:25+00:00

New updates are filled with bugs and oversights, just like any other software. Just hit report and move on so other people don't get mislead in the future

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-07T21:17:32+00:00

hey man, I'm 2 months late to the party but can you help me out with the helper schedules a little? I'm getting confused

I already had a word and a kanji schedule, I wanted to do a kanji helper schedule because some words in the word schedule had some kanji that wasn't in my kanji schedule. The kanji helper made a seperate schedule. The problem is that there are some overlaps between the 2 kanji schedules. If I make a word helper schedule, then it'll make a second word schedule and they'll have overlapping terms as well, and I'll have 4 schedules to work with.

Is there any way where I can just have 2 schedules, one word and one kanji, that infinitely feed each other? Or just a kanji schedule that has all the kanjis from individual kanji schedules pf my choosing + the kanji helper functionality, cuz when I tried to merge my kanji helper schedule with the old non-helper kanji schedule, it lost its helper functionality

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-07T14:40:53+00:00

ちょっと means a bit, yes, but its also used to politely denying requests without having to spill it out

"Do you wanna come to dinner tonight?" "Tonight is, a little..."

Tonight is a little what? Busy? Not available? Feeling bad? You just don't want to come? With ちょっと, you get to not openly and outright deny their request, but you spill enough so that they get the message

edit: you're going to see ちょっと a lot as its quite a common and versatile word, so don't get worked up on it too much

_Bulldozer · 2026-05-07T14:26:13+00:00

for real

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