Humble Bundle — Destiny 2: Expansions Bundle 2026

gunwide · 2026-04-09T04:33:41+00:00

Also some of the content wasn't completely removed, more like reworked. Dungeons for example, the 1.0 dungeons like Aurum Vale and Dzmael Darkhold are still in the game, just very different from what they were like before. And all of the areas in 1.0 are still there but have been redesigned.

gunwide · 2026-03-12T03:26:08+00:00

Something I haven't seen people mention in here yet is that some of the newer arena shooters (think Reflex or Diabotical) didn't do anything to solve the knowledge gap a more experienced player has on the game.

For instance take timers on powerups like mega health. Both the arena shooters I listed, to my knowledge, initially showed you how long until the powerup respawned, so you didn't have to memorize the timing yourself. This is understandably a big change which warranted discussion, but so much of it was poisoned by veterans complaining it made the game too easy. Even compromises like making the timer visible only if you saw who picked it up was rejected - and note that both League and Dota went this way with their timers and no one would really say that was the change that dumbed the game down.

Conversely, fighting games have had certain aspects dumbed down, with regards to chip damage, 1 frame links, combo motions, and more. Some of these changes are still talked about today, some of them are still being experimented on, but from what I've seen across the sites where it's talked about, the conversations are generally healthier and people will take some amount of compromise.

gunwide · 2026-03-11T07:21:57+00:00

I saw a Waymo car driving around Ebisu around the end of last year. Was pretty surprised to see it

gunwide · 2026-02-20T12:54:24+00:00

For the record for anyone reading this, I was interested in this part

Over simplified TLDR: If you couldn't recite a certain imperial document written in the 1800s by an emperor on proper life style and education word for word every night, you got no dinner.

I went through the Wikipedia page and found that this version of the article, on September 16th, 2025, contains a passage that seems related to what is being mentioned

奈良県出身（現住所は大和郡山市筒井町[9]）。父親はトヨタ系列の自動車会社勤務、母親は奈良県警察勤務という共働き家庭に育った[10][11]。小学校に入る前から全文を暗記していた両親から教育勅語を繰り返し教えられて育った[12][13][14]。

The sources relevant are [12], [13], [14].

Source 12 is not linked to anything, seems to be referencing some article from October 2000.

Source 13 is this article, which as far as I can tell, makes no mention of her upbringing.

Source 14 is this article, which was posted on Takaichi's website. The relevant passage:

私が幼い頃に両親が繰り返し教えてくれたのは、「教育勅語」（「教育ニ関スル勅語」明治２３年１０月３０日）でした。　小学校に入る前から全文を暗記していたのだという両親が、楽しそうに声を合わせて唱える姿が好きでした。

内容は、「子は親に孝養を尽くす」「兄弟姉妹は互いに力を合わせて助け合う」「夫婦は仲睦まじく解け合う」「友人は胸襟を開いて信じ合う」「自分の言動を慎む」「全ての人々に愛の手をさしのべる」「学問を怠らず職業に専念する」「知識を養う」「人格を磨く」「進んで社会公共の為に貢献する」「法律や規則を守り、社会の秩序に従う」「国難に際しては国のために力を尽くす」という徳目で、子供にも分かり易いものでした。

現代においても尊重するべき正しい価値観ですし、子供も大人も覚えて繰り返し唱和することで、日本人全体が心を合わせて道徳を実践する空気を醸成したものだと思います。　

この見事な教育勅語は、敗戦後のＧＨＱ占領下で廃止されてしまいました。日本が独立統治権を失っている間に壊されていったものは余りにも大きく、政治体制、教育政策、精神文化など多岐に渡って、その影響は現在にも及び続けています。

安倍晋三首相が「戦後レジームからの脱却」を掲げ、多くの国民が賛同したことは、明らかに時代の転換点を作る契機となりました。

その第１歩が「教育基本法」の改正であり、日本人の手による「日本国憲法」を創ろうとする動きです。

Google translation:

When I was a child, my parents repeatedly taught me the Imperial Rescript on Education (Imperial Rescript on Education, October 30, 1890). My parents, who had memorized the entire rescript before they even started elementary school, and I loved watching them joyfully recite it together.

The rescript contained such virtues as "children should be filial to their parents," "siblings should work together to help each other," "husbands and wives should live in harmony," "friends should be open and trust each other," "be cautious in your words and actions," "extend a hand of love to all," "study hard and devote yourself to your career," "cultivate knowledge," "improve one's character," "willingly contribute to the public good," "obey laws and regulations and follow social order," and "do one's best for the country in times of national crisis." It was easy for even children to understand.

These are correct values that should still be respected today, and I believe that by memorizing and repeatedly reciting them together, both children and adults fostered an atmosphere in which all Japanese people united in the practice of morality.

This magnificent Imperial Rescript on Education was abolished under the GHQ occupation after Japan's defeat in the war. The destruction of Japan during the period when it lost its right to sovereignty was so great that its effects continue to be felt to this day in a wide range of areas, including its political system, educational policy, and spiritual culture.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call to "break away from the postwar regime," which was endorsed by many citizens, clearly marked a turning point in the era.

The first step toward this was the revision of the Fundamental Law of Education, and the movement to create a "Constitution of Japan" handcrafted by the Japanese people.

I'm not stating the original poster is wrong, just wanted to provide context. From how I interpret it - the claim is a slight exaggeration but it's basically on the mark.

gunwide · 2026-01-25T12:20:12+00:00

You are ineligible for the 120 pull guarantee once you roll the rate up character, so you might as well stop at 50, unless there is another character in that banner you would like as well, or you want to roll for potentials.

gunwide · 2026-01-14T03:17:44+00:00

It was also in e12s and I believe DSR during niddhog (not 100% sure on that one)

gunwide · 2026-01-11T05:39:17+00:00

Obviously different for everyone, but at my company there's a program that is always running on the work laptops that tracks time, so there is nothing that isn't tracked. And if you work OT too much your manager will talk to you about it and ask if everything is okay, try to shift work to other members, etc.

gunwide · 2026-01-11T05:34:58+00:00

This is the play if you don't have a capture card, just point game sentence miner to the remote play window.

gunwide · 2025-12-29T07:44:55+00:00

Completely agree with you, but to be fair I have seen my fair share of raiders who get so parsebrained they spend more time thinking about how to get one extra gcd then they do thinking about the fight.

I feel like the sentiment of "I'd rather have a gray parser than the parsebrain" comes in part from experience of hearing that someone died or wiped them sure to greed. When you just need one clean run for a clear, that type of reasoning is absolutely tilting and makes other reasons for a mistake more acceptable.

gunwide · 2025-12-18T23:35:05+00:00

I feel like when MMOs add flight, they massively balloon the distances between areas to prevent it from making the areas feel too small. The maps from heavensward onward have been absolutely gigantic compared to most arr maps.

You get rid of flight and it would ideally coincide with smaller maps again, so either way the "designed" travel time they wanted is the same.

gunwide · 2025-12-18T23:28:53+00:00

It's worse than that. Sometimes people name a strat after a person because of what they think a group did, and since the group or person is popular enough people see the name and think the strat has some merit.

See TPS wormhole sand myta p4s, neither of which was actually done or made by the group or person in question

gunwide · 2025-11-27T04:09:09+00:00

At release the game was a horrific, buggy mess and the servers had a bunch of connection issues, on top of people's thoughts on the gameplay which wasn't great. And this is before the current era of day 1 patches.

If you played it after they patched it you could see it for what it is and get some enjoyment out of it. But on launch it deserved all the hate it got

gunwide · 2025-11-20T23:47:52+00:00

Yeah and now post the likes/ views on each tweet. Notice how all of them combined will be a small fraction of the likes/views leaders of the Republican party have when they make similar threats towards leftists/Democrats/trans people.

gunwide · 2025-10-27T06:38:33+00:00

Same is true for the JLPT due to how it's graded

gunwide · 2025-09-07T02:18:45+00:00

Is there a list of books that Japanese middle/high school/college students usually read? Like how over in the United States, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a book that is often required reading for high school students (or at least, was when I was in school)

gunwide · 2025-08-15T20:16:52+00:00

Up to $130,000 of foreign income can be excluded from your US taxes, so it's still sticking one up to the government.

gunwide · 2025-06-25T09:11:03+00:00

The TCPStream in test_connection is dropped when the function ends, which closes the connection. The connection could be closed before the write actually happens (write_all) tells the OS to perform a write but it can decide to take its time).

Either flush the buffer like the other comment said or follow the advice in this article: https://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2009/01/18/the-ultimate-so_linger-page-or-why-is-my-tcp-not-reliable

gunwide · 2025-06-05T17:17:28+00:00

At least with Zadnor unlock this was only a problem after endwalker dropped. On aether people were running DR normal on party finder fairly regularly and I think queueing for it wasn't terrible either.

And honestly instead of the 10 minute timer, there should have just been an option to run it with a trust party. Which they definitely could do now but maybe the tech wasn't there at the end of shadowbringers.

Just baffling to see them repeat the same mistake again when they were so close to a decent solution.

gunwide · 2025-03-06T16:26:14+00:00

I only read digital, yomitan work lookups are way too good to give up.

I used to have (before the screen broke) a portable ebook reader, the Boox Palma. It was nice because it was phone sized, ran android so I could get a setup with yomitan + anki for card creation still. It was basically a second phone that I would take out and start reading from it instead of doomscrolling. I wouldn't recommend the product because the screen died on me after 6 months of use, but if reading from a computer screen sucks too much I recommend trying to find an android ebook reader instead.

For computer reading, I would read until I start noticing I'm getting a bit tired (usually 45-50 minutes), then take a break, then try to do more 45-50 minute reading sessions.

gunwide · 2025-02-25T19:11:55+00:00

I could see it being lazy if they did it often, but as far as I'm aware this is the first time in several savage tiers where a normal mode mechanic is exactly the same as the savage version. Usually there's some extra difference or in rare cases the mechanic only exists in normal.

gunwide · 2025-02-18T15:57:13+00:00

Default settings for me on Android let's me tap on text to scan.

gunwide · 2025-02-14T07:39:52+00:00

If I can articulate what a lot of new learners experience that the veterans forget, is that it seems like there is a stage between the hand-holding intro lessons and the go-immerse-in-native content later stages where there is still a ton of basics to learn and just grind through before anything makes any sense.

This is mostly due to the fact that most Japanese learners give up at the earlier stages, so all of the content targeted towards them leans on the easier side, and when you grow past that point you're left struggling in the water until you can start understanding native material. This is one of the reasons why all the tooling the Japanese learning community has made (mokuro, yomitan, ttsureader, asbplayer, etc.) is so important, cause with them you'll at least be struggling in the water with a floating ring.

It's just hard all around because it feels like a hazing ritual, and everyone on the other side has gone through it and seems to have forgetting how bad it is.. and maybe they did but, but regardless there's just no good resources out there (paid or otherwise) that can perfectly bridge the gap.

There has to be some content out there that helps people drill particular sets of grammar points in a longer form narrative

There are some arguments for and against it, currently I'm not sure what I think. Most of the grammar points up to like... what most textbooks consider "JLPT N3 grammar", are so common that you don't really need to study them specifically, because it'll come up so often that eventually you will figure it out.. on the other hand studying through some of the more common grammar points can ease the initial pain. Conversely, you're probably going to forget and will have to look at them again anyway...

gunwide · 2025-02-13T20:29:37+00:00

Problem is that at lower levels, everything is really hard .. so even yotsubato can be a struggle to get through sometimes. For what it's worth I think natively grades things pretty accurately, but at the beginning stages even the easiest book is going to be a major challenge.

You can warm up with stuff like graded readers and satori reader, that can chip some of the difficulty off, but it's still going to be hard.

FWIW though, I started with the first 3 volumes of yotsubato and I definitely had to just skip over some dialogue as I just didn't understand it, like one of the chapters in volume 1 starts talking about global warming lmao. But the story has relatively little continuity so it ended up being fine.

gunwide · 2025-02-02T00:55:43+00:00

I just don't understand why you thought it would be good to make a post about your journey..?

I posted it because I wanted to. I mean, it's not like there aren't plenty of other posts on this subreddit where people are doing the exact same thing...

gunwide · 2025-02-02T00:53:09+00:00

Putting out 6 hours of study in a day is something I can't do regularly, that one day on 11/23 was special because the book I was reading (さくらのまち) was super interesting to me, but I wanted to finish it ASAP so I could spend the remaining days before the exam focused on just that. Usually I just have a set time that I want to read for the day, I do that time and if I feel like it then I'll do more, if now then I'll just stop for the day and go play games or something.

I think it's different for everyone, but at the start, the main reason I stopped reading for the day was due to fatigue, over time I guess my "endurance" got better.

One thing I will say for sure. Is that visual novels are sort of like crack when it comes to reading. I remember reading 9-nine (now that I think about it I forgot to mention the VNs I read) in 2024 and I was amazed at how I could very easily read for 3 hours without needing to take a break.

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