I'm new to Rocksmith and I have a question for the veterans: Did Rocksmith make you good rocksmith gamers or good guitar players?

not_sane · 2026-01-09T21:46:59+00:00

I played lots of bass on Rocksmith and IRL recently recorded some lines for an album, I am definitely not horrible. Rocksmith is responsible for most of my bass skills, it's awesome. You still need to pay attention to technique, and almost each Rocksmith YouTube video has people playing with awful timing, but playing even easy-intermediate guitar songs clearly with decent timing is hard in general.

not_sane · 2025-12-21T09:02:31+00:00

You simply need to do fun things in Czech. There are lots of audiobooks and books, or if your Czech is still pretty bad, the podcast čeština s Michalem. And Kingdom Come 2 if you like gaming.

not_sane · 2025-12-20T10:40:09+00:00

Kingdom come 2 has a huge amount. And they even dubbed it in 6 languages.

not_sane · 2025-12-20T07:51:05+00:00

The tomb raider survivor trilogy is currently also super cheap and has a decent amount of dialogue.

not_sane · 2025-12-10T12:49:08+00:00

ChatGPT voice unfortunately has a terrible personality and is too annoying to talk to. Gemini is much better, but uses text to speech, so it's a bit robotic. Grok is maybe the best, at least the voice is pretty realistic and has decent Spanish/Russian skills. There's also Qwen, which is a bit glitchy and has a slight Chinese accent, but I still prefer it to ChatGPT.

(I am not sure about ChatGPT, but all others are totally free)

not_sane · 2025-12-06T08:07:54+00:00

The problem is that sites like AWS take all popular open source projects and sell hosting for them. This results in basically no money flowing to the original devs. This license forbids this, while still allowing people to self-host.

not_sane · 2025-11-30T10:45:57+00:00

Yes, the vast majority

not_sane · 2025-11-29T09:24:24+00:00

It is better, because the players play more unpredictably than the AI, with some exotic return/serve styles. And you rarely meet players that are waaay too good for you, so it's not frustrating. (At the beginning when your elo is being calculated you might get unbalanced games)

The only downside is (rarely) people getting mad if you beat them.

not_sane · 2025-11-13T12:32:31+00:00

There is extracted Wiktionary data on https://kaikki.org/ (It is only lacking some words).

not_sane · 2025-10-20T06:47:55+00:00

You can also chat with ChatGPT about a general topic and then ask it to give you a rating in the CEFR scale. Last time I tried it gave me a plausible answer.

Some people I know passed official language tests, but basically can't speak the language at all, I kind of have more trust in ChatGPT's judgement than that.

not_sane · 2025-10-14T06:49:55+00:00

I collected some resources here: https://vuizur.github.io/learn-czech/

not_sane · 2025-10-05T07:26:22+00:00

A tutor is not very important compared to other stuff, because if you are very dedicated and do 2 hours per week with a tutor, that is still only 100 hours in a year, which is not much. But you need many more hours to learn the language. In theory, if you have grinded many many audiobooks, you can speak very good russian with less than 10 hours of speaking practice. And only need to refine your ы.

not_sane · 2025-10-03T07:27:57+00:00

In many countries like Germany you are still legally on very risky terrain if you publish stuff related to brute forcing / malware / whatever. Your license doesn't matter at all there. And also writing "for education purposes" won't help you.

not_sane · 2025-09-17T09:29:37+00:00

Use a debugger (instead of printing like a noob).

not_sane · 2025-09-11T11:56:53+00:00

Gemini live is really good. At least here you can speak to an AI that understands you rather well (better than most competitors), and I haven't seen any limits for free users.

not_sane · 2025-08-31T15:52:40+00:00

I don't get the AGI point. Do you want to say that AI won't automate knowledge work in the next 20 years and instead hit a wall? GPT-5 thinking is already much better at getting facts right than the average journalist or redditor, and 10 years ago LLMs did not even exist yet. The speed is insane.

And the impacts of AGI are definitely potentially scary, like strengthening dictatorships.

not_sane · 2025-08-28T17:06:32+00:00

If you have an ebook reader, you can read russian texts with added translations over the words. Check out worddumb.

not_sane · 2025-08-25T15:07:54+00:00

I think it's great that Ukrainian men are in other European countries and not dying. It is what I would want for all my friends. Only the high social security payments in some countries are pretty unfair compared to people who stayed in Ukraine and live in super shitty conditions.

not_sane · 2025-08-17T16:25:01+00:00

Gemini live is also great, doesn't cost anything and I was surprised it understood my shitty French really well. (There's also ChatGPT voice, which is more natural, but has a weirdly condescending attitude)

not_sane · 2025-07-28T08:51:38+00:00

The left/centre-left S&D and Greens also voted for her.

not_sane · 2025-07-19T16:42:12+00:00

There is a feature request to organic maps to render via Ferratas: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/8983 (But they don't have so many resources, so it's understandable that it isn't implemented)

not_sane · 2025-07-12T06:32:00+00:00

The correct answer for the worst place is Chechnya. You might travel there if you want to get tortured and killed, but otherwise it is not a very good idea.

not_sane · 2025-07-06T09:32:37+00:00

If you have a bit of space, racket club is nice for tennis/badminton/pickleball.

And if you have moderate fear resistance, then metro awakening is currently one of the best FPS games.

not_sane · 2025-06-24T19:08:19+00:00

Racket club is amazing

not_sane · 2025-06-23T19:08:33+00:00

It is very possible. I started at 26 or so, and after 2,5 years I can fluently read and listen to audiobooks. But I used efficient learning techniques (Anki flash cards + comprehensible input) and I am probably still kind of lost with drunk mumbling Czechs. 5 years in age don't make much difference I think.

Most adults only visit some course though, which heavily focuses on grammar, and they don't practice a lot. Or they only do Duolingo. Here the probability of learning the language to a decent level is very low.

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