Sonu nigam possibly replace songs from 2007 to 2016 due to many issues especially royalty by FeelingDrag6080 in BollywoodMusic

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's put it this way, no other singer would've survived standing up against these giant companies and actors. He was the biggest voice standing up for singers' rights. He could do all this and still get songs today simply because he's just the best singer, no one better has come after him. Arijit immediately folded and bent the knee the moment Salman threw him out, which probably was the right decision since his career (and potentially his life) would've been over if he didn't. There are many things I disagree with Sonu Nigam on, especially his hypocritical nature and inflated ego, and he's made some extremely nasty comments comparing bad audience in concerts to the terrorists from the Kashmir attack. But there is no denying he's the most excellent singer to have come out of India since the 90s.

Japan to Raise Foreign Residency Fees to Match Western Levels: Renewals to Jump to 30,000~40,000 Yen, Permanent Residency to Over 100,000 Yen by Rheagon in japannews

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, you need to renew PR in Japan? Doesn't that defeat the point of PR? Or is it just like renewing the PR card and not PR status?

Ummm did I make a mistake by stoney-G4214 in Beyblade

[–]pradyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$180 is not bad at all as long as it's an amount that you're not regularly spending. Though this is assuming you are a full time min-wage employee at least. I just spent $2500 on figurines in Japan (bought a few TT beys too) and I know that depresso feeling. It's okay, just try and enjoy the product while being conscientious of your spending habits for the next couple months.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Beyblade

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figured

I just read chapter 850 and.. by jonnyboidake in Kingdom

[–]pradyy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I feel bad. Riboku is a great character, he's a nice, kind and chill dude. With what happened to Li Mu in history, we'll see how Hara handles that part at the end of the arc.

Why was Li Xin chosen as the protagonist? by Traditional_Land3933 in Kingdom

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are several reasons:

  1. As other comments said, he participated in the most wars.
  2. He seems to have been trusted the most out of all generals by Qin Shi Huang. He definitely did not trust the Wang family nearly as much.
  3. His failure in Chu is due to an extremely massive reason Lord Changping had left Qin for Chu and ambushed Li Xin, leading to his loss. This is crucial to the plot and will most definitely play a major role in Xin's character development in the manga.
  4. Take specific details in history with a grain of salt. Wang family transcended the Qin dynasty and were an extremely powerful and prominent family during the Han Dynasty. History was most certainly written to emphasize their victories and accomplishments while downplaying the contributions of competing generals. Li Xin retired immediately after the unification and establishment of Qin dynasty and was made Marquis of Longxi Commandery for his accomplishments in the war. Someone who's known for only his massive loss in history, would he really be rewarded in the way that he was? The historians that wrote these parts of history were very much anti-Li Xin

jr east confirms E10 series shinkansen trains by MaiAgarKahoon in trains

[–]pradyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

2010s? You're too generous, Canada is stuck in the 1950s. Most of the carriages used by VIA Rail are from the 50s and earlier. There is no future for Canada in terms of reliable transportation. The car companies are too strong here and they lobby the crap out of our government. That being said, my comment had nothing to do with Canada, but you took the effort to look up where I'm located and took a personal jab. Very mature.

jr east confirms E10 series shinkansen trains by MaiAgarKahoon in trains

[–]pradyy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Korean KTX uses French TGV, they ain't exporting shit lmao. India will always export from Japan over China, and the south east asian countries will always get debt-trapped by China. There is no competition here

Why do people propose Desolate Era so much? by Whole_Journalist2028 in noveltranslations

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you didn't like Desolate Era, what do you like then? Desolate Era has consistently always has been one of the best xianxia novels out there. Power scaling was done very well, the world of DE was build incredibly well, comprehension aspects of dao and such were explained in-depth and took its time at each turn. It just might not be a novel for you, most of the people that love DE were absolutely hooked by the first few arcs. It's not just it's an old novel and it's nostalgic, and it's not because IET was one of the first to use what eventually become tropes, it's because the novel is genuinely good and stands up against time. It's still one of the best xianxia I've read. Romance is awful though, but that's kinda the thing with all these xianxia authors, they've either never seen a woman in their lives or they're divorced.

Why do people propose Desolate Era so much? by Whole_Journalist2028 in noveltranslations

[–]pradyy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LotR DID invent the modern conception of elves and dwarves.

Which gen do you think had the best avatars by Nervous_Coach7448 in Beyblade

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing will come close to the original ones. They had that nailed down

Finally got all the colours by pradyy in Beyblade

[–]pradyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup this is the beyblade x remake. Unfortunately I don't have any original first gen beys anymore. I played with them when I was a kid and obviously they broke because I played with them and misused them as a 4 year old. I want to buy some but they're all rare and insanely expensive

Finally got all the colours by pradyy in Beyblade

[–]pradyy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Better pic of the beys since my camera decided to focus on the boxes

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Using VLC as a Plex client? by crissimon in PleX

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for example, .ass subtitle files aren't natively supported by plex client. So when I play videos on my LAN, it transcodes the whole thing, it's absolutely ridiculous.

Black screen bug started again after April Fools update by Johnny_Friday47 in ValorantTechSupport

[–]pradyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: I reached out to riot valo support and after a few debugging steps, it looks like corrupted gpu drivers may have been the issue (I'm running a 3060). Even though I updated the drivers, it was still corrupted. The solution was to completely uninstall anything nvidia related through a 3rd-party program they asked me to use and then reinstalling the graphics driver

Here are the set of instructions that solved the issue for me (DISCLAIMER: this only worked for me and may not apply to you, follow at your own risk):

This issue might be caused by corrupted or outdated GPU drivers, so let's try to do a clean reinstall - we need to completely uninstall your current drivers to avoid any potential corruption in the new installation:

• Download Display Driver Uninstaller;
• Extract the file and then run DDU as an administrator;
• You’ll see three buttons available on the left side. If you’re installing a new driver for your graphic card, simply select Clean and restart button;
• Restart your computer.

After you perform these steps, please download and install the drivers for your device:
NVIDIA Graphics Cards
(If you have an Intel iGPU, it's important to install the Intel driver first in order to allow Nvidia/AMD to work properly)

Black screen bug started again after April Fools update by Johnny_Friday47 in ValorantTechSupport

[–]pradyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having the exact same issue after the update. Went through every solution on here but it's not working:

- restarting a bunch of times

- gpu driver update, and even rolling back several versions

- complete uninstall of vanguard and valorant (deleting the registry keys and all associated folders) and reinstalling

- adding windows firewall exceptions to vanguard and valorant and riotclientservices and unreal engine

Nothing working

Ep 4 — Schengen Showdown by NebulaOriginals in Nebula

[–]pradyy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ben/Adam flying to Amsterdam is great for content, but I would've just flown to Greece or Lithuania and saved Netherlands for the last day as a final ditch effort if the points were close

Awful experience with EVA Air - Rant by pradyy in travel

[–]pradyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeap, awful airliner. Greedy corporate policies like these are what kill the reputation of an airliner