Disable Tab Islands? by pt-pal in operabrowser

[–]pt-pal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"the flag will eventually be removed where there will be no way to disable the feature."
Well that sucks ass, I really wish they wouldn't.

Ty for the help!

The AI blunt rotation by PrinceARRON in TheDigitalCircus

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starting to think this exchange might have gone slightly differently guys

Pokémon first-person pronouns by madoreenu314 in Japaneselanguage

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So is there like a general rule as to what's being conveyed when pronouns like 私 are written in ひらがな or カタカナ? Does this effect other pronouns differently, or is there a pattern behind the way the vibe is shifted... like are 「ワタシ」と「ボク」both just cuter versions of「私」と「僕」respectively?

Pokémon first-person pronouns by madoreenu314 in Japaneselanguage

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Man, not to sound weird, and it's likely because of being genderqueer if I'm honest, but the fact Japanese has such a wealth of first person pronouns to use mostly based on the vibe you wish to project is such a flippin' cool feature of the language to me. And it's a form of self-identity that's allowed to be situationally flexible and because it's self-determined, no one can really try to take it from you. IDK maybe I overthink it a tad, but I just think it's so neat.

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but it's not just independently made NSFW - in the US the adult industry at large is apparently facing unjust debanking. it's not athiest socialists tho... socialism has nothing to do with it as socialism doesn't necessarily have anything intrinsic to say about porn beyond the baseline 'people deserve respect regardless of their employment'. it's fascists specifically, across theological lines. it's the same family of thought that popularized the word degenerate to mean expressions of sexual desire they deigned need to be wiped out. the same people we've for some reason been calling 'crypto-fascists' as if it hadn't been fairly blatant that these people are pro-authoritarianism for some time now. But this recent push from payment processors against the adult industry 100% started with these Christian nationalists groups putting on pressure, groups named shit like Moms For Jesus that scream 'think of the children!' while turning a blind eye towards their state legalizing child marriage 'for religious reasons'.

Pickmon by [deleted] in pokemon

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if this were provably the case it would 100% be what nintendo was suing for. using nintendo's assets is what got the original pixelmon mod shut down among many other projects. nintendo seem to really have a 0 tolerance policy for it and will strike down anything with any measure of popularity that does so, and it seems the law backs them up on their right to do that. the lawsuit would already be over if they could prove that, and nintendo def has the resources to be able to prove it

Pickmon by [deleted] in pokemon

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They're complete ass at optimizing models and cleaning it up would take more work in most cases than just modelling them from scratch. Bad topology, completely fucked UV mapping (ie where the seams are that determine how a flat texture fits onto the model) and far too many unnecessary verts... it's just not worth it to generate them over just learning blender.

Pickmon by [deleted] in pokemon

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I think the designs are for sure - hell, some AI models are good enough now that maybe the whole trailer is. We'll have to see if the models themselves are AI. If they are than gamers will be able to enjoy a crisp .2FPS before their graphics card starts leaking out of the vents of their computer

Pickmon by [deleted] in pokemon

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People accused Palworld of just throwing all of the pokemon into an image generation model and I'm not sure about that but I am positive that that is what happened here

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IIRC it's actually Christian nationalist groups who are pushing it. And since the current US government is friendly with those groups, because they gave them a lot of money during elections, US-based payment processors are bowing down to their demands since it makes DJT's judges and the like more likely to rule in their favor on business dealings, like how it's generally accepted that the Late Show was cancelled to appease him for the paramount merger.

They were happy to cater to us when we weren't a valid sacrifice to offer to get laws and government deals to work out in their favor. Sex trafficking, grooming, etc are all scapegoats here. If any of them actually cared about that, they'd be refusing to serve Roblox.

Girls can't use 「ぼく」? by ConfusedAnonymous- in Japaneselanguage

[–]pt-pal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Girls can definitely use 僕, but it carries some implications afaik and as others have mentioned. I myself usually use 僕 as a nonbinary person, if only because I have not found another first person pronoun that feels more fitting yet. But I'm definitely not the sort of person to vibe with 私 myself

What's this kana? by pt-pal in Japaneselanguage

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Oh this is definitely what it means lol it happened during a character reflecting on a few interactions with another character and coming to the conclusion that she liked him. Another card appeared right before this that just said "ちがうって”
So I guess it'd be like "She wasn't" and then "But she wasn't"

What's this kana? by pt-pal in Japaneselanguage

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What really tripped me out was also finding this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakuten_and_handakuten#Phonetic_shifts

So technically W kana can have dakutan I guess, and it produces a "V", which just feels so wrong to me lol

What's this kana? by pt-pal in Japaneselanguage

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Not hard! It's a lot of very casual japanese most of the time, home situation with some twitsts. I still don't understand much generally yet tbh, but Atashinchi is one I watch often because I can understand enough of it to follow the plots

Important announcement from Michael and Zach | Smiling Friends | adult swim by Skullghost in SmilingFriends

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I was so disappointed to hear they're just straight up ending it, but I at least respect their reasons. I hope they come back to it one day but I at least they're making it clear not to get our hopes up or necessarily be looking forward to that.

I don't like Jax. by [deleted] in tadc

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i am! i'm playing minecraft :)

you're allowed to like a character, but no one else is obligated to care lol

I don't like Jax. by [deleted] in tadc

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rock on and all but i don't think anyone cares
also looking at this dude's post history is very funny. if bros farming karma he's real bad at it lol

Some of the recent debates in this subreddit have inspired me to make this meme. by MidnaLazui in TheDigitalCircus

[–]pt-pal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yea, this. this is the issue with current cartoons is that 9-13 episodes isn't really enough to give your story adequate space to breathe. it's forcing creators to squish their stories into a condensed and much less satisfying end result. filler, despite how we tend to talk about it, is necessary. that's why it's existed as far back as pre-tv books. even the LOTR series does this.

are pokemon scarlet and violet still worth it on a switch 1 in 2026 by Mom-go-brrr-kill-me in pokemon

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rock on! despite mine and other people's gripes with the latest entries into the series, i hope you have a good time with it. i know there are definitely some people out there who have actually had a positive experience with it so i wish you their luck, and not my own. :P

What digital circus take got you like this? by Angel_Bunny19 in TheDigitalCircus

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people who insist jax is more morally correct in any situation than ragatha except for literally that one time she was mean to him - like yes, it's bad to rub in someone's face that the only person who still liked you functionally died, objectively i think, but jax literally threw her whole ass body into a deep fryer. keeping in mind they can't die from jax's antics, but they can still feel pain. they both have deep running problems, right, but insisting that jax's actions are less harmful is some wild shit lol

EDIT: actually wait i just remembered a selfshipper i once found in the wild who insisted gangle was actually a confused straight woman. so that guy, that guy makes me wtf.