emb @ emb @lemmy.world

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Not too big on soup, but I think egg drop soup is great.

Pretty good! I found some nice, free graded readers in Japanese and have been reading a bunch of the easy ones. They're so basic and understandable, but most of them have cute little stories that are entertaining in their own right -- exactly what I'm looking for out of reading material at my level.

I've also been doing some Kanji-based 'graded reading sets', but they're less good. Just random sentences one after another. Still, I think it's valuable to get a sense of readings for characters.

Another thing, I realized I could switch my chess app to my target language. Not ready to change my phone's language, so it's always nice when I find an app I can change individually that I'll use repeatedly. (Maps is also great for this, I've had that one in target language a while.)

drawabox was already mentioned, I've always heard good things and the first few lessons seem approachable.

https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/ is another one I've heard good things about, though it's focused more on digital painting.

Whenever I manage to do any meal prep, I keep it dead-simple.

Chop up 2 or 3 chicken breasts and cook them in a skillet, divide into 3 or 4 portions to eat throughout the week with different sauces or seasonings.

Roast a bit of broccoli and carrots (or sometimes chickpeas) and use them to have a different side item each day.

But doctor…I am Pagliacci.

Pretty fun! My top few change from time.

I like to mess around with an app that ranks lists, and over there my top few are:

• Gengar, Scizor, Metagross, Nidoking, Mewtwo, Gyarados
• Zapdos, Starmie, Dragpult, Swampert, Kabutops, Tapu Koko
• Tyranitar, Forretress, Ampharos, Donphan, Rayquaza, Darkrai

And this is what I got for a top several here today:

Same few suspects in and around the lists, but just the whims I have trying to choose between them vary I think. One thing I think, is having tried to rank them before made me think differently about some that surprised me. Like I didn't realize at first that Kabutops or Nidoking might be top contenders for me, until I sat down and started comparing things.

Another note: any time there's a piece of software that you like, but don't want to use it (because it's proprietary, missing features, or whatever reason), alternativeto.net is an incredibly useful resource.

Here's their list of apps with a wishlist feature: https://alternativeto.net/feature/wishlist/

Usually a great starting point.

I can't offer much in the way of experience - but I have at least wanted to replace Amazon wishlist functionality. I've never gotten around to making the jump, so I can't really say that I personally recommend any of these.

But when I was looking around, these are 3 options that seemed promising at surface level:

• https://giftwhale.com/
• https://wishy.gift/
• https://www.wishlistr.com/

I'd be curious to know how it goes, so I hope at some point you update the thread with what works for you.

I didn't like it already in Yellow, but it really stings when your partner Pokemon is Eevee, of all things!

Yep, I feel like people overestimate how much anyone cares about official support or security patches or whatever. People will assume it's fine until they're either forced out or something goes horribly wrong.

Regular folks will most likely let it be if possible, until it's time for a new PC anyway.

I'm not big on the idea of open world racing. To me, driving between race tracks looks like a chore.

I've seen other racers do it, but I've never really delved into a game like that. Maybe once I do I'll really like it.

I do think grinding rails and wall jumping around looks pretty fun in MK. But it could end up gimmicky and unexiciting once you're used to.

Basically all a big 'wait and see' from my perspective.

I was just playing Chants of Sennaar (a game about deciphering made-up language) and wondering why the same type of game isn't out there for real languages.

And of course the obvious answer is that it is, I just don't know. Wagotabi looks neat. I'm still dipping my toes in with playing other games with language set to Japanese, but W seems like it might be a fun bridge.

There's a big gulf where basic exercises seem too simple, and real, spoken language seems unbearably fast and difficult.

Good luck! I'm confident that it will improve over time if we keep engaging with the target language every day. But I don't expect any results to be quick.

Por que?

Had a scare when first hearing this. But somewhere else on the site it does specify this as something like "some physical games", and as quoted in OP they're contrasting here with "regular game cards". So it looks like real game cards will still be a thing.

So far I've seen screenshots of SFVI and Bravely Default boxarts marked as game-key cards.

I've seen box shots for Mario Kart and Donkey Kong that appear to be normal game cards.

Seems so. Notably, Switch 1 already has games with a similar warning on the box.

They're just giving a name to it.

On one hand, I'm glad they're up front about it (and I'd rather see an even uglier, larger warning on the cover for game key cards). On the other, I hope this isn't a sign that they're legitimizing it or that it'll be more common.

Glad to finally hear more about tab groups!

Wait a minute... what day is it? Hmmm... not sure if I should trust, lol.

People that go outside a lot and have opinions about whether the sun's out.

Personally, I'm a home-body, so I don't get it. Let's get rid of the hassle!

Reminds me of this: https://butter.sonnet.io/

Which also doesn't have a Firefox version, but I was always kinda curious about.

Actually, is that your project? Lol, you mentioned yellow blocks which made me think of butter.

Thanks for the list! I use a handful of these (in Firefox), but wasn't aware of all of them. Youtube Redux especially seems cool.