i haven't played the great ace attorney chronicles yet but i was planning on trying it in japanese before looking up the english version to see how it stacks up since it is set in victorian england so they do have less leeway to make it american (i hope?)

i don't have a switch but i imagine having the big screen option will make it easier to see finicky kanji!!

i'm aware of the text problem, and i'm going to get around it by playing it on switch and using the clip saving feature and/or the text history which was added in the hd versions

the english localisation is a mixed bag for me. i love the wit and general flow of the dialogue, i'm perfectly happy with the english names, i don't like the americentricness, and i hate how they keep digging when more and more japanese themed stuff keeps popping up and they need to explain how all this could possibly be happening in california. in the end, i kept coming back to play more of the games, so i guess it did its job.

my issue playing ace attorney in japanese is the amount of cut away slapstick jokes (not that many but enough) where i couldn't read the text before it autoscrolled. i love the ace attorney localisation and still wish they could've done aai2 even though it's been 13 years

in a sense, i did defeat duolingo. that thing is engineered to get you hooked on dopamine, with all the satisfying pling sounds and the leaderboards and stuff. clearly, i prevailed.

if i do get through ace attorney, i'll probably end up having learnt a disproportionate number of words related to anime court. i'm not sure how useful those will be in the duolingo's later courses.

sleepy eyes read the title as "i defeated duolingo" and.
if you actually succeeded with your phoenix wright method i think you might actually "defeat" duolingo too. so. full support

god whenever "democratize" is used by a software company i want to run far far away

I haven't had any physical media in years; I just have a file server I put my media on.

hd hdd

I still have the dvd drive that came in my first "my own" rather than the family's PC when I was 13. I don't use discs enough to upgrade but it saved my life when I had to reinstall windows 7 for reasons since it was the only way to get data onto the computer other than physically removing a hard drive that was recognised by the OS without drivers. DVDs are good. I like them a lot.

Films and tv shows on dvd.

I could do blu-ray now, i guess, but i've yet to see shelves full of them in charity shops, where i can get dvds for cheap. Also i have no idea if they'll play in vlc without any fuss.

what sort of discs are you using regularly in your pc in 2023?

Anything to do with physical media tends to get so much worse over time, it's really depressing

I saw people on twitter discussing whether they'd get the physical release of gta vi or not, as if the game's actually gonna be on the disc lol

Anyway I should have mentioned my two drives are from around the same time period. So although I briefly mention how bad stuff has become, the topic is really the quality of a product they put their name on vs that of one they were too embarrassed to put their name on

Anything to do with physical media tends to get so much worse over time, it's really depressing. Like there's something of a resurgence of records and cassettes and you can't get a decent one of either of those, they just stopped making them. So yeah probably happening with disks too, at least ones for computers

no environmentalization? i am dying

you may joke, but you'll just be peeling back the layers to reveal more horror

incredible amounts of dysfunction. i am enamored.

as much as i love this writeup, u have gotta give that company some credit for demolishing itself. this is fantastic

Oh I was making a joke pretending not to understand the problem, since that doesn't make a difference for what the problem actually was.

It was actually a google doc, but essentially the same problems had they used excel. Like merging cells across rows so I can't reorder the rows without getting blank cells.

In fact being on google docs made it worse, because they kept changing the list while i was trying to keep track of things on it

the end users are people who have no choice but to use this shit

I wonder if there are any end users or if this thing just kind of exists?

Seriously, its 2023, use a damn google doc!!

when the testing began, they opted not to use the issue tracker, but instead had an excel spreadsheet.

THIS IS USUALLY JUST A JOKE PEOPLE MAKE jesus lol

Oh, come on. It will only heat up the water part of your guts. What do you have to fear. How much of your guts are water anyway?

no it's worse, that shit will cook your guts, and all we can do is take the word of penny-pinching appliance manufacturers that the shielding they chose is sufficient

also when i was like 12 i watched a ton of tv programmes where they blow stuff up, and it turns out microwave ovens will do that to themselves if you decide to heat the wrong thing

its not the same type of radiation!!!!!