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it's a library / command line software to download youtube videos.

There's more information here

Basically install the tool, and run yt-dlp [put your youtube links here without the bracket] to download the video. I haven't directly used the official command line for years though, so you might want to read the documentations.

And that's because, I wrote my own terminal-ui using their python API, for personal usage and requirements (you need to know at least some python or knowledge using the terminal to use it)

I'm finally at Disc 4 of Final Fantasy 8 Remastered. Tried playing this game several times, but never finished it. I decided to use all the QoL options (combat boost, 3x speed, no-encounter) to avoid being frustrated by the gameplay (junctioning, drawing, etc), and I've been enjoying the story, even post Disc 3 twist.

It's hard, I've been trying to use peertube, but it's still kinda lacking. Most creators are still sticking with YT

On the other hand, I download youtube videos I want to watch using yt-dlp. That's been working well for me for the past 5 years or so.

Everyone already knows that Duolingo in the vacuum itself, is not a good tool to learn language. It’s a good spaced repetition tool though, especially the desktop version.

I’ve found that, I’ve learnt more with Duolingo by pairing it with my own grammar research, e.g. find the grammar book for the language I want to learn, then summarise / write down the rules lines by lines on my notebook

I’ve been doing it for a number of languages, and they have served me well. But only when I personally write them down line by line, the rules barely stick when I just read / refer to them like cheatsheets

It also helps a lot when you understand grammatical concepts like dative, accusative, ablative, instrumental cases, conjugation patterns, etc.

However this method is only good for learning to read and to listen, but not to speak, which in the end requires human interaction

Is this César do Paço's wiki entry?

Apparently he donated ten of thousands euro to Portugal's right wing populist party Chega, and he really wanted to wipe that information out of existence

On 11 January 2021, Portuguese news channel SIC Notícias broadcast a story asserting that DePaço had donated over ten thousand euros to Portugal's Chega party, and highlighted connections of several of its leaders to the DePaço Foundation.[23][24][25] This was controversial in Cape Verde due to Chega's opposition to immigration.[26][27] The day after the SIC story was aired, Cape Verdean Foreign Minister, who had recently appointed DePaço as Honorary Consul of Cape Verde to Florida, resigned.[28][29] DePaço was subsequently dismissed,[30] At the time he was appointed, Cape Verde already had a consul in Florida.[31]

Also I just found out that Barbara Streisand's first name is spelled Barbra

I think they haven't decided on the official name yet, the trailer says it's still a working title

There was a strong dislike of JRPGs and Japanese games in the 2000s.

Development struggles

From what I heard is, during the shift to HD development in early PS3 360 era, many western devs switched to use Unreal engine, while Japanese devs were sticking to their in house engines. But, in house engines were not cheap nor easy to build / maintain, so they struggled to recoup their expenses.

One of their strategies is to make their games more appealing to the west, but they were kinda doing it from the lens of what they think American games are appealing, so we get games that weren't universally loved, like

• Quantum Theory: Koei's Gears of War-kinda clone
• DmC: kinda split the fanbase
• PS3 era Silent Hill games
• Neverdead: WTF
• Yakuza games: they were marketed as if they were GTAs

Inafune was partially right, although hyperbolic, saying that Japanese games are dead. They were definitely struggling to find an identity.

Squeenix's outputs

Then there's Square Enix during PS3 era that published these games, many were received poorly

• FF13: convoluted story, L'cie, Fa'lcie
• NieR: reviewers stuck at fishing minigame, and the whole gameplay was just boring
• Star Ocean Last Hope International: Lymle, kay
• Front Mission Evolved

It didn't help when we got bangers like Mass Effect trilogy, Skyrim, Fallout 3. So Square definitely disliked the JRPG term. However if you were to ask smaller Japanese devs at the time, e.g. ATLUS or Nihon Falcom, they'd probably prefer the term, because their 'niche' games (at the time), sold quite well while Square struggled.

Not a really descriptive term anymore

But you're right, JRPG is non-descriptive when it comes to reviews. I'd prefer that reviewers have a small box that lists out the mechanics of the game, e.g. turn-based, random loot drops, predesignated character, linear dungeons, etc. But even nowadays reviewers are recommending games like Jedi Survivor, while the game is still a broken mess, which made me wonder what's the point of reviews anymore?

It's great when the devs like the term, but it barely helps anyone when reviewers use it. Not to mention the political tension when they use the term JRPG for games developed by Chinese or Korean devs.

Of course I haven't mentioned that some reviewers were just racists fucks. Also it's the period when Famitsu will just give any games 40/40 if the publishers bought enough advertisements from them, FF13 got 39/40, and Square was probably wondering why the games were not well received outside Japan

IIRC I only watch the first 2 episodes, and if memory serves me right, the side characters speak fluent Cantonese, but the main character not so. I can't remember much.

That's bit harsh to say that all his great works are not his.

I do share the sentiment that Kojima's writing has been in downhill for quite sometime and he really in need of a good editor. I actually think that his stories are more coherent or at least entertaining in his earlier works, e.g.

• Snatcher
• Policenauts
• MGS 1
• Some like MGS 2, but I think the boring oil rig setting broke me, and the constant chatter with 'Colonel' didn't help
• MGS 3
• Peacewalker
• MGS Rising

What I actually like is his obsessive attention to details that barely matters when it comes to gameplay, e.g. melting ice cubes, aiming at enemy's crotch to get dog tags, etc.

Kojima games started clicking for me when he introduced the 'R&D system' in Peacewalker, where it's actually a RPG progression system but the rewards are absurd equipments. As the matter of fact, I like the 'walking and R&D' parts of Death Stranding a lot, but really dislike the enemy encounters and the story in that game.

And it's okay, not every games are for everyone, I'm glad that someone is giving him blank cheques for his absurd ideas that are not the norms.

I remember watching Batman Begins, and Christian Bale dropped an awful line in Mandarin but pronounced some words like Cantonese (he butchered "I'm not a criminal" into "I'm not a rice wheel / cloud"). I'm always amazed that how much are the actors getting paid, yet can't afford to hire a language coach or just some random person from Chinatown to be on set and help them rehearse just one line of sentence that has 5 words in it (我不是犯人)

I'm reminded of this because, I was watching season 2 of Fringe yesterday, in one episode, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) claimed that he could speak some Cantonese, and he indeed spoke a couple of okay Cantonese lines in that episode, he didn't sound like native, but it's believable enough as a character who needed to learn the language to do some shady dealings in the past. The lines were not butchered or sounded exaggerated, and I don't think Joshua Jackson himself was getting paid in millions while filming Fringe.

It's even more jarring when Hollywood hires Asian actors to do lines in Asian languages that are not their native languages. I've heard this quite often, when they hire a Korean actors to speak Mandarin / Cantonese, and they sounded awful.

Also, in Japanese shows, I have no idea why they kept making the actors who can't speak English, speak English. In Shin Godzilla, Satomi Ishihara's character is supposed to be a special envoy for US President (IIRC the character grew up in the US), and her deliveries totally broke the immersion. The funny thing is that the other Japanese native characters who didn't grew up in the US, delivered more convincing English lines than hers. Japanese directors, you don't need to speak English to look cool, it's okay for the characters to speak Japanese in Japan.

Hire a language coach, they have already been hiring dialect coaches for decades, why not hire a language coach for a few days? (of course not, the money needs to get into Zaslav's pocket)

I played The Forgotten City, and it's a really good adventure game (with very minimal combat). I'd recommend you to try it out if you haven't

The one-column layout of Firefish is good, it has tons more features than Mastodon

But the multi-column deck layout that I always use, it's kinda borked thus infuriating to use. Probably needs more time for the deck layout.

Thank you so much, this moved me to tears for some reasons

They should pause when showing item description and after the end credits, they should link to youtubers explaining what happened actually in the anime.

Indeed, Prince Andrew is still roaming around Pizza Express in Woking.

I'm expecting this weakening of encryption / surveillance is to protect rich people by preemptively punishing dissidents who are organizing against them. It's the step that authoritarian countries like China, Saudi, etc have been using against their own people, either with sweeping regulations, or just straight up buying pegasus spyware.

Hell yeah

Nic also has a movie coming out digitally this week, titled Sympathy for the Devil, no idea whether it'd be an okay movie or just another direct to DVD garbo, but still gonna watch it since I'm on the quest of watching every Nic Cage movies.

Also since he was sighted with Kojima recently, and Kojima has been wearing Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent's t-shirt, I do hope that Nic would star in his next game. (He's probably already scanned for Death Stranding 2 cameo)

I think some of the problematic instances have been defederated, IIRC there's a large japanese instance that was defederated long time ago due to child abuse content. But still since I've been seeing increases of hate speech and dog whistling misogyny and homophobia in some instances, I won't be surprised if CSAM stuff has been trading under our noses.

The main issue is that, with so many users nowadays and small moderation teams, especially in the larger instances, it's hard to moderate and tackle CSAM problems effectively. I really wish larger instances would limit user registrations or start splitting off into smaller manageable ones.

Also, since they are trading using certain hashtags, blocking those hashtags might not be a bad idea.

After Louis pinned and liked an anti masker comment under on of his videos and moving to Texas where the comment section on his video is starting to be filled by pro-gun right wingers and free speech absolutists, I stopped watching his content altogether.

That might not be his intention, but his libertarian views sure attracts certain crowds.

It's sad, because he's convincing and persuasive when it comes to talking about repair rights, anti-monopoly, etc. But I suppose that's the same sentiments experienced by people who listen to Jordan Peterson, before sliding down into the incel rabbithole.

65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online

aren't those tech companies the one who kept boosting false information on the first place to get ad revenue? FB did it, YouTube did it, Twitter did it, Google did it.

How about breaking them up into smaller companies first?

I thought the labels on potential COVID or election disinformation were pretty good, until companies stopped doing so.

Why not do that again? Those who are gonna claim that it's censorship, will always do so. But, what's needed to be done is to prevent those who are not well informed to fall into antivax / far-right rabbit hole.

Also, force content creators / websites to prominently show who are funding / paying them.

erm, looking at peacemaker67's wiki user page, that person does seem like a military nut.