Skullgirls, Slay the Spire, Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

In middle school they called me “hey” and “you there”

To play perfectly and still lose is what _____ is all about.

(it’d be too obvious if I didn’t redact a word)

Oh my gah

But I don’t even know when and where the assassin is coming, do I?

Do I have any information at all about the assassin? Sending back the only info I know, “there is an assassin”, won’t help much, will it?

The problem is that I can’t wait for the assassin to make a move in order to learn about them. It’d be a lot easier if I was trying to prevent someone else’s death, but I can’t send a message after my own death, can I?

I see you’re going for a Steins;Gate reference but this is a significantly harder scenario.

ActivityPub matters far more than Lemmy itself. We already have Mbin and PieFed as two excellent alternatives.

It’s just thursday the 20th.jpg

I also have a handful of holidayname.jpg for holidays that fall on different days each year.

I’ve started saving these memes every time I see them. I don’t have too much in my folder yet, but hopefully someday I’ll accumulate 365 of them.

I think we should reelect Francis.

I have my PC and Switch with two monitors. No need for a television.

I would say that 4chan’s influence is of negative value. Thankfully, that influence is gone now.

It’s unclear if they even can plug the many security vulnerabilities that are now public information. The leaked source code reveals that the site hasn’t been updated at all since the new owner took over.

As I said in another comment below

‘Containment’ doesn’t work. That was the reason /pol/ was created, but all that did was rapidly radicalize the userbase, which then spread back to the other boards.

Giving them a dedicated space to radicalize people doesn’t mean that the people who get radicalized will never leave that space. Because not only did it spread back to the other boards, it spread outside 4chan. The rise of the alt-right can be directly traced back to Steve Bannon recognizing 4chan as the ideal target to start radicalizing users there. And now look at where the alt-right is today. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this is a large part of how we got Trump.

‘Containment’ doesn’t work. That was the reason /pol/ was created, but all that did was rapidly radicalize the userbase, which then spread back to the other boards.

Outside, hopefully.

Snark aside, 4chan was once hugely influential to internet culture and humor, but that era was long, long, long ago. When 4chan became the breeding ground for the alt-right, that thoroughly infected the site so badly that everyone else was driven off. There is nothing of value left on that site, and its death is a net positive for the world.

Of course other imageboards still exist, but I don’t think any of them will ever be as big as 4chan was. I hope that none of them become that big.

I’m a huge fan of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s work.

Akagi is the best series that I can’t actually recommend, because if you don’t know anything about Mahjong it will be completely incomprehensible. Or if you do know anything about Mahjong, you’ve already read it and didn’t need me to recommend it to you. Akagi is peak, but only for a very specific niche audience.

Kaiji is the one I can recommend. Kaiji gets conned by shady loan sharks and forced to gamble his way out of crippling debt, playing all kinds of bizarre games with high stakes. It’s the same style of intense psychological warfare, but, like, accessible to the average reader.

He’s written a lot of other great stuff, and most of it is more Mahjong, but those are the big two from him.

This is cartoonishly obvious bait.

That would depend on how long they’ve been studying the language for, and their goals/needs in language learning. Someone who needed to learn English and pass formal tests for the sake of employment or immigration will eventually reach that level, but someone who either hasn’t been studying that long or doesn’t consider it a critical priority because they’re just browsing English websites and media for fun might not.

No, I can’t say I’ve regularly seen that as a problem, at least not any moreso than other online spaces.

Communication is a two-way street. If one person fails to understand what you’re trying to say, that may be their fault. But if nobody seems to understand what you’re trying to say, if this is happening to you regularly enough that you have to ask this kind of question, maybe you’re not being clear enough.

As others have pointed out, text cannot carry tone, facial expressions, or other nuances that can picked up on with in-person conversations. When communicating through text, it’s important to keep that in mind and work within the limitations of text in order to be clear. Communicating effectively is a skill that takes effort to improve at.

Full disclosure that I do not know you and I don’t want to accuse you of anything, but this sounds like the kind of question that has a story behind it. If you do feel like this is a frequent problem for you, I think you should try to look inward.