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[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos... Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally. Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).

I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above). To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.

is it true that trans women like linux and are developers of open source??? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 10 months ago

If I can give my thoughts on what I've seen in research and linking various factors together.

  1. A not insignificant amount of neurodivergent people tend to pursue a career in IT (mainly people with ASD), these people can learn a lot through self study as it tends to align more with their personal interests, at some point through this they may become exposed to Linux and open source and subsequently choose to learn about that.
  2. Research has revealed a strong link between ASD and gender dysphoria. People diagnosed with ASD are ~4 times more likely to experience it.
  3. Even if you go through gender reassignment, you are still subject to the societal programming associated with your initial gender (which for boys tends to include videogames).

While these 3 facts on their own don't mean much, I can see how these come together to create an above-average amount of trans women in the IT and Linux spheres and this only gets amplified by stereotypes.

That said, this is mere speculation on my end based on the things I mentioned above, I am sure it plays a role; but I cannot be sure as to how significant that is in the grand scheme of things.

The Linux Experiment Channel (From Nick) is on Peertube, and it federates right into Lemmy as a community in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love how musk is trying to make X the everything app all on his centralized network, and here we are building a decentralized everything network with dozens of open platforms and good 3rd party clients outpacing whatever musk is trying to cook.

God-given airbags?! โ€‹:blobhyperthink:โ€‹ in c/animemes@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 11 months ago

Hi, it seems like you posted to Lemmy from mastodon, while this is perfectly possible there are a few things to keep in mind.

  1. The first line of your toot will be the title, this should be pure text and avoid things like links, emoji, and other text markup as Lemmy doesn't render those.
  2. Lemmy will only ever show the first image on a mastodon toot.
  3. Lemmy doesn't handle image alt text very well, this is not a huge issue and I expect this one to get resolved as time goes on.
venture capitalism goes brrr in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 11 months ago

I've been using Vendetta with a custom stylesheet for mobile which does the AMOLED theme much better than discord, haven't used the new app yet and I'm honestly contemplating whether I should get the old android native app running again.

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[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 11 months ago

Looks very interesting, love to see how well it works (and interoperates between different fediverse platforms)

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[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Tbh, I would not mind a proper chat standard built on activitypub, it's obvious that this protocol works, now if only somebody built a secure messaging platform with it.

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[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's because they rewrote the app from the ground up. They had a lot of issues getting the AMOLED theme to work because the base of the entire thing was written with the idea that there will only ever be 2 themes.

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[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 11 months ago

Yup, still mad about that one. Some day nobody will remember that the mobile app was somewhat responsive. I do know that there are projects that still allow you to use the old app; but I don't know how long the API for it will still be supported by discord.

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[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 11 months ago

Knowing how their desktop app works on Linux (or more specifically doesn't and requires you to mingle with it if you want any degree of Wayland awareness) it doesn't surprise me their app remake (because it's not just a redesign) is total garbage. I hope they get around to fixing the performance and bugs; but as things are right now I'm staying on Vendetta and refuse to update.

The Netherlands in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 53 points 1 year ago

Simple, they stand up on flat ground

Worse than single letters in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Length might have mattered in the 80s and 90s when IDEs were crap but we got autocomplete in pretty much all our text editors (even TUI ones like vim).

As for readability there is an argument to be had in specific contexts, but 9 out of 10 times it makes more sense to use a proper word.

Example:

let list = [1, 2, 3];
for i in list {
    println!("{}", i);
}

In this case using item in the place of i would be more fitting.

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[Ciel Sundays] Time for some more Curry, Itadakimasu (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

Artist: Ajita Ponzu (gelbooru)

Bit late with this one as I had quite a bit to do today, but I'll make sure that there aren't any leftovers.

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[Ciel Sundays] She needs a coffee (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

Source: unknown (tried saucenao and iqdb)

Wanted to do a bit of a semi-regular post and like any sane person I have a collection of artwork of anime girls (totaling 3.2GiB).

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boofie (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 
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Tips for extracting assets from Tsukihime, Plus Disc, and Kagetsu Tohya (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

disclaimer: while I've only fully extracted Tsukihime, both Plus Disc and Kagetsu Tohya are built with the same tooling so everything should still apply.

Before we start you should have some installation of Tsukihime (not the remake), we're only going to use a couple files from it; but these are the actual game contents. Addtionally you want to get AETools to actually extract the archives, the program isn't really maintained anymore; but neither is Tsukihime.

Audio

By default Tsukihime streams it's audio from the CD, if you have the japanese release or an ancient translation patch you'll have to rip the audio yourself or find a source online. The Mirror Moon translation includes a patch to the game that alters the way the game does music, you'll be able to just find the music in the CD folder or somewhere near the game's installation.

Game script

The game's script is found inside the nscript.dat file, this .dat archive contains a single file 0.txt. This file might not display well in all applications as it is SHIFT-JIS encoded, you should be able to save a copy of the file as UTF-8 using notepad; otherwise there exist various tools to do this for you.

NScripter's language is very primitive, but Tsukihime's script is pretty hefty so I would advise against dropping it in a heavy IDE. What is of note is that you have 2 types of sections: f-blocks dictate the flow of the script, if you are interested in all the choices the game makes you should look here, s-blocks contain the scenes, this is where the text lies alongside what graphics to show and what audio to play.

Assets

These are all the audio, backgrounds, character graphics and other tidbits the game uses, you'll find these in arc.sar. if you have arc.nsa and arc1.nsa they aren't too relevant (mostly copies of files found in arc.sar).

PS: if you have any notes on this please let me know. Additionally if you have knowledge/experience with the remake (or mahoyo HD) I would love to hear of anything you have.

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Who do you think is the best character of Tsukihime and why is it Ciel? (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

I know people will say I'm biased, but you can't spell biased without "I" and "based".

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What's the general consensus behind Ciel's remake design? (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

I like both designs quite a bit myself; but I feel like the remake one does a couple things that I don't like.

The original is a really good embodyment of the character and is able to do a lot with Takeuchi's more primitive art at the time, it manages to set her apart and highlight what her character is while not straying from what the rest of the VN is. That said it is obvious that like many other things og tsukihime that it is very much a diamond in the rough situation and that it does lack this aspect of polish.

The remake is able to address a lot of this by just 20 years of extra experience and in many ways is able to refine the overall design a fair bit; even if we have to put up with the sameface problem (even though Ciel suffers the least from this). My main gripe with the remake is her executioner outfit which goes from pretty badass but still rough to an immitation of Mash from Fate/Grand Order, while I do like a lot of the work put in the new outfit and all it does to try and improve; it goes from bland in comparison to the rest of the game to bland in comparison to the rest of the nasuverse. The big thing for me is the tattoos (or lack thereof), they worked as a really nice accentuation to her outfit and managed to make executioner Ciel a quite nice and detailed design especially in the original game; remake throws all of this out of the window for a more generic version of her outfit which would do well with the tattoos and early design documents show that they were considered and then later removed.

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Ciel appreciation thread (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

Title says it all.

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Where to start with Tsukihime (iusearchlinux.fyi)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/tsukihime@iusearchlinux.fyi
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TL;DR: start with the original here then move on to the rest, if you don't like visual novels then you can read the manga which has been translated on mangadex but that doesn't adapt anything from the far side routes. DO NOT START WITH SOME MYTHICAL TSUKIHIME ANIME, if you were to find it across timelines you can discuss how bad it is with our other fellow steiners (do people still get Steins; Gate references?)

Tsukihime is a work with a few adaptations and such, and knowing where to start may be a daunting task, this thread should help you get started. There are a few ways to get started and I'll be summarizing the main ones here.

Original Visual Novel

Pros:

  • You get to enjoy the full story

Cons:

  • Really old
  • Very Long (~40h on vndb)

This is the general recommendation if you're in it for the long run, the VN has quite a few rough edges; but if you can look past those it is the best way to enjoy the story, just know that it is basically a book with some PNGs and music. It runs perfectly fine on Windows and will run natively on Mac/Linux when using a native onscripter-en, additionally a web version has also been made for platforms where onscripter-en is not a sane option.

Remake

Pros:

  • Better art, music and story
  • Officially available

Cons:

  • Only on switch/PS4 (PS4 does not have an english translation)
  • Requires patch for english translation (switch only)
  • New timeline
  • Only the first 2 routes

I don't recommend starting here as there are many cons and the remake changes the story quite a bit and currently only the first 2 routes are available which is a small fraction of the game.

Update: An official English release for the first part is slated for 2024.

Manga

Pros:

  • Great art

Cons:

  • Only first route

The manga is a good starting point for if you are on the edge or unwilling to read either VN, it only covers the first route of the game and pull some elements from the second route later on.

Notes

  • For many Tsukihime goes from great to masterpiece in it's far side routes, these routes have not been adapted outside of the original VN
  • The far side routes will be in the remake as a separate game for which no release date has been provided yet
  • you can find more info on readtsukihi.me
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Welcome fellow vampire hunters (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 

News has it that Roa has reawakened; but the church has yet to ascertain his location, in order to aid our efforts in defeating him once and for all I have been tasked with creating an online place where we can collect evidence from all over the world instantaneously so we can finally beat that old fashioned self proclaimed princess to the punch.

This is a lemmy community focused on discussions about Type Moon's first visual novel: Tsukihime (lit: moon princess). I am not affiliated with the tsukihime subreddit; I'm just a random fan who wanted a place to discuss the series.

Most discussion here will likely be around the visual novel (original or remake), but related media is fine too (just like a certain cat), so discussions regarding plus disk, kagetsu tohya, or melty blood are also encouraged.

Fate, Kara no Kyoukai, Mahoutsukai no Yoru, DDD, and other nasuverse works should be discussed in their own community unless there is some tie back to tsukihime.

PS: Ciel best girl

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I know it doesn't apply to all devs; but it seems to be the general trend now (iusearchlinux.fyi)
 
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