Lurker > MariaTaylor

yes, for calling someone a walnut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgoyMGh7MPI

I am watching Kiara play with sock puppets

She looks a lot different, especially lacking her core "identity" of having portals in her hair. But if she likes this design better then I can't really say much about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5-t9wQbMk

oh, hi yamada

I'm not familiar with them, but I guess if you name yourself something as basic as the number 8 there's a good chance someone else will have thought of the same name at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ckcpssIWg

this isn't anything new I'm just hachi postin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy9F7dIgYls

new yomi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZJighaftQA

new ririsya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKHHsNhBF8s

the double meaning of XXX on Marine's hat is genius

sasuga senchou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3sFpkDlXRU

extra medium Finana

notYugo unarchived stream

edit: singing stream, had around 40k viewers when I looked

yeah my legit first reaction is not 'what happened' but 'what happened this time'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SfoKgGj-kg

kyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXbtPFETFk

It feels like this was coming for a while, but then it also feels like the way it was done was EXTREMELY sudden. Sadly whatever happened must have been behind-the-scenes and we're never going to know the full truth from both sides.

I'm not gonna lie and do the weird thing where after someone is gone I pretend that I wish I had the chance to get super into them. Never watched Yugo streams or content very much, so this doesn't affect me all that much. Mostly I'm just curious to know what the heck warranted such a scorched earth style termination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZp-8LBrNgw

new hachi

Raka_Putra posted...

And other Duolingo user here? What do you think of the recent changes?

I haven't seen this yet but they have done complete overhaul in the past. the way they handle it usually really, really sucks. I remember when one of my courses was overhauled I lost progress toward a lot of my existing lessons even though many of them were simply reshuffled into other levels or combined/edited into new lessons that categorized things differently.

It did seem to somehow arbitrarily decide that I had already gained credit toward some things -- resulting in me randomly having completed lessons at inconsistent nodes throughout the first few levels -- but there were some nodes containing extremely basic information I had already mastered and didn't get credit before because they were now considered new lessons. also some of the lessons they had given me credit for completing seemed to have contained information that I had NOT actually learned yet, but had simply been combined with a lesson that I had previously finished.

short answer, the whole thing was a mess and almost caused me to drop the platform entirely.

if this overhaul is handled the same way I might not even bother with duolingo in the future. it's mostly only good as a memory aide to help with external (better) sources of learning anyway, and there exist alternatives in that market. although I wouldn't know the current best competitors I could likely find out with only a little research.

I think some of the early chapters are really fun but a little weak narratively. The middle and late chapters have some of the most epic moments. I don't know about favorite chapter(s) overall but these were some great scenes.

chapter 8 where bilbo goes on a rampage against the spiders in mirkwood, cementing himself as one of the most badass hobbits of all time. this is the point where 'gandalf saves everyone' stops being the solution to every problem, and bilbo takes over the gandalf role. which I would say is pretty impressive. there's even a section where he fights off a horde of spiders single-handedly while kili is focused on freeing the other dwarves, without using the ring, and only armed with a dagger. also in one particular passage he leaps into the spiders who are trying to drag bombur away and 'slays six spiders in an instant before any of them could react.' every single adaption of this scene that has ever been put to film has utterly failed to capture the spirit of what the chapter was really about. bilbo's surge of confidence causes him to display a level of agency, tenacity, and ability that earns him the respect of the dwarves for decades to come.

chapter 17 also has some great moments. I hate when people say 'Bilbo immediately gets knocked out with a stone' it makes me think they haven't actually read the book in a long time and are remembering what happened in the cartoon adaptation. first of all this chapter has some amazing paragraphs describing the battle in straightforward but impactful text. the first charge of the goblins, then the charge of the elves, then the charge of the dwarves become increasingly epic as the battle builds up to its conclusion. when the goblin reinforcements appear it creates a minor speed bump before Thorin and the other dwarves finally emerge from Erebor. it really gives you a sense of how 13 extra bodies appearing on the battlefield could actually turn the tides of a large scale battle because of how epic the moment is. The text explicitly states that Thorin's leadership gave courage not to just the dwarves or even the men, but even the elves were inspired by him and joined in his charge. Lastly, Bilbo spends a good portion of the battle along with the elves, helping to protect Thranduil. While the text doesn't explicitly say 'and then he cut down a goblin with his sword!' you can pretty much infer that he helped with the fighting. he was "protecting Thranduil" and not "standing around doing nothing while a battle raged around him." Bilbo does not get knocked down until the very end of the battle, when the fighting is pretty much over.

I believe Thorin's funeral is at the beginning of the next chapter. if that was at the end of chapter 17 then it would have been the best chapter. both of those scenes are extremely high quality.

AriaOfBolo posted...

I guess what you could do is turn off notifications and just track your own topics that you do want notifs for

that's a really good idea. I might try that in the future.

Dels posted...

wait, you get notifications when someone replies to a topic you made?

i guess i don't make topics lol so i didn't realize

i mean surely there's way to untag yourself

as far as I know you can turn it off universally but you can't turn it off for one specific topic

it can be a little annoying if you have say one main long-running topic you created that you care about, but then people keep bumping and replying to a different topic with unrelated off topic nonsense

Umbreon > Espeon >> Glaceon >> Leafeon > Flareon > Vaporeon > Jolteon >> Sylveon

I guess I don't dislike any of them, but I have no feelings toward Sylveon whatsoever. It's a strange eeveelution that was added to the game after I stopped forming strong attachments and memories toward Pokemon. This applies to Glaceon and Leafon to a lesser extent but they are hard carried by having very good designs. I didn't care about Eevee in RBY because all three forms felt underwhelming, but I grew strongly attached to Umbreon and Espeon when playing GSC. They have the biggest nostalgia boost as a result. Espeon was my "ace" the first time I beat the Elite Four in GSC, but Umbreon has taken first place in my mind.

bumping this topic because it amused me

Etrian Odyssey III - Their Own Brand of Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvBxglPNRI

Etrian Odyssey V - Ordeal of Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWIb__zYrzg

the plot is that movie studio executives would like to print some money, and they'll be counting on global audiences to help them

I can't fathom how anyone would believe that this movie is going to succeed, or even attempt, to do anything even mildly creative

a guy whose name is SSJSephirothGoku just wrote, in two sentences, what is 99% likely to be the plot of this movie.