I think so. If you’re a human and you’re not a jerk, then interacting on a platform you want to see flourish is a good idea.

It might fail. Any given platform may fail despite many people’s efforts to make it work. But that’s not a good reason not to try.

Yep, and you can grab an extension like Enhancer for YouTube to get customized looping behavior too.

September 25, 2025

Not exactly games I guess, but https://neal.fun/ always has neat stuff. I think some of them are relatively recent.

There are lots of great things to do, but most important is to build a habit and keep working at it. Engage with the language every day, and work up to consuming content designed for native speakers.

Duolingo and similar apps are helpful, but don’t put all your eggs in that, or any single, basket. Also do Anki or some other flashcard thing. And at the very least a beginner textbook or grammar guide is good to have. Early on, mix time between textbook, apps, ‘comprehensible input’ videos. Work your way up to reading, and look for graded readers to get started.

(Also, as Duolingo gets worse, consider alternatives like Memrise and Mondly. Or even paid stuff like Busuu, Lingq, Pimsleur, Babbel, Rosetta Stone. Also, your local library may give access to Transparent Language or Mango. Although of course I can’t vouch for most of these personally.)

Another rec: check out [email protected] for a cool community. Good place to ask questions and get support.

There are probably a ton of cool learning resources specific to your target language. Look online for communities around it.

Yeah! Songs are a good addition to learning activities. You learn several words deeply, with great repetition, and it’s fun.

But I agree you need to be looking at lyrics and using a dictionary. It can be too easy to just listen to songs as music, and not get any language-learning out of it.

No. 1990 was, and will forever be, about 10 years ago.

I can see an argument for it. The Internet was widespread and accessible to common people, but governments and major corporations hadn’t really figured out how to completely abuse it yet.

But the real thing is probably that the peak of culture is probably based on whenever a person was between 5 and 25 years old. For most I think those were the good old days, no matter when they actually were.

Not clear to me exactly what they mean by ‘TV viewing’. Is this limiting YouTube numbers just to content like television shows and movies, or just when viewed on a streaming device like a stick or a smart TV?

Any way you slice it, feels very apples to oranges to me. My use cases for watching YouTube videos is such a different experience from sitting down and watching a show or a movie. At the end of the day, I guess it all competes for the same attention though /shrug

Super Metroid

A couple ideas:

One of the best things you can do to be active is walk/run/use cardio machines for long stretches of time. So,

• Get some wireless headphones and catch up on some podcasts, albums, or audiobooks you’ve wanted to check out.
• If you have a convenient way to set it up, you can try to get an excercise bike or treadmill in front of a TV screen, and watch or even game while you’re active
• Find some trails nearby. It’s more fun moving around if your focus is on sightseeing and exploration, instead of exercising

But also, gamification can be fun. Stuff like,

• Last time I did 3 sets of 12 reps of 100 lb, can I do more this time? Get an app and keep track, aim to increase either reps or weight when you can
• Last time I went a half mile in 20 minutes, can I do it faster this time?
• Yesterday I walked for 5 minutes, can I handle 6 today?
• Can I piece together a workout from some exercises that I don’t hate? One that gives me push/pull/legs? One that covers certain muscle groups? That planning can be kinda fun
• Likewise with diet, get a calorie counter app and try to eat with intention. Think of it like a strategy game for min/maxing numbers. Can I get a slight surplus? Deficit? Can I get xyz grams of protein a day, or stay below xyz grams of sugar?

I haven’t played in a number of years, but I’m pretty sure fan-made servers are still running for Phantasy Star Online.

I was playing the GameCube version online well over a decade after that console was dead. Blue Burst on PC is well supported too, I believe.

Crazy now to imagine a console game letting you input a DNS server and IP address for online play. But it did.

Fira Code is my answer as well! I’ll use others for some variety, but it’s the favorite I always go back to.

Yes, it’s fun and my brain can convince itself that it’s productive too. How can I work if I don’t have the perfect programming font?

Along the same lines as your link - I really enjoyed playing out this font tournament, and found a few new ones I like - https://www.codingfont.com/

I haven’t used it in a while, but I remember the experience being pretty good (dependent on your subs) when browsing ‘old’ mode, with ublock on to clean it up. Hopefully the former is still supported and the latter is still not prevented.

Vim has that same kind of tutorial, that you can access right within the application. Such a nice feature.

I didn’t know that about Inkscape, now I really want to try that one.

Main thing for me is separate tab management so I don’t have to keep them in my browser. But the app also has preview-on-click and a handy navigation bar.

It’s open source on F-Droid, doesn’t require login or have any ads - and in cases like that I prefer an app over mobile site anyway.

• Anki - flashcard app. Handy to memorize things
• Wikipedia - lots of casual reading
• lichess - no compromise open-source chess app with online matchmaking, puzzles, and analysis tools
• Gauguin - sudoku-ish puzzle game
• AntennaPod - podcast app
• Satori Reader - Japanese short stories
• Waistline - calorie tracker
• Voyager - mobile Lemmy client that I actually miss when I’m on desktop

That looks useful.

I was gonna mention rtings as an alternative to this, then I saw them included, which is nice.

The one thing I miss in this tool is display lag. It’s basically included in the rtings score; but with all the other specific filters, that’s one I’d want up front.

Not to defend Nintendo much here, but the situation with game-key-cards is at least better than that. You can freely trade, give away, resell them like any physical cart.

It’s a step up from digital in terms of freedom, but a step down in convenience (cart has to be in the system).

Compared to real, physical, data-on-the-cart media though, these are a definite downgrade.