It's probably hard to have a blog that keeps getting a lot of views. I think you should re-read your post "1 year of blogging" and think about why you are blogging, what upsides there are etc. - no matter if you have tons of readers or not.
>SYNOPSIS: In Japan an estimated 30,000 people per year die alone in their homes in a growing social crisis known as ‘Lonely Death’. Specialist ‘Lonely Death' cleaner Masuda started his business 15 years ago after finding an elderly neighbour dead in her apartment. Masuda's young female assistant Miyu, is motivated by the lonely death of her alcoholic father. Together, they tackle the grim aftermath of two shocking cases. In Yokohama, a wealthy middle aged man dies alone but his relatives are unwilling to come to the apartment to collect his possessions. In Ibaraki, a man in his 60’s has been dead for two months before his neighbour raises the alarm after her apartment becomes infested with maggots and flies. The man was unable to pay his bills and had all his amenities cut off. Miyu discovers he has been defecating into buckets for five years because he has no running water. The man’s brother turns up to collect his possessions and Miyu learns how and why the siblings lost contact.
Not really. It's hard to even discuss or debate with people who have a strong opinion on things. Nobody wants to be told they're wrong, or proven wrong.
But onlookers who "are on the fence" on issues such as these, might get a seed planted in their mind. And hopefully seeing "fragile males" outraged on youtube does that as well.
I used to love Postbox until the latest 6th version.
Sure, they've - allegedly - made it run faster but they've also removed extension support, blocked any ways to hack in a calendar (which could previously be done by adding a permanent browser tab pointing to Google Calendar) and seriously hurt legibility with its new design by removing dividing lines, decreasing contrast across the board and giving all the icons a bright random colour.
Searching in postbox is absolutely horrible. It will regularly not find the emails i am searching for and i have to go through all emails one-by-one.
Last example of today: Filtering emails whether they have an attachment. A mail with attachments i was searching for was not included in the selection.
> "Here are some things that you can’t do with a Kindle. You can’t turn down a corner, tuck a flap in a chapter, crack a spine (brutal, but sometimes pleasurable) or flick the pages to see how far you have come and how far you have to go. You can’t remember something potent and find it again with reference to where it appeared on a right- or left-hand page. You often can’t remember much at all."
I don't care about creating dog-ears or cracking spines. Really, who does?
On my kindle I'm able to highlight passages and/or make notes (which are saved to my amazon account) and I can look them up later. I can create multiple bookmarks. Some books have support for the "X-ray" feature, a reference tool, in which there might be entries on such things as characters, locations and so on.
I'm able to highlight words and look them up on wikipedia or the oxford dictionary. Very useful.
I'm able to "flick" pages back and forth and easily return to wherever I started out.
> "You can’t tell whether the end is really the end, or whether the end equals 93% followed by 7% of index and/or questions for book clubs."
I guess, not that it's a real issue for me.
And maybe best of all... I'm not dealing with mountains of books taking up space in my home anymore.
> > "You can’t tell whether the end is really the end, or whether the end equals 93% followed by 7% of index and/or questions for book clubs."
> I guess, not that it's a real issue for me.
Agreed, but also, is that really not a problem with physical books? Lots of them have backmatter with preview chapters, indices, and "questions for bookclubs".
It's much easier with a real book to flip back from the end until you find the real ending, then estimate your progress based on thickness from there. This can be done with e-books, but it's not a use-case that the developers have really worked with, so its cumbersome.
As a Kindle owner of many years (I've owned 4 or 5), I have too much reverence for books to create dog-ears or cracking their spines. Sacrilege. I can't even throw away shitty books I don't like, because it feels so wrong.
I could care less about the percentage, however my Kindle Paperwhite tells me how much longer it will take for me to read the rest of the chapter. So I find that very helpful, easier that just flippin ahead on a physical book.
Jumping ahead a little:
The Sim City 4 community is one of the better ones I've ever seen. 13 years after the release, and people are still releasing high quality mods and custom buildings. The community has kept the game alive for all these years, and made the SC4 experience many times better.
I am a fan of city games and tried to mod SC4 with official sanction of EA (more on that later).
Currently I like SC4 much more than C:S, for two reasons:
1. When properly fixed, SC4 is a much better simulator and challenging game than C:S
2. I like SC4 graphics more too, C:S graphics resemble cities that I never saw in my country, they are too bright, spacious, saturated and "happy" and "calm", it is nothing like São Paulo for example, so C:S to me is too uncanny-valleyish, too "Alien" to me.
Still, sometimes I wonder if I should go ahead and make the SC4 successor I want, I was trying to fix SC4 to make it run properly on new computers and finish some features, but it required stuff that go against the EULA, so I asked EA about it (the asking part took months... very hard to ask EA!), and when they finally replied it was along the lines: "Oh, yes, X, Y, and Z are broken, X is driver's fault, we will work with hardware makers, Y is serious, we will THINK about fixing it." then no mention of Z, or much less "W" that I told them about.
I understand their position, and think the open-sourcing of EASTL in a way was a great step, still I feel very disappointed they miss the mark about such stuff.
>I like SC4 graphics more too, C:S graphics resemble cities that I never saw in my country, they are too bright, spacious, saturated and "happy" and "calm", it is nothing like São Paulo for example, so C:S to me is too uncanny-valleyish, too "Alien" to me.
I really like the SC4 graphics too, looks much more realistic. Guess it's easier when you just got 4 angles at various zoom levels to handle.
Don't you think much of the problem with CS can be solved with custom content? We got color mods, and there are buildings being created without the cartoonish art direction of the default content.
>Still, sometimes I wonder if I should go ahead and make the SC4 successor I want, I was trying to fix SC4 to make it run properly on new computers and finish some features, but it required stuff that go against the EULA, so I asked EA about it (the asking part took months... very hard to ask EA!), and when they finally replied it was along the lines: "Oh, yes, X, Y, and Z are broken, X is driver's fault, we will work with hardware makers, Y is serious, we will THINK about fixing it." then no mention of Z, or much less "W" that I told them about.
I understand their position, and think the open-sourcing of EASTL in a way was a great step, still I feel very disappointed they miss the mark about such stuff.
Oh man, when was this?
I've longed for an SC4 like game without grids. That'd be sweet.
>> When properly fixed, SC4 is a much better simulator and challenging game than C:S
Can you elaborate on what it means to be proper fixed? I still occasionally play SC4 but aren't involved enough to know what the quick wins are to mod it for modern play. Appreciate the feedback :-)
Cities Skylines is great, and the community is too. I feel that CS is the game many fans wanted Sim City (5) to be.
CS in itself is a better game, but the SC4 custom content scene is still superior making it a better city designing experience (only simulation worth caring about in SC4 is modded traffic imho...).
CS is very moddable, has an active community releasing custom content using the steam workshop, making it very accessible. Oh, the time I've spent trying to browse early-internet-looking japanese websites to download awesome custom buildings and their dependencies.
But just give it some time and we'll have at least as awesome custom content for CS as for SC4. As I see it, Colossal Order are the new masters of city building games.
Not who you replied to, but still an avid fan of both games.
C:S feels a little shallow compared SC4 at times. It's not very challenging at all, but the draw to SC-like games has always been the creating, not the challenge. I usually use the unlimited money mod to just build my city how I please. In terms of mods and stuff, I actually think C:S is the clear winner. If not for the large variety of mods, maps, buildings, etc. then for the centralized location of them. While there are a few "one stop shops" for SC4 mods, they're not nearly as effortless to use as the Steam workshop is.
My biggest issue with C:S is how half-assed the DLC seems to be. A night mode is neat, but when it's next to impossible to build during it and the simulation effects of that night mode are non-existent, you're left wondering why the hell you paid money for it. The DLC opens a few new possibilities to modders, but I don't like that the burden for interesting things is put solely on the modding community.
Having changed layout when I started learning Russian (since russian keyboard has letters in different places than their phonetic latin counterparts) I think it's just matter of how you learn. I had problems too, until I started learning by typing the same sentences that I used to learn Russian alphabet, which introduce letters in small batches of 3 or 4. After few weeks I was able to comfortably switch between both layouts every few sentences.
That's the main issue. I switched to Dvorak a year ago and it's been great, but being on other machines is difficult. The most egregious issue I've seen is a colleague who took the GRE and was forced relearn QWERTY. The best writer I've ever met score lower on that portion of the test due to keyboard layout.
That said, I'm happy I switched. Keyboard shortcuts in design applications took longer to mentally remap than the layout itself for daily typing. There are trade-offs (as with everything).
Nice, this is something that has been driving me mad. Always liked how bandcamp or soundcloud kept playing the music in the background while browsing. Not the exact same, but seeing as how YT requires the videos to always be visible when played I guess it's as good as it can get.
