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For Japanese, the core 2k/6k deck I have is really good. Has examples sentences, audio (for both word and sentence), and pretty well formatted furigana. I believe it's the one linked here: https://djtguide.neocities.org/anki

And not quite Anki, but I've been trying JPDB and it seems pretty cool. Combines Kanji/Kanji parts learning with vocabulary, and includes pre-made decks with vocab from various media. But the cool part is the decks combine - so once you've learned a word as part of one deck, you don't review the same card in a different deck (at least I think that's the idea? Still trying it.)

On Desktop Enhancer for Youtube has this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/ Though I thought Firefox had Picture-in-picture as a browser feature... I can't remember since I never use(d) it.

But clearly you're asking about mobile. No idea if this or any other extension is supported there.

This guy's English class videos are great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXW3Xk_cLag

They're all the same, but I smile every time.

It is really cool! I expected to it to enjoy seeing the machinery in both main parts come together, but I did not expect the surprise 1-2 cameo inside the console.

I just built the NES/CRT set. It was about 2600 pieces - not very big compared to a lot of the serious sets I'm sure. But the only real one I've done.

Definitely would do it again! It was very relaxing to take a few minutes out of each day and go through a bag of legos and instructions. I was kinda sad when it finished - the end product is cool, but the fun was really in putting it together and slowly watching it turn into a thing. I mean, I'd enjoy doing it again, but I don't expect or plan to for any reason.

Right, I don't even know how you would cheat it. Down at this point, I guess I'm just lamenting that more games aren't able to keep healthy communities after dev support ends.

Wasn't Rising Thunder the one that at least handled part of shutdown right by semi-open sourcing?

But yeah, it's all part of a wider problem. Personally I don't want an invasive devloper over-tuning fighting games all the time, and I don't want any microtransactions. But unless you keep dangling new shiny, very few players will stick with a given game, making it hard to find matches on-demand.

So bizarre to me that a game has to be a runaway hit to even remain accessible for any length of time.

Stopping updates I get (and good, most game updates are annoying), but shutting down servers completely and especially delisting it seem so over the top.

TWSBI has been good, in my experience, for fountain pens. But I haven't tried many different brands, just a handful.

Sorry! Just wanted to say why people might, in case you were actually asking. 😅

I went on an international trip last year, to a Spanish speaking country. Felt incredibly good to be able to actually communicate with people who do not speak English! I didn't think I really could, as hard as it is to understand natural-speed speech. Turns out conversation w/ patient native speakers is much easier than just listening.

This year, I'm getting back into Japanese more. Caught up on my Anki and SRS stuff, getting back into the habit of watching videos, and starting to dig into the 2nd volume of the textbook.

I'd say it's going well!

I upvoted the post, but the caps and mulitple exclamation marks tempted me not too. Feels a little overbearing.

But overall, I guess I'm more glad to see the excitement than I am annoyed by the yelling.