So it's PUBG for a younger, less skilled, audience with no vehicles, no customization, and free. If it weren't for that last thing this game would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. Also is Dan racist to games lol He said "doesn't like what certain games look like because of where they came from" what?!
Dan isn't racist, he's referring to how PUBG looks and runs like DAYZ because it is literally a mod of that game.
If you think PUBG runs like DayZ then please go back and play it instead of making statements that look ludicrous to those of us that have played both...
PUBG looks like the pinnacle of game design compared to DayZ.
The different ways of reading kanji don't bother me now, if you keep on top of learning vocabulary you get used to it. It helps a lot to see them every day all around you as well. I don't like interacting that much with a lot of my fellow foreigners here because most of them don't even try to learn Japanese and they just wanna live in an English bubble.
It certainly something you get used to, and definitely becomes a non-issue over time, but I found the jump from the Latin alphabet or kana to be enormous. Going from less a hundred characters that you know _roughly_ how to read even if you don't know what it means (e.g. most Western languages, Japanese if you were to remove kanji) to a few thousand where you might not even have a clue (or might have learnt a different reading first - 中 still trips me up because I learnt it in names before actually trying to learn Japanese properly, so always want to read it as "Naka" first, regardless of context) is a fairly substantial difference, or at least it was for me.
This is why I didn't learn kanji singularly and instead just learned vocabulary, over time you pick up those additional readings (and names) naturally instead of slaving away learning 4 readings per kanji etc etc.
@vinny: If you want something that appears to make no sense[1], you should try learning Japanese. Not only are there about 2000 kanji in common use, there are at least two ways to read the majority of them.
For instance, 一 is the character for "one"; you will almost certainly learn to read it as "ichi". 人 is the character for person; you'll probably read it as "nin" or "jin".
Taken together, 一人 means "one person" (or "alone", depending on the context). So far so sensible. How do you read that combination though? "Hitori"...
This is further not helped by the fact that 一人 can also be a given name, at which point it is read as "Kazuto" OR "Kazuhito".
Learning to _speak_ Japanese isn't all that bad, but I've found trying to learn to read (which already feels a little odd in some ways) to be an absolute nightmare.
[1] There _is_ a logic to it, but not one that makes it easier to learn IMO.
Logic doesn't apply to languages, you just get used to them.
The different ways of reading kanji don't bother me now, if you keep on top of learning vocabulary you get used to it. It helps a lot to see them every day all around you as well. I don't like interacting that much with a lot of my fellow foreigners here because most of them don't even try to learn Japanese and they just wanna live in an English bubble.
Abby's comments about Android are kinda ignorant...
People are very ignorant of Android in general. They had one bad experience on a budget handset 5 years ago and think that's Android, or they're just unable to comprehend that good non-Apple smartphones exist.
iPhones are still seen as a sign of the rich and elite, at least in America.
I don't think that has been true for quite some time, the iPhone C (or whatever it was) undid a lot of that imo.
Apple have definitely dropped the ball, they used to have such a design advantage over Android phones but now they often look outdated in comparison. The iPhone X is super ugly with that stupid black bar at the top.
I have a 6.4" phone which gets a lot more attention than whatever the latest iPhone is. I know, I'm a crazy person. Love this big ass screen though!
Just started playing this and I am completely miffed as to why people are saying this is a hard game, I can take plenty of bullets on the medium difficulty but in podcasts on this site, and many others, people make it out to be some obscenely unfair and difficult default mode.
Great video but not even giving first person mode a try is a bit weird. Their (Jeff’s) animosity to it is very strange. It’s great! No bullshit camera peaking. Hats off to Vinny for suggesting it though; Jeff’s dismissal of it clearly shows he hasn’t given it a proper go.
As soon as I tried first person, I haven’t looked back (with camera peaking).
Yeah it's bizarre. PUBG in third person is a cheap mess, it totally promotes camping and you'll often find yourself stuck behind a corner as you and another guy fight not with guns, but with fucking camera angles.
This always happens and isn't really evidence of anything to be honest.
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None of this shows cryptocurrency as a bubble as the money keeps flooding back into the market, sometimes almost immediately. The amount of growth since the Bitcoin fork back in July is insane.
It's not evidence in itself that Bitcoin is a bubble, but if you are budgeting capital costs over the course of a year (which was my example), the fact that 30% swings can and do happen, and fairly often, makes that a risky proposition - there's no guarantee of recovery.
However, the fact that a stock can jump by 300% on little more than a name change (it's a pivot into a wholly unconnected business area with no solid plans) is a pretty strong suggestion that the market is currently somewhat irrational.
I would imagine that when cryptocurrency becomes a bigger market (still worth less than Microsoft for all of them) the percent changes will be much smaller overall. There is certainly no rationale behind a lot of it, like how dead projects such as Ethereum Classic still being one of the biggest cryptocurrencies.
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