[–] 8 points 5 days ago (1 child)

No joke, I’ve never heard about the back of mouth / tongue portion before and just from a couple minutes of testing low notes with that I got a single time I’d almost charitably consider a whistle. Seriously thank you for the detailed information on what’s happening inside too!

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    I’ve never been able to whistle even after multiple learning tries over the years. I like to think that if I could, I’d probably be whistling a lot as I always have a tune stuck in my head.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago

    The work they’re getting out of almost 50 year old hardware blows me away. While they obviously had burlier tech, these launched when the Atari 2600 was the peak of home computing

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    It’s been on my ‘one of those days’ list for years now, and with Resonance out, they ran a $6 Steam sale for the original which put it in the impulse buy category. Fast forward a week and I’m out of town for work with some hotel time to kill so hooked my Steamdeck up to the TV and gave it a go and wow… I see what the hype is about.

    Any non spoiler tips, tricks, or things I should be on the lookout for?

     

    I'm really digging it so far. The changes to mission structure made for an exciting game where we were working toward very different objectives but still butting up against each other. My buddy's Dark Angels got an early lead and looked like he was going to walk away with it for a while, but he eventually just ran out of stuff and I was able to pull a win in the fifth turn.

     

    I traveled to Japan for a few weeks last year and had grand plans to learn a bunch of phrases, but got lazy and punked out. I still had a great time, everyone was super kind, but it was embarrassing how well so many folks spoke English and I couldn’t even be assed to put in a bit of work.

    My wife is half Mexican and we’re in California, and she gets a lot of people initially talking to her in Spanish, which she can’t speak beyond an ordering food level, and would like to change that.

    What’s the best way for us both to get to a beginning conversational level in Spanish? I tried Duolingo a while ago and it was eh, and I’ve heard it’s all AI these days. Any other recommendations?

     

    2025 was a real kick in the butt so I just didn't have as much time for games, plus I've been playing more 40k in general which I always waffle on if I should include in here or not.

    My group's made some good progress on Frosthaven and we're hoping to actually complete it next year, and another group and I finished Clank 2 (and also finished Clank Legacy 1 finally! But it doesn't show on here because my wife and I had a single game left, but the couple we play with moved so it took over a year to get that last game in).

    We also went to Japan this year, which ruled, and Let's Go To Japan has been a blast to play post that trip.

    What have you all been playing this year???

     

    My seven year old niece and her friends all decided their group hangs are officially now the 'Cherry Mochi Club' and all future hangs are club business, so I made these membership cards and will be giving them to her at Christmas to hand out to her friends. Took a lot longer than I had anticipated to create but learned some cool new things in Tinkercad while creating them.

    A small stack of 3d printed cards, with the text Cherry Mochi Club on each of them, along with a styalized cherry, cherry blossom branch, and a piece of mochi with a smiling face on it.
     

    My seven year old niece and her friends all decided their group hangs are officially now the 'Cherry Mochi Club' and all future hangs are club business, so I made these membership cards and will be giving them to her at Christmas to hand out to her friends. Took a lot longer than I had anticipated to create but learned some cool new things in Tinkercad while creating them.

    A small stack of 3d printed cards, with the text Cherry Mochi Club on each of them, along with a styalized cherry, cherry blossom branch, and a piece of mochi with a smiling face on it.
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