Maybe it's because my experience with it goes well back into the print era, but very little of it is actual fact-finding capital "J" journalism, and even that part has only come on in the industry more recently. I've always put the games press in its proper buckets of "previews for access" and then game criticism. Quality for both varies, but I'm rarely disappointed when I stick to a publication I like (until the inevitable EIC churn, anyway).
Ashtear
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If I had the money I'd definitely do the same, but for now I do RSS instead of link aggregator communities if I'm being serious about it. Takes some curation, but at the very least it's not being run through a vote algorithm first.
Ugh, the only thing I hate more than a few people I regularly talk with still using Messenger is having to deal with the desktop client. Now this 🙄
I moved to a web browser but I can't even get push notifications working.
More iteration on the combat would be good; Limit Breaks not being missable is my #1 request. I really did not like the combat in Remake and I was glad that they smoothed out a lot of the rough edges for me in Rebirth.
The soundtrack for Rebirth was an all-timer, too, so it'd be great if they kept that energy going.
Not even just party upgrades, but fun stuff from the original that gets gated by side content, too. I'm a huge fan of blue magic in general, which meant I had to do a lot of the maps to get my Enemy Skills. Even someone like me that enjoyed the open world and the side content was very, very done with it by the last two regions.
Yeah, I've heard the same. It'd be nice to have the option, at the least. I figure in the end it'll mostly be a freelancing certification, but eh, life's weird. I could end up back in Osaka for all I know.
Thanks!
I'm working on starting a new career, so I'm chaining my work productivity sprints with the first two language learning sprints especially. Had some major setbacks, so my career motivation has been in the toilet. I'll typically do either the third sprint or minor tasks (responding to emails, office/home cleaning) before lunch and get back to it after the break.
I don't know why, but something really clicked for me with Japanese in December, and it's been enough to prop up the other stuff. Even though it was less structured last year, over the past couple months with solid structure I really feel like I've actually learned how to work at home. It's been different!
The game does some seriously raw stuff with failed relationships that I still haven't entirely recovered from. I still strongly recommend it, though.
Lately I've been considering a replay as a liberal just to see all the internal commentary on it.
Hey! Just joined. Don't know why it never occurred to me to join a general language learning community here.
Last week I started a new plan I developed for my Japanese study, structured by pomodoro sprints. The daily workload currently looks like:
- 2 sprints: Anki for vocab and grammar flashcards, move to Tobira textbook study with remaining time
- 1 sprint: Tobira
- 1 sprint: dedicated listening practice, which is currently podcasts with transcripts
- 1 sprint: no-dictionary reading practice, currently with a graded reader
- 1 hour on Saturdays: あつまれ 動物の森 (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
I don't always get to the reading sprint, which is fine since my listening is so far behind my reading anyway. Other than that, it's been going great! I really started to focus on my studies last December and have seen a lot of progress. Almost up to 3,000 mature vocab and grammar cards.
I've also set a goal to sit for the JLPT N2 exam in December 2026. Probably ambitious in terms of actually passing it by that time, but the testing site is local at least. I figure it's worth the investment and the experience anyway.
I get the feeling the people at Aftermath are just hungry to poke the bear. I imagine it'll eventually catch up to them, but hey, more power to them for now.