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24 days ago+1 for Mata-Ratos, probably my favourite punk band from Portugal.
I’ll also add:
And even though they’re not punk, you might also like Mão Morta.
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14·4 months agoExcept the ones who are dead 💀
1·6 months agoIceraven, which is a fork of Fennec. Seems to have a nice compromise between privacy and usability and also tries to support more add-ons than the ones Fennec does.
3·8 months agoIt’s not an RPG but how about Lollipop Chainsaw?
It has hordes of enemies you can slaughter (which provides a certain kind of relaxation, to be fair) as a pretty girl who possibly looks like you maybe, and you can see boobs.
I never actually played the game (although I’m interested in playing it) but it was the first thing that popped into my mind.
2·9 months agoI think Brazilians have a hard time understanding European Portuguese mostly due to the closed vowels and how fast we speak. There are also some words that are different like banheiro instead of casa de banho, or ônibus instead of autocarro , or even suco instead of sumo, but I think mostly everyone will understand what you mean, especially in more urban areas like Lisbon and its surrounding area. I reckon Porto and Braga too.
Although I had a hard time understanding what the hell meia meant when you mention it in the middle of giving out your phone number or that jogo da velha is the Brazilian Portuguese equivalent to cardinal or hashtag.
Anyway, I like to think it’s a softer version of an American going to the UK. You’ll probably going to do just fine in more urban areas, and will have a bit more trouble in rural areas. I’m guessing you’re visiting the country. If so, I don’t think it warrants studying European Portuguese.
As for the attitude, yes we can be condescending towards Brazilians, unfortunately. I’m Portuguese so take this with a grain of salt, but it tends to happen more with people from around 40 years old and up and less with younger people, in my experience.
13·9 months agoJust wanted to add a couple of things: the game is Street Fighter 3rd Strike, where you can die due to chip damage. What this means is that even if you block special moves (like Justin’s Chun-li did) they still do damage, the aforementioned chip damage.
So Daigo Umehara, the Ken player, had no option other than parry or he would lose the game and Justin Wong, the Chun-li player, would advance to grand finals. Parrying in 3rd Strike is done by inputting forward as opposed to blocking which is done by inputting back. More specifically you have to press forward in a 10 frame window. Since 60 frames equal a second, you have a window of 1/6th of a second to input it and you also cannot hold forward, otherwise you won’t be able to use parry for the next 23 frames.
So if Daigo had held forward to parry the remaining hits of Chun-li’s attack, he’d die from chip damage (I think). What he did instead was manually parrying every single hit of the attack AND he also parried the attack in the air, which is even harder to do because in the air the frame window is halved (so you have a 5 frame window, or 0,5/6th of a second if my math doesn’t fail me), which doubles the difficulty.
And just to add to this: Daigo had actually done it in a match before but it wasn’t recorded. Also, the number 37 was chosen at random to make it seem as if there were a lot more hype moments like this. Also also Justin Wong, aside from being one of the best fighting game players of all time, has always been (as far as I know) a cool sport about this, even encouraging people online to do the Daigo parry whenever he plays 3rd Strike just so players (the ones who know how to do it at least) can sort of be a Daigo for a moment.
If you want to know more, I suggest this video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36m-teYaQmE
P.S.: Daigo would go on to lose in the grand finals. But nobody cares about that, to be honest. I don’t even know who won it.
One of the most iconic moments in video game history.
4·9 months agoOkay, what’s the biggest and most active gamer community on Matrix?
As far as I know, https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/ . I’m sure it’s not as active as whatever Discord communities you’re in but it’s fairly active and actually friendly.
I’ll also add Naked City and a lot of other stuff John Zorn is involved in.
I mostly play fighting games nowadays and I think people can learn a lot about mental self-improvement by playing them online. Namely:
- The main one for me: how to accept losses and learn from them. Losing/making mistakes is not the end of the world but an opportunity to learn from, grow and get better. Losing gives you experience if only on what not to do in a given situation
- Not expecting short-term improvement and that you’ll get better at something overnight. Be patient, understand and accept that on some days you’ll be at the top of your game and on others you can’t even think straight. Think in medium-to-long term
- Sometimes losing/making a lot of mistakes will get you mad. And that’s okay. Take a breather if you can.
- Not comparing yourself to others and let yourself get discouraged. Everyone has their own rhythm. Maybe you’ll need to work harder than others on some things. But that’s just how it is sometimes. Keep at it and you’ll eventually see improvements.
Because I always wanted to have my own theme song.
But really, I browsed through my music collection by alphabetical order and it sounded cool. Blue Öyster Cult always delivers, even with the title of their songs.
No phone apps that I know of for Koha. I think it works fine on any mobile browser, though. If you know HTML, CSS, or even JavaScript you can do a ton of cool stuff on your library’s catalogue. As for FOLIO, no idea, but I don’t think any exist.
There is VideLibri but it doesn’t add any functionality you don’t already have when accessing the online catalogue of any library on your browser, so I don’t think it’s worth it. Something like the Web Opac App, which let’s you browse a ton of libraries’ catalogues in one app would be a more interesting solution. Unfortunately, it’s stopped being maintained a while ago and went closed-source, from what I can gather.
Hi! In the library I work, we use Koha, which is probably the most well-known open-source library management system. This comes with the advantage of having a big community and having a lot of answers to questions you’ll probably have, albeit the documentation is kind of all over the place. Just a heads-up, though: it only runs on Linux so, whoever is going to do the implementation must familiarize themselves with it if they haven’t done so already. It’s not a flawless system by any means but as far as open-source goes, it’s the best and most mature.
There are a few demo servers you can try on their website: https://koha-community.org/demo/
The other open-source library management system I know of is FOLIO (their repo) but I haven’t tried it or read much about it. I only know it’s way younger than Koha (created 10 years ago, I think) and that EBSCO is one of its vendors. It may use newer technology but I honestly don’t know. You can also try a demo server if you go to their wiki.
Hope it helped. If you have any questions, let me know :).
Just saw it, thanks again!
That’s pretty cool of you! Do you still have keys for Moonscars and Cursed to Golf? I’m interested in playing them.
Before you start complaining about how “libraries don’t have books anymore!” The book stacks are still a 10-minute drive/bus ride away at the downtown branch. The books aren’t going anywhere. Libraries are more than just books. They are one of the few places the community can get all sorts of resources and a place to access them for free
There’s always interlibrary loans. I’m sure you can search for a book on the online catalogue and ask for it to be transferred from another branch.
Anyway, fantastic and very creative work. I wish I had a library like this near me growing up.
Sekiro. Friends tell me it’s one of the harder From Software games so I’m looking forward to die many times.
I’ve heard both, actually. Ornatos Violeta didn’t leave much of an impression, though. Maybe I’ll give them another listen sometime.
Comme Restus, on the other hand, are stupidly catchy. I know of them since I was a teen. Speaking of questionable lyrics, I gotta mention Kalashnikov. Lyrical content aside, there are some great riffs in there.