yumcake

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[–] yumcake 3 points 1 year ago

Really looking forward to the debuts, especially if the twins are the reincarnation that people suspect. Those girls were really hardworking successful streamers with minimal outside support, they just needed more exposure, glad their hard work has paid off with induction into holopro!

[–] yumcake 10 points 1 year ago

+1 Casiopea is incredible.

[–] yumcake 1 points 1 year ago

Exciting! The timing for a Gen3 is perfect. Someone floated the possibility of a mixed gender generation like the last 2 nijiEN generations. That'd be unlikely, but very cool if it happened.

[–] yumcake 136 points 2 years ago (26 children)

That's pretty dubious, otherwise why would I get all these replies from 3-7 years ago? Not new replies on dead threads, but the replies were posted that long ago, and I'm being notified about them now as "new" comments. Seems a lot like deleted posts coming back.

[–] yumcake 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm, may also possible that vendor/carrier versions of the app carry more ads. This would nevertheless still be an android problem because I don't think Apple allows other companies to do that with their apps.

[–] yumcake 3 points 2 years ago

Looks like Giulia hoot or her sister Elissa

[–] yumcake 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's possible the company itself needed to cut costs, maybe because they screwed up their budgeting. It's not necessarily because of anything you did.

[–] yumcake 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It looks bad, but try replicating it.

When I search two dots, I find exactly the matching app, with screenshot previews and details about it. I get only 1/4 of the screen as ad suggestions. The rest of the screen is related suggestions (non-ad suggestions). So about 3/4 is non-ads for me vs. 1/8th from the OP screenshot.

If I search something more generic like "card battle games", I get a listing of about 7 games, with tags, and zero ads.

I think what's shown in the OP is what remains after the user has already read the details and approved installing the app. Considering that this is the end of the user story, what else should be on that page?

Or maybe he's got a different version of play store than me from A/B testing? Anyway, try it out yourself. I don't have a problem with too many ads on playstore, my main issue is more that the good apps go to apple store first and only sometimes port to android because apple users are more lucrative.

[–] yumcake 12 points 2 years ago

Hm, can you elaborate further? I don't think you've supported in your point in that you say that AI art can achieve the same subjective outcome of invoking emotion and getting a person to think, but you concluded that it's not the same.

I feel like there's a finer point you want to make but haven't gotten across yet.

[–] yumcake 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I have that too! 20 minutes to dawn leans much harder into the bullethell genre and less about the skinnerbox progression aspect of vampire survivors. It's much more challenging with fewer ways to make successive runs easier. I should get back into that one since a lot of updates were probably made. Back then it felt like the starting pistol and character as stronger than all the unlocked weapons and characters.

[–] yumcake 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I have been absolutely hooked on this game. I loved Vampire survivors and Holocure and this was a great blend of those games with a diablo aesthetic.

The part that makes it so good is the sharply tuned enemy design to feed you levels steadily with interesting enemy movement patterns to dodge. Well done! Has such a good balance of challenge and progression.

[–] yumcake 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the simplistic "Just be yourself" advice doesn't take into account the "If you don't love me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" type of attitude.

It also bypasses the fact that "yourself" is such a fuzzy concept anyway. So because I'm bad at public speaking, that shouldn't mean I should "be myself" and avoid it. I should merely be aware of my current limitations. That was an accurate way to describe myself in the past, but instead of accepting it, I worked on it, forced myself into a job that requires it, and now I'm pretty good at it.

I think almost everyone can look back 10 years ago and think of some way they ended up changing. So with that being the case, who knows who we'll be 10 years into the future? No need to anchor too hard on who we think we are right now, it's valuable to also give consideration to the kind of person we want to be in the future and take action towards becoming that person.

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