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I'm a cat, I like toast.
Enjoy ramblings of toast and maybe bran flakes. Boyfriend is @KalTheDingo@meow.social
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Happy Fursuit Friday and Footpaw Friday :3
@jun@fursuits.online graciously let me lick his new paws :3
Photo with help from @KalTheDingo@meow.social
Happy Fursuit Friday! @jun@fursuits.online is easy to over expose :3
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Have a cheeky paw photo
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Finally met this yeen Algos when we're both in suit at the same time :3
If a post randomly does well on Bluesky, I have to spend ages blocking suspicious accounts.
If a post randomly does well on Mastodon, I end up finding interesting creatures to potentially follow.
It used to be harder to focus cameras (you couldn't) and adjust exposure for indoor shots (just hold down the shutter button in bulb mode for as long as feels right in your bones)
Happy #fursuitFriday
Another year another @jun@fursuits.online selfie
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Dogs don't know how to groom themselves so sometimes you have to help out.
Helping Andy :3
Hmmm I can't see much with these new glasses. But they are super soft :3
Dog is Ranger
Photo with help from @KalTheDingo@meow.social
Dogs are free, you can just take them.
Dog is Ranger Shep on other socials
Photo with help from @KalTheDingo@meow.social
Americans are funny to talk to, they always shyly ask me if Australia has like basic things that every country has.
And I proceed to not help by mixing in Simpsons jokes like we only got electricity 30 years ago.
I had a conversation last night with another furry learning Japanese (it seems like a rule, if you're a furry you'll try learning Japanese eventually lol) and he'd been studying a similar length of time to me, but he'd just been on Duolingo.
He still can't type any Japanese (he asked me how I was doing it) and used ohayo gozaimasu in the evening, which made me sad because he could've easily gotten so much further. I have definitely not been on the most efficient path either, but I'm very comfortable with kanji and I can watch anime for fun (with Jap subtitiles anyway)
I don't want to be discouraging, I want to fan the flames of other people's passion in language learning such that they succeed, but, if you're using Duolingo, there's better ways. You can't really learn a language in 15 minutes a day, and duolingo is a dopamine trap rather than a language course.
Sure, for languages closer to English, you might get enough to make a meaningful difference if you travel to a relevant location, but you could get so much further in those languages by spending the time you would've spent on duolingo by just doing anki flash cards for common non-cognates and some basic grammar rules and listening to beginner podcasts while you clean or something.
If you want to move beyond duolingo and don't know how feel free to poke me I can point at some resources and ramble about my own experiences if it's of value to anyone.
If you're happy just using duolingo for fun in itself and don't actually mind that it's so slow that's fine too, fun is mandatory.
Thank you Yapsfox for the lovely hand drawn badge you gifted me :3
Stuff like this kind of annoys me, at the very premise. at "one kanji a day" I'd still not not know half of the 2,136 jouyoukanji
And 2 minutes isn't enough, either. It took me about 15 minutes per kanji for initial familiarisation and reviews combined, for about 500 hours of kanji study all up.
But I was able to do that 500 hours in about 4 months, not SIX YEARS if you did it 1 kanji a day.
If you're reading this and you're intimidated by the numbers, you can save a lot of time using newer methods that emphasis learning kanji in context, it gives you a blurrier idea of the kanji but it's sufficient to get past the intimidation of it and carry on. The learning process takes time, and you'll be spending a lot more time learning words than kanji anyway so it's just a speed bump.
But if camera in image, how photo taken???
It's funny how long it can take sometimes to draw connections that are obvious in hindsight.
I learnt the word 詰まり from Brand New Animal to mean clogged or packed, when a character was told off for having a bath in animal form since it'd clog the drain.
Then I kept seeing つまり and found the definition of "in short, all in all" kinda meanings, and figured it was a totally separate word. It's actually the same word I just realised, lol. They're packing the idea down into something smaller, lol.
It's also still amusing how I'll learn something new and then see it EVERYWHERE and wonder how I could've possibly missed it for so long haha. I guess it's only through exposing yourself a lot to things in slightly different contexts do you arrive on the context that aids understanding enough to stick.
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There would be people in this photo, BUT THEY'RE BLOCKED BY THE MOON
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I can confidently zoom in more and say, there's a Canadian in this photo
Just encountered a young (21) furry who messaged me out of the blue, I try to give people a fair shake if they reach out to me.
Turned out they were studying linguistics and Japanese, both topics I have a casual amateur interest in, and then when I mentioned a book I hope to read in Japanese one day (吾輩は猫である(I am a cat)）they responded with "I have heard of it but I am not much of a bookworm"
I didn't expect them to have read it, but it seems contradictory to me to be interested enough in Linguistics to study it at a university level, how can you NOT be a bookworm???
Perhaps people go through childhood not reading books now. I guess that was also said of people in my age bracket too :P
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Tighter shot if anybody just wanted to see a moon photo :P
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@Mycroft@meow.social No because I'm here and I have massive lynx paws but I guess I'm an invasive species lol.
I've been fiddling with the Steam controller for a few days now and it's really good, I really don't think any reviews really do it justice, skipping over advanced features and just going "oh I don't like the gyro or touchpads" when they've not really delved into anything apart from defaults for an hour and then figured that was good enough to post a review. So, I'll do my best :P
Something I noticed a lot of reviewers said is that they figured it felt cheap, though I'm not really sure how. It has a reassuring heft without being too heavy, and the plastic feels fine. It's plastic, and feels like plastic, such is plastic, I dunno what controllers they're comparing it to or maybe I have low standards.
All the standard controls feel great, I played some 2D games like Pizza Tower and it felt just as good as my dualsense for such purposes, didn't feel like I was compromising dpad/face buttons or anything for the additional extra features. The analogue sticks also feel great, they're among the best I've experienced, similar to if not better than my dualsense with aftermarket TMR sticks.
However, the extra controls are what drew me into this controller, and where my main interest lies that most reviews just gloss over lol. Maybe the most tame of these are the back buttons, that "pro" or "elite" controllers from Sony and Microsoft make you pay hundreds for, and that can be of limited use on PC, or some third party controllers. They are very handy for getting inputs off the face buttons so you can look with the stick or trackpad while inputting actions, or just having more inputs, such as using them as modifier keys to activate different "layers" if you're playing a game that has a zillion inputs.
For myself, I used them mostly to get actions away from the face buttons and used one as a gyro aiming pause button. Gryo aiming has been incredibly exciting for me. While I've played around with gryo aiming on my dualsense (I missed the boat on my OG steam controller, when I got it not many people seemed to be talking about it), it has been a lot more comfortable on the Steam controller, with the shear number of ways to configure it. Right now I have it on all the time, and paused when I hold one of the back buttons.
I have noticed some lacking in the configs though. I noticed I can't set up any complicated conditions for gyro to activate/deactivate. (I can't, say, set the grip capacitive sensors to turn it on but have that overridden by a button, so that the gyro doesn't go nuts when I let go of the controller to type in chat or something) but it's a minor complaint for me. Others may find such settings critical.
The touch pads have been very nice too, I think I preferred the old round ones but these are very responsive and usable. I have been setting sensitivity so that a swipe from left-to-right on the pad results in a 180deg turn in game, which has felt nice for major flicks and using a gyro sensitivity of 4.5 (4.5 in game rotations for every 1 IRL rotation) and it's been working very well. The trackpad is maybe a little far down, so I think the back buttons to keep common inputs away from the face buttons is a great idea.
Something I only briefly tried, but am excited about, are the on-screen menus the trackpads can do, and can even normally act as camera but show a menu when another button is pressed, or even if you just press on the pad a little harder. If you have a very hotkey heavy game you can still play it with enough effort.
I've run out of characters now, if people actually read this I may write more :P
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@faoluin@chitter.xyz There's actually a sort of weird comradery Canadians and Australians have. They "get" certain things a lot of USians often don't. Like, until very recently, in Australia, the major highway between Brisbane and Sydney was, for long stretches, just one lane each way and would still go through tiny towns. Canadians I have spoken to also understand such an arrangement and have a similar understanding of distance and the dangers thereof :P
A lot of Americans THINK they know distance and remoteness but it may only be Alaska that truly has it.
They also have the same monarch, their money is worth a similar amount, they spell words like colour correctly, and yeah I've noticed they make similar jokes about being a backwards primitive country even though they're not lol.
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@Leviamicky@meow.social Actually, I would not, haha. I much prefer controller games and have found a lot of games that are just not fun for me to play. Keyboard and mouse doesn't feel ergonomic for me and I get pains. Due to a Quake III phase I also don't use WSAD so I've been forever fiddling with controls and some games just punish you for doing anything but standard.
The Steam Controller is exciting to me because it opens a lot of games for me to play in a casual way when I have time with more tools to work around lazy developers.
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@Leviamicky@meow.social I've never used a Steam Deck so I have no idea the weight of them but the Steam controller weighs about the same as a PS5 controller, and to me with my large hands at least is very comfy :3
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@Leviamicky@meow.social Reviews seem to indicate it's the same or very similar plastic to the Steam deck, it doesn't have that rubber coating that goes sticky after a few years it's just raw ABS I think. So it should be fine considering I have ancient controllers made of ABS with no stickiness.
If you have a steam deck then you pretty much have everything already haha. Even the gyro though I think gyro is a little more useful when you're not moving the screen you're looking at around with it.
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@Leviamicky@meow.social The touchpads are quite far down on the new Steam Controller too, so you may have that same issue but it may also be easier to shift your hand down a bit if you so choose :3 I guess for deck owners that's probably the big appeal, all your control configs can seamlessly be used while docked now :3
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Been playing with it and it's kinda breaking my brain a bit having three options for moving the camera at once, gyro, trackpad and stick, but it's fun and it's helped to disable the stick entirely to let me get better at gyro.
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@KivuliTiger@red.fox.yt They're capacitive touch pads and can be configured through Steam to do pretty much anything.
By default the right one acts like a virtual trackball mouse and the left like a scroll wheel, but they can be configured to be a virtual button pad for more complex games with a lot of actions, they can emulate a joy stick, they can just act as one giant button, or honestly too many things to list lol.
I don't even play many video games I just wanted to play with the controller because it has a lot of cool technology in it. It's full of linear haptic motors which make the touch controls feel very satisfying and mechanical even though they aren't.
@krutonium@social.treehouse.systems just so you know the Valve bsky account just posted something about the steam controller going on sale 4th of May https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller
Head's up to the other 2 Steam Controller enthusiasts
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@coffee@cafecreature.club Oh yeah I've seen people do that, though not yet in a furry context :3
In my case I was just carrying two stills cameras lol
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@coffee@cafecreature.club It's kind of funny, photography is a process of documentation that itself often goes undocumented :P
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@coffee@cafecreature.club yeah I notice fellow furry photogs will all take care not to interrupt eachother especially if they have been taking photos a while.
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@CheetahObscura The moon getting in the way is cool, buildings getting in the way is less cool :P
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@liquidparasyte You can register your interest now, and it may take some time. I got it on the initial release, it's now on the second wave, the controllers aren't even made yet so you have time to reserve and allow funds to reproduce :P I would suggest reserving RIGHT NOW if you want one though.
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@rkniner@yiff.life Well they've always worked on Valve time haha.
At least for me, this is the only one I care about.
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Trackpad calibrated to about 180 deg of in-game rotation via an edge-to-edge swipe and gyro calibrated to 4.5 in game rotations for every 1 controller rotation for those curious. Could probably do with higher sensitivity but so far I've been used to that and it's working well enough for me.
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@liquidparasyte Purchased Tuesday at like 7:30am and arrived Friday.
So much quicker than the estimated time. australians seem to be getting them fairly quick. They're out of stock now but you can register your interest and you will be able to order one when your place in the queue comes up.
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@YsengrinWolf@meow.social I should've bought a second back then but I only have one of the old ones. The price is a little high for the new one so I'll probably only buy one of the new one and not learn from my mistakes :P