#this guide is not comprehensive

[jeronandor]

JYN ERSO AND HER PARENTS via the Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy (2024)

[ihatebrainstorm]

The (Hopefully) Comprehensive Guide to Drawing Transformers! [1]

[Chapter 1/5?]

Decided to make a little quick guide to drawing transformers/humanoid mechs because some people asked! (Plus I thought it'd be fun lol) .... Hopefully it makes sense and helps some people out :'D

[Next] -> coming I dunno when, I keep adding to my WIP pile......

[kiwis-kiwis]

lmao gottem

[emo-hermit]

Newbie wants to get into AVA. Help!

so I'm one of those losers (/lh) that, despite being a kid right when AVA was getting big, never actually watched it. Now, after watching a bit of AVM as an adult, I'm wanting to - but there's SO MUCH. There's lingo, there's gajinkas, there's AVA and AVM and AVE and what have you. There's a lot to watch and not all of it is compiled on Becker's channel playlists, so I must ask...

How does one watch AVA?

I've been notified of an order for AVA and AVM, but there's stuff like Animation vs Addiction that doesn't feature in any of the playlists. Are those canon? Is there a chronological order? Is there a playlist with all of this as it was released or in a comprehensive order? I'd appreciate any help you can give me, even if it's just a YouTube playlist or an order (e.g. AVA 1-4, AVM S1-2, AVA 5-8, AVM S3, etc).

Also, extra question, is there any fandom-specific lingo/terminology that I should know? Like how some call the King from AVM "King Orange" or "Mango". I'm assuming this all came from Becker streams but genuinely I am as NEWBIE as newbie gets. Appreciate any responses, have a wonderful day!

-EMOXHERMIT

[spitblaze]

You should download Duckstation and Yabause and Bizhawk and trawl repositories of playstation 1 and sega saturn games and download english fan translations of games that never made it out of Japan and play them and play them and play them. but be warned......you WILL find a game that you want to dig significantly deeper into and will not be able to find any sort of comprehensive guide in english. but its a small price to pay for discovering a game that like ten other people on the internet have played and going kind of insane about it

[rigelmejo]

I'm a broken record about this, but I really recommend reading Heavenly Path's Comrpehensive Reading Guide, and then checking out their webnovel recommendations for Newcomers.

Even if you only take some tips away from that guide, something in it will be of some use to you. Their guide mentions Pleco, Readibu, a ton of free Graded Reader resources, when to start trying to read stories. Just tons of useful stuff.

For people who are already reading, and struggling to find easier, or slightly more challening, reading material, their general recommendations pages are extremely useful.

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

just something i did while @bunnakit explained the lore of these silly dudes to me and others.

because everyone went, WHERE IS [put name of one of them in here] ?????????

and i was like i can't keep posting the same screenshots asjhsajkd

so here have a handy dandy chart of each of them in their important for their lore mv's.

[girl-detector]

Took a nap

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

The Memory Hunters

scifi/fantasy set in a postapoc future US

follows a hunter - a woman who uses a certain kind of mushroom allows her to dive into memories from blood, collecting them for the institute she works for, and her bodyguard / best friend, who needs the job to care for her family in the storm-torn south

when they come across a site with memories that uncover secrets about the past and the hunter’s religion that diverge from the official accounts of history, it tests their relationship and causes them to question everything

f/f

arc, out July 29

[jeronandor]

Cinta Kaz: “She takes her responsibilities to the growing rebellion seriously and sees her duties as both the means and the end, even at the cost of personal relationships, much to the frustration of her girlfriend, Vel Sartha" Vel Sartha: “Vel values her relationships with her cousin, Mon Mothma, and her girlfriend, Cinta Kaz” via Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy

[hanakihan]

yknow I start to regret even attempting fake servant cards because doing them on phone is a pure sadomasochistic experience and I don’t think I’m that far gone (i am)

anyway more clearer vision ig, it’s literally more or less non avenger salieri design from fgo materials artbook mixed in with avenger salieri traits

every ruler salieri stage has avenger traits mixed in in one form or other, for example A1 literally has same gray white hair with tints of red in eyes being more prominent, plus scar mark never really leaves

here it’s closer to actual salieri but hair turn grayish white at ends and eyes do retain red tint (and generally more dead because salieri is tired and being in A2 brings too many uncomfortable memories), plus design and patterns leaking into his look.

[nitw]

shoutout to that one time i tried to make an utau for the first time while i had a terrible cold. i still have no clue how it works lol i didn't get anywhere

[jellyfishmakeoutparty]

for all of my followers and/or fellow marine bio enthusiasts, I present some pictures I took when I went to the aquarium in Monaco <3

[spacecat902]

My little giys :)

(Half of them would kill me in two seconds on a whim)

[rigelmejo]

Something that always annoys me is the idea only 1 language learning method works. Which is not true. While it may be possible that, for a particular individual, only a few out of many study methods may work well enough for That Individual to make progress and stay motivated... that doesn't mean all the other study methods won't work for anyone else out there, or that those few methods will work for every other given person.

Obviously if you've been studying a while, then you already figured out what kinds of things work for you and don't. If you're a beginner, just wading into studying?

I would suggest you simply look for study methods that: 1. Teach you new things regularly, 2. Review and practice things you've learned, 3. Include studying things you need for your particular goals (for example if your goal is to read X book then the study materials at some point should involve reading practice and some words the book contains, if your goal is to talk about Y then the study materials should include some information about pronunciation and words you'll need to be able to say).

As you can imagine, a TON of study materials will meet these requirements. And you can study a given skill in a LOT of ways.

(Reading is my focus lol so just for reading, a beginner might: do vocabulary study with lists or conversations with native speakers or watching shows and looking words up or listening to dialogues with a transcript like in a textbook or graded readers or a picture book with word labels in the target language or a video game with labelled objects in target language, all of those things as long as your vocabulary is improving or reading practice is happening would help you make progress). So to improve reading skill as a beginner: you could study with a textbook, a podcast with transcript, a classroom or tutor with words written down in target language (like TPRS), a video game, a TV show and a translate app on your phone, a friend you talk with (who either writes words down or you look up words you hear with a translate app), a friend you text with, srs flashcards like anki (provided there's text) etc. As long as there's new words, and/or you're practicing reading, the study method may work. If it works will come down to if you can stay motivated doing it regularly, and make sure you regularly learn some new things and review/practice things you've already studied.

So consider those things when you see people selling a study method as a product (especially when it's costing you money). Consider if it teaches you NEW things, and are those new things related to your goals, and how MUCH new stuff will it teach you before you finish it? Consider if it provides review or practice, or if you can use it's materials to review on your own making up your own method, or if you'll need to do separate review/practice.

So examples:

LingQ. Can it teach you many new words? Yes, thousands, since you can import any texts you want when you get done with their provided material (I have no idea how much their beginner material covers though in terms of words... I would hope 1000-3000 words but that can be researched). Is your goal reading? It's suited to reading, so you will practice and review often with it. Cost? I think it was $12 a month when I last had it, and the price may have increased. Is it worth it? Depends on a learner's needs. I found it was wasting my money, so I chose to use free tools like Pleco and Readibu apps - since those apps are suited for Chinese learners and have better translations, Pleco has better paid graded reader material if I was going to spend money, and both Pleco and Readibu let me import texts so I can learn thousands of new words just like LingQ but free. Now that I'm not a beginner, I often use Microsoft Edge to read chinese... since I can still click-translate words easily (all my web browsers have that tool free), and Edge's TTS voice is helpful for pronunciation and sounds quite good. I read webnovels online so Edge works well. But it's translations aren't as good as Pleco or Readibu, so if I still needed translations more I would use them. So... is LingQ a good study method? Its certainly a study method marketed to buy. Well... the method is suited to improving reading skill, at least. It costs money, which is a negative, but it does offer a lot. However: everything it does regarding reading can be done free with other apps or sites or web browsers on their own. So if paying money motivates you to read... sure. LingQ does have a few word tracking features a learner may find worth the money, keeping in mind the actual read-to-learn method can be done free without lingq. (Also... while LingQ is a valid option for improving reading, if the learners goal is speaking then it would be important to think of what study activities the learner will do OUTSIDE of LingQ to improve speaking... because I've seen how LingQ is marketed as "how to learn a language" but it's only focused on some skills. It has vocabulary and grammar in some sense, since you'll read a lot and encounter new words and structures. But it doesnt have speaking or writing practice at least last time I was on it. Those activities would need to be worked on, on your own).

You can do that kind of cost/benefit contemplating with any study method material you see being sold. Amother example: there's a beginner Mandarin course called Mandarin Blueprint. It teaches like 800 words. Thats all. It may be worthwhile for a beginner... who still needs to learn 800 common words. But if you already know a few hundred words, the benefit of the course is less, you'll need to find a new material to teach you more new stuff soon. And the price was like a few hundred for the course... which for me personally was too much to spend, when I had already learned 800 hanzi from a book that cost me 12 dollars and 2000 words from a free user made memrise deck. The course claimed to get a person speaking, competent, but anyone not a beginner would say speaking basically with 800 words is nowhere near the level of working in Chinese or just doing a lot of daily life stuff, or reading/listening to media. (Although for the motivated beginner if you're learning 800 words on your own like I was, its definitely close to the point of jumping to learn more words and start reading kids and teenager books, and watching easier shows if you're willing to look new words up). So to me... Mandarin Blueprint felt like overselling some basic beginner materials. (Again when I know several other things that teach beginner stuff either more in depth so HSK test prep classes, and college courses, or that teach beginner stuff to the same depth as Mandarin Blueprint but free).

Some study materials aren't going to act like they teach everything. I've seen chinese courses just for learning to speak tones better and general pronunciation - probably worthwhile if your goal is to improve speaking and a teacher could help improve the issues your having. But a learner needs to be aware for that course that they'll need to study vocabulary on their own, its JUST a pronunciation improvement course.