“With these changing times, we do feel the need to update our format and create games that would be more widely playable, not just within the JRPG realm, but something that would be easier, more accessible for a wider audience. We’re hoping to update our format with that in mind,” [Katsura Hashino] admits.

Time and again the most successful and praised games have been fucking hard; time and again the directors come up with the plan of dumbing down their games to adapt to “changing times”. This is the year of Expedition 33 and Silksong, how can someone come up with the conclusion that gamers don’t care for RPGs and hard games?

ngl by the throat is a big no no for me :3

Considering in absolute numbers the monthly active Linux users is around 4,725,600 I trust you haven’t skewed them too sharply.

There are two rams inside you. They love each other very deeply:

My orientation has never recovered from Jesse and James.

Here’s a few manga I liked that don’t thread heavily into the shonen tropes:

• Monster: A surgeon saves the life of a child which later becomes a serial killer. The doctor himself soon becomes the suspect and sets out to find, understand and stop his patient.
• Pluto (same author as Monster): In a post-war futuristic world a middle-aged android cop gets pulled into the political mess and human cost left by large scale warfare. This is a reimagining of Astro Boy if you can believe it.
• Badduck: low fantasy, low scifi, low dystopia about some people getting caught up in human trafficking and escaping. As fugitives they have to cope with their past, and keep alive the hope of a peaceful existence.
• Tokyo these days: a manga editor quits his job. Very “slice of life” and chill. I haven’t finished this one yet but so far I’m enjoying it very much.

None of these are long series.

I had beets 😋

What’s this really?

Bought the ten inch apple. Was ten inch circumference. Hugely disappointed.

This is gonna have to simmer for a while.

PO-TA-TOES ~ boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew

Water.

I hear you. I’m not crazy about it either. I use it at work and I get the point: it’s awkward to make CSS respect the encapsulation of component-based reactive frameworks like Vue or React. Tailwind alleviates that. On the other hand the actual HTML/CSS produced is disregarded by all measures except size maybe. It’s yet another layer of abstraction and its necessity is debatable at best.

Don’t hate me because I used AI!

I’m sorry.

Oh…an actually human response. How refreshing. At least one person here got their rabies shot.

The answer you seek is literally the post.

You have basically two options: treat HTML as a string or parse it then process it with higher level DOM features.

The problem with the second approach is that HTML may look like an XML dialect but it is actually immensely quirky and tolerant. Moreover the modern web page is crazy bloated, so mass processing pages might be surprisingly demanding. And in the end you still need to do custom code to grab the data you’re after.

On the other hand string searching is as lightweight as it gets and you typically don’t really need to care about document structure as a scraper anyways.

I use syncthing to sync music, notes and pictures between my phone and my PC. It’s ridiculously efficient and it feels like using your devices’ networking features in a reasonable way at last. It’s so simple and feels so good. I fucking love it.

They’re gonna tell not to parse HTML with regular expressions. Heed this warning, and do it anyways.