#I FOUND ANOTHER

[mintaikkcorpse]

Me anytime I find a small Stolitz detail that doesn't even fucking matter in the grand scheme of things

[old-soil-king]

@charhounds

FUCKING GETCH OU

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[allagashed]

whenever i say “screaming crying throwing up” this is what i mean

[with-love-jay]

@snail163

because i'd like to do this on diwali (and also because i'm not very original), here goes...

if this gets 7k posts by jan1st 2024, i'll learn how write a song. and write one. that i'm happy with.

if it gets 10k posts, i'll do my best to produce + record it.

[lil-vibes]

was sick this whole week so im beaming it straight to narinder

[sentientsky]

my girllll

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Vanessa’s thoughts when meeting Abby..

[an-internet-introvert]

To add to the collection:

🫸 Bye Phil

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

sometimes i take a look at your guys's favorite dripping wet repressed middle aged blorbos and honestly? i think the right foster cat could fix them

[kaogens]

i <3 fish and computers!!!!!!!!!

[illuminchim]

Character sheet of Lan “You Are Not Qualified to Talk To Me” Zhan 🐰

[alyssumsun]

giorno WIP posting while recouping my will to draw. no it is NOT favoritism. it is something else.

[stew-chan]

went to a toy collectors thingy today which was very nostalgic but I don't really want pokemon cards or funkos or old star wars action figures....

but! in a bin under a table..... I found a bunch of McDonald's beanie babies in their bags still.... and I found the only cat in the bin! :) meet Chip, finally free after 25 years :) welcome home Chip!

[ayyunah]

Prying eyes and words of malice. You are not who you are.

close ups under cut bc i wanna show my rendering yayy:

[grayeet]

I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.

Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.

Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.

I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.