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▲ 2.1k r/ChineseLanguage

Mayor Mamdani of New York tries speaking Mandarin Chinese

This is from the official Instagram account for the mayor of NYC. I’d say he’s pretty good for someone who says he doesn’t speak the language but wants to try it. Even Duolingo jumped in with a comment asking him what his streak is.

u/ZhangtheGreat — 4 days ago
▲ 697 r/lostredditors

The mods on this subreddit have gotten so lax that far too many posts that are neither clever nor comebacks are permitted to just remain

u/ZhangtheGreat — 4 days ago
▲ 64 r/DisneyMemes

Make the villain look like the good guy

Pick a villain and describe him/her in a way that makes it sound like they were good. Let’s see what we can come up with.

u/ZhangtheGreat — 7 days ago
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Biker detects troubled pedestrian and stops to comfort him, likely preventing a successful attempted suicide

He hears the alarming words at the 0:11 mark, then works with the person in the white car to make sure the pedestrian is all right, keeping him company until the police arrive.

Source video here

u/Toddo2017 — 11 days ago
▲ 37 r/FanFiction

What types of OCs do you enjoy, and what types are you not a big fan of?

I don't like putting OCs in my own fics, but I do love a well-written, well-developed OC who fits well within the canon of the franchise's universe. My absolute favorites are the ones where the OC is an offspring of a canonical couple, and the author has clearly spent a ton of time and effort flushing the OC's character out.

On the other hand, I'm not too fond of fics that become "drowned in OCs" to the point where the canon takes a complete back seat. I remember reading a fic that had almost 100k words that started off focused on canon, but by about midway through, had introduced so many OCs that the whole canon (not just the canonical characters) had been all but replaced.

You?

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u/ZhangtheGreat — 16 days ago
▲ 5 r/AskReddit

What's something rich people do that you hate, but you know that if you were ever rich, you'd probably be guilty of doing as well?

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u/ZhangtheGreat — 18 days ago
▲ 14 r/gaming

[PBS] The Video Game Revolution (2004)

Did anyone happen to catch this when it aired in 2004? I was lucky to be tuned to PBS right as it came on, and I wound up watching all two hours of it. It has interviews with a ton of big names in the industry, including Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari), Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, and Shigeru Miyamoto.

It's a worthwhile watch to see how the industry looked in 2004 and what people at the time thought the future of games would become. If I remember correctly, this aired right before World of Warcraft was released, which is why the segment about MMOs doesn't feature WoW.

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u/ZhangtheGreat — 22 days ago
▲ 10 r/videogames

“You don’t need great graphics, story, and/or characters. You just need great gameplay.” What games exemplify this statement?

u/ZhangtheGreat — 24 days ago
▲ 0 r/gaming

Fact: It’s always been software over hardware

Recently, Shigeru Miyamoto said that gamers no longer cared as much for hardware specs compared with quality software. While he is correct, I would argue that gamers have always been about software over hardware, and the proof is in console sales numbers throughout history.

Look at every console generation, and we can find something consistent: the best-selling console is seldom the one with the best hardware and almost always the one with the largest library of higher quality games (sales numbers in parentheses; Gen I skipped due to the industry’s infancy)…

Gen II - Both the Intellivision (3m) and ColecoVision (2m) had better hardware than the Atari 2600 (30m).

Gen III - The NES (62m) was technically inferior to the Master System (19m).

Gen IV - This was one of the closer races, with the more advanced (except in processing power) SNES (49m) overtaking the Genesis / Mega Drive (35m).

Gen V - The 32-bit PS1 (102.5m) blew the doors off the 64-bit N64 (33m).

Gen VI - The PS2 (160m), with its inferior CPU, RAM, and GPU, ran away from the Xbox (24m). Even the GameCube (21.7m) had a better CPU and GPU.

Gen VII - The PS3 (87.4m) went all-in on hardware and fumbled its launch, losing most of the generation to the Xbox 360 (84m) before catching it in later years. Neither chased down the Wii (101.6m).

Gen VIII - This time, the Xbox One (58m) went all-in on hardware and lost all its momentum from the 360. The PS4 (117.2m) went back to focusing more on software and reclaimed its crown. (I’m not including the Switch here, as it’s more of an “in-between-generations” console.)

We’re currently on Gen IX with the PS5 (93m) far ahead. The PS5 is slightly technologically better than the Xbox Series X/S (35m), which means if current numbers hold, it’ll only be the second time overall (and first since Gen IV) that the best hardware wins the sales race.

We’d think these companies would’ve learned by now that it’s not the hardware that sells.

u/ZhangtheGreat — 24 days ago
▲ 66 r/nflmemeswar

Each NFL team is literally comprised of what its team name says it is. In a free-for-all battle royal, justify why your team would come out on top.

The origins of team names were disregarded when I was choosing the images. As long as the image fit with the team's name, it was fair game to be selected.

(And yes, I had way too much fun picking some of these images.)

u/ZhangtheGreat — 24 days ago
▲ 138 r/eagles

Guess the Eagle's name only by pictures

Each picture can stand for one or two syllables in a person's name. How many can you guess correctly?

Answers:

>!Person A) Howie Roseman (Howie-rose-man)!<

>!Person B) Vic Fangio (Vick-fan-geode)!<

>!Person C) Dallas Goedert (Dallas-god-hurt)!<

>!Person D) Quinyon Mitchell (queen-yawn-mitt-chill)!<

>!Person E) Landon Dickerson (land-on-Dick-her-sun)!<

u/ZhangtheGreat — 25 days ago