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  1. Comment on Sakura Wars 2 English fan translation received a version 1.1.0 patch in ~games

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    This is for Sakura Wars 2, the Sega Saturn game from 1998. The first English translation patch came out last year. The version 1.1.0 patch released this April fixes some typos and translates some...

    This is for Sakura Wars 2, the Sega Saturn game from 1998.

    The first English translation patch came out last year. The version 1.1.0 patch released this April fixes some typos and translates some additional text in videos.

     

    This is a special series with a cult following, mainly in Japan but also spilling out into the world a bit. The first couple of entries in the series are all about "protecting the capital city" and set in Taisho-era Tokyo, have a Takarazuka-inspired all-women theater performances troupe. And also steampunk mecha battles. I'd been fascinated with the series for years and years despite never having played it, only having seen clips someone posted to the Internet, and listening to the music by legend Kohei Tanaka. There are also some animes.

    I only finally got a chance to play the first one after the fanmade English translation came out around 2020. More info on the English patch for that previous game in the series: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2021/06/22/sakura-wars-english-patch-version-2-0-released/

    Mednafen is a good emulator for Sega Saturn: https://mednafen.github.io/

     

    Oh and one of my favorite songs from the first game is Ai Yueni (Because of Love): https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tvLibWUDj4Y — a duet between Maria and Sakura. I like that it's just a bit cheesy and matches the theater performance setting perfectly.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Godot 4.7 released in ~games

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    The release notes are very well done and illustrated with nice visuals for this release. It's an overwhelming amount of new features, and a lot of great stuff there. A few items that stood out to...

    The release notes are very well done and illustrated with nice visuals for this release. It's an overwhelming amount of new features, and a lot of great stuff there.

    A few items that stood out to me:

    • Offset transform of Control nodes - Looks good for GUI animations.
    • DrawableTexture2D for letting the player draw on textures.
    • One-way collisions are easier to do in 2D, great for 2D platformers.
    • Tons of editor improvements. Might have to relearn some stuff.
    • Built-in virtual joystick. Nice addition even though there were already a few community maintained open source solutions.
    • Some more progress integrating GDScript with Android APIs and Java.
    6 votes

  5. Comment on Earthbound Beginnings Remake (Mother 1 fan remake in Earthbound engine) completed after nineteen years in ~games

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    There's an accompanying YouTube video which is mostly fluff for nostalgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYMQ-Mx3xo There's also a trailer from last year that shows off some gameplay from the...

    There's an accompanying YouTube video which is mostly fluff for nostalgia:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYMQ-Mx3xo

    Premiered Jun 13, 2026

    https://ebbr.neocities.org

    https://livvy94.bandcamp.com/album/the-earthbound-beginnings-remake-hack-sound-selection

    After nineteen-ish years of development, the EarthBound Beginnings Remake, also known as the Mother Remake, is finally complete!

    Also, we've made EarthBound: Giygas Strikes Back, a patch for the vanilla game that brings in the quality of life features we added to the remake!

    Thank you, everyone, but especially thank you to those who've been following the starmen.net thread and waiting for many years 💗

    Edit: MonkeyNess was also involved and helped us with funds for commissioning BigSharkZ. We forgot to add him to the credits and we are sorry.

    There's also a trailer from last year that shows off some gameplay from the work in progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ppmP7eG2Q

    8 votes

  7. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    Thanks for pointing that out. The app only indicates "Was the comment deleted?" when voting but not when replying. I'll see if I can add that same check when replying, in the next update.

    Thanks for pointing that out. The app only indicates "Was the comment deleted?" when voting but not when replying. I'll see if I can add that same check when replying, in the next update.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Test 3 in ~test

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    This is already open See this foo bar baz This is already open See this
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    This is already open See this

  9. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    Thanks for the feedback, this gave me some things to think about with iPad support. From your description it sounds like you are already toggling the left pane using the top bar button, but would...

    Thanks for the feedback, this gave me some things to think about with iPad support. From your description it sounds like you are already toggling the left pane using the top bar button, but would prefer to lock it to a single pane always, like how it works on iPhone. I'll keep that in mind but would require some larger code changes so I can't promise anything.

    What this did help me realize is that the toggle button is missing on iPadOS 18 and earlier, so I'm aiming to add that in the next bugfix update.

    As for the other question, this actually tripped me up too as I was looking for the settings: You have to have Prefer external browser ON and also Force WebView in dual pane OFF. I do see how it's not so intuitive having two separate settings, and I actually tripped over this myself when investigating this. So I'll have to consider how to clean up those settings in the future.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    I just remember that some unexplainable behaviors were attributed to users installing unauthorized APKs, which some actually admitted to back then. Just did a search for "three cheers apk" and...

    I just remember that some unexplainable behaviors were attributed to users installing unauthorized APKs, which some actually admitted to back then.

    Just did a search for "three cheers apk" and there are some very shady ones floating around whose listed properties don't match the official APK which I provide at https://www.talklittle.com/three-cheers/

    If someone's de-googling their phone and don't have access to the Google Play Store then in that case I could imagine them looking up a random APK. I have no way of knowing if that's what's happening in this circumstance.

    For what it's worth I audited the Three Cheers code last night and could find no way that a wrong topic could appear to be voted on. I did find some potential bugs where a topic could render a stale vote state visually, but none where a different topic would be voted.

    The easier explanation is someone's Tildes account being logged in and being used somewhere else. But there's barely any info to go on here. @danke might have to contact Deimos to see if there's any extra info on the server side.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    That sounds concerning but I wonder if it's something else. You're sure they're actually upvoted—purple and still tappable to unvote—and not the grey background meaning "cannot vote because too...

    That sounds concerning but I wonder if it's something else. You're sure they're actually upvoted—purple and still tappable to unvote—and not the grey background meaning "cannot vote because too old"? Do those same posts show up as voted on the website? Is this on Android or iOS?

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    I'll look into making that link-in-details work consistently between Android and iOS. Thanks for reporting.

    I'll look into making that link-in-details work consistently between Android and iOS. Thanks for reporting.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    That is a good suggestion and I do have tags navigation somewhere on my to-do list.

    That is a good suggestion and I do have tags navigation somewhere on my to-do list.

    5 votes

  14. Moving from Cinnamon to Xfce fixed my video playback stutter on Linux Mint

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    I have an old PC that I put Linux Mint on around Windows 10 end of life. It's been pretty decent except I noticed at some point videos started stuttering a lot. The stutter would happen every 10...

    I have an old PC that I put Linux Mint on around Windows 10 end of life. It's been pretty decent except I noticed at some point videos started stuttering a lot. The stutter would happen every 10 to 30 seconds on every video. Didn't matter if it was Firefox or Celluloid (the mpv wrapper that comes with Linux Mint), didn't matter which streaming site I tried, or what codec was used on a local file.

    I tried everything: different kernels, different GPU drivers, bunch of Firefox about:config media settings, Celluloid/mpv buffer sizes and video acceleration configurations. Even messed with pipewire (audio) config to see if its priority was too high.

    This is apparently a really common problem if you search for "linux mint video stutter". All sorts of different varied solutions out there that work for some users and not others.

    One thread suggested removing Cinnamon applets. I don't have any custom applets on that PC, and was afraid to disable any built-in ones. So I went one step further and replaced Cinnamon with Xfce using:

    sudo apt install mint-meta-xfce

    Which is Mint's meta-package for Xfce desktop environment and other stuff that works well with it.

    It worked right away with no further configuration! Xfce to the rescue! (Sure, maybe uglier and fewer options for display scaling, but I'd rather have basic things like videos working smoothly.)

    Long time ago Xfce was the right choice for an even more ancient PC back in the day. Funny how it circles back to being the solution again.

    So if I ever want to move any older PCs to Linux, I think I'll be skipping Cinnamon and reaching for other lighter desktop environments instead.

    24 votes

  15. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    That's good feedback. I think I'll change it so the topic OP isn't where the first search result lands. Right now it searches starting from wherever you're scrolled, so if you're midway down the...

    That's good feedback. I think I'll change it so the topic OP isn't where the first search result lands. Right now it searches starting from wherever you're scrolled, so if you're midway down the comments and then do a search, it should already start from the first visible comment on screen and not the very top. I think in general that's what I want, for the topic OP to be excluded from that initial landing point. So I might make that change soon, specifically to prioritize searching comments instead of topic OP as the first landing point.

    I could probably also add "Find in comments" to the top bar's "..." menu on Android as well. Good call.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    Thanks for your support as always!

    Thanks for your support as always!

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    Thanks for the feedback. I think someone reported that before that the scroll-up-twice doesn't feel that intuitive, and it might be true that no other apps actually do it that way. So I'll...

    Thanks for the feedback. I think someone reported that before that the scroll-up-twice doesn't feel that intuitive, and it might be true that no other apps actually do it that way. So I'll possibly consider maybe changing that. Have to think about it more.

    4 votes

  18. Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments"

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    This topic is for the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app. I'll summarize the major updates at the start of each similar topic, so people can read the updates and then hit Ignore if they don't care...

    This topic is for the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app.

    I'll summarize the major updates at the start of each similar topic, so people can read the updates and then hit Ignore if they don't care about more frequent updates and user feedback.

    Recently:

    [Android] Version 1.6.4 (Jun 18, 2026): Indicate when replying to a deleted comment, fixed minor UI bugs in topics feed, fixed networking bugs, fixed rare crashes, support Android 17

    [iOS] Version 1.6.2 (Jun 14, 2026): Fixed comment scroll bugs, fixed networking bugs

    [iOS] Version 1.6.1 (May 21, 2026): Improves on the Find in Comments feature. Fixes some UI bugs related to the Find Comment bar, and with potentially stale votes showing in the UI. Also adds the iPad pane toggle on iPadOS 18 and earlier, to bring the behavior closer to iPadOS 26, and fixes some iPad animation bugs.

    [Android] Version 1.6.3 (May 20, 2026): Added "Find in comments" to "..." menu. Fixed first search position in comments. Fixed tapping links in collapsed details summary. Fixed stale vote rendering.

     

    Version 1.6.0 (May 13, 2026):

    • Added Find in comments
    • Improved markdown tables rendering performance
    • [Android] Fixed drafts not loading in some cases
    • [iOS] Fixed keyboard bugs on iOS 26
    • [iOS] Fixed iOS 12 support

    On iOS, currently TestFlight only for the next week or so.

     

    Following version 1.5's addition of searching for posts, Three Cheers 1.6 adds a bar to find text in comments. It changes the comment bar a bit which took some work, and it was pretty tricky handling the edge cases with highlighting the matched text. Might have some leftover bugs, or configurations I forgot to consider, so please report those here.

    There was an Android bug with drafts not loading in some cases, reported last time. Should be fixed now.

    Also I'm happy to report that I was able to fix some long-standing iOS bugs, some keyboard bugs specific to iOS 26 that have been reported on TestFlight intermittently for quite a while, and an iPad rare crash that likely went even further back. So this version should be pretty stable on iOS.

     

    Previous topic: March 2026

     

    Where to get it

    Android version on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes

    Or sideloadable APK at https://www.talklittle.com/three-cheers/

    iOS version on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/three-cheers-for-tildes/id6470950557

    Join TestFlight for iOS beta testing: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mpVk1qIy

    76 votes

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  20. Comment on Tildes Survey #2: What country do you live in? (Results) in ~talk

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    Hey so I submitted a fix to TestFlight yesterday (Three Cheers iOS v1.5.2) but it's taking longer than usual to be approved. Just an FYI. Thanks for reporting the bug but also anti-thanks for...
    • Exemplary

    Hey so I submitted a fix to TestFlight yesterday (Three Cheers iOS v1.5.2) but it's taking longer than usual to be approved. Just an FYI. Thanks for reporting the bug but also anti-thanks for inventing Examplary.

    8 votes