A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
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4 hours ago
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Keyframe
1 hour ago
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Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?
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3371
1 minute ago
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IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.
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mister_mort
1 hour ago
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I think it's just one of the standard JP voice synthesisers available. I know I've heard almost exactly the same one on other Youtube videos using text-to-speech for Japanese.
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AdmiralAsshat
24 minutes ago
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Japan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.
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Keyframe
14 minutes ago
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How infantile then
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johngossman
3 hours ago
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Fun. I studied Japanese for two years, let it slide and now every Kanji is like "Hmmm, I've seen that before but..." I can still read kana though, which is nice to know.
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bentograd
3 hours ago
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This looks very cool, but I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background. The lights in the "windows" of the voxel building do not provide good contrast.
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Tor3
2 hours ago
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I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.
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NaiveBayesian
22 minutes ago
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For me it showed 400 fps in the top left corner and my laptop fans spun up immediately as well. Seems to render frames continuously rather than waiting for the screen to refresh. Would probably be much less load when limited to 60 fps.
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weakfish
41 minutes ago
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If you right click on the page, you can 'open image in new tab' and get an image of the current screen. I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.
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Lawyer24
2 hours ago
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I am going to reach out to you via email. I like this project and I am building something similar. Maybe we can collaborate or keep in contact.
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mrbluecoat
2 hours ago
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What a cool idea! Need something similar for Korean - perhaps the EverLine light rail line in Yongin.
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marginalia_nu
2 hours ago
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Voxel Tokyo has very pleasant vibes.
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TacticalCoder
1 hour ago
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Tokyo has very pleasant vibes. It's an amazing city. My brother lives there since 30 years and I've been many times (it's so far that when I go, I go for 3 months).

My daughter loves it and, motivated by having japanese family, she's currently trying to learn japanese.

I think she'll love that site (I'll show it to her as soon as she comes back home).

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LastMuel
3 hours ago
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This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted. I’m on the latest security release of iOS. Something off about that.
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worrycue
3 hours ago
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Works fine for me on a 17e.
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LastMuel
31 minutes ago
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I’m on an 11 Pro. The site works fine. The issue is the audio. It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I’m using is closed. It took a phone reboot to stop playing.

I’m not claiming that there’s malicious activity on the part of the site. I just wonder if there is something anomalous about how it plays audio.

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echelon
2 hours ago
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Does this scale beyond N5/N4?

This could be a really useful tool.

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wormpilled
1 hour ago
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Slop
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Zababa
2 hours ago
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This looks good and I like the idea but I don't get what the "practice" is here?
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rimworld
3 hours ago
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love the tunes
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nexus2045
1 hour ago
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lovely
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