Ordoviz

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What I found most terrifying is that if you don't force Noelle deeper into the lake she keeps repeating "Nothing changed" while having a romantic date with Susie (!). Clearly, she just had the best day of her life, but it somehow feels fake to her, like it's all just part of the script. It seems to me that she gained a meta-level awareness similar to Ralsei. This makes me think that the Chapter 7 Weird Route will be about Noelle breaking the game (Gaster's DEVICE) using glitches and save file shenanigans, possibly with help from the "song, singing from the deep" that can be heard at the bottom of the lake.

I don't have any good advice, so I will just list some unorthodox ways to discover new videos:

  • Use filmot.com. It allows you to search for channels by keyword among other things.
  • Search for specific topics on YouTube by putting the search term into double quotes, sort by popularity, and scroll down. I found lots of hidden gems that way.
  • YouTube lets you filter search results for playlists. Since many users put their favorite videos into playlists, this is a good way to find older, unusual, and unlisted videos.
  • Search for site:youtube.com OR site:youtu.be on your favorite subreddit
  • Search for youtube.com on Lemmy. You can filter by community and add more keywords.
  • Install the FreshView browser addon to hide already watched videos on YouTube (probably does not work on mobile).

Use systemd-zram-generator. The process is explain in the DebianWiki and the ArchWiki and this random blog, but it boils down to just a few commands you need to run:

$ apt install systemd-zram-generator
$ sudoedit /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
[zram0]
zram-size = min(ram, 8192)
compression-algorithm = zstd
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl start systemd-zram-setup@zram0.service

You can tweak the settings above. Fedora recommends using zram-size = min(ram, 8192), which would correspond to 8GB ZRAM in your case. CachyOS uses a less conservative config with zram-size = ram.

To confirm that zram is working, run zramctl. It should print something like

NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE   DATA  COMPR  TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 zstd            8G 430.8M 137.6M 142.9M         [SWAP]

See also Improving system responsiveness under low-memory conditions.

Undertale, In Stars and Time, Blue Prince, and Doki Doki Literature Club are my favorite games that haven't already been mentioned here. All of them are somewhat dialogue/text-heavy.

Asgore will play a major role. Flower Shop Dark World. Asriel does not show up. Noelle joins your party. Susie notices something is wrong with Noelle in the Weird Route. We can finally craft the Twisted Sword. FRIEND continues to be a mystery.

dupeGuru has a great GUI for finding similar looking images (videos are not supported). See How to deduplicate files on Linux with dupeGuru for a tutorial. There's a similar tool for videos called videoduplicatefinder but I did not try it out.

I will now share my experiences with using dupeGuru. I ran it in Picture mode and selected "Match pictures of different dimensions". It was nice to see that it found a few low-quality JPEGs that look identical to higher-quality PNGs. One feature that I really like is the option to "ignore duplicates hardlinking to the same file"; let me explain why: I sometimes download the same image into multiple subfolders of my fan art collection, so I want to keep both images despite them being exact duplicates. This can be accomplished by running rdfind -makehardlinks true . to turn exact duplicates into hardlinks, and running dupeGuru afterwards.

I experimented a bit with with "Filter Hardness". On the first run, I set it to "≥95% match" and the results did not contain any false positives! I later went down to "≥70% match", which reported more duplicates, but also some false positives. If you have many comic doodles in your collection, choose at least 80%. However, if you want to detect crops of other images, you have to choose a lower percentage. On my collection of 3000 images, dupeGuru took about 5 minutes.

dupeGuru has one major downside: The current release version ignores webp images, but you can build it from source (Arch users can install dupeguru-git from the AUR). Another downside is that it automatically chooses the biggest file among all duplicates as the reference file. This is often a good heuristic but fails badly with webp images that have better compression ratio than other formats. You can fix this by going to Actions → Re-Prioritize Results and putting "Dimension: Highest" at the top of the list.