Skip Navigation

Posts
22
Comments
1097
Joined
3 yr. ago

Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist

  • I assume a mod tagged this as NSFW, b/c I didn't do it (intentionally anyway).

    I find it odd, b/c if browsing this thread is not suitable for your workplace, then really browsing any thread at work is NSFW.

    EDIT: I removed the tag. Hopefully it was just an accident on my part and mod doesn't get mad at me.

  • Oooo Ace Attorney is a great call. Thanks for reminding me.

  • It would be pretty devastating, but I'd at least have my memories of music and the ability to feel vibrations. I think I could still get some enjoyment out of playing drums. But it would definitely suck.

  • I'm on a strong streak with my Japanese self study. Been going for over a year and I'm somewhere around N4-N3 level. It's very rewarding to understand long conversations, but it also feels like progress is slow. My grammar is pretty good now, but learning vocabulary and kanji is like a Sysyphian quest.

    I'd say I usually get in at least 30 minutes of listening practice every day. I'm still not speaking much, but I think this is OK. I've heard VR chat is a good resource for that, but the timezone mismatch makes it pretty hard.

    Overall I recommend immersion based study with a strong emphasis on input (listening + reading) before doing much output. Duolingo is a waste of time if you're serious about approaching fluency. I've never seen a single comprehensive product that actually works for learning Japanese. You have to consume native materials, and there are some good tools that make it easier, but you need to be a bit savvy to stitch them all together into a cohesive workflow.

  • 僕も日本語を勉強している。もし勉強方法の質問があればぜひ聞いてください。

  • I'm not a huge Eilish fan, but "when the party's over" is excellent and very different from everything else I've heard from her.

  • Hard disagree about CCR.

  • Because finance in real life is not fun.

  • A semicolon is like a comma or colon in that it clarifies the proceeding part of the sentence, and is a complete sentence itself.

    This shouldn't have a comma because it has a compound predicate. The subject of the sentence is "a semicolon", and it participates in two predicates: "it clarifies" and "is a complete sentence".

    Your sentence is also logically incorrect because a semicolon neither clarifies nor is a complete sentence.

    The proper explanation is: a semicolon separates two closely related independent clauses.

  • One Piece is best enjoyed as a manga. Reading it goes much faster and loses a bit of the anime character tropes.

  • Remember how you could play this on the local network with anyone who had a Nintendo DS? Only one person needed the game cartridge. So fucking cool.

  • You have no idea what you're talking about. Stop spreading dangerous misinformation.

    Honestly, delete this comment.

  • Ha. I'd expect nothing less from Theo.

  • Didn't Firefox just release a new feature that prevents fingerprinting? Hard to get a reading on Mozilla these days.

  • 素晴らしいアップりですね!使おう。

    音のボタンが壊れてるそうです。音が出ません。

     
        
    Play UI + feedback sound effects: Off
    Enable pronunciation audio: On
    
      

    ^ この設定では音が出ません

     
        
    Play UI + feedback sound effects: On
    Enable pronunciation audio: On
    
      

    ^ この設定では音が出ます

    発音の録音があればいいな。

  • My driving instructor said the airbag could rip the skin off your arms lol

  • I suspect every language does this to some extent. Some good examples from Japanese:

    靴 = shoes 下 = under 靴下 = socks

    手 = hand 紙 = paper 手紙 = letter

    歯 = teeth 車 = wheel 歯車 = cog / gear

    火 = fire 山 = mountain 火山 = volcano

    Sadly (?) the Japanese compounds are often only compounds of the symbols, not the spoken words.