Boo Scarlet, Vodka forever.

Yes, me too. “Did you know?” and “Don’t even look at me!” And nothing in between, lol

Yeah, I had to do some work up there recently and it was so depressing.

Abraham Lincoln sent faxes! Ancient tech.

がんばいます！

I appreciate the feedback, this Anki deck should hopefully get my vocabulary to that point. I am actually pretty good at getting the meaning usually and the readings are the tough part, so I’m doing okay I guess. It just feels like a lot, but that’s true of any language I suppose. I’ve learned a lot in the last few months. Thanks for the encouragement!

I started with Duolingo and while it has all the regular duo problems, I think it actually does a good job with the kana stuff. You can turn off the Romaji too, forcing yourself to read. It doesn’t teach grammar, though, so I bought Genki Vol 1, working my way through that, and wotaku.wiki has a lot of good resources.

I really like the Cure Dolly stuff for grammar (though she can be difficult to understand, use the youtube transcripts or if you prefer reading a book someone helpfully wrote it all up). Her approach is totally different from the Genki methods, but I find it easier to understand.

I am also using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k Kanji deck for kanji and vocabulary. This is honestly pretty painful, I’ve been doing it for like 10 days now and I feel like I’m doing badly every time, but I am improving. I could probably stand to study the radical stuff to understand more how the kanji is constructed but I haven’t found a good resource for that just yet.

Watashi mo, but getting better every day.

Yeah I’m a lefty and not terribly creative. The only superpower you get is the ability to identify every lefty you see in the wild.

I cannot tell you how angry I am that Link is no longer left handed. Both Mario and Link were lefties because Miyamoto-san is a southpaw. But the stupid Wii motion controls in Twilight Princess had to work for you normies and we lost our representation, lol. They mirrored the whole game to make it work.

こんにちは！日本語を勉強しています！

I’m 90 days into learning Japanese. Most of that has been learning kana and I’m now working on kanji and grammar. It’s very different from English but I really like the way information is conveyed. I’m struggling with grammar stuff right now pretty bad, particularly conjugation, but it’ll click eventually. Also the lack of spaces is definitely something to get used to.

I sing this song (well, actually the Wall of Voodoo cover usually) on the toilet after Mexican food gets the best of me.

Yeah, I’ve tried the user mapping and doesn’t seem to do anything. Haven’t put them in the env since this started happening though I can try that, thanks for the reminder.

Kokomo

I can hear Henry’s sweat

I mean, that’s fucking weird though. If I said that shit at work I’d get a talking to from HR.

I up voted you, but I struggled to do so. I’m a year out of a… difficult relationship, and this is exactly right.

She eventually dumped me for the Dweezil. Probably for the best.

Yeah outside of anti cheat I can’t think of a game that didn’t work. I no longer even think about compatibility when I’m buying games on steam.

I think it just means Steam always offers proton for windows games by default. Current you have to set it to all games in the options or set compatibility manually for each game.

One of them is rich.

Lol I thought that’s where I was

I love spicy foods and they don’t upset my stomach. Though I did eat one of those “one chip challenge” things back in the day and I did fine at the time but the next two days or so I felt like I had been poisoned. Only time that ever happened to me. You probably have a threshold too but it’s just very high. Genetics and practice helps, your gut biome critters are probably used to it too.