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

Chuck Schumer is Bloom and Nancy Pelosi is Bialystock.

Edit: recast

TIL, what a badass. Thanks!

Abraham Lincoln sent faxes! Ancient tech.

It’s pretty janky in my experience. I use sunshine, works a lot better.

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.

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.

にゃん！

Very excited for this show to come back, as well as Call of the Night and Bunny-Girl Senpai. I have so many shows on my watchlist this season.

Yeah idiot that’s why I’m depressed.

At least the landscapes will be pretty.

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.

I rely pretty heavily on Mythic Game Master Emulator and it’s methodology. The long and short of it is that you question assumptions, set the odds of your assumption, then roll dice. The result can be “yes”, “no”, or in very high or low rolls, “exceptionally yes” or “exceptionally no”. Can introduce some fun surprises. I use it whenever I get stuck on something and need to inject some randomness.

It also includes a huge number of random lists for creating characters, events, locations, etc. Really any list and some dice can help with inspiration, dice rolls are a powerful tool.

Plant looks healthy, I’ll bet you’ll have many tomatoes not long from now. It’s always very exciting as they begin to take off.

De-Cap-Attack! First game I ever beat on my own. When I got my Genesis for Christmas as a 7 year old, it was bundled with Sonic 2, and my dad also bought De-Cap-Attack and Toejam & Earl. Dad then proceeded to dominate it for two days and beat Sonic 2 while I watched. There was no save so we just paused it and left it running overnight somewhere around Oil Ocean Zone. I remember little of being so young but I have very vivid memories of my first console. Genesis kicked so much ass.