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Just DuoLingo, watching Japanese stuff without subtitles (including cultural guides for further understanding) to force myself to listen, and then looking up words I don’t know when I come across them.

My goal was never to learn how to speak or write anything; just understand it well enough to watch Japanese media in the original language. I still often have to rewind and play back stuff to get it all. Especially if they are saying a long sentence really fast.

It also probably helps that Language itself is one of the things that tickles my autistic brain.

If it was a sign on a broken escalator, it’d be okay.

“I once spent an entire year talking through a fan to make my voice do the thing.”

I’ve been doing daily lessons on it for almost a whole year with the goal of being able to watch anime without subtitles.

I have achieved my goal almost completely. I just need to learn more vocab because DuoLingo has only taught about 150 or so words. Gamifying learning works; if you can stick with it. Which is the whole point in making it like a game: so you stick to it.

Whether or not that will continue to be the case when everything is handled by AI has yet to be seen. I am doubtful, considering how fucking God awful LLMs are at providing ACTUAL info and not just creating a madlib with what it has been trained on.

It’s just missing everything from above the shoulders.

If those people could read, developers could save so much money by not having the games fully voiced.

The “souls like” tag on Steam is meaningless because all a game needs to have a billion people add that tag is “you respawn when you die” or “quest design is slightly obtuse on purpose.”

Turn based Dark Souls combat? Well now I gotta check it out to see how that weird arrangement of words works.

I keep hearing about this Clair Obscur game alongside BG3; is it safe to assume it has an epic level of choice and logic like BG3 does?

I wish I could at least be like Ed and too stupid to understand how shitty it is here.

I remember Miles being a bigger dick than Keiko cuz the first thing I even think about when thinking about the characters is the time Keiko made some food from her own childhood and Miles was just like “where’s the corn beef and potatoes?”

Hell the worst I remember Keiko doing wasn’t exactly her; she was possessed by some kind of energy being or someshit.

I loved Babylon 5 so much, I even subjected myself to the god awful fan continuations.

“And look what happened to Lol. She fucking died!”

I have 5 google drives at 100% capacity with the images I save.

They had a box full of oxygen for the bird, but not the people? 😔

If you try to knock me, you’ll get mocked

I’ll stir fry you in my wok

Your knees’ll start shaking and your fingers pop

Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock

Just don’t read it again in the morning. 🤷🏻‍♂️

“It’s my [REDACTED] in a box!”

I had to take care of my pile yesterday because one of my dogs peed on it. 😬

I really doubt you do not have a OneDrive folder at all, since the default My Documents location is

C:\users\<user>\OneDrive\MyDocuments

Regardless. Even if you completely skip the OneDrive shit at install.