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>>1390
My work kills almost all enthusiasm for vidya, like I come home and I just don't wanna move a muscle. They say it's supposed to get easier over time but holy fuck is this gonna take a while for me.
I've been trying to get a mile of walking done a few days per week, they say it's supposed to improve energy/mental health without destroying your joints like running but idk.
I haven't touched my BF4 account in like 2 years, probably no active players on the serves at this point.
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About 10 years ago I became interested in learning Japanese. Mostly because of anime, I just wanted to know what the basic konoyarou/tasukete/urusai stuff meant so I could focus better on the show's plot.
The tsukkomi/boke comedy in anime involving unecessary physical/emotional violence never fails to amuse me. I don't watch much anime these days but I have become interested in Japanese culture.
The Miko shrine maidens, Shinto shrines themselves, Geisha, tea ceremonies, Onsen, no tipping in restaurants, general lack of DEI, and so on and so on. All things that I wish the US would adopt.
Thus I've been on a journey, for a few years now, to pass the JLPT N5. I've bought many books on this but it's always turned into a 5 minute study session followed by 30 minutes of youtube.
Result: I can read common kanji compounds like 野菜、電話、入口, without furigana now and from memrise practice I know pretty much all hiragana/katakana. However I just can't power through the grammar parts.
SO I've signed up here: https://www.tokiniandy.com/
It's $10 a month and my hope is that this course dumbs it down enough for me to stick to it for longer than 5 mintues a day. I know some N5 stuff now so I hope it can boost me to N4 level this year alone.
I don't mean to shill this course and I have no idea if it will even be worth it. However my plan is to post updates here every week or so and let you all know how it's going.
I hope that this will help other anons here struggling with learning Japanese. It's an amusing/mysterious high-context language (see honne/tatemae) but it will break you especially with grammar.
Still, the challenge can be quite fun. Which is why I refuse to drop it. Gonna start tomorrow (today?) night so stay tuned.
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Say hello or whatever
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I've noticed that I'm always putting much more effort into my relationships with people than they put with me.
People don't even remember my birthday. I met this girl a few years ago who complained nobody remembered hers and I made the point to remember it, but when it was my turn, nothing.
Sometimes I feel like I don't even exist.
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I maintain friendships with friends I made in middle school and put effort into those relationships, but when it comes to new friendships I'm somewhat lazy about it. Especially online friends. Well, the reality is when I'm online, I probably don't want to synchronously chat with you. Especially not on some horrendous "service" like Discord. I'd probably be more receptive to an online friendship if someone was willing to correspond over email.
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Is that it? No more personal computers?
Money isn't worth shit anymore and datacenters literally took all the hardware in the world, I need to work several months to afford a new computer
Life is so fucking shit in 2026, I hate it
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>>707 (OP)
It's not that bad yet but you are gonna have to settle for used computers for a while. An optiplex may not seem too appealing at first until you realize they're upgradable. New PSU + used GPU can get you by.
We'll know SHTF when >>710 comes to pass. There's only so much you can take from the have-nots until they begin to realize that they're more dangerous organized together than they are crying about it on twitter and se no way out other violence.
I hope some kind of middle ground can be reached soon. Violence just breeds more violence until nothing is left. It's morbid to think about but imperial Japan learned that the hard way when they became the first nation to have nuclear bombs dropped on its civilians. The rich must at some level understand that they are nothing without us.
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>>1315 (OP)
I love the squeaky gate call from Blue Jays, so much energy goes into this one call, they often bob up and down as if they're excited or furious when they make it.
Source is morelesleythebirdnerd1070 on youtube
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Why aren't people having kids anymore? Is there any way birth rates can be raised or is this the new normal?
Imo people are having fewer kids because they're marrying and even dating less often. A lot of people talk about money, but there's the least of the problems.
50 years ago most high school kids dated, nowadays only a minority do. Nowadays we have a lot more virgins and people who never dated.
Standards are sky high and people have no patience for human interaction anymore, guys would rather watch porn over pursing sex. Simping is rampant, be it the guy leaving likes on instagram, the guy on tinder swiping on a million women without getting a match, or the guy on twitch sending money to his dream gamer girl.
Girls end up in soft harems where 10% of guys fuck most women, they are told they need to marry a multi-millionaire while being broke, they are told their normal boyfriends aren't good enough.
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Found an old folder with some imageboard stuff
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Japanese anon is mad
From 2018 and originally from 2006
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Post whatever comes to your mind
I saw this image and was wonder, is feeling like an outsider just the normal autistic experience? My earliest memory was feeling like an outsider when I started school. I've had this feeling my whole life
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