Yeah, they really did need Kanji. The amount of things that are read as こう is getting ridiculous.

>>34066
I think what really helped me understand the necessity of kanji was seeing an RPG write out an uncommon word with hiragana and scratching my head over what the fuck they meant.

Ive been studying for quite some time now. There has always been much ado about "this method" or "that method", but in reality you should use whatever works best for you, regardless of what the "community" is using. After all it's unreasonable to expect the same method to work for everyone else. I lost too much time with Anki and the "Antimoon" stuff, because at the time every guide said "Do your reps", "Grind Anki", but it never worked for me. This whole AJATT thing doesn't interest me either. What I do is I learn Kanji by grade, as they do in Japan, by writing via an app and then on paper, and write it on a 10x11 sheet with a pencil, then I redo the strokes of the same kanji over the original, but with a color pencil, using 6 different colours for stroke ordering. This leaves me with a sheet containing 110 learned characters and I can see the stroke order just by glancing at it.

I agree partially with you OP. Actually in my country I've seen many people treating even English that way, to the point of want to speaking with the accent of a determinate news broadcast network accent because it's international and others are wrong or just the local accent as well, all with the intention of "going unnoticed that he is not an native speaker"
>If somebody ever sees their face, they'll still know they're not Japanese.
These are my exact thoughts on the situation.
>Is this just a goal anybody has because of how ethnically homogenous Japan is?
I know people who try to do with English, so I don't think it has anything to do with ethnicity, at least it's more likely that you could pull it off in more diverse countries such as Canada.

>>34064
>I feel like I'm doing pretty good so far
Seems to me that it is effective for you.

>>34073
>I learn Kanji by grade, as they do in Japan
I don't know about that. I don't know what methods they actually use(colored pencils?) or if those kanji lists are intended as study material they learn in class, or as bench marks, like "if you're in grade 6, you should at least know this already". I've read somewhere, kanji is "learned" in Japan purely through context, vocab words and such. Japanese people look at how kanji is learned by westerners and are bewildered. Don't know how credible this is though.

I used to learn them on their own in a similar, but less rigorous way to what you do up to grade 4, but I stopped because even if prior kanji knowledge is helpful every once in a while, it seems like many common words have their own kanji which is rare anywhere else. I just learn words now and accept whatever kanji comes with them, passively noticing patterns. There's other things that could be done in that time.

reimubrator

birth certificate

future

sins of future past

Ride on

The three types of bicycles are comfort, speed and mountain.
This is one for comfort.
Features:
* wide seat
* upright riding position
* high handles
* lowered frame-bar for easy mounting & dismounting
* usually comes with a basket in the front

Bicycle is a ticket to ride...

>>33617
sometimes when biking the safest place to be is in the middle of the car lane

>>34009
>now "fandom.com"
I had no idea they were actually affiliated, which is embarrassing since the change to that absolutely ruined anything of value they hosted and made it unreadable.

>>34014
If i'm looking at the english monster girl encyclopedia wiki, the last things I want to see are star wars and cape shit ads.

>>33995
Just tried it again. Forgot how fast it is...

>>34058
Board velocity doesn't mean anything if 95% posts are worthless filler and garbage.

>>34045
Interesting. Good luck.

>>34043
It has also been shown to reduce resting energy expenditure and many of the effects it does have seem to be temporary or taken out of context(such as the increase in growth hormone which doesn't actually build muscle). These things seem to balance themself out over the long term, there haven't been that many studies in humans but they often tend to show that when two groups are given the same caloric intake their weight doesn't change whether one group is fasting or not. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/90/5/1244/4598111

But it will still reduce caloric intake so I think fasting or skipping breakfast can be useful but only on a personal level if you yourself feel you can get away with it.

>>34047
Pretty weird study design. What they had their participants do during the IF portion has little to do with what I'm doing.

>>34046
thank you

>>34038
>I also just ordered an exercise bike
It arrived today. I just spent 90 minutes pedaling with my pulse between 90 and 110 while playing Koi-Koi with my Japanese Steam friend, so it works as intended so far. The seat does get uncomfortable after about an hour, but luckily the desk can be adjusted for use as a standing desk when my butt needs a break.

I do tai chi

>>30438
Listen to music and read science fiction.

>>33643
Second going for a walk. Something about leisurely walking around without an aim while everyone else in the world is hurrying to do truly meaningless shit is cleansing and relaxing. It's not good if you live in crime or snow though.

Aside from that, hot tub or massages help temporarily, drinking hot tea, ASMR or sleep hypnosis. And this sounds counter-intuitive, but if I exercise it takes tension and stress out of my body, which in turn helps my ability to relax later.

I shoot

I tend to put serveral pillows under my head so my neck doesn't hurt. While I prefer lying down with my laptop like that over using my desktop when I'm tired, I tend to not do it a lot because the area where I place the laptop (so either the chest or bladder area) will just end up hurting a lot.

Use a tablet

I used to, but I go out of my way now to seperate my sleeping area from my entertainment area. They're still in the same room, but the little bit of seperation helps me maintain my sleep routine.
>>33998
Tablet keyboards are hell.

I own a few pillows like the one in this picture. In my opinion, using my laptop in bed with one of these pillows is significantly more comfortable than sitting at a cramped desk. I keep an extra monitor by my bedside in case I want to view anything in higher quality or use an extra screen. Very comfy.

>>31569
Ditto. Although I have most of it back thanks to pirates (thanks guys, whoever you all are!), the floppies and manuals would made a nice keepsake...

>>31260
I sold all mine like 10 to 15 years ago, and I regret it immensely. Some of them are worth a lot more now, but I mostly just miss the memories.

I sold my VHS collection.. probably sold it too cheap but I need my space back

>>31253
is that an elementary school girl in a tiny skirt smoking a cigarette?

>>33678
Any place where people can't be shamelessly passionate about something is not worth being in. A big part of normalfaggotry is reeling in your interests, either in content or intensity, so as to not diverge from what's considered acceptable. Even among people who do seem "abnormal" on the surface, like those on wizardchan or some incel forum or who go to anime conventions, have the same mindset. Instead of revelling in how society sees you because of whatever you lack that's considered valuable, it's better to simply reject society's value scale.

Post edited on 17th Nov 2019, 4:40am

>>33677
>>33679
>Normalfaggotry is more defined by a conformity-first mindset and certain attitudes.
I think this is a good characterization. They have an unconscious tendency towards conformity (either not realizing this action, or justifying it based on some superficial reason). This is usually accompanied by a desire to jostle for social prominence, which probably is in and of itself the primary distinguisher. Most actions are carried out towards that end: "watching anime" is not merely a comforting medium to be enjoyed in solitude but rather perverted into a competition to see who can be the most outspoken "weeb," overtly marking oneself as part of some supposed trendy in-group. Going to anime conventions becomes merely an avenue for partying with friends.

>>33682
That's what exactly is. And that's what always bothered me of people. At the end it's all about socializing, even with weirdos, it all ends in the same. And I think females are probably 100% about that while some males can show some genuine appreciation, but social pressure makes them cynical.

Advertising is bad.. mmkay?
http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/litter-on-a-stick/

>>33173
You define it for yourself.
>>33175
The characters don't age, but how you see characters their age will change depending on your own age. Like, for instance, I used to think of Keitaro from Love Hina as an adult because I was a child at the time that I read and watched it. My perspective of him hasn't changed, because it's locked into my experience at that point in my life. But if I watch an anime now with a character in their early twenties, I think of them as children.

>>23994
Ara ara

>>24000
Original or not this is a high quality post.

>>33174
the manga is slam dunk but obviously its an edit