When I was maybe 10, I wanted Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis more than anything. My mother, who is an attorney, said it was too violent. So in order to convince her, I built a strong argument and plied her with it non-stop. I would argue that I was a smart kid and all that crap about video games making you violent was garbage. The argument that finally won me my beloved MK was that she had let me watch RoboCop the year before, and I hadn’t gotten messed up by that. After that I was pretty much allowed to play or watch whatever.

It’s the earliest I can remember really forming a coherent argument with supporting facts and whatnot, and advocating for what I want. It’s a skill that would serve me quite well going forward. Well played, Mom.

I have Raycon Active buds. They’re great at staying in while sleeping or running or whatever. Kinda too expensive for the sound quality imo but the fit is really good, at least for me.

Yeah we basically never stopped fighting that war, it just went cold.

Hey hey monkey man, you keep that shit on Earth.

He kept raving about seeing an Insulindian Phasmid, and wouldn’t shut up about leftist theory.

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.

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.

Kokomo

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.

One of them is rich.

The EFCore change is pretty big. They’re basically changing how the data is accessed from the database so that would touch most of the software, so potential for new issues is fairly high. Hopefully it will improve performance and concurrency. If you are not comfortable with potential issues, I’d hold off on updating for a while.

For big chunks of your history you’re the greatest military force in Europe, but you lose to methed up racists one time...

This isn’t really on topic but I read Cujo like 15 years ago and I remember being struck by how very sad it is. Poor sick dog, bad situation all around. I guess I expected it to be scary, and it clearly has stuck with me.

And then this, even the author doesn’t remember the headspace he was in then, that affected me so much. Art is wild.

The show uses many different animation styles to show Bocchi’s internal thoughts and feelings. She’s just an adorable weirdo. It’s very funny.

It is an anime, Bocchi the Rock.