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@ isyasad @lemmy.world

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  • What is your up- & downvote behaviour?

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  • I don't have strict standards, but generally:

    • usually upvote someone who responds to me with something substantial, even if I disagree
    • downvote things that are antisocial (self-hate/self-harm, antinatalism, misanthropy)

  • Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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  • Remember some years ago when people were posting online like "in Russia it's illegal to post this picture of Putin 🤣" with this pic?

    Now that's the USA.

  • Non-Japanese Native Speakers: How long were you watching anime before you are comfortable with watching your first episode without subtitles?

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  • As someone who actually did learn Japanese through watching anime, it took me about 3 years. I started watching anime regularly in 2018 and when I was watching Hori-san to Miyamura-kun in 2021, the last two episodes had not been subtitled, so I watched them raw and mostly understood it.

    A lot of people will say that it's impossible to learn just via watching anime, but have not actually tried it. Yes, if you have subtitles on, it's easy to let yourself totally ignore the Japanese. But it's not impossible, and if you are focused, you can still learn even with subs turned on.

    Later on, I started taking classes in Japanese at college and started learning a lot more. But just knowledge from watching anime was enough to pass an oral placement test and skip the first 2 semesters. If you are serious about learning Japanese, I recommend taking classes or studying it seriously online. There's also better input resources than anime such as streamers or even conversation analysis audio for linguistics research.

    But I am convinced that anime is still a very good tool because many people like anime and are already very motivated to watch it. This is a very big strength because the biggest obstacle to learning language is giving up. This, combined with Japanese's very very simple grammar and verb conjugations actually makes it a very easy language to learn, imo.

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  • What length of hair did you have?

  • Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback?

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  • Imo, pre-2012. I think you could also argue that 2018 or 2020/2021 is the start of the modem era of anime, or even 2006.

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    What were some computer programs and games you grew up with?

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  • Whatever you are... MAKE ME A PIZZA (Zoombinis)

  • What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

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  • Picture is of "Front Mission" (1995). I've never played or heard of it, tbh it is just taken from the Wikipedia page for tactical RPG.

  • The state of YouTube history search

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  • Better to just use browser history, OP could search "YouTube cream" and likely find it. I had to change my settings to stop Firefox from deleting my oldest pages in history though.

  • Based off of rule-life interactions with web-life

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  • Neon Genesis Evangelion, scene where

    Misato's sex life is being revealed to everybody through some kinda mind-sharing singularity kinda thing, iirc

  • PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?

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  • Agree with Gordon Freeman 100%. I might also suggest the Guide from Terraria and the CS:GO player models. Maybe also the player character from Noita, the goat from Goat Simulator, Quote from Cave Story.

    These ones may be more niche, but for me personally I would also add Guy Spelunky, Princess Remedy, and Worm (Worms Armageddon).

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  • Depends on which part of them needs to be blessed?

  • it has it for you rule

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  • Couldn't figure it out for a bit, the censored word is "jizz"

  • New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu'

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  • I don't believe it actually bans "Pikachu" when spelled as 光宙 because ピカチュウ is actually a pretty reasonable reading, although maybe not the #1 most obvious one. Based on a random Japanese article I read about it (link), I really don't think 光宙/Pikachu will be technically illegal, although all the English articles will say so because it's click fodder.

    The law bans: things that are not related to the kanji reading at all, things that add unexpected extra stuff on the end of the obvious reading, or things that mean the opposite of what the kanji means.

    I don't believe any of this applies to Pikachu, and the examples they cite are not really comparable.

  • Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months

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  • In 10 months, Dark Souls III will be 10 years old

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  • Geoff Lindsay is great

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  • I'm gonna pretty decisively say "no".By the very nature of memes, you don't know if they are talking about real events or just joking, you don't know who created it or their biases, and you only get an EXTREMELY simplified perspective & information. You are also limiting the news that you see, maybe missing out on something important in favor of something funny (not to imply that we should maximize the amount of news we see).

    I disagree with your point B about memes, that they don't ask you to pick a side. I feel like memes are often more biased than traditional news. Even in cases where news is extremely biased, you can be aware of the bias and judge them consistently because they are not anonymous.

  • Can you read and understand this passage?

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  • You say in another comment that this is indicative of a failed American education experiment, and that there's a generation of illiteracy. I'm not saying that's wrong, but it's a much bigger generalization than "Kansas English undergrads" (which is such a specific category, why should I care about data that relates specifically to Kansas English undergrads?).

    But my main gripe is the use of just one text. "People cannot understand this one book (therefore literacy is deficient)" is a much less convincing argument than "people cannot understand these 6 popular books from this time period" or "these 30 randomly selected fiction works" etc.Is it well-established that Bleak House is representative of all the works we think about when we consider "literacy" and "illiteracy" as people's ability to understand texts?

  • Can you read and understand this passage?

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  • This is interesting but with n=85 and Bleak House being the ONLY sample text they use, I wouldn't really put much trust in the results.

  • What’s it like to have a high IQ?

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  • It's tough having a high IQ. Most people don't understand the world and the flaws of humans, at least at the level I do. As such, I find it hard to connect to other people. Most people are morons. I feel deep sorrow in knowing the direction the world is going and that the inhabitants of the world are mostly idiots.

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    Why do so many people (in this thread) unironically feel this way? "Intelligence" is a socially constructed and often useless idea that includes and excludes many things seemingly at random. For example, chess is often thought of as something that's very intelligent, but skill at chess is (just like nearly anything else) based on practice & experience. Just because you're good at chess and did well in school doesn't mean that you alone can understand the problems in the world at a deeper level than an average Jo.

    Everyone should read "What Is Intelligence, Anyway?", a short excerpt from Isaac Asimov.

    I'll paste the part I think is most important, but the whole thing is worth reading:

    Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I'd prove myself a moron, and I'd be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.