Get_Off_My_WLAN
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Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!
- Comment on PISS 5 hours ago:
Maybe something like the plastic balls that are filled with bright orange dye that they have in convenience stores in Japan to throw at escaping shoplifters.
But with piss, of course.
- Comment on One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI 4 days ago:
“I am now competing with illustrations that may have been trained on my own work without permission.”
That's fucked up.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
Both are possible. I got to N2 in one year as a full-time student in Japan by studying (school + at home) around 6-8 hours per day. People outside of Japan don't get as many chances to actually use the language, so the same amount of study of course might yield less in that case.
Most westerners take 2-3 years (3-4 hours per day) to get to N2, which is reasonable. So my hours are about the same, just I crammed two years into one (because I really needed to).
Whereas many Chinese speakers tend to pass it in less than a year of getting to Japan because they already have a huge head start on kanji knowledge.
The relationship with languages you already know changes things a lot. The proximity and opportunities to use it are really important too, I think.
Practically every European I've met has pretty good English, I've noticed that. But most people in Japan I've met don't. Many, if not, most of them studied it in school. They also get tested on it as part of university entrance exams. But most of them don't need it much outside of those contexts, so I don't blame them for not being able to speak English either.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
Most people don't really understand how many total hours of purposeful learning and actual usage is needed to become proficient.
For Japanese, it typically takes people who can't already read 漢字 about 1,325 hours to reach N3 (conversational), and 2,200 for N2 (roughly business). That means if you want to get to N2 in only one year, expect to study like five to eight hours a day.
So don't feel too bad if you can't.
Or do, and use that frustration to motivate your study.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 4 weeks ago:
It always bothered me how so many Twitter users in Japan just kept using Xitter after everything Musk has done to it, like they're not even aware. I think the language barrier has been filtering some of it out until now.
But,
I am not afraid of AI; I believe in its future and potential. However, I cannot accept my work being used, learned from, or exploited without my consent.
Boichi, that's what's been happening with AI to everybody's art this entire time!
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Bro, why you being so hostile.
People can enjoy multiple, different mediums with different ways of communicating artistic vision.
While having unlimited actors can be great, it doesn't mean the opposite situation is automatically bad and unenjoyable. Nor does having a great cast and budget guarantee a good movie. There are so many instances of fans saying "I liked the book better" than the movie/TV adaptation.
You gotta let your own assumptions be challenged a bit.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Tons of people listen to audio books too. There's usually only one voice (actor), but they're pretty good at giving each character their own distinct voice and personality.
Good actors know how to do many roles and convince you they're a different person.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 2 months ago:
If you drive the same roads every day, you can start to pick up on the pattern and timings. It's when it turns yellow in those times you feel almost too close to stop comfortably but too far to feel you'll make it that people will "squeeze the lemon" and accelerate through that yellow light, not that I recommend it.
Also glad I don't have to drive anymore.
- Comment on What are the visually-best anime you're seen? 4 months ago:
The animation is so crazy, it even bankrupted Madhouse at the time.
- Comment on International travel 4 months ago:
I met a Russian student studying abroad who was very intent on staying out of Russia as much as possible because he's aware of how messed up things are. Had very a good sense of humor. His jokes about Putin and the Russian government would be enough to get people there thrown in jail.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988) for sure! One of my personal top anime of all time.
And it's not just space battles. It has tons of (fictional) history, strategy, and political philosophy.