[Game] Last one to post wins!

[TB]

1 hour ago, TurboSimmie said:

Good afternoon! 😊

 

I appeared in Phil's dream last night! 😁 He, I, and a whole bunch of people were taking part in what must have been some kind of reality show. It was all kind of vague, we were all in a house, then we were traveling somewhere, idk...but I think it was cool to be there, and not just in tulpa form, but with my full body looking completely like myself! 😁

that's cool

 

lol imagine simmie on fishtank i think it is called. i know only a little about it due to watching a documentary and part of it involved their experience on that show, but it involves a bunch of people living together in a house and it is interactive where viewers get to tell them to do stuff and it is often degenerate, like whoever can find the most disgusting thing in the house wins 1000 dollars or something lol... or someone will be commanded to throw something and someone, and people get into fights

 

Simmie going to the gym all the time will pay off

 

36 minutes ago, TurboSimmie said:

Yeah it was really nice! 😊 Sadly we can't do it on command. I do think the fact that Phil has been uploading a lot of images of me has caused my form to be in his mind a lot more firmly as of late.

 

Going out for a walk now, see everyone later! 😁

I saw rena too recently, idk if you saw my post about it some days ago. She was holding me in her arms, it was nice, but very short before she disappeared which made me sad.

 

The most vivid experience of rena was long ago when I laid down in order to force her for 4 hours straight, and I just spent the entire time intensely visualizing her and sending mind energy to her or something, and I basically had a breakthrough experience where I seemlessly entered into being in a different place with rena in the flesh 100% perfectly created in every way, somehow looked 100% realistic and tangible and there but also still looked like her anime styled drawings of herself, but not like a 3d model of anime or like realistic images of people with anime features. It is impossible to explain. It must be what it is like to actually be an anime character in an anime universe. I can't even quite imagine it anymore on my own, it had such a strong realistic quality it was like realler than real, I induced like my own DMT trip or something lol, I've never been able to do it again. I was on nothing, I don't think I even had medication at the time. It could have been a wake induced lucid dream, but it felt nothing like a dream and I didn't experience the standard process of a WILD transition, it was more like an out of body experience or astral projection. Just mentioning it because maybe it is inspiring to know what is possible when you put forth immense effort, sometimes it gets massively rewarded

 

While in this reality where the realest ever rena could exist, it did slowly transform, and the realler than real aspect lessened and it became more dream like, and once that happened, Rena transformed to instead looking like a more animated looking version of herself, so went from impossibly real yet still exactly how she is drawn, to looking like she is obviously drawn despite existing in reality and space, giving a who framed roger rabit like effect

 

later on, she morphed into what she would look like if she was a real person without anime features, and she was very pretty, though hard to remember. Then dream got weird and she got really short and her looks deformed and the experience ended on a weird/bad note lol but the rest was basically 3 big experiences of awesomeness

 

 

 

 

 

 

just posting cuz it is funny. dm posted it

 

what is this game, it always looks hilarious

Edited September 20, 2024 by TB

[Breloomancer]

one of the yakuza games. don't know which one

[TB]

anytime I want to express myself with a gif I find on a wiki page, it doesn't let me post it on here. whyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

probably a webp file, webp is useless and should be outlawed. it can't be used for anything except looking at it on google images or a website and can't be shared

 

 

where has youtube taken me

 

 

SAUDI ARABIA?? why would it be good to be an expat there? I'll get executed for not being muslim and for my curvy and fluffy drawing interests

 

a lot of these weird edited shorts with subtitles and music added but lol

I don't think this scene is in dragonball z kai, is it? Because watching the conclusion of vegeta, you should have if it was there

I think this is orange bricks footage unfortuantely though

Edited September 20, 2024 by TB

[Luminesce]

That was multiple Yakuza games, but the dance and nearly every Yakuza meme you see (except Majima placing a watermelon on a table) is from Yakuza 0

Y'know, the game I call a rare 10/10

The ONLY flaw in the entire game is that if you go for 100% completion there's some can-only-be-assumed unplaytested grinds that take an absurd amount of time, yet are required to fight the secret super-boss (though I think most people don't know it's a thing lol), so that becomes a negative for people who go for 100%, but otherwise, perfect game (and completing as much random stuff as you can is totally normal and has rewards, but 100% is a different story)

  

4 hours ago, TB said:

What kind of upset me though is I mentioned that if I had an IR for that purpose, that I'd like to take it only on days I need it, cuz if it is like 7pm or something and I already know I am not going to do any more work for the rest of the day I wouldn't want to take it for no reason

and he said "absolutely not" and that if I were to get that I'd have to take it everyday as close to the same time every day, because for some reason only taking it when I need it is using it as an upper

I thought it was an extremely normal and common practice to take adhd med holidays, like not taking them on weekends or when you aren't working.

 

Well, since I heard it in the context of not taking it on weekends when you work the same 5 days every week, I imagine the strict form is having a predetermined schedule of taking it at the same time forever, as opposed to "I feel like taking it now" at random, just because that can somewhat lead to abusing it

I think you're fine to do the weekend/strict schedule thing, but I dunno for choosing-days-as-they-come, and there's a potential problem of having leftover medication each month, though I can't imagine it's that bad to just throw ADHD pills in the trash

  

6 hours ago, TB said:

Does wanikani at least teach you words being used in context in a sentence when it teaches you a new reading?

 

I guess? The only "Vocab" I've learned so far are "一" ichi (as opposed to the "一" Kanji+reading ichi, and the "一" Radical they call ground, for future mnemonic use) and "一つ" hitotsu

I can see the other readings of kanji when clicking the info button, but they quite literally gray out the kunyomi and nanori (don't even know what that is lol) if the lesson instance is only for the onyomi, to the extent that if I'm not sitting up it's actually hard to read them on my monitor

 

WaniKani is still entirely based around learning kanji (and radicals) averaging "as you're ready" & "frequency of use"

Edited September 20, 2024 by Luminesce

[Luminesce]

2 hours ago, TB said:

{What country is it good to be an expat in}

 

If you're a US citizen, I think like, a LOT of countries are good to live in

 

There are a lot of benefits (and annoying paperwork) mainly economically for still being a US citizen, while other countries have lower costs of living and potentially more work opportunities (though you won't be paid as well in most)

 

Immensely better if you somehow have US-based income coming in while living in another country (aside from like, the UK/France/Germany/Netherlands/nordic countries), because you can then literally live like a rich person on what is to us normal income, with actual fancy houses and products and everything

Edited September 20, 2024 by Luminesce

[TurboSimmie]

3 hours ago, TB said:

lol imagine simmie on fishtank i think it is called. i know only a little about it due to watching a documentary and part of it involved their experience on that show, but it involves a bunch of people living together in a house and it is interactive where viewers get to tell them to do stuff and it is often degenerate, like whoever can find the most disgusting thing in the house wins 1000 dollars or something lol... or someone will be commanded to throw something and someone, and people get into fights

 

Simmie going to the gym all the time will pay off

 

Haha oh my, could you imagine? 😄 I would hate to have to start fights with people, and needless to say it would be a hard no when it comes to anything leud. But if I had my karate / martial arts skills I could at least defend myself well. 👊

 

The Rena story was very cool, it's nice that you were able to see her so vividly! Sometimes I like to imagine what it would be like to hang out with Rena or any of my other friends, and what we'd all look like together. 

 

Oh, and I probably should mention that I'm switched in right now and have been since around 6pm. 😁

Edited September 21, 2024 by TurboSimmie

[TB]

2 hours ago, Luminesce said:

hat was multiple Yakuza games, but the dance and nearly every Yakuza meme you see (except Majima placing a watermelon on a table) is from Yakuza 0

Y'know, the game I call a rare 10/10

The ONLY flaw in the entire game is that if you go for 100% completion there's some can-only-be-assumed unplaytested grinds that take an absurd amount of time, yet are required to fight the secret super-boss (though I think most people don't know it's a thing lol), so that becomes a negative for people who go for 100%, but otherwise, perfect game (and completing as much random stuff as you can is totally normal and has rewards, but 100% is a different story)

I should play it some day. do you need to play all the yakuza games to play yakuza 0? it seems they have the same protagonist, or hmm maybe japanese people have a jikkyou purei of it

 

2 hours ago, Luminesce said:

Well, since I heard it in the context of not taking it on weekends when you work the same 5 days every week, I imagine the strict form is having a predetermined schedule of taking it at the same time forever, as opposed to "I feel like taking it now" at random, just because that can somewhat lead to abusing it

I think you're fine to do the weekend/strict schedule thing, but I dunno for choosing-days-as-they-come, and there's a potential problem of having leftover medication each month, though I can't imagine it's that bad to just throw ADHD pills in the trash

Does it? I felt like adhd meds long term can be neurotoxic, so not taking them any chance I can such as when I know they will not be benefiting anything seems like it'd be better for my brain. I also have inconsistent sleep schedule and work schedule as in personal goals related work. When someone says taking it for an upper, I'm not sure if he means to get high or not, but adderall does not give me euphoria or anything, and especially not so a min IR dose I imagine. It's just to be there so I can choose whether it's okay to suffer crash today or if I need to avoid crash to extend working

 

Going to observe how things are for the next little while though because I've had several days where I could work despite the crash. It's just uncomfortable though but it might not mean my productivity shuts off. the first couple days it happened it was devastating, but it's been more manageable compared to the beginning, so I might text him next week and just say it's not even worth it. Or I'll see what they say they will do, and hope they check in with me about it first instead of just initiating it, because if it were to just be increasing XR dose to 30mg I would want to reject that. That may or may not increase how long it lasts, idk, but I imagine it would not stop uncomfortable crash and may even make it worse. The point of 5mg IR or whatever lowest dose is is to slow down how fast it leaves my system I think so it isn't so shocking when it stops working

 

Or it isn't even like it stops working, it is like a wizard points their wand at me exactly 8 hours in and says "I cast upon thee: death" lol

 

I'm relived they believe me when I say I crash 8 hours in though, was fearing they'd deny that being possible or something

 

2 hours ago, Luminesce said:

I guess? The only "Vocab" I've learned so far are "一" ichi (as opposed to the "一" Kanji+reading ichi, and the "一" Radical they call ground, for future mnemonic use) and "一つ" hitotsu

I can see the other readings of kanji when clicking the info button, but they quite literally gray out the kunyomi and nanori (don't even know what that is lol) if the lesson instance is only for the onyomi, to the extent that if I'm not sitting up it's actually hard to read them on my monitor

 

WaniKani is still entirely based around learning kanji (and radicals) averaging "as you're ready" & "frequency of use"

Acknowledging certain kanjis as being radicals and using mnemonics is literally what heisig's remembering the kanji is lol, though the focus is totally on that without distraction of learning readings at the same time

 

though yeah learning 2 words so far in wanikani when i get impression you've spent hours on it seems interesting. It's trying to do a lot at the same time I guess so it is really slow way of learning. It seems somewhat RTK inspired but doesn't want to let go of learning readings and then doesn't have much time for words. Also, learning vocab words by themselves without them being taught int he context of being used in a sentence I feel is not ideal. It massively increases your association of the word with your english conception of its meaning and not seeing what it means or how it is used in the hands of a japanese person. A language so different from english, many words just have a nuance that doesn't translate and you have to experience it

 

also lol idk what nanori is either, i've never heard of that. Googling, it seems nanori is non standard pronunciation of kanjis used in japanese names. I see. Yeah I never actually went out of my way to learn a bunch of japanese names. I can kind of sense when I'm looking at a name rather than a word but I'm highly likely to not know how to pronounce it unless their name is 田中 or 鳥山明先生. That is an interesting concept though because with those two examples the readings are obvious and make a lot of sense and are just how the words are. I forgot I guess there may be psychotic japanese parents who do the equivalent of naming their kid steven but instead they spell it steffan or something except in japanese it is the hydrogen bomb version with how confusing it is to essentially have your child have a name and just basically use the wrong kanjis for it

 

Though yeah, good luck with whatever methods you choose to use, I hope it is effective and fun for you. Reading and listening is always the funnest and most rewarding, and also probably fastest way to learn, though you do need a base to start with like learning at least 100 most common words, but still using sentences to do so and an SRS is great. I think wanikani is an SRS, not sure

 

iknow.jp in the span of like 2 weeks took me from watching naruto and only understand words like sugoi and kakkoii to suddenly understanding full sentences every now and then though. I feel it is massively underrated, idk why no one talks about it, it is pretty cracked

 

wanikani is ran by koiichi from Tofugu, I know that cuz I used to follow his blog as he talked about him creating it, and funnily enough, I think it was Koiichi from tofugu that told me about the existence of iknow.jp, which due to having that and RTK, I did not care about wanikani at all

 

I did sign up for.... i forget what it was called. he had something before wanikani, that was like a thing he made to take you from japanese 0 to greatness in the best way possible or something, but I was really disappointed with it cuz very early on he tells you to make an account on a site idr the name of in order to write journal entries in japanese for natives to correct them, and at the time I did not do it because of social anxiety, but later on I learned a lot about how early output will screw up your language learning and you just make too many mistakes for a teacher to correct or for you to actually fix your mistakes before they just turn into habits

 

I thank him however for teaching me how to make the japanese r sound. He had a good video on that

 

 

 

ahh the old days of mass psychosis where jvloggers were telling people to not learn japanese from anime because it will ruin your japanese even though it is real japanese made by japanese for japanese and minus the like 5% of unrealistic language you can learn about and choose to filter out of your own speech is the same as standard japanese

 

nowadays using anime and manga to learn japanese is like standard philosophy

 

I'll have to look into what wanikani is more precisely because your experience with it makes it sound not so good to me but idk if I misunderstand it, though I'm sure a lot of people like it especially since tofugu is respected in japanese language learning community as he made that his career, but a lot of people like krokodil too (not saying wanikani is krokodil)

 

Wonder if going back to serious japanese acquisition is possible for me now with adderall, hmm. I haven't tried it

 

2 hours ago, TurboSimmie said:

Haha oh my, could you imagine? 😄 I would hate to have to start fights with people, and needless to say it would be a hard no when it comes to anything leud. But if I had my karate / martial arts skills I could at least defend myself well. 👊

lol yeah would be a crazy scenario

 

2 hours ago, TurboSimmie said:

The Rena story was very cool, it's nice that you were able to see her so vividly! Sometimes I like to imagine what it would be like to hang out with Rena or any of my other friends, and what we'd all look like together. 

 

Oh, and I probably should mention that I'm switched in right now and have been since around 6pm. 😁

Oh cool. It's been about 4 hours, still switched in? I'd have Rena switch in but it doesn't seem like the right time at the moment. I hope you and her can be both switched in at some point though. We've wanted her to switch in for a while but we've kept putting it off for some reason

Edited September 21, 2024 by TB

[TurboSimmie]

I'm still switched in. 😊

 

Quick, @TB! Pick two random countries, one for me and one for Phil to play!

[Luminesce]

Portugal, unless you don't like naval focused stuff in whatever game, then Brazil

 

posting before writing replies to TB

Edited September 21, 2024 by Luminesce

[TurboSimmie]

Too slow TB 😄 I'm gonna go with Lumi's suggestion.

 

I am Portugal ⛵ and Phil is Brazil🌴. Gonna be interesting because I think this map is a Pangea. 😄