SR-2K$ Lounge: How the hell does NuRK work?

DukeC · June 10, 2017, 8:22am

Gasaraki:

XthAtGAm3RGuYX:

Has anybody here ever actually learned japanese? I’ve been kinda fucking with it, mainly because it annoys me when something comes out and I have to wait for somebody to translate it. My issue right now is trying to remember the hiragana. I can remember about 15 or so but I’m starting to blank the other ones. I feel like I’m missing some secret tech to remember what sound all the characters represent. The ones I know of the top of my head are no, mu, shi, a, o, i, ni, u, ha, ho, and n. I’m forever mixing up my ro, ra, and ru.

I’ve been studying it for 8 years. Not straight exactly, there’s definitely been some breaks but I can hold a conversation and if I don’t understand something, ask them and get answered in Japanese just fine. Technical vocab is still beyond me as well but that’s moreso because I’ve been lazy with studying vocab lately

For the kana, I just brute forced it and studied it like 1 to 2 hours every day, but I was also practicing writing them. In two weeks I recognized em, and in a month I knew em. Though, since I haven’t practiced writing in ages I can’t quite remember how they look just in my head, but I know them well enough to recognize both type and handwritten now

If you want some free materials/advice, just let me know

Kashiyukasthighs:

Unless you can pull off 3-4 hours of studying a day I wouldn’t bother learning any language.

1 hour a day but consistent is definitely enough.

Go ahead and send those my way as well. I’ve always been meaning to study it myself, but, you know. Procrastination.

Gasaraki · June 10, 2017, 8:39am

@XthAtGAm3RGuYX @DukeC

The two main sources I used are:
http://www.nihongoresources.com/language/grammar.html
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete

The former gets into the nitty gritty, so if you learn better when you know why, that will be very useful. The later is less detailed but more direct and to the point. I used both at different times.

For learning words I suggest downloading Anki or memrise (which are both basically flashcard programs) and just looking for decks on Japanese vocab. Alternatively you can find/build your own decks with sentences and/or collocations which it can be argued are a generally much better way to learn words as you’d essentially be making flashcards for words that are including context. I was too lazy to ever make a deck like that though so I did it the harder way, just the words.

For practice writing sentences I suggest websites like italki or lang-8 as you can post in the language you are learning, get corrected by natives, and correct people who are learning your native language. Either that or just hire a tutor if you prefer that.

Jion_Wansu · June 10, 2017, 8:56am

Casinos are the video game arcades for adults…

Raij1n · June 10, 2017, 9:29am

so McDonald’s can stay in business

Darksakul · June 10, 2017, 9:37am

Some people are into big girls

TS · June 10, 2017, 9:49am

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2 is fun. I played Xrd but skipped Rev1 because the PC version was delayed (6 months of PS3/PS4 exclusivity). If you’ve always wanted to mess around with GG, Rev2 is a pretty good place to start. If you remember the dope training modes from VF4:evo on PS2 that taught you about the game and the meta, it has some of those, and more.

Dangerous_J · June 10, 2017, 9:55am

I guess Barry Allen is a fan of Starhammer’s MGTOW thread.

Hmm? what was I thinking? Marriage? and to a black girl?
OH HELL NAW SON!!!

I’m going to miss you all (smiles). (walks boldly into swirling vortex)

Men going their own wormhole…

Infernoman · June 10, 2017, 10:10am

HOW DARE YOU! She is a proud large woman. Looks don’t matter! It’s what’s on the inside that matter!

pedoviejo · June 10, 2017, 10:47am

Yeah, and that’s fine.

But churching this up as curvy? What are eucleadian shapes.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX · June 10, 2017, 12:35pm

Gasaraki:

@XthAtGAm3RGuYX @DukeC

The two main sources I used are:
http://www.nihongoresources.com/language/grammar.html
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete

The former gets into the nitty gritty, so if you learn better when you know why, that will be very useful. The later is less detailed but more direct and to the point. I used both at different times.

For learning words I suggest downloading Anki or memrise (which are both basically flashcard programs) and just looking for decks on Japanese vocab. Alternatively you can find/build your own decks with sentences and/or collocations which it can be argued are a generally much better way to learn words as you’d essentially be making flashcards for words that are including context. I was too lazy to ever make a deck like that though so I did it the harder way, just the words.

For practice writing sentences I suggest websites like italki or lang-8 as you can post in the language you are learning, get corrected by natives, and correct people who are learning your native language. Either that or just hire a tutor if you prefer that.

Thanks I’ll check that shit out later

She is curvy. As in she bends the fucking scale when she stands on it.

ThePurpleBunny · June 10, 2017, 12:42pm

She’s curvy in that she curves spacetime to a significant degree.

Hatred_Edge · June 10, 2017, 12:44pm

Because calling girls fat hurts their feelings. And since feelings matter more than facts, it’s easier to believe the lie if everyone else says it too. Some of you have wives and girlfriends. Hell, it even applies to your mother. You know damn well all of you walk on egg shells around them. And why would you do that? Because if you tell them the truth, she’ll cry, throw fits, and possibly get violent.

This is basically the same idea as calling women strong. If people say it and it makes me feel good, IT MUST BE TRUE!

StockyJam · June 10, 2017, 1:00pm

shes got curves in all the wrong places man.

StockyJam · June 10, 2017, 1:02pm

also i cant believe no one here is talkin about dragonball fighters made by arc system works. shocked. lemmie check the dbz thread which i havent yet

Blindknagg · June 10, 2017, 1:36pm

@Manx

Million · June 10, 2017, 1:37pm

sheeeeit, I’m looking forward to a new DBZ fighting game…

…but it sadly reminds me of the old Budokai… I don’t remember what company made that, but that one was aggravating, man… soooo many questionable or outright stupid aspects of the game…and little shitty details like —I remember there was either no Zarbon or there was a Zarbon but with NO CAPE. Yeah…it is now several years later and I’m STILL pissed about that little detail. How in the hell you put Zarbon in the goddamn game with no cape? Get the fuck out with that horseshit. Devs were either just lazy as hell there (didn’t want to bother with the extra animation/graphics, etc) or someone in the crew actually hates the character and that was their little way of pissing on him.

*The Leykis segment was disappointing— despite her being the Jesus fan… Tom didn’t tear into her like I assumed he would. The other callers kinda had the kid gloves on too, sadly. It’s amazing no one really tore into that…closest were a few callers saying “eh fuck Jesus.”…haha one dude called in just to say that.

Surprising to see you back here lately… it’s been years…sheeit, I’ve been here too damn long… but oddly enough, I can’t resist— this is still way better than the restrictive “everyone play nice” kindergarten “rated G” atmosphere of facebook as I’ve ranted about recently…fuck that place. (*and I never bothered with other social media sites…for me; instagram only exists for hot women to take various sexy pictures of themselves…nothing more, nothing less…and I don’t care for twitter.)

Hatred_Edge · June 10, 2017, 1:52pm

But Twitter has porn. It’s the only reason I use it along with Tumblr.

dab00g · June 10, 2017, 1:54pm

Never post seriously in the other threads or take anybody seriously on casual racism and bias

Or else this place becomes neogaf

You are all cock sucking gay fucktards

I hate all of you except for @“Geese Pants”

Blindknagg · June 10, 2017, 3:32pm

Speaking of Neogaf its owner posted this some time ago.

This is all very reminiscent of what happened to off-topic for a couple months post-election. Of course, that madness turned out to be directly induced through sabotage by a now-former admin secretly banning hundreds of members totally outside of any justifiable grounds (not that any attempt at justification was made to begin with, being undisclosed and undocumented bans) in some 85-90% of each of those bans that were subsequently investigated after we became aware of the incident.

NeoGAF is a discussion forum; the whole point is to disseminate information and debate it, on civil terms, in an atmosphere that encourages healthy skepticism, fact-checking and credible sourcing, challenging preexisting worldviews and talking points and biases by providing a platform for a diverse audience to contribute, etc. And yes, the site does lean progressive, because it is inclusive and evidence-based and intolerant of hate speech. But while there are core values associated with this place, there’s no point in discussion without providing a framework that allows for multiple perspectives to engage with each other.

I mention all this because, particularly for those couple months I mentioned when anyone trying to operate in good faith within the aforementioned parameters I’ve set up for this place ended up sniped en masse, Off-Topic suddenly became unrecognizable to me some 15 or 16 years after we set this side of the forum up. The place kinda turned into what this Evergreen outcome sounds like: with everyone who tried to contribute to civil discourse systematically thrown down the well, the remaining members either stayed silent or radicalized up, and we were left with a squad of polarized “progressives” unwilling to have a conversation with anyone about issues, repeating the same talking points in every thread to each other in a self-righteous echo chamber, newly confident that any non-conformity would be driven out or otherwise made to disappear. This was not just ostracizing people attempting to challenge reductive, exclusionary “with us or against us” polarized rhetoric, either (and that should absolutely be challenged), but also anyone even trying to have a conversation within that radicalized bubble. People were driven out, character assassinated, labeled traitor for “not sounding angry enough,” or for not being entirely on board with ostracizing someone else for the same reasons.

There’s nothing righteous, informed, or progressive about that. It’s just a sanctimonious, vitriolic, self-destructive circle jerk that drives out the kind of people most valuable to discussion: not the “retweet my Side and quote it in yells or else you’re The Enemy” people, but the people engaging on each individual issue with critical thought and an open mind, willingness and capacity to perform independent investigation into the materials initially presented, come to an independent conclusion and present it, and to allow the same from folks who have made similar effort but with different credible sources or different justifiable conclusions than your own.

That’s the sort of thing I’m seeing here. Professor’s conclusions about the event that prompted the protests should certainly be challenged, but he did justify his positions reasonably and stay civil throughout the argument he presented. Yeah, that annual event change-up is a complicated issue, as we can see by all the folks here struggling with the right and wrong of it, so it’s absolutely a legitimate topic for an academic debate. And that’s all he did: debate the merits of it and the campus ethics of an exclusionary event with what he felt were undercurrents of pressure to comply or end up branded a racist/traitor/whatever.

…and now we’re seeing exactly that, with an aggressive push for his removal, threats against him, and even an order issued that the chief of campus police not take measures to ensure the professor’s safety on campus.

Smear campaign articles posted earlier here that attribute swastikas being spraypainted by some apparent alt-right dickwads who have involved themselves here, and doxxing alleged to have occurred at some point along the way by third parties unrelated to the professor (alt-right again apparently latching onto this), all somehow ultimately being the the fault of this progressive activist Jewish professor (who as far as I can tell has sound credentials, and who one of his long-time students personally vouched for in this thread as someone who wouldn’t have a disingenuous, racially motivated angle with this thing) for daring to break formation and have an academic conversation that scrutinized something on “the progressive side” that day.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

World isn’t binary, folks. Hyper-partisan, radical, binary, “us or them” environments with constant purity tests demanding adherence to the pre-established talking point of the hour breeds ignorance, intolerance, hate, and self-destruction.

This is why we talk about things. This is why diversity of background/ethnicity/orientation/culture is important within an environment like a campus or a message board: not just as an outcome better representing the diversity of the population it’s pulling its membership body from, but critically for the diversity of perspective that results from that intense microcosm you’ve built, and the insight and nuance of thought it can bring to each participant when they share an appropriately moderated space and each have a fair voice.

That’s why we talk about things.

Reticently · June 10, 2017, 3:33pm

https://twitter.com/CosyFT/status/872785986652123137