/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>21999652
what if i have 100s of one piece episode audio downloaded on my phone and i listen to them every day

JAV CARDS

>>21999652
i can and do

>>21999697
even then you probably can't

>>21999710
Why are people in this thread attracted to this goblin? She's not gonna help you learn Japanese

>>21999715
the people who like her already know it

>>21999715
no but her twitter is full of crap to make u realize what japanese ppl are really like

also no1 commented on this guys twitter when i posted it prolly cuz they just accept hes the real deal https://twitter.com/scottallister

imagine being that strapping of a lad and knowing japanese how can u ever compete

Can someone please help me out? I can only read:

いや
そうゆう??じゃ

>>21999727
イミ ??????????

>>21999727
いや　そういう意味じゃない

>>21999721
>that location
obsessed

>>21999735
u are with me also idk what ur even sayign but thx for being a fan

>>21999739
talking about his profile

>>21999747
oh far away from tromp lmao yah that dudes prolly got some nice takes if u ask him

>>21999731
Thank you so much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npGbkD0kFEw

>>21999763
isn't this that scump dude who plays CoD for optic

>>21999763
nope

i cant anymore... how do you people do this shit everyday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLiaFXFx9EM
beat reminiscent of background music in a chinese restaurant but i kinda dig it

>>21999763
these vlogs will never not annoy the shit out of me because they seem more like a rite of passage into the MIA cult than just wanting to document their journey. also the lack of structure is disgusting. do your future self and your audience a favor and use bullet points or a script and keep it brief. they take 10 minutes to explain shit that should only take 1 or 2.

>>21999773
lower your new cards, maybe even turn them off until you get your reviews down. and the more you're reading or listening the easier it feels to tolerate anki.

>>21999773
just click whatever, and don't stress about it. the only thing that really matters is reading

>>21999773
I had a backlog of 350+ cards a week ago. Cleared it in two days of intensive timeboxing. Settings that worked for me were 10 minutes of reps, then 3 minutes of anime immersion.

If you do core6k, make sure you have full sentence on the front, everything else on the back.

>>21999781
>>21999782
thx bros

>>21999773
How deep are you in?
I stopped worrying about it when i hit 2k and added new cards very slowly to manage my review counts below 300
I'll finish it off by the of the month. Finally

>>21999789
im 400 cards deep though i was busy for 4ish days and it eventually snowballed down to this, turning off new cards for now

>>21999784
gotchu, so the current cards are no good and i have to swap the single kanji with full sentences, neat

>>21999773
very easily

>>21999796
400 is nothing.
Just do your cards for a few days and your reviews go back to 150 a day

>>21999784
you might have ADD or being on the internet has fried your brain and attention span to the point of it being dead in the water. 350 reviews is like 40 minutes max and u needed "two days of intensive timeboxing" to get through it. what the fuck

>>21999824
You may be right. I didn't rep all day long though, so it took me two days to clear the whole thing. Once I get deeper into meditation, I think I will be able to rep faster. Today I had 180 reviews and did them all while waiting before and between classes in uni. Took about an hour. And I don't have any vocab/anime cards, only sentence cards, which take longer to rep.

>>21999773
Honestly in my first year of learning (which hardly was learning) I struggled with core as well. I needed slightly over a year to clear 6k and I really think if I had discovered anime cards sooner I could have saved me a lot of frustration. Now I get 250 cards done in less than 20 minutes.
Really don't think people should stick to core until the end. The second important thing is getting a lot of input. If Anki is the only environment where you encounter the things you are learning of course you'll struggle but if you read and watch shit every day Anki is just reading words and it's fucking easy. So watch more Japanese subtitled Anime

>>21999824
zoomers don't have functioning brains because they were brought up with tablets and shit with mobile games. im glad my family only got a PC when i was 7 and my first game was monkey island so i didn't grow up retarded

>>21999859
You say that but look at George, he is like 45 and still managed to fry his brain to the point he is no different from the average brain dead zoomer.

>>21999872
he just has low IQ im sure zoomers with high IQ can't spend 2 mins using anki without getting lightheaded because they haven't had an endorphin hit

>体
>身体

>>21999824
Holy FUCK you are right, my attention span and short/long term memory is fucked, am i eternally cucked to never learn nip

>>21999892
軀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm-v3Cw08HU

>>21999859
not growing up retarded ftw

Anki was a mistake

>>21999859
haha very funny george, bbq still on sunday?

>>21999892
>>21999912
臗

im honestly surprised most of you can even be bothered reading VNs/LNs and shit, since zoomers can't handle anything longform. QM admits he doesn't have the attention span for reading though

Quizlet's guide should have a paragraph on how to fix fried brain.

>>21999941
I think the most important thing is just having fun
you don't got to have a good attention span and whatever
I'm a zoomer who thinks books are and constantly shitposts on social media like 4chan
however I think anime cards are fun so I can do them, I think anime is fun so I can watch them and I think video games are fun so you know I got a shitton of things to do in Japanese that satisfy my zoomer brain
if I started learning Japanese by learning 2000 heisig memes I'd probably give up too lol

>>21999968
*books are boring

tfw zoomer and read 40 (non-japanese) books this year

>tfw manga isn't reading

>>21999992
Yeah, but were any of them good? Or were they generic airport/train station novels/general interest non-fiction?

>tfw i feel like a retard for struggling to read Gogol's 死せる魂 in Japanese

in 1 hour i will be reading manga

it's easy to build a reading habit, force yourself to read for 30 minutes a day, uninterrupted
turn off your monitor, phone, put on headphones with white noise
and keep doing it every day
it does wonders for your attention span

ok. gonna go prove God's existence through mathematics and explore the edge of the universe while you're at it

>>21999908
i mean i dont see why timeboxing wouldnt work if your cumulative hours spent on input is still high. it just seems like a hellish existence.

should i even bother with radicals? someone told me it helped him to make sense of niprunes when he began grinding kanji

>>22000050
It only works for stuff that I'm highly interested in, not for homework or anything else I'm not having fun with.

>>22000122
it can help but
you should read more

>>22000122
It does offer some advantage over trying to memorize the shape of every single kanji, but it's not gonna automatically to put you on the safe to being able to read Japanese. Even if you do RTK or KKLC, you could still misread something like 独特 as 蛇待.

>>22000122
read this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification

>>22000122
nah that shit is gay you could read through KKLC to get a basic idea though

>>22000136
>>22000149
so input > anki >>>>>> everything else
by input would jap subtitled anime be better than mango? or mango > anime

>>22000158
>>22000165
got it, will do

>>22000189
>by input would jap subtitled anime be better than mango? or mango > anime
voiced content is easier as a beginner plus daiweeb and animelon let u use yomichan on the subs

>>22000189
Stuff you enjoy > stuff you don't enjoy
If you've still not got a very good idea of how Japanese is pronounced, it would be better to stick to subbed anime and voiced visual novels for a while before diving deep into manga or other kinds of unvoiced material.

>>22000189
in the beginning nip subs are king but try to branch out to as many different things as possible that you find fun
also it's input>>>>anki>>>>>>>>>everything else

Are there any programs to input an epub and output unique words?

https://youtu.be/cUMBYpkLJkM very sad tale

>>22000237
You could unzip the epub to get the html file in it and run it through the Japanese Text Analyzer

>>22000149
>something like 独特 as 蛇待
lol what are you even talking about
this has never happened to anyone

okay here I'm giving you a test to check if you are kanji crippled or not, read this word:
喧伝 , are you done? now make sure you didn't read it as 宣伝 if you did I have bad news for you

>>22000149
wtf is 蛇待 lol

>>22000259
>>/jp/thread/S21866297#p21874588

>>22000263
I'm uncrippled

>>22000263
I'm crippled

>>22000272
RTK users are retarded and can't read Japanese yes that guy hasn't even attempted to read
suppose I get what you meant now though

>>22000263
very unfair test

>>22000205
thanks, never knew of animelon and daiweeb till now

>>22000216
>>22000224
so basically get more input than mindless anki grind

today i learned 結ぶ can also mean to close ones hand (after 2 years of learning lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZC0WBldv4

When are we going to have a matrix room? If there is one already, please link it. If not, let's create one. Discord won't abandon itself.

what we need is less chatting and more erogaming

>>22000321
i heard nakige is where it's at but i don't trust low t men

At one point in grade 4, there was this Japanese boy in my class. One day our school had a chess tournament and I got put up against him. Now keep in mind, I don’t look Japanese I never have, I’m not even Japanese, but I can understand and speak it pretty well. He kept muttering his next move in Japanese, allowing me to know what he was going to do. I ended up winning, and he was super confused. As I walked pass his desk later on that day, I simply said “Good game!” in Japanese. His reaction was priceless. We ended up becoming good friends afterwards.

how to become nanchou in 12 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ioWnSwsnI

>>22000317
wtf is a matrix room

>>22000327
このサイトで何をしていますか

>>21999922
nice digits

>>22000337
a chat room in a messenger that supports the matrix protocol. You need to register and choose a client - https://www.matrix.org/clients/

>>22000327
High t men wouldn't spend their time learning languages. They'd be learning to do finances, getting their dicks wet even with ugly-ass bitches, or liftin weights.

>>22000350
high t men don't base their interests/hobbies on societal norms, they just do whatever the FUCK they wanna do

>>21999773
I don't :^)

>>22000350
high t men kill their wife, autistic son, and then themselves in a fit of rage
definitely no room for learning japanese

>>21999781
>these vlogs will never not annoy the shit out of me because they seem more like a rite of passage into the MIA cult than just wanting to document their journey.
That's basically what they are.

The main reason Matt encourages people to make these is to spread the word and recruit more cult member paypigs to fund his NEETlyfe.

>>21999096
>Is the truth that acquisition of Japanese is so gradual that by the time you can consider yourself fluent the novelty will have worn off?
this is the wrong question to ask. the reason why the "novelty" (which is really just the enthusiasm of learning japanese and of getting better at understanding the stuff you wanted to learn it for) wears off is not an intrinsic quality of the process of learning japanese, but a result of the mental habits of the people who set out to learn it.

look at how neurotic most people in this thread are about this process. every unknown word is an "omg i suck" "this language is impossible". they do shit like count and compare their reading speeds and get upset when it doesn't match other people's. they take any improvement for granted, ignoring or quickly dismissing their gains, while always exclusively focusing on the things they (and others) don't know.

even if they do get fluent with this attitude, by that time the language will have become just another thing they beat themselves with. they don't feel excited about it at the "end" because they didn't allow themselves to feel excited about it during the process. they beat the enthusiasm out of it. they do it to themselves.

>>22000263
mined, i will not let this happen again!

>>22000350
low t men actually don't learn languages because they can't stay consistent with anything, have a very low motivation for anything and anything that doesn't spike dopamine is a no go. Low T makes men feel like shit but I wonder if males becoming a woman and doing estrogen shots don't feel like shit like low t men do and if not why

>>22000386
deep

>>22000386
Right, and a step below the people here is the person who greatly enjoys the novelty of learning. They're the karbin-tier LETS GOOOO types who feel crack levels of pleasure learning hiragana, enjoy about the first 5 kanji they learn, and then burn the fuck out once they realize just how much there is to study. Basically everyone on reddit does this, and you can see it happen every
single
day
There's a happy medium between these two positions, but most people are insecure and that will either manifest with torturing yourself into learning the language so you don't feel bad for quitting, or quitting the second it slows down.

>>22000386
you'd never really learn japanese without browsing djt. most people think n1 is the pinnacle of japanese proficiency even though it's possible to be complete garbage. you'd start resting on your laurels and never progress if you were in the reddit mindset of thinking you've made it just cause you have some ability to decode japanese at "n1 level". djt, while harsh, is a reflection of the realities of the world and the truth bomb a dedicated learner solely requires in their quest for proficiency.

>>22000429
sorely* requires

>>22000429
>you'd never really learn japanese without browsing djt.
wrong that's what matt is for.

>>22000429
even djt is fucking retarded when it comes to defining what it means to have japanese proficiency

most people on here consider themselves good when they can watch an anime and understand things, even if they have no speaking ability

>>22000448
why is that a retarded definition of good

woke up feeling like shit fuck

>>21999968
>I think the most important thing is just having fun
Agreed.

Unfortunately, this is more difficult than it sounds. Finding 面白い content, even in a language like Japanese, can prove quite challenging. Not being fluent is always going to reduce your potential enjoyment of something, and the further something is beyond your level, the more true that becomes. The beginning period when you are absolute shit at Japanese is especially tough to get through and really relies on you finding that one golden egg out there which is both relatively easy and fun & interesting (to you in particular).

>I think video games are fun so you know I got a shitton of things to do in Japanese that satisfy my zoomer brain
Here is one thing I specifically wanted to touch on in relation to the above point. Something like a game can really lose its entertainment value when you're having to break away from the gameplay to look up words all the time.

It's a simple fact that most things out there are garbage, though if you're prepared to dig a little, there are plenty of gems to be found... at least if you're a native speaker. As a second language learner, you might dig and still find gems, but many of them will be locked in chests that you don't have the keys to right now, so the selection of fun, interesting content available to you is much more limited than it otherwise would be.

The biggest challenge for me in my 2 years of learning by far has simply been the task of trying to find entertaining, engaging media to consume.

>>22000044
クソゲー

gonna try to do JET program in a couple years

>>22000469
If you're playing games that require you to look up that much stuff, break it down into chunks, or switch to a less text heavy game.
When I was working through Pokemon, I took a day to just learn everything in the menus. Then everything in the stat screen. Then a couple days later, I was out in the world, able to grind/battle as much as I wanted without needing to look anything up, and I could progress whenever I felt like I was ready for new content.
There's an anon here playing Zelda, which similarly doesn't have too much text once the game lets you out into the world.
There are other games too, but those are what I have experience with.

>>22000503
whats there to try literally anyone can get in to that shit lol

just be weary that you'll prolly be sent to the boonies somewhere. if u dont want to live in a tiny village full of old people then i suggest trying to get direct employment in a city u think ud like

>>22000469
When I was a kid I could play the same game over and over again without finding it boring or understanding the english text, throughout the years stuff grew boring faster and faster up till the point where I now don't play video games at all and don't find them really engaging. I did nosurf for 2 weeks and its effects are no joke. I remember going outside on the 10th day and it felt like it was the best day of my life. I was looking at a house and it was just the most divine thing I had ever seen in my life.

Is being entertained also not a skill that we can train? I wonder if Matt is right about meditation and that if you can have a clear mind in which there is no room for thoughts that everything just becomes more vibrant and thus easier since the quality of fun is drastically improved. Yet I don't think Matt has reached that point yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/cz80sl/finished_my_50th_vn_in_japanesein_under_2/
is this one u of guys? he sounds like a faggot but still i never thought id see the day where a r*dditor accomplished something. 50 vns and 50 novels in 2 years.

>>22000525
>I did nosurf for 2 weeks
what?

>>22000530
>I've already had finished ~14 VNs and I thought that was a lot at the time, each VN has like 40-100k sentences so I was confident in my reading but any time I'd try to watch some shows/youtube/tv without subs I'd struggle and mostly I'd struggle with kanji compounds and once I looked them up it turned out I should know those words already. I thought it was because I rely on kanji too much but now I know I was wrong. I just didn't know those words and the language as a whole well.
so when he was bragging about how much he knew last year because he "read so much" he still didn't know shit. that's why you can't take people at their word. they don't know how much they don't know.

>>22000420
>step below the people here is the person who greatly enjoys the novelty of learning
enjoying the novelty of learning is not in any way related to staying at a low level. they are two different dimensions. what determines if you get good or not is getting tons of compelling input and making it more and more comprehensible. that's it. what you're describing is people who simply don't do that. without that, no one's getting good, regardless of their attitude. but it's totally possible to fulfill the above requirements for getting good, while enjoying the novelty of every step. it's not an "in the middle" thing, but a "fulfilling both dimensions" thing.
>>22000429
note that i specifically said
>getting better at understanding the stuff you wanted to learn it for
nothing about N1. no one started learning japanese to pass JLPT. caring about any of those tests past a level of basic curiosity about how you'd fare on them, is a distraction. and i don't know about you guys but personally i was already achieving that goal of
>getting better at understanding the stuff i wanted to learn it for
far before i ever discovered DJT.

>>22000514
i probably prefer where cost of living is lowest i think they pay everyone the same

>>22000563
also somewhere where an earthquake probably won’t kill me

>>22000542
yeah no more djt I was hoping that I'd help my japanese in the end it did

As I haven't jacked off in 4 days and was fucking suffering with a permanent boner I decided to release that energy with a 4 kilometer run despite it being so late. Felt pretty nice and now I'm all myself again.

>>22000563
so u wanna move halfway across the world to work as a glorified mp3 player in a village where u have nobody to hangout or talk with? to each his own i guess

>>22000420
to add to the above, i agree with you though that burning out and giving up fucks people. but that also comes from unrealistic expectations and lack of strong enough desire to
>get better at understanding the stuff they wanted to learn it for
so if you want to say that determination is directly related to whether one gets good or not, i 100% agree.

>>22000558
>enjoying the novelty of learning is not in any way related to staying at a low level
It is though, because those sorts of people will move onto their 20th language a week later, instead of sticking with it to any degree of mastery
This is why technology has fucked so many people, it's too easy to get the gratification you desire without having to try any harder than doing literally nothing

>>22000547
yea and the fact is he probably still sucks dick. none of the VNs on his list are even hard

>>22000580
>where u have nobody to hangout or talk with
Bold of you to assume anyone ITT has that in the first place
>>22000584
Kinda sorta, I wouldn't say "determination" specifically though because I don't feel like determination is a factor within someone's control so much. Learning Japanese is 95% predestination 5% determination

>>22000580
have a bunch of japanese friends plus a couple american friends that live there but i realize i probably won’t see them often which is fine

>>22000580
>where u have nobody to hangout or talk with?
ha-haha you'd have to be a real l-loser for that

>>22000580
>so u wanna move halfway across the world
yes
>to work as a glorified mp3 player
yes
>in a village
yes
>where u have nobody to hangout or talk with?
fine with me i can take the train
>to each his own i guess
to each give me the JET program please

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I decided to go to Japan
would I be lost and unable to efficiently communicate with everyone
or would I be able to easily go about my day and live life no different from here
as I've never talked to a Japanese person before and don't really plan to I really can't say

knowing japanese is actually detrimental to your selection for JET. they want people who wont be too comfortable or try to find work elsewhere while in japan

>>22000626
you can probably just pretend to not know Jap then

>>22000525
>Is being entertained also not a skill that we can train?
i think it definitely is. in fact that's what i was getting at with my post here >>22000386
>I wonder if Matt is right about meditation and that if you can have a clear mind in which there is no room for thoughts that everything just becomes more vibrant and thus easier since the quality of fun is drastically improved.
you've got it. it's a proven fact that when the mind has too much activity going on, all of the activities feel less satisfactory than if there was just one focus. it's why multitasking is more stressful and unpleasant than single-tasking. it's why "flow" feels so good - it's literally just fully absorbed single-tasking.
>Yet I don't think Matt has reached that point yet.
so here's a common misunderstanding about meditative practices, and perhaps life/skills in general. there isn't just one point where you "get there" and you're there forever. as you practice, you get tastes of it. those tastes become more common until they can last hours or days at a time. if you stop practicing, they'll become less common again. i'm sure that matt has tasted that place, but still gets distracted and pulled out of it sometimes. still, it's better to be in that calm, clear, aware mental space that's sensitive to wholesome pleasure even 20% of the time, than it is to never be there because your mind is constantly distracted, bogged down and busy.

>>22000619
you would get bullied for being an arrogant chuuni

texthooker is working well so far.

>>22000626
good thing i don't even have a ged lmao

>>22000634
sup Loris, nice job blanking your name Loris

>>22000634
Woah watch out dude I can see a nipple better delete that image before you'll get banned

>>22000635
you need a bachelor's minimum to get approved for a visa tho so you'd never be considered

>>22000640
fuggg u got him epic doxx bro lets raid his ass fellow /b/tard xd

>>22000648
time 2 die i guess

>>22000648
>tfw dropped out of college
forever dekinai

>>22000594
what is "predestination" but a collection of conditions? conditions that likely include determination?

all "determination" is, is a description of a state of mind. all i'm saying is that if that mental state exists in someone long enough (whether that existence/the length it lasts is "predetermined" or not) then progress is more or less guaranteed to follow.

nintendo switch, should i get one for Japanese acquisition

>>22000661
oh my goood shut the fuck up

i graduated top of my class at university and have a japanese gf. how's your life going?

>>22000666
>japanese gf
yikes

>>22000663
why would it help you acquire japanese? games are awful for learning

>>22000666
im playign wow classic and killing lots of scrubs in stv

all in all pretty win

>>22000640
sorry my dick is too hard to focus on such things.

>>22000666
damn those fuckin digits doe

its going alright i guess, got my masters degree a week ago but have no clue what to do with my life now

>>22000663
Yes but you need to make sure it is hackable otherwise it is limited in what you can do to efficiently learn Japanese with it (and in your ability to acquire games)
I'll have a section on my site for Switch mining

>>22000672
VNs?? i don’t even have a laptop or anything so should i go for that instead?

>>22000677
god bless u qm

>>22000664
just sad

>>22000661
Determination is the volitional aspect of predestination
In both scenarios one will achieve their goal, but a determined person can still fail to achieve it (look at nuke) because of the lack of other qualities that were also out of his control. He was not predestined to learn.
>>22000664
You too

>>22000683
Oh if you don't have a PC that's problematic though
to make cards from Switch games you need a PC as the cards are still mostly made with ShareX

>>22000663

>>22000630
dilate

>>22000691
have a windows simulator on 2009 Mac desktop

>>22000696
stfu stupid bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB_3OQCR16g
banger time LETS GOOOOOOOOO

>>22000690
>Determination is the volitional aspect of predestination
either we're bound to predestination or we aren't... if you claim that we are then any mental/emotional state we experience must exist within that. including any determination we experience.
>a determined person can still fail to achieve it (look at nuke) because of the lack of other qualities that were also out of his control. He was not predestined to learn.
how do you know he's finished? why do you think your time limit for how quickly someone should learn japanese is anything other than arbitrary? i agree that having determination may not be enough if there are other necessary factors absent. but you don't know whether those factors are completely absent in him, or just slower than other people's. you do not know nuke's future or what his skill level will be 5 or 10 years from now.

Autism ponderings: If a below average IQ Jap can learn Japanese you should be able to do it too
But second languages are stored in a different area in the brain and thus you might actually be worse at learning a second language regardless
Are there any studies done on variance of ability to acquire a second language?

>>22000713
日本語の勉強はとてもポッグチャンプですよ

>>22000720
the answer is to give yourself brain damage so you forget your native language

>>22000718
>either we're bound to predestination or we aren't
You can only ever achieve the maximum of that which you're predestined to, via application of determination.
>how do you know he's finished?
lmao
>you do not know nuke's future or what his skill level will be 5 or 10 years from now
at the rate he has ever managed to learn, I would guess a solid N2 in 10 years, and at most he may get an N1 but only because of grading and not him knocking it out of the park

>>22000729
Unfortunately that destroys the part of your brain with your native language, rather than wiping it into a blank slate, but I think going forward we should strongly advise beginners to do this.

>>22000697
go sit down silently for 10 minutes and observe the shitstorm that is your mind. lol

>>22000745
if only you would've done that before transition huh
are you trying to save everyone from your fate?

>>22000745
Who doesn't do this when simply trying to go to sleep?

I get a minimum of 60 minutes to do this every single night without having to spend even more time meditating during the day.

>>22000752
60 minutes damn lol i take some melatonin and shit and im out in 15 mins

>>22000720
Acquiring a second language is obviously very different from acquiring your native language so that first statement isn't really meaningful in any way. As people grow up they lose the ability to accurately perceive sounds not present in their native language and have to painfully train it while a baby has the potential to hear everything. It sure is the same with languages in general.

I tried meditating for 20 minutes each night, the day after the first night I felt completely at peace and basically invincible, then the next days after that it basically did absolutely nothing for me and I stopped.

>tfw no yandere gf to force me to only use japanese so she can be sure everything i say is about her
why live
https://youtu.be/vsO2WxwOeyc

>>22000734
>You can only ever achieve the maximum of that which you're predestined to, via application of determination.
so are you adjusting your earlier statement here? or are you still insisting that in a predeterministic model we can somehow still alter the outcome via our own volition (rather than the determination itself also being predetermined)?
>at the rate he has ever managed to learn, I would guess a solid N2 in 10 years, and at most he may get an N1 but only because of grading and not him knocking it out of the park
even if it takes him 30 years to get good, it would still nullify your idea of what was predetermined for him. my point is that you don't, and can't know if he will ever reach that point or not. predictions are only humans hoping to know things they can never know for sure until that time comes.

>>22000751
so have you done it yet?
>>22000752
what most people do before bed isn't objective observation from a stable focus point. it's impulsive propagation of more and more thought until they burn themselves out.

>>22000759
That's on a good night, and even then I wake up a lot.

Fortunately true insomnia doesn't hit me often. I had a 3 day streak one time where I managed 2 hours sleep and that was it, but that was pretty exceptional.

>>22000764
>I tried meditating for 20 minutes each night, the day after the first night I felt completely at peace and basically invincible, then the next days after that it basically did absolutely nothing for me and I stopped.
you're free to ignore this if you want, but i'd like to advise you from personal experience. you probably hit a mental/emotional block and reactively avoided exploring it deeper.

it's basically when your mind goes "what are you doing, we're not used to this" and puts up a wall of resistance to this new practice. anyone who's achieved a consistently fruitful meditation practice had to go through many such blockages. it's not supposed to be smooth sailing the whole way.

breaking through the blockages is like taking off all your clothing in public. you feel totally naked. the parts of your mind that have been wired up until this point to protect you from seeing certain parts of your psyche are trying to get you to keep those clothes on. if you want to go deeper/keep experiencing more of that peace and invincibility, you have to be willing to stay, get naked, and be resolute and patient until the resistant parts of you give up.

there could also be a part of you that's like "wait, you don't deserve to feel this good for this long". a lot of people have subtle self-hate like that, which can also block them from deeper/more consistent progress if it goes unresolved. ask yourself if there's any part of you that feels undeserving or not good enough in some way (an inflated ego can also be a sign of this, since insisting you're better than others can be a coping strategy for feeling less than in the past).

these new age medicine types get really deep into this meditation bullshit.

>>22000666
probably just going to kms at some point

Anyone know a good way to import children's card games from Japan for cheap?
Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, or MTG preferred, but I don't mind picking up a new one if it's cheap enough
I learned to read English very early because of Pokemon cards and feel like having a collection of Japanese cards would be neat since my card addiction never ended

>>22000883
Also as a second request, are there any Japanese card game youtubers, akin to dzeeff, The Duel Logs, or Rhystic Studies?

>>22000883
That's cool but it won't help you learn Japanese

>>22000883
You can try emulating jap roms of the pokemon games. It can help to learn to read kana.
You might have a lot of trouble understanding anything if you don't go through some grammar guides first though.
Of course that's not really card games if that's the real thing, but just card games isn't going to teach you any japanese because you can't compare the grammar like you probably could with your native language and english.

>>22000907
Well past the point of needing to learn kana, and have played a fair amount of Pokemon games, was moreso interested in just being able to buy cards for cheap and typed some dumb blog shit because why not
>>22000898
Epic thanks for posting

>>22000934
As a Eurofag, all I can say is that manga is generally cheapest and easiest to buy on jap amazon, so it might be the same for cards. You're better off asking stuff like that in the buyfag thread though.
Most of your money will go towards shipping, so what's cheapest all depends on where you live.

https://youtu.be/bsq-NtgURG0?t=66 fuck matt was right all along now im crippled for life

>>22000972
>ビーナス
:DDDD

>>22000972
benis toもｗ志摩su:DD:D
渡しmoいつまでも出来ないperson人:DDD

i'm gonna be real and not fake it doesn't ruin my enjoyment but the high pitched voices of female characters in japanese media is more pronounced to me than it was before and it's pretty annoying.

不本意

imagine some pronouncing this foo-hone-ee lol

>>22001077
you'd pronounce it like "fuhoin" like what happens to 雰囲気 right?

>>22001058
it's less annoying to me now that i can understand them

>>22001086
nope u say fuhongy

>>22001105
the yomichan girl says foo-hone-ee tho

check forvo

>>22001109
the yomichan girl much like the ppl that rely on her is retarded

>>22001109
another victim of permanently crippled listening

i got something permanently crippled for u right here

*grabs dick*

damn School Rumble is actually so good, go watch it if you haven't already.

my anime cards are the ugliest in the land lol

>>22001158
Weird horse.

>>22001158
>yomichan

>>22001158
and fix your fonts for fuck sake
why does your kanji have one font and your kana another?

>>22001183
idk its all set as arial on the back of the cards but i dont give enough of a shit to fix it lol

>>22001155
i love that anime, a classic for sure

i love classic anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwEq7goU6a4

>>22001189
arial isn't a japanese font and doesn't have japanese glyphs so there's your problem


change it to meiryo or something

>>22001158
Utawarerumono is based

>>22001158
Uh shit man just wait for the website
as long as you got all the info you'll just need to change the styling I guess
actually the html may be problematic use this and edit the definition if needed: https://pastebin.com/SLK3Ymvj

just read 3k characters.

>>22001158
BTW the font is fucked I'm pretty sure but the site will tell how to fix that too so it's OK

Did anyone ITT learn Kanji from WaniKani?
If so, why?

>>22001211
tnx it worked
>>22001224
its pretty fun and its rare to find a show with this level of japanese that isnt sol or cgdct
>>22001230
i actually like my glossary being bulleted and not in 1 line. i also dont care that it's aligned to the left. not sure what u mean by problematic html

>>22001230
something for you to cover on your site if you haven't already:
tell people not to use fucking arial on their cards

>>22001158
i just got that one today

>>22001268
I covered that
I think that's only relevant for Anki 2.1 anyway as 2.0 defaults to a good Japanese one but idk which one

>>22001260
I won't go in depth about how you are fucking your shit up but I really suggest you stop doing that
up to you ultimately though

>>22001290
if u arent gonna even give me a 1 sentence explanation/reason im just gonna keep truckin

>>22001309
yeah have fun
just read the site later

Ideally you should use a 教科書体 font, at least if you ever want to learn to write by hand. What's absolutely crucial though is to make sure you're not using Chinese fonts to learn which is sadly getting super common thanks to Google products forcing them. Don't use Chrome, don't use Android. If you do you're probably getting chink fonts even when viewing Japanese sites.

>>22001313
Holy shit a got a double dubs lol

>>22001319
You can easily change the font settings in Chrome
thankfully my site also covers this

take your meds bro

>>22001323
wow this must be a big day for u

>>22001260
he probably thinks you should only include the definition of the word that is being used in the clip. it's not important though. quiz is just being a retard as usual.

>>21999710
who is this? i'm out of the loop

>>22001337
random japanese whore that tweets about her whore activities. jamal and a bunch of other losers flocked to her for some reason a few threads ago

imagining hayai guy laying down to sleep and thinking about his post number

>>22001337
now u have a good post number so i will tell u its mashiron chan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaxIvfKcQX0#t=23

>>22001348
cringey

whats the very first anime/manga that started the ugly eye trend?

I was bookwalker and found very cool things. I am hoping someone can add this to the guide? Here are the links. 2 of them are yuru yuri artbooks a long with volume 17. Not too sure if we'll have anymore.

https://bookwalker.jp/series/1938/list/

https://bookwalker.jp/series/168000/list/ - The namori exhibition artbook is a bit pricey but idk if anyone's willing to buy it.

https://bookwalker.jp/de9b01ceab-b869-40fd-bb59-9b51d05e6986/ - This one has some rough sketches of the artbook that came with the Yunamori artbook.

>>22001344
she might be a whore but that picture is still really good and i can pretend shes not ok deal with it

>>22001352
not as cringey as ur face

Is there any official netflix for manga style websites in Japan? I know most magazines offer some chapters for free, but none of them seem to be a subscription unlock everything system. It's all pay for specific things which adds up if you're reading a lot. Yes I know you can just pirate everything, which is what I do, but just wondering if there's a convenient alternative or if Japan is still stuck in 2003.

every week i think its hit the lowest point but then it gets worse

>>22001319
>Ideally you should use a 教科書体 font
Where? Not in your fucking browser, I hope.

Maybe use this on your Anki cards in a writing deck, but otherwise stick to the kind of font which you're actually going to encounter when reading since that's what you want to be training yourself to recognise.

>>22001364
me and japan are both stuck in 2003

>>22001367
really excited that they put so much effort into changing this arc

>>22001367
nice fuckin anime dude

>>22001330
>You can easily change the font settings in Chrome
That advanced font setting add-on doesn't even seem to work. I tried it and I've seen others try it ITT, and the only way they or I managed to set a specific Japanese font was by changing Chrome's global font setting outside of that add-on.

The language-specific font settings in Firefox, on the other hand, just werk.

>>22001373
and the over the top shit to keep the infants entertained adds a lot

>>22001379
i think that's what you're referring to here but in case it isn't, using that addon you can change chrome's default font to some nip font and the fonts will display correctly.

>>22001379
The add-on is reliant on websites language tagging so it doesn't work in most places as I understand it, what is the issue with editing Chrome's font settings? it works perfectly

By the way, these are all digital >>22001355

>>22001241
well done anon! その調子、その調子！

>>22001382
also rip kunkun they cut down takuyas protests to 5 seconds before he grabs the knife to get to his meal lmfao

>>22001364
Lmao just go to you're local コンビニ the weekly magazines are both cheap and thick

>>22001406
I can literally just pirate the magazines, but I'm not looking to read 1 chapter of 30 different manga.

>what is the issue with editing Chrome's font settings?
Chrome's font setting options are inferior in every way to Firefox's. The fact that you have to install an add-on which doesn't even work on most sites to even come close to the same level of functionality that Firefox has by default says it all.

I can't believe a company with as much money as Google can't get this right.

>>22001441
You literally just change 1 setting lol you are doing something wrong

河の中にあって足場を得なければ、
人は流されてしまう。
足場を得てそこに立てば、
もはや流されることがない。

>>22001441
Here is the epic note I wrote on this, works fine

speaking of fonts, does anyone have iwata ud gothic? it's available on kindle and i'd like it on pc but i'm not going to buy it

yosh time to jerk off to some gay porn

wank it to ギャル

need some gyaru jav reccs pronto

IENF-014

i did it boys. i stopped hookcucking. I finished subahibi and i didn't hookcuck a single thing. It wasn't that difficult to read and it was interesting too so i didn't care when i had to look shit up. this must be what making it feels like. thanks for reading my blog.

are they ever gonna get rid of the retarded jav censorship laws

>>22001499
wtf bro, make patreon pls!

>>22001465
Have you checked itazuraneko font archive?

>>22001500
its worse in 2d

>>22001499
>manually looking shit up instead of just having the self control to hover over things only if u really have to
never gonna make it

>>22001500
No politician is going to want to die on that hill, so no. Once tat kind of law exists, it is forever. Blame the eternal puritan anglo forcing it on Japan to begin with.

>>22001506
i hadn't, it's not in there but thanks for the suggestion

>>22001499
this >>22001511
u cut down ur reading speed for no benefit because u believed shitposters

>>22001524
looking at yomichan definitions isn't reading

>>22001533
neither is using a dictionary ? but ur still going to

>>22001533
if the definitions are in japanese it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGW0gGKe97I
feel trip, nothing gets u quite like these old city pop tunes

>>22001549
how do i begin to live a city pop lifestyle

lmao that's smart, texthook like crazy while using only the japanese dictionaries

real books ftw

>>22001563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh86UY5JfXM
im not sure man all we can do is sit back and enjoy what we've got

i started learning japanese because i liked how plastic love and stay with me sounded when i found them through youtube recommendations lol

>>22001580
https://youtu.be/MwQFY9r8Xjs
shame, i really wanted to take more action in my life

>>22001535
using a dictionary isn't the same as filtering everything you read through the yomichan box like im sure all the hookcuck defenders do. take the training wheels off lol

>>22001594
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdRn2DDEUy4
moving near the coast and getting a convertible is a good first step prolly but idk

btw linking tatsuro yamashita is basically cheating since everything he's ever made is amazing

if quiz's favorite anime is logh which is just a book adaption then he's not actually chuuni and needs to gtfo

djt how good do you feel rn on a scale of 1 to 10?
1 being total shit, depression. 5 being meh. 10 being blissful, amazing.

>り
Beginner here. What's this symbol? How do you pronounce it. Can't find it among the kana.

>>22001625
a 3.5

>>22001625
5 i guess. i still cant fucking feel any joy, pleasure or satisfaction but it's been so long that i've resigned myself to a grayed-out existence at this point.

>>22001624
what's a real chuuni anime

>>22001624
my favorite anime is a manga adaption, my 2nd fave is anime original and my 3rd is novel adaption it literally doesnt matter bro lol

>>22001609
ive read vns without hooking no problem no need to make assumptions : )
it just saves time when its an option if u have a working brain
if u dont have a working brain and the only way u can build ur vocabulary is by slowing down then do what works for u

>>22001637
first 2 are fine but the 3rd means you're not chuuni bro

>>22001637
wow so ur top 2 anime are attack on titan and code geass #basedboi

>>22001625
https://youtu.be/xXuS-HWbJL8?t=60
2.5 at max my dude

just read a 70 page doujin in one go. that's a lot of reading in one session for me.
use the power of your dick to your advantage. it can help you learn nihongo.

>>22001630
Looked it up. Seems to be another way to write the "ri" katakana character.

>>22001630
>>22001683
good detective skills. you're definitely gonna make it.

>>22001625
7, i'm doing fine

The moment you can enjoy studying is the moment you've won

>>22001686
Sarcasm is for basedboys.

>>22001698
wait are the basedboys actually back? lol i thoguht they were starting to take their studying seriously lol

that's right only based people post here (not hayai guy)

wheres makopi

>>22001760
shut the fuck up retard

>>22001772
kys

pls stop fighting. i'm going to bed so i can't come in between

>>22001760
I'm afraid I can't talk go into detail about that but let's just say that some bad people are after him

what if we were both teaching assistants in the JET program at the same school

>>22001834
what if god was one of us
just a stranger on a bus

what if i wasn't a virgin

Imagine being such a huge weeaboo that you end up "teaching" English to Japanese schoolchildren.

>>22001864
its pretty much the only way to live in japan for a bit. plus you usually dont actually do any teaching. you're an assistant after all.

If you know that language acquisition only happens through tons of compelling and comprehensible input, what's the point of trying to "teach" children in a classroom setting?

>>22001864
what is your problem

>>22001875
>what's the point of trying to "teach" children in a classroom setting?
the point is that you get a work visa which is mandatory to live in japan. are you stupid or what is going on here

https://youtu.be/6lauURlI7bM

>>22001898
you could just get a normal job? it's not hard

>>22001927
why should i work at target instead of the JET? my linguistics professor did JET it probably looks better on a resume

>>22001898
I don't really see any advantages to living in Japan over anywhere else. Japan is full of normal people who do normal stuff. They're not particularly nice or anything in comparison to people from other countries. Maybe Japan is good in comparison to Papua New Guinea or Somalia, but there's plenty of other countries on the same level as Japan when it comes to infrastructure, availability of services, public transportation, historical sites to visit, cultural distinctness, amongst things of such sort. You could've chosen Japan just as you could've chosen Turkey or Austria.
Besides, the most unique parts about Japan - its fiction - is stuff that you could enjoy living in literally any country where you've got Internet connection.

>>22001927
yeah but that wouldn't make for interesting youtube videos, lol i bet you haven't thought of that one

>>21998567
here you go quizmaster. Two usages in close proximity https://youtu.be/UsDM4rboJzg?t=409

>>22001936
you're going way overboard when you mention a 2nd world shithole like turkey. also you can't count any white countries since their cultural differences don't matter

>>22001940
It'd be more fun to see some guy vlogging about stuff that happens every day while working in a Japanese factory or in an apparently ordinary workplace, and overreacting while talking about tidbits of regularly encountered problems or issues than the generic JET bullshit.

>>22001927
it's actually pretty hard to get a job in your field since your japanese needs to be good enough for all your interactions to be with natives
>inb4 jobs just require n2-n1
you get found out real quick if you're a shitty n1 who cant talk to people. plus why would you want to be part of the japanese work culture when you can just do an easy as fuck JET job and still get a similar salary. makes no fuckin sense. did it never occur to you that there is a reason the majority of foreigners who come to japan end up as ALTs other than they just really wanna do that lol
>>22001936
what was the point of writing this long ass strawman diatribe? nowhere did i say japan was anything special

>>22001954
>2nd world shithole like turkey
You've never been to Istambul haven't you?

>>22001954
I was actually trying to think hard of a country with a unique culture that wasn't a shithole (unlike Moldova or Kazakhstan), which is why Turkey came to mind.

>>22001962
no but who cares about one city

i love travelling

>>22001966
Now you're just behaving like one of those sakuras and matsuris fags who asserts the superiority of Japan over all other countries for no special reason.

>>22001979
dumb uppercase motherfucker

japan is superior because they are orderly and the women are easy lol pretty simple lads

>>22001936
As an American, Japan has an actual healthcare system worth a fuck, can't get that here
And Japan's music is equally worthwhile and I can't go to live events of most groups without being in Japan

moetard should start a traveling blog with the gimmick of post fumos in iconic places

>>22001949
Oh I already found it. Someone showed me that you can open Youtube transcripts and search in them so it was really easy.

whats fumo

>>22001992
>actual healthcare system
it's not that much better to the american, almost everything is through private healthcare

if u had the choice of deleting one of the following groups of people from existence, which one would you chose: ISIS or uppercasers?

for me, it's the latter

>>22002008
Everyone autistic enough to think an enforced posting style is worth a fuck

>>22002000
>you can open Youtube transcripts and search in them so it was really easy.
how's that?

stfu you stupid fucking worthless trash bitch

>>22001992
Tons of countries have health care systems. Even fucking Mexico has one.
Also, music is irrelevant. It's possible to find good bands in literally any big city in the world. Besides, you can watch recordings of stuff on Youtube.

>>22002021
open your eyes and click around on a video page

fuck japan just go to mexico or turkey lmao

>>22002025
>food

>>22002031
wtf that's the same advice i got for how to learn nihongo

>>22002036
Learn2cook, faggot. Any goddamn motherfucking country has plenty of good vegetables, meat, and all that shit on its supermarkets. Literally the only ingredients used in Japanese cooking that are a bit hard to find elsewhere are miso and konbu.

>>22002022
>>22001966
>>22001633
>>22001616
>>22001469
>>22001377
reminder that only lowercasers get cool digits

>>22002034
This but unironically.
IRL Japan is overrated as hell. Some people think that Japan is just like their nice eroge or SOL anime, but it's really not that different from anywhere else.

haha thats me cool digit haver

cool digit get :D

>>22002054
wasabi?

who are those people

>>22002069
japan has some really nice things and some really shtity things so u have to weigh the pros and cons

might as well move back to my island

>>22002076
You can get a can of that stuff at any good supermarket. Probably not as good as the fresh stuff, but it's still something.
>>22002077
People like dogen and the JET poster.

i simply want to be in japan not mexico i have no reason to go there

japan and america are both saikou

>>22002025
>mexico
>good music
yeah fucking right dude
the best bands out of Mexico were from Texas

>>22001992
>As an American, Japan has an actual healthcare system worth a fuck, can't get that here
>can't get healthcare in the states
You're an idiot. This isn't the place for this discussion, but socialized healthcare is garbage and a scam. If you have an iq above 95, it's not in your interest.

>>22002090
ive seen cans labeled wasabi but i havent seen real wasabi

>>22001795
wtf i hope he’s safe
>>22001864
what? lol makes no sense

>>22002124
idiot burger detected
how's not learning japanese going for you

>>22002135
He is fine apparently he has to lay low though

>>22002095
Cheap houses, cheap food, livable salaries, relatively relaxed working paces, lots of slightly lesser known historical sites to visit.

>>22002143
stfu

>>22001898
lol he’s obviously stupid
>>22001961
i agree w you except N2 N1 and shit has nothing to do with speaking ability lol those tests don’t test that. it’s possible to only know up to N3 grammar and vocab but be able to speak better than most N1ers (japanese children are a clear example). communicating in japanese is a separate skill from being able to read passages and answer questions

>>22002140
I'm a swede, you stupid faggot. Only men pay more in taxes than they get back from the state, so we pay for everything, with taxes. Nothing's free.

>>22002115
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf_bv5HTqUU
Here's how I know you've never tried looking up "Mexican rock music" on Youtube.

as one of the few people itt who's actually lived in japan for any substantial length of time japan is way better than every other country if you actually speak the language

>>22002174
i'm learning the language but i've never been interested in even visiting the country let alone living there. what's good about it?

>>22002007
>it's not that much better to the american, almost everything is through private healthcare
wtf are you talking about lol i got fillings done in japan and only had to pay 1000 yen (that’s about 10 US dollars)
with my health insurance card here i’ve never had a doctors visit that costed more than the equivalent of 30 bucks, including the prescribed medication

>>22002166
you seem to misunderstand the concept of a society. it's not about what you can selfishly get from the system, but what everyone can create as a whole and the overall benefit that provides. could you pay for roadworks with your own money? education? all the other shit the state provides to keep society running? while still actually having the job you think gives you money enough to claim right to any possession you own? the answer is no

>>22002182
>health insurance
>not private

I pay nothing for my healthcare and my meds and I got a chronic disease

>>22002174
literally any country is good to live in if you know the culture and the language

>>22002188
most people don't create. most people are net burdens on the system.

>>22001936
>They're not particularly nice
i’ve gotten free vegetables, free tea, free snacks, free home cooked meals lol for doing nothing but talking to some of my japanese neighbors a few times. that kind of thing never happened to me living in america. have you even lived in jp before like what is the shit you’re saying even based on

>>22002195
we encountered this issue in the early 20th century and realised that a stable society (ie one where people aren't getting murdered all the time) requires that you provide for those people too. or do you want to end up like sudan? life isn't really a zero sum game

>>22002174
Japanese are mentally ill, the city and the countryside for different reasons but il nonetheless

>>22001465
There should be something similar in this collection of Japanese fonts.
https://mega.nz/#F!H7BmEayD!VeYl9wCIr3cGtZOTkZ1WSg

>>22002206
they aren't any more mentally ill than any other countries citizens and the manifestations are much less harmful to coexistence

>>22001936
oh and living/working a walking distance from a bookstore where you can get pretty much any manga or LN you want for less than a dollar a pop is pretty damn nice too. and the massive and cheap used game selection

>>22002204
did i disagree that assholes who don't contribute are holding productive people hostage? the best course in the long term is incentivizing the dependents to breed less.

>>22002213
>what is torrenting and downloading stuff through mega
>what are e-books and e-book reader

>>22002196
America is the home of selfish ultra individualism even if it means the economical, emotional or psychological destruction of other people, of course anywhere outside the den where that mentality is practiced will look incrdibly nice to you, 3rd, 2nd or 1st world.

imagine if people with an IQ of less than 100 go globally sterilized
we'd see the entire human race steadily become more intelligent
and we could repeat this like every 20 years

>>22002221
it's not the same

>>22002222
Should have counted even physical destruction too

>>22002227
it would do wonders for human progress. intelligence deniers are holding back the world even though they think they're doing the right thing.

>>22002227
how do i study for the iq test to make sure that i pass

>>22002227
Human societies are entirely dependent upon those performing the dirty jobs the highly educated or middle class are not willing to do. If you weren't a sheltered manchild you'd be aware of this.

>>22002227
we still need people to clean the sewers

>>22002227
ok slow ur roll there adolf quizler

>>22002227
This is a sub 100 IQ post. Be the example you want others to follow.

>>22002235
dirty jobs don't require low IQ people.

>>22002212
depends on what you consider harmful. When an individual has never asked himself in his whole life if he's got the right to be happy and has mindlessly followed society's "rules" even at the expense of his own or his/her family's happyness I'd argue that the manifestations are wide and extremely negative. The ramifications of what I just said can be extended to a lot of aspects of the Japanese society.

Consider how different is their vision of the individual and western liberal one and you'll realize how the japanese don't destroy others but destroy themselves

>>22002236
ok so quiz has a good idea we just need robots/automation to advance first?

>>22002231
the worst thing is that all western societies are built around financial and career success and having a child will just heavily dampen all that potential so all the intelligent people trying to do something great don't have kids while all the retards who would never get anything done in the first place produce kids without end, the worst thing is they can make use of the welfare state and get increasingly big checks for more kids
the result is inevitable, our society will become dumber until everything collapses it's really just a matter of time
some hope is people like JP who tell women they don't become happy working endlessly and getting old without family, instead telling them to have children and take responsibility for someone but I honestly see no chance for improvement

god i hate uppercase motherfuckers so much what are you all so smug about

>>22002246
lol

>>22002233
If science is to be believed your score will stay somewhat consistent even if you study for it
and if you have the capability and will power to study for it then you are enough of a human being to be allowed to procreate

>>22002246
fucking based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E

>>22002166
You realize for healthcare Americans pay about double per capita what any other country (Other than Switzerland) does? Yet our healthcare outcomes are significantly worse. As a swede, I'd expect you to know this, so it comes across like you're a burger in disguise.

>>22002171
None of this holds a candle to The Mars Volta why are they even trying

>>22002245
well on practical grounds it will never happen anyway but regardless there's no point appealing to hayai guys sense of morality is there

>>22002228
Of course. One produces more pollution than the other.
https://slate.com/technology/2010/08/are-ipads-and-kindles-better-for-the-environment-than-books.html
If you're getting books and video games from used book stores, you're not giving a single cent back to their creators, so they're both equally morally responsible.

>>22002246
this has been proven actually. for the past 100 years or so the lower classes have had a higher fertility than the upper classes. polygenic scores indicate that victorian era people were smarter than modern populations. we're boned unless embyro selection and crispr are widely adopted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgRkMwK1_L4

if hayai guy is hayai guy then who is osoi boy (it's not me btw)

>>22002258
fuck off

>>22002243
No but to get highly educated people who were born into the middle class strata to start performing the tasks the developed world has firmly seeded as being low class and undesirable, would require forced labour.

>>22002245
Who is going to build and maintain the machinery which builds those robots?

>>22002246
>the worst thing is that all western societies are built around financial and career success
All post-scavenger societies function around this basic framework.
>and having a child will just heavily dampen all that potential so all the intelligent people trying to do something great don't have kids while all the retards who would never get anything done in the first place produce kids without end
They do that for an increased likelihood of one of the children becoming financially successful and being able to provide socioeconomic security. They are two sides of the same problem.
You are so fucking ignorant of the world. Stop posting forever.

>>22002259
>polygenic scores indicate that victorian era people were smarter than modern populations.
Pseudo-scientific gibberish.

>>22002271
>would require forced labour.
no it wouldn't you dork. obviously if the lower classes were phased out then to meet market demand, people from the upper classes would take up those jobs. which happened in europe for the past thousand years as the upperclasses continually displaced the lower classes because their fertility was twice as high

>>22002276
>Pseudo-scientific gibberish.
but intelligence experts are the actual scientists and you and the subreddit you hail from aren't

>>22002276
playing the pseudo science card is just atheist cope

>>22002271
nah dude people in the 100-120 IQ range become dumb leftist environmentalists who decide not to reproduce because they think the planet is overpopulated (lol)

>high iq
>dumb

>>22002315
Leave it to quiztard to call 120IQ dumb, let's see his numbers

>>22002315
There's as big of a difference between people with an IQ of 80 and 100 as there is between people with an IQ of 120 and 140.

>>22002303
ppl who dont want to reproduce are more asexual/nihilistic/incel/want to live a simple life without responsibilities like who actually worries about overpopulation

>>22002327
ahem

>>22002329
Yes of course, where was this disputed?

I really don't think I am matt is near me

einstein was a socialist. i don't have the hubris to say he was wrong about anything. ill let my betters decide what's best

>>22002335
there are no numbers on here

>>22002343
I really don't think matt is near me
I should probably proof read my posts, posting with a pass is too easy

>>22002348
if you've seen an IQ bell curve then you know that's in the 145 range
>>22002350
i think he's like a standard deviation above you if i'm being completely honest. but you're both smart.

>>22002346
Einstein lived in a different time altogether
as our societies and the problems we face change the viewpoints people hold change as well

>>22002360
there are many high IQ people who are communist. many high IQ people who are libertarian. an average IQ peasant such as myself can do nothing but step back and allow my betters to figure out what's best for me. i shouldn't be allowed to vote nor hold an opinion on worldly issues

>>22002346
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" means that lazy fucks with capable bodies shouldn't get gimmedats.
Socialism is inherently against the unequal distribution of effort. Classical, non-American socialism has nothing to do with chopping penises off or welfare.

>>22002372
if only all subhumans thought this way we'd all be so much better off

>>22002358
>i think he's like a standard deviation above you if i'm being completely honest. but you're both smart.
I really disagree. Everything I have seen from him makes me think he is in no way above average intelligence but I'm not really feeling up to discuss this further with you.

qm is 135 IQ max, a ssmart cookie but nothing special

>>22002379
yea i'm not discussing i'm telling you a fact now don't even give me a you because i'll have to alt tab away from fluentcards again

i think a lot of pseudointellectuals have never taken an IQ test but self assess as "probably above 130" (myself included)

>>22002386
you are a troublesome child

>>22002391
mother FUCK

>>22002390
I self assess around 125 but I wouldn't be surprised if I scored 140

i self assess at 105

I once took an online IQ test that gave me a score of 140, and another one that gave me a score of 115.